Jon Moxley defeats Karl Anderson at the All Elite Wrestling (AEW) match at the HEB Center in Cedar Park, Texas on July 14, 2021. (Photo: Ralph Arvesen)
Jon Moxley is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). In addition, he makes appearances for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and also wrestles sporadically on the independent circuit. He became widely known for his tenure with WWE, where he performed under the ring name Dean Ambrose from 2011 to 2019. Moxley made his professional wrestling debut in 2004, and competed in several regional promotions such as Heartland Wrestling Association (HWA), Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw), Full Impact Pro (FIP), Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), and Dragon Gate USA (DGUSA).
Upon signing with WWE in 2011, he was given the Dean Ambrose name and began competing in the company's developmental territories of FCW and NXT, before joining the main roster in November 2012 as a member of The Shield alongside Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins. Moxley won the WWE United States Championship, his first championship in WWE, in May 2013; his 351-day reign became the longest United States Championship reign since the championship came under WWE's ownership. After widespread success, The Shield split in June 2014. Ambrose went on to win the WWE Championship once, the WWE Intercontinental Championship three times and the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship twice (both times with Rollins), which made him WWE's 27th Triple Crown Champion and 16th Grand Slam Champion. He also won the Money in the Bank ladder match in 2016.
Moxley left WWE in April 2019 and debuting for AEW at their inaugural event Double or Nothing. He also started working in NJPW and won the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship in his debut match, becoming the first and only person to have held the WWE and IWGP United States Heavyweight Championships. He won the latter for a second time in January 2020, and became the longest reigning champion in the championship's history. He also won the AEW World Championship in February 2020, making him the first person to hold championships in AEW and NJPW simultaneously; he would later become the longest-reigning champion in that championship's history as well. Overall, Moxley is a five-time world champion in wrestling.
Characterized by his deranged and unstable wrestling persona, Good has also been recognized for his popularity with audiences; he won the Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) award for Most Popular Wrestler of the Year in 2014 and 2015, and was named Wrestler of the Year by Sports Illustrated in 2019. He also topped the PWI 500 list of the top 500 wrestlers in the world in 2020. Outside of wrestling, he starred in the lead role of the action film 12 Rounds 3: Lockdown (2015) and as the antagonist in the sports action film Cagefighter: Worlds Collide (2020).
Karl Anderson is currently signed to Impact Wrestling, where he is one half of the current Impact World Tag Team Champions with Doc Gallows in their second reign. He also makes appearances for All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). Anderson is known for his work as a tag team specialist, most notably in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a former four-time IWGP Tag Team Champion.
He also holds the record for the longest reign and most defenses with the title, achieved on his first reign with former partner Giant Bernard. Anderson and Bernard also held Pro Wrestling Noah's GHC Tag Team Championship, and were voted tag team of the year by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter in 2011. Anderson is a founding member and the second leader of the Bullet Club stable, and a three-time winner of NJPW's top tag team tournament, the G1/World Tag League, having won it in 2009 with Bernard, in 2012 with Hirooki Goto and in 2013 with Doc Gallows. He also wrestled for Southern California-based independent promotion Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) between 2007 and 2009.
Anderson spent the majority of his career in Japan, before signing with WWE alongside Gallows, A.J. Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura in 2016. In WWE, Anderson had won the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship twice with his tag partner Gallows. On April 15, 2020, Anderson and Gallows were released by WWE and, 3 months later, signed a contract with Impact Wrestling, where they won the Impact Tag Team Titles in November.
All Elite Wrestling was founded by CEO, GM and Head of Creative Tony Khan, AEW is a new professional wrestling league headlined by Cody & Brandi Rhodes, Kenny Omega, The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson), Chris Jericho, Sting, Hangman Page and Jon Moxley. For the first time in many years, AEW is offering an alternative to mainstream wrestling, with a roster of world-class talent that is injecting new spirit, freshness and energy to the industry.
AEW began airing its weekly show on TNT. The show, “AEW DYNAMITE,” is Wednesday’s top wrestling show and attracts the youngest wrestling audience on television. AEW’s multi-platform content also includes “AEW DARK,” a weekly pro-wrestling YouTube series, “Being the Elite,” a weekly behind-the-scenes YouTube series, and “AEW Unrestricted,” a weekly podcast series.
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