10 Wrestlers Who Couldn’t Hide Their Anger At Bad Creative
6. Jon Moxley Likes To Be Taken Seriously
Jon Moxley likes to be taken very seriously. This is both good and bad.
He has the balls to back himself and, in winning rather a lot - if not almost constantly - he has remained a threat throughout a very long AEW run. This is good. You can’t be Chris Jericho, and lose more often than you win.
Conversely…
AEW wrestlers come and come and come and come and come, and very rarely go, and yet Mox always gets a feature match on pay-per-view. He often wins even if it makes less than zero sense in the narrative. At Revolution, he teamed with Claudio Castgnoli to defeat FTR. The losing team ended up in the World Tag Team title tournament; Mox never once expressed an interest in going for the belts.
Mox - perhaps haunted by his WWE run - likes to be taken seriously to an extent that it can sometimes border on the unprofessional.
He “wrestled” MJF’s onscreen lawyer Smart Mark Sterling on the All Out 2020 go-home Dynamite. Now, it was a bad comedy match, and a frivolous means of promoting what ostensibly was a serious pay-per-view main event. The idea behind it was an exercise in contrasts. MJF bloodied Mox in the post-match. It was meant to be the moment in which Mox realised that, away from the gaga and theatrics, MJF was a man to be feared.
Only, Mox never realised this: he outright said, before the finish of the match, “This is terrible television”.