AEW’s lackluster explosion during Jon Moxley vs. Kenny Omega’s World Title match at AEW: Revolution caught the attention of a certain Japanese legend.
Explosion match legend Atsushi Onita recently spoke with Fanbyte to discuss AEW’s botched finish during the main event of their Revolution pay-per-view and mentioned how he’d like to bring America his version of a proper explosion match.
“I want to show American fans my original explosion match. I sometimes feel like I have to. American deathmatch fans have been disappointed twice, first with the explosion deathmatch CZW held in 2017, and secondly AEW’s. At the time of the CZW show, maybe because of costs, CZW said ‘we don’t need Japanese engineers, don’t worry, leave it to us,’ and I believed them. I sent a cheering message to Kenny Omega and Jon Moxley, but AEW did the preparations for their explosion match on their own, and I wasn’t involved at all. However, I was disappointed that the fans were disappointed, and I felt responsible.”
Onita would go on to talk about Jon Moxley honoring him by switching his theme song to ‘Wild Thing’ as well as to describe what the hardest part about putting together an explosion match is.
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