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| Ryker | |
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 Ryker (right) training with Savio Vega (left) | |
| Born | 1995 |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Ryker |
| Billed height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Billed weight | 180 lb (82 kg) |
| Trained by | Savio Vega Sensacional Carlitos Martillo Wrestling Club |
Ryker is a professional wrestler from Puerto Rico.
Professional wrestling career edit
Ryker started training with puertorican wrestling legend Savio Vega on August 2014, and on January 2015, he started training with wrestler Sensacional Carlitos. After almost 5 years of inactivity due to a busy work and university schedule, as well as suffering several injuries in 2016 which sidelined him for 7 months from any type of physical activity, Ryker began training in Martillo Wrestling Club in January 2020. During the 7 months of inactivity in 2016, Ryker gained a significant amount of weight. In august 2016, he began training in Taekwondo and his regular training regiment. Ryker states that in February 13, 2017, he started dedicating more time to physical fitness and dieting, as well as emphasizing mental and emotional well being, crediting this day as the day his life changed. In total, Ryker lost over 50 pounds since August 2016.
Personal life edit
Ryker's athletic background include MMA, Taekwondo, Muay Thai, Judo, and Basketball. He has cited John Cena, Chris Jericho, Edge, A.J. Styles, and The Miz as his favorite wrestlers of all-time.
In wrestling edit
- Finishing moves
- Blood-Nap (Swinging reverse STO, sometimes preceded by a hammerlock or transitioned to from a ripcord)
- King's Gambit (Rope-assisted hangman DDT while springboarding off the bottom rope)
- Silencer (Fireman's carry takeover onto a knee lift to the back of the opponent's head or neck)
- Thirst Quencher (Half nelson choke while sitting on the back of a faced down opponent)
- Signature moves
- Blood-Diamond Cutter (Springboard cutter)
- F-Bomb (Sitout spin-out powerbomb)
- Gutwrench suplex
- Hip toss neckbreaker
- Medicine Stick (Soccer kick)
- Multiple illegal attack variations
- Multiple knee strike variations
- Multiple stunner variations
- Stone Cold-Blooded Stunner (Slingshot)
- Stun-Dog Billionaire (Suplex counter)
- Twist of Heat (Front facelock)
- Pendulum backbreaker
- Red Drop (Falling side slam)
- Short arm scissors
- Spear
- Spinebuster
- Taste of Red (Omoplata crossface)
- Vampire's Edge (Crucifix dropped into a piledriver, rarely while jumping) – rarely used
- Nicknames
- "(The) Bad Man"
- "The Bounty Hunter"
- "The Technical Assassin"
- "The Wolf"
- Possible moves:
- Wolftamer (Elevated Boston crab, usually while kneeling on the opponent's neck)
- Blood-Diamond Cutter (Springboard cutter, sometimes to a diving or mid air opponent)
- Blood Eagle (Powerbomb onto the knees)
- Tranquilizer (Double foot curb stomp while jumping from a bent over opponent's back)
- Blood-Rainmaker (Ripcord back elbow smash) – rarely used
- Code Red X (Somersault double knee backbreaker)
- Anti-Materiel Kick (Running single leg dropkick)
- Verteblaster (Arm trap hammerlock twisted into a lariat STO backbreaker)
- Multiple DDT variations
- Starkiller (Overhead gutwrench backbreaker rack dropped into a DDT)
- Multiple powerslam variations
- Red Drop (Falling side)
- Sitout front
- Snap scoop
- Iron Triangle (Modified gogoplata)
- Golden Punch (Punch with the Gold Ring)
- Low blow
- Wolfbite (Forehead bite)
- Unprettier (Inverted double underhook facebuster)
- German suplex
- Anvil Cracker (Lifting DDT, sometimes while swinging the opponent, rarely diving with the opponent from an elevated position)
- Multiple backbreaker variations
- Brutal Combo (Kneeling hip toss arm-pull)
- Code Red X (Somersault double knee)
- Pendulum
- Tilt-a-whirl
- Verteblaster (Arm trap hammerlock twisted into a lariat STO)
- X-Ray (Running single leg knee strike, usually to a kneeling or seated opponent)
- STF
- Ura Sleeper (Dragon sleeper)
- Neckbreaker slam
- Snapshot (Backwards kick low blow followed by a snapmare driver)
- Leaping clothesline
- Multiple facebreaker variations
- Anti-Hero's Welcome (Rolling single knee, sometimes while lifting) – Innovated
- Starkiller (Belly-to-back wheelbarrow dropped into a double knee) – Innovated
- Three-quarter facelock double knee
- Thrust knee smash
- Blood Magic (Pop-up cutter)
- X Lock (Scissored half nelson choke)
- Multiple kick variations
- C-Splitter (Jumping stunner)
- Multiple elbow variations
- Hidden Blade (Spinning back)
- Jumping drop
- Running smash
- Bloody Spear (Spear, rarely diving)
- Iron Cobra (Cobra choke)
- Hip toss neckbreaker
- Omoplata crossface
- Dawnbreaker (Sitout thrust double underhook facebuster, with theatrics, rarely while lifting the opponent)
- Multiple powerbomb variations
- F-Bomb (Spin-out)
- Old Reliable (Sitout)
- Rope aided
- Sunset flip
- Multiple STO variations
- STO
- Reverse followed by a Koji Clutch
- Snap reverse into the turnbuckle
- Sling Blade
- Redsecution (Crusifix lift flipped and dropped into a stunner) – Innovated; rarely used
- Yellow Arrow (Diving double foot stomp, with theatrics)
- Diving crossbody
- Pistol whipping
- Turnbuckle STF
- Jumping elbow drop
- Running knee strike
- Double foot stomp
- Slingshot
- Fireman's carry spun-out and dropped into a facebreaker knee smash
- Running single leg knee strike, usually to a kneeling or seated opponent
- with theatrics
- while flexing arms
- or as a counter to an opponent's finishing move