Cincinnati, Ohio · HWA · CZW · WWE · NJPW · AEW · 2004–present
Jon Moxley walked out of Wembley Stadium on August 30, 2026 still the AEW Continental Champion, having submitted Nigel McGuinness with an ankle lock in the final of the inaugural Continental Challenge Cup at All In: London. 4AEW World Championship reigns — 620 combined days, the most of anyoneThe reign began when he beat Kazuchika Okada in the Continental Classic final at Worlds End on December 27, 2025 — ending Okada’s 648-day run — and he has spent 2026 grinding through challengers: a time-limit draw and then a no-time-limit choke-out of Konosuke Takeshita, Will Ospreay at Dynasty, Kyle O’Reilly, Bandido, and now McGuinness. It is the label that fits the whole career: he does not headline every show anymore, he just never stops holding something.
The resume is a three-company matter. In WWE, as Dean Ambrose, he debuted as a third of The Shield at Survivor Series 2012, won the WWE Championship by taking the Money in the Bank briefcase and cashing it in on Seth Rollins the same night — June 19, 2016 — and finished as the company’s 27th Triple Crown and 16th Grand Slam champion, with three Intercontinental reigns, a 351-day United States reign and two tag titles alongside Rollins. In AEW he has won the World Championship four times — 2020, twice in 2022, and 2024 — for 620 combined days, the most in company history per Wikipedia. In NJPW he won the IWGP United States Championship in his debut match in June 2019 and, at Windy City Riot on April 12, 2024, beat Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship to become the first man ever to hold WWE’s, AEW’s and New Japan’s top titles.
The current chapter is the Death Riders, the faction he built by turning on Bryan Danielson at All Out on September 7, 2024 — a plastic bag over the head of his old Blackpool Combat Club partner — and formalized that November. 1stman to hold the WWE, AEW and IWGP world championships — completed April 12, 2024 in ChicagoAs its head he took the AEW World Championship from Danielson at WrestleDream on October 12, 2024 — the loss that ended Danielson’s full-time career — held it 273 days through a fortress-booking reign, and lost it to Hangman Page in a 5.5-star Texas Deathmatch at All In: Texas on July 12, 2025. The 2026 wrinkle was Will Ospreay: recruited in July, gone by July 29 after refusing Moxley’s order to suffocate Kenny Omega, and unpunished on the way out — by Moxley’s standards, practically a blessing.
Twenty-one documented bouts across WWE, NJPW and AEW — the Shield's first match, the same-night cash-in, all four AEW World wins or their endings, and every 2026 Continental defense. This is a curated ledger, not a career count; no win–loss total is published because none could be verified, and the 2015 Intercontinental win is in prose rather than a row because sources conflicted on its exact date. Filter by match type, tap any column header to sort, and turn spoilers on to reveal results.
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| Res | Date | Promo | Event | Opponent(s) | Stipulation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | 2012-12-16 | WWE | TLC | Team Hell No & Ryback | Six-man TLC — The Shield's first match, with Rollins and Reigns | — |
| W | 2013-05-19 | WWE | Extreme Rules | Kofi Kingston | Singles — a 351-day reign begins | WWE United States Championship |
| W | 2016-06-19 | WWE | Money in the Bank | Seth Rollins | Won the ladder match and cashed in the same night | WWE Championship |
| W | 2019-06-05 | NJPW | Best of the Super Juniors 26 finals night | Juice Robinson | Singles — NJPW debut, six weeks after leaving WWE | IWGP United States Championship |
| W | 2019-11-09 | AEW | Full Gear | Kenny Omega | Unsanctioned Lights Out match | — |
| W | 2020-01-04 | NJPW | Wrestle Kingdom 14 Night 1 | Lance Archer | Texas Deathmatch — regains the vacated title | IWGP United States Championship |
| W | 2020-02-29 | AEW | Revolution | Chris Jericho | Singles — first reign begins | AEW World Championship |
| W | 2022-08-24 | AEW | Dynamite | CM Punk | Title unification — over in about three minutes | AEW World Championship |
| W | 2022-09-21 | AEW | Dynamite: Grand Slam | Bryan Danielson | Tournament final for the vacated title — third reign | AEW World Championship |
