Jeff Jarrett Responds To Criticism Of AEW’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre Death Match

On last Wednesday’s episode of AEW Dynamite, All Elite Wrestling presented a Texas Chainsaw Massacre match between Jeff Jarrett and Jeff Hardy that saw outside inference from Satnam Singh, Jay Lethal, Karen Angle, Matt Hardy, Brother Zay, Ethan Page, and Leatherface.

Singh chokeslammed Hardy, giving Jarrett the victory. This was a sponsorship arrangement for the upcoming Texas Chainsaw Massacre video game, with AEW giving the funds to charity. 

Speaking on My World with Jeff Jarrett, the AEW star discussed the match.

“I told my buddy at the gym this morning. I’ll just say, he’s not down with lucha libre, says it doesn’t make a lot of sense. He loves Japanese wrestling. He’s not so much a fan of WWE. He just kind of likes the no nonsense strong style. He leans more into that. He came up, and he said, ‘Man, there’s some people bent out of shape online. What do you think about that?’ I said, ‘Well, let me ask you, why do you like it? Because you’re shocking me that you like that.’ He said, ‘Well, when you hear the title ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre Death Match’ right out of the gate, you kind of know you’re not gonna be getting any hurricanranas and German suplexes and all that.’ He’s like, ‘What do you think?’ I said, ‘The biggest disappointment I would’ve had, by far, is if there would have been no feedback.’ The point that there was people, that this made them so divisive, that somebody cared so much or cared so much about the AEW brand, that they tune into Twitter or Instagram…I really thought that the sponsor, exact words, ‘Incredible. Way overdelivered.’ Okay, so that’s a win.”

“It’s my understanding, across the board, the network, because they’re the ones, when you bill a deck and hey, we did for this client and this for this client, all that. Obviously, goes without saying, the top man, TK, super excited. Look, his sole decision. That was up to him. With the funds going to Maui, that says so much to me. But the audience being so passionate about it, I love that, okay, that lit a nerve. Not always good. Some people just didn’t like it, but I loved it. I thought it was an honor to be in that type of integration. It was definitely out of the box. I thought Jeff Hardy and his entire crew executed it to a tee,” he said.

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