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American professional wrestler

Jamar Shipman He was also a record setting two time and longest reigning ROH World Television Champion, holding the title for 567 days, and the only man to hold the World Television Championship and the World Championship at the same time, and a former ROH World Tag Team Champion with Jonathan Gresham. Lethal is recognized by ROH as a Grand Slam Champion, and is the only man to have held the ROH World, World Tag Team, World Television and Pure championships. In 2020, he was selected by Ring of Honor as their Wrestler of the Decade (2010s). He is also known for his work TNA, where he was a six time TNA X Division Champion and a former TNA World Tag Team Champion with Consequences Creed as The Lethal Consequences. Between ROH and TNA, Lethal has won 13 total championships.

Jamar Shipman was born on April 29, 1985, in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He is the middle child of Ronald and Shirley Shipman, with two brothers and two sisters. In July 2001, aged 16, Shipman won a contest held by Jersey All Pro Wrestling (JAPW) which entitled the winner to a lifetime of free training in the JAPW professional wrestling school.

Shipman made his wrestling debut under the ring name Jay Lethal on December 7, 2001, at JAPW's "Class Of 2001 Student Show", in a match where he defeated Dixie. He won his first Championship, the JAPW Television Championship, on September 13, 2002, in Bayonne, New Jersey, at Never Forget, defeating the champion, Ghost Shadow, and Rain in a three way match. His reign lasted an unprecedented and unreplicated eleven months, with Lethal finally losing to Crazy Ivan on August 22, 2003, in Rahway, New Jersey at Counter Strike. Lethal also held the JAPW Light Heavyweight Championship, defeating the champion, Azrieal, Insane Dragon and Jack Evans on February 28, 2004, at Revolution, in a four way match. Azrieal tried to regain the title for eight months, but repeatedly lost to Lethal. In March 2005, Maff left JAPW and retired from wrestling following an argument with Homicide, thus vacating the JAPW Heavyweight Championship. Lethal was awarded the Heavyweight Championship on March 26 at Caged Fury 2 held in the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but he refused to accept it, claiming that he wanted to "earn" the title. JAPW mainstay Homicide then challenged Lethal to an impromptu match for the vacant title, which Homicide won. who won the bout after giving Lethal a Rhino Driver through a table from the top rope. Lethal tried twice to regain his title, first on February 18, 2006, in a three way match which also included Teddy Hart,

At the beginning of 2009 Lethal proclaimed that it was his destiny to win back the JAPW Heavyweight title, held by Kenny Omega. On February 28, 2009, in Jersey City, at Jersey City Rumble Lethal won a 21 person Jersey City Rumble to earn the right to challenge for Omega's title that same night. In the end, Lethal pinned Omega with the flipping release dragon suplex after Omega's associate Dan Maff turned on him, to win the JAPW Heavyweight Championship for the second time. On May 22, 2004, at Generation Next he faced Alex Shelley in a singles match. Hydro won a four corner survival match at World Title Classic on June 12, which entitled him to enter the Pure Wrestling tournament later that year. Hydro then challenged Punk to an impromptu match, which Punk also won. Acting on Joe's advice, Hydro left Special K and went back to calling himself Jay Lethal. He was eliminated from the tournament after Doug Williams pinned him in a four way match using the Chaos Theory. Lethal and Shelley faced one another for a third time on August 28 at Scramble Cage Melee, with Shelley cheating to gain a third victory. In the course of the match, Low Ki's manager Julius Smokes harassed Lethal's parents (once again watching the match from the audience) and Low Ki spat at Lethal's mother. This led to Nana recruiting several masked mercenaries (dubbed the "Weapons of Masked Destruction") in an attempt to end Lethal's career. Lethal defeated both WMDs at All Star Extravaganza 2 on December 4 Pure Champion and Embassy member R. J. Brewer, who had control over when to wrestle his title matches, chose to have the title defense immediately after Lethal's match, defeating the exhausted Lethal to retain his title following a trifecta of Lung Blowers. Despite the injury, Lethal went on to defeat Walters later that night to win the Pure Championship,

