10 Best Promos In AEW History
4. Jon Moxley Demands The Ball
Just over a week ago, AEW felt like a company suddenly in disarray. CM Punk’s press scrum implosion had seemingly broken everything. He embarrassed a president and CEO apparently unable to control his talent, devalued the World Title by claiming former champ "Hangman" Adam Page had, “achieved nothing in this business,” and sparked a destructive backstage brawl with Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks that seemed to threaten the promotion’s very future.
Even MJF, returning on top form to open the show, couldn’t dispel the clouds. We all knew he’d been forced to scrap whatever he’d written for the planned renewal of hostilities with Punk. Plus his superlative blurring of reality and fiction had been undermined by the all too real backstage drama.
Thank the wrestling gods then for Jon Moxley. The man doesn’t just talk about passion, he embodies it.
Mox looked to the future of AEW but not without pointed words for anyone who might try to chain the company to wrestling’s unsavoury past.
“The AEW Championship represents taking the dark and ugly side of this business and letting it die with another generation.”
His unwavering desire to carry both the AEW World Championship belt on his shoulder and the entire company on his back immediately restored faith in both. We were reminded that the strap was a prize worth fighting for and that as long Mox was there as it’s heart and soul, AEW was in safe hands.