Jim Cornette has taken aim at AEW’s ever-expanding championship landscape, calling the company’s handling of its titles hopelessly confusing and creatively damaging.
Speaking on the first 2026 edition of The Jim Cornette Experience, the veteran manager and historian reflected on the fallout from AEW Worlds End 2023 and the heavily promoted “Triple Crown” tournament that saw Eddie Kingston defeat Jon Moxley. The win was billed as the unification of the AEW Continental title, the ROH World title and the NJPW Strong Openweight title into a single crown, yet any sense of unification appeared to vanish almost immediately in the weeks that followed.
“I don’t even understand what you just said and you pretty much summarised it,” Cornette told co-host Brian Last as they attempted to clarify which belts still existed. “Nobody understands with these belts, everybody’s got a belt, everybody’s got a title.”
Cornette argued that the volume of championships has watered down their importance across the promotion. He highlighted Samoa Joe, then AEW World champion, who continued to carry the ROH Six Man Tag Team title to the ring even while holding AEW’s top prize.
“Like that didn’t just confuse the goddamn issue,”
Cornette said, questioning why the Six-Man belts were not immediately vacated. He felt the optics damaged Joe’s status as world champion rather than boosting it. Cornette went further, joking that several AEW stars resemble “pack animals” overloaded with hardware. He referred to Mercedes Mone as “Josephine Camel,” poking fun at wrestlers attempting to juggle multiple championships at once.
“Carrying 14 belts out, now she can’t whip cream with an outboard motor,”
He quipped, closing his argument that the prestige of any single title is being drowned in the sheer number of them.
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Cornette pledged $5,000 to Sabula, writing that he had “a thank you, a handshake and a cheque for $5,000 ready for him,” and asked followers to help him make contact. Whether Sabula takes up the offer remains to be seen.
