reDRagon

reDRagon

O'Reilly (left) and Fish (right) as the ROH World Tag Team Champions
Tag team
Members Bobby Fish
Kyle O'Reilly
Name(s) reDRagon
Heights 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) – O'Reilly
5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) – Fish
Combined
weight		 407 lb (185 kg)
Debut November 3, 2012
Promotions ROH
HRW
PCW
NJPW
PWG
wXw[1]

reDRagon is a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish. The duo is currently signed with Ring of Honor (ROH), where they are former three-time ROH World Tag Team Champions, and also appear in New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) through ROH's talent exchange partnership, where they are former two-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions.

History

Ring of Honor (2012–present)

On December 16, 2012 at Final Battle 2012: Doomsday, Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish (known as reDRagon) faced the reformed American Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) in a losing effort.[2] At the following iPPV, 11th Anniversary Show on March 2, 2013, O'Reilly and Fish defeated the Briscoe Brothers for the ROH World Tag Team Championship.[3] The same month, they successfully defended the championship against Alabama Attitude (Corey Hollis and Mike Posey), before retaining it at Best in the World 2013 in June in a three-way match against the C & C Wrestle Factory (Caprice Coleman and Cedric Alexander) and S.C.U.M. (Cliff Compton and Rhett Titus).[4][5] They lost the title to the Forever Hooligans (Alex Koslov and Rocky Romero) on July 27, but regained the title from the American Wolves on August 17.[6][7] Over the next several months reDRagon successfully defended the championship against teams including the C & C Wrestle Factory, the Forever Hooligans, and Jay Lethal and Michael Elgin.[8][9] They retained the championship against Outlaw, Inc. (Homicide and Eddie Kingston) at Final Battle 2013 in December and Adrenaline Rush (ACH and TaDarius Thomas) at the 12th Anniversary Show in February 2014.[10][11] On March 8, 2014, reDRagon lost the title to The Young Bucks.[12] ReDRagon regained the ROH World Tag Team Championship from The Young Bucks on May 17, at the ROH and New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) co-promoted pay-per-view War of the Worlds.[13] They successfully defended the championship against The Briscoe Brothers on June 7.[14] On June 22, 2014, at Best in the World reDRagon defeated The Addiction (Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian) to retain the ROH World Tag Team Championship.

On November 23, 2014, reDRagon defeated ACH and Matt Sydal, The Addiction and The Briscoes to retain the ROH World Tag Team Championship and win the Tag Wars tournament.[15] Their victory was followed by successful title defenses against the Time Splitters (Alex Shelley and Kushida) at Final Battle 2014 and The Young Bucks at ROH's 13th Anniversary Show in March 2015.[16][17] At Supercard of Honor IX, they retained the championship against The Kingdom (Matt Taven and Michael Bennett).[18] Fish and O'Reilly lost the tag team title to The Addiction at the Ring of Honor Wrestling tapings on April 4.[19] After losing the tag titles both men would move into singles feuds with O'Reilly feuding with former Future Shock partner Adam Cole, while Fish would attempt to capture the ROH World Television Championship. At Final Battle 2015 O'Reilly lost to Cole while Fish failed to capture the ROH Television Title losing to Roderick Strong. At the ROH 14th Anniversary show both men competed in triple threat matches for championships, Fish facing Strong and Tomohiro Ishii for the ROH TV title, while O'Reilly faced Jay Lethal and Adam Cole for the ROH World Championship, however both men failed to capture the titles.

At Global Wars O'Reilly lost to the IWGP Heavyweight Champion Tetsuya Naito while Bobby captured the ROH TV Title beating Ishii.

Independent circuit (2014–present)

On May 30, 2014, reDRagon unsuccessfully challenged Team Single (Rampage Brown & T-Bone) for the PCW Tag Team Championships.[20] The following night reDRagon defeated Legion Of Boom (Chris Masters & Dave Rayne).[21] And later that night defeated Project Lucha (El Ligero & Martin Kirby).[22] On August 30, 2014, reDRagon made their Pro Wrestling Guerrilla debut, defeating Biff Busick and Drew Gulak.[23] On October 12, 2014, reDRagon were defeated by Moose and Uhaa Nation via disqualification at HRW Here Comes The Pain.[24] On December 28, 2014, reDRagon defeated The Colony (Fire Ant and Silver Ant) to win the HRW Tag Team Championships.[25]

