25 Facts About Eddie Ryan

Eddie Ryan graduated from Plymouth University with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration in 2008.

Eddie Ryan gained his first championship match by the end of the year in a battle royale at the 4FW Halloween Spectacular 2009, but lost the match for the 4FW Heavyweight Championship again to Jack Dynamo a full year after his debut in January 2010.

Eddie Ryan made his first appearance outside of the UK, wrestling for the Nordic Championship Wrestling Cruiser weight Championship in Hamburg, Germany.

Eddie Ryan defended the championship against the likes of Sha Samuels, Benham Ali and Dave Mastiff before losing the championship to Samuels in March 2013; holding the championship for over a year.

Eddie Ryan start tagging with Jason Larusso, creating the tag team "The Lionhearts".

Whilst holding the 4FW Heavyweight Championship, Eddie Ryan become the number one contender for the PWA Heavyweight Championship, and on 5 March 2014 Eddie Ryan won the PWA Heavyweight Championship from Chris Marvel on the company's 5th anniversary show.

Eddie Ryan defended the championship multiple times, defeating John Harding, Danny Walsh, and Robbie E Ryan held the championship for an entire year, before losing at the 6th anniversary show, to Danny Walsh.

Eddie Ryan started 2016 by competing in a tournament to crown the first 4FW South East Champion, where he lost to JD Knight in the final.

Eddie Ryan then focused primarily on singles competition and received wins against Chris Dickinson, Kelly Sixx and Joshua Knott, before winning the 3rd Annual PWP Prizefighters Tournament, defeating Lomaxx in the final and gaining a PWP Heavyweight Championship opportunity.

Eddie Ryan lost the championship in an elimination six-pack challenge to Bram, due to interference from the "House of Bones" tag team, Gideon and Lomaxx.

Eddie Ryan got revenge by winning a tag team match against the House of Bones, partnering James Storm.

Eddie Ryan lost the championship match at the company's 7th anniversary show.

Eddie Ryan challenged for the PWA Heavyweight Championship against Tyler Hawke, but did not successfully win the championship.

Eddie Ryan challenged for new championships, including the Pro Wrestling PWP Catch Division Championship against Joshua Knott, and the King Of Chaos Championship, in a seven-man match, losing on both occasions.

Eddie Ryan won the Pride Prizefighters tournament for the second time in a row he lost the corresponding championship match again, losing in a fatal-4-way to Bram.

Eddie Ryan twice battled for the Ultimate Pro Wrestling championship number one contendership; on 9 September 2017 he lost a triple threat match to Josh Bodom, and lost a singles match to Bodom on 20 October.

Eddie Ryan finished out the year wrestling for Ultimate Pro Wrestling, and in Big League Wrestling, losing to Chris Andrews.

In late 2017, Eddie Ryan was named a member of the roster for the 5 Star Wrestling tour in 2018, featuring Rob Van Dam, Rey Mysterio and Jack Hager, that was broadcast on FreeSports.

Eddie Ryan was defeated by Hager in the Echo Arena, on the first night of the tour in the main event on 1 February 2018, on 5 Star Wrestling's debut on FreeSports.

The event saw Eddie Ryan's challenge be met by Hager, but only if Eddie Ryan could win a "five-star gauntlet match", winning against five wrestlers in a row.

Eddie Ryan defeated Markus Burke, and then HT Drake, before defeating Tim Wyde by disqualification, after interference from Hager.

Eddie Ryan was then forced to take on Dave Mastiff and old rival "Big Grizzly" Steve Griffiths in a two-on-one handicap match, which he won.

In March 2018,5 Star Wrestling folded on the last broadcast, Eddie Ryan won the newly created 5 Star Wrestling: Real Championship from Zack Gibson, in Belfast.

Eddie Ryan made his debut for World Wrestling Entertainment under the NXT UK brand on 13 October 2018, where he competed and won in the Plymouth Pavilions.

Originally portraying as a Spanish gimmick, Rubio wrestled under the name of Eddie Ryan Reyes, using a sitout scoop slam piledriver to win matches, known as the Espana Slam.