Jon Moxley is moving back to his hometown of Cincinnati, but just because he’s one of AEW’s biggest stars doesn’t mean he isn’t facing the everyday stresses of shipping an entire household across the country.
In light of his autobiography being released, Jon Moxley took some time to speak with Dave Meltzer and Garrett Gonzalez on an episode of Wrestling Observer Radio and detailed how he and his wife Renee Paquette came to the decision of uprooting their new family from Las Vegas to back to his old stomping grounds of midwest Ohio.
“I initially moved to Vegas just cause it was a tax-free state,” he said. “Just a purely a financial decision and we were looking at it and the more I thought about and I kept thinking about it over and over and I went like, ‘I cannot believe what I’m about to say cause I never thought I’d say this in a million years. Like I can’t believe I’m saying something I’m about to tell you: Cincinnati might not be a bad idea.’ And she was like, within five minutes we were like, ‘We’re moving to Cincinnati.’ It just makes all the sense in the world. Like we have family there, my sister is close, Toronto is not a far drive. That’s in striking distance.”
“It happened so quick, but facilitating all that, it’s a lot of work and it happened all very, very quickly and trying to make all that happen while flying around the goddamn fuckin’ world wrestling people and stabbing people in the head and shit. It’s a lot of work, you know, but it’s all gonna be good.”
Jon Moxley told the team that he aims to make the big move back to the ‘Nati following the November 3 episode of AEW Dynamite.
“When I get home after that Dynamite. We’re gonna land and hit the road and drive for like three days. I literally had to bring the schedule to Tony cause we were trying to like book these movers,” Mox stops himself for a bit of an aside. “I hope I’m not boring the shit out of your audience or whatever right now, but you know what? This is real life fuckin’ shit,” he said before continuing the breakdown of his relocation logistics.
“I literally took to schedule to Tony [Khan], put it in front of him and said, ‘This is the schedule for November. When can I move?’ I was like, ‘I need three days in where I can move. Where can it happen?’ We figured it out. We figured it out in like two minutes.”
Mox has the “Skyline chili” blood flowing through his veins, but being back home isn’t the only reason the move makes sense for him and Renee.
“That’s another good thing about Cincinnati is it’ll be another centralized location,” he said. “I just want to be with my daughter, dude. Like these coast-to-coasts are just too much, but the thing [that’s good now] where I can drive with my family and bring them,” he explained, while talking about how the timing of the move may just fit perfectly into his potential pre and post-Full Gear plans. “I wouldn’t be surprised if we just drive to Minneapolis and I just bring the family and make it a little family trip, you know? Cause that’s the way to do it, man. That’s the best.”
AEW Dynamite takes place at the Cable-Dahmer Arena in Kansas City (Independence), Missouri on Wednesday, November 3. Jon Moxley’s new book MOX is available now in print and digital formats.
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