John Moxley reckons Vince McMahon would welcome him back to WWE "tomorrow" and would love to see him come crawling back, despite all of the negative comments he's made about the promotion since leaving.
Moxley, who wrestled under the name Dean Ambrose for WWE, has since joined startup promotion AEW and has had quite a lot to say about McMahon and his company recently.
In spite of that, he seems to believe that bridges are never burnt with WWE and that McMahon would take him back right away if that ever became an option. The 33-year-old also claims that his recent interviews are different from CM Punk's 2014 podcast as it was more personal for the former WWE star.
“A bridge is never burnt in WWE. Vince [McMahon] would have me back tomorrow and would love it if I came crawling back to him," he declared in an interview with 25 Years Later (h/t 411Mania). "I think Punk had a lot more personal animosity towards WWE and specific people.
"I don’t know every detail of his story and I haven’t spoken to him since he left WWE. His experience drove him to not like wrestling anymore, I think. For me, I wanted the exact opposite. I just got pro wrestling back after losing it years ago. I’m like “Whoa, I’m back in the game, here we go!” I wanted to make sure that people knew that there’s no bitterness and that my love of wrestling and my desire to perform for the fans, my desire to meet and exceed their expectations and my love for the fans has only gotten bigger.
"They have stayed with me through thick and thin and they’re going to follow me wherever I go. Now they’re AEW fans. They can still be WWE fans but they’re AEW fans too. Not trying to come off as arrogant but that’s a lot of fans that are now following AEW. We’re garnering a huge fan base and we’ve only done one show. It just so happens that the one show we’ve done was f***ing awesome. Even if this whole thing goes f***ing t**s up and we never run another show, that was one helluva show. But we’re going to run more shows, a lot of shows. We’re running a show June 29th in Daytona Beach, Florida, me vs Joey Janela. That’s a beautiful, ugly mess .”
Moxley also revealed that he and Triple H shared a good relationship and that his only gripe was with Vince. He says it wasn't a personal one, however.
“My thing was between Vince and me," he explained. "I had a good relationship with Hunter. There’s no heat. The only person I might have a bad relationship with is Vince and that’s not a bad relationship because of animosity. We just don’t speak the same language creatively. It’s better for both of us to not work together. With everyone else, it’s all good, ya know?”
Mox is probably right. Vince would likely take him back if he ever approached him and asked to return to WWE. He'd just have to fight a future version of Baron Corbyn in his retirement match is all.