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[HeadCheese]

I have struggled alot with Moxley and if should include him.

To me the biggest case against him is in-ring he feels to much like a mirroring dance partner. I think he sometimes wrestles to much the level of his opponents energy wise on. If his opponent is unmotivated or having a bad day in the ring, he is not the type that can save the match and sometimes feel like not get a great individual performance out.

One of the better promo and angle workers in modern wrestling too.

Moxley is more of a case of that hes a great wrestler but, as of now it feels like I connect with other 90 wrestlers as better wrestlers and he's doesn't feel like a 10 personal pick. Great promo/angle doer and super important wrestler though. 

The Bucks are proabably the most important wrestlers in starting the ethos of an AEW happening but, Jon Moxley is the most important wrestler in that companies history.

I don't know if AEW last as long as it has does without Moxley putting so much heart, credibility, and glue to the promotion.

[Boss Rock]

If this were top 150-200 I'd consider him. The Shield tags and basically 2019-2023 or so gives him a pretty good resume. But his singles work in WWE is largely pretty flat outside of a few A.J. and Cena matches. And the Death Rider stuff has left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth, though his performance at All In was terrific.

[ElHijodeGorgeousGeorge]

On 7/22/2025 at 2:48 AM, HeadCheese said:

I have struggled alot with Moxley and if should include him.

To me the biggest case against him is in-ring he feels to much like a mirroring dance partner. I think he sometimes wrestles to much the level of his opponents energy wise on. If his opponent is unmotivated or having a bad day in the ring, he is not the type that can save the match and sometimes feel like not get a great individual performance out.

One of the better promo and angle workers in modern wrestling too.

Moxley is more of a case of that hes a great wrestler but, as of now it feels like I connect with other 90 wrestlers as better wrestlers and he's doesn't feel like a 10 personal pick. Great promo/angle doer and super important wrestler though. 

The Bucks are proabably the most important wrestlers in starting the ethos of an AEW happening but, Jon Moxley is the most important wrestler in that companies history.

I don't know if AEW last as long as it has does without Moxley putting so much heart, credibility, and glue to the promotion.

For me it's all of this, and the added reality that at the end of the day he's just doing a rough cosplay of Terry Funk so do we waste spots on Funk clones now? That's a really tough call, and one that I don't know about so much. If he does make it, he's probably my 100 then.

[josephweirdness]

I did a more extensive breakdown of his case here.

That said I'd like to push back on the idea that Moxley is too much of a mirror to his opponent. I'd argue that for better and worse, Moxley drives the matches that he's in more than he doesn't. I think that's become especially obvious in his most recent main event run where it feels like he very deliberately applied his style and philosophies to his matches regardless of opponent. This leads to mixed results like his inability to really mesh into anything cohesive with Swerve Strickland, but it also brings out the best out of someone like a Hangman Page or a Darby Allin. 

On 8/13/2025 at 6:55 AM, ElHijodeGorgeousGeorge said:

For me it's all of this, and the added reality that at the end of the day he's just doing a rough cosplay of Terry Funk so do we waste spots on Funk clones now?

Is he though? Funk is an obvious influence and you 100% see that in Moxley's work but the idea that it's a direct cosplay feels incredibly unfair to me especially when someone like Dick Slater already exists to show us what Funk cosplay really looks like. Mox is expressive, he's a bleeder, he has charismatic physicality--is this Funk cosplay? Sounds to me like he's just applying classic pro wrestling techniques philosophies to his own work. 

Again, I agree that Mox takes Funk as inspiration, the man has said so himself. But nothing about Moxley has ever felt copy paste, in my experience. 

[El McKell]

I don't think Moxley is a Terry Funk clone. But I also would not agree that nothing about him feels copy paste. He kind of is a pastiche at times, not taking from any one wrestler, but like a Tarantino movie knocking off several things at once to end up being something different. He has lifted from Terry Funk, Roddy Piper, Steve Austin, Atsushi Onita and more. And in more than just the applying classic pro-wrestling techniques to his own work way.

Not a dig at Mox, he's great, just an observation.