You will never find someone who would call professional wrestling an easy job. The work inside the ring is only the start of the struggle, with the long travel times simply adding to the damage on wrestlers bodies.
Even those who seem limber in the ring have issues getting moving, including 37 year old AEW International Champion Jon Moxley.
Jon Moxley Can’t Move Before Noon, Has The Arthritis Of A 70 Year Old Man
During an interview for Cincy360, Moxley would talk about his physical condition – revealing something a doctor told him in 2021.
“I live a very physical lifestyle. But nothing to me is worse or does more damage than just the traveling. For years, it was like traveling was my job. The wrestling part was kind of a reward at the end of the day, but your life becomes traveling at a certain point in this game. It’s really amazing how that adds up on your body and your joints. The doctor last year told me that I have the arthritis if a seventy-year-old man. That was quite humbling.
That was a year or two, so by now it’s like a seventy-two-old man, so I don’t move very well in the morning. Thank god shows are at nights because by then, I’m pretty loosened up. If wrestling shows took place in the morning, like Saturday morning Superstars, if we started doing those early territory style studio TV tapings on Sunday mornings, I would retire. I’d be done. Because a lot of times I can’t even move before noon.”
Despite this, Moxley remains one of the best professional wrestlers in the world by the time the bell rings. This is a fascinating bit of input into the physical toll of professional wrestling, and something that wrestlers generally wouldn’t admit until they are retired. Moxley will never let this stop him – provided AEW doesn’t need him to hit the ring for an early match anytime soon.
Would you have guessed Moxley had this issue? Let us know what you think in the comment section down below.
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