Jon Moxley: You Can’t Ignore Me, So You’re Going To Have To Give Me My Own Space In Wrestling

Jon Moxley highlights his individuality in wrestling as he notes that he can’t be easily classified.

Jon Moxley continues to make history. He recently became the first wrestler to win a world title in AEW, NJPW, and WWE.

In an interview with Justin Barrasso of Sports Illustrated, while commenting on the Blackpool Combat Club book Club, Moxley noted that he was one of a kind.

“Yeah, we f—— like to read,” Jon Moxley said. “The line [from Ozan Varol’s Awaken Your Genius] is like, ‘A genius, in the words of Thelonious Monk, is the one most like himself. Genius, in its Latin origin, refers to the attendant spirit present at birth in every person. Each of us is like Aladdin, and our genie–or our genius–is bottled up inside of us waiting to be awakened.’ It’s kind of what I think of when I say there’s only one me.

“That’s why I try to focus on what I’m doing. What’s the saying? Comparison is the death of happiness? I’m the only one of me. Forgive me for speaking in the third person, but I’m the only Jon Moxley there is. I don’t see another one walking in any f—— time soon.”

Jon Moxley On Having His Own Space

Jon Moxley then discussed how he thinks he will be remembered. He noted that others would not know where to classify him, so they would have to give him his own space.

“When it’s all said and done, and I’ve been eaten by a cougar or something and people look back on everything, I like the idea that you won’t know where to classify me in history,” Jon Moxley said. “You don’t know where to put me on your lists or your rankings or whatever the f—.

“You have no idea where to classify me, but you can’t ignore me, so you’re going to have to give me my own space. I like that.”