Davey Richards

At 41 years old, Davey Richards has this physical status:

Wesley David Richards (born March 1, 1983) is an American professional wrestler best known for his appearances with TNA Wrestling and Ring of Honor (ROH).

RICHARDS has also participated in Pro Wrestling Noah, a worldwide alliance of multinational promotions that allow their competitors to travel to other companies, and in New Japan Pro Wrestling.

Eddie Edwards, an eight-time world tag team champion, has won the ROH World Tag Team Championship three times (once with Rocky Romero and twice with Eddie Edwards), as well as a two-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion (with Rocky Romero and twice with Eddie Edwards), and TNA World Tag Team Champion (with Rocky Romero).

He has also won various championships in the Independent circuit, including the CZW World Heavyweight Championship, PWG World Championship, FIP World Heavyweight Championship twice, and the PWG World Tag Team Championship three times (with Super Dragon twice and Roderick Strong once).

Richards was the champion of several tournaments highlighting the top players of the United States, including the East Coast Wrestling Association's (ECWA) Super 8 Tournament in 2006 and PWG's Battle of Los Angeles in the same year.

Personal life

Richards married Jennifer Summers, better known as female professional wrestler Christie Summers, in 2008. Jennifer is also a competitive bodybuilder in the figure class in addition to a short career in professional wrestling. Richards and his wife divorced in 2010, prompting Richards to reevaluate his retirement options.

Richards said in a June 2010 interview that he intended to leave the wrestling industry by the year's end to concentrate on other aspects of his personal life. However, he modified those plans later. Richards is a registered paramedic.

Richards began dating Lauren Williams, better known as Angelina Love, in January 2015. On April 27, 2015, the couple announced their engagement and were married on June 10, 2015. Williams revealed on her Twitter account on July 30 that she and Richards were expecting their first child, a boy named David Vincent Richards, who was born on March 17, 2016. The couple divorced amicably in 2017, but Richards married Melissa, becoming the stepfather to her two children from a previous marriage.

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Professional wrestling career

Richards was an excellent amateur wrestler in high school, as well as learning Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Richards began training in 2004 with Tony Kozina before making his debut in Pro Wrestling War, based in Washington, against a wrestler named Mr. Gregor. Sexy is a form of sexy. Richards spent time in Atlanta with Paul Orndorff while still working at a Duracell factory an hour and a half away in Cleveland, Tennessee.

He began wrestling in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) in California in April 2005; he debuted in an eight-man tag match for the first All Star Weekend. Richards established himself as a villain during a three-way match with Human Tornado and Puma, revealing him as T. J. Perkins, sparking a feud between the two teams. Richards continued to participate in tag team matches with his new partner, Super Dragon; the pair went on to win the PWG World Tag Team Championship from El Generico and Tornado, defeating a number of teams before losing the championship to Chris Bosh and Scott Lost in May of the following year. Richards won the championship by beating Ronin, Austin Aries, Roderick Strong, and then Cima, a visitor to Japan's Dragon Gate tournament.

Strong defeated B-Boy and his old friend, Super Dragon, for the second time, only to lose the belts to their former champions the following night. Richards played in a number of singles matches before being reunited with Dragons Kevin Steen and El Generico in the fall of 2007. Richards continued to play the championship until January 2008, when Richards skipped the Pearl Habra exhibition, resulting in the team being barred from the championship and resulting in Richards' suspension for 60 days. He returned to work 60 days later, part of the Dynamite Dumvirate Tag Team Championship Tournament, once more collaborating with Super Dragon. Dragons took time off due to a shoulder injury, and Richards returned to singles action after being disqualified in the first round by the team of Steen and Generico. Richards defeated Kenny Omega in the PWG World Championship for the first time as the Worm Turns. Richards was stripped of the title on September 13, 2010 when he was unable to defend it due to other booking commitments.

Richards returned to PWG for the WrestleReunion 5 weekend on January 29, 2011, in a match in which he was defeated by Low Ki. Richards and Eddie Edwards were among the DDT4 tag team tournament's winners on March 4, where they made it to the semifinals before losing to eventual tournament winners, The Young Bucks. Richards unsuccessfully challenged Kevin Steen for the PWG World Championship in his next PWG appearance on September 10. Richards said it would be his last weekend with the promotion during December 2013's All Star Weekend X. Richards was defeated by Ricochet in his PWG farewell match on December 21, which was a pity.

