Bobby Fish

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Bobby Fish
Bobby Fish ROH World Tag Team Champ.jpg
Fish in September 2013 as ROH World Tag Team Champion
Born (1976-10-27) October 27, 1976 (age 47)[1]
Albany, New York, United States
Residence Colonie, New York, United States
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s) Bobby Fish
Jerk Jackson
Madden Fisher
Billed height 5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Billed weight 200 lb (91 kg)
Billed from Albany, New York
Saratoga Springs, New York
Trained by Tony DeVito
Harley Race
Debut 2002

Bobby Fish (born October 27, 1976) is an American professional wrestler, who is best known for wrestling with Ring of Honor, Evolve Wrestling, and Pro Wrestling Noah in Japan. Fish is a former three-time ROH World Tag Team Champion with Kyle O'Reilly as reDRagon. In 2010, he began competing in mixed martial arts.

Professional wrestling career

Independent circuit (2002–present)

Bobby Fish made his pro wrestling debut in 2002 after training with Tony Devito.[2] He competed for several years in the Northeast under the names Jerk Jackson and Madden Fisher before settling on the name he continues to use, Bobby Fish. He made his debut for Ring of Honor on October 2, 2004 where he teamed with Scott Cardinal and lost to the Rebel's Army.[3] He would be utilized as a jobber for ROH for the entirety of his early appearance. Fish wrestled for Pro Wrestling Unplugged for the majority of his early career making his debut in February 2005. He formed a partnership with Scott Cardinal, whom he had wrestled many times on the Northeast indie scene. On May 20, he and Cardinal defeated three other teams to win the vacant PWU Tag Team Championship before vacting them in September.

After returning from his first tour with Noah, Fish returned to the Northeastern independent circuit and continues to compete there when he returns from Noah tours. Fish wrestled for New England Championship Wrestling regularly between his early tours of Noah. In April 2007, he defeated DC Dillinger by disqualification in a match for the NECW Undisputed Triple Crown Championship, but failed win the title. Fish took part in Iron 8 2007, making it to the finals where he lost to Eddie Edwards. Fish returned to ROH at Reborn Again in a loss to Claudio Castagnoli, teamed with Matt Cross at Final Battle 2007 in a loss against the Vulture Squad[3] (Ruckus and Jigsaw), and appeared in several matches on Ring of Honor Wrestling in 2009.[4]

In 2009, he was announced as one of the participants scheduled to wrestle on the first Evolve Wrestling show.[5] On January 10, 2010, he performed in the opening match at Evolve 1, in which he lost to Kyle O'Reilly via pinfall.[6]

Pro Wrestling Noah (2006–2013)

Fish first toured Japan in 2006 with Pro Wrestling Noah, making his debut on May 19, 2006 defeating Atsushi Aoki. Since 2006, Fish continues to tour with Noah at least once a year, sometimes enjoying several tours a year. In 2010, Fish and Eddie Edwards lost to Ricky Marvin and Taiji Ishimori in the semi final of the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship tournament. Fish participated in 2011s Global League gaining only four points. In 2012, Fish and Edwards participated in NTV G Cup Junior Heavyweight League, once again gaining four points. From April 17 to 24, 2013, Fish and Edwards took part in the 2013 Global Tag League, where they won one of their four matches, failing to advance from their block.

Ring of Honor (2013–2015)

Fish as one-half of the ROH World Tag Team Champions in 2013.

On March 2, 2013, Fish and Kyle O'Reilly defeated the Briscoe Brothers for the ROH World Tag Team Championship.[7] They successfully defended the championship against Alabama Attitude (Corey Hollis and Mike Posey) that same month, and retained 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).[8][9] They lost the title to Forever Hooligans (Alex Koslov and Rocky Romero) on July 27.[10] They regained the title from The American Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) on August 17.[11] Throughout the remainder of 2013, reDRagon successfully defended the championship against teams including the C & C Wrestle Factory, the Forever Hooligans, Jay Lethal and Michael Elgin, and Outlaw, Inc. (Homicide and Eddie Kingston).[12][13][14] In 2014, they retained the championship against Adrenaline Rush (ACH and TaDarius Thomas) at the 12th Anniversary Show in February, before losing the title on March 8 to The Young Bucks.[15][16]

Fish and O'Reilly regained the 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.[17] They successfully defended the championship against The Briscoe Brothers on June 7 and against Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian at ROH's first live pay-per-view Best in the World 2014 on June 22.[18][19] 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.[20] They followed up their victory with successful defenses against the Time Splitters (Alex Shelley and Kushida) at Final Battle 2014, The Young Bucks at the ROH 13th Anniversary Show, and The Kingdom (Michael Bennett and Matt Taven) at Supercard of Honor IX in March 2015.[21][22][23] Fish and O'Reilly lost the tag team title to The Addiction (Daniels and Kazarian) at the Ring of Honor Wrestling tapings on April 4.[24] On May 13, during the second night of War of the Worlds '15, Fish unsuccessfully challenged Jay Briscoe for the ROH World Championship.[25]

New Japan Pro Wrestling (2014–2015)

Fish in NJPW in November 2015

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 (Baretta and Rocky Romero) and The Young Bucks.[33] Later that month, Fish entered the 2015 Best of the Super Juniors.[34] He finished second in his block with a record of five wins and two losses, narrowly missing advancement to the finals of the tournament.[35] Following the tournament, reDRagon received a rematch for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship in a three-way match, also involving Roppongi Vice, but were again defeated by The Young Bucks on July 5 at Dominion 7.5 in Osaka-jo Hall.[36] On August 16, reDRagon defeated The Young Bucks to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship for the second time.[37] 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.[38]

Mixed martial arts

Fish trained with Jerrick Jones at Albany Boxing before his MMA debut on January 29, 2010. He had his first fight for the Cage Wars organization at the Washington Avenue Armory in Albany, NY and defeated Justin Pierpoint by TKO in the 3rd round after Pierpoint suffered a broken nose at the end of the 2nd.[39]

In wrestling

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Championships and accomplishments

Fish and Kyle O'Reilly as the ROH World Tag Team Champions
  • Collision Pro Wrestling
  • High Risk Wrestling
    • HRW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Kyle O'Reilly[41][42]
  • Pro Wrestling Unscripted
    • PWU Tag Team Champion (1 time) – with Scott Cardinal[44]

References

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