page_title: Juice Robinson
section_title: IWGP United States Champion and FinJuice (2017–present)
hierarchical_section_title: Juice Robinson / Professional wrestling career / New Japan Pro-Wrestling / IWGP United States Champion and FinJuice (2017–present)
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 2017年2月11日 大阪府立体育会館 「THE NEW BEGINNING in OSAKA」 ジュース・ロビンソン
context_page_description: Joseph Ryan "Juice" Robinson is an American professional wrestler currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling under the ring name Juice Robinson.
  From 2011 through 2015 he worked for WWE, where he wrestled in their developmental territories Florida Championship Wrestling and later NXT under the ring name CJ Parker. He won the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship twice, with Jason Jordan and Donny Marlow respectively. He made a special appearance as Red Death Mask, the personification of a character from the Tiger Mask W anime, in 2016. In 2019 he joined Ring of Honor as the leader of the Lifeblood stable, but departed the promotion later that year.
  In NJPW, Robinson is a two-time IWGP United States Champion and a one-time IWGP Tag Team Champion with David Finlay. He was also the winner of the 2019 World Tag League.
context_section_description: On January 5, 2017, Robinson scored a major win over NEVER Openweight Champion Hirooki Goto in a ten-man tag team match and afterwards indicated he wanted a shot at his title. Robinson received his title shot on February 5 at The New Beginning in Sapporo, but was defeated by Goto. On April 9 at Sakura Genesis 2017, Robinson picked up the biggest win of his career, pinning former IWGP Heavyweight Champion Tetsuya Naito in an eight-man tag team match and afterwards challenging him to a match for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship. Robinson received his title shot on April 29 at Wrestling Toyonokuni 2017, but was defeated by Naito. In early 2017, Robinson became part of the Taguchi Japan stable, as part of which he unsuccessfully challenged for the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship, first on June 11 at Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-jo Hall and again on June 20 at Kizuna Road 2017. On July 1 at G1 Special in USA, Robinson took part in a tournament to determine the inaugural IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion, but was eliminated in his first round match by Zack Sabre Jr. Later that month, Robinson entered his first G1 Climax tournament. On August 5, Robinson picked up a major win over the winner of the 2016 G1 Climax and reigning IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion Kenny Omega. Robinson went on to finish in the bottom half of his block with a record of four wins and five losses. On September 24 at Destruction in Kobe, Robinson unsuccessfully challenged Omega for the United States Heavyweight Championship.
  At the end of the year, Robinson formed a tag team named "Death Juice" with the debuting Sami Callihan in the 2017 World Tag League. The team finished second in their block with a record of four wins and three losses, failing to advance to the finals. At the G1 Special in San Francisco, Robinson defeated Jay White to win the IWGP United States Championship, his first championship in NJPW. He is also the first American to hold the championship. After an attack by Cody, Robinson was scheduled to face him at Fighting Spirit Unleashed, where he lost his IWGP United States Championship. At Wrestle Kingdom 13, he defeated Cody to reclaim the IWGP United States Championship, becoming the first wrestler to have held the championship more than once. He made his debut in the New Japan Cup in 2019, losing in the first round to Chase Owens. Owens then began challenging Robinson to a title match, while repeatedly assaulting Robinson, leading to a title defense at the New Japan Cup Finale. On March 24, in the Semi-Main Event of the night, Robinson successfully defended the IWGP United States Championship against Owens. On May 27, after weeks of New Japan Pro-Wrestling airing videos of a mystery man targeting Robinson, Jon Moxley was revealed as the culprit. The match was made official for 2019 Best Of The Super Juniors finals at Ryōgoku Sumo Hall on June 5, where Robinson lost the championship to Moxley, ending his reign at 152 days and three successful title defenses. During this time, Robinson would shed his signature dreadlocks for a shorter hairstyle. Robinson would next compete in the 2019 G1 Climax in the B block, which he failed to win, ending with 8 points. In the B block finals, Robinson defeated Moxley to eliminate him from the competition. This would lead to Moxley issuing a challenge for Robinson to face him in a No Disqualification match for the IWGP United States Championship at King of Pro-Wrestling. However, Moxley was unable to defend his championship due to travel issues and was subsequently stripped of the title. Instead, Robinson faced Lance Archer at the event for the vacant title, but lost. After a post match attack from Archer, former tag team partner David Finlay made his return from injury to save Robinson. Finlay and Robinson went on to reform FinJuice and competed in the 2019 World Tag League. On the last night of the tournament, FinJuice defeated Los Ingobernables de Japon (Evil and Sanada) in the finals to win the World Tag League, entitling them to a match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship a
caption: Juice Robinson posing in the ring in 2017
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