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Backyard Wrestling
Backyard wrestling (BYW), also referred to as yarding or backyarding, is an underground hobby and sport involving untrained practices of Professional wrestling, professional-style wrestling, typically in a low-budget environment, such as a backyard. Although not legitimized, backyard wrestling is often organized into promotions, mimicking actual professional wrestling. Most backyard wrestlers are merely emulating modern wrestling, though a small percentage have experience from enrolling in wrestling school or from referring to how-to guides on the internet. History Pro wrestling personnel are generally opposed to backyard wrestling. Its peak years of popularity were 1996-2001, during a boom period of professional wrestling, notoriously known as The Attitude Era, when high-risk stunts exerted a strong influence on the wrestling fan base, particularly those performed by Mick Foley. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, backyard wrestling often appealed to media as a good-natured top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CM Punk
Phillip Jack Brooks (born October 26, 1978), better known by his ring name CM Punk, is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler and actor. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw (WWE brand), Raw brand. Regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, he is known for his outspoken and confrontational straight edge Gimmick (professional wrestling), persona, which is based on his real-life experiences. His 434-day reign with the WWE Championship is the World championships in WWE#Ten longest, tenth-longest world title reign in the company's history. Brooks began his wrestling career on the independent circuit in 1997. He signed with Ring of Honor (ROH) in 2002, where he won the ROH World Championship once and was one of the inaugural inductees into the ROH Hall of Fame. Brooks signed with WWE in 2005 and won the WWE Championship twice, the World Heavyweight Championship (WWE, 2002–2013), World Heavyweight Championship three times, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fuego Del Sol
KJ Orso (born October 16, 1995), better known by the ring-name Fuego Del Sol ("Fire of the Sun"), is an American professional wrestler. Formerly a masked wrestler until 2025, he is best known for his work in All Elite Wrestling (AEW) from 2020- 2023. He is also known as a founding member of the trampoline backyard wrestling project Kids Backyard Wrestling (KBW), where he worked as Kage (stylized in ''all caps''). Professional wrestling career Orso debuted in May 2014, largely competing on the independent circuit in Oklahoma and Texas. He participated in Impact Wrestling's Collision in Oklahoma on October 14, 2017, in a four-way match against Trevor Lee, DJZ and Malico. At Victory Road on September 14, 2019, Del Sol and Retro Randy were defeated by The North (Ethan Page and Josh Alexander). He also wrestled for WWE on the January 6, 2020 episode of '' Raw'', losing to Erick Rowan. Del Sol made regular appearances at ''AEW Dark'' and '' AEW Dark: Elevation'' throughout All ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scorpio Sky
Schuyler Andrews (born April 2, 1983), better known by the ring name Scorpio Sky, is an American professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a former two-time AEW TNT Champion and one-time AEW World Tag Team Champion. Andrews is also known for his appearances with Ring of Honor (ROH), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). In ROH, he and Frankie Kazarian are one-time ROH World Tag Team Champions while he, Kazarian, and Christopher Daniels (known as SoCal Uncensored, or SCU) are one-time ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions. Sky joined AEW with Kazarian and Daniels and became one-half of the inaugural AEW World Tag Team Champions with Kazarian. Sky eventually struck out on his own in singles competition, but eventually formed a tag team dubbed "The Men of the Year" with Ethan Page, later picking up a manager in American Top Team's Dan Lambert, which led to Sky's first reign as AEW ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Cross (wrestler)
Matthew Capiccioni (born December 31, 1980) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring names M-Dogg 20, Matt Cross and Son of Havoc. He currently competes on the independent circuit, most notably Juggalo Championship Wrestling (JCW) where he is the JCW Heavyweight Champion in his first reign. Cross has also worked for prominent promotions such as Ring of Honor, Lucha Underground, Chikara and the short-lived Wrestling Society X. His main gimmick is that of an adherent of the straight edge lifestyle, a culture which he follows in real life. In 2011, Capiccioni joined the cast of the fifth season of ''WWE Tough Enough''. Early life Capiccioni, of descent from the country of San Marino, participated in competitive gymnastics for ten years. In 1999, he won gold medals in both the rings and the vault at the AAU Junior Olympic Games. Professional wrestling career Debut (1999–2001) A fan of Extreme Championship Wrestling, Capiccioni was involved in back ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruckus (wrestler)
Claude Marrow Jr. (born August 15, 1978) is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Ruckus. He performs in Combat Zone Wrestling, Ring of Honor, Maryland Championship Wrestling, Chikara (professional wrestling), Chikara and Jersey All Pro Wrestling. While often appearing at a number of other independent promotions, Ruckus is a member of the The Blackout (professional wrestling), Blackout/BLKOUT stable with Eddie Kingston, Sabian (wrestler), Sabian, Joker (wrestler), Joker, James Ellsworth (wrestler), James Ellsworth, and Robbie Mireno. Professional wrestling career Ruckus began training in September 1998 at Brainbusters. A former backyard wrestling, backyard wrestler with Hardcore Championship Wrestling, Ruckus made his professional wrestling debut against Chad Austin on April 18, 1999 for the Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation (MEWF). Combat Zone Wrestling Ruckus and The Hurricane Kidd were hired by Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonjay Dutt