New Japan Pro Wrestling (2014–present)

Through ROH's relationship with NJPW, reDRagon made an appearance for the Japanese promotion on August 10, unsuccessfully challenging Time Splitters (Alex Shelley and Kushida) for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.[26] reDRagon returned to NJPW on October 25 to take part in the 2014 Super Jr. Tag Tournament.[27] On November 3, reDRagon defeated The Young Bucks in the finals to win the tournament.[28] Five days later at Power Struggle, reDRagon defeated Time Splitters in a rematch to become the new IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions.[29] They made their first successful title defense on January 4, 2015, at Wrestle Kingdom 9 in Tokyo Dome, in a four-way match against Forever Hooligans, Time Splitters and The Young Bucks.[30] On February 11 at The New Beginning in Osaka, reDRagon lost the title to The Young Bucks in a three-way match, also involving Time Splitters.[31][32] reDRagon returned to NJPW on May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2015, where they unsuccessfully challenged for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship in a three-way match with Roppongi Vice (Beretta and Rocky Romero) and The Young Bucks.[33] Another three-way title match took place on July 5 at Dominion 7.5 in Osaka-jo Hall and saw The Young Bucks retain their title.[34] On August 16, reDRagon defeated The Young Bucks to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship for the second time.[35] They lost the title back to The Young Bucks in a four-way match on January 4, 2016, at Wrestle Kingdom 10 in Tokyo Dome.[36] On May 3 it was announced that both men would compete in the 2016 Best of the Super Juniors tournament. Both men finished their respective blocks with 8 points each however neither advanced to the finals losing to Will Ospreay.

In wrestling

Championships and accomplishments

reDRagon as the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions in November 2015

