Tony Schiavone Talks His Dislike For DQ Finishes, Why Fans Believe They Are Getting F**ked Over

All Elite Wrestling commentator Tony Schiavone recently appeared on the "What Happened When" podcast, where he talked about a variety of topics such as how ending a match in a blackout is the wrong thing to do, but it was something he was a part of in the past and it was something he was excited for. AEW commentator Tony Schiavone also talked about how booking a show without a finish is something AEW CEO and President Tony Khan will never do.

Tony Schiavone said:

“Yeah, it’s the wrong thing to do. I liked, at the time, being part of it, being excited, telling the fans ‘we have to go, we’re out time’ and I used to say ‘the tape machines are rolling, we’ll show you what happened next week.’ We necessarily never did, or most of the time we didn’t. You have the fans invested in this match, the match moves along, and all of a sudden, ope, we’re gone. What the hell? It’s like, ‘bases loaded, bottom of the ninth, we’re gonna win the World Series…but we have to go to the Mary Tyler Moore Show.’ We’ve talked a lot about the cracks in Jim Crockett promotions, the sale of UWF, Dusty (Rhodes) booking himself over in the Bunkhouse Stampede, guys not showing up for bookings, and going off TV without showing finishes. That all, mixed into the pot, is the reason we failed. I don’t think you’ll ever see Tony Khan book a show where he goes off without a finish.”

Tony Schiavone also talked about how he never liked matches with DQ finishes.

Tony Schiavone said:

“That’s a storytelling device. You can still have a finish in your match and then move on with the storytelling device after the finish. I never liked f**k finish DQs. f**k finish DQs is f**king the fans. You don’t want to f**k the fans. You can only f**k them so many times.”

Tony Schiavone then talked about how you can’t please everybody, but a DQ finish will make a few fans feel that they have been f**ked over.

Tony Schiavone said:

“You can’t please everybody. Sometimes, a group of fans are going to feel like they’ve been f**ked over. A lot of times, a group of fans are waiting to be f**ked over and they live for that so they can shit on you and shit on your promotion and shit on this podcast and that’s what they do because they are miserable f**ks.”

You can check out Tony Schiavone's comments at this link. H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes.