Davey Richards

David Richards (born March 1 1983 in Othello, Washington) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Davey Richards. Richards is currently working for several promotions, most notably Pro Wresting NOAH,Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, Ring of Honor, IWA Mid-South, Full Impact Pro and ECCW.

Career

Richards was an accomplished amature wrestler in high school, as well as studying Mauy Thai and Ju-Jitsu before entering professional wrestling. Davey Richards debuted in 2004. In 2005, he began wrestling for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, where he unmasked Puma. He would go on to face T.J. Perkins (the former Puma) in one-on-one as well as tag team contests. Richards also competed against such stars as Rocky Romero and Quicksilver. In October 2005, Richards teamed up with Super Dragon to win the PWG Tag Team Titles. They held the titles for many months, defeating teams such as Disco Machine and Excalibur, El Generico and Quicksilver, Los Luchas, the Kings of Wrestling, Arrogance, and Christopher Daniels and AJ Styles. They finally lost the titles to Arrogance (Chris Bosh and Scott Lost) in May 2006. On September 3, 2006 he became PWG Battle of Los Angeles 2006 tournament champion by defeating CIMA from Japan's Dragon Gate promotion in the finals. Davey Richards has stated that his goal in wrestling is to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship.

On April 8, Richards won the 2006 Super 8 tournament. He defeated Scott Lost, Milano Collection AT, and Charlie Haas. After winning this tournament, Richards began competing in many different organizations, including NWA Anarchy, Full Impact Pro, and Ring of Honor.

On November 17, 2006, Richards won the PWG World Tag Team Championship for a second time, teaming up with Roderick Strong to defeat the champions, B-Boy and Super Dragon. The next night, in the main event of the show, the duo lost the belt to the men they'd won them from.

On October 27, 2007, Night 2 of PWG's European Vacation II Richards and Super Dragon were able to defeat Kevin Steen and El Generico for the PWG World Tag Team Championships giving Richards his third reign, Dragon his fifth, and the teams second reign.

However, after no-showing the January 27th "Pearl Habra" show, Dragon and Richards were stripped of the titles, which were awarded to Joey Ryan and Scott Lost, and suspended for sixty days.

Ring of Honor

At Destiny on June 3, 2006, Richards made his ROH debut, defeating Jimmy Rave. This loss upset Jimmy Rave, who challenged Davey to a rematch at In Your Face, but under dangerous circumstances. The pre-match ritual of fans throwing toilet paper at Rave turned dangerous when one roll hit the chandelier above the ring, breaking some glass that scattered in the ring. Nevertheless, the two wrestled on that glass, resulting in numerous cuts on both men's bodies.

Soon after debuting in ROH, Richards was chosen as the American protégé of KENTA, a junior heavyweight from the Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling NOAH. On August 4, the two teamed together to face the Briscoe Brothers; Richards was pinned after a Spike Jay Driller. The next night, Richards faced his mentor in a one-on-one match at Fight of the Century; he was unable to secure a victory, ultimately falling victim to KENTA's go 2 sleep.

In early 2007, Roderick Strong turned on former Generation Next partner Austin Aries with the help of Richards. Together, the two formed the No Remorse Corps, later joined by Rocky Romero. The No Remorse Corps is involved in a feud with Aries's faction The Resilience.

On June 14, 2007, ROH announced in their Newswire that Richards would be making his debut in Japan on June 25 as a representative of ROH on a three week tour with Pro Wrestling NOAH. Davey Richards is teaming with 'American Dragon' Bryan Danielson in Pro Wrestling NOAH's NTV Jr Heavyweight Cup.

On January 26, 2008 Richards and fellow No Remorse Corps member Rocky Romero captured the ROH World Tag Team Championships from The Age of The Fall (Jimmy Jacobs and Tyler Black) in an Ultimate Endurance Match that also included The Hangmen Three (BJ Whitmer and Brent Albright) and Austin Aries & Bryan Danielson. They would hold onto the titles until April 12 when Mark and Jay Briscoe recaptured them at Injustice. On June 8, 2008 fellow No Remorse Corps stablemate Roderick Strong defeated Erik Stevens in a brutal Fight Without Honor to end their year long feud. Richards cut the celebrations short though, turning on Strong and joining Sweet & Sour Inc.

Insanity Pro Wrestling

Davey Richards debuted in Insanity Pro Wrestling on April 5, 2008 at the promotions Uprising event. There, he lost to Carlton Kaz. He then appeared at IPW's Legally Insane event on May 3, 2008 where he lost again to Dave Davidson and Jon Moxley. He is set to appear at the promotion's yearly Super Junior Heavyweight Tournament.