10 Wrestlers That Bled The Hard Way

2. Juice Robinson (NJPW Best Of The Super Juniors Final 2019)

In a match that simply had to go well for Jon Moxley in order to support the tremendous hype he'd built around himself, a United States Title battle with Juice Robinson delivered enough vicious violence to get his updated gimmick over ahead of a G1 Climax run that reframed the look of his career forever.

A bruising war that could have been classified as breathtaking had it not been clearly refilling Moxley's lungs with the air he couldn't get enough of during his AEW Double Or Nothing debut, 'Mox' and former FCW/NXT contemporary Robinson went to war in supercharged version of an old Bruiser Brody brawl.

Blood was a smart choice - deemed necessary by both the men in the match and the audience most likely to salivate over its quality, the claret didn't exactly run wild and free, but was extracted for real rather. Moxley punched, kicked, clawed and literally chewed at the flesh of his foe, expressing his literal hunger for the action he'd craved for years within a system he became desperate to escape from.

The cut - unlike his break from Vince McMahon's empire - wasn't all that clean, but it was time for the former Dean Ambrose dealt in genuinely dirty deeds anyway.

 
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