67 Facts About Dean Ambrose

Dean Ambrose is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling, where he performs under the ring name Jon Moxley and is the current AEW World Champion in his record-setting third reign.

Dean Ambrose became known for his tenure with WWE, where he performed under the ring name Dean Ambrose from 2011 to 2019.

Dean Ambrose went on to win the WWE Championship once, the WWE Intercontinental Championship three times, and the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship twice, which made him WWE's 27th Triple Crown Champion and 16th Grand Slam Champion.

Dean Ambrose started working in NJPW and won the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship in his NJPW debut match in January 2020, becoming the only person thus far to have held WWE's and IWGP's United States championships.

Dean Ambrose topped the PWI 500 list of the top 500 wrestlers in the world in 2020.

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Dean Ambrose grew up in Cincinnati's East End, which he said was so deprived that shoplifting was a daily occurrence for everybody he knew because they never had any money.

Dean Ambrose attended Amelia High School in nearby Batavia, but dropped out one year after beginning to train as a wrestler.

Dean Ambrose supported himself by working minimum-wage jobs in factories, restaurants, and warehouses, but was constantly getting fired because he would skip work if he was booked to wrestle a match that clashed with his job; however, he continued to do so because he knew he "could always find another minimum-wage job".

Dean Ambrose often used drugs such as cocaine as a teenager, during which time he was arrested multiple times for shoplifting.

Dean Ambrose has said that he would have most likely become a forest firefighter if he did not pursue wrestling.

Dean Ambrose began training to become a professional wrestler at the age of 18 under the teaching of Thatcher and HWA wrestler Cody Hawk.

Dean Ambrose made his debut in 2004 under the ring name Jon Moxley.

Dean Ambrose captured the HWA Heavyweight Championship twice in 2006 by defeating Pepper Parks on both occasions but lost the title to Chad Collyer and Brian Jennings respectively.

Dean Ambrose won the HWA Heavyweight Championship for the third time from Aaron Williams in January 2010, before losing it to Gerome Phillips six months later.

Dean Ambrose held the title for 441 days before relinquishing it in July 2011, due to his signing with WWE.

Dean Ambrose beat Rollins in a non-title match in the first round of a tournament to crown the new FCW Florida Heavyweight Champion.

However, Dean Ambrose was unsuccessful in the tournament final against Leo Kruger.

Dean Ambrose then began a feud with William Regal after he targeted Regal in an unprovoked attack.

In March 2012, Dean Ambrose had a confrontation with veteran hardcore wrestler Mick Foley, claiming that Foley needed to be held accountable for creating a generation of imitators.

On November 18,2012, Dean Ambrose made his WWE main roster debut at the Survivor Series pay-per-view event alongside Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins, as they delivered a triple powerbomb through an announce table to Ryback during the triple threat main event for the WWE Championship, allowing CM Punk to pin John Cena and retain the title.

Two days later, Dean Ambrose made his first pay-per-view defense of the United States Championship at Payback, where he defeated Kane by countout.

Dean Ambrose continued to retain his United States Championship against Rob Van Dam at SummerSlam, Dolph Ziggler at Night of Champions, and Big E Langston at Hell in a Cell.

At the Survivor Series pay-per-view, The Shield teamed with Antonio Cesaro and Jack Swagger to take on Rey Mysterio, The Usos, Cody Rhodes and Goldust in a traditional Survivor Series match; although Dean Ambrose was the first man eliminated, Reigns would ultimately win the match for the team.

At the Royal Rumble on January 26,2014, Dean Ambrose entered his first Royal Rumble match at number 11 and eliminated three participants, before being eliminated by Reigns.

The following night on Raw, Triple H forced Dean Ambrose to defend his United States Championship in a 20-man battle royal, which saw Dean Ambrose surviving until the final two before ultimately being eliminated by Sheamus, thus ending his title reign at 351 days.

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Dean Ambrose promptly began feuding with Rollins, which included the duo interfering in each other's matches.

Dean Ambrose competed the 2014 Money in the Bank ladder match on June 29, which Rollins would win after Kane attacked Dean Ambrose.

The following night on Raw, Dean Ambrose faced Rollins in a Falls Count Anywhere match, which Dean Ambrose lost by knockout after interference from Kane .

The duo faced off in a Hell in a Cell match the following month at the namesake event, where Dean Ambrose lost again when the returning Bray Wyatt interfered and attacked him.

Dean Ambrose then began a feud with Intercontinental Champion Bad News Barrett.

Dean Ambrose failed to win the championship from Barrett at Fastlane and WrestleMania 31.

The following night on Raw, Dean Ambrose competed in the 2015 King of the Ring tournament, but was disqualified from the competition during his quarterfinal match with Sheamus, after interference from Dolph Ziggler.

