‘One of many worst concepts I’ve ever seen’: Followers lambast professional wrestling group AEW as they maintain hilarious ‘pretend MMA combat’ (VIDEO)

Professional wrestling and blended martial arts have lengthy been uncomfortable bedfellows however All-Elite Wrestling actually weren’t having any of it when the sports activities leisure league promoted a ‘blended martial arts combat’ at a current occasion.

There may be little denying that the expansion of blended martial arts has been tethered, albeit calmly, to the recognition wrestling within the late 90’s and past, with Dana White admitting that he borrowed some promotional razzmatazz from Vince McMahon’s decades-old field of tips within the UFC’s halcyon days. 

Recently although, the stream is flowing within the different path. Professional wrestling’s reputation has dipped because the UFC and others siphoned off sections of its fanbase, and it turned inevitable that wrestling would dip its toes into MMA earlier than lengthy.

Jake Hager and Wardlow had a MMA combat ?

(by way of @AEWonTNT)pic.twitter.com/gbLiWf6ZEl

— B/R Wrestling (@BRWrestling) June 19, 2021

Brock Lesnar’s return to the WWE from the UFC noticed him primarily promoted as a blended martial arts fighter when the fact was something however. See too Ronda Rousey’s drafting into the realm of sports activities leisure the place by all accounts she turned a bona fide star in her new profession offshoot. 

However even amongst these successes, McMahon’s wrestling empire stopped wanting holding occasions explicitly promoted as being blended martial arts contests. 

Step up All-Elite Wrestling. 

AEW, the most recent challengers to WWE’s stranglehold on the wrestling trade, promoted a ‘combat’ between Jake Hager and one other wrestler, Wardlow, at a current present – and this sad marriage between leisure and athletic competitors wasn’t met properly by many.

I’ve seen higher fights at White Fort at 4 within the morning.

— RUSSELL (@RUDESTRUMMER) June 19, 2021

Once I mentioned I wished to see Jake Hager in a cage I used to be speaking a couple of jail cell. This sucks

— BillyGunnFact (@BillyGunnFact) June 19, 2021

I really like wrestling, however this one of many worst concepts have ever seen.

— Jaylan (@__Jaylan__) June 19, 2021

“I’ve seen higher fights at White Fort at 4 within the morning,” got here the response from one unimpressed wrestling fan.

“Once I mentioned I wished to see Jake Hager in a cage I used to be speaking a couple of jail cell. This sucks,” mentioned one other.

“I really like wrestling, however this one of many worst concepts have ever seen,” was the summation of one other.

Jake Hager, one half of AEW’s so-called MMA bout, does have a background in blended martial arts and has rendered three wins and one no-contest in 4 fights beneath the Bellator banner, along with his most up-to-date coming final October when he outpointed Brandon Calton throughout three rounds. 

However the subsequent time he steps into the Bellator cage he can be going through a far sterner check than he did in opposition to Wardlow, whom he ‘defeated’ by arm-triangle choke within the scripted combat.

Simply do not count on that to point out up on his skilled document anytime quickly.

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