It seems like Corny really cares for Tony since he gets so incensed when anyone seems to be taking advantage of him. Maybe he can be like a big brother providing guidance.

Now I want Moxley to carry a fishing rod wrapped in barbed wire to every match

"Tony has more Moxley splooge on his face than Renee has ever dreamed of!"

I think that mentality of working through injuries so that people don't take your spot can do more harm than good in my opinion. One example is Kurt Angle. He said that he should have took more time to heal instead of rushing back or ignoring injuries.

I'm not a big Moxley fan, but it's always great to see an in-ring performer that's going through some shit emerge out of the other side better for it. Kudos to him for addressing his issues and he looks to have lost some weight and seems healthier.

The elephant in the room is the Walter name change

Jim is like a parent. He only yells at Tony because he cares. When he STOPS talking to him, that's when he's given up on him.

He did look healthy and a lot younger.

I remember when Mox debut on AEW I was so excited because I was a big fan of the shield and to me Mox was the stand out of that group. I thought he could be a mix of Brian Pillman and Stone Cold if he was allowed to. I just knew he was going to take AEW to new heights (I mean the night Mox debut punk was also rumored to be debuting and the people were satisfied with just Mox so that let’s you know what level he was on then) I was telling all my friends Vince was holding him back but NOW we are about to see the birth of a new stone cold. And his first few feuds and matches where good almost great (the Kenny omega lights out match was a tell of what was to come but at the time I thought he just wanted to go big in his first big time match with the new company and it didn’t come off right) but then he just kept making terrible decisions in his matches and in the feuds altogether. When he first got to AEW I thought they should hot shot him straight to the title but by the time he actually won I could have cared less. It’s sad seeing these guys you thought Vince was holding back turns out was actually helping them hide some of the garbage ideas. I still can’t stomach to watch the garbage wwe puts out now days but man Moxs career is so disappointing thinking about what he could be if he stopped all this mud show tendencies

I'd also argue that Mox is AEW's biggest draw despite Punk and Danielson. Dynamite routinely drew over one million viewers whenever Mox was on the show and they did again this week.

The part about Tony having Moxley's splooge on his face killed me 😂 6:53

This is prime time Jim cornette right here

“Tony has more of Moxleys splooge on his face than Renes ever dreamed of” 😱😱🤣🤣😂😂

I hope this means that Mox would now wrestle without having to go outside the ring nearly 90% of the time.

Tony Khan is the kid in the movie "The Toy" where his rich daddy buys him a person to keep him entertained.

To be fair, he is the GCW champ, and the match is in front of the largest crowd at Hammerstein. It makes sense he should be there, but I also do agree with Jim. AEW is paying his bills, not GCW.

I've been binging on the podcast and I feel like I need a whisky shot for every single clip I've picked where it has Jim saying "A-GAIN!" multiple times lol.

On this week's AEW Dynamite, Moxley comes out wearing a Bernie Sanders shirt and cuts a promo saying how much he hates Trump and Republicans. On the next Corny Drive Though, Jim will say what an outstanding talent Jon Moxley is and deserves a huge push. LOL 😆

WWE wrestlers are independent contractors, can't wrestle anywhere else. AEW have contracted wrestlers that can wrestle wherever, as long as it doesn't interfere with AEW dates. This all makes sense to me.

Moxley looks like he is ten years younger after getting sober, it's insane.

I always laugh at "Bank Addicted Drug Robber"!!!

The fact Jon told security to ban the guy heckling him just made him look like a weak girl.

to be fair Brian, he didn't need to apologize. He did the right thing getting help. He said thank you. If it was like a victory incident that's different. He didn't show up messed up, he went to get help. He did the right thing in my eyes!

I like Moxley. He can talk and work. It's not like he's The Sandman or something they guy can have good matches that aren't always hardcore. I'm glad he's healthy.

Wow, Jim is really gonna lose it if and when FTR show up in GCW. 🤣🤣🤣

Can't wait for Tony to pull a Vince/Shane, and get into a match 😂 Picturing Travis' artwork for that one has me giggling like a school girl.

Absoutely true. THey announced his return to GCW before he returned on AEW. And, the Hardy Boyz are accepting indy bookings various places, at least 2 I've seen so far, and they're retweeting it and putting that out there. So, when Jeff shows up on AEW, it is already known that they're out there together and AEW gets sloppy seconds. Time to stand up to the talent and remind them that they are paid the most to be on this national brand and that the indy feds shouldn't get first dibs. It is stunning that has to be said. But, because everyone is so nice and no one has the guts to be mean and tell the boys no.,..... Ugh. Such high hopes for AEW.... And, it is run like a video game.

