Jeff Jarrett has addressed fans who are seemingly confused by the AEW Continental Classic.
Fans who have never watched the G1 in New Japan have not seen a tournament like this before in a major promotion in the United States, instead being used to the single elimination concept that has been regularly utilised by AEW in the past 5 years. While the league table and points scoring system is relatively straightforward, online critics have claimed that they find the table hard to read and are struggling to keep track each week.
Jarrett has addressed those who fail to understand the concept on an episode of My World:
“I believe it’s impossible now [to please everyone]. The culture is there, it’s people always going to complain, I mean about anything. The Continental Classic, you hear, the analogies to the Japan G1, there’s been tournaments and different things and different iterations and not exactly the same forever and ever and ever.”
Addressing the scoring system, The Last Outlaw finds it easy to understand and is baffled why others don’t:
“I think it’s super easy to understand; there’s been clean pinfalls which I do think has helped in the storytelling. I think it is a six/seven-week story that involves 12 guys, if you will … It’s not new, but it’s the AEW spin on it and the title prize, and they’re punching their ticket… It’s subjective, and I do not think it’s confusing. I’m not sure how folks can be confused.”
Jarrett has never competed in a round-robin tournament in his lengthy in-ring career. Despite it being physically demanding, the former World Champion would have loved to be a part of it:
“I would’ve actually enjoyed this, and I know it’s a lot of wrestling,” he said. “But, I wasn’t in one Bound For Glory series, I certainly wasn’t in the Japan tournament. It would have been a different direction to take the old Last Outlaw.”
With the opening 5 rounds of the Continental Classic Gold League now concluded, Jon Moxley, Swerve Strickland and Jay White all finished with 12 points each. A 3-way match has been announced for the December 27th edition of Dynamite, with the winner facing the winner of the Blue League at Worlds End.
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H/t to Wrestling Inc.