On March 12 at Back to Basics, Lethal and Samoa Joe teamed once again to face CM Punk and Spanky, with Lethal pinning Spanky with a bridging dragon suplex. This led to a tag match that same night pitting Lethal and Joe against Low Ki and fellow Rottweiler Homicide. The match ended when Homicide gave Lethal Da Cop Killa while Low Ki simultaneously delivered a Ghetto Stomp, driving Lethal's neck into the ground. He returned to the ring on June 18 at Death Before Dishonor III, where he faced Low Ki in a grudge match which was declared a no contest after both men were disqualified. Punk retained his title with a muscle buster/rear naked choke combination, often used by Samoa Joe, who had come ringside to cheer Lethal on. On July 23 at The Homecoming he joined forces with Samoa Joe and James Gibson to face The Rottweilers (Homicide, Low Ki and Ricky Reyes) but again suffered a defeat, with Homicide using the chain this time on Gibson. Lethal challenged Low Ki once more on August 12 at Redemption as part of his ongoing rivalry with The Rottweilers. The match ended in a draw after the enemies fought outside the ring and were counted out. After the match, Homicide came to the ring to attack Lethal, but was stopped by his opponent for the night, Matt Hardy. On August 13 at Punk: The Final Chapter, Lethal and Joe defeated Low Ki and Homicide by disqualification after Homicide hit an elbow drop to the referee. Afterwards the four men brawled all over the arena, with Low Ki Ghetto Stomping Lethal off the bleachers and ending with him giving Lethal the Ki Krusher in the middle of the ring. He went on to defeat Low Ki later that night, however, in a standard singles match to end their feud.

At Bound for Glory IV Lethal won the Steel Asylum match to become the number 1 contender to the X Division title. On the October 23 live episode of Impact! Sheik Abdul Bashir defeated Lethal to retain the championship. The following week, Lethal along with A. J. Styles, Samoa Joe, Consequences Creed, Petey Williams, Eric Young, O. D. B. and The Motor City Machineguns formed a faction of younger wrestlers known as the TNA Frontline to oppose The Main Event Mafia. On the January 8, 2009 episode of Impact!, Lethal cashed in his briefcase, formed a team with Consequences Creed and defeated then champions Beer Money, Inc. (Robert Roode and James Storm) after Roode's singles match with Matt Morgan to become the new TNA World Tag Team Champions. However, they quickly lost the titles back to Beer Money, Inc. at the Genesis pay per view on January 11. On January 15, Lethal and Creed defeated Abyss and Matt Morgan to earn another shot at the Tag Team Championship. Upon becoming the number one contenders, Lethal and Creed formed a long term tag team known as Lethal Consequences (a combination of their ring names) and then started a feud with The Motor City Machineguns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) after dissention between the Guns and the Frontline. Beer Money then went on to retain the title at Against All Odds due to Creed's shoulder injury. After their title match, Lethal Consequences continued their feud with the Motor City Machineguns, with both teams winning one match a piece over the next two weeks. On April 24, 2009, it was announced on TNAWrestling. com that Lethal had signed a new multi year deal with the company. On the November 5, 2009, episode of Impact! Jay Lethal announced an open invitational challenge. Due to the announcement of Hulk Hogan joining TNA, Lethal challenged wrestling legends to take him on. The following week, Jim Neidhart answered the challenge and defeated Lethal. The series continued on the December 17 episode of Impact!, when Tatanka answered the challenge and defeated Lethal in a singles match. After months of inactivity, Lethal's alliance with Consequences Creed came officially to an end on March 29, 2010, when Creed was released from his contract.

