Four years ago, Jon Moxley debuted in AEW. Following the main event of Double or Nothing, AEW’s inaugural pay-per-view, he attacked Kenny Omega, brawling with him through the crowd before hurling him off the top of a stack of oversized casino chips.
The image of Moxley atop that monument captured his rebellious, renegade spirit. He took an enormous gamble by leaving the comfort of WWE and going all in with AEW, but it was clear that the payoff was going to be worth the risk.
“That was surreal,” says Moxley. “We started fighting through the crowd, and I heard the crowd cheering ‘AEW! AEW!’ That gave me a feeling this was going to work. Before then, it was just an idea.
