Jon Moxley

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Intercontinental Champion Ambrose in December 2018.

Intercontinental Champion Ambrose in December 2018.
Data
Ring name Dean Ambrose
Jon Moxley
Additions to names The Lunatic Fringe
Death Rider
height 193 cm
Fighting weight 102 kg
birth December 7, 1985
Cincinnati , Ohio , USA
Announced from Cincinnati, Ohio
Trained by Cody Hawk, Les Thatcher
debut June 2004

Jonathan David Good (born December 7, 1985 in Cincinnati , Ohio ), better known under his old ring name Dean Ambrose , is an American wrestler who is currently under contract with All Elite Wrestling and performs under the ring name Jon Moxley . During his tenure at World Wrestling Entertainment , Good rose primarily into the ring as Dean Ambrose . His greatest successes so far are the receipt of the WWE Championship , the AEW World Championship , and the completion of the Grand Slam .

Private life

He has been married to ring commentator and interviewer Renee Paquette (better known as Renee Young) since April 9, 2017 .

Wrestling career

Independent Leagues (2004-2011)

Jonathan Good began his wrestling career with the Heartland Wrestling Association (HWA) , where he made his debut under the name Jon Moxley in June 2004. This was followed by engagements at various independent promotions . In 2005, Good teamed up with Jimmy Turner to form the Necessary Roughness Tag Team . With Turner , Good won his first title with the HWA Tag Team Championship. After losing the title, the team split up. Good later formed the Heartland Foundation with Ric Byrne . On August 19, 2005, Good and Byrne defeated Foreign Intelligence and won the HWA Tag Team Championship, but had to surrender the title on the same day.

On May 10, 2006, Good was able to defeat HWA Superstar Pepper Parks and was named HWA Heavyweight Champion for the first time. Four months later he lost the title to Chad Collyer, but was able to regain it again on December 30, 2006 with a win against Pepper Parks. Just three days later, Good had to hand over the title to "Buffalo Bad Boy" Brian Jennings.

Together with his former coach Cody Hawk, Good formed a tag team again. In June 2007 the two wrestlers held the HWA Tag Team Championship for a few days. In mid-2007 Goods wrestling career stalled temporarily, but until 2010 he was to hold the HWA Tag Team Championship two more times as Royal Violence together with King Vu. During his reign as one half of the HWA Tag Team Champions, Good won the Heavyweight Championship for a third time on January 6, 2010, which he successfully defended until July 14, 2010.

At the CZW 11th Anniversary Show on February 13, 2010, Good defeated his opponent B-Boy and won the CZW World Heavyweight Championship. On August 7, 2010, Good had to surrender the title to Nick Gage after losing in an Ultraviolent Three Way Dance . On August 14, 2010, Good was able to win the title again by defeating Nick Gage and Egotistico Fantastico in a Three Way Dance . At CZW - TWELVE (12th Anniversary Show) on February 12, 2011 Good lost to his opponent "The Ego" Robert Anthony and had to give up the CZW World Heavyweight Championship again.

From late 2009 to early 2011, Good entered the ring at the wrestling promotion Dragon Gate USA . On March 27, 2010, he made his pay-per-view debut with a hardcore match against Tommy Dreamer , which Good won.

In Full Impact Pro , Good won the vacant FIP ​​World Heavyweight Championship in a match against Roderick Strong on April 17, 2010. Together with Hade Vansen, Good won the IWA World Tag Team Championship of the International Wrestling Association . With his tag team partner Sami Callihan he won the wXw World Tag Team Championship of the westside Xtreme wrestling promotion . In 2010 and 2011 Good stepped into the ring at Insanity Pro Wrestling , where he won the IPW Grand Title, the IPW World Heavyweight Championship, and the IPW Mid-American Championship.

In early May 2010, Good made his debut at Evolve Wrestling , where he lost to Drake Younger at Evolve 3: Rise or Fall . On April 11, 2011, Good stepped one last time for Evolve in the ring and lost his match to Austin Aries.

World Wrestling Entertainment (2011-2019)

Florida Championship Wrestling (2011-2012)

In early April 2011 it was confirmed that Good had signed a development contract with WWE . In July of the same year he made his debut in the WWE Development League Florida Championship Wrestling under the ring name Dean Ambrose . Good quickly gained a relatively high profile through feuds with Seth Rollins and William Regal .

