Jim Cornette Reviews Jon Moxley & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Chris Jericho & Lance Archer on AEW Dynamite 

"because I don't pretend to watch new Japan?" -MJF

Tony not knowing how to book the two biggest NJPW stars ever comes to no surprise

The afterbirth was a classic everyone brawling while Mox and Tanahashi had a stare down that went no where

Hiroshi Tanahashi also appeared for IMPACT! Wrestling a few times between 2006 and 2008 when they were TNA and while you worked there, Jim. His first time was at Final Resolution 2006, where he was defeated by AJ Styles in an excellent matchup. He returned again in 2008 for several matches.

Jim moxley would love the shock collar, you just gave him an idea for another crazy match

Hiroshi Tanahashi was disrespected in this match. Made him wrestle slow Jericho and boring Lance Archer and had a shitty staredown with Moxley for 3 minutes.

I saw Moxley eating at Waffle House this morning. Half way through his pancakes he got some juice then right back to his meal.

I knew Cornette was about to have me laughing once i seen it was 20mins long. Lol.

The after match beatdown was horrid. I have never seen so many wrestlers throw terrible punches and forearms in a short amount of time

Cornette makes a great point about what Japanese wrestling used to be. Tiger Mask, Ultimo Dragon, Liger. There is an issue I've noticed in the wrestling community that they forget that modern Japanese wrestling style is not the style Japanese wrestling always was. So, when someone takes issue with it, it doesn't automatically mean that they hate Japanese guys. For some of us, we've seen Japanese wrestling where the psychology was far superior back in the 80s and 90s.

NWA did a masterful job of presenting The Great Muta..of course,modern wrestling bookers are too cool to have enhancement talents to put over stars. Muta was strong on TV before his feud with Sting..instead of two weeks of blah,then Sting vs Muta at GAB '89.

Agree Okada reputation was of a god but portrayed as normal in aew

I'm a big NJPW fan and even I admit that there presence on the shows were lack luster. As Cornette said, no one made any impacting impressions. It's sad, because it was a bad representation of what they are capable of. The only one that delivered from the New Japan side was Shingo Takagi. But even his appearance was so minuscule he might as well not even have been there. He basically was just tacked onto the show. But he did great in the ring.

Jon Moxkey looks perfect for a looney toon character on this artwork

"They dress like bums,they got no physique" 🤣🤣 D.O.A

Oddly enough, the best presented Japanese wrestler they’ve had on AEW TV so far has been Konosuke Takeshita and he’s not even close to the level of the NJPW guys in terms of popularity

Moxley reeks of CZW garbage. I'm amazed he's not blading himself during his entrance.

The convo at the end.🤣🤣🤣

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I wish Jim would review some big NJPW shows. He might actually like it a lot.

I saw some guy blaming the fake looking fight on the floor near the end on "jet lag", I talked to Bobby Fulton who was on 17 tours of Japan in his career and he laughed at that explanation. 🤣

The after birth was the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. The most ridiculous part of it was when Kingston came out and attacked Jericho. Suddenly the JAS run out and now Kingston is being beaten down like 3 or 4 on 1. Moxley, who is supposed to be Kingston's best friend, looks down at Kingston getting the shit kicked out of him with indifference and turns away to stare a Tanahashi for two minutes.

Wheeler Useless caught me so off guard, I burst into hysterics

From AEW overbooked crap to Jurassic porn and ends with a Seinfeld reference, god I love this show. 😃

7:11 "Hikululo" lmfaoo🤣

I do think that NJPW wrestlers do give it like 50% when they come to AEW.

Love how this turns into a discussion about 1960-1970 porno flicks bring a piece of cinema history

Tanahashi is definitely no that borken down. He wrestles very physical 20-30 minutes matches all the time in Japan.

Who knows who the fuck these guys are

I knew Jim was gonna have a field day with the afterbirth . 😂😂😂. Jim and Brian are spot on here .

Hiroshi Tanahasi had a match with AJ Styles in TNA back in 2006.

Marilyn Chambers box became valuable 😂😂😂😂😂😂

1:22 - Good timing with what happened to Giuliani in Staten Island

"I haven't seen her wrestle but I have seen her box" -Jim Cornette 😂😂😂

This match was a joke.

