Brandon Silvestry

Infobox Wrestler
name= Brandon Silvestry


image_size=200px
names=Kwik Kick
Quick Kick
Low-Key
Loki
Lo Ki
Low-Ki
Low Ki
Senshi
height=height|ft=5|in=8
weight=convert|180|lb|kg st|abbr=on|lk=on
birth_date=birth date and age|year=1979|month=9|day=6
death_date=
birth_place=Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, New York City, USA
death_place=
resides=
billed=Brooklyn, New York
trainer= Homicide
Jim Kettner
debut= October 10, 1998
retired=|

Brandon Silvestry (born September 6 1979), better known by his ring name, Low Ki, is an American professional wrestler of Puerto Rican descent. Low Ki is known for his mixed martial arts wrestling style such as full contact kicks and wide variety of submission moves. He is also known for his serious approach to his profession. He is known for his career in Ring of Honor, TNA Wrestling and IWA Mid South. He was the first ROH World Heavyweight Champion when he competed in Ring of Honor and a two-time X Division Championship in TNA Wrestling.

Career

Silvestry admits that the name "Low Ki", originally spelled Low-Key, came from the lyrics of the BLACKstreet song, "No Diggity". In 2000 on an episode of WWF Metal he wrestled the then WWE Hardcore Champion Crash.cite web |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvDDPb5BxPk |title=WWF Crash Holly vs Low Ki] Silvestry is considered one of the top independent talents and athletes in the world and is known for his use of various brutal strikes. Because of this, many people assumed that he legitimately knocked out opponent Dan Maff early in their main event match at ROH's "Bitter Friends, Stiffer Enemies" in 2003 with his "Tidal Wave" springboard enzuigiri, causing the match to be stopped.He is also known for his intensity, focus, and serious approach to wrestling, which he calls his "art." Ki is also known for keeping up his character, even outside of the wrestling ring, as well as pumping himself up before matches by kicking walls.

Low Ki's attitude and conduct has come under scrutiny on several occasions; he was involved in a confrontation with Tammy Lynn Sytch in 2002 after he allegedly "took her chair"cite web |url= http://wrestlingnews8.tripod.com/wrestlingnews/id63.html|title=Wrestle News: Low-Ki Altercation with Tammy Lynn-Sytch |accessdate=2007-07-13 ] cite web |url= http://www.owow.com/frameindex.htm?goto=http%3A//www.owow.com/RingsideWith/Tammy/index.htm |title=Official Women of Wrestling |accessdate=2007-07-13 ] . Later the same year, at a New Age Wrestling Federation event in Connecticut, Low-Ki tried to inflict damage on his opponent, John Brooks. When Brooks retaliated a real fight broke out and sources say they also had a shoot fight in the parking lotcite web|url=http://wrestlingsgreatest.blogspot.com/2007/06/senshi-bio.html| title=Wrestlings Greatest: Senshi|accessdate=2007-07-13] . In 2004 The Blue Meanie claimed that Low Ki became belligerent and punched a door, damaging it in the process, during a pay dispute.

Ring of Honor

Low-Ki made his debut in Ring of Honor in its first show The Era of Honor Begins. In that show's main event he defeated "American Dragon" Bryan Danielson and "Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels. On July 27, 2002, at Crowning a Champion, Low-Ki became the first ever Ring Of Honor Champion by defeating Christopher Daniels, Spanky and Doug Williams in a Four Way Ironman match. on August 28, 2002, Low Ki successfully defended his title against AJ Styles in a very sporting contest. On September 21, 2002, at Unscripted, he would lose the title to Xavier, who, after winning the title, became a member of Christopher Daniels stable The Prophecy. Low Ki then faced Samoa Joe (Joe's debut) in a "Fight Without Honor". In what resembled more of an MMA fight, Low Ki won the competitive bout and they shook hands after the match. Low-Ki left the promotion in 2004 due to the infamous Feinstein incident in ROH. He returned to Ring of Honor in 2004 during the match, where Samoa Joe with the Briscoe Brothers fought against The Rottweilers (Homicide & the Havana Pitbulls). It looked like Low-Ki would save Samoa Joe from the beatdown by The Rottweilers, but instead he spat on the ROH Championship, which was then held by Samoa Joe, and joined the heel stable.

