MOX

Would have been 7 stars in the Tokyo Dome though.

HE HAD HIS TITLE STOLEN BY THE HUMAN SNAKE DON CALLIS AND BY GOD KENNY OMEGA

I'm an occasional watching wrestling so I know who Jon Moxley is, and I have always liked him and found him to be unique and entertaining, so I decided to give the book a try. I'm about a quarter of the way through, and the dude just spent a chapter on sandwiches and sandwich making. Not as a metaphor for something else or anything. Just a stream of consciousness about sandwiches. I can't decide if it's the best chapter ever written, or if I'm now stupider for having read it. The book seems to bounce from actual stories about things that happened to him and strange and wonderful ramblings on music, movies, food etc. I'm pretty sure he has undiagnosed ADHD which may explain his alcoholism, but also his unique brand of brilliance. None of this is meant as an insult. I'm finding the book oddly enjoyable, and wish Jon nothing but the best. If you enjoy Jon's promos, you will like the book. Even if you don't like pro-wrestling, this book is full of interesting musings and stories from an unique voice. If you like books that have a more structured narrative and move from point A to B to C and not from Q to 7 to banana then this probably isn't the book for you.

As expected Mox is the truth and I couldn’t expect anything less.. awesome book by a great performer who is giving you a look behind the curtain. A must read!

Jon Moxley is back. He’s out of jail…Anyone who has followed professional wrestling over the past decade knows the name Jon Moxley. And if you don’t? You definitely know the name Dean Ambrose. It seemed like overnight that Dean Ambrose rose to the top of the WWE roster and suddenly… his booking hit rock bottom.How rock bottom is rock bottom for him?Well… after a disastrous and mentally torturous heel run in 2018, Dean Ambrose lost himself. He was depressed, angry, and struggled to find purpose in the wrestling world. He knew he was going to leave the WWE, that when his contract was up for renewal? He was walking out the door and he wasn’t going to look back unless it was to throw up the bird in Vince McMahon’s face.MOX details Jon Moxley’s journey from indie kid to WWE Superstar to AEW powerhouse. And it does it perfectly. It’s a story that I don’t think could have been told by anyone other than Mox himself. The book reads just like Mox interviews. It’s chaotic, out of order, riddled with profanity, and absolutely enthralling.You don’t need to know the pro-wrestling injury to appreciate this book… but it certainly helps. Much of the story revolves around the different promotions that Mox worked with over the years. From training to deathmatches to being brought onto the WWE main roster with the rest of The Shield. If you’ve followed his career, this feels a lot more satisfying. If you haven’t?It reads like an underdog story. You can feel his excitement through the way he writes. When he reminisces on the good days of WWE, there is so much passion put behind his words that you can almost see him bouncing, eager to get back into the ring and create more best moments.It’s interesting to note that this book was written mid-pandemic. It was written during a time when a free spirit was trapped in his house with just his wife, stir crazy and itching for something to do. And I would be willing to bet that the timing is exactly why this book is as good as it is. The pandemic is mentioned multiple times in the book and I have to wonder if that’s the reason he was able to sit down and really put his whole soul into the book.MOX is a study in the wrestling world. Not only as an industry but as a family. The way Mox talks about his teammates and coworkers is more brotherly than anything else. There’s praise written for familiar names such as Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns, and Chris Jericho. There’s an entire chapter dedicated to Brodie Lee and how great of a man he was.Mox doesn’t hold back. If he loves someone and their work? You know it.If he hates them? He doesn’t mince words about how little he thinks of them. There’s a standout moment near the end of the book in which Mox lays into Kevin Dunn, an Executive Producer with WWE. He tells a story about a moment he profusely apologized to Dunn after cursing on live television and how Dunn, to his face, claimed everything was fine… only to find out later that Dunn didn’t think it was the right kind of apology. On reflection, Mox has come to the conclusion, probably rightly so, that Kevin Dunn is indeed a “****bag”.It’s moments like these that make you fall in love with MOX. It isn’t clean and it isn’t overproduced. No one went through with a fine-tooth comb to make sure he didn’t say anything they didn’t like. It’s just refreshingly honest.A cool note for me… in between all of his stories, Mox throws in what he calls “Spin it Up” and “Flick Pick”. The reader gets an inside look at the soundtrack and the movies that inspire him. Some of them are far from what you’d expect.While MOX may not be the best-written book… it is definitely one of the best books I’ve read in the past couple of years. There’s something about how raw the stories are and how passionate Mox is about what he does and who he is. I’m now more excited than ever to see where his career takes him.

