Jonah

Jonah in July 2022

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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

**Jermaine Haley** (born 25 August 1988) is an Australian professional wrestler of Samoan descent, known for his work for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) under the ring name **Jonah**. He is best known for his time in WWE, under the name **Bronson Reed**, where he is a former NXT North American Champion.

He has wrestled internationally in Australia, the United States and Japan, where he is also known for his appearances in Pro Wrestling Noah, when he was part of The Mighty Don't Kneel.

## Professional wrestling career

### Early career (2007–2018)

Debuting in 2007 under the ring names Jonah Rock and J-Rock, he spent 11 years working throughout the Australian independent circuit. While wrestling in Australia, Rock earned numerous titles. He is a former three-time Wrestle Rampage Australian National Champion, former one-time Explosive Pro Wrestling Tag Team Champion, former one-time Pacific Pro Wrestling Heavyweight Championship, former one-time Heavyweight Champion, former one-time Professional Wrestling Alliance Heavyweight Champion and a former one-time Melbourne City Wrestling World Heavyweight Champion, one-time Intercommonwealth Champion and one-time Tag Team Champion.

Rock's early work was not limited to solely appearing in Australian promotions. He also appeared in Japan's Pro Wrestling NOAH promotion as part of TMDK, the British promotions Revolution Pro Wrestling and PROGRESS Wrestling, the German promotion Westside Xtreme Wrestling and the American independent promotion Pro Wrestling Guerrilla.

### New Japan Pro-Wrestling (2021–2022)

On November 13, 2021 at Battle in the Valley, Haley reverted to shorten of his ring name to **Jonah** and made his debut in NJPW, confronting Impact Wrestling's Moose before attacking David Finlay and Juice Robinson. After his debut, Jonah would go on an unpinned and unsubmitted streak defeating Lucas Riley in his NJPW in-ring debut at Collision, and then a month later defeating David Finlay at Nemesis. On February 17, 2022 at NJPW's *Rivals* tapings, Haste would made his return to NJPW attacking Finlay and Robinson following their match with Jonah and Bad Dude Tito, whom he aligned in the process where they would later reunite TMDK in the promotion, with Mikey Nicholls and Shane Haste also rejoining them in Spring of 2022. Ever since, the stable would later be involved in a feud with United Empire.

From July 17 to August 16, Jonah took part in the 2022 G1 Climax, fiinishing the tournament with a record of four wins and two losses, failing to advance to the semifinals. Despite his failure to advance, Jonah scored an impressive win by defeating former IWGP World Heayvweight Champion Kazuchika Okada. Following the tournament, Okada, who won the 2022 G1 Climax, nominated Jonah as his next opponent, before Wrestle Kingdom 17 in Tokyo Dome. On October 10 at Declaration of Power, Jonah was defeated by Okada by pinfall, ending Jonah's undefeated streak. Since the fall of 2022, it was reported that Jonah was believed to be heading back to WWE, which was later confirmed on December 19, following his appearance on the episode of WWE's *Monday Night Raw.* During his time, he would stay unpinned and unsubmitted until October 10, 2022; during this period, he suffered only two single defeats in 46 consecutive matches, all of which were tag team matches in which a partner was pinned and by count-out.

## Personal life

Haley is married to his high school sweetheart Paige, who made an appearance on NXT after he won the NXT North American Championship. He is of Samoan descent.

## In wrestling

* **Finishing moves**
	+ *Death Drop Driver* (Full nelson slam dropped into a back suplex)
	+ *Torpedo* (Diving splash)
	+ *Black Forest Bomb* (Sit-out Powerbomb)
* **Signature moves**
	+ *Beach Break* (Back-to-belly piledriver)
	+ Big boot
	+ Brainbuster
	+ Crossface
	+ Crucifix Powerbomb
	+ *Dangan Elbow* (Running elbow smash)
	+ Dropkick
	+ Emerald flowsion
	+ Inverted sitout side powerslam
	+ Michinoku driver
	+ Multiple strike variations
		- Backhand chop
		- Chop smash
		- Elbow
		- *King Kong Lariat* (Lariat)
		- Knuckle punch
		- Running body block
		- Rolling elbow
		- Running shoulder block
		- Short-arm lariat
	+ Multiple headbutt variations
		- Continuous
		- Drop
		- Regular
	+ Multiple suplex variations
		- Holding backdrop
		- Suplex
		- German
	+ Multiple Brainbuster variations
		- Delayed
		- Regular
		- Vertical-drop
	+ Powerbomb
	+ Samoan drop
	+ Senton
	+ Spear
* **Nicknames**
	+ "The Monster"
	+ "The Mighty"
	+ "Top Dog"
* **Entrance themes**
	+ "Not Many" by Scribe
	+ "Ready For The War" (feat. Ben Varney) by [Q]Brick