Matt Jackson looks back on the exploding superkick.
The main event of AEW Double or Nothing 2023 featured Blackpool Combat Club (Bryan Danielson, Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, and Wheeler Yuta) battling The Elite (Kenny Omega, Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson, and "Hangman" Adam Page) in an Anarchy in the Arena match.
The bout featured a number of risky moves and spots, but one sequence that stands out was Matt Jackson hitting an exploding superkick on Jon Moxley.
"It's something I came up with, and the fact that it came out as great as it did is when we were in Las Vegas at Double or Nothing 2023, and I had the Across the Spiderverse Jordan 1 sneakers. I blew them up, essentially, in someone's face. I superkicked Jon Moxley and I had a pyrotechnic attached to the sneaker. It created this giant fireball in his face. It was so shocking. Nobody saw it coming. It was almost this two or three second delay of, 'Wait, what?' No one understood what they had just seen. It was really cool because it took a lot of work. I had to get my Nevada state license as a fireworker, I think they call it, I had to go through rehearsal. We had to really make sure this thing was going to work. There is a good chance that it wouldn't have worked. So the fact that it worked, and worked as well as it did, that's one that maybe isn't talked about enough. People send my private messages all the time, 'I love this moment,' but I feel it's kind of forgotten. Maybe because it was among such a crazy match that night where a million other things things. That was a really special moment with sneakers," Matt recalled on the Sneaker History podcast.
The Blackpool Combat Club were victorious in the bout.
Elsewhere during the interview, Matt and Nick named their favorite time and match in AEW. You can find their comments by clicking here.
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