Josh Barnett Reveals There Were Plans For Him To Do More In AEW

MMA legend Josh Barnett appeared on an episode of the Jaxxon podcast, where he talked about a number of topics including how there was plans for him to do more in AEW than he ended up doing.

Barnett said, โ€œIt was fun.โ€ โ€œMainly, I was just there, well, part of it was this card gets announced, that this eventโ€™s gonna be in Seattle, and itโ€™s an Antonio Inoki tribute show. Which, it didnโ€™t end up being that much of an Inoki tribute show. But that place gets kind of chaotic at times, and itโ€™s hard to keep all these things together. So I hit them up, Iโ€™m like, โ€˜If youโ€™re gonna have an Inoki tribute show, and you donโ€™t have the number one direct student of Inoki from Seattle on your show, that is ridiculous.โ€

โ€œThereโ€™s no way that could work.โ€™ We put something together. There were plans to do a bit more, but in the end, it just ended up being the single match with Claudio [Castagnoli], and it was a fantastic experience. A lot of it was just me wanting to get out there and go, โ€˜Show me what you got. Letโ€™s see how it goes.โ€

You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.

(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)