Richards made his Ring of Honor (ROH) debut at Destiny on June 3, 2006, defeating Jimmy Rave. This was the start of a feud with Rave, who challenged Richards to a rematch at In Your Face on June 17. The pre-match ritual of fans throwing toilet paper at Rave backfired when one roll struck the chandelier above the ring, separating some glass that had scattered in the ring. Nonetheless, the two men battled on the glass, resulting in numerous cuts on both men's bodies, and Richards went on to win the rematch.

Richards was appointed as the American protégé of Kenta, the Japanese promotion of Pro Wrestling Noah, who was on loan to the company as part of the Global Professional Wrestling Alliance, a young heavyweight. Richards was pinned after collaborating together on August 4 to face the Briscoe Brothers. Richards was up against his mentor in a singles match at Fight of the Century next night, but he was unable to win a match.

Richards helped Roderick Strong turn on Strong's former Generation Next partner Austin Aries in early 2007. Richards and Strong formed the No Remorse Corps, a contingency designed to stymie Aries' plans; they were then joined by Rocky Romero. The No Remorse Corps was involved in a war against Aries' faction The Resilience. Richards and Romero won the ROH World Tag Team Championship from The Age of the Fall in early 2008 (Jimmy Jacobs and Tyler Black), resulting in a four-month reign before losing to the Briscoe Brothers. Richards himself consulted with his mentor after losing to rival Erick Stevens, who revealed his allegiance to Larry Sweeney and his company, Sweet 'n' Sour, Inc. Strong was trying to get a measure of revenge after Richards lost a match between the two teams.

On the ROH Newswire, Sweeney announced that he would collaborate with Richards and Eddie Edwards to produce The American Wolves. At All-Star Extravaganza IV against the Briscoes and the unofficial European Union, the Wolves will be the first team in a triple threat tag team elimination match against the Briscoes and the unofficial European Union (Claudio Castagnoli and Nigel McGuinness). They left the European Union but were eventually defeated by the Briscoes. Richards slapped Kevin Steen's knee with a pipe later that night. They teamed with Go Shiozaki against Brent Albright, Erick Stevens, and Roderick Strong in a losing effort next night. The Briscoes were later stabbed, throwing Mark Briscoe's knee out of action, bringing him right back to action. Kevin Steen and El Generico attempted to save the money but the Wolves stopped them from doing so.

Since losing twice with different tag partners, the Wolves defeated Steen and Generico in their first World Tag Team Championship match against them in Motor City Madness, where they were defeated. In a losing fight at Proving Ground Night 1, Richards continued to face ROH World Championship hopeful Tyler Black in a losing effort. Richards lost in a singles match to Steen, and after the match, he struck Generico's knee with a chair. The American Wolves and Chris Hero defeated Steen, Generico, and Bobby Dempsey, who gave the Wolves another title shot at Stylin' & Profilin', a Stylin' & Profilin'. Richards was hand selected by ROH World Champion Nigel McGuinness to be his tag teammate in a match against Generico and Kenta, but Richards and McGuinness were unable to participate in the match. In a GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship match, Richards faced his old mentor Kenta, who took place in Houston's Supercard of Honor IV. Despite losing, Richards received a standing ovation at the end of the game. The American Wolves lost their first match against Steen and Generico, but they defeated Generico before putting Generico through a table.

The American Wolves were able to capture the World Tag Team Championship from Steen and Generico in a Tables are Legal match on April 10 at a television taping of Ring of Honor Wrestling. The Wolves took on Bryan Danielson and Tyler Black's team at the Tag Championship Classic. The match concluded in a 45-minute time-limit draw, the first time in ROH history that a World Tag Team Championship match had resulted in a time-limit draw. Richards defeated Kevin Steen in a singles match before winning the World Tag Team Championship by a two out of three falls match.

Richards defeated Bryan Danielson in Danielson's penultimate match in September 2009. The Final Countdown in New York, NY, Richards and Edwards retained the title against Steen and Generico in Ladder War II, the next night. Richards lost in a losing proposition against Austin Aries for the ROH World Championship on November 13, which was disappointing. The Wolves lost the Tag Team Championship to the Briscoe Brothers on December 19, 2009, at the Final Battle.

Richards had signed a job extension with ROH on January 29, 2010. Richards entered the tournament on February 5 to determine the inaugural ROH World Television Champion and defeated Delirious to advance to the second round, where he will meet Kenny King. Richards lost the tournament on March 5th when he defeated King to advance to the finals, where he was defeated by his American Wolves tag team partner Eddie Edwards. Richards claimed the top spot in the Pick 6 series on April 3, defeating Kenny King at The Big Bang! Pay-per-view is the price per view.