After spending most of early 2010 off TV, Lethal returned on the March 29 episode of Impact! by approaching Hulk Hogan, reminiscing about their days as "The Mega Powers" (Hogan's old team with Randy Savage). Playing along with Lethal's antics, Hogan placed him in charge of the show for his one week absence due to a business trip. After raising the ire of Hogan's business partner Eric Bischoff with his comedic booking ideas, Bischoff placed Lethal in a two on one handicap match against Beer Money, Inc.; Lethal, however, managed to win the match after surprising Robert Roode with a roll up. On the May 3 episode of Impact!, Hogan gave Lethal Ric Flair's Hall of Fame ring that Abyss had won from him the previous week. When Lethal, now imitating Flair, was confronted by Flair himself, he claimed that he meant no disrespect and out of respect towards Flair, returned the ring to him. This, however, wasn't enough for Flair, who attacked Lethal along with A. J. Styles, Desmond Wolfe and Beer Money, Inc., before he was saved by Abyss, Team 3D and the TNA World Heavyweight Champion Rob Van Dam. At Sacrifice, Lethal came out during the TNA World Heavyweight Championship match between champion Rob Van Dam and challenger A. J. Styles, and locked Ric Flair in a Figure four leglock in order to prevent him from interfering in the match. On the May 20 episode of Impact!, Lethal competed in his first match after dropping the Black Machismo gimmick, and teamed up with Rob Van Dam to defeat Beer Money, Inc. in a tag team match. After the match, Lethal brawled with Flair. At Slammiversary VIII, Lethal defeated Flair's protégé A. J. Styles in a singles match. After defeating Desmond Wolfe, another one of Flair's allies, on the June 17 episode of Impact!, Hogan granted him a match with Flair at Victory Road. On July 11 at Victory Road, Lethal defeated Flair with his own move, the figure four leglock. On the August 5 episode of Impact!, Lethal faced Flair in a rematch, this time contested under Street Fight rules, with A. J. Styles, Kazarian, Robert Roode and James Storm of Flair's Fortune stable banned from ringside. Flair managed to win the match, after an interference from X Division Champion Douglas Williams, who would officially join Fortune the following week. On September 6, at the tapings of the September 16 episode of Impact!, Lethal defeated Williams to win the X Division Championship for the fourth time. On September 23, at a live event in New York City, Lethal lost the X Division Championship to Amazing Red. Lethal regained the title two days later at a live event in Rahway, New Jersey. At Bound for Glory, Lethal successfully defended the X Division Championship against Douglas Williams. After his title match at Bound for Glory, Lethal was attacked by Robbie E, who claimed he was a disgrace to New Jersey and vowed to bring some class to the X Division Championship himself. On the October 28 episode of Impact!, Robbie E defeated Lethal in a non–title Street Fight, after interference from his manager Cookie, to earn the right to challenge for the X Division Championship. At Turning Point, Lethal lost the X Division Championship to Robbie E, after another interference from Cookie. After suffering another loss to Robbie and Cookie on the following episode of Impact! in a mixed tag team match, where he teamed with Taylor Wilde, Lethal came to the conclusion that he needed to find someone who could negate Cookie the next time he went for the X Division Championship. At Final Resolution, Lethal faced Robbie E in a match for the X Division Championship, during which Cookie was suspended above the ring in a shark cage. Robbie retained the title via disqualification, when Lethal was caught using Cookie's hairspray on him. On December 7 at the tapings of the December 16 episode of Impact!, Lethal defeated Robbie E, after Christy Hemme came out to negate Cookie, to win the X Division Championship for the sixth time, and after the match celebrated with Hemme which led to a kiss between the two; Lethal now shared the record for most reigns as the X Division Champion. On January 9, 2011 at Genesis, Lethal lost the X Division Championship to Fortune member Kazarian. On April 21, 2011, it was reported that Lethal had parted ways with TNA. His final match for the promotion was an eight man Xscape match, which took place on April 17 at Lockdown. His last televised match was aired on the April 19 episode of Xplosion, in a three way match with Sangriento and Chris Sabin. Lethal's release from TNA was later used to ignite a storyline feud between the X Division and Eric Bischoff, as well as add fuel to the ongoing feud between the now face Fortune and Bischoff's Immortal stable, with both Robert Roode and Brian Kendrick naming him on the May 5 episode of Impact!.

