

The following day, he teamed with Player Uno in a losing effort to Taylor and Cloudy. On June 24, Ricochet made his Chikara debut as he lost in the first round of the fourth Young Lions Cup tournament against Chuck Taylor. Chikara Young Lions Cup champion (2006–2008) Ricochet in 2008
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On that same day, Ricochet also competed at Insanity Pro Wrestling's event Mischief, Mayhem and Revenge, where he lost to Taylor for the promotion's Junior Heavyweight Championship. Although he lost the match to Darin Corbin, he was involved in an infamous spot in which he performed his finishing move, a double rotation moonsault, off of a ladder to the outside of the ring and onto the other eight competitors. Ī few months later at IWA Mid-South's event We're No Joke! on April 1, Ricochet took part in a nine-man Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match to determine the one contender for the Light Heavyweight Championship, also involving his rival Chuck Taylor. A few weeks later on February 18, Ricochet took part in his first major championship match as he, Chuck Taylor, Jeff Jameson, Brian Sterling and Cabana Man Dan took part in another five-man elimination match at Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South's Xtreme Warfare event for the vacant Deep South Heavyweight Championship, which Cabana Man Dan won.

Ricochet was the final wrestler eliminated as Taylor pinned him to win the match. He began competing on the independent circuit until he made his first major outing on February 6, 2006, at Insanity Pro Wrestling's Sacrifice event, where he took part in a five-man elimination match involving future long-time rival Chuck Taylor, DieHard, Tony Galloway and Ty Blade. Trevor Mann started out in Chaos Pro Wrestling in 2003 under the ring name Ricochet.
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Professional wrestling career Early career (2003–2006) He later would go on to win the Intercontinental Championship on an episode of SmackDown in 2022, making him the first wrestler to hold all of WWE's three major secondary titles. After officially moving to the main roster following WrestleMania 35, Ricochet would win his first main roster title, the United States Championship, at Stomping Grounds. This led to him teaming with Aleister Black, winning the fourth annual Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, and challenging for the Raw Tag Team Championship at Fastlane and the SmackDown Tag Team Championship at WrestleMania 35. In February 2019, Ricochet started appearing on the main roster, making appearances on Raw and SmackDown Live. He lost the title to Johnny Gargano at NXT TakeOver: Phoenix in early 2019. Mann also worked for the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania–based Chikara promotion, working under a mask as Helios.Īfter signing with WWE in 2018, Ricochet beat Fabian Aichner in his debut match for NXT and later competed at NXT TakeOver: New Orleans for the NXT North American Championship, a title he would eventually win four months later at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn IV.

Mann is also known for his tenure with Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) from 2010 to 2018, where he is a former World Champion, and the only two time Battle of Los Angeles (BOLA) winner, winning the 20 tournaments. Mann also wrestled as Prince Puma for American promotion Lucha Underground, where he was the inaugural and first ever two-time Lucha Underground Champion. Outside of WWE, Mann is best known for his tenure with various Japanese promotions such as Dragon Gate (DG) and its American branch Dragon Gate USA (DGUSA), where he held the Open the Brave, Dream, Triangle, Twin and Freedom Gate Championships once, and also won the 2013 King of Gate, DDT Pro-Wrestling's umbrella brand CyberFight, where he won the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship once, and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he won the 2014 Best of the Super Juniors tournament, and the 2015 Super Junior Tag League tournament alongside Matt Sydal, in addition to being a former three-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion and a former three-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Ricochet.

Trevor Dean Mann (born October 11, 1988) is an American professional wrestler.
