
Renee Paquette, AEW World Champion Jon Moxleyâs wife, recently had the premiere episode of her brand-new podcast called âOral Sessions with Renee Paquette.â As her first-ever guest, Paquette invited her husband Jon Moxley as he talked about his childhood, why he doesnât spend much money and more.
Below are the highlights:
On his childhood:
âI was pretty quiet. People often describe me as quiet or shy. Iâve never described myself as shy because Iâm not shy or afraid or timid to talk or express my opinion. I just donât always feel the need to talk. I feel a lot of people need to fill the silent spaces. If Iâm sitting in catering or whatever and there are three or four people at a table, I donât feel the need to talk just to hear myself talk or make conversation, especially if itâs people I know and Iâm comfortable with.
I will just sit there. Sometimes I donât have anything to say. Iâm very easy to talk to. Iâm just not chatty. I donât think that makes me shy. But as a kid, if I was in a class where there were friends of mine or people I feel comfortable with, I could be the most talkative kid in the class. Then I could go to another class where I donât know anybody and I might not say a word the entire school year.â
âI came from a particular area in Cincinnati called Piccadilly which is sort of notorious for a bad reputation. It is a big area of apartments. It was government housing or subsidized housing. Everybody is poor. Everybody is fighting all the time. If you look at somebody the wrong way, you get attacked. You are getting jumped. When I got my back stolen, it was the first bike I ever had.
I was so proud of it. I was an innocent child at this point. I left it outside my apartment and the next day it was gone. That was the legit moment where I think my mind said, f**k everyone. The world is out to get you. Everyone sucks. Stay in your own bubble because everyone is out to get you and everyone is trying to take something from you. It really f**ked me up getting my bike stolen. It did put a certain switch in my mind where I didnât trust anybody.â
âI started getting mixed up with some of the bad kids. You have to. Thatâs survival. Then you get strength and empowerment by hanging out and being on the team instead of outside the team. We got involved in car dipping where you go through the neighborhood and check every unlocked car. If somebody didnât lock their car, you get in and run your hands along the floors and the seats.
You check the glove box and get change or CDâs or whatever you can steal from the car. Everybody shoplifted everything. Everybody stole because we didnât have money. Thatâs how you got stuff. Stealing to me wasnât even a thing. It was just how you were supposed to live.â
On why he doesnât spend much money:
âIâm so used to having no money so I horde it all. I think the benefit to that is I never got expensive tastes. I donât need to buy anything. I donât buy anything. My truck is five years old. I bought that in cash and I will drive that until the wheels fall off. I donât feel the need to buy another house. Being famous, I donât care for that.
If I could make the same money and wrestle at the local rec center in front of 500 people every weekend, I would do that. I just want to wrestle. I can live off a nickel for the next 12 months if it came down to it. Iâve done it before. Not so much for me. Not even for you (Renee) because I know youâre good. Itâs for potential family in the future or people that I have to take care of like my mother or my sister and her family.
What if something happened? I feel a responsibility to protect people if there was a need. Even leaving WWE, when you first start considering walking away from a check with a potential lot of zeros on it, the fiscal responsibility to your family, is this irresponsible? Is it selfish? But yea, always on mind is saving and being frugal and not trying to become somebody Iâm not.â

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December 16, 2020 at 1:57 am
oral sessions eh? yeesh. he needs to go back on austinâs podcast at some point and make his second appearance more like the one he did with jericho too.
totally get where heâs coming from and the mindset he has about not spending money just to spend it cuz iâm the same way. i can stretch out a dollar for as long as i need to cuz i know how to work the system and get what i need when i need it.