On May 2, 2011, ROH announced that Lethal would be making his return to the promotion on June 26 at the Best in the World 2011 internet pay per view. In his ROH return match Lethal, as a face defeated Mike Bennett. On August 8, ROH announced that Lethal had signed a contract with the promotion. On August 13, at the first Ring of Honor Wrestling tapings under the Sinclair Broadcast Group banner, Lethal defeated El Generico to win the ROH World Television Championship. On September 17 at Death Before Dishonor IX, Lethal teamed up with fellow TNA alum Homicide in a tag team match, where they were defeated by Embassy's Rhino and Tommaso Ciampa. On December 3, Lethal defeated nineteen other men in the Honor Rumble to earn a shot at the ROH World Championship in 2012. On December 23 at Final Battle 2011, Lethal successfully defended the ROH World Television Championship in a three way match against El Generico and Mike Bennett. At the January 7, 2012, tapings of Ring of Honor Wrestling, Lethal successfully defended the title against Bennett in a No Time Limit match. On January 20, Lethal unsuccessfully challenged Davey Richards for the ROH World Championship. On March 4 at the 10th Anniversary Show, Lethal's ROH World Television Championship match with Tommaso Ciampa ended in a fifteen minute time limit draw. On March 31 at Showdown in the Sun, Lethal lost the World Television Championship to Roderick Strong, following outside interference from Ciampa. At the following pay per view, Border Wars on May 12, Lethal defeated Ciampa in a singles match to end his undefeated streak. On June 24 at Best in the World 2012: Hostage Crisis, Lethal failed in his attempt to regain the World Television Championship from Strong in a three way elimination match, also involving Ciampa. The feud between Lethal and Ciampa culminated on August 11 at Boiling Point, where Lethal defeated Ciampa in a two out of three falls match. On September 22, Lethal won the 2012 Survival of the Fittest tournament to earn another shot at the ROH World Championship. Lethal received his title shot on October 6 in Rahway, New Jersey, but the match with Kevin Steen ended in a no contest. Following the match, ROH shot an angle, where Steen spat at Lethal's parents at ringside, which led to Lethal snapping and attacking several ROH officials, including Jim Cornette. Having found his "killer instinct", Lethal appeared at the following internet pay per view, Glory By Honor XI: The Unbreakable Hope on October 13, earning a submission win over Davey Richards. At the January 5, 2013, tapings of Ring of Honor Wrestling, Lethal managed to coax Steen into accepting a title match with him, which led to McGuinness agreed to change his mind and make the match official. Lethal received his title shot on March 2 at the 11th Anniversary Show, but was defeated by Steen. On April 5 at Supercard of Honor VII, Lethal failed to earn another shot at the ROH World Championship, when he was defeated by Michael Elgin in a number one contender's match. After the ROH World Championship was vacated, Lethal entered a tournament to determine the new champion, defeating Sonjay Dutt in his first round match on July 27. On August 3, Lethal was eliminated from the tournament in the second round by Adam Cole.

