In a recent interview with The Messenger, All Elite Wrestling’s Jon Moxley issued a call for a system to be put in place by wrestling promotions for concussions to be spotted and wrestlers to be protected following an early concussion during his match against Rey Fenix at AEW Dynamite: Grand Slam last month, with Moxley noting that he felt progressively worse as the match went on, before eventually realizing that he should not continue on the match.

“I just kept getting progressively more lost and couldn’t figure out where the f*** I was, then I had this moment of clarity, oh I’m f***ed up, I’ve got to get the f*** out of here. In pro wrestling, it’s a really touchy subject, somebody’s got to f***ing bring it up, pro wrestling is such a strange thing. In football, if a guy goes down and he doesn’t go back to the huddle, you know he’s f***ed up. In pro wrestlng, a lot of times it’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s fake.

Maybe a really experienced wrestler, and a really experienced doctor who are trained to see signs of that s*** are watching it on a separate feed. Even if they have a doctor close to ringside, what if the guy f***ing spills outside the ring, he doesn’t see that. The doctor and the wrestler are completely untethered to the creative portion of it, they have no idea, nor any interest in what the story is, who wins, who loses, or how long it’s supposed to go.

If a guy f***ing spins around or something and the doctor goes, is he okay, the wrestler can tell him, that’s just a pro wrestling thing, don’t worry. As soon as the doctor sees a sign of somebody being concussed, he just hits the f***ing red button, boom this is over, no matter how much time is left, no matter if it’s on live TV, it’s just over and you figure it out from there.”

The full interview is available at this link.