Former WWE and pro wrestling veteran referee Jimmy Korderas recently appeared on the Wrestling Inc.'s Daily podcast, where he discussed a number of topics such as how the referee distraction in the Chris Jericho vs. Claudio Castagnoli Match and the Swerve In Our Glory vs. The Acclaimed Match was supposed to be there to help the heel get heat and not for the referee to look stupid.
Jimmy Korderas said:
“It happened in the first match; okay, we get that. It happened in this match as well, and it doesn’t look good. The referee distraction is supposed to be there to help the heel get heat, the heel team get heat. Not put heat on the referee for looking stupid and looking like they’re trying to look away so that they don’t see the spot.”
Jimmy Korderas also talked about how it felt to him that the referee was just trying to look away and that falls on the talent and the agent producing the match.
Jimmy Korderas said:
“And that’s the way it felt to me, it felt like the referee was just trying to look away just so he doesn’t see the spot going on behind his back … It just didn’t make sense like, ‘Oh, I’ll just look over here,’ and then that doesn’t just fall on the referee, it falls on the talent, that falls on the agent producing that match, and stuff like that.”
You can check out Jimmy Korderas' full comments at this link. H/T to Wrestling Inc. for transcribing the above quotes.