On April 4, 2014, at Supercard of Honor VIII, Lethal turned heel for the first time in nearly a decade by accepting help from Truth Martini, to defeat Tommaso Ciampa to regain the World Television Championship, becoming the first two time holder of the title. After the match, Lethal declared that there was a house in ROH, "The House of Truth", marking the return of the stable with Lethal as the figurehead. Over the next year, Lethal would become recognized as the longest reigning World Television Champion in ROH history, with successful championship defenses against the likes of Matt Taven, Caprice Coleman, on the last PPV of the year; Final Battle 2014 and again at the ROH 13th Anniversary Show against Alberto el Patrón. In March 2015, Lethal became the most successful World Television Champion of all time, with the most successful defenses as champion, more than doubling the previous record held by Matt Taven. In April 2015, Lethal began professing himself as "the" ROH Champion, claiming his World Television championship was now the true top title that mattered in ROH (over the World Championship). In May 2015, Lethal debuted a new World Television Championship belt, which omitted the word "Television" and now read simply "ROH Champion". As a result, matchmaker Nigel McGuinness announced that at Best in the World 2015, Lethal would face Jay Briscoe in a winner takes all "Battle of the Belts" match with both ROH's World Championship and World Television Championships on the line. Lethal defeated Briscoe after hitting Briscoe with his own Jay Driller and then a Lethal Injection to retain his title and win the World Championship, thus making him a double champion in the process, as well as becoming the first African American to win the championship. The win also made him Ring of Honor's third Triple Crown Champion, as he is also a former ROH Pure Champion. On August 22, Lethal teamed with the "King of Strong Style" Shinsuke Nakamura to defeat reDRagon at Ring of Honor's Field of Honor event. On October 23 at Glory By Honor XIV, Lethal lost the Television Championship to Roderick Strong, ending his reign at 567 days, and 36 successful championship defenses. As part 2015's "supershow" series with Preston City Wrestling, Lethal retained the ROH World Championship in three individual defenses over Noam Dar, Doug Williams and Joey Hayes. Through ROH's working relationship with New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), Lethal made his debut for the Japanese promotion on January 4, 2016, at Wrestle Kingdom 10 in Tokyo Dome, where he successfully defended the ROH World Championship against Michael Elgin. Lethal returned to the UK again to defend the ROH World Championship, this time defeating Mark Haskins at a sold out show in York Hall, London for Revolution Pro Wrestling. On February 20, Lethal main evented the second night of the ROH and NJPW co produced Honor Rising: Japan 2016 event in Tokyo, Japan, successfully defending the ROH World Championship against Tomoaki Honma. Afterwards, Lethal and Truth Martini joined Tetsuya Naito's Los Ingobernables de Japón stable. Lethal and Naito knew each other from working together in TNA. On March 26 of ROH tapings, Lethal successfully defended his title against Hirooki Goto. Afterwards, a rare double turn took place when Donovan Dijak came out with Prince Nana and attacked Truth Martini. Lethal would then begin a feud with a returning Colt Cabana, who had set his sights on the ROH World Championship. At Global Wars, Lethal and Cabana fought to a no contest after The Bullet Club interfered and attacked everyone in the ringside area, including Lethal. During the attack, Lethal was zip tied to the ring ropes and repeatedly superkicked by new Bullet Club member Adam Cole. At Best in the World '16 on July 24, Lethal successfully defended his title after defeating Jay Briscoe. The two shook hands afterwards. The following day, Lethal was again attacked by Cole and Bullet Club, who shaved him bald. The following month, Lethal returned to NJPW, successfully defending the ROH World Championship against Satoshi Kojima on August 14. On August 19 at Death Before Dishonor XIV, Lethal lost the ROH World Championship to Adam Cole, ending his reign at 427 days. At Field of Honor Lethal was involved in a Four corner survival match for the ROH World Championship which was won by Adam Cole. On August 20, 2016 Lethal was betrayed by Los Ingobernables de Japón after they walked out on Jay in a six man tag team match. At All Star Extravaganza VIII Lethal defeated Tetsuya Naito. At Final Battle Lethal was defeated by Cody after he hit a low blow, then proceed to attack Lethal. Lethal defeated Jushin Thunder Liger in the first round of the Decade of Excellence. He was defeated by Jay Briscoe in the second round. On April 1 at Supercard of Honor XI Lethal defeated Cody in a Texas Bullrope match. On ROH TV taping Lethal defeated Silas Young, Jay White & Hangman Page in a four way match to become #1 contender to the ROH World Championship. On May 12 at War of the Worlds, Lethal unsuccessfully challenged Christopher Daniels for the ROH World Championship in a three way match, also involving Cody. On the June 30, 2018 tapings of Ring of Honor Wrestling, Lethal defeated Dalton Castle for his second ROH World Championship, while also marking