Kid Lykos

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Kid Lykos
Kid Lykos at BodyZoi Wrestling 2022-06-25 (cropped).jpg
Lykos in June 2022
Born (1997-03-22) March 22, 1997 (age 27) [1]
Cambridge, England [2]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s) Crash Bandicoot
Ethan Beach
Ethan Silver
Kid Lykos
Mondai Lykos
Sokyl Dik
Trained byMike Roberts
Debut2012

Ethan Beach better known by his ring name Kid Lykos is an English professional wrestler who is primarily known for his work in the British professional wrestling promotions Progress Wrestling, Revolution Pro Wrestling and Attack! Pro Wrestling. Most of his career, he competed as a masked luchador. He is also known for his various tenures with promotions from the European independent scene. Beach is current holder of the PROGRESS World Championship [3]

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Professional wrestling career

European independent scene (2012–present)

Beach made his professional wrestling debut in Coventry Pro Wrestling at a house show entitled CPW TheOne promoted on November 9, 2013, where he went into a double count-out against Sky Blue Sam. [4] He is known for his tenures with various promotions from the European independent scene with which he has shared brief or longer stints such as Attack! Pro Wrestling, Progress Wrestling, Revolution Pro Wrestling, International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom, Over the Top Wrestling, Defiant Wrestling and many others. [2]

Progress Wrestling (2017–present)

One of the promotions in which Beach is best known for working is Progress Wrestling. He made his debut in the company at PROGRESS Chapter 50: I Give It Six Months on June 25, 2017, where he teamed up with "CCK" tag team partner Chris Brookes to defeat British Strong Style (Trent Seven and Tyler Bate) to win the PROGRESS Tag Team Championship. [5] They lost the titles at the very next pay-per-view, the Chapter 51: Screaming For PROGRESS from July 9, 2017, in a six-man tag team match where he and Brookes also teamed up with Travis Banks as they defended the championships under the freebird rule against British Strong Style (Pete Dunne, Trent Seven and Tyler Bate). [6] He would go on to win the Progress tag team titles on two more occasions alongside Brookes, and one time alongside "Lykos Gym" tag team partner Kid Lykos II, lastly succeeding at Chapter 112: The Flowers Are Still Standing! on June 5, 2021, where they defeated The Young Guns (Luke Jacobs and Ethan Allen) to win the vacant titles. [7] At Chapter 108: Of Course You Realize This Means War on April 10, 2021, Beach unsuccessfully challenged Cara Noir for the PROGRESS World Championship. [8] At Chapter 131: 10th Anniversary Show on March 25, 2022, he teamed up with Kid Lykos II and competed in a five-way tag team gauntlet match for the Progress tag team titles won by The 0121 (Dan Moloney and Man Like DeReiss), and also involving the teams of The Smokin' Aces (Charlie Sterling and Nick Riley), Sunshine Machine (Chuck Mambo and TK Cooper) and North West Strong (Chris Ridgeway and Luke Jacobs). [9] At Chapter 160: VENDETTA on November 26, 2023, Beach fell short to Spike Trivet in a match disputed for both the latter's PROGRESS World Championship and his very own mask. Beach revealed his true identity after the loss but continued to compete under the ring name of "Kid Lykos". [10]

Beach competed in various of the promotion's signature events such as the Super Strong Style 16 where he made his first appearance at the 2022 edition which was also disputed for the vacant PROGRESS World Championship, in which he defeated Maggot in the first rounds but fell short to Warren Banks in the quarterfinals. [11] He succeeded in winning the 2023 edition of the tournament by defeating Big Damo in the first rounds, Nick Wayne in the quarterfinals, Nathan Cruz in the semifinals and Mark Haskins in the finals. [12] At PROGRESS Chapter 163: Twisted Metal on February 25, 2024, Beach would successfully defeat Spike Trivet in a steel cage match for the PROGRESS World Championship. [13]

Revolution Pro Wrestling (2017–present)

