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and taekwondo practitioner, currently signed to Impact Wrestling, where he performs under the ring name "Speedball" Mike Bailey. He is a former X Division Champion. He is a former two-time IWS World Heavyweight Champion and two-time KO-D Tag Team Champion. Bailey was also the winner of CZW's 2015

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, DDT's 2016 DNA Grand Prix, RevPro's 2021 British J Cup and PWG's 2023 Battle of Los Angeles tournaments.

Professional wrestling career

Independent circuit (2006–present)

Bailey made his

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debut at a Federation de Lutte Quebecoise house show from January 6, 2006 as Mike Sydal, where he teamed up with Bouncer and Brad Foley in a losing effort to Alextreme, Sheik Tank Ali and Sweet Pete in a

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. He is known for working with various wrestling promotions and would often compete under the nickname of ''Speedball''.

International Wrestling Syndicate (2009–present)

Bailey made his IWS debut on October 1, 2009 in a tag team victory with Brian Kirkland, defeating 2.0 (Jagged & Shane Matthews) at Le Skratch in Laval. At Scarred 4 Life, on September 20, 2014, Bailey won the

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against The Green Phantom. At Un F'N Sanctioned on March 28, 2015 at

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, Bailey defeated

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and

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Jack Evans. On March 5, 2016 at Un F'N Sanctioned held at Métropolis, Black Dynomite won the IWS World Heavyweight Championship in a 4-Way Match versus

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, Jack Evans and Bailey. On September 9, 2018, Bailey defeated

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and

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in a 3-Way Dance, at an IWS vs

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spot show for the Montreal Mercado del Taco. On March 23, 2019, IWS celebrated its 20th anniversary with Un F'N Sanctioned at MTelus, where Tajiri with

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defeated Bailey. On February 8, 2020 at Praise the Violence, Matt Angel defeated Bailey in an IWS World Heavyweight Championship Ladder Match. On September 4, 2021 at Blood, Sweat & Beers, Bailey defeated Matt Angel in an IWS Title Match, winning his second IWS World Heavyweight Championship. On June 25, 2022 at Hardcore Heat, Matt Falco defeated Bailey for the IWS World Heavyweight Championship. Bailey has taught seminars and until moving to the United States, was part of the IWS Training Centre coaching staff.

Capital City Championship Combat (2010–present)

Bailey worked for the

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promotion Capital City Championship Combat, where he debuted on May 1, 2010 at ''C4 Stand Alone 2010'' in a losing effort against

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. He teamed up with

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at ''C4 Domination 2K11'' on April 30, 2011 to defeat

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and Michael Von Payton (who replaced an injured Rahim Ali) for the C4 Tag Team Championship. Bailey worked with other infamous wrestling personalities, such as in a six-way match from ''C4 Crossing The Line 5'' on June 16, 2012, where he competed against Josh Alexander,

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, Scotty O'Shea, Stu Grayson and

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for the C4 Championship, coming in unsuccessfully. He eventually won the title at ''C4 Crossing The Line 6'' on June 15, 2013 in a three-way match also involving Josh Alexander and the champion Scotty O'Shea. On September 18, 2021 at Fighting Back X, Bailey defeated Daniel Garcia for his second C4 Championship. On November 12, 2021 at ''Never Say Never'', Bailey defeated Kevin Blackwood for the C4 Underground Championship in a Title vs Title Match.

Combat Zone Wrestling (2014–2016)

At the

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's ''New Heights 2014'' event from July 12, he unsuccessfully challenged

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for the

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. At ''CZW Night Of Infamy 2014 '' on November 8, he teamed up with Buxx Belmar and unsuccessfully challenged OI4K ( Dave Crist and Jake Crist) for the

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. On October 18, 2014 event ''CZW Tangled Web 7'', he unsuccessfully challenged

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for the

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. At '' CZW Cage Of Death XVI'', he participated in a six-man scramble match, a qualifier for the Best Of The Best Tournament, where he competed against the winner

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, A. R. Fox,

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, David Starr and

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. At ''CZW Deja Vu 2015'' on March 14, Bailey unsuccessfully challenged

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for the CZW Wired Championship. Their feud continued until ''CZW Proving Grounds 2015'' from May 9, where he managed to defeat Gacy, but by disqualification, therefore not succeeding in winning the title. His last match in CZW was a loss against

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at ''CZW Seventeen'' from February 13, 2016.

Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (2015–2016)

Bailey made his debut for the

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promotion Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) at ''From Out of Nowhere'' on February 27, 2015, losing to Biff Busick in his first match. At Mystery Vortex III, Bailey answered

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's open challenge for the

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, but failed to win the title. Bailey picked up his first win in PWG by defeating Chris Hero at Threemendous IV. He participated in the Battle of Los Angeles tournament, where he managed to reach to the final by defeating

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in the first round,

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in the quarterfinals and

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in the semifinals. Bailey competed against Chris Hero and

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in a three-way elimination match in the final, where he was the first man to be eliminated. He made a few more appearances with PWG until early 2016 before he was banned from working in the US for five years due to not having a work visa.

Progress Wrestling (2016–2019)

Bailey worked several matches for

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, first of them being a loss against

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for the Smash Wrestling Championship at ''Smash/Progress Smash vs. Progress'', a cross-over event held between the two promotions on August 7, 2016. at ''Progress Chapter 95: Still Chasing'' on September 15, 2019, he participated in a 30-person rumble match for the inaugural Progress Proteus Championship, competing against other wrestlers such as the winner Paul Robinson,

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, Dan Moloney, Sid Scala and Los Federales Santos Jr. At ''Progress Chapter 78: 24 Hour Progress People'' on November 11, 2018, he lost a match to

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Revolution Pro Wrestling (2016–present)

Bailey worked for the

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promotion

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, having his first match at ''RevPro High Stakes 2016'' on January 16, where he lost to

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. He competed in various matches against popular wrestling figures. He lost to Zack Sabre Jr. at ''RevPro Live At The Cockpit 13'' on February 5, 2017. At ''RevPro Live In Portsmouth 9'' on August 27, 2017, Bailey lost a match to

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. At ''RevPro Live At The Cockpit 21'' on October 10, 2017, Bailey lost to

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. At ''RevPro Monday Night Mayhem'' on October 23, 2017, he unsuccessfully challenged Josh Bodom for the

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. At ''RevPro Summer Sizzler 2019'' on August 30, he participated in a six-man scramble match also involving the winner

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, Hikuleo, Robbie Eagles,

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and Senza Volto. At ''RevPro Live At The Cockpit 47'', Bailey teamed up with Mao as Moonlight Express to win the SWE Tag Team Championship by defeating Deadly Sins (JK Moody and Kane Khan). At ''RevPro Uprising 2019'', on December 15, Bailey teamed up again with Mao, this time scoring a loss against Pretty Deadly (Lewis Howley and Sam Stoker). On November 6, 2021, Bailey defeated Kid Lykos in the first round and pinned Luke Jacobs in a 4-Way Elimination Match to win the 2021 British J Cup.

Ring Of Honor (2019)

Bailey wrestled a match for Ring Of Honor, at ''ROH Honor United - Bolton'', on October 27, 2019, where he fell short to

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Westside Xtreme Wrestling (2016–2020)

Bailey debuted for the

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promotion

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on March 10, 2016, at the ''wXw The Inner Circle'', where he first fell short to Kim Ray. In the second match, he teamed up with

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in a losing effort to

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and Big Daddy Walter. He participated in the wXw 16 Carat Gold 2016 Tournament where he lost to

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on the first night, on March 11, 2016, and on the second night, from March 12, he faced

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and

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in a three-way match. On the third night, on March 13, he teamed up with Will Ospreay in a losing effort to Marty Scurll and Trevor Lee. On September 30, 2016, on the first night of the ''wXw World Tag Team League 2016'', Bailey defeated John Klinger to become the number ont contender for the

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. On the second night, on October 1, he fell short to the champion, Jurn Simmons. He also participated in the wXw 16 Carat Gold 2017 Tournament, and on the first night, on March 10, 2017, he defeated

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in a first round match. On the second night, on March 11, he got defeated by

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in a quarter-final match. On the third night, he teamed up with ACH to score a victory against

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and J. T. Dunn. At ''wXw True Colors 2017'' on April 8, Bailey battled Jurn Simmons, Walter and Axel Dieter Jr. in a four-way match for the wXw Unified World Wrestling Championship, coming out unsuccessfully. At ''Road To 16 Carat Gold 2018'', on February 25, 2018, Bailey defeated

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and Julian Pace in a three-way match semi-final, however, he fell short to

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in the final, the same night. At wXw 16 Carat Gold 2018 Tournament, Bailey unsuccessfully challenged Bobby Gunns for the

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on the second night, from March 10, and on the third night, a day later, he teamed up with

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and Marius Al-Ani in a losing effort to CCK (

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and

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) and

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in a six-man tag team match.

