T. K. O'Ryan | |
---|---|
Birth name | Stephen John Tkowski |
Born | Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. | October 3, 1989
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | T. K. O'Ryan |
Billed height | 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) [1] |
Billed weight | 205 lb (93 kg) [1] |
Billed from | Cape Cod, Massachusetts |
Trained by | "H2O" Ryan Waters Nick Steel |
Debut | September 28, 2014 [2] |
Stephen John Tkowski (born October 3, 1989), better known by his ring name T. K. O'Ryan, is an American professional wrestler known for his time in Ring of Honor (ROH), where he is a three-time ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champion as part of The Kingdom.
O'Ryan began his training with "H2O" Ryan Waters and Nick Steel at The Lock-Up Wrestling School of Professional Wrestling in Fall River, MA in June 2014. Other early matches were wrestled for Northeast Wrestling in CT (his home promotion in which he debuted April 18, 2015 in a match against Frankie Arion), Xtreme Wrestling Alliance in West Warwick, RI and Pioneer Valley Pro Wrestling in Hadley, MA.
T. K. made his Ring of Honor debut on October 1, 2016, in Lowell, MA as a part of The Kingdom (with Matt Taven and Vinny Marseglia). They defeated The Bullet Club (Adam Cole and The Young Bucks). [3] [4]
On December 2, 2016, The Kingdom became the first-ever ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions by defeating Kushida, Lio Rush & Jay White. [5]
O'Ryan was injured on March 10, 2017, during the ROH 15th Anniversary Show when he jumped too far on an Asai Moonsault and broke his leg on a guard rail. The following day, Silas Young replaced O'Ryan in a match, where The Kingdom lost the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship to Bully Ray and The Briscoes. [6]
On May 9, 2018, at ROH/NJPW War of the Worlds Tour, The Kingdom would regain the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship by defeating SoCal Uncensored. On September 27, 2019, on Death Before Dishonor XVII, O'Ryan and Marseglia was attacked backstage. On ROH Television, O'Ryan announced The Kingdom was now disbanded after Marseglia's attack towards Taven. He would then announce he would be stepping away from the ring for time to take care of a leg injury and several concussions suffered throughout the year. In October 2020, his profile was removed from ROH website.
Carl Joseph Yvon Ouellet is a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, PCO. He is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he is a former member of the Honor No More stable.
Brigham Paul Doane, better known by his ring name Masada, is an American professional wrestler currently competing in Xtreme Pro Wrestling, where he is a former XPW World Heavyweight Champion.
Todd James Smith is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Ivar. He is in a tag team with Erik called The Viking Raiders.
Michael "Mike" Bennett is an American professional wrestler. He currently wrestles for All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and its sister promotion, Ring of Honor (ROH), where he is one-half of the ROH World Tag Team Champions with Matt Taven in their third reign. Bennett and Taven are also members of the Undisputed Kingdom stable. Bennett previously competed for WWE under the ring name Mike Kanellis, and for Impact Wrestling.
Matthew Marinelli, known by his ring name, Matt Taven, is an American professional wrestler and wrestling trainer, who wrestles for All Elite Wrestling and its sister promotion, Ring of Honor (ROH), where he is one-half of the current ROH World Tag Team Champions with Mike Bennett in their third reign. Taven and Bennett are also members of the Undisputed Kingdom stable.
Albert Christian Hardie Jr. is an American professional wrestler, currently known by his ring name ACH.
Caleb DeWall is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Silas Young. He was last contracted for Ring of Honor, where he is a two-time ROH World Television Champion, and has wrestled on the revived Ring of Honor Wrestling in 2023. He also wrestles on the independent wrestling circuit where he is the current Pure Pro Wrestling Michigan State Heavyweight Champion.
The Undisputed Kingdom is a professional wrestling stable in All Elite Wrestling (AEW), consisting of leader Adam Cole, Matt Taven, Mike Bennett, Roderick Strong, and Wardlow. Taven and Bennett are the ROH World Tag Team Champions in their third reign and Strong is the AEW International Champion in his first reign.
The ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned by the Ring of Honor (ROH) promotion. Bullet Club Gold are the current champions in their first reign as a team. They won the title by defeating The Mogul Embassy on the All Elite Wrestling (AEW) program Dynamite on January 17, 2024. After winning the AEW World Trios Championship at AEW Dynasty on April 21, 2024, Bullet Club Gold unified the titles and are referred to as the Unified World Trios Champions.
Jamie White, better known by the ring name Jay White, is a New Zealand-Dutch professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is the leader of Bullet Club Gold with stablemates The Gunns and Juice Robinson. With the Gunns, White is currently one-third of the AEW World Trios Champions and also one-third of the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions in AEW’s sister promotion, Ring of Honor (ROH) in their first reign. Prior to signing with AEW, White had a decorated career in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) as the first ever NJPW Grand Slam Champion.
Vincent Marseglia is an American professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) where he is a member of The Righteous alongside Dutch. He is also known for his time in Impact Wrestling, where he was a member of Honor No More and Ring of Honor (ROH), where he is a record setting four-time ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champion, with three of his reigns as part of The Kingdom.
Michael Cuellari, better known by the ring name Q. T. Marshall, is an American professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) as Vice President of Show and Creative Coordination, where he previously worked as an in-ring talent from 2019 to 2023. He also makes appearances for AEW's partner promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, where he is a former one-time AAA Latin American Champion. He is a co-owner and trainer of The Nightmare Factory, a professional wrestling training facility, alongside Cody Rhodes and Glacier of Nightmare Family.
Travis Gordon Lopes Jr. is an American professional wrestler currently wrestling under the name Flip Gordon and signed to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre.
Matthew Dearth, is an American professional wrestler he is best known for his time with Ring of Honor under the ring name Beer City Bruiser.
Villain Enterprises was a villainous professional wrestling stable consisting of Marty Scurll, Brody King, PCO, and Flip Gordon. The stable performed in Ring of Honor (ROH), where they are former ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions, the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), where King and PCO are former NWA World Tag Team Champions, and Australia's World Series Wrestling (WSW), where Scurll is a former WSW World Champion. King and PCO have also won both ROH's Tag Wars tournament and the NWA/ROH co-promoted Crockett Cup tournament in 2019, and previously held the ROH World Tag Team Championship, while Scurll and King are former WSW Tag Team Champions. They were joined by Flip Gordon at Best in the World.
Mark Andrew Shepherd, better known by the ring name Shane Taylor, is an American professional wrestler. He wrestles for Ring of Honor (ROH) and its sister company All Elite Wrestling (AEW). In ROH, he is a former ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champion and a former ROH World Television Champion. Taylor is the leader of the Shane Taylor Promotions stable.
ROH 19th Anniversary was a professional wrestling event produced by American promotion Ring of Honor (ROH) that aired on Friday, March 26 on Pay-per-view, and was taped sometime the previous week. It emanated from the UMBC Event Center in Baltimore, Maryland.
The OGK is a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Matt Taven and Mike Bennett, which currently wrestles for All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and their sister promotion Ring of Honor (ROH), where they are part of the Undisputed Kingdom, where they are currently in their third reign as ROH World Tag Team Champions.
Darius Martin is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). He also makes appearances for AEW's sister promotion Ring of Honor (ROH). He performs alongside his younger brother Dante Martin as part of the tag team Top Flight.