Jigsaw (wrestler)

Infobox Wrestler
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birth_date = birth date and age|1983|12|16
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birth_place = The Bronx, New York
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resides= Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
billed= The Bronx, New York
trainer=Kevin Knight
The Wrestle Factory
Mike Quackenbush
debut=November 16, 2002
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website= [http://www.geocities.com/wrestlingriddle/index2.html WrestlingRiddle.com]
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Jigsaw (born December 12, 1983) is the ring name an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his work in many American wrestling promotions including: CHIKARA, Ring of Honor, Full Impact Pro, and Combat Zone Wrestling. Jigsaw has described his wrestling style as a combination of Japan-style and Lucha Libre [ cite web |url=http://www.geocities.com/wrestlingriddle/bio.html |title=Biography |accessdate= |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year=2004 |month= |format= |work=Jigsaw Info |publisher=WrestlingRiddle.com |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] , and has innovated and performed many unorthodox wrestling moves in his brief tenure as a wrestler.

Career

Jigsaw was initally trained by Kevin Knight at the Independent Wrestling Federation in West Paterson, New Jersey, training alonside his brother Jolly Roger, Eddie Kingston and "Black" Jack Marciano. After leaving the school in 2002, Jigsaw began training at the CHIKARA Wrestle Factory under Mike Quackenbush. [cite video | people = Eddie Kingston | title = Last of Dying Breed: The Eddie Kingston Story | medium = DVD | publisher = SmartMarkVideo.com | location = | year2 = 2008 ] Jigsaw made his CHIKARA debut in 2002 in a two out of three falls eight-man tag team match alongside other students and his trainer Mike Quackenbush, which saw Jigsaw's team lose. [ cite web |url=http://www.geocities.com/wrestlingriddle/results.html |title=Jigsaw's Match History |accessdate= |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year=2004 |month= |format= |work=Jigsaw Info |publisher=WrestlingRiddle.com |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] He would continue to work mainly for CHIKARA with a good amount of success, and developing his Jigsaw character under a mask that revealed no facial features, developing a persona called "Wrestling's Riddle". As CHIKARA grew, Jigsaw spread himself out a little bit more, and would venture into other promotions and gaining a measure of fame in 2004, where he won CHIKARA's Torneo Cibernetico match, which was seventy-seven minutes long. Following that, he would go on to win the Chikara Young Lions Cup, his first title, from Larry Sweeney, which he held for nine months. In 2005, he would wrestle in a multitude of different tournaments, but would always get eliminated during the semifinals.

He won his second title, the CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship from Sonjay Dutt at "Expect the Unexpected". Jigsaw stayed at a constant rate to 2007, where he received more of a push, and won the King of Trios tournament with Mike Quackenbush and Shane Storm. Following this, he impressed Ring of Honor enough to get some matches there, teaming with his mentor Quackenbush to gain some levels of success. [ cite web |url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/j/jigsaw.html |title=Jigsaw |accessdate= |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year=2008 |month=August |format= |work=Wrestler Profiles |publisher=OnlineWorldofWrestling.com |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] He would be given another push with ROH, and was placed in a stable known as The Vulture Squad alongside Ruckus, Jack Evans, and Julius Smokes during the company's faction wars. After Evans and Smokes departed from the company, Jigsaw and Ruckus became a tag team by themselves under the same name. In the spring of 2008 Jigsaw was forced to remove his mask after he and Ruckus were defeated by Davey Richards and Rocky Romero in a ROH World Tag Team Championship match at ROH's 6th Anniversary Show. [ cite web |url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/roh/080316.html |title=Ring of Honor Wrestling Results |accessdate= |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work=ROH History |publisher=OnlineWorldofWrestling.com |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] He has recently become involved in a feud with Combat Zone Wrestling's Eddie Kingston over the fact that his tag partner Ruckus is part of the Vulture Squad in Ring of Honor and The Blackout in CZW. Eddie Kingston has turned up unannounced at various Ring of Honor shows harassing Ruckus and asking him to choose sides. Jigsaw recently had a match against Kingston at "Respect Is Earned II", but he subsequently lost.

In wrestling

*Finishing and signature moves
**"Jig–n–Tonic" (Cradle back to belly piledriver)
**Shining wizard
**Corkscrew moonsault
**Moonsault
**Cross–armed scoop brainbuster
**Frankensteiner, sometimes from the top rope
**Prawn hold
**Superkick

*Nicknames
**"Wrestling's Riddle"
**"The Wrestling Riddle Wrapped In An Enigma"

*Theme songs
**"Once Upon a Time" by Cirque du Soleil
**"Rock the Casbah" by Trust Company

Championships and accomplishments

*CHIKARA
**Young Lions Cup II
**Torneo Cibernetico winner (2004)
**King of Trios tournament winner (2007) – with Mike Quackenbush and Shane Storm

*"'Combat Zone Wrestling
**CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time) [ cite web |url=http://www.solie.org/titlehistories/lhwtczw.html |title=CZW Junior Heavyweight Title History |accessdate= |author=Westcott, Brian |authorlink= |coauthors=Adam Fenwick |date= |year=2007 |month= |format= |work= |publisher=Solie's Title Histories |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ]

*Pro Wrestling Illustrated
**PWI ranked him # 208 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI 500 in 2008.

References

External links

* [http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/j/jigsaw.html Profile at Online World of Wrestling]
* [http://www.accelerator3359.com/Wrestling/bios/jigsaw.html Accelerator's Wrestling Rollercoaster: Jigsaw]
* [http://www.cagematch.de/?id=2&nr=2126&worker=Jigsaw CageMatch.de - Jigsaw] ger
* [http://ringofhonor.wikia.com/wiki/Jigsaw Jigsaw] at the [http://ringofhonor.wikia.com Ring of Honor Wiki]