He says that like he isn’t on record saying he got into wrestling because he was an Inoki mark as a kid, lmao.
True. Aside from him just trying to heel in the interview, I think it might also be a shot at how some of these headlining matches are laid out/put together. A lot of them are basically cases where a bunch of regular watchers got together, said "you know what would be cool?" and then put it in a match. Sometimes it works, sometimes it results in matches that don't really make much sense.