Jeff Jarrett weighs in on the AEW ring discourse.
Social media has been buzzing about the size of rings since AEW Grand Slam: Australia, as some fans pointed out that the company used a smaller ring for the event.
The discourse has largely been criticized by major names in the industry. Now, Jeff Jarrett is joining the conversation, saying that he's just happy for the international success of AEW.
“Late last night when I logged in, I kind of saw the dominoes if you will. But man, it made kind of sit back and think just how — I don’t want to use the world tribalism or everything’s politicized, but it just feels like — It’s the old Jerry Lawler song, bad news travels like a wildfire, good news travels slow, they all call me wildfire because everybody knows i'm bad news. It’s like, people jump in and want to hang on and if you don’t like the size of the ring, that’s okay too, i'm not trying to tell anybody what they can and can’t like. But my goodness, the negativity just continues to grow and grow and grow and grow. Hey, that’s okay too, but I think a lot of people in a weird kind of way, do they get joy out of it or does it make them happy, does it make them feel good? I can’t think of a lot of ways, maybe it gives them a shot of internal adrenaline like, ‘Ah, I’m gonna post this and tweet this whether it’s negative or this or that.’ I get clicks creates cash and controversy creates cash and that whole mentality but Conrad, you know me as well as anybody, I’m just such a huge fan of professional wrestling continuing to do big live gates in all of the international markets because — no disrespect to Japan or Germany or any of these other markets but wrestling is really looked at in today’s world economy as a US product and its exported around the world. The more success that can happy internationally, I absolutely love it. When you have that kind of crowd, you can choose to forget about any backstory, what you do and you don’t want to believe, but at the end of the day, you just kind of ran through the highlights. No matter how you slice and dice it, there were 14,000 international fans that had a fantastic time or they sure acted like they had a fantastic time because they were on their feet for the better part of the show.” Jarrett said on the latest edition of his My World podcast.
Earlier this month, Jeff Jarrett gave his thoughts on some of the recent WWE releases. Check out his full comments by clicking here.
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