Richards was shot at the ROH World Championship in Tyler Black but was unable to dethrone the defending champion on June 19 at Death Before Dishonor VIII. Richards lost to Roderick Strong in a match where Strong's promised championship match was on the line at the Ring of Honor Wrestling television tapings on July 16, 1986. Richards refused to help him during the match and then attacked Hagadorn, who later claimed honor for making Richards the best wrestler in the country, putting an end to their relationship. Richards had signed a new deal with Ring of Honor on September 11, 2010. Richards unsuccessfully defeated Roderick Strong for the ROH World Championship at the following pay-per-view video. Richards claimed the ROH World Championship for the first time on June 26, 2011, at Best in the World 2011. Richards had signed a employment extension as a result of the promotion, according to ROH's August 10 announcement. Richards won the championship against Edwards in the final battle of the year 2011.

Richards, the Ring of Honor Wrestling cadet, created Team Ambition with Kyle O'Reilly, opposite Eddie Edwards and Adam Cole on January 7, 2012. Tony Kozina was also included in the team outside of ROH. Team Ambition was defeated by Edwards and Cole in a main event tag team match on March 4 at the 10th Anniversary Show, with Cole pinning Richards for the victory. Richards first successfully defended the ROH World Championship in a three-way elimination match against Eddie Edwards and Roderick Strong, then in a singles match against Michael Elgin during the Sun weekend. Richards' match against Elgin was later given a five-star rating by Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Richards lost the ROH World Championship to Kevin Steen on May 12 at Border Wars, snapping his reign at 321 days. Richards took his last shot at the ROH World Championship as long as Steen was champion, but he was unsuccessful in his attempts to regain the title on June 24 at Best in the World 2012: Hostage Crisis.

Richards reunited with Eddie Edwards in a tag team match on December 16 at Final Battle 2012: Doomsday, where they defeated Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly. Following their victory, the American Wolves were able to qualify for the ROH World Tag Team Championship, but the Briscoe Brothers, the current champions, were unable to defeat them on January 18, 2013. For the second time, the American Wolves defeated the Forever Hooligans (Alex Koslov and Rocky Romero) in the ROH World Tag Team Championship on August 3. On August 17, they lost the title to reDRagon (Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly). The American Wolves defeated the Forever Hooligans in the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship on September 20 at Death Before Dishonor XI. Richards revealed on November 30 that he had left ROH on a sabbatical basis. ROH later announced that Richards had been promoted because of his "unprofessionalism and unreliability with the company."

Richards and fellow North American and ROH wrestler Kenny Omega were invited to compete in the Best of the Super Juniors tournament in New Japan Pro-Wrestling's Best of the Super Juniors tournament in 2010. Richards started the two-week tournament on May 30 but despite winning five out of his seven matches, he came in third in his block and just barely made it to the semifinals. Richards began working for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, gaining the promotion's top heel stable Chaos, and Pro Wrestling Noah has no longer appeared on Pro Wrestling Noah. Richards and Rocky Romero, resurrecting the No Remorse Corps name, made it to the finals of a five-day Super J Tag League tournament in November 2010, before being defeated by Chaos teammates Jado and Gedo. Richards had a shot at the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship on December 11, 2010, but was defeated by the defending champion, Prince Devitt. Richards and Romero failed to qualify Devitt and Taguchi, collectively known as Apollo 55, for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship on May 3, 2011. Richards won six out of his eight round robin stage matches on May 26, his second appearance in the tournament's history, with a win over reigning IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Prince Devitt. Richards was booted out of the tournament in the semifinals by Kota Ibushi, the eventual winner of the entire tournament. Richards and Romero defeated Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi for the first time on October 10, 2011, at Destruction '11. On November 12 at Power Struggle, Richards and Romero's first-winning title defense defeated Kushida and Tiger Mask's crew. Richards was given another shot at his IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match on December 4, but he failed to become a double champion, owing to pinning Prince Devitt. Richards and Romero lost the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship in Tokyo Dome on January 4, 2012, defeating Devitt and Taguchi. The No Remorse Corps defeated Apollo 55 to regain the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship at The New Beginning on February 12, 2012. Richards had his third shot at the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship on March 10, but was then defeated by Prince Devitt once more. Richards and Romero were disqualified from the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship on May 2nd, after a car crash forced Richards to cancel his flight to Japan and the following day's Wrestling Dontaku 2012 tournament, where the two teams were supposed to defend the title against Jushin Thunder Liger and Tiger Masks. Despite being able to participate in the United States, New Japan has banned Richards from the 2012 Best of the Super Juniors tournament, citing the doctor's orders.

