When Shawn Spears arrived in All Elite Wrestling, he wasted no time in making an impact. That came with a chair shot to Cody Rhodes' head that busted him wide open and once again sparked an online debate about whether wrestlers should be taking chair shots to the head.
Now, Spears has reflected on what happened, how AEW handled the aftermath, and what he believes went wrong and left Cody needed stitches in the back of his head.
"It’s funny because if the chair was gimmicked, then nothing would have went wrong, so clearly the chair wasn’t fully gimmicked, it’s a steel chair, there’s gonna be a part of it that isn’t doctored in any way, shape, or form and that was a concern of ours throughout the evening, we were going through the chairs, there was two separate ones, there was one chair and then there was a backup chair just in case we lost one or whatever like that, they were both the exact same, nothing different, it’s just one of those things where a fraction of a centimeter was off, either I was too far away, and when I asked even Cody, he said, ‘I leaned in too much,’ and it’s like, ‘No, it’s no one’s, really, fault, it was a moment in time, it’s what we did, I swang for the fences, you leaned in,’ and it’s just that one little bit caught him."
Clearly, it was just one of those things, and no one's fault. While it's an incident which should have definitely given AEW (and WWE) food for thought on how chair shots are used in wrestling today, it was a memorable moment and one which arguably played a big role in putting this promotion on the map ahead of Dynamite's launch on TNT.
Check out the full interview with Spears below as it's well worth checking out!