Beach made his debut in Revolution Pro Wrestling at the 2017 edition of the Global Wars UK, a cross-over event promoted by both RevPro and New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he teamed up with CCK stablemates Chris Brookes and Travis Banks to defeat Chaos (Gedo, Hirooki Goto and Yoshi-Hashi). [14] During the promotion, he chased for various championships created or promoted by the company. At SWE Happy Robbie Xmas on December 29, 2018, he teamed up with Chris Brookes and defeated The Jawdroppers (Sean Kustom and Xia Brookside) to win the SWE Tag Team Championship, title which was promoted by RevPro at that time. [15] At RevPro Summer Sizzler 2022 on July 23, he teamed up with Kid Lykos II to unsuccessfully challenge Sunshine Machine (Chuck Mambo and TK Cooper) for the British Tag Team Championship. [16] At RevPro Live In London 70 on February 5, 2023, he unsuccessfully challenged Robbie X for the Undisputed British Cruiserweight Championship. [17]

He competed in various of the promotion's signature events such as the British J-Cup in which he made his first appearance at the 2021 edition of the tournament where he fell short to Mike Bailey in the first rounds. [18] As for the Great British Tag League, he made his first appearance at the 2022 edition where he teamed up with Kid Lykos II, placing themselves in the Block B where they scored a total of two points after going against the teams of The VeloCities (Jude London and Paris De Silva), Sunshine Machine (Chuck Mambo and TK Cooper), and The Legion (Shota Umino and Yota Tsuji). [19] At the 2023 edition, Beach teamed up with Kid Lykos II, placing themselves in the Block A of the competition where they scored a total of six points after going against the teams of The Billington Bulldogs (Mark Billington and Thomas Billington), Kieron Lacey and Mark Trew, and Anthony Ogogo and Ricky Knight Jr., failing to qualify for the finals. [20]

Chikara (2017, 2019)

Beach briefly competed in Chikara, making his first appearance at the 2017 edition of the King of Trios tournament in which he teamed up with Chris Brookes and Elijah as "House Calamari" to defeat House Bike Cops (Dez Peloton (Donald Kluger and Jasper Tippins)) and Officer Warren Barksdale) in the first rounds and falling short to Casa Dorada (Juan Francisco de Coronado, Cornelius Crummels and Sonny Defarge) in the quarterfinals. [21] On the third night of the event, Beach competed outside of the tournament's competition, taking part in a tag team gauntlet match in which he teamed up with Chris Brookes and fell short to the winners of the bout Los Ice Creams (El Hijo del Ice Cream and Ice Cream Jr.) and to various other notable teams such as The Rumblebees (Solo Darling and Travis Huckabee), The Throwbacks (Dasher Hatfield and Mark Angelosetti), Millie McKenzie and Omari, and others. [22] Beach made a one-time return to the promotion on April 5, 2019, at CHIKARA Once Upon A Beginning where he teamed up with Brookes in a losing effort against Cornelius Crummels and Sonny Defarge in tag team action. [23]

Japanese independent circuit (2017, 2019, 2022)

Beach has worked for several promotions from the Japanese independent scene as a developmental talent sent by RevPro and Progress. He started with the cross-over event of Global Wars UK in 2017. [14] He wrestled in two of Big Japan Pro Wrestling's events, first at BJW Big Ben Japan ~ Englishman In BJ on January 5, 2019, where he teamed up with Chris Brookes to defeat Kazuki Hashimoto and Yuya Aoki [24] and secondly on January 6 at BJW Look Now where he again teamed up with Brookes, this time to defeat Kota Sekifuda and Tatsuhiko Yoshino. [25] In 2022, Beach competed in a couple of events promoted by DDT Pro-Wrestling. First of them was the DDT Konosuke Takeshita 10th Anniversary from September 10, where he teamed up with Chris Brookes in a losing effort against Takeshita himself and his The37Kamiina stablemate Yuki Ueno. [26] At DDT Who's Gonna Top? 2022 Tour In Asakusa on September 13, Beach teamed up again with Brookes to defeat Hideki Okatani and Takeshi Masada. [27] He also competed in an event promoted by Gatoh Move Pro Wrestling, the Gatoh Move 10th Anniversary ~ Phoenix Rises from September 15, 2022, where he teamed up with Kaori Yoneyama and Minoru Fujita to defeat Baliyan Akki, Riho and Saki. [28]

Championships and accomplishments

Luchas de Apuestas record

Winner (wager)Loser (wager)LocationEventDateNotes
Spike Trivet (title)Kid Lykos (mask) London, England PROGRESS Chapter 160: VENDETTANovember 26, 2023 [33]

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