Tommaso Ciampa has made an immediate impact in AEW since arriving, and one of the things he was very passionate about when joining the company was how he would be presented. The “Psycho Killer” noted that both he and his wife listen to his new entrance music in the car and credited AEW’s in-house composer Mikey Rukus for nailing the music and having such a passion for collaboration. However, Ciampa actually credits the time he spent at the end of his WWE as an important period for him to prepare for the next phase of his career.

“What a whirlwind,” Ciampa said. “I’ll say that if I didn’t get to stay home for the last six weeks of my contract, I don’t know that I would have had as much time to prep and get everything ready you know?” Ciampa revealed that he spent a lot of time licensing for trademarks, as well as having the man he worked with in WWE on the famous “Blackheart” design draw up the new Psycho Killer skull logo, something Ciampa was very happy about as he had wanted to work with the man for a number of years but couldn’t. The “Psycho Killer” also believes that he did his best work in the dark, away from the public eye, and given that the people in AEW have lived up to their end of the deal presentation wise, Ciampa thinks the payoff has been well worth the wait.

“All I wanted for a very long time was presentation, and that presentation that they put together was unbelievable…crushed it.” As for what’s next for Ciampa, former AEW TNT Champion Kyle Fletcher appeared on the entrance ramp following Ciampa’s win over Mark Briscoe to congratulate him, and given that the “Protostar” has a long history with Ciampa’s title, that could showdown could be in Ciampa’s future for AEW Grand Slam Australia on February 14, or even the Revolution pay-per-view on March 15.

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