Jon Moxley And Claudio Castagnoli Respond To CMLL Stars’ Challenge, Tease Coming To ‘The Arena’

Jon Moxley and Claudio Castagnoli tease coming to CMLL.

Jon Moxley and Claudio Castagnoli tease coming to CMLL.

The feud between Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, and Bryan Danielson) and CMLL’s Mistico, Hechicero, and Volador Jr. continues to heat up. Following the February 9 episode of AEW Rampage, Mistico and his fellow CMLL stars challenged Moxley and his stablemates to come face them in Arena Mexico.

In a video AEW posted on social media, Jon Moxley and Claudio Castagnoli responded to the CMLL stars’ challenge. Moxley first highlighted how the competitive aspect of wrestling is beautiful. He noted that the sport transcends borders and cultural barriers.

“The luchadores of CMLL stand in solidarity against the forces of AEW and the elite of the elite, the Blackpool Combat Club. Things haven’t gotten too out of hand yet. War is an ugly, terrible thing. But in sport, competition, it can be beautiful. Professional wrestling, the greatest sport in the world, transcends borders and cultural barriers. The struggle in the ring, the human struggle of the man in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who if he fails, fails daring greatly. Questions are answered in the arena. Since the time of David versus Goliath. In this case, show style is superior? Lucha Libre, national heritage, with all its idiosyncrasies, or the style of the Blackpool Combat Club? We don’t have a style. The BCC is decades and decades, a lineage of knowledge, shared, passed in, preserved, and protected. So in this story, the BCC, should we walk into Arena Mexico, be David or Goliath? The answer is, we’re both,” Moxley said.

Castagnoli then gave the CMLL stars credit for picking a fight with Moxley, but he made it clear that they picked a fight with him as well. He described his past with CMLL and made it clear that he pushed himself to become the best luchador in the world. Castagnoli then teased coming to their house, just as they have come to AEW.

“You picked a fight with this guy, my friend, Jon Moxley. You thought you just picked a fight with the biggest star in AEW. Prison rules, right? You go after the biggest, baddest guy you can, just to make a name for yourself. You know what? Kudos for that. What you didn’t expect is you picked a fight with me. See, my story with CMLL goes back 15,16,17 years, when I just started in the United States. I was like, you know what? Lucha Libre. Over 100 years worth of heritage. That’s what I want to learn. That’s what I want to get good at. Every week, I ordered the DVDs. Every week, I watched the shows, and I went down to Mexico for a week straight. I went to the offices of CMLL, begging for a chance. A week went by, a week and a half went by. I got rejected every single day. So you know what I did? I just became the best luchador there is. Not out there in the arena, in the back. In the dark, where nobody was watching. I trained day in and day out, and now here you are, trying to show off what Lucha Libre actually is to the great audience of AEW, and you got showed up by the Blackpool Combat Club because we train when nobody’s looking, because we work when others stop. That’s what we do. Then you invite us to your house. See, we didn’t invite you to come here because this is our house, our rules. But you invite us to your house? If you do that, su casa is gonna be nosto casa,” Castagnoli said.

As of this writing, there is no word on whether Moxley and Castagnoli will come to CMLL. Fightful will provide more information as it becomes available.

Castagnoli previously praised Moxley and described what he likes about him. Check out his comments here.

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