I was shocked when I saw Okada on AEW television. He looked like a jobber where in New Japan he looks like an absolute star.

Do you think pro wrestlers actually listen to these cornette videos? I think they do, though they would deny it publicly. I think Jim thinks so too, which is why he sometimes gives advice to the wrestlers as if they were listening.

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Even Tanahashi couldn’t get a decent match out of Mudshow Mox on Sunday. May be my least favourite of the ‘serious’ wrestlers on AEW. He’s awful

Archer sort of looks like a big, older version of Moxley lol. The after birth itself of course was hilarious since Mox and Tanahasi stared at each other seemingly for 5+ minutes while everyone around them tried to simulate brawling just to use up time.

21:57 that was funny as FUCK lmao

Sazuki was about to piledrive Yuta to a chair on the outside but Jericho (who was on the same side as Sazuki) stopped him. “You can’t do that, their side will be down a man in this clusterfuck”

Good bit of porn history at the end there

They’re booking them more like Funaki than Inoki

People say Jim hates Japanese wrestler while here he praise japanese guys likes Jumbo Tsuruta and Tiger Mask Sayama.

"I haven't seen her wrestle but I have seen her box." 😂

I don't even watch AEW and I know they need their injured talent back 😂.

Brian Last: Which box? Me: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

"Which box?" I think Brian was very ashamed of that joke, hence the reason he said it so quietly!🤣

Tbh I started liking the bad segments more just because I wonder what will Cornette say about that.

I had such hope for Moxley in AEW but he’s terrible … Same thing over & over again .. Reigns & Rollins have left him so far in the dust it’s not even funny..

I'm realizing that Jim doesn't know that New Japan has events in America. The G1 is usually held in the US. Okada vs Jay White sold out MSG. People have seen Japan wrestling in America. But admittedly US television hasn't seen New Japan wrestlers

Cafe Flesh is a true classic. The MC's raps are worth the price of admission alone.

I CAN'T WAIT TILL JIM & BRIAN DISSECT FORBIDDEN DOOR. (Post ppv media scrum & all) 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Forbidden Door made me realize how overrated Moxley really is. He’s always bleeding, and uses it as a crutch, to hide his shortcomings in the ring.

No Tanahashi can go as was seen in the PPV, this was just a match done to make Tanahashi look terrible well that or Tanahashi just didn't give a shit about appearing on AEW in the first place much like Okada

"They dress like bums" Yo Jim chill 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The problem is Kahn loves getting EVERYONE on a show. But it ends up being a sloppy mess

Never would guessed this clip ends with Vanessa Del Rio 😁

I feel for Brian man this dude is SCARED of this card

They need to get sunny Ono and Medusa on the team to shine the spotlight on some of the japanese talents.

It's weird because in Japan you usually see these guys in suits or at least their gym clothes during events. They should've asked them to come in suits and do at least one match where each of them absolutely obliterates a midcard heel. Imagine if the audience saw the rainmaker entrance and Okada comes in and just destroys some shitter like Daniel Garcia. Tony Khan fucking sucks.

Georgina Spelvin was great in Police Academy,. could we have the next slide

15:31 is such a great burial of all the non-Japanese people working in Japan that "wrestle"

At times I thought Tanahasi was the red rooster while I watching this, and why was archer standing outside the ring like an idiot while jericho was getting pinned right in front of him

I think the some of the issue is the overall styles. New Japan still on some level presents their matches as a legitimate fight. North America is much more about the entertainment and "star power", and that can be a tough gap to bridge.

No one: Jim Cornette watching AEW: 5:43

Idk how you can say when Okada came out he just looked like another guy, because to the entire arena he looked like a superstar, given the roof came off the place.

"Wheeler Useless" LMAO

" I'd never seen her wrestle but I have seen her box "

In many ways, AEW is a much better product than it was, 2 years ago. The production has improved, and the show feels more major league. But the unnerving lack of self-awareness is alarming at this point. AEW has based its entire identity on having a superior in-ring product. Other than a few exceptions, their in-ring product has become increasingly disengaged.

He had a great match against AJ styles in TNA

Hey Brian, nobody missed MJF, Christian did a great heal promo on Dynamite

That was the worst face 2 face stare down in wrestling history 😒 it was hard to watch how long it went on for with no physical contact 😔 plus the silly stuff that was happening around them 😢

That stare down between Moxley and the Japanese guy was so long i almost felt sorry for them. It's like they didn't know what else to do so they just stood there looking like idiots.