At "Weekend of Thunder Night 2" on November 6, 2004 he started a feud with Bryan Danielson, who was Low-Ki's partner in a match against Samoa Joe and Jushin "Thunder" Liger. Ki & Danielson lost the match and Low-Ki blamed his partner for that, so The Rottweilers started a beatdown on Danielson. On December 4, 2004, at "All Star Extravaganza II", Bryan Danielson defeated Homicide of The Rottweilers. In that same event Low-Ki wrestled Austin Aries in a #1 Contender's match to Samoa Joe's ROH Championship. The match ended in a draw. ROH Officials extended the match, but Low-Ki refused to wrestle, so the winner of the match became Austin Aries. Instead of facing Samoa Joe at "Final Battle 2004", Low-Ki wrestled Bryan Danielson, but Low Ki got himself disqualified and then attacked the referee. This was enough, for ROH officials to suspend him indefinitely as a result.

Low-Ki returned in 2005 and immediately attacked Jay Lethal at "Manhattan Mayhem" with his fellow Rottweiler, Homicide. The impromptu tag team match was made: The Rottweilers vs Samoa Joe & Jay Lethal. Low-Ki & Homicide won the match and injured Lethal with a Ghetto Stomp/Da Cop Killa combination. The feud continued at "Death Before Dishonor 3", where Low-Ki and Lethal faced each other in a singles match, but it ended in a no contest. They had a rematch at "Redemption", but the ending was the same and Rottweilers beat Lethal down after the match. Finally, at "Glory By Honor IV", a match between the two ended with Low-Ki getting a pinfall victory over Jay. It looked like the feud was over, but when Samoa Joe went on to save Colt Cabana from a beatdown by The Rottweilers, Jay Lethal came out to even the odds and said that he wanted yet another rematch with Low-Ki, which Lethal won this time, ending the feud. Later in the year, Low-Ki helped Homicide in his feud against Colt Cabana. On December 17, 2005, at "Final Battle 2005", he challenged KENTA for his GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship, but came up short. Low-Ki left ROH once again in January 2006. He won his last match against Jack Evans. He made a final appearance vs. Christopher Daniels, replacing Samoa Joe, who had a staph infection at "Tag Wars 2006". ROH covered his leaving by having the ROH commissioner Jim Cornette ban Low-Ki from Ring of Honor for life after it was discovered that he was the one who knocked Cornette's tooth out at that show. He was also used as a focus point (in name only) in the Cornette Homicide feud, with Cornette refusing to reinstate Low-Ki as Homicide's "Third Wish."cite web |url=http://www.accelerator3359.com/Wrestling/bios/lowki.html |title=Accelerator: Low-Ki Biography |accessdate=2007-07-13 ]

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

2002–2003

Low Ki's first trip to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling was for its debut show in a six-man tag match alongside AJ Styles and Jerry Lynn against the Flying Elvises. In NWA TNA 2, on June 26, 2002, he attempted (in a losing effort) to become the first NWA-TNA X Division Champion. He would though, eventually go on to win the title from A.J. Styles on August 2 at NWA TNA #8, but lost it two weeks later to Jerry Lynn. He would later form the Triple X stable with Christopher Daniels and Elix Skipper as part of the Sports Entertainment Xtreme superstable later that year, and would hold the NWA World Tag Team Championships twice, once each with Daniels and Skipper. When Daniels's greed for the X Division Title initially forced Low Ki out of Triple X, Ki would go on to battle Daniels in Ultimate X 2, but Low Ki's pursuit was unsuccessful. Low Ki would leave TNA in July 2003 to recover from a shoulder injury suffered in Ultimate X2 as well as to focus on his independent bookings.

