Jon Moxley Explains Why He Will Never Watch Recent ‘Magical’ Match

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Former AEW World Champion Jon Moxley is set to make his return to New Japan Pro Wrestling at the upcoming NJPW Dominion event next month.

Moxley’s match at Dominion will be his first in Japan since February 2020, though he is set for the NJPW Resurgence event this Sunday in Long Beach, California.

Moxley has been a part of several huge matches against NJPW stars, including against the company’s ace, Hiroshi Tanahashi, at last year’s Forbidden Door event.

Speaking to Sports Illustrated about his NJPW return, Moxley admitted that he has never watched back the match he had with Tanahashi at Forbidden Door, and he why he never will.

He said:

“I’ve never watched it, and I never will. It’s one of those things that was so perfect in the moment.

“I was supposed to wrestle Tanahashi many times, and it kept getting f**ked up for one reason or another. The relationship [between NJPW and AEW] wasn’t necessarily the best before, and I was in the middle of that. Then a couple years later, we’re doing a pay-per-view together, I’m in the main event, and it’s against Tanahashi, which was the last big dream I wanted. There were a lot of people who did a lot to bring that together, but I feel like I was the goddamn linchpin of the whole f**king thing.

“It was magical. The match was so f**king perfect. It was exactly how I envisioned it. I was in such a f**king zone. Every single second of it was exactly how I played it out in my head. If I ever watch it back, I’ll pick apart little things because I’m my own worst critic. So that’s why I won’t. It was f**king perfect.”

Here are the results from the May 17 episode of AEW Dynamite:

Christian Cage and Luchasaurus attacked TNT Champion Wardlow with a ladder, setting up Cage vs Wardlow in a ladder match at Double Or Nothing

Darby Allin & Orange Cassidy def. Big Bill & Lee Moriarty

Sammy Guevara def. Exodus Prime

Karen Jarrett appeared and helped Jeff Jarrett, Jay Lethal, Satnam Singh & Sonjay Dutt attack FTR

Toni Storm & Ruby Soho def. Hikaru Shida & Britt Baker

The 21-man Blackjack Battle Royal at Double Or Nothing for Orange Cassidy’s International Championship was announced

Tony Khan announced upcoming dates and locations for AEW Collision, but said the location of the premiere would be revealed next week

Roderick Strong def. Chris Jericho in a Falls Count Anywhere match thanks to help from Adam Cole

Jack Perry def. Rush

Darby Allin and Sammy Guevara ran out to help Perry when he was being attacked by Le Faccion Ingobernables

Jay White def. Ricky Starks via DQ when Starks used a steel chair that had been introduced by White’s partner Juice Robinson

Don Callis came to address turning on Kenny Omega, which turned into a big brawl between the Blackpool Combat Club and The Elite, including Adam Page returning and rejoining The Elite and setting up an Anarchy in the Arena match for Double Or Nothing

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• Jon Molxey
• Forbidden Door
• Hiroshi Tanahashi
• NJPW
• AEW

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