| L | 2022-11-19 | AEW | Full Gear | MJF | Singles — MJF wins with the Dynamite Diamond Ring | AEW World Championship |
| W | 2023-09-03 | AEW | All Out | Orange Cassidy | Singles — ends Cassidy's 326-day reign | AEW International Championship |
| W | 2024-04-12 | NJPW | Windy City Riot — Chicago | Tetsuya Naito | Singles — first man to win WWE, AEW and IWGP world titles | IWGP World Heavyweight Championship |
| W | 2024-10-12 | AEW | WrestleDream | Bryan Danielson | Singles — fourth reign; the loss ends Danielson's full-time career | AEW World Championship |
| L | 2025-07-12 | AEW | All In: Texas | Hangman Adam Page | Texas Deathmatch — 5.5 stars (Meltzer); the 273-day reign ends | AEW World Championship |
| W | 2025-12-27 | AEW | Worlds End | Kazuchika Okada | Continental Classic final — ends Okada's 648-day reign | AEW Continental Championship |
| D | 2026-02-14 | AEW | Grand Slam: Australia | Konosuke Takeshita | Time-limit draw — title retained | AEW Continental Championship |
| W | 2026-03-15 | AEW | Revolution | Konosuke Takeshita | No time limit — Takeshita choked out | AEW Continental Championship |
| W | 2026-04-12 | AEW | Dynasty | Will Ospreay | Singles — Ospreay's first singles match back from surgery | AEW Continental Championship |
| W | 2026-05-24 | AEW | Double or Nothing | Kyle O'Reilly | Singles — submission | AEW Continental Championship |
| W | 2026-06-28 | AEW | Forbidden Door — San Jose | Bandido | Singles | AEW Continental Championship |
| W | 2026-08-30 | AEW | All In: London — Wembley | Nigel McGuinness | Continental Challenge Cup final — ankle lock submission | AEW Continental Championship |
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Curated ledger · documented highlights · some bouts are not listed
Not a ratings-chaser by trade, but the violent epics have piled up anyway. Ratings are Dave Meltzer's as published; the Hangman figure was widely reported from the Observer after All In: Texas.
vs Hangman Adam Page
Texas Deathmatch — the AEW World Championship reign ends
vs Hangman Adam Page
Texas Deathmatch — the first war of the pair
vs Tomohiro Ishii
His first NJPW tournament — an instant styles bullseye
vs Jericho Appreciation Society
The inaugural Anarchy in the Arena, with the Blackpool Combat Club side
Six world championship reigns across three companies, plus the mid-card belts that made him WWE's 16th Grand Slam champion. Independent-era reign dates were not verified in this pass and are summarized rather than itemized.
2020 (def. Jericho at Revolution, February 29) · 2022 (unified over CM Punk, August 24, after the interim win at Forbidden Door) · 2022 (tournament final over Danielson at Grand Slam, September 21) · 2024–25 (def. Danielson at WrestleDream, October 12; lost to Hangman Page after 273 days) · 620 combined days, the most in AEW history per Wikipedia
December 27, 2025 – present · won the Continental Classic final over Kazuchika Okada at Worlds End, ending the 648-day reign · defenses against Takeshita (twice), Ospreay, O’Reilly, Bandido and McGuinness · Continental Challenge Cup winner, August 30, 2026
June 19 – September 11, 2016 · won the Money in the Bank ladder match and cashed in on Seth Rollins the same night; lost to AJ Styles at Backlash
April 12 – June 2024 · def. Tetsuya Naito at Windy City Riot in Chicago — the win that completed the WWE-AEW-NJPW triple · lost back to Naito at Forbidden Door on June 30
June 5 – October 13, 2019 (won in his NJPW debut over Juice Robinson; vacated when a typhoon stranded a defense) · January 4, 2020 – August 14, 2021 (regained from Lance Archer in a Texas Deathmatch at Wrestle Kingdom 14, lost back to Archer at Resurgence)
September 3 – 20, 2023 · def. Orange Cassidy at All Out, lost to Rey Fenix at Grand Slam — 17 days, per AEW’s own title history
May 19, 2013 – May 2014 · def. Kofi Kingston at Extreme Rules · 351 days, the longest reign of WWE’s ownership era at the time
December 2015 (from Kevin Owens) · January 2017 (from The Miz) · December 2018 (from Seth Rollins at TLC) — part of the resume that made him WWE’s 27th Triple Crown and 16th Grand Slam champion
Both with Seth Rollins, 2017 and 2018
CZW World Heavyweight Champion and HWA champion in the 2000s Jon Moxley era · individual reign dates not verified in this pass
Three units, each one a different theory of violence.
Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns
Debuted at Survivor Series on November 18, 2012 and won their first match — a six-man TLC — that December. Three main-event careers came out of one unit, an almost unrepeatable hit rate. Ambrose was its unstable conscience, betrayed by Rollins in 2014 and central to every reunion through his 2019 exit.
Jon Moxley, Bryan Danielson, Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, William Regal (manager)
Formed in March 2022 around William Regal — a shoot-style guild built on hard sparring and mutual respect. It produced five-star chaos (both early Anarchy in the Arena matches) and ended the only way a Moxley story ends: with the respect withdrawn.
Jon Moxley (leader), Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Marina Shafir, PAC, Daniel Garcia; Will Ospreay, July 2026 only
Born September 7, 2024 at All Out, when Moxley and Castagnoli turned on Danielson with a plastic bag; renamed from the BCC that November, after his NJPW nickname. The group carried his 273-day World Championship reign and his current Continental one. Ospreay joined July 1, 2026 and handed his patch back on July 29 after refusing to suffocate Kenny Omega; Moxley, uncharacteristically, let him go.
Three names, one temperament: Jon Moxley (2004–2011) → Dean Ambrose (2011–2019) → Jon Moxley again (2019–present), now with the NJPW-coined Death Rider layered on top.
A Cincinnati dropout trained in the HWA system who became one of CZW's defining deathmatch champions — glass, tacks and monologues that already sounded like his later promos.
The Lunatic Fringe: Shield enforcer, 351-day United States Champion, same-night Money in the Bank cash-in, Triple Crown and Grand Slam. He left when his contract expired on April 30, 2019, publicly citing creative frustration.
The name buyback is the whole story: within six weeks of leaving WWE he had debuted in AEW at Double or Nothing and won the IWGP US title in his first NJPW match. Four AEW World Championships followed.
The nickname NJPW gave his finisher, made flesh as a faction leader: paranoid, doctrinaire, violence-as-philosophy. The plastic bag is its sacrament — used on Danielson in 2024, refused by Ospreay in 2026.
Cincinnati deathmatches to a Wembley submission win, twenty-two years on.
First matches in the Cincinnati-area HWA orbit; the CZW deathmatch run that made the name follows in the late 2000s.
Debuts at Survivor Series on November 18 with Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns; the trio wins its first match at TLC on December 16.
June 19: wins the Money in the Bank ladder match, then cashes in on Seth Rollins the same evening.
Leaves WWE when his contract expires April 30; debuts at AEW Double or Nothing on May 25 and wins the IWGP US title in his NJPW debut on June 5.
Beats Chris Jericho at Revolution on February 29 and carries the company through the pandemic year.
Forms the Blackpool Combat Club in March; unifies the title over CM Punk on August 24; wins the vacated title again over Danielson at Grand Slam on September 21; loses to MJF at Full Gear on November 19.
Beats Naito at Windy City Riot on April 12 to complete the WWE-AEW-NJPW triple; turns on Danielson at All Out on September 7; takes the AEW World Championship from him at WrestleDream on October 12.
Loses the Texas Deathmatch to Hangman Page at All In: Texas on July 12 — 5.5 stars — then wins the Continental Classic and the Continental Championship from Okada at Worlds End on December 27.
Retains against Takeshita (draw, then choke-out at Revolution), Ospreay, O'Reilly and Bandido; loses Ospreay from the Death Riders in July; submits Nigel McGuinness to win the inaugural Continental Challenge Cup at All In: London on August 30.
Who he went to war with.
The Lights Out match at Full Gear on November 9, 2019 — unsanctioned, barbed wire, a mission statement for early AEW — went to Moxley; Omega answered by taking the AEW World Championship from him at Winter Is Coming on December 2, 2020. In 2026 Moxley hunted Omega's second reign through proxies until his own recruit refused the kill.
Partner and victim, twice over. Moxley beat him for the vacated title at Grand Slam 2022, co-founded the BCC with him, then turned on him with a plastic bag at All Out 2024 and took his championship — and his full-time career — at WrestleDream on October 12, 2024.
Two Texas Deathmatches, both landmarks: Revolution 2023, five stars, Moxley's win; All In: Texas 2025, five and a half, Page's — the match that ended the 273-day fortress reign and remains the highest-rated AEW match of its year.
