JD Drake Clarifies Feelings On Josh Briggs 'Using His Move’

Recently, NXT star josh Briggs busted out a new move, tossing Malik Blade into the ropes from the floor and catching them on the rebound with a clothesline. This move however, was similar to one used by AEW’s JD Drake, with Drake pointing this out on social media, seemingly wanting some acknowledgement from Briggs.

However, despite it seeming like Drake was bitter at Briggs for using ‘his move’, Drake himself has admitted that this is not the case, saying the following on Josh Nason’s Punch-Out show:

“All right, listen internet, listen internet, I am not upset that Josh Briggs did a move that he’s seen me do a million times in the same company that we worked for together. It actually made me smile when he did it. That was light-hearted joking. ‘Hey Josh, at least let ‘em know where you got it from.’ Let me give you another instance. The move that Angelo Dawkins does, ‘The Silencer’, that’s mine. I created that one. I will go to my grave saying I created that one. 2002, I hit it in training on a guy I consider to be one of my best friends in my entire life, wrestled under the name Marshall Simmons. You will not know him unless you wrestled on the North Carolina indie scene. But, I hit it in training, that was my finish for 20 years, 20 years. I used to start it in a cradle versus going straight for the ground.

“I don’t get mad when people use my stuff, I don’t. Joe Gacy did the same spot in NXT. If you don’t believe me, go back and look it up. I will try my best to go back and find a clip if I have to. It doesn’t bother me, it doesn’t, it doesn’t. It was a little light-hearted joking, that’s all it was and then stir a pot and p*** off some damn fans, internet wrestling community which is always fun. But hell, it looked good. I can’t be upset about it. He popped somebody up on the rope and clotheslined their head off. That’s what you’re supposed to do, good job. Mine is a forearm shiver. When you pop ‘em against the ropes, I don’t hit a clothesline, I punch them in the face or I hit ‘em with my forearm in the face. I have footage of me hitting this move in 2015 and literally, looked at the guy before the match and said, ‘Hey, if you charge me on the floor and I got my back to the apron, I can pop you up on the ropes and punch you on the way down.’ He said, ‘Yeah, that sounds like a cool spot, let’s do it.’ We did it and it’s been a staple of my move-set since 2015, that’s seven years. Pretty good long time. But no, quit trying to make something out of nothing internet wrestling community. Nobody was mad. Dirt sheets too,” said Drake.

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