I've never really been an ambrose/moxley fan. Never been a fan of his fake crazy, but I MUST admit. Jon Moxley is Real and he's a true wrestling fan!! This dudes been at the top of the two biggest promotions in America and he STILL goes to show love to the little guys! As for Tony Khan, Im going to respect the method to his madness. He's doing the opposite of what Vince did. Vince backstabbed promoters and refused to ever help them or do business with them "for the most part". Tony is helping lesser promotions and doing business with all of them. It could all be strategic, he's the billionaire, not us or Jim. Tony might be seeing things that we just can't.

One thing is for sure with this whole Moxley return and the discussions about it - GCW has NEVER had so much publicity before! Makes their WM equivalent at the Hammerstein Ballroom even more enticing!!

I wouldn’t say he flunked out of wwe since he left on his own and they tried to get him to stay

I like Moxley. This promo was great.

He had a promo on TBS and is wrestling live Friday on Rampage .then he is wrestling for GCW in NY

I honestly feel bad for the guy. As someone who has dealt with certain substance issues, it’s goddamn tough. However, who can really look at Moxs current situation and think he is in a better place now than he would’ve been taking a million per year contract as Ambrose? He got his amazing creative control, got to wrestle his super hardcore matches...... and was promptly driven into a giant bender for a year. Sometimes, for some people, structure is GOOD. I’m absolutely positive they told him that on his recent vacation. I wish the best for him and his family, but recently kicking a fan out for yelling “call the garbage truck and get him out the ring!” doesn’t really fill me with confidence.

It's gotten to the point where I haven't watched a full AEW show in months. After watching every single TV and youtube show for the first couple of years, I find that between the AEW channel's highlights (which literally spoil every match) and Corny's reviews, I have zero need to suffer through all the trash creative and shoddy amateur ring work.

These fucking promo transitions are the highlight of an already great discussion between yourself and Brian. It's comedy gold AND informative at the same time.

Bank addicted, drug robbers is a funny line.

I'm glad Moxley got the help he needed, and I applaud him for having the courage to admit he needed help and then to actually seek it out. Having said that, there are far more talented people that deserve the platform that Moxley has somehow lucked into.

Moxley walked away from a ton of money 💰 to be with AEW for less Moxley has always favored independent wrestling, the whole reason for joining AEW Moxley can wrestle mat wrestling, as seen in his match with Chad Collyer in 2005 There are points Jim is missing in his complaints and I want to make them clear

Tony khan just stopped Bryan Danielson from working in a market they haven't run yet so saying he has no balls to say something is null. I think GCW went into business for themselves to announce mox without contacting Tony first before they can announce mox.

I was at the show on Wednesday in DC. TK live in person is a site to see. Dude is something

Jim is way OTT on this Moxley thing. The guy takes a disliking to someone and that's that... everything they do is a personal insult.

At this point, the Revolving Forbidden Door is one of the other significant issues with AEW booking. People vanish for weeks and sometimes months because they are working in different places and get stuck somewhere or hurt and then come back as nothing happened. The worse part is they do little to reference these people when they are gone and then have them pop back In like a Monty Python skit.

Wait, I'm out of the loop--Jon Moxley's entrance theme is legit 'Wild Thing'? Like a version of the 1960s pop song originally by The Troggs? "You make everything groovy"? If that's actually true, I don't think I'll ever stop laughing. Jon, mate--what on Earth were you thinking?

Shout out to Jim and Boerne, TX. Made my day. Carry on.

JC: makes a really good argument about people taking advantage of TK Also JC: takes shot at Moxley's wife for no reason just to make sure that's the only part of the clip people will share on the internet 😅

I was happy to see him back on Wednesday.

I’m glad that he got clean for his health and family. But I just can’t take him seriously with his body language and the garbage matches he has. I had high hopes for Moxley when he came to aew. That first promo he did with Cody was excellent! I wish he would tone his Shtick down and have some classic matches with The top guys. I’m glad that he’s over and people like him, it just doesn’t work for me. IMHO

I wish Mox used more in ring psychology and less trash can lids. The most frustrating thing is that he could be a great wrestler if he took some direction from people that know better than him. Honestly, the last few years have made me sympathize a lot more than Vince McMahon in Mox's creative conflicts. I feel like they both had stupid ideas, but at least Vince reigned in Mox's obsession with hardcore wrestling.

