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AEW World Champion Jon Moxley says that AEW is wide open, and it can be molded into anything.
Speaking with B.J. Lisko for Youngstown Studio, Jon Moxley discussed AEW’s growth. After noting that it was still a young company, he said that it was practically a toddler, and it could be molded into whatever they wanted.
“When you look at it now, it’s still a super young company,” Jon Moxley said. “In wrestling, five years can seem like a really, really long time, but as far as an organization or a successful company, it’s extremely young. It’s still a baby. AEW is still basically a toddler, so it’s wide open to mold it into whatever we want. There are no rules. Much like my three-year-old daughter, we got a whole person to grow into. AEW is wide open, it’s still a piece of clay.
“There’s been a couple of dents in it, there’s a couple fingerprints in it, it’s taken on a certain shape, but it’s still just a lump of clay, which is a very exciting thing because we can turn it into whatever we want, anything we could imagine. There is no rules. Any rules of pro wrestling or rules of television or rules…we’re putting those rules on ourself or they’re in our imagination, or they’re being dictated to us by somebody else, some outside force, somebody who isn’t part of the creative, who doesn’t have their hands on the clay. So if you tune all that out and just look at the clay and use your imagination and go, ‘What can we turn this into?’ Literally anything is possible.”
Jon Moxley On AEW’s Future
Jon Moxley continued by saying that he was excited about the future, especially when he thought about what AEW could look like years from now.
“Not really concerned about it is right now, I’m concerned about what it could be five years from now, or ten years from now, or 20 years from now,” Jon Moxley said. “That is the exciting thing to me. But the journey of a thousand miles, a million miles, begins with a single step. When you do look back at it and you gotta look at the map, like okay, we moved like an inch, and a million-mile journey, it’s a giant map. You get caught up in the moment and this and that, and people get very tunnel-visioned into their worlds, but when you step back and look, this pretty much exactly what you would have expected if you look at it just broadly.
“This is pretty much exactly what you would have expected out of a new company in this environment and this day and age, but now we have a new television deal, which brings out new opportunities, and there are other opportunities and ideas and things. Pro wrestling, the beautiful thing about is, it’s always changing and always evolving and always growing. If you don’t keep up with it, if you’re not constantly learning, then you get left behind. Some of the smartest people in the business at one time thought they knew everything stopped learning, and then ten years later, 20 years later, they’re so far behind, they will never catch up. We can never be like that, I will never be like that.”
Jon Moxley Wants To Be On The Cutting Edge
Moxley then emphasized that he and AEW wanted to be on the cutting edge, and they aimed to be experimental. He stated that he had no problem with trying something and have it not work.
“We want to be on the cutting edge and experimental,” Jon Moxley said. “I’d rather be the first person to try something and it’s a mess-up, and we all learn from that. I’d rather be the first person to show the world, hey, you can’t walk on water, you’d drown. Somebody had to try it first. So I have no problem with us trying things like that. The future, to me, there’s never been a more exciting time because the future is wide open to make it whatever we want to make it, if you just have the courage to walk the path and start seeing what happens.”
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