Jim Cornette is never one to bite his tongue — and WWE’s Night of Champions finish has him seeing red.
On a new episode of Jim Cornette’s Drive-Thru, the legendary wrestling manager tore into how WWE handled the chaotic ending of the Undisputed WWE Championship match between John Cena and CM Punk. While Cornette praised the actual wrestling, the final stretch of the match completely derailed it for him.
“It was a good back and forth match where everything made sense. It was a good world title match,” Cornette admitted. “It was probably the best John Cena match of this particular retirement run here.”
But once the referee bump happened and the run-ins started, Cornette made it clear — the match was ruined.
“I’ve loved this match up until this point. The only thing they can do when a match is not no DQ is knock the referee out, which I’m not opposed to… but the problem is now referee bumps have evolved into the referee has been placed in a f**ing medically induced coma… and is going to be down for 10 minutes.”*
As Seth Rollins, Bron Breakker, Bronson Reed, Penta, and Sami Zayn hit the ring, the entire match ground to a halt, and Cornette wasn’t having it.
“The music is playing over the loudspeaker. What’s the referee supposed to think unless he’s completely slapped dab unconscious, in which case some doctor needs to be bringing over a goddamn oxygen tank.”
The WWE Hall of Famer didn’t hold back, calling the whole sequence a completely different match altogether.
“It was a different f**ing match for about five minutes. Yeah, here, now, let’s all go to the lobby… We’ll come back in five minutes when the match we were watching starts back up.”*
After the referee magically recovered — seven minutes after taking a shoulder tackle — Cena scored the win. But Cornette wasn’t impressed with how WWE wrapped things up.
“I thought it was a real good match, until it became sports entertainment instead of wrestling, and then everybody came out, and they just lost the f**ing plot.”*
Love him or hate him, Cornette never holds back — and this time, he’s not the only one questioning WWE’s booking decisions.
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