After making his All Elite Wrestling debut at
Double or Nothing, Jon Moxley sat down with Chris Jericho for an in-depth conversation about why he chose to leave WWE. Needless to say, there were a lot of similarities to CM Punk's WWE departure back in 2014 but the man formerly known as Dean Ambrose has now explained how they differ.
"A bridge is never burnt in WWE. Vince [McMahon] would have me back tomorrow and would love it if I came crawling back to him. I think Punk had a lot more personal animosity towards WWE and specific people. I don’t know every detail of his story and I haven’t spoken to him since he left WWE. His experience drove him to not like wrestling anymore, I think. For me, I wanted the exact opposite. I just got pro wrestling back after losing it years ago. I’m like “Whoa, I’m back in the game, here we go!”
"I wanted to make sure that people knew that there’s no bitterness and that my love of wrestling and my desire to perform for the fans, my desire to meet and exceed their expectations and my love for the fans has only gotten bigger. They have stayed with me through thick and thin and they’re going to follow me wherever I go. Now they’re AEW fans. They can still be WWE fans but they’re AEW fans too. Not trying to come off as arrogant but that’s a lot of fans that are now following AEW. We’re garnering a huge fan base and we’ve only done one show. It just so happens that the one show we’ve done was f***ing awesome. Even if this whole thing goes f***ing tits up and we never run another show, that was one helluva show. But we’re going to run more shows, a lot of shows. We’re running a show June 29th in Daytona Beach, Florida, me vs Joey Janela.
That’s a beautiful, ugly mess [laughs]."
Things are certainly going well for Moxley since he left WWE and the big difference between him and Punk is that the latter's experiences completely turned him off wrestling, while Moxley is now just excited to get back to doing what he loves without the restrictions Vince McMahon put on him.
Speculation continues running rampant that Punk could wind up in AEW but that seems highly unlikely as of right now and an argument could be made that they don't need him. What are your thoughts on Moxley's remarks? As always, weigh in with your opinions in the comments section down below.