Beat Punk in three minutes to unify the titles on August 24, 2022; lost the rematch at All Out on September 4 — three days before Punk's AEW world detonated at the Brawl Out press conference, handing Moxley the vacated title chase he won.
One match, maximum leverage: the Continental Classic final at Worlds End on December 27, 2025, where Moxley's Paradigm Shift ended Okada's 648-day Continental reign and split the Unified Championship in two.
The Wembley final. McGuinness — whose in-ring comeback began as a surprise Casino Gauntlet entrant at All In 2024, his first match since 2011 — made the Continental Challenge Cup final in his home city and tapped to the ankle lock on August 30, 2026.
Short list, verified only.
His autobiography, written without a ghostwriter's varnish — the Cincinnati years, WWE frustrations and sobriety all on the page.
WWE Studios action lead during the Ambrose years.
Post-WWE film appearance, per Wikipedia.
Married to the broadcaster since 2017; she now works AEW's own desk. Their household spans the company's kayfabe wall and everyone seems fine with it.
The records, stated the way the sources actually state them.
Completed April 12, 2024 at Windy City Riot in Chicago, beating Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP World Heavyweight title — on top of the 2016 WWE Championship and four AEW World Championships.
Both the reign count and the combined-days figure are the most in company history, per Wikipedia's championship list.
June 19, 2016: won the ladder match, then beat Seth Rollins for the WWE Championship before the show ended.
As Dean Ambrose — WWE, Intercontinental (3), United States and tag titles all collected by 2017.
May 19, 2013 to May 2014 — at the time the longest reign of the title's WWE era, per Wikipedia.
The IWGP United States Championship in his NJPW debut on June 5, 2019. In AEW he debuted unannounced at Double or Nothing 2019 and was champion within nine months.
Won the belt by ending Okada's 648-day reign in the 2025 Continental Classic final; 246 days into the reign, took the inaugural Challenge Cup at Wembley on August 30, 2026 over Nigel McGuinness.
Wikipedia credits him with the most PPV headline appearances in AEW history — a single-sourced tally, reported as such.
Meltzer's list includes the Ishii G1 2019 match, both early Anarchy in the Arena wars, the Revolution 2023 Texas Deathmatch, a 2023 NJPW trios classic, and the 5.5-star All In: Texas loss to Hangman Page.
Deliberately absent: a career win-loss total (none verified); a day-precision date for the December 2015 Intercontinental win (sources conflict); the circulating 564-day figure for the second IWGP US reign, which does not match the verified endpoints and is therefore not printed.
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The AEW Continental Championship, held since December 27, 2025, when he beat Kazuchika Okada in the Continental Classic final at Worlds End — ending Okada’s 648-day reign. On August 30, 2026 he retained it against Nigel McGuinness by ankle-lock submission in the final of the inaugural Continental Challenge Cup at All In: London, his sixth successful defense of 2026 by this page’s count.
Yes. The WWE Championship came June 19, 2016 as Dean Ambrose; the AEW World Championship first came February 29, 2020; and the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship came April 12, 2024, beating Tetsuya Naito at Windy City Riot in Chicago — making him the first man to hold the top title of all three companies. He is a six-time world champion across them: one WWE, four AEW, one IWGP.
Four — 2020, twice in 2022, and 2024–25, for 620 combined days, the most in company history. One counting caution: the second reign is sometimes dated from the interim title win at Forbidden Door (June 26, 2022) rather than the unification win over CM Punk (August 24, 2022) that Wikipedia’s list uses; the difference is two months of “interim” status, not a separate reign.
The faction Moxley leads — Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Marina Shafir, PAC and Daniel Garcia — formed when he and Castagnoli turned on Bryan Danielson at All Out on September 7, 2024, and renamed from the Blackpool Combat Club that November after his NJPW nickname. Will Ospreay was a member for four weeks of July 2026, leaving after he refused Moxley’s order to suffocate Kenny Omega with a plastic bag at Redemption.
He earned the final of the inaugural Continental Challenge Cup, the 2026 summer tournament attached to Moxley’s Continental Championship, and got the match in his home city of London. McGuinness’s comeback is its own story — his return match, at All In 2024, was his first since retiring in 2011. Moxley submitted him with an ankle lock after a match built on technical wrestling rather than plunder.