Jon Moxley departed from WWE in 2019 when his contract ended, and he chose to join AEW, where he made his first appearance at AEW Double or Nothing 2019, the inaugural AEW pay-per-view event.
Speaking to The Messenger, “Mox” talked about what he would be doing if AEW was never created.
“The timing of it was crazy,” Moxley said. “I was gone one way or another. I was going to give it all up. I didn’t give a f— if I was never on TV again. I’d go wrestle in a f—ing mask in Mexico in a parking lot if it means having fun again. I hate speaking in the third person because it feels so f—ing pretentious, but speaking from a character standpoint, it just makes it easier. But it was like as Jon Moxley was getting his release date from jail and walking into the world again, it just happened to be when AEW was starting. If there was no AEW, I think I’d be doing the exact same thing, just in a bunch of other places. You’d probably see me in f—in’ Japan or Revolver, places like that. It probably wouldn’t be that much different.”
