Jon Moxley Not Concerned About Current State Of AEW
Jon Moxley has his hands around the neck of AEW but admits he’s not worried about what the company is right now but rather what it will be in decades to come.
Jon Moxley ended the full-time career of Bryan Danielson when he defeated him for the AEW World Championship at WrestleDream. Not content with just winning the gold, Moxley and the Blackpool Combat Club looked to take out Danielson permanently as they infect AEW with their own brand of unfiltered violence.
The AEW locker room has been forced to try and put their own issues aside to battle the BCC but they’re in desperate need of a leader to unite them and while they stutter to find one, Jon Moxley and his crew continue to try and shape the company in their own image.
But the reality is Jon Moxley wants to see how the embryonic company will develop over the coming years and says anything is possible.
Jon Moxley Says AEW Can Be Anything
Speaking on Youngstown Studio, Jon Moxley gave his thoughts on the state of AEW and said there are no rules dictating what Tony Khan’s promotion can be:
AEW is still, basically a toddler. It’s wide open to mold it into whatever we want. There are no rules. We have a whole person to grow into. AEW is wide open and still a piece of clay. There have been a couple of dents in and a couple of fingerprints in it, it’s taken a certain shape, but it’s still just a lump of clay, which is a very exciting thing. We can turn it into whatever we want. Anything you can imagine.
There is no rule of pro wrestling or rule of television. We’re putting those rules on ourselves or they are in our imagination or they are being dictated to us by somebody else, some outside forced or isn’t part of the creative and doesn’t have their hands on clay. If you tune all that out and just look at the clay and use your imagination and go, ‘what can we turn this into?’ Literally anything is possible.
I’m not concerned about what AEW is right now. I’m concerned about what it could be five years from now or ten years from now or 20 years from now. That is the exciting to me. The journey of a million miles begins with a single step.
Jon Moxley noted that the pro wrestling world is always evolving and says he never wants to find himself on the back foot and unable to keep up with the pace of change – like some in the business that he’s come across:
When you step back and look, this is pretty much exactly what you would have expected, if you look at it broadly, from a new company in this environment. Now, we have a new television deal, streaming on HBO Max brings out new opportunities. There are other opportunities and ideas.
Pro wrestling, the beautiful thing about it, it is always changing, growing, and evolving. If you’re not constantly learning, you get left behind. Some of the smartest people in the business, who thought they knew everything, stopped learning, and then 10-20 years later, they are so far behind they will never catch up. I will never be like that.
We want to be on the cutting edge and experimental. I’d rather be the first person to try something and it messed up, and we all learn from that. The future, to me, there has never been a more exciting time. The future is wide open to make it whatever we want to make it if you just have the courage to walk the path.