Jon Moxley was recently a guest on the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast. Moxley opened up about his awkward appearance on the Stone Cold Podcast that aired on the WWE Network a few years ago. Below are some highlights (via 411 Mania):
Moxley on preparing for the podcast:
“It’s an odd thing because I was really looking forward to it. I went in on my day off to do this. I was like, ‘Cool, we’re gonna like, talk wrestling.’ And I remember the producer guy, Adam Pennucci, I remember he called me like a week before to prep. And he’s trying to ask these super-personal, deep questions about like, my f**king childhood and s**t. And I was like, ‘You know, it’s kind of none of your business, man.’ Because I don’t wanna go on — If I’m gonna say some s**t about people who don’t have the same forum that aren’t there to defend themselves, you know. People from my family and stuff, like my family’s good. I don’t wanna drag up some s**t on national TV. That’s not fair to them, you know what I mean. So I go, ‘I’m not into that.’”
On the podcast eventually going off the rails:
“But within five seconds, I’m getting these f**king questions. I don’t know what they were. But he said something that like pissed me off, and I just f**king mentally shut down. And I f**king love Steve. It’s why, like if that had been a regular interview, it would have been like — I would have hung up on them. But it’s like, I f**king love Steve. I think basically he wanted me to say what I’m saying to you right now. Basically burying the s**t out of everything. But like, at the time — I believe I was WWE Champion at the time. At the time, I’m doing like double shots. I’m working the first match on the one show, hop in a f**king private plane, doing the last match of another show. I’ve been on the road for f**king 600 days straight, I’m beat to f**king s**t. I’m working my ass off. And the whole time, just trying to deal with these scripts and these crappy character things.”
On not being able to express himself in the way that he really wanted:
“And I’m not the only one of the boys who are suffering. Our whole generation is suffering with this. And guys like Steve would be, ‘Why don’t you just go off-script? Why don’t you just do like Austin 3:16?’ But the locker room, the whole situation, is different than when you [Austin] were here. You could just say Austin 3:16. I get a dumb f**king script. I’m trying to make the best of it. And like, I can’t go into all this on this podcast. I’m trying to stand up for like my generation and the boys, but I can’t get into all this right now man, like, I’m just trying to f**king — [sigh].’ It was a stopping point. I just wanted to talk about wrestling, because me and him both love wrestling. It’s why I love Steve, he’s one of my all-time favorites. But now I can get on a podcast and say whatever I want, so hit me up, Steve.”
On if he is mad at Austin for it:
“He definitely didn’t mean any harm by it. Like I totally got what he was trying to say, but like, I don’t know. He didn’t say it right, or — not a very good communication. And I was between a rock and a hard place too, you know. And the thing that sucks is, Steve Austin is everybody’s favorite wrestler of all-time. So who’s side are they gonna take? He was on top when wrestling was awesome.”
On a related note, Moxley opened up about his frustrations of working with Brock Lesnar. You can read his comments here.