Retesh Bhalla (born April 7, 1982) is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) as a Glossary of professional wrestling terms#agent, producer and Glossary of professional wrestling terms#manager, manager. He is best known for his time with Impact Wrestling, Total Nonstop ActionImpact Wrestling under the ring name Sonjay Dutt. He also worked for WWE as a producer from 2019 to 2021. Dutt is known for his several stints in Jeff Jarrett's promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), later renamed Impact Wrestling, where he started in 2003. Dutt competed in the X-Division for several years, winning the Impact X Division Championship in 2017. He also competed for Jarrett's Global Force Wrestling, where he was a former Global Force Wrestling#GFW NEX*GEN Championship, GFW NEX*GEN Champion. Dutt also wrestled for the independent promotion Combat Zone Wrestling during his early years, where he captured the CZW World Junior Heavyweight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kip Sabian
Simon James Kippen (born 19 May 1992), better known by the ring name Kip Sabian, is an English professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a member of The Patriarchy (professional wrestling), The Patriarchy. Early life Simon James Kippen was born in Great Yarmouth on 19 May 1992. Before entering the formal world of professional wrestling, Kippen engaged in backyard wrestling alongside friend and future peer Will Ospreay, and also befriended future WWE & AEW wrestler Saraya Bevis. Professional wrestling career Early career (2010–2019) Sabian began his career with the World Association of Wrestling after graduating from the promotion's wrestling school. He competed throughout England and Europe, capturing various titles including the IPW:UK World Championship and WOS Wrestling, World Of Sport Wrestling Tag Team Championship. In 2018, he debuted for Ring of Honor. He also had a tag-team "Super Brotheys" with Pakistani wrestler Amir Jordan. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Ospreay
William Peter Charles Ospreay (born 7 May 1993) is an English professional wrestler. , he is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a former two-time AEW International Champion. He is also known for his eight year tenure with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he held various championships, including the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. Ospreay previously wrestled for NJPW's United Kingdom-based partner promotion Revolution Pro Wrestling (RevPro), where he is a former and longest reigning Undisputed British Heavyweight Championship, Undisputed British Heavyweight Champion. He also wrestled for British promotion Progress Wrestling, where he is a former Progress World Champion. Ospreay began his career on the UK independent circuit in 2012. In 2016, after being recommended by AJ Styles, he began to work with the Japanese promotion NJPW as part of the junior heavyweight division, becoming a three-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship, IWGP Junior Heavyweight C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liv Morgan
Gionna Jene Daddio (born June 8, 1994) is an American professional wrestler and actress. She is signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Liv Morgan. She is one-half of the current WWE Women's Tag Team Champions with Raquel Rodriguez in their record-setting fourth reign. She is a member of The Judgment Day stable. She is a former two-time Women's World Champion as well as the inaugural WWE Women's Crown Jewel Champion. In 2014, Daddio signed a contract with WWE and was assigned to the WWE Performance Center, later appearing in developmental brand NXT under the Liv Morgan ring name. She was promoted to the main roster in 2017 and was paired with Ruby Riott and Sarah Logan to form the stable the Riott Squad. After the stable disbanded in 2019, she became a singles competitor. After a few months of her singles run, she reunited with the returning Riott. They performed together until Riott's release in 2021. In 2022, Morgan won the Women's Money ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon Cutler
Brandon Bogle (born June 18, 1987), better known as Brandon Cutler, is an American professional wrestler. He is an executive producer of content of All Elite Wrestling (AEW) where he is also signed as a wrestler. He also performs in AEW's sister promotion Ring of Honor (ROH). Professional wrestling career Early years (2005–2011) Cutler was trained by The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson) and debuted in their Victorville, California-based promotion High Risk Wrestling by the ring name Ronnie Tsunami. He spent most of his early career wrestling in the California-based promotions including Empire Wrestling Federation, Alternative Wrestling Show, SoCal Pro Wrestling, Mach One Pro Wrestling, Vendetta Pro Wrestling, Battleground Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling LIVE and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla. He also made a debut in the Ring of Honor, Ring Of Honor (ROH). After 2011, Cutler disappeared from the ring for the next seven years. Return to professional wrestling (2018–present) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Excalibur (wrestler)
Marc Letzmann (born July 16, 1980), better known by his ring name Excalibur, is an American professional wrestling commentator and retired professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) where he serves as play-by-play commentator on ''Dynamite'' and '' Rampage''. He is also one of the six founders of Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, where he continues to work as the company's " Liaison to the Board of Directors". After retiring from in-ring competition in 2007, he became the company's lead play-by-play commentator. Professional wrestling career Early career While writing for a wrestling video game website, Excalibur met Super Dragon online. Through chatting online, the two became friends and it helped spark the beginning of Excalibur's career. After spending a year in college, Excalibur chose to move to California to begin his wrestling career and also get work in his full-time profession, graphic design. He cited having an "in" to Revolution Pro Wrestling as the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
