Dragon Gate USA Vice President and EVOLVE Wrestling co-owner Gabe Sapolsky has a new article up on Paul Heyman’s “Heyman Hustle” website discussing his early experiences working with Jon Moxley, now wrestling under the name of Dean Ambrose on WWE television. An excerpt from the article is below.
“I’ll never forget the very first moment I worked with the man now known as Dean Ambrose. There was only one other time I experienced anything like it in my 10 year booking career and that was with Paul Heyman’s current top hustler, CM Punk. We were fortunate to have Ambrose, then known as Jon Moxley, as a building block of my Dragon Gate USA and EVOLVE promotions for almost two years. I have to admit, I was in love with him as a talent and fascinated by him as a person. We had an instant creative chemistry. It paid off with Ambrose leading Kamikaze USA of Dragon Gate standouts YAMATO, Akira Tozawa and Shingo as well as being in a violent feud against Jimmy Jacobs. The bloodbath I Quit Match against Jacobs at DGUSA Bushido: Code Of The Warrior 2010 is an ageless classic.”
The article is available in full at this link.