Jim Cornette wants Tony Khan to step away from booking AEW for good but is also sceptical as to who will take over the position.
Beginning as a major competitor to WWE in its early years, All Elite Wrestling is ironically turning into WWE’s previous competitor WCW with the average age of the roster creeping up and questionable booking decisions that have left some fans either scratching their heads or turning off altogether.
Speaking on the Jim Cornette Experience, Cornette cited the fact that AEW is trying to please all masters by incorporating virtually every type of wrestling style onto weekly TV, only catering to small sections at a time.
Cornette continued, advising Khan to stop booking weekly TV and give someone with more experience a chance to book the show they set out to make over 4 years ago:
Here’s the thing. We’re joking and we’re laughing but Tony I will leave you with again some advice. Bow the f*ck out. And at this point, I don’t even trust Tony to be able to appoint a new Booker because of his completely bad judgement about everybody does business with. But he needs to recognise as somebody needs to take that f*cking thing over that he needs to weed out the sh*tty talent and even if some of the talent isn’t sh*tty, focus on what you want to do instead of trying to do everything.
Because everybody’s not a goddamn mark of every subgenre and niche product of wrestling in the history of the world. And do a focus sports-based presentation like you tease people about to begin with.
Recognising that damage has already been done to the product, Cornette stated that if someone did take over tomorrow then it would be a considerable amount of time before the changes would result in changes in attendance and viewing figures:
And try to make some new talent instead of reliving your childhood fantasies now that you can collect all the WCW wrestlers from the 90s and you know, but it’s going to take a while to get it back. It’s not going to get better than this in the next few months, or maybe at all ever, but even if they tried now, you can’t turn the battleship on a dime.
So if they started now, putting all the talent, different places, making more attractive matchups, trying to do a serious programme weeding out all the f*cking you know, juvenile tomfoolery, that Tony and a lot of them are, you know, wrapped up in. It’d be it’ll be months before you see a change at the arenas.
Jim Cornette Evaluates Ric Flair Signing With AEW
Following a surprise appearance by The Nature Boy, many were surprised to hear that Ric Flair had signed a multi-year deal with AEW considering the plan seemed to be that Flair would only be with the promotion until March when Sting retires from in-ring competition. Recognising that it is already hard for the young guys to get over in AEW, Jim Cornette questioned whether the inclusion of Ric Flair was necessary.
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