Top NJPW guys do very little outside of big events because their schedule is brutal.

Right Now... I think the Good talent pool is in England or UK..

Wasn't Cornette present when both Nakamura and Styles worked TNA?

He bladed sfter a slingblade at the PPV. A fucking slingblade!? The guys obssessed with blading himself.

This match wasn't a complete embarrassment, even if Tanahashi had to carry Moxley, Jericho, and Archer. It was the brawl after the match, while Moxley and Tanahashi just stood there. The thrown in the fact Jericho had to do this two more times, after the Main Event of Rampage and the ending of Forbidden Door. I can only pray that Kingston and his group finally beat Jericho and his jobbers at Cardboard and Crashpad 2, or they are officially buried. The worst part of all of this, is you knew Tanahashi was not going to beat Moxley at the PPV

Ive only started watching this AEW show the past year or so as it's on ITV4 for free in the UK before this I hadn't watched any form of wrestling in years. My question is this, why does every single match on this promotion have to have a spot were whoever's wrestling no matter who it is they have to trade terrible looking forearms back and forth? What is the deal with this? Why does everyone do it? When did this become a thing? It looks so stupid.

The stare down was awkward

Yeah the Japanese guys were used poorly. Should have come in and torn the set down. Instead, we got them coming out as if they were just at a friend's birthday party. Also... 21:50 🤣😭

That ending was a shit show wtf all these other brawls and yeah moxley and tanahashi they just have an intense stare down wtf

What’s great is after watching the ppv and personally loving the matches this all doesn’t matter

Outlaw Mudshow

Oh man I fucking LOVE Suzuki lol... I been watching him for almost a decade and went back and watched alot of his good shit and man at one point I could see him going against Lesnar and winning... He was one scary dude...

This ppv review gonna be hilarious...I can't wait.

Hiroshi faced aj styles in tna back in 2006. When Jim was there. How does JC not remember?

The answer to your question is well one of two things: 1.NJPW is massively different than American wrestling so telling them they have to put on a completely different match throws them off also they have to deal with the language issue so the can't cut a promo for the english speaking audience though AEW could have easily done what NJPW does with its american wrestlers and have a translator so they could cut a a promo in Japanese at least and 2. Some of these Japan guys don't want to be on AEW and would rather just stick to wrestling in NJPW so they they do the bare minimum to fulfill their bosses request (Okada we know for a fact did not want to be there nor did he want to be apart of the PPV has he came straight out and said it in an interview about it. I wouldn't be surprised if Tanahashi felt the same way)

I can't wait until we never find out the buy rate for this PPV because it will be so much lower that Tony will be too embarrassed to reveal it.

I could see Jim yelling all this to his OVW kids

AEW need a few video editors who can make video packages to highlight these wrestlers and why they are a big deal prior to their music playing and them going down to the ring on live television.

wow just looked up Maryland Chambers. only knew her in name

It might be the roster picks, it might be that a lot of the New Japan guys are just there to get paid, or it might be that AEW is following the booking idea that these guys aren't going to get put over, proving that AEW is the world's best promotion. It could be a mix of any of those IMO.

For that ending with the staredown, they must have ended the match early by mistake, right? No way you book two guys staring at each other like doofuses for five minutes straight on purpose. I was watching with my brother and it just became this great running gag and we became more and more amused. Every time they'd cut back to the ring one of us would shout "they're still staring at each other!" and the laughs would get louder and louder. I will hand it to Moxley and Tanahashi sticking to the bit even after they must have known it was going too long. "Okay, don't laugh. Keep staring. God, has it been 10 minutes? It feels like 10 minutes. Were we supposed to move to something else? Is someone going to cue us when to stop? Eh, don't want to mess up, just keep with the staredown until they tell us otherwise."

Moxley thinks he's cool, but I think he's a bozo!

Old Man Yells at Cloud ☁️

Marylin Chambers is infinitely more interesting than anything going on in wrestling right now.

thanks Jim for being the beacon of common sense as always you are so right they Made every one of them look like JABRONIES new Japan is an absolute mess if this is what they are pushing too many American talents that just murky the waters and make it just hard to watch good lord smh