Although the first-ever Exploding Barbed Wire Death Match in All Elite Wrestling at Sunday night's AEW Revolution 2021 pay-per-view featured its' fair share of explosions, the match ultimately contributed to the show ending with anything but a bang.
As seen in the closing moments of the show, which saw Kenny Omega defend his AEW Championship by defeating Jon Moxley with an assist from The Good Brothers, the ring explosion that was scheduled to happen after 30 minutes transpired went off with a whimper.
The dud of a ring explosion culmination to the segment, which was supposed to see Moxley left to be blown up by Omega and The Good Brothers, only for his longtime friend and recent rival Eddie Kingston to put himself in harm's way, sacrificing himself to help save Mox, obviously didn't go down as the company had hoped.
After the PPV cameras stopped rolling on Sunday night, "The Purveyor of Violence" took to the microphone to address the limited-capacity crowd in attendance for the show held at Daily's Place amphitheater in Jacksonville, Florida. Featured below is a transcript of the off-air comments made by the pro wrestling veteran following Sunday night's PPV event:
"Jacksonville, I think me and all y’all can agree on one thing. Kenny Omega may be a tough son of a bitch, but he can’t make an exploding ring worth a s**t! I’ve seen more dangerous shit on Ridiculousness on MTV, what the f**k was that? I’m still standing, bitch! We thank you guys, man, for coming out here during these tough times, every time, and watching the best PPV product, the best wrestlers in the world bustin’ their ass from the first match on the card all the way to the last. You see everything from the first match to the last. You get your money’s worth. If there’s one thing we do out here at AEW, because we love wrestling just like you do, we bust our ass! I had one goal tonight: to lay it all on the line, to bare my soul in this ring and work my ass off like it was the last night I was ever gonna get, the blessing and the opportunity to do it for you fans, and I accomplished that tonight. So I’m gonna go get [inaudible] and then I will be back for my World Championship, I will be back for Kenny Omega. And every time, from the bottom of my heart, everybody at AEW, we thank you guys for your support cause AEW is the tightest [inaudible] in the wrestling business! And we are taking the son of a bitch over and it all starts with you!"
AEW ended up releasing the full scene that transpired after the cameras stopped rolling via their official Twitter feed and other various digital media platforms following Sunday night's AEW Revolution 2021 pay-per-view.
Check out the complete video of the off-air segment featuring Jon Moxley addressing the dud of a final ring explosion via the tweet embedded below courtesy of the official AEW Twitter feed.
.@JonMoxley didn’t regain the belt tonight but he regained a friend in Eddie Kingston! King came to save Mox from the final blast, which wasn’t enough to keep Mox & Eddie down for good!
“Kenny Omega may be a tough son of a b____, but he can’t make an exploding ring worth a s___!” pic.twitter.com/AHJCYVu3pw— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) March 8, 2021
(H/T to WrestlingHeadlines.com for transcribing the above quote from Jon Moxley).
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