Steven Muehlhausen, combat sports writer for Sporting News/DAZN, recently chatted with AEW World Champion Jon Moxley on his podcast, The Walkway to Fight Club. The interview was conducted before Moxley won the title at the Revolution pay-per-view.

Question: I watch you and when you come out, you have just this genuine excitement, and the fans are just so into you. What is clicked for you in this run in at AEW, where it’s now you’re on your own, you don’t have to worry about two other guys you can just worry about yourself instead of being surrounded by two or three other guys.

Moxley: It’s just kind of like a whole other different person that had been like sleeping or in jail or suspended. It was like Jon Moxley was serving an eight-year suspension and then he finally got reinstated. It’s hard to explain but when you’re being pushed in so many directions these things and saying somebody else’s words and you’re doing something that’s somebody else’s vision and you’re trying to exist within all these different constraints, it’s like you’d be you become not yourself anymore. And now I just walk out there and it’s whatever. If I’m in a pissed off mood, I’m going to be pissed off. If I’m in a happy mood, I’m going to be happy. If I’m in a mood to joke around and be joking around, you know, whatever. I’m just gonna walk out there and do whatever. Whatever the situation calls for you and no matter how tired I am or sore, beat up or anything. I don’t think TVs even doing justice to how hot some of these crowds are at AEW. When I see some of the stuff back there I’m like man it was like you’re there live man like these crowds are so great and I got the best vantage point of anybody because I come through the crowd so like we’re out sore, tired brain dead or jet lag, I walk out into that audience and I feel the energy of the fans are the greatest wrestling fans in the world right now. These people coming out to support AEW who want to be part of the ground floor. If the energy is just like the biggest shot of adrenaline you can imagine. I become like an absolute killing machine when I walk through the crowd. It’s such a cool feeling. I look forward to every Wednesday.

Moxley also discusses the two most gratifying things since joining AEW, wrestling Minoru Suzuki and much more. People can listen to the interview via Apple Podcasts at the following link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-walkway-to-fight-club/id1497036400











