Ryker | |
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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
editRyker 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
editIn wrestling
edit- Finishing moves
- Signature moves
- Blindsider (Slingshot double knee backbreaker)
- Cold-Blooded Cutter (Springboard cutter)
- Discus punch to a corner-trapped opponent
- Figure-four leglock
- Garvin stomp
- Lightbringer (Fireman's carry spun-out and dropped into a facebreaker knee smash)
- Multiple chops followed by a vertical suplex
- Multiple kick variations
- Brutal Combo (Forearm smash, followed by a slap, followed by a shoot, followed by a spinning gut)
- Corner front drop
- Football
- Superior-Kick (Low super)
- Sweeping
- Two to four shoot to a kneeling opponent
- Over-the-shoulder back-to-belly neckbreaker
- Pop-up powerbomb
- Pumphandle slam
- Rolling thunder transitioned into a single knee facebreaker followed by a vertical suplex
- Running bulldog onto the turnbuckle
- Slugshot Stunner (Step-through stunner)
- Snap single underhook DDT
- Snapmare driver
- Styles Clash
- Suplex cutter, sometimes preceded by a vertical suplex or a superplex
- Wolftamer (Elevated Boston crab, sometimes while kneeling on the opponent's neck or while stepping on the opponent's head)
- Nicknames
- "(The) Bad Man"
- "The Bounty Hunter"
- "The Technical Assassin"
- "The Wolf"
- Possible moves:
- Silencer (Fireman's carry takeover onto a knee lift to the back of the opponent's head or neck)
- Royal Spike (Rope-assisted hangman DDT while springboarding off the bottom rope)
- Wolftamer (Elevated Boston crab, usually while kneeling on the opponent's neck)
- Crown-Splitter (Double foot curb stomp while jumping from a bent over opponent's back)
- Vampire's Edge (Crucifix dropped into a piledriver, rarely while jumping) – rarely used
- Magnum Chopus (Spinning knife edge chop)
- Taste of Red (Arm-trap crossface)
- Crossfire (Rolling cutter, rarely elevated)
- X-Ray (Slingshot double knee backbreaker, sometimes preceded by a bulldog onto the turnbuckle)
- Multiple DDT variations
- Slice of Helheim (Shiranui)
- Snap single underhook
- Tornado
- Multiple powerslam variations
- Pump-Action Slam (Pumphandle)
- Sitout front
- Snap scoop
- Multiple illegal attack variations
- Hammer of the Gods (Wind-up eye poke)
- One man con-chair-to
- Punch with the Gold Ring
- Nuka Twist (Front facelock cutter)
- Diving or springboard crossbody
- Euro Neckbreaker (Running neckbreaker slam)
- Figure-four leglock
- Blood Eagle (Powerbomb onto the knees)
- Blood-Rainmaker (Ripcord back elbow smash) – rarely used
- Code Red X (Somersault double knee backbreaker)
- Spear
- Anti-Materiel Kick (Running single leg dropkick)
- Verteblaster (Arm trap hammerlock twisted into a lariat STO backbreaker)
- Muta lock
- Jumping, usually as a counter to a diving or mid air opponent
- 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
- Redsecution (Crusifix lift flipped and dropped into a stunner) – Innovated; rarely used
- Yellow Arrow (Diving double foot stomp, with theatrics)
- Pistol whipping
- Short arm scissors
- Turnbuckle STF
- Jumping elbow drop
- Double foot stomp
- Spinebuster
- Slingshot
- Running single leg knee strike, usually to a kneeling or seated opponent
- preceded by a step-up high knee to the back of the opponent's neck
- with theatrics
- while flexing arms
- Spinebuster, sometimes spinning
- or as a counter to an opponent's finishing move
- Cross kneebar combined with an ankle lock
- sometimes to a diving or mid air opponent