Richards has also been on tour of Japan, debuting with Pro Wrestling Noah in 2007. He returned to the company the following summer after winning in tag team matches. Richards was supposed to return to Noah on November 27, 2013, embarking on a complete tour that would result in him defeating Taiji Ishimori for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship. Richards, on the other hand, revealed on November 25, he sustained a neck injury and would be forced to cancel from the tour.

Richards won the ECWA Super 8 Tournament on April 8, 2006, beating Scott Lost, Milano Collection A.T., and Charlie Haas. Richards began competing in many organizations, including NWA Anarchy, Ring of Honor, and ROH's sister company Full Impact Pro (FIP). Richards won the FIP World Heavyweight Championship by forfeiting on May 2, 2009, his first singles title. Richards lost the FIP championship to Masaaki Mochizuki while on tour in Japan for Dragon Gate in December 2009. He will regained the title at DGUSA Fearless a month later.

Richards has competed twice in the German promotion Westside Xtreme Wrestling's (wXw) 16 Carat Gold tournament. Richards made it all the way to the semifinals in 2011, defeating eventual tournament champion Sami Callihan after being disqualified from the tournament in his first round match against Go Shiozaki in 2007.

Richards began competing for Dragon Gate USA in mid-2009 and showcased at the promotion of Open the Untouchable Gate, where he defeated Shingo Takagi. After his match, Bryan Danielson lauded Richards and proclaimed him as the best wrestler in the country, but Richards attacked Danielson, who said he deserved the award. Richards took part in a tournament on November 28 to select the inaugural DGUSA Open the Freedom Gate Champion, but he lost in the first round to Yamato. Richards challenged BxB Hulk to a championship match the next night after he had won the title earlier that night. In addition, he competed for Dragon Gate, DGUSA's parent company, and completed a tour with them in December 2009.

Richards formed Evolve in 2009, alongside FIP booker Sal Hamaoui and Dragon Gate USA vice president Gabe Sapolsky, who saw Richards in the first show of the year, Evolve 1, overthrowrowening Kota Ibushi. Richards will no longer be affiliated with either Dragon Gate USA or Evolve, according to ROH's news on January 29, 2010. Richards was disqualified of the FIP World Heavyweight Championship on March 22 and will not be competing for the company again. Richards returned to Evolve on January 10, 2014, unsuccessfully challenging A. R. Fox for the Evolve Championship following his release from ROH.

The American Wolves rode to Squared Circle Wrestling (2CW) in Watertown, New York, on April 2, 2010. They held the title for four months before losing them to Colin Delaney and Jimmy Olsen on August 22, 2010.

Richards participated in the World Wrestling Council's (WWC) Anniversario weekend in Puerto Rico from June 30 to July 2, 2012. He was defeated in singles matches by Ray Gonzalez and Chris Angel on the first two nights, but Melina was defeated by him and Melina in a mixed tag team match between Velvet Sky and Xix Savant on Friday night.

Richards and Eddie Edwards, who had been with ROH until August 2013, participated in a tryout camp for WWE, where they were described as "standing out of everyone." Richards and Edwards debuted at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida, for another week in a row. Richards and Edwards, who were billed as "The American Pitbulls" for three days after losing to NXT Tag Team Champions The Ascension (Konnor and Viktor) in a non-title match, three days later, three days later. Richards' time on the independent circuit was coming to an end, suggesting that he had signed a developmental contract with WWE.

Richards appeared on Impact Wrestling's debut alongside his American Wolves colleague Eddie Edwards (now renamed The Wolves) in a segment with TNA President Dixie Carter in which she welcomed them and then offered them a tryout match on the following episode of Impact Wrestling, where the private investor, MVP, assisted them in the company's January 16, 2014 episode. He and Eddie defeated the TNA World Tag Team Champions at a live event in Morgantown, West Virginia, on February 23, 2014. At a three-way match in Tokyo, Japan, the Wolves lost the title to The BroMans at Wrestle-1's Kaisen: Outbreak event, which also included Team 246 (Kaz Hayashi and Shuji Kondo).

