Jon Moxley's doctor gave him an eye-opening message.
Jon Moxley puts his body on the line every time he steps into the ring, but the AEW International Champion recently said that the travel that comes with wrestling damages the body.
During an interview that originally ran during Cincy360 on the Queen City’s all sports radio station, ESPN1530 (via Bleav in Pro Wrestling), Moxley highlighted the toll that travel takes on one's body. He then recalled how his doctor told him that he has the arthritis of a seventy-year-old man.
“I live a very physical lifestyle. But nothing to me is worse or does more damage than just the traveling. For years, it was like traveling was my job. The wrestling part was kind of a reward at the end of the day, but your life becomes traveling at a certain point in this game. It’s really amazing how that adds up on your body and your joints. The doctor last year told me that I have the arthritis if a seventy-year-old man. That was quite humbling. That was a year or two, so by now it’s like a seventy-two-old man, so I don’t move very well in the morning. Thank god shows are at nights because by then, I’m pretty loosened up. If wrestling shows took place in the morning, like Saturday morning Superstars, if we started doing those early territory style studio TV tapings on Sunday mornings, I would retire. I’d be done. Because a lot of times I can’t even move before noon," Moxley said.
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