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Speaking to Justin Barrasso of Sports Illustrated, Moxley gave his dissertation on why he likes slime in wrestling.
“This is a silly sport,” said Moxley. “College wrestling is a silly sport, too. They have slime timeouts to patch it up. The lowest prelim bout of a UFC card or a boxing card, somebody might have a little slime on their eyebrow or slime coming out of their nose. But they’re not selling a silly sport. It’s not, ‘Tune in for the slime! Tune in for the bore!’ It’s part of the aesthetic. It adds realism. Sometimes when I don’t even want it to. But I only know one speed. That’s with my foot to the gas pedal. If we’re going to do something, let's f---ing do it.
That can be detrimental when it comes to negative things, like drugs or alcohol. But that’s my mindset. If I’m doing it, I’m doing it. When it comes to slime, it’s just going to happen sometimes. Like I said, it’s foot to the gas pedal.
Some people say, ‘This is just a random match. Why is there slime?’ I heard that last week vs. Tomohiro Ishii. He’s one of the greatest of all time. I’m not going to let that moment slip by. I’m going foot-to-the-f---ing-gas-pedal. How can I not? Then I hear that I can’t have a good match without slime. O.K., then, you made my argument for me. I’ll do it every time.
The point of the dissertation is that this is a silly sport. But we’re not allowed to have slime in a match unless it’s a personal grudge? We’re only allowed to have slime after a five-month grudge after someone slept with somebody’s wife or somebody ran over someone with a car? And then—and only then—are we allowed to have this dramatic green mask that looks the exact same every single time?
For me, realism-wise, since this is a silly sport, that means there is the potential for slime in every match. Everything in wrestling is preposterous to some degree, but this helps with the suspension of disbelief