Dean Ambrose won the match by disqualification after Rollins shoved the referee, but did not win the title, as championships cannot change hands by disqualification.

Dean Ambrose successfully defended the title against Owens and Ziggler multiple times between December and January 2016.

The following night on Raw, Dean Ambrose challenged Lesnar to a No Holds Barred street fight match at WrestleMania 32, which Paul Heyman accepted on Lesnar's behalf.

Dean Ambrose was unsuccessful in defeating Lesnar at WrestleMania 32.

Dean Ambrose defeated Jericho at Payback, and again at Extreme Rules in an Asylum match later that month to end the feud.

We already knew that Dean Ambrose had the ability to be the biggest star of The Shield.

The following night at the 2016 WWE draft, Dean Ambrose was drafted to the SmackDown brand, being the brand's first draft pick and bringing the WWE Championship with him; that same night, he pinned Rollins to retain the championship.

At Battleground, Dean Ambrose retained his title against Reigns and Rollins after pinning Reigns.

The following month at Survivor Series, Dean Ambrose made up part of Team SmackDown alongside Styles, Bray Wyatt, Randy Orton and Shane McMahon in a winning effort over Team Raw.

Dean Ambrose participated in the 2017 Royal Rumble match in which he lasted almost 27 minutes before being eliminated by Brock Lesnar.

Two nights later on SmackDown, Dean Ambrose wrestled in his final match for the brand, in a losing effort to Corbin in a non-title match.

In December 2017, Dean Ambrose suffered a triceps injury, reportedly rendering him out of action for nine months.

However, Dean Ambrose immediately attacked Rollins after the match, turning heel for the first time since 2014.

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Two weeks later on Raw, Dean Ambrose attacked Rollins again, after Rollins lost the tag titles in a handicap match against AOP.

Dean Ambrose would continue to taunt Rollins over the following weeks by stalking him, getting vaccinated against what he perceived to be Rollins's "illness", and ordering his own personal SWAT team to attack Rollins, subsequently proclaiming himself as "The Moral Compass of WWE".

Dean Ambrose entered the 2019 Royal Rumble match at number 14, but was eliminated by Aleister Black.

Dean Ambrose decided to leave WWE after Vince McMahon made him give a promo on Raw where his character would get inoculated from various diseases out of fear of catching a virus from the fans.

Dean Ambrose left WWE citing the cause as mental and emotional exhaustion after six years of explaining to McMahon how his ideas for Good's character were "stupid".

Dean Ambrose's experience was corroborated by both Jericho and various anonymous WWE wrestlers and staff.

Dean Ambrose began a storyline with Bryan Danielson, who offered to team up with him, but Moxley stated that he would only consider teaming up with Danielson if they wrestled each other first.

Dean Ambrose then went undefeated in the tournament with wins over Jeff Cobb, Tomohiro Ishii, Shingo Takagi, and Tetsuya Naito, before suffering his first loss to Toru Yano.

Dean Ambrose then lost his next three matches to Jay White, Hirooki Goto, and Juice Robinson, failing to advance to the tournament finals with a final standing of 10 points.

Dean Ambrose was replaced in the match by Lance Archer, who defeated Robinson to win the championship.

Dean Ambrose was set to wrestle matches for Over the Top Wrestling and Game Changer Wrestling, but the scheduled events were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

CNET writer Daniel Van Boom on Dean Ambrose's popularity compared to main event star Roman Reigns.

Dean Ambrose's gimmick has been compared to Heath Ledger's Joker from the 2008 film The Dark Knight.

Dean Ambrose's post-Shield run as a heroic character gained significant popularity, with him being cheered over fellow heroic character Roman Reigns when they faced off in three world title matches.

Dean Ambrose was voted as the Most Popular Wrestler of the Year by Pro Wrestling Illustrated readers in 2014 and 2015.

Dean Ambrose made an uncredited cameo in the WWE film Countdown.

Good, as Dean Ambrose, appears as a playable character in the video games WWE 2K14, WWE 2K15, WWE 2K16, WWE 2K17, WWE 2K18, and WWE 2K19.

Dean Ambrose has spoken on several podcasts such as Colt Cabana's Art of Wrestling in December 2014, Chris Jericho's Talk is Jericho in May 2019, and AEW's Unrestricted podcast in February 2020.

Dean Ambrose has called himself a minimalist, revealing that he drove to WWE's training center in his rundown car with only a bag of clothes and the money in his pocket upon accepting their contract offer.

Dean Ambrose was roommates with fellow wrestler Big Cass during this time and later moved out when he was promoted to the main roster, leaving behind thousands of dollars worth of merchandise sent to him by WWE and telling Cass to "give it to charity or something".

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Dean Ambrose then moved into his new apartment, which he left unfurnished because he reasoned that he would be traveling most of the time.

Dean Ambrose later claimed that the infection nearly killed him.