MLW Star Donovan Dijak Calls Watermania Event the 'Craziest Thing' He's Ever Done

Major League Wrestling (MLW) star Donovan Dijak described his participation in Banger Zone Wrestling's Watermania event in France as one of the most unique and "craziest things" he has experienced in professional wrestling.

The event, held at an aquatics center, featured a wrestling ring set up in a pool, with competitors performing in and around the water. Videos from the event showed wrestlers slipping on the wet surface and taking bumps into the pool.

Dijak told OutKick Dropkick that Banger Zone Wrestling reached out to him about participating. Upon seeing footage of the event on social media, he initially found it surreal. He decided to compete despite having a prior booking with Progress Wrestling, stating he did not want to regret passing up such an unusual opportunity.

"As I was watching the show and watching them put together the ring, I was like this is surreal," Dijak recounted. "So much so that like just as a fan I started recording clips and the viral clip that everybody saw of the ring kind of tilting and coming back up was me."

He noted that approximately 20 minutes after filming the viral clip, he was wrestling in the pool. Dijak admitted the ring did not feel safe due to being soaked but emphasized the importance of capitalizing on unique scenarios.

"I recorded that just as a fan, and then 20 minutes later I was wrestling in the ring, which I'm going to be honest, I'm always honest, did not feel safe because it was sopping wet," he said. "Thankfully, again, like we just talked about, when you get an opportunity like that, take advantage of the uniqueness of the scenario."

Dijak stated his intention was to perform moves into the water and limit in-ring action. "You saw me chokeslamming him into the water, moonsaulted in the water, then we brawled around the pool and he started drowning me and stuff like that because that's what's different," he explained. "I can grab a headlock and do a headlock takeover and do a hip toss into a cool spot in any ring. I can do it any weekend. I do it all the time. When am I ever going to be able to chokeslam someone in off the top rope to the floor, basically into a pool that explodes with water and then moonsault into a pool. Never ever again, right?"

He described the experience as a "once-in-a-lifetime experience" and expressed openness to participating again if the opportunity arose, though he would not actively seek it out due to the inherent risks. "It's not something I'm going to go out of my way to do like I did the first time because it was so much fun. It was such an incredible experience, but you know, there's some risk involved. There's always risk involved in professional wrestling. That ring, very wet, right, which is gonna happen. It's on a pool, right? So we knew the risks going in, but once you step in it and you start slipping around, you're like, we gotta get to the pool fast."

Dijak is also known as one half of the tag team The Skyscrapers. The team previously held the tag team championships for nearly a year before losing the titles to The Good Brothers. The Skyscrapers can be seen on the wrestling program "Fusion," which airs on Tubi, Veeps, and YouTube.