The Shield (2012-2014)

Seth Rollins , Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose as The Shield in 2014.

On November 18, 2012, Good made his debut alongside Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns as The Shield in the Survivor Series , when the newly formed Stable intervened on behalf of CM Punk in his WWE Championship match against Ryback and John Cena . This was followed by a six-man TLC match at TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs , in which The Shield won against Ryback and the reigning WWE Tag Team Champions Team Hell No ( Daniel Bryan and Kane ). In the following months, the stable played more six-man tag team matches against John Cena, Ryback and Sheamus at Elimination Chamber and against Sheamus, Randy Orton and Big Show at WrestleMania 29, which could each be won. The Shield claims to have fought against injustice and regularly attacked renowned wrestlers like The Rock .

At Extreme Rules on May 19, 2013, Good secured the WWE United States Championship by defeating Kofi Kingston . In the May 5, 2014 Raw episode, Good had to surrender his title to Sheamus after 351 days of reign after the Irishman prevailed in a 20 Man Battle Royal .

Feud against Rollins and WWE World Champion (2014-2016)

WWE World Champion Ambrose in 2016.

On June 2, 2014, The Shield split after Seth Rollins attacked Good and Roman Reigns from behind and joined the Authority. Good and Rollins subsequently denied a feud.

At TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs on December 13, 2015, Good received the WWE Intercontinental Championship from Kevin Owens . To this he lost the title again on February 15, 2016 on Raw.

On June 20, 2016, Good won the Money-in-the-Bank Ladder Match at Money in the Bank against Chris Jericho , Alberto del Rio , Sami Zayn , Kevin Owens and Cesaro, and thus received a match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship . That same evening he redeemed his contract to get the match for the title and played this against Seth Rollins, who had won the title minutes earlier from Roman Reigns. Good won by pinfall, becoming WWE Champion for the first time in his career.

At Raw on July 18, 2016, Good was sent to SmackDown as the first draft pick when the two main shows Raw and SmackDown were again separated into two separate ranks ("Brand Extension") and has since led the "Blue Show" as WWE World Champion . At Backlash on September 13, 2016, he lost the title to AJ Styles .

Reunification with The Shield and second feud against Rollins (2017-2019)

Intercontinental Champion Ambrose in 2017.

On January 3, 2017 at SmackDown, Good defeated The Miz to win the WWE Intercontinental Championship for the second time. At the Superstar Shake-up on April 10th, he switched to Raw with the title. On June 4, 2017 at Extreme Rules , he lost his title to The Miz, who had also switched to Raw. At SummerSlam on August 20, 2017, Good and his former Shield colleague Seth Rollins won the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship in a match against The Bar (Sheamus and Cesaro). To this they lost the title again on November 6, 2017 on Raw. Good and Seth Rollins won the Raw Tag Team Championship again from Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre in a match on October 22, 2018 . After the win, Good Seth attacked Rollins and the team split up. Seth Rollins lost the Raw Tag Team Championship in the November 5, 2018 edition of Raw to the Authors of Pain (Akam & Rezar) in a 2-on-1 handicap match . At TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs on December 16, 2018, Good won the WWE Intercontinental Championship for the third time by defeating his opponent Seth Rollins. He lost that title a few weeks later in a Triple Threat Match with Seth Rollins and Bobby Lashley in the Raw broadcast on 14 January 2019. Lashley . Good left WWE in April 2019 after Wrestlemania 35. He said he was dissatisfied with his character, Dean Ambrose, and did not like to do mandatory dialogue, so he did not renew his contract.

All Elite Wrestling (since 2019)

At the first event of All Elite Wrestling Double Or Nothing on May 25, 2019, Good made his AEW debut, again under the ring name Jon Moxley, when he intervened in the main event between Chris Jericho and Kenny Omega , which he handled after the match. On the same day, All Elite Wrestling issued a press release. This confirmed that Good had signed a multi-year contract. On February 29, 2020 at Revolution he was able to defeat Chris Jericho and win the AEW World Championship .

