Marko Stunt has looked back on his AEW tenure.
Having debuted at Double Or Nothing 2019, Marko Stunt spent around three years in AEW before his 2022 release. Quickly aligning with Jack Perry and Luchasaurus, the 29-year-old is most known for his time in Jurassic Express, though he’s since retired from the ring. Now, Stunt has reflected on his time with All Elite Wrestling.
Speaking on Busted Open Radio, Stunt said he had a poor mindset in AEW, explaining how he may have gotten too comfortable in the company.
“I think there’s a few things that went into it. l’ve grown up a lot since then. I’m almost 30 now. I was in my early twenties when all that first started. I was young, dumb, and excited to be living my dream. I made some decisions that didn’t go over too well a couple times. I kind of treated it like, ‘Okay, I’m here. I’m good.’ And that was a terrible mindset to have. I absolutely loved being there. I’ve got friends for life from there now, obviously with Jack (Perry) and Luchasaurus, and Sammy Guevara, and all the vlog crew that we were a part of and everything. But I was… I think plans just started to change. More people started to come in and new toys are more fun than the toys that you got a few years ago in, in my opinion. And there’s nothing wrong with that. That’s how things go. I’m not bitter at all. I’m very fortunate to have lived my dream. I’m very fortunate to have made the friends that I have… I’ve still got people coming up to me like every week or so. I’ll go to Walmart or Target, or a gas station. And people still come up to me to this day and say that they used to watch me. And I still think that’s crazy ’cause I’m just — I was Marko Stunt forever. And now, I guess I’m still Marko Stunt, but to me it is just like, I’m just Noah now. I’m working day to day. I do think there were some things I could have done differently to maybe preserve my spot a little better… I don’t think I handled it as maturely as I should have. I feel like I have to blame it on myself. I want to say I got too comfortable, to be real honest with you. I got too comfortable and, I didn’t feel untouchable or anything. It wasn’t anything like that. That was never in my head space. But I did get very, very comfortable there.”
-Marko Stunt
Nowadays, Stunt, whose real name is Noah Nelms, works as a car salesman. During the interview, he’d go on to detail how he landed his new role.
“I was actually just working little jobs, to be real honest with you. I was actually waiting tables before I was doing this just to get by and everything. But I decided that’s not gonna cut it for me. So l ended up just riding down the road and I didn’t actually know if they were hiring, but I went into Homer Skelton Ford, which is where I work now. Went and talked with the General Manager and he came from a restaurant background and succeeded. They liked that they knew about me in AEW at one point. They saw all that and how I deal with people and just how I interact with them, and they ended up taking a chance on me. And I’m still pretty new. This is my second month on the car floor selling cars. But I was number three for the whole month last month in my first month out of, like, 16.”
-Marko Stunt
Marko Stunt surprised fans by returning to All Elite Wrestling for a one-off appearance in July 2024. Answering Jack Perry’s open challenge for the TNT Championship, Stunt’s three-minute loss to his former teammate remains his final in-ring appearance prior to retirement.
As always, we’ll aim to provide any further updates on Marko Stunt as soon as we hear more.
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