10 Most Shocking Revelations From WWE In 2019
3. The Jon Moxley Interview
I mean, where to even begin with this? The inside jokes about Vince's Jedi Mind Tricks, or the acknowledgment from both men that he'll eventually "die in that chair"? Nothing has buried WWE's creative process, and the man responsible for it all, quite like Jon Moxley's appearance on the Talk is Jericho podcast. One story though, pretty much sums it all up.
"This day, RAW takes place in Milwaukee. I wake up in the morning and get a text from a writer explaining to me what I'm going to do that day. 'You'll be backstage with your own personal doctor, where you'll be getting injected with rabies shots and all kinds of inoculations to inoculate yourself against the disgusting fans'. And I replied 'I hate that' and he replied 'Yeah, I know'."
They hand me this sheet and it's as bad as you can imagine, right? Then I got hurled into some sexual harassment meeting that everyone was in and I'm just staring at this promo and I'm seething. As soon as I get out of the door a writer says, 'Vince wants to talk to you about this promo. He wants to make sure that you know it's not comedy. Vince anticipated that I was going to come storming in there and ask why I'm doing this prop comedy all time. Vince says, 'I want you to know it's not comedy'. This promo is such good stuff, it's so well written and it's going to get you a ton of heat.".
The promo was widely regarded as one of Raw's lowest ebbs, and Ambrose was gone within a year.