Jon Moxley On Original Plans To Debut Wild Thing Entrance Music

Jon Moxley has discussed his Wild Thing entrance music, revealing original plans for him to debut the walk-out song.

For his IWGP US Championship match with Yuji Nagata in May, Jon Moxley made his entrance to Wild Thing. Moxley has revealed that there were plans for him to debut this theme at AEW Revolution.

In an interview with Cincy 3:60, Moxley explained that he and Tony Khan thought about Moxley entering to the theme for the exploding barbed wire deathmatch as an homage to deathmatch wrestler Atsushi Onita.

Explaining the origins of his current entrance music, Moxley said:

“So we’re doing this Exploding Barbed Wire match,” Moxley said. “And I was being compared to the innovator of that, who’s called Atsushi Onita, who’s a Japanese wrestler who came out to that (song). A month before Tony (Khan) was like, we’re talking about it and Tony, who is the owner and booker and so forth, he goes ‘should we get ‘Wild Thing’ for that?’ Just for one night for the Exploding Match. And I was like ‘no that’s too derivative. No it’s too much.’

“Then a week before I started thinking about it again and I was like ‘well it might be cool for one night. People might get the reference. Just for that one night I was like ‘let’s do it.’ By then it was too late and we couldn’t get the rights for it or whatever.

“But then it came through a couple weeks later, and I was in the ring with Yuji Nagata. And I thought it was the ‘Season of the Witch’ playing. I was like ‘why is Season of the Witch playing right now?’ And after the match, I heard it was like the original, the Troggs ‘Wild Thing.’ I was like ‘oh, they must’ve got ‘Wild Thing’ after all. That’s my music now.’ And they then changed it to the X version, the Major League version. So it kind of just happened by accident. But if the people like it, I like it. So that’s all that matters. I’m into it, it’s cool.”

Onita reacted to Moxley using his entrance theme by teasing a match between the two stars. Mick Foley has said that if the dream bout ever happens, he wants to be the referee.

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Quote via Wrestling Inc.

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