AEW World Champion Jon Moxley will be starring in the upcoming film called The Cagefighter, where he plays the role of an MMA fighter. He had to learn some real MMA manoeuvres for his role and it seems he might be incorporating those moves into his wrestling style.
Moxley spoke with Uproxx, where he revealed his special MMA training. He wanted to be in better physical condition for the film, but due to an injury, that did not end up happening. He was still able to be prepared in time for the movie and mentioned he will be given a ripped physique in post production. He also learned how to perform MMA kicks which he will also use in an AEW ring.
“Yeah, I planned on coming into this in the absolute best shape of my life, trying to look like Clubber Lang in Rocky III and Thunderlips in Rocky II or whatever it was. But I ended up having surgery and getting hurt, so I didn’t train like I wanted to, so I came in not in actual peak, peak shape for a role like this… I barely made the window for where I could do the movie. I thought I was going to have to pull out of it for a minute. So I’m hoping that somebody with Photoshop or some kind of special effects could make me look a little more jacked than I actually am in real life in the movie.”
“I did a lot of hard work with Alex [Montagnani] who plays Reiss in the movie. He was originally the fight coordinator. He put the original fights together, which is a whole other art in itself, fight coordinating. For me, it’s fun, it’s not even like work, really. That’s the funnest part of movies is putting together these fight scenes and doing them; it’s kind of like playing around when you’re a kid. You think what the character would do, like “How would this character throw a punch?”
For example, I had been working my ass off at – I’m not good at throwing kicks. That’s not really my thing. So I’d been working my ass off trying to perfect techniques for throwing legs kicks, body kicks and I think got pretty good at it, and then once we’re putting the fight together… it was like “Well, this guy wouldn’t throw kicks.” My character’s more of a rough-house brawler, not necessarily going to have perfect technique kind of guy, just swinging for the fences, which is going to heighten my lack of skill in that department. So I was like, “Damn, I worked on them kicks for nothing.” But maybe I’ll bust them out in pro wrestling. You always kind of learn something by picking it up along the way. That’s what’s cool about this movie is it just kind of blends all my interests together.
Moxley is no stranger to brawling in matches. He had a feud against Minoru Suzuki in NJPW, who also had prior experiences in MMA. So he certainly learned a lot from their feud as well.
It will be interesting to see him performing MMA moves in the ring for sure.
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