Renee Paquette has a complicated answer to the dream match a chunk of AEW fans are already pitching. With Mick Foley now part of All Elite Wrestling, the long-discussed idea of a Jon Moxley clash with the Hardcore Legend is suddenly closer to real than it has been in over a decade, and Moxley’s wife is not sure she wants it.
Foley arrived in AEW this week, joining Paquette on the Double or Nothing Buy In broadcast in a deal Tony Khan has framed as an ongoing role rather than a one-off. That puts Foley and Moxley under the same banner for the first time, reopening talk of a confrontation WWE planned but never delivered.
Speaking on Busted Open Radio, Paquette said the appeal is obvious, especially with her husband working at what she sees as the peak of his career. But the prospect of watching the two share a ring pulls her in two directions.
“The fact that that never got to happen and never came to fruition the way that it could have,” Paquette said of the original WWE plan. She called the idea of finally seeing it “stressful,” adding, “I don’t know that I want to wish that into fruition.”
Paquette stopped short of ruling anything out, instead pointing to AEW’s booker. “I think that’s for Tony to leave that open-ended and say that something like that could happen,” she said. “I think we just have to all kind of wait and see.”
Her honest position landed somewhere between fan and family. “I will say, just as a fan of Mick and a fan of the things that he brings to the table, I’ll be in a fan POV for that until I’ve got to do a ringside hit and there’s gore everywhere,” Paquette said.
The WWE Match That Never Happened
Moxley, then known as Dean Ambrose, was lined up to debut against Foley in 2012 following a viral online feud the pair built through real-world confrontations and pointed social media exchanges around WrestleMania 28. The angle centered on Ambrose blasting Foley for inspiring a generation of wrestlers to hurt themselves for applause.
The match was scrapped when Foley could not get medical clearance, and Ambrose instead debuted later that year as part of The Shield alongside Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns. Moxley has said since then that he is fine with the bout remaining a dream match rather than something that actually took place.
Moxley currently sits at the top of AEW’s card as Continental Champion. He defends that title against Kyle O’Reilly at Double or Nothing in Queens, New York, with Foley now in the building as a regular AEW presence.