Return to PWG (2022–present)

Bailey returned to PWG after a six-year absence as a participant in the 2022 Battle of Los Angeles tournament, where he defeated Bandido in the first round,

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in the quarterfinals and

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in the semifinals before losing to Daniel Garcia in the final. He rebounded from the loss in the 2023 Battle of Los Angeles, a year later, where he defeated

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in the first round,

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in the quarterfinals, Bryan Keith in the semifinals and

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in the final to win the tournament.

Dramatic Dream Team/DDT Pro Wresting (2016–2020)

Bailey debuted for

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on August 2, 2016 in a 17-man royal rumble match at ''DDT U.S.A. ~Ultimate Superstars Action~ Sakabash At The Beach 2016 Drunkers Kingdom'', where he wrestled under the name of Mike Tajiri, a parody of the real wrestler Tajiri. He often wrestled alongside members of the Happy Motel stable Konosuke Takeshita and

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without being part of the group. They even challenged Damnation (

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and Tetsuya Endo) for the

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at ''DDT Sapporo Wrestling Festa ~ DDT Crab ~ '' on October 10, 2016 but unsuccessfully. He captured his first title in DDT, the

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by teaming up with Konosuke Takeshita at ''DDT Osaka Octopus 2016'' on December 4, to defeat Damnation (Daisuke Sasaki and Tetsuya Endo). They dropped the titles at ''DDT Road To Super Arena In Oyodo'' on January 9, 2017 to

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and Yukio Sakaguchi. He won the titles for the second time by teaming with Mao as a part of the Moonlight Express on July 22, 2018 at ''DDT Summer Vacation 2018'', where they defeated Damnation (Mad Paulie and Tetsuya Endo). Bailey unsuccessfully challenged

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for the

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at ''DDT New Year Lottery Special!'' on January 3, 2017. He is a former Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion, title which he won in the block B of the D-Oh Grand Prix 2019 tournament show from November 30, 2018, where he defeated Konosuke Takeshita. Bailey participates in comedic matches, produced many times by DDT, such as a five-way loser explosion weapon rumble tag team match from Judgement 2018: DDT 21st Anniversary on March 25, where he teamed up with Mao to defeat

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and Chinsuke Nakamura,

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and Fuminori Abe,

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and Ordinary Man Munenori Sawa, and Smile Squash (

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and

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Impact Wrestling (2021–present)

On October 31, 2021, Bailey signed a contract with Impact Wrestling, offered by Impact executive

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after his match against

at Destiny Wrestling's Raising Hell. D’Amore has confirmed Bailey is expected to debut in the first part of 2022. Bailey competed on the Hard To Kill pre-show in his debut match in Impact, winning a four-way match against

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, and

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Personal life

In March 2016, the ''

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'' reported that Bailey got arrested trying to get into the

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to compete for Evolve. He was subsequently banned from entering the country at all for the next five years. The Observer reported that he was in the process of obtaining a

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through Combat Zone Wrestling at the time of his ban, however the process was going extremely slowly and would have forced him to miss the Evolve booking. He is non-binary and uses he and they pronouns.Bailey has been engaged to fellow wrestler

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since November 2020. They were married in May 2022.

Championships and accomplishments

* Active Advance Pro Wrestling/Kaientai Dojo **

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( 1 time) – with Mao *

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** Attack! 24:7 Championship ( 2 times) *Capital City Championship Combat **C4 Championship (2 times) **C4 Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with

**C4 Underground Championship (1 time) **Snowbrawl Tournament (2014) *Combat Revolution Wrestling **CRW ITV Championship (1 time) *

**Best of the Best 14 (2015) *

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( 1 time) **

( 2 times) – with Mao (1) and

(1) **DNA Grand Prix (2016) **Grand Sumo Tournament (2019) *Hogtown Pro Wrestling **HPW Openweight Championship (1 time) * Impact Wrestling **

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( 1 time) ** Impact Year End Awards (2 times) *** X Division Star of the Year (2022) *** Match of the Year (2022) *

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( 2 times) *Monteregie Wrestling Federation **MWF Junior Championship (1 time) **MWF Regional Championship (1 time) **MWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Alex Silva *North Shore Pro Wrestling **Standing 8 Tournament (2016) * Pro Wrestling Guerrilla **

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(

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) * ''

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'' ** Ranked No. 30 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the ''

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'' in 2022 *

/Southside Wrestling Entertainment **SWE Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Mao **British J Cup (2021) *Smash Wrestling **The Northern Tournament (2019)cite web, url= https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=239593

References

External links

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