Booker T was asked about Matt Jackson no-selling a 450 splash at AEW Redemption. His first move was to say he had not seen it.
The question came in from a listener during the super chat segment of his Hall of Fame podcast, and Booker T was upfront about the limits of his answer.
“I don’t know if he came up after that and gave the guy a superkick. If the person that wrote that comment could retort and just let me know, did he no-sell and come up and do a superkick? I’m just thinking off the top of my head. I didn’t see it or anything like that.”
He and his co-host both acknowledged on air that they had not watched the show and that they were aware of how the conversation would sound.
From there, Booker T declined to criticize Jackson for it.
“But I wouldn’t be surprised, because the audience is conditioned to see something like that happen, and it’s something that’s very entertaining to them. And I can’t knock Matt Jackson doing something that he knows is going to make the audience happy, or they’re going to be entertained by it.”
He framed the wider point as a difference in philosophy rather than a failing.
“They’re just different, man. Stuff they do in AEW, and I said it from the beginning, it’s like they’re doing wrestling in their own way. They’re kind of changing the game of the way wrestling was watched for many, many years, and they have the prerogative to do that.”
The one thing he said he does not follow is how AEW structures its tag matches.
“It’s just like the tag team matches where you see guys stay in the ring for 20 seconds and they do different moves on each other before the guy get out. Me personally, do I understand that? No, I don’t. But their core audience seem to like that kind of stuff.”
AEW Redemption took place Sunday at the Bell Centre in Montreal.
