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Jonathan Gresham is an American professional wrestler currently signed to Ring of Honor.
Gresham has worked for many promotions, such as Combat Zone Wrestling where he is a former CZW World Heavyweight Champion as well as Westside Xtreme Wrestling, Chikara, IWA Mid-South, Full Impact Pro, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, and Evolve among others.
He has wrestled in over fifteen countries.
Professional wrestling career
Independent circuit (2005-present)
Gresham trained under Mr. Hughes, Jay Fury and the WWA4 wrestling school in Atlanta. His first match was in Douglasville, Georgia against Heath Miller. At the time he was only 16 years old. Gresham made his National Wrestling Alliance debut in 2006 as Jonathan Davis in a four-way tag team match losing to Darin Childs and Seth Shai.
In 2007, he defeated Amien Rios in his debut match for Great Championship Wrestling in Alabama. In 2010, Gresham defeated AR Fox for GCW.
Gresham debuted for Booker T's Pro Wrestling Alliance in 2008 as Hero Tiger defeating Chaotix. He returned to the company in 2010 defeating Ryan Davidson to become the PWA Iron Man Championship. He once again returned to the company (now known as Reality of Wrestling) in 2014 as Jonathan Gresham.
In the first round of Full Impact Pro's Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup in 2011, Gresham debuted losing to Bobby Fish. At Declaration Of Independence, Gresham successfully defended his ZERO1 International Junior Heavyweight Championship against Lince Dorado.
Gresham defeated Gideon for English promotion, Pro Wrestling Chaos.
In 2015, Gresham made his Evolve debut losing to Matt Riddle. At Evolve 65 he lost to Catch Point.
Gresham defeated Drastik Boy to win Desastre Total Ultraviolento's Alto Rendimiento title at Coyotes Hambrientos in 2015. He lost the championship to Kim Ray on a Westside Xtreme Wrestling tour.
In 2016, Gresham debuted for Canadian promotion SMASH Wrestling at SMASH vs CZW defeating Tyson Dux.
Gresham debuted for International Wrestling Cartel in 2016 in the Super Indy 15 tournament making it to the finals only to be eliminated by Josh Alexander. At Reloaded 3.0, Gresham won a four-way Super Indy 16 qualifying match. Gresham later won the IWC Super Indy title in June 2017 by defeating Chris LeRusso in the Super Indy 16 tournament in the semi-final only to lose it to Adam Cole in the finals.
Gresham defeated Tracy Williams at Beyond Wrestling's Battle Of Who Could Care Less. He beat Ricochet at Beyond Over-Nite Sensation in 2016. Gresham beat Zack Sabre Jr. at Beyond Ripped Off In The Prime Of Life. The following month he defeated Sabre once again at Flesh. This led to a two out of three falls match between the two later that month at Americanrana 2016. Gresham defeated Sabre by pinning him twice. In January 2017, Gresham defeated Jay Freddie. At Beyond's Looking California, he defeated Michael Elgin. At Americana, Gresham defeated Brian Cage.
Chikara (2010-2012)
Gresham made his Chikara debut in 2010 teaming with The Osirian Portal and defeating Bruderschaft des Kreuzes (Lince Dorado, Delirious and Pinkie Sanchez). In January 2011, Gresham now as Hieracon and now part of the Osirian Portal stable defeated Team F.I.S.T (Johnny Gargano, Icarus and Chuck Taylor). The group disbanded after Amasis retired. Ophidian attacked Amasis and unmasked him, turning rudo (heel). Gresham's last match in Chikara was a loss to Ophidian. After the match Ophidian took Hieracon's mask.
Combat Zone Wrestling (2010-present)
Gresham debut for Combat Zone Wrestling in 2010 at CZW Fist Fight. Gresham picked up his first win against Greg Excellent in November 2010. Gresham won Best of the Best 15 after defeating David Starr. At Down With The Sickness 2016, Gresham won the CZW World Heavyweight Championship for the first time. At Cage of Death 18, Gresham lost the CZW World Heavyweight Championship to Joe Gacy thus ending his reign.
