Jonathan David Good, better known as Jon Moxley, is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is the current and longest-reigning IWGP United States Champion in his second reign. He became widely known for his tenure with WWE, where he performed under the ring name Dean Ambrose from 2011 to 2019. Good left WWE in April 2019, subsequently reverting to his ring name and debuting for All Elite Wrestling and New Japan Pro-Wrestling. He starred in the lead role of the action film 12 Rounds 3: Lockdown and as the antagonist in the sports action film Cagefighter: Worlds Collide.
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Jonathan David Good, better known as Jon Moxley, is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is the current and longest-reigning IWGP United States Champion in his second reign. He became widely known for his tenure with WWE, where he performed under the ring name Dean Ambrose from 2011 to 2019. Good left WWE in April 2019, subsequently reverting to his ring name and debuting for All Elite Wrestling and New Japan Pro-Wrestling. He starred in the lead role of the action film 12 Rounds 3: Lockdown and as the antagonist in the sports action film Cagefighter: Worlds Collide. Good has also been recognized for his popularity with audiences; he won the Pro Wrestling Illustrated award for Most Popular Wrestler of the Year in 2014 and 2015. He also topped the PWI 500 list of the top 500 male wrestlers in the world in 2020. Good began training to become a professional wrestler at the age of 18 under the teaching of Les Thatcher in the Heartland Wrestling Association promotion. He dropped out of high school to train as a wrestler, and supported himself by working minimum-wage jobs in factories, restaurants, and warehouses. He often used cocaine and speedball, and was arrested multiple times for shoplifting during his teenage years, and has said that he grew up in a Cincinnati neighborhood which was so deprived that shoplifting was a daily occurrence for everybody he knew because they never had any money. Good is the first and only person to have held the WWE and IW GP United States Championship in his debut match, and became the longest reigning champion in the championship’s history in January 2020.
He has 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 championships’ history as well. He made his debut in 2004 under thering name Jon M Oxley. He won the HWA Tag Team Championship twice, but lost the titles on both occasions to Jimmy Pepper and Jimmy Parks. In mid-2007 to early 2010, he continued to work in the tag team division and held the titles once with his trainer Cody Hawk. In September 2006, he teamed up with Jeff Hansen to win the IWA World Tag Team Championships in Puerto Rico based International Wrestling Association. They also lost the title to Chicano and Jeffrey Vu Vu at 69 days, ending their reign at 69. In January 2010, Moxleys teamed with Aaron Williams to win the HWA Heavyweight Championship for the third time, before losing it to Gerome Phillips six months later. He then went on to compete in several regional promotions such as Combat Zone Wrestling, and Dragon Gate USA. 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. The Shield split in June 2014. In 2012, he became the 27th Triple Crown Champion and 16th Grand Slam Champion.
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