New Japan Pro Wrestling (2019)

New Japan Pro Wrestling officially confirmed that Good will make his debut in the finals at Best Of The Super Juniors XXVI in Tokyo on June 5, 2019 . In the final of the show, Good won his first IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship from Juice Robinson as Jon Moxley. On October 13, 2019, the title was declared vacant because Good could not travel due to Typhoon Hagibis , which raged over Tokyo on the weekend before the planned return match at King of Pro-Wrestling. At Wrestle Kingdom 14 on January 4, 2020 Good met in a Texas Death Match at Lance Archer , where he was States for the second time IWGP champion United.

Outside of wrestling

Good made his video game debut in WWE 2K14 and has since appeared as a playable character in all games up to WWE 2K19. He made his film debut in the action film 12 Rounds 3: Lockdown in 2015, in the role of detective John Shaw.

Titles and awards

United States Champion Ambrose in 2013.
  • Full Impact Pro
    • FIP World Heavyweight Championship (1 ×)
  • Heartland Wrestling Association
    • HWA Heavyweight Championship (3 ×)
    • HWA Tag Team Championship (1 × with Jimmy Turner, 1 × with Ric Byrne, 1 × with Cody Hawk, 2 × with King Vu)
  • Insanity Pro Wrestling
    • IPW World Heavyweight Championship (1 ×)
    • IPW Mid-American Championship (1 ×)
  • International Wrestling Association
    • IWA World Tag Team Championship (1 × with Hade Vansen)
  • Mad-Pro Wrestling
    • MPW Heavyweight Championship (1 ×)
    • MPW Tag Team Championship (1 × with Dustin Rayz)
  • Westside Xtreme Wrestling
    • wXw World Tag Team Championship (1 × with Sami Callihan)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics . dean-ambrose.net. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b Official Dean-Ambrose.net Biography . dean-ambrose.net. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
  3. ^ Combat Zone Wrestling - 2010 . Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
  4. ^ Combat Zone Wrestling - 2011 . Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
  5. ↑ WWE / DGUSA News: Dragon Gate USA wrestler signs developmental deal with WWE . In: Pro Wrestling Torch . April 4, 2001. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
  6. ↑ WWE: Ambrose, Reigns and Rollins - The new ones in brief . cagematch.de. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
  7. ↑ James Caldwell: SURVIVOR SERIES NEWS: NXT stars debut in PPV main event angle, plus other news from annual PPV . In: Pro Wrestling Torch . Retrieved November 19, 2012.
  8. ↑ James Caldwell: CALDWELL'S WWE TLC PPV RESULTS 12/16: Complete "virtual-time" coverage of final 2012 PPV - Cena vs. Ziggler main event, Shield makes a statement PPV . In: Pro Wrestling Torch . Retrieved June 22, 2016.
  9. ↑ James Caldwell: CALDWELL'S WWE ELIMINATION CHAMBER PPV RESULTS 2/17: Complete "virtual-time" coverage of Rock-Punk II, Elimination Chamber match, Shield beats Team Cena . In: Pro Wrestling Torch . Retrieved June 22, 2016.
  10. ↑ James Caldwell: CALDWELL'S WWE WRESTLEMANIA 29 PPV RESULTS: Complete "virtual-time" coverage of live PPV from MetLife Stadium - Rock-Cena II, Taker-Punk, Lesnar-Hunter, more . In: Pro Wrestling Torch . Retrieved June 22, 2016.
  11. ↑ Luis Campos: WWE News: The Rock Injured by the Shield After Last Night's Raw . bleacherreport.com. January 22, 2013. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
  12. ^ WWE Extreme Rules 2013 . cagematch.de. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
  13. ↑ Tim Keeney: Sheamus Named New United States Champion After Winning 20-Man Battle Royal . bleacherreport.com. May 5, 2014. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
  14. ↑ Dean Ambrose Cashes in Money in the Bank on Seth Rollins, Wins WWE Championship (video). In: Daily DDT. June 19, 2016. Retrieved June 20, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Jon Moxley signed a multi-year AEW contract - wrestling-point.de | Online magazine & community. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Jon Moxley makes his debut with NJPW. Retrieved May 27, 2019
  17. ↑ NJPW "Best Of The Super Juniors XXVI - Day 15: Finale" Results from Tokyo, Japan from June 5th, 2019. Retrieved June 6, 2019

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Commons : Jon Moxley  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
personal data
SURNAME Moxley, Jon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Good, Jonathan David (real name); Ambrose, Dean (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH 7th December 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Cincinnati, Ohio