Quicksilver (wrestler)

Infobox Wrestler
name=Richard Clements


names=Quicksilver
El Hombre Blanco Enmascarado
height=6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
weight=174 lb (79 kg)
birth_date =
death_date =
birth_place = San Diego, California
resides=San Diego, California
trainer=American Wild Child
debut=2002
retired=|

Rick Clements is an American professional wrestler from San Diego, California, better known as Quicksilver.

Career

Quicksilver is a regular on the California independent circuit, working for local promotions in the area such as Alternative Wrestling Show, Revolution Pro Wrestling, Southern California Championship Wrestling and Battle Ground Pro Wrestling. He also occasionally worked some shows for major East Coast indy promotions Combat Zone Wrestling and Jersey All Pro Wrestling.

Beginning his career in Revolution Pro, Quicksilver was a graduate of its Rudos Dojo wrestling school along with Chris Bosh, Scorpio Sky, and many others. After debuting in the Fight For The Revolution Tournament in which the winner would receive a contract with the company, Quicksilver would advance all the way to the finals against Scorpio Sky ending in a time limit draw. Both men were given contracts.

Quicksilver and Scorpio Sky would then form the team of the Aerial Express, or AXP for short. They had great success quickly running through all the top tag teams and becoming Southern California Tag Team of the Year in both 2003 and 2004. The Aerial Express won the AWS tag team titles 2 times. In late 2004 Quicksilver would win the finals of the Spirit of the Revolution Tournament defeating Pheonix Star in the finals. He would then go on to compete in the 2004 Revolution J tournament losing to partner Scorpio Sky in the finals. Soon after he defeated Scorpio Sky to become the Revolution Pro Junior Heavyweight Champion on the final Rev Pro show.

In 2005 he would also hold the AWS Light Heavyweight Title at the same time and would lose and regain The Revolution Pro Junior title becoming the last man to ever hold the championship.

In 2007, Quicksilver arrived in Wrestling Society X as El Hombre Blanco Enmascarado. He debut on WSX against Human Tornado but ended in a no contest after Tornado was attacked backstage by 6-Pac who also attacked him. He was a main stream on WSX-tra where he formed a tag team with old school wrestler Scott Colton "(Matt Classic)".

Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (2004-2007)

After arriving in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, Quicksilver and tag team partner Scorpio Sky, known as the Aerial Express, were successful but when Scorpio Sky was sidelined due to injury, Quicksilver found himself teaming up with Chris Bosh, Quicksilver won the PWG Tag Team titles with Chris but lost them soon after.

Quicksilver then teamed back up with Scorpio Sky with Dino Windwood as their manager to chase the PWG tag titles in 2004 and 2005. They received shots at then champions Arrogance(Scott Lost & Chris Bosh) but were unsuccessful. In the summer of 2005 they defeated Los Luchas(Zokre & Phoenix Star) to become #1 Contenders and once again were given a shot at the belts in a Masks vs. Titles match, If the Aerial Express lost they would be forced to remove their masks. This time they were victorious.

By winning the PWG World Tag Team Championship in July 2005 with Scorpio Sky, Quicksilver won his second PWG Tag Title after winning it previously with Chris Bosh. However, during late 2005, the team split and Quicksilver competed in PWG as a singles wrestler. Quick chased Joey Ryan's PWG World Title but was unsuccessful in attempts to capture it. Quick then team with El Generico. This new team was known as Cape Fear.

As with the Aerial Express, Quicksilver again enjoyed a reign as one half of the PWG World Tag Team Champions, giving Quick his third PWG tag title. Quicksilver then suffered a class two concussion during the February 10, 2007 show in Van Nuys, California. Due to this concussion, the PWG Tag Team Titles were not defended on February 24 and were vacated on March 10 2007. Since then, Quicksilver has not wrestled.

In wrestling

*Finishing and signature moves:*"Silver Bullet" (Spike piledriver):*"Silverado Slam" (Spinning spinebuster, sometimes from the second rope):*"Silver Flash" (Sitout Death Valley driver):*"Silver Spike" (Lifting DDT):*"Silver Side Up" (Front Russian legsweep):*"Silver Slice" (Snapmare driver):*Corkscrew dropkick:*Standing 450° splash:*Electric chair drop:*Standing moonsault:*Hurricanrana:*Corkscrew moonsault:*Springboard lariat:*Suicide dive

*Managers:*Dino Winwood:*So Cal Val

*"'Theme music:*"The Man on the Silver Mountain" by Rainbow (However, it is often sung "a cappella" by his friend and manager Dino Winwood):*"Hooked on a Feeling by David Hasselhoff

Championships and accomplishments

*Alternative Wrestling Show:*AWS Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time) cite web|url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/other/2005-04.html | title=Independent Wrestling Results - April 2005 | accessdate=2008-07-04|publisher=onlineworldofwrestling.com]

*Revolution Pro Wrestling:*Revolution Pro Junior Heavyweight Championship (2 times) (Last) :*Fight For The Revolution Co-Winner(w/Scorpio Sky):*2004 Spirit Of The Revolution Tournament Winner

*Pro Wrestling Guerrilla:*PWG World Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Scorpio Sky, Chris Bosh [cite web|url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/other/2004-03.html | title=Independent Wrestling Results - March 2004 | accessdate=2008-07-04|publisher=onlineworldofwrestling.com] and El Generico

*Southern Californian awards:*Southern California Rookie of the Year (2003):*Southern California Tag Team of the Year – with Scorpio Sky (2003, 2004):*Southern California Tag Team of the Year – with El Generico (2006)

*Pro Wrestling Illustrated:*PWI ranked him # 479 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI Years in 2007 Ranked 479cite web | url= http://www.100megsfree/wiawrestling/pages/pwi/pwi50007.html | title= Pro Wrestling's Top 500 | publisher= Pro Wrestling Illustrated | accessdate=2008-08-12] :*PWI ranked him # 373 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI Years in 2006cite web | url= http://www.100megsfree/wiawrestling/pages/pwi/pwi50006.html | title= Pro Wrestling's Top 500 | publisher= Pro Wrestling Illustrated | accessdate=2008-08-12]

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