Jim Cornette has reached his breaking point with Darby Allin.
AEW Revolution 2024 saw Allin team with Sting for The Icon’s final match, where the Tag Team Champions defended the titles against The Young Bucks. Along with the magnitude of the match and it was Sting’s final time in the squared circle, there is one particular spot in the match that got the fans talking.
During the opening portion of the match, Allin dove off the top of a tall ladder and went crashing into a pane of glass that was placed on steel chairs. The former TNT Champion bled instantly following the impact and close-up shots showed his back covered in blood, shortly followed by an audible gasp from the crowd in The Greensboro Coliseum as the bleeding got even worse.
The spot divided opinion with some enjoying the spectacle and others believing that Allin went too far and endangered his own life along with those around him with the spot. Having criticised AEW’s high-risk spots, hardcore matches and Darby Allin in general multiple times, Cornette once again became irate with what he saw at Revolution.
Speaking on The Jim Cornette Experience, Cornette debated whether or not it was real glass that Allin went through and pointed out that either way it posed a massive hazard to the audience:
So then, Darby set up the ladder in the middle of the ring and almost went to the top of it. As Nicky for no reason is just staggering in front of the chairs with the pane of glass, Darby does a cannonball off the top and the other dipsh*t brother pulls one brother out of the way and Darby goes back first off a 15-foot ladder in a ring, through the glass, through the chairs and to the concrete floor. Everything explodes everywhere. They throw Sting through the glass later on that was leaned up in the ring in the corner, so when he went ass first through it, it shot glass everywhere in the crowd.
Now, here’s 2 things; was it real glass or was it fake glass? Well, to be honest, I don’t know, because these people are stupid enough to use the real sh*t. But it cut Darby’s back open everywhere, he was punctured and sliced and whatever the f*ck. But besides that, it blew into a million pieces.
So whether it was fake glass or real glass, if you get that in your eye, if someone in the crowd opened their mouth at the right time and it went down their throat, or some kid if it lands in their drink and they drink it and they are choking. What the f*ck! Whether it was fake glass or not it was a real bump off a 15 foot ladder through sh*t onto chairs on the concrete.”
“Darby Allin Is The Biggest F*cking Moron That Has Ever Stepped On Earth”: Jim Cornette
Cornette then began a lengthy tirade directed at Allin, explaining why is more disappointed in the former Tag Team Champion than others who have appeared on AEW TV in the past:
“Here’s why I am finished with Darby Allin. Unlike most of these guys that AEW has jerked off the indies, he’s got some talent and some charisma. He has an appeal. As we have mentioned before years ago before we found out that it wasn’t gonna take place, if you produced him and you brought him along he could be a dynamic underdog babyface that sells and blah, blah, blah. But they have made it so preposterous that nothing can stop him and the littlest guy can just come back from everything.
Then, we have gotten to know that as a person, as a human being, Darby Allin is the biggest f*cking moron that has ever stepped foot on this earth and drawn a breath. He’s a goddamn mental case and he ought to be put away somewhere for his own safety and those of others. He is not producable because he is a complete idiot. Even if you tell him don’t do this sh*t, you make the business look like sh*t, you make it phoney as f*ck and you’re gonna kill yourself and we are gonna lose our investment in you because you ain’t gonna be worth a sh*t, all those many reasons.
He just wants to do this sh*t because he doesn’t care whether he hurts himself or not, which is the classic textbook definition of a f*cking moron! So I cannot continue to support a guy that has some talent and some charisma that refuses to use it and refuses to set any example and refuses to do this the right way. Now, after he has done this, he’s gonna come back and finish the match by the way. Then he got sewed up and he’s put out on the internet that this shouldn’t interfere with him leaving next month, he’s going to go climb Mount Everest. I hope you do climb Mount Everest you brainless tw*t.
Stay as far away from me as possible so I don’t have to keep telling you what a f*cking idiot you are and what a golden opportunity that you are wasting because some f*cking mark billionaire will pay you guaranteed money to go out there and jack off like a f*cking moron, like you’re goddamn Danny Knoxville or whatever the Jackass guy’s name is. He just wants to get hit in the nuts over and over. F*ck you and your f*cking nuts Darby. It’s worse to waste talent and opportunity when you have it than not to ever have it to begin with.”
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