Jon Moxley recalls his venture into the unknown.
In January 2019, All Elite Wrestling officially launched. Four months later, Jon Moxley made his AEW debut at the company’s first-ever pay-per-view event, Double or Nothing. During a recent interview with Youngstown Studio, Moxley reflected on the growth that AEW has achieved since his respective debut.
“It’s been a pretty wild ride as we knew it was going to be. That was the really fun part about it — ‘Man do I want to jump on this raft and it’s going down the river and it’s going to be going for a while?’ There’s still water in view, but very soon, we’re going to go around the corner and there is some dark looming trees in the future and literally anything could be down this river. We have no idea. There could be a waterfall, there could be crocodiles, there could be jaguars, there could be rapids, rocks, whirlpools, there could sea monsters. We have we have no idea what’s coming down the river,” Moxley said.
“Do you want to hop on this boat or not? That was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and sometimes you guys say ‘Screw it’ and just hop in.”
Jon Moxley Enjoyed The Unknown
Looking back on a previous conversation with Chris Jericho, Moxley recalled not knowing what may lie ahead for the company, much like Meriwether Lewis and William Clark during their famous expedition. In fact, Moxley enjoyed the uncertainty.
“I remember talking to [Chris] Jericho at the very beginning and [saying] that this is so much fun because it’s like Lewis and Clark going west. We have absolutely no idea what’s coming. It might be wild, might be great, it might be terrible. it might be something in between, it’ll probably be a lot of both. We just have no idea.
“It comes at you fast and you duck when things are flying over your head. You look at one thing, and then another thing pops up. Now with the benefit of a little hindsight, and [the mentality of] slow[ing] it down and go like okay where are we on this river? Give me a map. Let me pinpoint exactly where we are. I think I have a good sense of that right now and it’s actually quite fun.”
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