Jon Moxley Calls The Last Three Years The Best Of His Career, Says The Next Five Are About Giving Back

Jon Moxley is looking to give back in the next five years of his contract.

The AEW World Champion has held the title three times in three years in the promotion and is set to face Hangman Page on tonight’s Tuesday Night Dynamite in his hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Speaking to Tony Pike and Rick Ucchino on Cincy 360, Moxley discussed betting on himself by leaving WWE and wanting to give back to wrestling.

“It’s really cool to be on the ground floor and I guess I bet on myself to a degree, that’s a good way to put it, when I left WWE. The last three years have been the best three years of my career, for sure. A lot of that mindset is like…I don’t know if selfish is the right word, but self-interested. Where am I going to have the best matches? Where can I do this, that, and the other? Now, looking forward to the next five years, I think a lot of that has shifted to, how can I give back to wrestling? How can I perpetuate wrestling going forward? Wrestling gave me everything I have in life. I would be, the cliche is ‘You’d be dead or in jail,’ I can’t think of another way to put it. I would have nothing without wrestling. It’s the thing that brought me life and gave me purpose and is a thing that’s mine. It brought me everything I have in life from my wife to my family to my house, my truck, my friends, my life experiences. It’s my entire life. If there are other people out there who come from where I come from or the place I come from, it could be the same thing for them. Even just being a fan or being inspired by some wrestlers or even if I can just perpetuate the joy of the inspiration that wrestling provides or perpetuate everything wrestling has given to me and pay it forward and back to the universe, it’ll come back to me in spades. I’ve had plenty of success, and I want to continue having that success, I’m not nearly done, but I’m already looking forward to the future of giving back over the next however many years. Being in AEW is the perfect place to do that,“

Jon Moxley on Cincy 360

Moxley recently signed a contract extension with AEW. Chris Jericho was also announced to have also signed an extension earlier today ahead of tonight’s Tuesday Night Dynamite.

H/T to Fightful for transcription

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