During a recent appearance on the “New York Post Sports” podcast, Jon Moxley commented on why the new television deal between AEW and Warner Bros. Discovery is the perfect time to evaluate everything within the company.
Moxley said, “It’s going to be whatever we make it. Whatever we stand up and take ownership of this opportunity. It can be whatever the f**k we want it to be. There are no rules. Any rules we have, ‘We have to have interviews on the set that look like this. We have to have this at this time. We have to put this up.’ Any rules we have are just things we put on ourselves. It’s pro wrestling and it’s always evolving. You have to stay evolving with it or you get left behind. You’re always learning and always growing. The attitude that we’re building around, the attitude that you’re feeling and the energy that you’re feeling in the locker room, backstage, and in the arenas, everything surrounding AEW is a different kind of attitude. Very exciting. There will be a lot of stuff that won’t be a part of this AEW. For example, earlier in the year, I was having a conversation or was around the conversation, earlier in the year, I heard a backstage type person talking about interviews or pre-tapes or something. It was a situation where talents were not put in a position to succeed due to lack of preparation, framework, direction, and things like that. This individual said, ‘Well, it’s bottom of the card, it doesn’t matter.’ Can you imagine saying that? You’re f**king fired. Go work at Sunglass Hut. You should be f**king pistol-whipped for saying that. For one, everybody that is on the top of the card was at one time on the bottom of the card. That’s how it works. You climb the ladder. You see this frustration or confusion from some of these talents because there’s no f**king ladder. They don’t know what to do. They are just wandering in the desert. We’re going to grab them and we’re going to walk them.”
During a recent appearance on the “Talk Is Jericho” podcast, Big Bill discussed signing with TNA Wrestling in 2021 and mentioned that he had a conversation with Triple H prior to that.
The former Big Cass eventually debuted as W. Morrissey in TNA and later transitioned to AEW as Big Bill.
Bill said, “I talked briefly to Finn when Impact offered me to go there. I was like, ‘WWE has done so much for me in terms of rehab and they’ve paid a lot of money. I don’t want to insult them.’ He said, ‘Just talk to Hunter. He’ll understand.’ Before I went to Impact, I texted Hunter and wanted to let them know, super appreciative. ‘I’m super appreciative. I’m not ready to come back to WWE. I want to go do this. Down the road, we’ll see.’ He was super cool about it. That’s exactly what he said, ‘Do what you have to do, down the road.’ That’s the only time I reached out to them at that point.”