the first time the ROH World Championship changed hands at a non pay per view event, a television taping and aired on tape delay. He would drop the title on April 6, 2019, to Matt Taven in a triple threat ladder match (with Marty Scurll also involved) at G1 Supercard, ending his second reign at 280 days. On December 13, 2019, at Final Battle Lethal, along with Jonathan Gresham, won the ROH World Tag Team Championship for the first time, after they defeated The Briscoe Brothers. On the November 28, 2020 episode of Ring of Honor Wrestling, Lethal appeared with newly formed faction The Foundation (Jonathan Gresham, Rhett Titus & Tracy Williams). Lethal would stay with ROH until October 2021 when the promotion announced they would enter into a hiatus until 2022. Shortly after the announcement, Lethal joined All Elite Wrestling and was pulled from the Final Battle card. However, after ROH World Champion Bandido was diagnosed with COVID 19, it was announced that Lethal would be replacing Bandido in his Final Battle match against Jonathan Gresham. At the event, Lethal was defeated by Gresham. On April 1, 2022, Lethal returned to Ring of Honor, now owned by Tony Khan, and wrestled at Supercard of Honor XV. At the event, Lethal turned heel after using a low blow to defeat Lee Moriarty and then attacked crutch donning Matt Sydal. He also would reunite with Sonjay Dutt, who restrained him as he was attacking Sydal,

Lethal made his first independent appearance since his release from TNA on May 28, working for Lucha Libre USA. As a tribute to Randy Savage, who had died just a week earlier, Lethal worked in his Black Machismo gimmick in a tag team match, where he and Magno were defeated by The Right (Jon Rekon and Petey Williams). In Lethal's second appearance for Lucha Libre USA on June 18, he defeated Medianoche in a singles match. On June 19 it was announced that Lethal would be taking part in the pilot tapings of All Wheels Wrestling on June 29, working under the ring name J. R. Lethal. At the pilot tapings, his ring name was changed to RPM. At the tapings he first defeated Dubai, the former Sheik Abdul Bashir, in a five minute Iron Man match, but was then defeated by Schwagg Dutt, the former Sonjay Dutt, in an Ultimate X match, which also included Dubai and Aaron Aguilera. On February 25, 2012, Lethal defeated Damien Darling at a Family Wrestling Entertainment (FWE) event to win the FWE Tri Borough Championship. On July 28, Lethal lost the title to Tommy Dreamer in a four way elimination match, which also included Brian Kendrick and Carlito. On March 22, 2013, Lethal made his debut for Southern California based Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), losing to Eddie Edwards in a singles match. The following day, Lethal defeated Willie Mack at another PWG event. On May 25, Lethal took part in English promotion Southside Wrestling Entertainment's (SWE) Speed King 2013 tournament, eventually defeating Dean Allmark, El Ligero, Martin Kirby, Marty Scurll and MK McKinnan in a six way final to win the tournament and become the new SWE Speed King Champion. On July 30, 2016, Lethal defended the ROH World Championship against Denis Rivera for CWA in Puerto Rico where the CWA Heavyweight Championship was also on the line. Lethal was victorious, retaining his ROH World Championship and gaining the CWA title in the process. Lethal made his What Culture Pro Wrestling (WCPW) debut on the second episode of WCPW Loaded in a match against El Ligero with the stipulation that if Ligero won he would get a shot at Lethal's ROH Championship. During the match, the two men (both being babyfaces) showed tremendous respect to each other; however, the match ended in a no contest when Martin Kirby interfered and attacked both men. After the match, Lethal stated that in order to defend his title, he would have to get permission from the Ring of Honor officials who were not present, but he guaranteed Ligero a shot at the title in the future. Later Lethal was against Noam Dar for his ROH World Championship on July 25, 2016 on the episode of WCPW: Built To Destroy, where Lethal won. Lethal was set to face El Ligero at WCPW Refuse To Lose on October 6, 2016. The match was originally scheduled to be for the ROH World Championship, but will instead be for the WCPW Internet Championship, due to Lethal no longer being ROH World Champion. In August, it was announced that Lethal would not be able to compete for the promotion due to contractual reasons. On WCPW Loaded episode 10 it was announced that Alberto El Patron would be Lethal's replacement. Lethal returned to the promotion on January 29, 2017, where he took part of Triple Threat match for the ROH World Championship, which he lost. The match also included El Ligero; the winner was Adam Cole. On June 16 at the WCPW Build to Destroy 2017, Lethal would then defeat former ROH World Champion Davey Richards. After the match, Lethal was attacked by Drake, but he was able to fend off the attack. On August 17, 2019; Lethal made his debut for High Impact Wrestling Canada at Battle Arts VI in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He unsuccessfully challenged Bobby Sharp for the HIW Wildside Provincial Championship. On July 31, 2022, at Ric Flair's Last Match event, Lethal teamed with Jeff Jarrett losing to Ric Flair and Andrade El Idolo.