2006–2008

At TNA Lockdown 2006, Christopher Daniels's mystery opponent was revealed to be the returning Low-Ki, who wrestled under the name of Senshi (Japanese for "warrior"). Low-Ki didn't want to sign away the rights to his ring name Low Ki to TNA, so he was renamed. He signed a long-term contract with TNA later under the name Senshi. Following Lockdown, Senshi was not seen in action for several weeks, completely missing the Sacrifice pay per view in the process. Instead, he was built up with a series of vignettes hyping his martial arts background, his intense training, and his desire to dominate the X Division once more, hinting at the possibility of challenging the incumbent X Division Champion, the undefeated Samoa Joe. Senshi eventually made his TNA iMPACT! debut on May 25 2006, defeating Jay Lethal, Alex Shelley, and Shark Boy in a four way match. Senshi defeated Sonjay Dutt, Alex Shelley, Shark Boy, Petey Williams and Jay Lethal at TNA Slammiversary 2006 to become the #1 contender to the X Division championship. Senshi went on to become champion on the June 22 2006 episode of TNA iMPACT! defeating Samoa Joe and Sonjay Dutt after he pinned Dutt. He defended the title on several occasions against various opponents until, 3 months later, he lost the title to Chris Sabin at Bound for Glory. Senshi would go on to be involved in the first Paparazzi Championship Series during late 2006 and into 2007. He later feuded with Austin Starr and in result faced him at the Destination X pay-per-view, where they fought in a Crossface Chickenwing match. Their feud would continue until TNA Lockdown in a six sides of steel match, which he won. At Slammiversary, he teamed with Rhino to defeat the Latin American Exchange. At Victory Road 2007 Senshi would go on to compete in a 10 man Ultimate X match which he would go on to lose. However after the match the stable Triple X was reformed with Senshi, "The Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels and the returning "Primetime" Elix Skipper. They would go on to win their reunion match on the July 19 edition of Impact against Serotonin. Triple X went on to face Jay Lethal and Sonjay Dutt and The Motor City Machine Guns at Hard Justice with a losing effort to Lethal and Dutt. Elix Skipper and Senshi also went on to face LAX at Bound for Glory in Ultimate X, ultimately losing when Hernandez grabbed the X. During TNA's annual Turning Point Pay-Per-View, Senshi participated in the Feast or Fired batte royal. Senshi would grab one of the briefcases and land on the floor, winning him a chance at a TNA championship match or to be fired. However he lost the briefcase in a match against Christopher Daniels on the following episode of iMPACT!. This would turn out to be beneficial for Senshi, as Daniels lost his job when the briefcase he won from Senshi turned out to be the one which resulted in the owner losing his job. During the month of December 2007, it was reported that Senshi has submitted his notice to TNA. On January 29th 2008, TNA officially removed Senshi's profile from their website.

Even though he is not apart of the company any longer, he is still featured in the new TNA Impact! game as a unlockable character, as well as providing the voice for storymode character "Suicide".

PWG (2008)

Low Ki won the PWG Championship on January 5, 2008, defeating Bryan Danielson. Low Ki recently forfeited the PWG Championship due to injury, and a tournament to crown a new champion was held on February 24, 2008, which was won by Human Tornado.

Ki returned to wrestling for PWG's All Star Weekend 7 on August 30, 2008 where he was a part of a 4-way for the PWG Championship; the match also featured Eddie Kingston, Necro Butcher and the current champion Chris Hero. Hero won the match when he pinned Kingston after a Rolling Elbow. Ki had Necro Butcher in a Dragon Clutch but was unable to get the submission as the referee counted the pin on Kingston. If Ki had won the title, his match the following night against Rocky Romero would have been a title match but was not and he beat Romero via submission with the Dragon Clutch.

Japan

Low Ki first made his trip to Japan with the Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE promotion. It was in ZERO-ONE that Ki won his first singles title, the ZERO-ONE International Junior Heavyweight Championship, which he won from Leonardo Spanky on September 16 2002. He held the title until losing it to Wataru Sakata on August 31 2003.

Ki left ZERO-ONE in mid-2004 to join Pro Wrestling NOAH, where he was instantly given a title shot against GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Yoshinobu Kanemaru. Since leaving TNA, Low Ki has signed with New Japan Pro Wrestling and joined Shinsuke Nakamura's Stable RISE, replacing the injured Milano Collection A.T.. In his first match back he suffered a knee injury, which required surgery. Ki returned to the promotion in September, defecting from RISE to join New Japan's main heel faction, GBH.

Low Ki captured the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship from Tiger Mask IV on September 21 2008 in Kobe, Japan on NJPW's "Circuit 2008 New Japan Generation" tour.

