Jeffrey Cobb is an American professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling where he is a two-time IWGP Tag Team Champion with United Empire teammate Great-O-Khan.
33 Facts About Jeff Cobb
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Jeff Cobb is a former PWG World Champion and is the winner of PWG's 2018 Battle of Los Angeles tournament and a former one-time World Tag Team Champion with Matt Riddle.
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Jeff Cobb is a former NEVER Openweight Champion in NJPW and former ROH Television Champion in ROH.
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Jeff Cobb received two straight losses due to technical superiority and no classification points in a preliminary pool match against Cuba's Yoel Romero and Germany's Davyd Bichinashvili, finishing 21st overall out of 22 wrestlers.
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Jeff Cobb began professional wrestling in 2009 working for Action Zone Wrestling in Hawaii.
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Jeff Cobb won the AZW Heavyweight Title a record setting three times.
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Jeff Cobb made appearances for many independent promotions in Northern California such as All Pro Wrestling, Supreme Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Bushido, Fighting Spirit Pro, Phoenix Pro Wrestling and PREMIER Wrestling, where he held their heavyweight championship for 427 days.
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Jeff Cobb debuted for the promotion on March 22,2016, under a mask and the ring name "The Monster" Matanza Cueto, the storyline brother of Dario Cueto, winning the Lucha Underground Championship in his first match.
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Jeff Cobb's character was killed off in the fourth season, which aired in 2018.
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On May 20,2016, Jeff Cobb made his debut for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, losing to Chris Hero.
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On September 2, Jeff Cobb entered the 2016 Battle of Los Angeles, from which he was eliminated in the first round by Ricochet.
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Jeff Cobb then competed in his 4th Battle of Los Angeles but fell in the second round to David Starr.
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Jeff Cobb would go on to drop the title after 421 days in a rematch with eventual tournament winner Bandido later that year.
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On May 27,2017, Jeff Cobb made his Progress Wrestling debut by defeating Nathan Cruz in the first round of the Super Strong Style 16 Tournament 2017.
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On November 6,2017, Jeff Cobb was announced as a participant in New Japan Pro-Wrestling's 2017 World Tag League, where he would team with Michael Elgin.
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Jeff Cobb spent the bulk of late 2018 participating in the World Tag League tournament with partner Michael Elgin, winning eight matches, but failing to qualify for the finals.
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Jeff Cobb then competed in his first 2019 G1 Climax Tournament where he finished with 8 points thus failing to advance to the finals.
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On November 6,2019, Jeff Cobb was announced to be in one of the teams in the 2019 World Tag League Tournament with tag partner Mikey Nicholls where they finished with 16 points failing to advance to the finals.
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Jeff Cobb was announced to be competing in the 2020 G1 Climax tournament where he again finished with 8 points, failing to advance to the finals.
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Jeff Cobb began a short feud with Kota Ibushi which culminated in a match between the two at Dominion 6.6 in Osaka-jo Hall, which Jeff Cobb lost.
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Jeff Cobb then began a feud with Kazuchika Okada, which started when Jeff Cobb pinned Okada in a tag match.
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Jeff Cobb defeated Togi Makabe, Satoshi Kojima and YOSHI-HASHI, but lost to Tetsuya Naito in the quarter final round.
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Jeff Cobb reshifted his focus to tag team competition with Great O-Khan who had been teaming with Aaron Henare.
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Jeff Cobb finished the tournament with 6 points, failing to advance to the semi-finals.
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On July 21,2018, Jeff Cobb made his Ring of Honor debut by attacking Eli Isom and FR Josie at a television taping.
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On December 10,2022 Jeff Cobb defeated Mascara Dorada during the Final Battle Pre-show.
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Jeff Cobb made his debut for All Elite Wrestling on the February 12,2020 episode of AEW Dynamite, attacking Jon Moxley alongside The Inner Circle.
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Jeff Cobb wrestled his AEW debut match on the following week's episode of Dynamite, in a losing effort to Moxley.
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Jeff Cobb returned to AEW programming in 2023, on the March 29 edition of Dynamite, challenging Kenny Omega for the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship, in a losing effort.
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Jeff Cobb's finishers are a spinning scoop powerslam variation called "The Tour of the Islands" and a Gachimuchi-Sault.
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Jeff Cobb described his character like Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers.
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Jeff Cobb's mother, Elaine was born in Guam to Filipino immigrants.
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Jeff Cobb's parents later moved to Hawaii, where he was born, but moved back to Guam when he was 11.