Some wrestlers have a personal story behind their ring name. Kevin Steen became Kevin Owens in WWE as a tribute to his son, Owen, who was in turn named after Steen’s childhood hero Owen Hart. Colby Lopez chose to be called Seth Rollins in a nod to Henry Rollins, the singer for punk band Black Flag.
Jon Moxley, though, uses a name that somebody else came up with on the fly a decade and a half ago.
Moxley (real name Jonathan Good) explained in the first episode of AEW’s new official podcast Unrestricted that the name was bestowed on him just moments before his first match in his hometown of Cincinnati in 2004.