A few months ago Jon Moxley parted ways with WWE, but he didn’t stay away from wrestling for very long.
The former WWE Champion made his debut with AEW at Double or Nothing back in May, and since then he’s been promoted as one of the company’s top stars.
Jon Moxley has been pretty open about his reasons for leaving WWE, and his frustrations with creative and during a recent interview with Screen Geek he was asked if he regrets not leaving sooner.
“That’s an interesting question. I’ve often thought, and wondered, what would have happened if I left in September of 2015, which was when I signed my last contract with WWE. But, at that point, I was still kinda like, still trying to do things their way and I just kinda like… It never occurred to me to leave really back then. It felt like I wasn’t, like I hadn’t completely… I never really bought into their bullshit kind of thing, but I like was trying to be optimistic. Like, be grateful for the opportunity and try to make the most of it and, you know, save money and so forth.
But, I often wonder what would have happened if I had the foresight to just leave back then. I don’t know. It could have been worse, it could have been better, but, ultimately, everything’s supposed to work out how it’s supposed to be. The timing of, like, leaving at just the moment that AEW came into existence and just merging at the same time, that feels like a historical thing that I’m very grateful that it happened. Hopefully, it’s historical. We look back in five years and maybe it didn’t matter at all. But, you know, we’ll find out.”
Jon Moxley is currently set to face PAC next week on AEW Dynamite, and he’s also set to face Kenny Omega at the Full Gear pay-per-view on November 9.
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