Jim Cornette Believes Bloody Adam Page Stunt May Have Cost AEW Network Deal

Adam Page and Swerve Strickland were engaged in a heated feud over the past two months, which has seen many eventful things happening. Page even attacked Strickland during an indie event prior to Full Gear. It culminated in a bloody war at AEW Full Gear, but Jim Cornette believes one particular spot in the match might have cost AEW a potential network deal.

Ringside News provided full coverage of AEW Full Gear. It featured one of the most brutal matches in AEW history, as Adam Page took on Swerve Strickland in a Texas Death Match. Both competitors bled enough blood to run a blood donation camp. That said, when all was said and done, Strickland beat Adam Page in what was undoubtedly the most gruesome AEW match of all time.

However, the match was criticized for being far too violent. While speaking during The Jim Cornette Experience, Jim Cornette talked about the Texas Death Match. He blasted Adam Page’s spot where he drank Swerve Strickland’s blood, stating that he believes that stunt might have cost AEW a potential network deal.

”Okay, so then Hangnail gets a staple gun and staples Swerve’s chest, he’s stapling him in the titties. Not the nipples, that’s against the Geneva Convention. And then he gets a format or a piece of paper or whatever, and he staples it to Swerve’s arm. Now, meanwhile, Brian, you know what a staple gun looks like? You worked in an office? Do you think most of the people know what a staple gun looks like? It’s a big metal thing and you squeeze it and it’s got to thing goes across your fingers and you squeeze it and it staples, right?

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If you’re in a fight with a motherf*cker, especially if you look like Adam Page and the other motherf*cker looks like Swerve Strickland. And you’ve got a staple gun in your hand. Are you going to staple him in the titty? Or are you going to draw back and punch him in the bridge of the f*cking nose with it? That’s the idea. He’s got brass knuckles on his hand and he’s stapling this motherf*cker’s arm. And then he stapled his face and Swerve is letting him do it.

And because we know that this is all fake, because of the general overall presentation of AEW, people are sitting there going well this stupid motherf*cker is letting this other stupid motherf*cker staple his f*cking cheek, and his titties!

And at that point, somehow he’s busted Swerve open also and Swerve hit a gusher and starts pouring blood. And this is where Page lays down on his back as Swerve is bending over bleeding from his head, lays down on his back and opens his mouth so that he can drink Swerve’s blood to show how badass he is.

And I believe at that point, you know again I go back to when Lyndon Johnson said after Cronkite came back from Vietnam if we’ve lost Cronkite, we’ve lost America. I think they’ve lost the female audience that they might not have had to begin with on that one. And again, they might have lost the network that they potentially might or might not have had off of that one. You f*cking idiot, he’s no better than the plumber or the f*cking bank-addicted drug robber. He got more hair, that’s it, Page. Otherwise, he is as stupid, and demented and f*cking distasteful.”

Swerve Strickland also issued scathing warning to the AEW locker room after Full Gear. It remains to be seen whether AEW will end up getting negatively impacted by the Texas Death Match in the end.

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