Jeff Jarrett on Online Discourse Over AEW’s Smaller Ring Used at Grand Slam Australia

As noted before, this past Saturday’s AEW Grand Slam Australia show at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in Brisbane, Australia was notable for AEW using a smaller ring than usual for their show. This smaller ring was later revealed to not have been due to any issues over AEW forgetting to bring a ring and instead was a deal AEW had made with Pro Wrestling Australia several months ago and knew it would be smaller than their regular ring.

A recent episode of the My World with Jeff Jarrett podcast featured co-host Jeff Jarrett giving his thoughts about the recent online discourse over AEW using a smaller ring for their show in Australia and caring more about AEW’s international success for their event than the negativity discourse.

“Late last night when I logged in, I kind of saw the dominoes if you will. But man, it made kind of sit back and think just how — I don’t want to use the world tribalism or everything’s politicized, but it just feels like — It’s the old Jerry Lawler song, bad news travels like a wildfire, good news travels slow, they all call me wildfire because everybody knows i’m bad news. It’s like, people jump in and want to hang on and if you don’t like the size of the ring, that’s okay too, i’m not trying to tell anybody what they can and can’t like. But my goodness, the negativity just continues to grow and grow and grow and grow. Hey, that’s okay too, but I think a lot of people in a weird kind of way, do they get joy out of it or does it make them happy, does it make them feel good? I can’t think of a lot of ways, maybe it gives them a shot of internal adrenaline like, ‘Ah, I’m gonna post this and tweet this whether it’s negative or this or that.’ I get clicks creates cash and controversy creates cash and that whole mentality but Conrad, you know me as well as anybody, I’m just such a huge fan of professional wrestling continuing to do big live gates in all of the international markets because — no disrespect to Japan or Germany or any of these other markets but wrestling is really looked at in today’s world economy as a US product and its exported around the world. The more success that can happy internationally, I absolutely love it. When you have that kind of crowd, you can choose to forget about any backstory, what you do and you don’t want to believe, but at the end of the day, you just kind of ran through the highlights. No matter how you slice and dice it, there were 14,000 international fans that had a fantastic time or they sure acted like they had a fantastic time because they were on their feet for the better part of the show.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com