The king of the DeathMatch has spoken.
At AEW’s 2021 Revolution Pay-Per-View, Kenny Omega and Jon Moxley battled in an exploding barbed wire DeathMatch that ended with a very big dud of an explosion. Sadly, the decent match turned into a huge embarrassing moment. Now, Mick Foley, who’s been in many DeathMatches in his time, took to his Foley Is Pod podcast, where he talked about the barbed wire DeathMatch and stated that he doesn’t think barbed wire is the best way to take advantage of Kenny Omega’s gifts.
I’m not I’m not sure barbed wire is the best way to take advantage of Kenny’s huge gifts. They had a little trouble with the stipulations. AEW opted for a safe and visually underwhelming final explosion for the match; Eddie Kingston used his own body as a human shield to protect Moxley only for a pathetic spurt of sparks to rain down on him. You either stay on one side of the road or the other,” Foley said, paraphrasing Mr. Miyagi from “The Karate Kid.” “If you design it to be in the middle, it gets squashed like a grape, even if that’s just emotionally.”
– Mick Foley via Foley Is Pod
If AEW does this match again, hopefully they learn from their mistakes and go all out.
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