Claudio Castagnoli says Jon Moxley needed some time off to reconnect with himself.
Former AEW World Champion Jon Moxley took some time away from AEW throughout the summer, and he returned on the August 28th episode of AEW Dynamite. Since then, Moxley has been showing a new side of himself. He turned on Bryan Danielson at AEW All Out and suffocated him with a plastic bag. Moxley has also formed a new group that includes former Blackpool Combat Club stablemate Claudio Castagnoli as well as PAC and Marina Shafir.
Speaking with Rick Ucchino for The Takedown on SI, Claudio Castagnoli discussed the new version of Moxley.
“I feel he needed that time off to kind of reconnect with himself and find his purpose, so to speak, or regain his purpose. I can't speak for Jon, but I felt like the last couple months before he came back, you know we always have the ‘Be Real’ on our shirts, I didn't really feel real. It felt like, okay, we're just kind of going through the motions. Something was missing. With Jon, I can definitely tell that since he came back, he found that fire again," Castagnoli said.
Click here to see what Claudio Castagnoli had to say about facing Bryan Danielson.
Darby Allin recently called Jon Moxley the most underrated performer in AEW. Check out his comments here.
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