AEW World Champion Jon Moxley appeared on the Knockturnal podcast to discuss several topics, including how the younger talents need to step up, or he worried that they could slip through the cracks in the pro wrestling business.
Moxley said, “I can easily hide in the locker room or go back to the hotel and hide. I don’t have to be here, right? So, shoot your shot, man, I’m giving you the chance. The kind of s**t that keeps me up at night is the thought of guys and girls at All Elite Wrestling that, a few years pass and whatever, and you realize in they never saw the potential in themselves. That’s the kind of s**t that keeps me up at night. Often, the promoters, or whoever the f**k in whatever line of work you’re in, they don’t see it. Often, that leads to the motivation to then go out and be the greatest ever in your sport, or whatever it is. First, you have to see it, and you have to see everything that you have inside of you and everything that you’re capable of. I feel like a lot of people in this world now are waiting for everybody else to tell them who they are and what they can do, and they’re spend a lot of time reading s**t other people type on their phone and taking pictures that aren’t real, and looking at pictures that aren’t real. F***ing reality is getting twisted and bent and s**t and being a brand new baby organization, that’s one of the things that worries me the most is that people slipping through the cracks. It sucks. Not everybody’s gonna make it, right? Everyone does their best to mitigate that and to create as much opportunity for as much success as possible.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