On November 13, 2021, Lethal made his debut for All Elite Wrestling (AEW) at the Full Gear pay per view, challenging Sammy Guevara for the AEW TNT Championship on the November 17 episode of Dynamite, which Guevara accepted. Lethal would go on to lose the match, but got his arms raised by the Inner Circle post match as a sign of respect. Lethal would then enter a feud with Team Taz in January 2022, which eventually led him to challenge Ricky Starks for the FTW Championship on the February 4, 2022 episode of Rampage; he eventually lost the match against Starks. On April 6, 2022, Lethal appeared on screen with Sonjay Dutt, who was now his manager, and the two promised a present to Samoa Joe. The next week, Satnam Singh attacked Joe and aligned himself with Lethal and Dutt. On Aug. 5, 2022, at Battle of the Belts III, Lethal failed to win the AEW TNT Championship from Wardlow. On November 2, Jarrett attacked Darby Allin and aligned himself with Lethal, Dutt and Singh. On November 19 at Full Gear, Lethal and Jarrett was defeated by Allin and Sting. On January 4, 2023 episode of Dynamite, Lethal and Jarrett challenged The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens and Max Caster) for the AEW World Tag Team Championship, but failed to win the titles. Two days later at the Battle of the Belts V event, Lethal and Jarrett had a rematch with The Acclaimed in a No Holds Barred tag team match, which they were unsuccessful. On the January 18 episode of Dynamite, Lethal was unsuccessful at winning the AEW All Atlantic Championship against Orange Cassidy. On January 25 episode of Dynamite, Lethal was defeated Mark Briscoe in a tribute match to Jay Briscoe who died in a car accident one week prior on January 17. After the match, Lethal and Briscoe hugged in the ring. On February 22 episode of Dynamite, Lethal and Jarrett won the Revolution Tag Team Battle Royal to be added to the AEW Tag Team Championship match, but were once again unsuccessful. On May 17 episode of Dynamite, The Lethal Connection attacked the AEW World Tag Team Champions FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood), with Karen Jarrett helping The Lethal Connection. Lethal and Jarrett failed to win the title from FTR at Double or Nothing with Mark Briscoe was the special guest referee. On the June 14 episode of Rampage, Lethal, Jeff Jarrett and Karen Jarrett took on Mark Briscoe, Papa Briscoe and AEW referee Aubrey Edwards. During the match, Lethal was hit with the Guitar by Edwards, who also made Karen submit with the figure four leglock.

Shipman, under his Jay Lethal ring name, had a brief appearance in the critically acclaimed 2008 film The Wrestler. In November 2010, he was a contestant on an all TNA week of Family Feud, teaming with Matt Morgan, Mick Foley, Mr. Anderson, and Rob Van Dam against Angelina Love, Christy Hemme, Lacey Von Erich, Tara, and Velvet Sky. Lethal appeared in the video games TNA Impact!, TNA Impact! : Cross The Line, and TNA Wrestling Impact!.