Jon Moxley's spiked board suplex is the gnarliest wrestling bump you'll see this year
For the last few months, All Elite Wrestling has been cooking -- just not when it came to its top title, the AEW World Championship. Star Jon Moxley has held the belt since October, when he sent Brian Danielson off to semi-retirement and bogged down storylines with repetitive beatdowns via his faction, the Death Riders.
This all culminated at 2025's AEW Revolution. The annual pay-per-view put on a historic run of incredible matches, becoming the first event to earn three-straight five-star ratings from longtime pro wrestling scribe Dave Meltzer. Absolute bangers from Timeless Toni Storm and Mariah May, Kenny Omega and Konesuke Takeshita and Will Ospreay and Kyle Fletcher set the tone for Moxley's main event.
Moxley, paired with longtime veteran Cope (a much dumber variation on his real name, Adam Copeland, better known to WWE fans as Edge) and buoyed by a run-in from Christian Cage, worked through a convoluted slog to retain his title in a bit of a letdown. That put plenty of pressure on Moxley and Cope to redeem themselves in a street fight for the title Wednesday night on AEW Dynamite, the company's flagship weekly show on TBS.
So after weeks of carrying around a spiked board to intimidate opponents, Moxley finally put it to use in the ring. It backfired and, hooooo buddy, BIG WARNING HERE: it's probably not safe for work and a little uncomfortable to watch even if you're sitting on your couch.
Again, WARNING: NSFW!
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Gah. Gaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh. What's worse is those spikes didn't come out of this grown man and father's back easily. I won't embed the images here because there's, well, about as much blood as you'd expect from a 230-pound man getting suplexed onto a pile of nails, but getting him back to normal (relatively) was no easy task.
Despite the spinal trauma, Moxley went on to retain his title in a 22-minute match. While that means more Death Riders in the spotlight, it also proves what we've always known about Moxley. You can't turn his matches off, because you never know what he's going to do next.
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