Former TNA World Champion Defends Jon Moxley

Jon Moxley’s latest match remains a huge talking point.

On the arch 19 episode of Dynamite, Jon Moxley successfully defended the AEW World Championship against Cope in a wild Street Fight. However, for many, the match result was important.

Following the rematch from Revolution, there was only one spot everyone was talking about. With the match in full swing, Cope suplexed Jon Moxley onto Spike — a bat filled with nails. These nails then became embedded in Moxley’s back as the referee and Wheeler Yuta struggled to get the bat free.

Despite his in-ring anguish, Moxley was said to be okay once he got backstage.

Jon Moxley Is Determined To Give Fans An Alternative

During an appearance on Busted Open Radio, former TNA World Champion Nic Nemeth gave his thoughts on the spot. While the action split fans online, with some feeling Moxley had finally gone too far, others saying it was the kind of realism AEW should be all about, Nemeth said the spot was a “huge positive,” and pointed to Moxley’s determination to go above and beyond for fans.

“He’s one of those guys that would do anything [for AEW]. He’s always gone a little bit more hardcore in the last couple of years than the WWE years, obviously, because it’s a different product.

When you see something like this, where every couple of weeks or months he’s doing something a little bit crazier… please focus on the part where he goes, ‘I want to make people happy, I want people to say that they had the greatest time of their life at this show,’ and then you see something extra disgusting like this, [it] is a huge positive, I think.

One, it is a totally different product than you’re used to. Please understand that. The reason the AEW exists is because people were tired of a crappy WWE product at the time. You got a total alternative.”

Nemeth added that the wince-inducing visual of the bat being stuck in Moxley’s back will give the weapon increased “street cred” and hype fans up even more when it’s used in the future.

“It’s been used a few times by Cope, and you’re like, ‘Yeah, okay, it looks the part,’ looks like there’s six-inch nails coming out of a wood bat, whatever it is.

Something like this makes people like me go, ‘Well, are those sharp nails?’ It gives a little street cred to a weapon like that because you’ve seen it swung, you’ve heard it hit — you know it hurts, you know it’s crazy that it’s happening — but when something like this goes above and beyond and digs into the body, you’re now letting everybody know, ‘This is something really big.’

The next time you see Cope hold it up in the air, they’re going to be like, ‘Ooh, there’s that thing that almost ripped the organs around the sides of Moxley’s back,’ and it’s good for the business to give a little street cred to those weapons.”

Following his victory against Cope, Jon Moxley will now go on to defend the World Championship against Swerve Strickland at Dynasty on April 6. The match will be Moxley’s sixth defence of the gold since he packed Bryan Danielson off into retirement at WrestleDream in October.

H/t to Wrestling Inc