DIRTY BASTARDS That Made Wrestling GROSS! ?

2. Jon Moxley

Jon Moxley
AEW

Jon Moxley has been good and bad for conversations around blood in equal measure, but probably not in the ways he knows or cares about. Not least because he doesn't waste his time on your thoughts.

His claret-spilling ways have become clichéd to such an extent that he's taken to coming up with ideas such as the one above to fill out his CV as the biggest money-drawing deathmatch wrestler ever. Moxley himself identified 2022 as the year he actually felt like he figured himself out, and suffering regular gashes has become normalised enough that becoming a unicorn via skewers was the latest way meme himself as the wildest man around.

The novelty is starting to wear a little thin, with the act starting to dry like the bloodstains on his face, but he's also the type of wrestling genius to spot something unique before everybody else does - if you're not yet slightly grossed out by Jon Moxley, he'll get you eventually.

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Michael is a writer, editor, podcaster and presenter for WhatCulture Wrestling, and has been with the organisation for 10 years. Alongside the production of daily written, audio and video content covering WWE and AEW, he also provides knowledge and insights on all aspects of the wrestling industry thanks to a passion for it dating back over 35 years. As one third of "The Dadley Boyz" Michael has contributed to the huge rise in popularity of the WhatCulture Wrestling Podcast and its accompanying YouTube channel, earning it top spot on the UK's wrestling podcast charts with over 10,000 episodes and 70,000,000 total downloads. He also co-hosts Benno & Hamflett, In Your House!, Podcast Horseman: The BoJack Horseman Podcast, and has guested on long-running Sunderland AFC podcast Wise Men Say. With WhatCulture, he has provided in-person coverage of some of the biggest pay-per-views and Premium Live Events in wrestling history, including WrestleMania, Survivor Series, All In & Double Or Nothing in destinations such as New York, New Jersey, Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, London and Cardiff. He has also been featured as a wrestling analyst for the Tampa Bay Times, Fightful, POST Wrestling, GRAPPL, GCP, Poisonrana, 411Mania and Sports Guys Talking Wrestling. Michael's background in media stretches beyond wrestling coverage, with a degree in Journalism from the University Of Sunderland (2:1) and a series of published articles in music and culture magazines The Crack, Pilot as well as Sunderland AFC's premiere fanzine A Love Supreme. When not offering his voice up for daily wrestling podcasts, he can be found losing it every other Saturday at the Stadium Of Light, and at Cribs gigs nationwide.