AEW: Jon Moxley on Doing Commentary at WrestleDream, Zack Sabre Jr. Wants Danielson Rematch, Prince Nana

Oct 5, 2023

Jon Moxley Comments on Doing Guest Commentary at AEW WrestleDream

This past Sunday’s AEW WrestleDream event in Seattle, Washington featured guest commentary by Jon Moxley. Moxley was a guest commentator for Blackpool Combat Club’s three singles matches at the event was notable for the less than colorful language he used at times. This led to Moxley revealing that he got fined over it during his first match commentary and Excalibur referencing the swear jar throughout Moxley’s commentary appearances.

Sports Illustrated held a recent interview with Moxley. One of the topics discussed included Moxley’s thoughts on his experience working in commentary during the show.

“It was pretty fun. It’s actually a lot harder than you think. I remember doing it once or twice in WWE–there’s guys on the headset, counting down, camera shots, video packages, and you don’t want to talk while anyone else is talking. There is a lot of traffic to navigate. Hopefully, I didn’t make the other three guys’ lives more difficult.
I’ve been paid to star in a movie, and I’m not a real actor. I got paid to write a book and I’m not a real writer. I’m barely a real wrestler. So this is another thing that someone paid me to do that I am completely unqualified to do. I don’t know how I keep getting so lucky.”

Zabre Sabre Jr. Comments on Wanting Rematch with Bryan Danielson in England or Japan

This past Sunday’s AEW WrestleDream also featured a “Dream” match of Bryan Danielson vs. Zack Sabre Jr., which was won by Danielson.

Following the match, AEW held a digital exclusive backstage interview with Sabre Jr. discussing the match and wanting a rematch in either England or Japan.

“Lucky I’ve got the jawline of Antonio Inoki, along with the spirit of Strong Style. So I’m fine, don’t you worry about me. I might have got knocked out, but I’ll keep going. Bryan, I happily admit that you’re one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. You’ve been the best in the world for what, over two decades. I wrestled you in 2008. You put me on the map. For that, I’ll be eternally grateful. But today, darling, we were supposed to settle something, weren’t we? Who really is the best technical wrestler, not in the world right now, but probably of all bloody time. But knocking me out, Bryan, that’s a scoundrel move from Brittle Bryan. I felt your bones disintegrating in my hands, Bryan. So I want my rematch because this proved nothing. We’re gonna do the rematch on my home turf, England, or my adopted home turf of Japan. I did you the solid, mate, didn’t I? Did you the proper solid of coming to Seattle. Submissions in Seattle, huh? Well, you didn’t beat me by submission. You chickened out. Well, Bryan, we’ll find out in the rematch who the best technical wrestler in the world is and I’ll put you into retirement for good, dickhead.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Prince Nana Comments on Origin of His “The Nana” Dance

A recent episode of the Talk Is Jericho podcast featured Prince Nana as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Nana revealing the origin of his “The Nana” dance he performs during Swerve Strickland’s entrances on AEW shows.

“All over the place, and I’m dancing. The dance, how that came about was, I got some good information from the AEW office, I believe it was during the Canada trip or after that because Canada took a lot out of everybody. I love Canada. I was in my room, got some good news, and next thing you know, I put on Instagram, I put on the Swerve song, and I just started dancing that same dance. I did the same dance, I tape it, went maybe two weeks. When I initially walked to the ring, I had a little pep in my step, but maybe two weeks (later), I looked at the video and said, ‘I’m going to do this dance.’ I did it one night and boom, history was made. Since then, every week people are requesting me to do it. Did it in London in front of 80,000 people. We’re getting memes, we’re getting people doing the challenge. It’s definitely a great thing.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com