Jim Cornette Loved and Hated WWE SummerSlam 2022 Main Event

Throughout his Experience podcast, Jim Cornette gave his tackle Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar within the brutal Final Man Standing match at SummerSlam:

“I each cherished and hated it on the identical time. This was absolutely the worst professional wrestling match for a world championship ever, and it was the best piece of enterprise I’ve ever seen to energise the excommunicated Angle Period fan to really watch this firm and see what the f*ck they’re doing on the identical time.”

“The match was rotten, however this wasn’t concerning the match, this was about we are able to nonetheless do sh*t that folks can say holy sh*t about. And that they did. We even talked about this, they mentioned that they’re going to make an enormous inventive splash. Properly, there are not any free brokers to signal and you’ll’t flip any person babyface or heel anymore [to make a big splash]. It occurs on a regular basis, that’s why it’s not an enormous splash besides for each nice from time to time.”

“You possibly can’t set any person on fireplace, now we have finished that. You possibly can’t run individuals over with autos, now we have finished that. So how do they recreate the chaos and the spontaneity and the joy and the unpredictability of the final time that folks had been actually on this sh*t? And this was their model of Stone Chilly Steve Austin and the beer truck.”

“Sure, it was additionally a inventive option to beat Brock Lesnar once more and nonetheless make him appear like the Frankenstein monster, however extra importantly, I feel it was one thing the place they mentioned okay, and so they have the cash and the particular results staff. It’s all within the funds.”

“Think about if 30 or 40 years in the past if any wrestling promotion needed to do sh*t like this to get individuals speaking, they must exit of enterprise, as a result of nobody had the funds or the know-how. However for what they wished, which was to inform not solely their present followers however the excommunicated followers, the lapsed followers, the p*ssed off followers that hey this isn’t going to be a bunch of boring bullsh*t anymore, they couldn’t have finished something higher than this.”

“So yeah it wasn’t about having a basic wrestling match right here, as a result of they didn’t. It was about please watch it once more as a result of you will note sh*t that you just didn’t count on and a few of it could very effectively be thrilling.”