Jon Moxley is in the middle of an AEW takeover, leading Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, PAC, and Marina Shafir as they reshape the company for the greater good.
Moxley has been with AEW since the first pay-per-view, and has arguably been the face of the promotion through the highs and lows.
Speaking on Youngstown Studio, Moxley was asked about the future of AEW.
Moxley began by noting that AEW is still a young company at just five years old, comparing the promotion to his three-year-old daughter in terms of how much they still have to grow.
"AEW is still, basically a toddler. It's wide open to mold it into whatever we want. There are no rules. We have a whole person to grow into. AEW is wide open and still a piece of clay. There have been a couple of dents in and a couple of fingerprints in it, it's taken a certain shape, but it's still just a lump of clay, which is a very exciting thing. We can turn it into whatever we want. Anything you can imagine. There is no rule of pro wrestling or rule of television. We're putting those rules on ourselves or they are in our imagination or they are being dictated to us by somebody else, some outside forced or isn't part of the creative and doesn't have their hands on clay. 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.
"I'm not concerned about what AEW 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. That is the exciting to me. The journey of a million miles begins with a single step. When you step back and look, this is pretty much exactly what you would have expected, if you look at it broadly, from a new company in this environment. Now, we have a new television deal, streaming on HBO Max brings out new opportunities. There are other opportunities and ideas. Pro wrestling, the beautiful thing about it, it is always changing, growing, and evolving. If you're not constantly learning, you get left behind. Some of the smartest people in the business, who thought they knew everything, stopped learning, and then 10-20 years later, they are so far behind they will never catch up. I will never be like that. We want to be on the cutting edge and experimental. I'd rather be the first person to try something and it messed up, and we all learn from that. The future, to me, there has never been a more exciting time. The future is wide open to make it whatever we want to make it if you just have the courage to walk the path."
Moxley is the reigning AEW World Champion, though he keeps the title in a briefcase as he doesn't like what it has come to represent.
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