Marina Shafir Thankful to Jon Moxley

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Earlier this month during a sit-down interview with Renee Paquette’s The Sessions podcast, Jon Moxley shared his belief in Marina Shafir vast potential as a professional wrestler. The Purveyor of Violence highlighted Shafir’s impressive background in judo and martial arts as a testament to her abilities.

Moxley continued –

Marina Shafir, so much potential there. She is the only one of our species that we have at AEW. There is nobody else, we only have one of her. I see her wrestling differently than everybody. Looking, talking, acting differently than everybody.

She has all these martial arts skills and high level judo and MMA experience. She is such a natural at so much of it. She is new at the pro wrestling stuff, like the running, ducking, selling, and bumping.

I saw her wrestle at Bloodsport and it was like she was a different wrestler than I have seen on Dark and Elevation. It was like she was totally different because she was in her element. She wrestled Masha Slamovich, very talented girl. She was wrestling barefoot and moving around. Her footwork and kicks and movement were totally different because she was in her element. I was like, ‘We need to bring that to TV.’ That brings a whole new element to the division.

Marina Shafir

 

Continuing the discussion on Marina Shafir, Jon Moxley went on to elaborate on her exceptional performance in Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport, where she had the opportunity to compete in a style of matchup that suited her skills. He further suggested that AEW should find a way to showcase her strengths on television.

Just as a suggestion, I was like, ‘On Bloodsport, you wrestle barefoot. I’m not saying you should wrestle barefoot, if you don’t want to, then don’t, it’s all good, but the fact that you were barefoot drew my eyes to your feet and it made me notice how good your footwork was. It made you look way more athletic. It added a whole new dimension.’

It created a whole new dynamic. I’m just trying to get her to loosen up, and she has. She works really hard to work on these little things. She goes out there to get better every single time. I’m just trying to get her to be loose and do what she knows how to do.

She already knows how to do everything she knows, it’s just putting it where it needs to go and all these little things. That just takes experience. One of the matches she had, I think it was against Athena, they had a good amount of time, not just four or five minutes. Once they hit halfway through the match and were in a good sweat and warmed up, you saw her change gears. Seeing that, that’s what I’ve been waiting to see. It’s so subtle, but I could notice it, and when she got into the zone and changed gears, it pumped me up.

 

Marina Shafir

 

Now following these positive comments Marina Shafir has returned the kind words to Moxley in a new interview on the Swerve City Podcast –
She stated
“It’s really cool because he just gives me like a little feedback after my matches. I feel like he states some obvious s**t sometimes [that] I just don’t see … He had said a few things to me [in a way that] I just absorb it a little bit better. His perspective on s**t that I do is very interesting. Some of the things that he has suggested for me [to do have] clicked.”
 “I still have some work to do, but I’m not very far off … It’s gonna be clicking for me whether it wants to or not and he’s definitely helping me use that together.”

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