Westside Xtreme Wrestling (2011-2015)
Gresham debuted for Westside Xtreme Wrestling in 2011 winning against Bernd Föhr in the first round of the Chase The Mahamla Tournament. He would make it to the semi final only to lose to Shinya Ishikawa. At wXw Payback 5, Gresham alongside Jay Skillet challenged the Sumerian Death Squad (Michael Dante and Tommy End) for the wXw World Tag Team Championship in a losing effort. Gresham and Skillet formed RockSkillet in 2012. In August 2012, RockSkillet defeated Dante and End in a two out of three falls match to become wXw tag team champions for the first time as well as ending Dante and End's record breaking reign. At Fight Club 2012, RockSkillet defeated OI4K. RockSkillet defeated The Young Bucks at wXw Back To The Roots XII. In March 2013, RockSkillet lost the wXw tag team championships to AUTsiders (Big van Walter and Robert Dreissker).
Pro Wrestling Zero1 (2012-2013, 2017)
Gresham debuted for Pro Wrestling Zero1 at Beach Pro Wrestling ~ Chapter 5. Gresham defeated Oliver Cain for the ZERO1 USA Midwest X-Division Championship in a cage match at ZERO1 USA Supreme in 2013.
Gresham made his return to Zero1 USA Supreme in 2017 to take part in the ZERO1 USA Tenkaichi Junior Tournament. Gresham made it too the finals only to lose to Joey O'Riley.
Impact Wrestling (2016)
In 2016, he made his Impact Wrestling debut for a TNA One Night Only X-Travaganza 2016 taping under his real name losing to DJZ. He later portrayed Suicide defeating David Starr on the same night.
Ring of Honor (2011, 2014-Present)
Gresham made his Ring of Honor debut against Kyle O'Reilly in 2011 in the Top Prospect Tournament.
He returned in 2014 losing to Will Ferrara in a dark match.
In 2015, Gresham returned to Ring Of Honor at the Winter Warriors tour. In December 2015, he defeated Cedric Alexander.
In 2017 Ring of Honor signed Gresham. In April 2017, Gresham teamed with Chris Sabin where they defeated Cheeseburger and Will Ferrara. Gresham along with Jay White, Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley formed Search and Destroy. On June 24th, Gresham defeated Flip Gordon. At Best in the World, Search and Destroy defeated the Rebellion (Rhett Titus, Kenny King, Shane Taylor and Caprice Coleman) were the losing team must disband. Gresham took part of the Honor Rumble in 2017.
Personal life
Gresham amateur wrestled until he was 17. Some of Gresham's influences were Rey Mysterio, Hayabusa, Bam Bam Bigelow, Dean Malenko, Jushin Thunder Liger, Low Ki, The Hardy Boyz, Ikuto Hidaka and Alex Shelley among others.
In wrestling
- Finishing moves
- Octopus stretch
- Figure-four leglock
- Frog splash – As Suicide
- Signature Moves
- Corkscrew 450° splash
- Arm drag transitioned into a Crucifix pin
- 630° Senton
- Double axe handle
- Spike piledriver
- German Suplex
- Nicknames
- Rocksteady
- The Octopus
- The Only
- Entrance themes
- "Jump" by Van Halen (CZW)
- "Bloody Tears" by Naoto Shibata Project (CZW)
- "Make 'em Say" by King Keleze (ROH)
Championships and accomplishments
- Combat Zone Wrestling
- Best Of The Best 15 tournament
- CZW World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- Desastre Total Ultraviolento
- DTU Alto Impacto Championship (1 time)
- International Wrestling Cartel
- IWC Super Indy Championship (1 time)
- National Wrestling Alliance
- Zero1 USA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- Pro Wrestling Alliance
- PWA Iron Man Championship (1 time)
- PWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- PWI ranked him #338 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2017
- Westside Xtreme Wrestling
- wXw World Tag Team Championship (1 time) (with Jay Skillet)
- WWA4 Wrestling School
- WWA4 Tag Team Championship
- Pro Wrestling Zero1
- ZERO1 International Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- Zero1 USA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)