Al Snow isn't a big fan of the in-ring style prominently featured in All Elite Wrestling.
The former WWE Superstar, best known as the head coach of the WWE Tough Enough reality show, who has more recently worked behind-the-scenes for such promotions as TNA Wrestling, made this clear during a recent interview.
While talking with former WWE, WCW and TNA Wrestling writer Vince Russo about the critically-acclaimed Will Ospreay vs. Konosuke Takeshita match from the AEW Revolution 2024 pay-per-view, Snow went on a rant about how unsafe the style used in AEW has been.
"You’re going to have those that are going to defend it, and they’re going to get upset and take the… that I’ve got an axe to grind, and that I’m bitter, and I’m not," he said. "At all. [I’m] satisfied with everything. I watch this, and I watch the escalation continue all the time. The reason I took up the cause I took up years ago when I ended up buying OVW, ribbing myself, was because I went to the wrestling commissions insisting on standards of training and standards of, you know, activity in the ring. I promise you there are more accidents that have happened, and are occurring, like that, and what it’s going to take, quite honestly, and we’re en route, and when this happens, I want everyone to go, ‘Al was right!’ OK? Because everyone’s going to deny it. At some point, especially, the likelihood is it definitely going to occur on a show on AEW… and it’s going to be on national television, and you’re going to watch someone die right in front of your eyes."
Snow continued, "We now have escalated to where we watched Will Ospreay go up into a vertical suplex with the guy standing on the second rope and drop straight on his head. We watched Orange Cassidy get dropped bodily on the top rope and could almost be cut in half. OK? How much exponentially has the scale went up, that we’re going to watch someone die? Meaning… legitimately, they’re going to die right in front of your eyes in a match."
Check out the complete Al Snow interview with Vince Russo via the YouTube player embedded below.
