#1. He genuinely considered WWE to be like a prison
We all know that Jon Moxley had a lot of creative frustration in WWE. From not wanting to turn heel to ridiculous storylines and more, the time had come for him to leave WWE. But his post-PPV promo that AEW posted on Twitter was clear that it was a different kind of promo - one that was 100% truth.
That promo wasn't just Dean Ambrose or Jon Moxley - it was how Jonathan Good felt about his time in WWE and his real intentions with AEW. Here's what he said. Short, simple, but effective:
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One day, you will all come to my funeral, just to make sure that I stay dead, but today is not that day. I'm alive! My heart is still beating and I'm breathing fresh air for the first time in a long time. My name is Jon Moxley and I'm on a mission to reclaim my soul, and I know I'm not the only one who thinks... you know it's about time this industry got a facelift. So make no mistake about it. This is an official declaration of war tonight. To anyone who wants to get in my way, and anybody who stands in AEW's way. We have a mission, to knock the pillars of this industry on their a**. We ain't reading any more history books baby, we're writing them. This is what you call a paradigm shift.
Edited by Arvind Sriram