Ring Of Honor World Champion, Dalton Castle recently spoke with Chris Van Vliet about a number of topics including if he feels pressure being the World Champion. You can see some highlights below with a h/t to Rajah.com for the transcriptions.

Pressure as ROH Champion:

“Before I was Champion, it didn’t matter if I messed up. I could go out there and if I pulled off a really great match, that was great, but if I didn’t that was fine too because there was no risk. Now that I’m the Champion, I feel like every time I’m out in the ring I have to prove to everybody that I belong there. There’s no room for error anymore. I have to be the best wrestler I can be every time I hit the ring because as long as that Championship is around my waist, people are going to be doubting me or looking at me or wondering why.”

Is Velveteen Dream’s gimmick too similar?

“I don’t see that. He’s kind of playing up a Prince thing, right? Is he coming out with Boys? Then alright, we’re cool.”

Signing for ROH costing him his day job:

“I went to the office and I was like ‘I have an offer from a wrestling company and I’m probably going to take it. I just want to let you know it requires me to be on the road a couple of weekends a month.’ They were like ‘Yeah, that’s cool. That’s great.’ I signed my Ring of Honor contract on a Saturday and came in Monday and got fired. I was told my position had been eliminated.”

Impact Bullet Club has made on wrestling:

“It’s mathematically impossible for every member of the Bullet Club to be cool, but they’re all great wrestlers. I respect the hell out of all of them. The Young Bucks have taken all of us and wrestling in general to the next level. To see how they’ve elevated themselves on their own and as they’ve elevated, I feel like all wrestling around them has elevated and I feel like we all owe them a great gratitude for that.”