Ex-AEW Star Questions What Jon Moxley’s Death Riders Are Trying To Accomplish
A former AEW wrestler doesn’t understand what Jon Moxley’s Death Riders are all about.
Jon Moxley’s reign of terror continued at AEW Dynasty in Philadelphia when he defeated Swerve Strickland to retain the AEW World Championship.
Many fans wanted Moxley to lose because they don’t like the Death Riders storyline that features matches where Moxley usually gets help and finds a cheap way to keep the title. That happened at Dynasty as well, except it was the returning Young Bucks helping Moxley get the win.
Since becoming AEW World Champion for a record fourth time over 180 days ago, Moxley has refused to display the AEW World Title. Instead, it is in a briefcase that is carried by Marina Shafir, who is part of Moxley’s Death Riders group along with the AEW Trios Tag Team Champions Claudio Castagnoli, Pac & Wheeler Yuta.
Matt Hardy is a 30-plus-year pro wrestling veteran who worked for AEW for four years before returning to TNA Wrestling. While speaking on his Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, Hardy talked about the Death Riders storyline and Moxley’s title reign continuing.
“As I’d said last week before we ever got to the Pay Per View event, I feel it’s one of those times where, you know, the Death Riders thing, it has pretty much run its course.”
Jon Moxley And The Death Riders Storyline Questioned: “What Are They Trying To Accomplish?”
The Death Riders storyline built around Jon Moxley was also questioned by Matt Hardy, who wonders what they are trying to accomplish as a group.
“I love Jon Moxley. I think in many ways, Jon Moxley is the heart and soul of AEW. I think he busts his busted his ass for AEW.
He takes these crazy risks and he puts it on the line for AEW week in and week out, no doubt, but I think it is time to go a different direction and try and start something new that could possibly catch fire. AEW really, really, really needs something to get hot and catch fire to kind of get their momentum back, I think so.”
I don’t necessarily understand their whole mission at AEW, what are they trying to accomplish?”
The next AEW pay-per-view is Double or Nothing on May 25th, which could feature another Jon Moxley title defense unless he is put in a different match.