Ever since Jon Moxley officially became a free agent, the former Dean Ambrose has been more than happy to spill the beans about his decision to leave
WWE and the trials and tribulations he faced while trying to establish himself in the company.
Now, Mox has shared details of his infamous
WrestleMania street fight with Brock Lesnar, a match which he - and many others, for that matter - believes fell way short of expectations.
We had previously heard that The Beast was difficult to work with, but it sounds like nobody was willing to allow the former Shield member to do what he could to make the match the best it could be.
This is like, my dream opponent, dream scenario, Street Fight. I’m like, you can imagine how much effort and time and thought I put into this, right? This is my life. Like I’m saying, the match happened because of the vibe I put out. So now that they book it, they’re writing it. Now it becomes goofball city again. They’ve got me doing a thing with Terry Funk where — as great as it was to do something with Terry Funk, I’m chainsawing a table for some reason. Mick Foley’s giving me his barbed wire bat that I’m never gonna get to use. I’m like, “Why can’t we use it?” They’re like, “Oh, blood.” [sighs] I was also thinking in my head that they’re afraid to yell at Brock. So I’m like, “maybe we get a little hardway juice,” you know what I mean? I’m thinking, “This is gonna be cool.” And I’m thinking Brock is probably thinking on the same page as me, like, “We’re gonna tear it up!” And I think he thought he was just doing me a favor, me being in the ring with him was enough to like do awesome things for me.
I think that’s what he thought. He didn’t wanna be there, I mean he just put in the — and then the week leading up, I’m like — because this thing is a Street Fight. It’s not a match you can just call in the ring. It’s a Street Fight at WrestleMania, so we’ve gotta get stunts approved and set up, we’ve gotta get props for table bumps, or whatever we’re gonna do. I pitched all this stuff to everybody, all the producers and I feel like I’m just getting ignored. Because our match wasn’t important to any of the producers or writers, or Vince. They just gave me enough to give me the match, but they didn’t give me any help to make it a good angle or like, make it a hotter thing people want to see. And [I’m like] “Can we do this? Can we do this? Can we, all these different stunts and stuff.” Like, I’m ready to die in the ring. I’m ready to take the worst — I’m not trying to put Brock through abuse. I’m trying to take the worst beating in the history of the world. I’m ready to be, if he kills me? Great, I’ll go down as a legend. I was ready to do ANYTHING. But in the weeks leading up, the angle was not good, Brock’s not even there half the time, we don’t do anything interesting.
Moxley goes into way more detail, and it's a very interesting read.
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here to find out what else the new AEW signing had to say while chatting on The Wade Keller Pro-Wrestling Podcast.