"bank addicted drug robbers"

Completely OT here: I miss the days when promotions had names like “World Championship Wrestling” and “World Wrestling Federation.” Those kinds of names gave an air of legitimacy to the promotion. Something about names like “All Elite Wrestling”, “World Wrestling Entertainment”, and “Game Changer Wrestling” just seems cheaper somehow.

The best part was when a fan shouted get a garbage truck and get that trash out of the ring.

I started watching wrestling this past year for the first time since the late 90s. I find myself agreeing with Cornette on nearly everything. I don't understand the love for Moxley. His entrance music and goofy shoulder walk are so cheesy.

Too bad all he got from Stone Cold was the alcohol dependency and the hairline

Tony is just happy to be hanging out with wrestlers. He’s like a make-a-wish kid

Didn't even go over him saying fuck basically as soon as he talked lol

16:55 I just busted out laughing!

Jim's problem is that he's living in the 1980s. Back then, guys didn't want to be "indy" wrestlers. They wanted to wrestle for the NWA or WWF, depending on what style worked for them and who was offering the big money. For the last 20 years, WWE has been the only game in town and if you're an actual pro wrestler as opposed to sports entertainer who wants to be known for that, the Indies are the only places you can go. WWE in the last 20 years has been almost unwatchable with a few exceptions. Anyone who cares about wrestling is just working there for the money, but if their heart is with wrestling, it's in the Indies. Until AEW, there's been no real, viable, big budget wrestling promotion for the last 20 years. I don't know why Jim is dumped on the Indies more than WWE. It's not the Indies that destroyed wrestling. It's the WWE that created a business model where you either conform to whatever crap they're putting on this week or wrestle in a more boring, even lower budget version of Eastern Championship Wrestling. In the territory days, guys (and girls) would be properly trained for the business and how to wrestle in that Greco-Roman style properly. Now, with the exception of guys like Punk and Danielson, almost all of the top technical wrestlers do the Lucha and Japanese styles. As a result, very few of the guys who do mat wrestling are being trained properly in how to sell, take bumps and do the moves safely without hurting yourself or the other person you're working with. Pillman Jr would know, because he was trained by Lance Storm. But guys like Moxley didn't really have that. It was the Indies or WWE, and if I'm a wrestler who cares about wrestling, I'm taking the Indies over the WWE every day of the week, because WWE is about uninspired, giant cartoon characters who can't wrestle. Considering what we've had to deal with for the last 20 years, I don't know why Jim is so critical of AEW. Yes, they're far from perfect and they still do a lot of stupid, sports entertainment type things, but after all the crap since mid-2001, AEW is a breath of fresh air. At least they give you good quality wrestling about half the time. WWE can't even do that 1% of the time.

Unfortunately this is one of those times where Jim spoke too soon. Moxley returned Wednesday on Dynamite, then had his first match back on Rampage last night, so Tony obviously had him prioritize AEW over GCW, as he should.

I legit lol'd at the splooge comment.

“Bank addicted drug robbers” lmao

His first match is actually tonight, January 22, on Rampage. So Jim, you are wrong.

He was gone?

The advertising is pure gold here!!!

TK knew he was gonna look like a Punk and Immediately booked him for Rampage.

The great dichotomy of Moxley is that he's likeable despite being a one trick pony. I would argue many before him made bucket of money and won titles and travelled the world doing just that. I agree with Jim on his assessment of him, but people LIKE him and that's half the battle. I hate the wild thing music and his matches are boring and predictable. Yet....he still has this 'air' or 'mystique' that he will still kick your ass. So until he loses that part, then I think he's top 8 in AEW. There are others doing better work, better matches and are better overall, but...I still root for him. I like him. I like Renee (good job Brian checking Jim on his rant). I wish him health, sobriety and being a dad is great.

Cornette has such a good mind for the business and such bad opinions at the same time. It's fascinating

"Bank addicted drug robbers" 🤣🤣🤣

Tony's face 🤣😅

Stone cold Cosplay is one of the most overrated clowns in quite sometime

What Jim says is complete fact, it is literally going to take somebody getting injured on another show for him to probably realize what he is doing. Giving a few shows the rub out there is totally cool and I like the fact that they are willing to do business with other companies,, BUT it needs to be a handful of shows ONLY, and the wrestlers need toonly work on those top-tier shows.( they need Associated Booker's that will use them properly and not put them in scenarios where they can get or allow the wrestlers to do whatever they want to do which can also lead to them getting mangled inadvertently always of course but you need people around them that are smarter than they are, if you want them to last at least) And even that scenario is going to lead to somebody getting hurt on another show just because it's the business of impact trauma unfortunately not being the business of courteous or whatever!

