GCW Owner Addresses Jon Moxley & AEW Relationship Rumors

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GCW’s Brett Lauderdale recently addressed the rumors that AEW had made demands of GCW for the ability to use Jon Moxley.

At the GCW Fight Club event on October 8, Jon Moxley faces Nick Gage in a GCW Championship vs Career Deathmatch which saw Moxley lose the championship following interference from W Morrissey and Stokely Hathaway.

In the run up to the match, Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer had suggested that the match was ‘politically weird‘ with the suggestion that Tony Khan wouldn’t want his champion to lose a match on an independent show.

Speaking on to Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp, Brett Lauderdale weight in on the idea that AEW had imposed rules upon GCW over what could and couldn’t happen, saying:

“I think, and I’m being totally honest with you, if there is such a thing, it’s never been communicated to me.  If that is a new rule, nobody told me that.

“I still have good relationships with a lot of AEW talent and I still discuss opportunities with them.”

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Addressing the importance of Jon Moxley to GCW and hopes of working with him in the future, Lauderdale was positive in his opinion, stating:

“Obviously, with Mox, he’s a lead story no matter where is or what he does or who he is working with.

“So, I think it’s easy and I can understand how people can see Mox’s new arrangement with AEW and assume he’s not going to appear in GCW again.

“It wouldn’t surprise me if Moxley turned up in a GCW event two months from now.”

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He’s equally hopeful that he can continue to have a positive relationship with AEW, reflecting that:

“I don’t think this relationship is dead. I don’t think there’s a ban. It may be… there’s always different guidelines in place. There are certain people that available and who aren’t.  The rules on how, when and why, those things change all the time and they’ve since day one when we had AEW talent on our shows.

AEW have been very good to use throughout the years.

Whether it’s over or continues for another five years, I’ve been very grateful.”

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