{"id":156081,"date":"2023-03-28T09:49:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T14:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=156081"},"modified":"2023-03-28T09:49:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T14:49:07","slug":"jon-moxley-was-working-without-an-aew-contract-through-title-run-last-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/03\/28\/jon-moxley-was-working-without-an-aew-contract-through-title-run-last-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Moxley was working without an AEW contract through title run last summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-4246967645\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Jon Moxley revealed on an episode of The Sessions podcast with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReneePaquette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Renee Paquette<\/a> that he was working without a contract in AEW while he was the Interim World Champion last summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The entire summer, I was not under contract,&#8221; Moxley said of summer 2022 status with AEW. &#8220;No contract. Free agent. I was at Summerslam weekend wrestling Desperado and s**t the day of Summerslam. Suplexed him on a bunch of aluminum cans. I could have walked into Summerslam that night with the AEW belt if I had been so inclined. Nobody knew that because I don&#8217;t put my s**t out there in the world and let everybody know everything about my business. I was not under contract.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason being, if you&#8217;re curious, is I got out of rehab and my contract was coming up. They extended it for the time that I missed. Cool. I&#8217;m glad they did actually because I didn&#8217;t want to feel like I owed them anything, so they extended it a little bit. It was coming up. They were talking to me about it and the last thing I wanted to do when I first got out of rehab, cause logic would tell you don&#8217;t go back to wrestling because you&#8217;re just going to fall into the same old habits. So, I wanted to just ease back into it and see what life was like on the other side and the last thing I wanted to do was hurry up and sign a big, long-term commitment because what if (stuff) started going off the rails.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pretty quickly, I was like this is awesome. Being sober is awesome and I&#8217;m having so much fun. I was working with my friends, Blackpool Combat Club &#8212; me and Bryan. They talked about re-signing and I said if everything stays exactly like it is right now, I&#8217;ll be here forever. You can pay me in cash in an envelope at the end of the night. But, I can&#8217;t tell you what I&#8217;m going to feel like in six months. Especially not in three or five years and once I make a commitment, I will push through injuries and push myself too hard and do all these things that add up that leads you down the road. So, I was not in a hurry to make any grand commitments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jon Moxley is a multiple-time AEW World Champion. He debuted at the first-ever AEW PPV, Double or Nothing 2019, and has been a fixture of the company ever since then.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/03\/28\/nick-khan-reveals-key-to-recent-wwe-ratings-success-credits-vince-mcmahon\/\">Nick Khan reveals key to recent WWE ratings success, credits Vince McMahon<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1834150886\"><div id=\"pwtor-2626380858\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Jon Moxley revealed on an episode of The Sessions podcast with Renee Paquette that he was working without a contract in AEW while he was the Interim World Champion last summer. &#8220;The entire summer, I <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/03\/28\/jon-moxley-was-working-without-an-aew-contract-through-title-run-last-summer\/\" title=\"Jon Moxley was working without an AEW contract through title run last summer\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":148019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6163,2],"tags":[6121,6463,6120,5289],"class_list":["post-156081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew-news","category-prowrestlingnews","tag-aew","tag-aew-dynamite","tag-all-elite-wrestling","tag-jon-moxley"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2022\/10\/Jon-Moxley-Tuesday-night-war.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156082,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156081\/revisions\/156082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}