I’ve thought the same. Mox is making at least $20k a week for AEW. I wouldn’t like someone to work for someone else at a much lower rate - especially in dangerous matches and he could get hurt. I would feel like a sucker.

Brian at the 7 minute mark showing sum class.

I'm ready for a Nxt review and what Jim has to say about the name change of Walter. Well "Valter" as Jim calls him.

"Let's keep it professional here." 7:00 LOL "Then he just spit in his eye."

East End River Rat Mutant.....I'm from Cincinnati. That part of town was crazy. Where Moxley grew up

This whole working through injuries etc in wrestling is something I’ve always thought is fucking stupid! I get why it was done and the wrestlers logic for it but if promotors weren’t such ruthless arseholes how many wrestlers would still be alive today or in better health if it wasn’t for the stupid culture of working through injuries!

Did anybody really miss Jon Moxley or as I call him Bunkhouse Buck 2.

If Mox injured #10 twice he owes him a public apology. I'm over Mox. He's a fake stone cold Steve Austin.

If he wasn't swinging off of Tony Khan's coin purse, Moxley would be having deathmatches with Hannibal.

Jim: "Tony has more Moxley splooge on his face, then Renee has ever dreamed off Brian: "Oh come on, let's, let's errrr keep it professional here" Creasing 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I can't stand Moxley, but I thought his promo was great. It's definitely the best promo he has ever done. I thought he did well.

And no comment on his actual return? Was this recorded before Wednesday’s Dynamite??

Even Brian knew Corny went a lil too far with that Renee line

Does Cornette know who are the "garbage" world tag team champions? Also the whole video is bullshit, Mox returned to aew first, and will have his first match also there.

For someone that has no clue how the company is run you sure do have a lot of opinions on how the company is run. He said he'd let his wrestlers work independent shows as well as his one day a week he needs them for. I went to Newark NJ show the other day and saw Dark dynamite and rampage in the same day. So what are these wrestlers supposed to do the other 6 days of the week? They could be making money so why not let them especially if it brings more fans to your product (go to GCW website and it states Jon moxley is GCW world champion and signed to AEW with a link). I love this podcast but I've noticed you have a very get-off-my-lawn type attitude when it comes to the wrestling business evolving. If it's not your brand of wrestling it's wrong lol open your mind a bit it might make you live longer. He legit LOVES working indies and wants to work them so why put it down. Should he be waving a racket around to get the approval? Whhhhaaattttever

Honestly though I would guess that the Moxley situation was probably a little more complex than how it is being discussed here. Still a mistake by Tony, but Moxley is the GCW champion, I would assume that it is not that easy to deny their champion showing up on a big show. Also it is interesting that Tony approves this, but there are reports of him denying Danielson's request to wrestle for a promotion on the West Coast in a market that AEW hasn't been yet. I think that Tony does have some discretion at least.

HAS MORE SPLOOGE ON HIS FACE THAN RENEE EVER DREAMED OF. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH. HILARIOUS.

Never really been a moxley fan with regards to in ring work but he does cut a great promo and has his character style/mannerisms nailed down

It's just a matter of time before AEW explodes.

Moxley didn't "flunk out of the WWE," he chose to leave because Vince had no fucking idea how to book him and made him look a god damn fool.

"Bank addicted drug robbers" 🤣

I love Jim but I’m not understanding this rant. It’s almost like he was bored and started this fake rage rant.

I know Moxley's been into extreme stuff forever, but at this point, at 36 years old and with a young family, why not leave the indies behind? Maybe I just don't have his PASSION, but making a ton from AEW and not getting hit with barbed wire bats and shit sounds fun.

Good lord ham mercy. Jim destroyed them even Brian azz. was low-key pissed at Jim 😂😆😂😆

Mox can have matches outside of death matches. He didn’t have any death matches for the whole time he was in WWE

just hope he stays well and everything else is irrelevant

Watching Moxley strut around and do all the tough guy mannerisms of a 1970s street gang film gives me second hand embarrassment.

Anyone else thought they had a white mark on their phone screen to the right of Tony Khan's head and try to wipe it off? 😅

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If Moxley cared about his health. He'd cut back on these trash garbage matches.