I shouldn’t have been surprised that a man so strong with a microphone would be so eloquent! The writing is scattered across time and place so it doesn’t matter much which chapter you choose to read first: you’ll have a great time, I promise. In the best possible way, this is a catharsis not unlike a Tarantino film (but without the sleaze). There are graphic and visceral depictions of violence and drug use, should that be relevant when choosing your reading material. If it isn’t, you’ll go into the head of a principled hedonist addicted more to pain than anything else in the world…except his really cool wife. He adores her, and among the chapters about the Shield, AEW, and the struggle, there’s a very frank chapter on how to keep a relationship successful. It paints a kinda zen approach to love.

While I enjoyed the book and without a doubt I couldn't put it down, I couldn't help but find myself just flipping past Mox incoherently rambling about his favorite movies and music. It's cool to know Mox is a big fan of X or Y but I don't need a 3 page passage completely interrupting what I bought the book to read about (wrestling/the business) and while the book does cover a lot of this it is broken up a lot with fluff.That being said, if you are a fan of Mox/Wrestling you will be very entertained by this book. Reading how he got his start is enthralling, and reading the culmination of his AEW debut is spine tingling.

Great book! Learn a lot about his early life.Funny random facts & jokes. You can tell how passionate he about life, family & wrestling.

This book was kind of a hot mess. Many have commented that it sounds like Mox is talking straight to you, complete with wild tangents, and that is true, but it is not necessarily a good thing for a book.Someone else commented that it reads like a teen’s post on reddit, and I agree wholeheartedly. There are spelling, punctuation and grammar mistakes everywhere you look. For some reason he uses “F’n” and “MFer” instead of the full words most of the time, but not consistently. Mox doesn’t seem to believe in any punctuation between speech marks unless it’s an exclamation or question mark. Chapter two is a multi-page single paragraph.Basically, what I’m saying is, this book badly needs a competent editor. Sometimes I (uppercase i) or l (lowercase L) are substituted for each other or the number 1, which makes me wonder if the physical book is an easier read and the ebook is a terrible scan that wasn’t checked particularly well before being approved. It doesn’t explain the inconsistent approach to swearing, but for all I know chapter two is formatted into clean, readable paragraphs, and the missing punctuation that ticked me off is actually present in the real book. (Though in this day and age, why would they scan in a book when Mox notes that he wrote it on Reneé’s Mac?)MOX tells an interesting story, I loved the bits about CZW, being one of the people who, after seeing Dean Ambrose on WWE for the first time, went back to his indie days to see what everyone was raving about, and peeking behind the curtain on WWE is always interesting. I wish the structure was a little more coherent. I didn’t read this all in one sitting, so jumping around the timeline endlessly made me keep forgetting what backstory we’d found out eight chapters ago that was relevant now in this chapter, because there had been a bunch of other side tangents.I personally prefer a more linear autobiography. While this was interesting, and clearly written by Mox or the most talented ghost-writer in the world (grammar aside), it doesn’t have that thing that will make me re-read it. It wasn’t worth the very high price tag either. It was an interesting read, but a bit of editing would have made it far more enjoyable. I wasn’t a huge fan of reading about the matches “in character”. The reason I read these autobiographies is to peek behind the curtain, and to read about it from the character’s point of view doesn’t do that. It just reiterates what I already saw on TV.Too many downsides against the interesting tales, I’m afraid. Wait for it to drop in price before buying it.

Warning. This book is very hard to put down & may result in you improving your sandwich game.Love the non linear narrative & brutal honesty

Phenomenal story about the life of a man who has hit the ground running and achieved everything off his own back and strength. Mox is awesome and this book echos that!

Mox's personality is imbued into every word and every page of this book, making it one of the most enjoyable wrestling books I've ever read.

Great book by Mox