References

  1. ↑ "Ergebnisse vom zweiten Abend des World Tag Team Tournaments". Westside Xtreme Wrestling (in German). Retrieved October 3, 2015.
  2. ↑ Namako, Jason (December 16, 2012). "ROH Final Battle Results – 12/16/12". WrestleView. Retrieved December 23, 2012.
  3. ↑ Carapola, Stuart (March 2, 2013). "Complete ROH 11th Anniversary Show iPPV coverage: two title changes hands, SCUM doubles in size, and a ton of great wrestling as ROH presents their best overall event in years". Pro Wrestling Insider. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Show Results – 3/30 ROH in Asheville, N.C.: Former WWE star "announces retirement," ROH Title match, more". Pro Wrestling Torch. March 31, 2013. Retrieved December 19, 2013.
  5. ↑ Caldwell, James (June 23, 2013). "Show Results – 6/22 ROH BITW iPPV in Baltimore, Md.: Briscoe vs. Briscoe for ROH Title, Hardy tops Steen in No DQ match, more". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved December 19, 2013.
  6. ↑ Caldwell, James (July 28, 2013). "ROH News: New ROH tag champions, Results from Night 1 of ROH Title tournament". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved July 28, 2013.
  7. ↑ Caldwell, James (August 18, 2013). "Show results – 8/17 ROH in New York City: New ROH tag champions, ROH Title tournament continues, Homicide returns with a friend, more". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved August 18, 2013.
  8. ↑ "ROH Spoilers – 9/21 ROH in Philadelphia, Pa.: Results for TV episodes following Death Before Dishonor". Pro Wrestling Torch. September 22, 2013. Retrieved December 19, 2013.
  9. ↑ Caldwell, James (October 6, 2013). "Show Results – 10/5 ROH in Baltimore, Md.: All titles defended, including impromptu ROH Title match". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved December 19, 2013.
  10. ↑ Caldwell, James (December 15, 2013). "Show Results – 12/14 ROH "Final Battle" in NYC: Cole defends ROH Title, Hero returns, new TV champ, Hardy, more". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved December 19, 2013.
  11. ↑ "Show Results – 2/21 ROH Anniversary show in Philadelphia, Pa.: Cole vs. Hero for ROH Title, A.J. Styles, two other title matches, Hardy misses the show, more". Pro Wrestling Torch. February 22, 2014. Retrieved March 30, 2014.
  12. ↑ Johnson, Mike (March 8, 2014). "New ROH tag Team Champions crowned". Pro Wrestling Insider. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
  13. ↑ Meltzer, Dave (May 17, 2014). "ROH/New Japan Pro Wrestling live coverage & results: AJ Styles, Okada, Elgin, Liger, more". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved May 18, 2014.
  14. ↑ "Show Results – 6/7 ROH in Collinsville, Ill.: Cole defends ROH Title, Tag Title main event, final show pre-BITW PPV". Pro Wrestling Torch. June 8, 2014. Retrieved June 8, 2014.
  15. 1 2 Namako, Jason (November 23, 2014). "Spoilers: 11/22 ROH TV Tapings in Baltimore (Tag Wars)". Wrestleview. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
  16. ↑ Namako, Jason (December 7, 2014). "ROH Final Battle PPV Results - 12/7/14 (Briscoe vs. Cole)". WrestleView. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
  17. ↑ Martin, Adam (March 1, 2015). "3/1 ROH 13th Anniversary PPV Results: Las Vegas, Nevada". WrestleView. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
  18. ↑ Namako, Jason (March 28, 2015). "3/27 ROH Supercard of Honor IX Results: Redwood City, CA". WrestleView. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
  19. ↑ "Show results - 4/4 ROH in San Antonio, Tex.: Major title change & debut (contains spoilers for upcoming TV episodes)". Pro Wrestling Torch. April 4, 2015. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
  20. ↑ "PCW SuperShow 4 Day 1 results".
  21. ↑ "PCW SuperShow 4 Day 2 results".
  22. ↑ "PCW SuperShow 4 Day 2 results".
  23. ↑ "PWG Battle of Los Angeles results".
  24. ↑ "HRW Here Comes The Pain results".
  25. ↑ "HRW Makes A Great Stocking Stuffer Results".
  26. ↑ Caldwell, James (August 10, 2014). "Caldwell's New Japan G1 Climax finals results 8/10: Complete "virtual-time" coverage of Okada vs. Nakamura tournament finals, Styles vs. Tanahashi, Jeff Jarrett, ROH tag champs, more". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved August 10, 2014.
  27. ↑ "Road to Power Struggle" (in Japanese). New Japan Pro Wrestling. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  28. 1 2 Caldwell, James (November 3, 2014). "ROH/NJPW news: ROH tag champs win Super Jrs. tournament". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  29. 1 2 "Power Struggle" (in Japanese). New Japan Pro Wrestling. Retrieved November 8, 2014.
  30. ↑ Caldwell, James (January 4, 2015). "Caldwell's NJPW Tokyo Dome show results 1/4: Complete "virtual-time" coverage of live Wrestle Kingdom PPV - Tanahashi vs. Okada, Bullet Club, Nakamura, Jim Ross, more". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
  31. ↑ "The New Beginning in Osaka". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved February 11, 2015.
  32. ↑ Caldwell, James (February 11, 2015). "NJPW news: Bullet Club takes top titles at "New Beginning" - Styles new IWGP World Champ, other title changes". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved February 11, 2015.
  33. ↑ "レスリングどんたく 2015". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved May 3, 2015.
  34. ↑ Meltzer, Dave (July 4, 2015). "New Japan Dominion live coverage from Osaka Jo Hall - Styles vs. Okada for IWGP title, Nakamura vs. Goto for IC title and notes on biggest event since the Tokyo Dome, plus all G-1 main events". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved July 5, 2015.
  35. 1 2 Meltzer, Dave (August 15, 2015). "NJPW G1 Climax 8-16 live results: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shinsuke Nakamura". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
  36. ↑ Meltzer, Dave (January 3, 2016). "Wrestle Kingdom 10 live results: Kazuchika Okada vs Hiroshi Tanahashi". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  37. ↑ "Kyle O'Reilly". Ring of Honor. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
  38. ↑ "ROH Report for Feb. 23 - Kevin Steen vs. Kyle O'Reilly". Fight Network. 2014-02-23. Retrieved 2014-03-01.
  39. ↑ "SHOW RESULTS - 3/21 AAW Anniv. Show in Berwyn, Ill.: Cabana & Jacobs in main event, AAW Tag Title match, more". PWTorch.com. 2014-03-21. Retrieved 2014-03-22.
  40. ↑ "Guerrilla Reviewfare: PWG Battle of Los Angeles 2013 - Night 2". 411mania.com. 2013-08-30. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
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