Earlier this month was the AEW Revolution pay-per-view. The main event of the night was Sting’s final match. It was for the AEW World Tag Team Championship. The champions Sting and Darby Allin defended their championship gold against The Young Bucks. One of the scary bumps that Allin took was a Swanton Bomb from the top of a ladder onto a sheet of glass. D-Von Dudley recently commented on the spot.
While speaking on a recent episode of Busted Open Radio, the WWE Hall of Famer shared his thoughts on the spot. He claimed it was very dangerous, and he is not sure if he would have ever done that. He also mentioned that such dangerous spots have unnecessary risks.
“That was very dangerous to me,” D-Von Dudley said. “I don’t know if the six of us [Dudleys, Hardys, Edge, and Christian] had ever been in a situation where we would have the opportunity to take that type of bump. I just don’t know if we would’ve ever done that. There’s unnecessary risks that are involved in that.
“I remember, in TNA, when we were putting Christian through the glass table, we had to table..certain things we wanted to do leading up to that. That bump alone, we had a little bit of apprehension about doing it, and kind of make sure Christian was going to be as safe as possible because even sugar glass can cut the hell out of you.” [H/T WrestlingInc.]
D-Von Dudley compares ECW to the risks taken by modern-day wrestlers
While speaking on the same episode, D-Von Dudley claimed that he doesn’t recall taking big risks such as jumping onto glass and believes that the wrestlers from back in the say were smarter as they knew the risks and consequences with each spot they did.
“To me, and again, God bless those guys,” D-Von said. “Whatever they do over there, that’s what they do. I get that, because I’m sure in ECW, when we were doing the crazy things that we were doing, a lot of the old timers didn’t understand what we were doing.
“But I don’t know…the risk that we see today, I don’t know if we took those risks like that in ECW. Maybe we did, maybe we didn’t, I don’t know. But it just didn’t seem like we did. I think we were a lot smarter and we understood the consequences of some of the things that we were going to do in there.”
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