WWE/NJPW/AEW: Jon Moxley’s 5 best career matches

2. vs. Triple H – Roadblock (March 2016)

When this match first aired, Jon Moxley was hotter than he ever was as Dean Ambrose. The crowd was itching for him to finally win his first WWE Championship, especially after struggling to do so the previous year so many times in high octane matches with Seth Rollins.

This match with a record 14-time World Heavyweight Champion was, at the time, Moxley biggest test under the company yet.

As much as so many fans wanted Moxley to pull off an upset by finally winning the big one and going as far as to walk into WrestleMania 33’s main event the following month with the title, there was a bigger story to be told here.

Still fresh in the main event picture and still viewed by most audiences as a quote-on-quote “hardcore wrestler,” Moxley needed to prove that he did not need weapons to hold his own against not only the best of the current roster, but against a future Hall of Famer in Triple H.

Even in defeat, Mox passed the test with flying colors. The crowd (for an event that was, essentially, a televised house show) was on their feet and as electric for the match as they would be for a Big 5 PPV. Fans were at their loudest when Moxley caught a nearfall from a Dirty Deeds.

Moxley wrestled a hot, technical match-up against a self-proclaimed student of the game. He had the momentum to make us all believe in a win, but also had enough love from fans behind him to crush our souls to see him lose another big one.