How Jon Moxley Became The Best Wrestler In The World
Now going by his 'Mox' moniker thanks to vignettes he'd funded himself whilst patiently awaiting his WWE release, the former Dean Ambrose provided All Elite Wrestling's May 25th Double Or Nothing card with a necessary first major surprise when he rushed the ring to attack Chris Jericho and brawl with Kenny Omega. As main eventers for a company with "Elite" in the f*cking title, Jericho and Omega were officially positioned as the company's first Kings. Moxley had come at both, and couldn't miss.
In the time Moxley had been off screen, his Universal Champion mate had put on a minor classic with AJ Styles, seemingly vindicating WWE's decision to make him "the guy" in the absence of Roman Reigns and in response to the mutiny that would have come from extending Brock Lesnar's reign any further. Shield fans weren't getting the flak jackets back, but stood the chance of seeing their faves atop the entire industry. For a period, the two were about to rule the wrestling world on equal footing, so it appeared.
On June 5th, Moxley turned New Japan Pro Wrestling on its head with a thrilling United States Championship victory fellow WWE escapee-done-good Juice Robinson. An incendiary hybrid brawl concluded when Moxley spiked Robinson's head into the mat with his Death Rider DDT. It was his old Dirty Deeds but elevated to enhance the devastating impact. The implication was crystal clear - this was a sharper, edgier Moxley than Dean Ambrose was ever permitted to be.
On June 7th, Universal Champion Seth Rollins defeated Baron Corbin at WWE's hugely controversial Super ShowDown event in Saudi Arabia. Copy and pasted from the introduction to this very article, the match itself was later copy and pasted for tepid ones they'd have on pay-per-views, or the night after those pay-per-views in towns across America, or the night after that, or the night after that. Barely removed from his 'Phenomenal' first defence, Seth was doing the same old sh*t with the same old sh*ta*ses, but undoubtedly grafted as hard as he could in the process.
But "best" was becoming a bit of a stretch.
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