Jim Cornette Reveals Angry Reaction To AEW’s Exploding Barbed Wire Match

Jim Cornette has not been shy about his hatred for Kenny Omega. His distaste has extended to most of AEW as well as hardcore wrestling. Now, all those things have come together once again and Cornette has reacted to it.

On a recent edition of The Jim Cornette Experience, he expressed his utter disgust at the announcement of Kenny Omega’s Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch with Jon Moxley. Here is the quote, courtesy of Inside the Ropes:

“He [Omega] challenged Jon Moxley to an exploding barbed wire death match and at the same time, the entire United States of America said ‘what?!’ Who in the United States of America saw the exploding barbed wire death match in the Kawasaki Stadium 25 years ago? People trading VHS tapes. Is this really that difficult to understand? Their minute, little core of nerd, hardcore, smart, Japanese fans. That kind of audience wasn’t enough to keep Ring of Honor alive ten years ago. It’s not enough to keep anything else alive today. In their minds, they are marks, they think this means something. Besides the fact that nobody knows, in the grand scheme of things, on American television that nobody knows what the f**k an exploding barbed wire death match is, looks like, sounds like. It also sounds goofy and outlaw.”

“So we’re gonna see another garbage match where they’re gonna take all kinds of bumps and do all kinds of stupid s**t with barbed wire…They’re gonna take chances on legitimately injuring themselves. They’re probably gonna get cut up for real. For a match that had a phony build-up, that nobody believes, that just makes them look more goofy and outlaw. Like they’re one of these hardcore death match promotions… Instead of something that you could legitimately respect as an endeavour that’s being placed on national television. And it just buries the wrestling business again.”

“It’s gonna be ridiculous. And these things never work. They can’t put this television f*****g programme together flawlessly from an editing standpoint just formatting the f*****g thing. How do you think they are gonna do at advanced special effects?!…It’s stupid, it never works, it just looks low rent and cheap and sideshow-ish…I have high expectations that this is gonna be a technical fiasco and another outlaw garbage match between two f*****g guys that don’t know how to work.”

Kenny Omega will have his Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch with Jon Moxley at AEW Revolution.

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