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Jon Moxley: Former WWE Star captures the IWGP U.S Championship on NJPW debut

Archie Blade
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Jon Moxley: Former WWE Star captures the IWGP U.S Championship on NJPW debut

Jon Moxley: Former WWE Star captures the IWGP U.S Championship on NJPW debut. He beat Juice Robinson at the finals of the Best of the Super Juniors Tournament.

Jon Moxley just refuses to stay away from wrestling headlines these days. The former WWE Superstar has made the news again after he beat Juice Robinson at the finals of the Best of the Super Juniors Tournament to capture the IWGP U.S Championship; on his NJPW debut. He also debuted a new finisher, called the Death Rider. Its an underhook DDT like the Dirty Deeds. However, this one has more built and elevation unlike the sudden Dirty Deeds.

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This is Moxley’s second appearance at a wrestling arena since leaving the WWE back in April this year. Last month he made a surprise appearance at AEW’s Double or Nothing after the main event to lay waste to Jericho and Omega. Tony Khan, AEW President, revealed that Moxley was allowed to take national and international dates until their weekly program launches in the fall.

Shortly after,

NJPW announced that Ambrose was set to make his debut for them at Ryōgoku Kokugikan to face Juice Robinson for his United States Championship at the Best of the Super Juniors Tournament Finals.

Neither of the two dominated the match with both wrestlers getting enough time to shine. However, Moxley ended up victorious and ensured that his life after WWE started with a win.

Moxley was known as Dean Ambrose in the WWE; where he made his name and fame. He was part of ‘The Shield’. The most prolific faction the WWE has had in the last decade. Dean would go on to win the WWE Championship and also become a Grand Slam Champion in the company. However, creative differences over the portrayal of his character saw him walk out.

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Archie Blade

Archie Blade

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Archie is a WWE and UFC Editor/Author at the SportsRush. Like most combat sports enthusiasts, his passion for watching people fight began with WWE when he witnessed a young Brock Lesnar massacre Hulk Hogan back in 2002. This very passion soon branched out to boxing and mixed martial arts. Over the years he fell in love with the theatrics that preceded the bell and the poetic carnage that followed after. Each bruise a story to tell, each wound a song of struggle, his greatest desire is to be there to witness it all. His favorite wrestler is Shawn Michaels and he believes that GSP is the greatest to ever step foot inside the octagon. Apart from wrestling, he is also fond of poetry and music.

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