The Wolves recovered the title by defeating Robbie E, Godderz, and DJ Z in a two-on-three handicap match at Sacrifice pay-per-view on April 27. The Wolves defeated the Sanada in a six-way ladder match for the TNA X Division Championship on June 15, 2014, which was won by Sanada. The Wolves defeated The Hardy Boys on June 26, 2014, beating The Hardy Boys. On July 6, the Wolves defeated the TNA World Tag Team Championship against the Junior Stars, winning the TNA World Tag Team Championship (Koji Kanemoto and Minoru Tanaka). The Wolves were defeated by the TNA World Tag Team Championship, which they accepted. Kurt Angle later revealed that all three teams will be competing in a best of three series for the title, with the first two players able to specify the stipulation of the next one. Team 3D won the first match and selected a Tables match, the Hardys won the second match and selected a ladder match, and the Wolves took the third match at No Surrender, tying them all at one win each. The Wolves took the final match to decide the series. Edwards and Richards lost the titles to The Revolution at the Impact Wrestling tapings on September 19, (James Storm and Abyss). The Wolves defeated The Revolution in January 30, 2015, becoming the third time World Tag Team Champions. However, the Wolves vacated the titles on March 14 due to Edwards' injury of a broken heel.

On their return to action, the Wolves defeated Dirty Heels in a Best of 5 Series match for the Tag Team Championships. The Wolves won the first two games and Dirty Heels won the next two. Aries defeated Richards in a Slammiversary, so he chose Aries for the last match of the series, a 30 minutes tag team iron man match. The Wolves defeated Dirty Heels on June 25, 2015 (aird July 1, 2015) to win the Tag Team Championships. With this victory, the Wolves tied for the most reigns in history, with four of them. On the 2015 edition of Impact Wrestling, Brian Myers and Trevor Lee lost the titles to them. On the September 9, 2015 episode of Impact, the only way to recover them was to reclaim them the following week. Richards was involved in the first TNA World Championship Series in October and November, defeating Robbie E to 4 points, surpassing Eddie Edwards' record (via time limit draw), but losing to Matt Hardy to keep his block's status with 4 points. This was enough to advance to the round of 16, where he defeated Bram to advance to the round of 8, in which he would meet Ethan Carter III, effectively ending him from the series.

In a three-way tag team match against Kurt Angle and Drew Galloway, Eli Drake and Jessie Godderz, the Wolves retained their titles during One Night Only Live. The Wolves were targeted by the newest stable, The Decay, which featured Abyss, Crazzy Steve, and the debuting Rosemary, who stole the titles from the website on January 26, 2013. However, on the February 2 episode of Impact Wrestling, they kept the titles from them. The Wolves defeated Decay in a close Monster's Ball match that is ruled by the Decay. The Wolves changed the names to Beer Money, Inc. on the 8th episode of Impact Wrestling (James Storm and Bobby Roode).

Richards sustained an ACL injury in March and Edwards began his singles campaign by feuding with TNA X Division Champion Trevor Lee. Richards appeared on TNA radio in July for the first time in months as he joined Edwards at ringside in a TNA World Heavyweight Champion Lashley match later that evening. Richards revealed on the radio that he was on hand to assist Edwards in his historic match, but that he was also "A way off being in a position to compete." Eddie's match ended in a no-contest when Mike Bennett intervened in the match floor and welcomed a new signee to TNA, Moose to the ring, who had a match with Lashley.

Richards made his TNA debut on January 5, 2017, assisting Edward Edwards in retaining the TNA World Heavyweight Championship by stopping Lashley from naming Edwards with the trophy. Richards played Lashley at One Night Only: Live in a losing effort. Richards lost by costing Edwards the TNA World Heavyweight Championship rematch against Lashley by pulling the referee out of the fight and smashing Edwards with the championship belt while the referee was distracted by Angelina Love on February 9th episode of Impact Wrestling. Richards and his partner, Angelina Love, sacked Edwards and his wife Alisha Edwards, effectively ending The Wolves in the process. Richards' character underwent complete change, including new theme songs, trunks, being infatuated with Love and even calling himself "The Lone Wolf." Richards was defeated Edwards in a Street Fight on February 16, but the match came to a no-contest. Richards brawled with Edwards at the start of the show, but security guards kept the two together. Richards defeated Edwards in a Last Man Standing Match on April 6 in Impact Wrestling.

Richards officially announced his departure from TNA to become a doctor on July 24, 2017.

Richards returned to Evolve 92, where he defeated Zack Sabre Jr. for the Evolve Championship and Evolve 93, where he met Keith Lee on August 22, 2017.

Richards revealed on September 17, 2017, requiring him to cancel his bookings for the remainder of the year. Richards revealed on November 4 that he would not be able to do any of 2018 due to his studies.

Richards will return to professional wrestling in June, according to Global Syndicate Wrestling.

Richards returned to Impact Wrestling in 2022, partnering with Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin, Frankie Kazarian, and Nick Aldis to defeat Honor No More (Eddie Edwards, Matt Taven, PCO, and Vincent).

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