Last month Jon Moxley defended the AEW World Championship against CM Punk in the main event of the All Out pay-per-view, and it was CM Punk who won the match and walked out with the gold. Originally Jon Moxley was supposed to take a vacation after the match, but his vacation was canceled following a backstage altercation involving CM Punk, Ace Steel and The Elite.
Jon Moxley recently spoke to Sports Illustrated about the original plans for his AEW hiatus and he noted that he figured out pretty quickly that it wasn’t going to happen.
“I was going to be gone and off TV for six weeks. It wasn’t that I needed a vacation. I was feeling good and feeling hot, but it had to do with what we were going to do for a story.
“Going into All Out, I was thinking, ‘After I get through this match, that’s it for a while.’ I wrestled the match, and we kicked each other’s ass. I was happy, Chicago was happy, everybody was happy. I went outside to smoke a cigarette with Eddie [Kingston] in celebration. That vacation lasted about 30 minutes. By the time I went to bed that night, I was pretty sure we were going to pretend that vacation was never going to happen. But it’s all good; you just roll with the punches.”
Next week Jon Moxley will defend his AEW World Championship against Adam Page when Dynamite takes place from the Heritage Bank Arena in Cincinnati, OH. Stay tuned for more updates as they become available.
