Jonathan Coachman Blasts Lazy AEW After “Disgusting” On-Screen Moment
Jonathan Coachman wasn’t impressed by AEW’s most recent pay-per-view.
Long before the dust had settled on the event, AEW All Out 2024 had been dubbed the most violent pay-per-view the company had ever produced. And while that violence got fans talking, some observers, including AEW star Mercedes Mone, admitted they had mixed feelings over the brutality on display.
In the main event, Swerve Strickland and Hangman Adam Page went to war with chairs, a cinder block, a staple gun, a hypodermic needle, pieces of burned wood, and more in their Unsanctioned Lights Out Cage Match.
Their match came after Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, and PAC betrayed Bray Danielson. After Castagnoli flattened Danielson with an uppercut, Moxley attempted to suffocate him with a plastic bag.
The show also featured a violent and hard-hitting Chicago Street Fight between Kris Statlander and Willow Nightingale.
Jonathan Coachman “Hated” AEW All Out
During an appearance on the Gabby AF with Gabby LaSpisa, former WWE announcer Jonathan Coachman gave his thoughts on the violence and the show as a whole. Coach said the match between Strickland and Page highlighted AEW’s laziness, before calling the spot involving the hypodermic needle “disgusting.”
“People [say], ‘Coach, that was a storyline. If this was in a movie …’ It’s not a movie. It’s a real life movie,” Coachman said. “And these are real things with kids in the front row watching it in real time. And this goes back to laziness … When you can’t write a story good enough that you have a hypodermic needle inside somebody’s mouth — it was disgusting.”
Coach went on to claim he knows from an AEW insider that Tony Khan makes decisions based on social media reactions from fans.
“I know for a fact that he does that,” Coach said. “So he’s listening to these scrubs and these marks who think they know what they’re talking about.”
With regard to Danielson being suffocated by Moxley, Coach said he wouldn’t be surprised to hear a child had come to harm after trying to replicate it.
“I’m waiting for — and I hate to say this — the story that comes out that some 9-year-old kid suffocates his brother because they’re playing in the backyard, and he saw Bryan Danielson do it, so I’m going to do it. I hated the whole [show].”
Jonathan Coachman made headlines in July after being critical of Mercedes Mone, claiming she’s done little to back up her arrogance.
H/t to Wrestling Inc