Jeff Jarrett just took a pretty brutal shot at John Cena’s new John Cena Classic concept.
After Cena revealed the fan-voted tournament idea at WWE Backlash, a lot of fans were already confused about how a championship could work if winning matches isn’t the main thing that matters.
Jarrett basically said the same thing on his My World podcast — except he went much harder on it. Jarrett admitted WWE will probably make money from all the social media interaction tied to the tournament. But after that, Jarrett pretty much tore the whole idea apart.
“I get it from a business perspective. There’s going to be an X poll, a TikTok poll, all kinds of social content.”
“From the storytelling component of this, you can become champion and you don’t have to win your matches.”
Jarrett then questioned why fans should even care about wrestling matches at all if victories stop mattering. He kept going and flat-out said WWE risks making the actual in-ring action meaningless.
“We at least want to get lost in the story, someone trying to win the title. It takes that component out, the suspension of disbelief.”
“If we don’t need to get immersed in the story, why do we care when a hip toss happens or a false finish happens or there’s a spectacular move off the top rope?”
That’s a pretty major criticism considering WWE still hasn’t even fully explained how the John Cena Classic is supposed to work yet. Even Cena himself admitted after Backlash that the concept could completely fail.
Right now, the whole thing feels like WWE is trying to turn a wrestling tournament into a social media experiment — and not everybody in wrestling thinks that’s a good idea.
Do you think Jeff Jarrett is right about the John Cena Classic, or should WWE try something completely different for once? Leave your thoughts and feedback in the comments below.