“AEW locker room is SAD & EMBARRASSED over CM Punk situation.” | UPDATE: “CM PUNK PUT MY SAFETY, SECURITY & LIFE IN DANGER! HE’S FIRED!” - TONY KHAN

[SpacelySprockets]

 

[Hey_zeus]

This shyt is awful look for Snowman and Meltz

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

SIERRA
HOTEL
INDIA….

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

Mox is one of those dudes that just doesn't translate on podcasts/shoot/shooting the shyt podcasts. It might be a bit better cause it's his wife, but I'm still thinking he will be awkward unless he goes full "work shoot" and just promos the whole show.

Like Gallows/Anderson haven't listened in years, but they were really fun to listen to as just shooting the shyt on their Good Brothers pod, but you put them on pretty much any TV show outside of Japan and god they trash.

He’s solid on her show, he has that dry humor though. Once you realize that its an easy listen

 

[KateFabersBoyfriend]

You have Tony Khan, the Young Bucks, a world-class wrestler that cares more about video games than the products, and Jericho. Was it going to be any other way?

 

[Paper Boi]

Tony needs to start firing people

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

Tony needs to start firing people

He’d have to start with himself. Seems like he nurtures and promotes this level of chaos

After all these years I never thought I’d see the day, but Vince was more right than wrong about his approach to talent. In retrospect, he made the king of the indies and smark darling CM Punk his top guy and the whole thing blew up in his face. He knew what these guys were about.

 

[Reality Check]

We thought we knew about all the different AEW backstage beefs... until last Thursday, when CM Punk accused Jon Moxley of refusing to lose to him in their World title unification match last summer.

Punk told his side of that story on Instagram. Mox doesn't do much social media, but his wife has a pretty popular podcast. So he gave his accounting of events to her, as the guest on a new The Sessions with Renee Paquette.

It's a very Moxley response to the situation:

"...It’s fukking annoying. Just because somebody said some stupid shyt on social media, that’s not news, but it is and become a thing. I don’t want to get dragged into this dumb shyt. I could fukking unload on a lot of fukking people right now. When I start getting dragged into this shyt, it tempts me to do that, but I'm not going to fukking sink to that level."

"I will say this, I'm going to give you a tidbit of information, from my point of view. The entire summer, I was not under contract — no contract. Free agent. I was at SummerSlam weekend wrestling El Desperado and shyt. I could have walked into SummerSlam that night with the AEW belt, had I been so inclined. Nobody knew that because I don't put my shyt out there in the world and let everybody know everything about my business. I was not under contract.

"The reason being, if you're curious, because I got out of rehab, my contract was coming up, they extended it for the time that I missed — cool. I'm glad they did because I didn't want to feel like I owed them anything. They extended it, it was coming up, they were talking to me about it. The last thing I wanted to do when I first got out of rehab, because all they were telling me was — logic would tell you — don't go back to wrestling because you're going to fall into the same old habits. I wanted to ease back into it and see what life was like on the other side. The last thing I wanted to do was hurry up and sign a big long-term commitment. What if shyt started going off the rails?"

In general, sober Mox loved wrestling and working with friends like Bryan Danielson & William Regal helped him decide to sign another contract with Tony Khan. But at the time Punk was coming back from broken foot, Mox wasn't legally obligated to do anything for AEW.

"That being said, during this time period, the night what's his dikk [CM Punk] is talking about, in Minneapolis, the night he came back and was hopping around on one foot, bumping around after me and [Chris] Jericho wrestled. We're talking later about stuff — keep in mind, at this time, this is my whole point — I basically don't work there, for all intents and purposes. Tony is not my boss. I don't have to be in this room. I don't have to do shyt. Even me being in this room and offering and agreeing to a storyline that puts you over at the PPV, if anything, I'm bending over backward for Tony and for this dude and the company and everybody. I didn't have to. I didn't have to do shyt. If anything, I was bending over backward. That's it. It's not even controversial."

His new contract includes coaching and mentoring the roster, and Mox seems to realize he has his work cut out for him there.

"I don't complain, I see the good in everything and I'm having so much fun and life is good. I don't want any negative bullshyt. I will say this, and I hate to say it because I don't think I've ever said anything even remotely negative about AEW, but I will say this. As an observer, I spent eight years on the indies, a couple years in WWE developmental, eight years in WWE — I have never seen so much bullshyt drama in one place in my entire fukking life.

"I hate to say that. I don't know if it's the age of social media, shyt gets blown out of proportion. One person types one stupid drunk tweet and all of a sudden it's all anybody wants to talk about."

It's not all bad, though. And it sounds like there are other drama-resistant folks Coach Moxley is looking forward to working with:

"Let me be clear, the vast majority of people there don't cause any bullshyt, but they're getting sucked down into the shyt like everybody else, into the muck. There are plenty of people who just want to get better and perform and just do this job. I'm not an official coach, I don't ever want to be a producer, an official producer. I don't want to wear a headset and write stuff down. I like being a coach, but I'm not an official coach. I can coach people that I think are worth it. I'll give time to anybody."

Jon Moxley on 'dumb s**t' with CM Punk, AEW's drama problem

 

[MenacingMonk]

Tony isn’t a leader, that’s why he can’t keep his employees in check. He’s a fanboy running a fed.

 

[Jmare007]

So basically, in his desperation for having a champion during a time a lot of his top guys were injured, Tony went with Mox...who didn't have a fukking contract and not only that, Mox didn't do much of anything for business at the time so it wasn't a risk worth taking anyway.

 

[K-Apps]

Man the level of hilarity and fu€kery of Moxley returning to the E with the AEW championship at Summerslam would’ve been legendary. Kinda wish he did for that alone lol

 

[R=G]

 

[White City Black]

At least Mox’s comments sheds light on Punk’s “Mox said he wouldn’t lose to me” stuff

It wasn’t on some ol’ I don’t like you” shyt, it’s literally on some I’m not even signed, I ain’t even gotta do all this

 

[KateFabersBoyfriend]

Because no one gives a fukk. Imagine Al Pacino gets in a fight with Burt Reynolds or something and people being like, “why are you talking about this? The godfather is an incredible movie.”

Cm punk vs the bucks is the only thing that has any juice. Not Omega vs someone no one has ever heard of, not MJF, not DB wrestling bums, not Moxley killing himself, not Jade, or Paige, or Britt, not Warldow, not Jericho and the bums in his stable, not wheeler fukking yuta or Daniel Garcia, not Orange Cassidy, none of them.

It doesn't NEED to be that way. But Tony is incapable of booking an angle that people care about so I think it would behoove him to take advantage of this situation. All these people that claim they'll walk out or won't work with punk it's bullshyt. Where are they gonna go?

Edit: if they're fine being souped-up ROH or luxury TNA that's fine as well. But say that.

Also, Tony could just come out and say cm punk will not be coming back and put an end to all of this.

 

[LordDeathwatch]

I respect Mox for the restraint he showed during this interview, guy was clearly trying to take the high road and speak as a top guy, a locker oom leader instead of stirring the pot.