In wrestling

*Finishing and signature moves
**Dragon clutch
**"Ghetto Stomp" / "Warrior's Way" (Diving or standing double foot stomp executed in several different situations, such as to a grounded opponent, to an opponent caught between the middle and top rope, or to an opponent caught in the tree of woe position)
**"Ki Krusher" (Fisherman driver, sometimes from the top rope on rare occasions)
**"Black Magic" (Feint shining wizard spun backwards into a back heel kick)
**"Bite of the Dragon"
**Corkscrew 450° splash
**"Dragon Wings" (Double underhook suplex floating into a double underhook lock)
**Enzuigiri
**"Final Four" (Elevated cloverleaf)
**"Flashing Elbow" (Twisting elbow drop)
**"Iron Octopus" (Headscissors armbar)
**Knife-edge chop
**"Krush Combo" (Two stiff kicks to the chest followed by a high-speed roundhouse kick to the head of a kneeling opponent)
**"Krush Rush" (Running fireman's carry slam onto the top turnbuckle)
**Mongolian chop
**Rolling wheel kick
**"Soaring Dragon Special" (Cartwheel into over the top rope corkscrew suicide senton or suicide plancha)
**"Tidal Krush" (Cartwheel followed by a jumping high kick to a cornered opponent)
**"Tidal Wave" (Springboard enzuigiri)
**"Trapped Armbar" (Rope hung crucifix armbar)

*Managers
**Gary Hart
**Julius Smokes

Championships and accomplishments

*East Coast Wrestling Association
**ECWA Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with American Dragon (1), and Xavier (1) [cite web|url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/other/2002-04.html | title=Independent Wrestling Results - April 2002 | accessdate=2008-07-06|publisher=onlineworldofwrestling.com]
**ECWA Super 8 Tournament winner (2001)

*Future of Wrestling
**FOW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

*Future Wrestling Alliance
**FWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

*Impact Championship Wrestling
**ICW Championship (1 time)

*"'Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South
**Ted Petty Invitational (2006)citeweb|url=http://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/usa/misc/iwa/petty.html|accessdate=2008-06-14|title=Ted Petty Invitational Tournament 2005|publisher=Pro Wrestling History]

*International Wrestling Cartel
**IWC Super Indies Championship (1 time)

*Jersey All Pro Wrestling
**JAPW Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
**JAPW Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

*Jersey Championship Wrestling
**JCW Championship (1 time)
**JCW Tag Team Championship (1 time)

*Long Island Wrestling Federation
**LIWF Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

*Midwest Championship Wrestling
**MCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Airborne

*New Japan Pro Wrestling
**IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time, current)

*Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE
**NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Leonardo Spanky
**NWA/UPW/ZERO-ONE International Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

*Premiere Wrestling Federation
**PWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

*Pro Wrestling Guerrilla
**PWG World Championship (1 time) [citeweb|url=http://www.solie.org/titlehistories/htpwg.html|accessdate=2008-07-27|last=Westcott|first=Brian|title=PWG - PRO WRESTLING GUERRILLA PWG HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE HISTORY|publisher=Solie]

*Pro Wrestling Illustrated
**PWI ranked him # 26 of the 500 best singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2003.
**PWI ranked him # 227 of the best wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2008.

*Pro Wrestling WORLD-1
**WORLD-1 Openweight Championship (1 time)

*Ring of Honor
**ROH Championship (1 time)citeweb|url=http://www.rohwrestling.com/titlehistory/|accessdate=2008-07-27|title=Ring of Honor official title histories|publisher=ROH] (First)

*Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
**NWA World Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Christopher Daniels and Elix Skipper as Triple X
**TNA X Division Championship (2 times)

*USA Pro Wrestling
**USA Pro Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Xavier

*World Xtreme Wrestling
**WXW Cruiserweight Championship (1 time)

Media

* "Let the Gates of Hell Open: The Best of The Rottweilers" – ROH DVD

References

External links

* [http://www.doiwrestling.com/lowki/pages/index.html Low Ki(Official Website)]
* [http://www.myspace.com/theresonlyonelowki Low Ki At MySpace]
* [http://www.freewebs.com/debbiebowden/ Low Ki Fansite]
* [http://www.genickbruch.com/interviews/lowki_eng.html Low Ki Interview With Genickbruch.com]
* [http://thewrestlingvoice.com/interviews/headlines/156650349.shtml Senshi/Low Ki Interview With TheWrestlingVoice.com]