On a recent episode of his “The Experience” podcast, Jim Cornette discussed Nick Wayne’s highly anticipated debut in AEW. While Cornette did not go all ballistic on the young “prodigy” as he is often known to, Cornette did criticize the match over the lack of actual wrestling involved.
Cornette noted that instead of Nick Wayne standing out, he did the same old tired routine that most people on the AEW roster do. He added that while he had heard that Wayne was a good worker, he saw none of that during the match, again emphasizing the lack of actual wrestling and lamenting the abundance of flips and combative parkour. Cornette said,
“That’s what I’ve looked at and seen in Theory or seen in Bron Breakker. That’s a prodigy. Not what moves you can do, any kind of moves. But the basics, the concept of wrestling, the timing, the facials, the body language, the working ability, those are things that I determine when I look at if someone’s a prodigy, and I didn’t see any of it with Nick Wayne, because they didn’t do any of it. There was not a godd**n wrestling move in this match that Nick Wayne used. No body slam, hip toss, or arm drag, it was the rolling flips, the parkour, aggressive gymnastics.”
