Ryback Bio

 Ryback  Bio 

Name                       :                    Ryan Allen Reeves

Ring Name              :                    Ryback

Birth Date               :                    10 Nov 1981

Birth Place              :                    Nevada, USA    Mini Bio

Ryback Allen Reeves (conceived Ryan Allen Reeves; November 10, 1981) is an American expert wrestler, presently wrestling in the autonomous circuit under the ring name The Big Guy, best known for his residency with WWE under the ring name Ryback.

One of the eight finalists on Tough Enough 4, Reeves later marked a formative contract with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and wrestled in its formative domains Deep South Wrestling (DSW), Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), and Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW). He took part in the principal period of NXT in mid 2010 under the ring name Skip Sheffield, and joined the primary WWE program soon thereafter as a feature of The Nexus before being sidelined because of damage. Taking after his arrival as Ryback, Reeves featured a few pay-per-view occasions for WWE – some of which were for the WWE Championship – and turned into a one-time Intercontinental Champion before his caustic takeoff from the organization in 2016.

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Early life

Reeves was brought up in Las Vegas, Nevada. He began watching wrestling at eight years old; he was permitted to ring the chime at a live World Wrestling Federation occasion, and was the visitor ringer at 12. years old Wanting to wind up an expert wrestler, Reeves started lifting weights at 12 years of age. He was nicknamed "Silverback" as a young person, after a youth companion clowned that he looked like a gorilla, and later received it as a piece of his ring name.

Reeves exceeded expectations at baseball and football while going to Western High School and Palo Verde High School. He likewise played school baseball amid his first year at the Community College of Southern Nevada, yet split his leg and wound up missing two seasons. He went to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and entered in its wellness administration program. He put in the following two years focusing on preparing to enter proficient wrestling while working low maintenance at the Monte Carlo Hotel and Casino.

World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE

Extreme Enough

Reeves sent a brief one-minute tape of himself to end up a contender on $1,000,000 Tough Enough and was welcome to Venice Beach with 49 others. Amid the principal week of preparing, Reeves experienced bronchitis and a rib damage. He in the long run got to be one of the eight finalists to show up on SmackDown! what's more, the last to be voted off. Even however he didn't win the opposition, Reeves inspired WWE authorities enough for them to sign him to a formative contract. He invested energy mending from his wounds in Las Vegas before going to Atlanta, Georgia in March 2005.

Profound South and Ohio Valley Wrestling

In the wake of preparing in DSW for the greater part of 2005 and mid 2006, Reeves was exchanged over to Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) toward the beginning of March. He crushed Kasey James, Pat Buck, Da Beast and Nick Nemeth in dim matches throughout the following two months and, with Mikey Batts, vanquished the groups of Billy Kryptonite and Russell Simpson, and Jack Bull and Vic Devine.

In July 2006, Reeves was suspended for 30 days because of falling flat a medication test as a feature of WWE's Wellness Program. According to Reeves, he had been taking a few over the counter weight training supplements, one of which unintentionally created a false perusing. The supplements he was utilizing were later removed the business sector because of this impact and, despite the fact that his suspension stayed set up, Reeves in the long run came back to the program in the wake of passing a second test. His case was later highlighted on the CNN narrative Death Grip: Inside Pro Wrestling.

After his past 30-day suspension, Reeves returned while wearing faded hair. In September 2006, Reeves started collaborating with Jon Bolen, and together the label group got to be known as High Dosage. Scoring early triumphs against groups, for example, Los Locos (Aaron Lamata and Low Rider) and Gothic Mayhem (Johnny Punch and Pat Buck), they started fighting with the then recently shaped group of Eddie Craven, Mike Kruel and "The Bad Seed" Shawn Osborne.

The two did not toll well against the trio losing both label group and single matches to them amid the following couple of weeks. On October 18, he and Bolen likewise lost to them in a debilitation match. Things soon changed, be that as it may, when High Dosage beat Eddie Craven and Mike Kruel a month later. As an aftereffect of their triumph, they were permitted five minutes alone with Shawn Osbourne however he could escape with the assistance of Craven and Kruel. Albeit keeping on confronting their adversaries consistently, High Dosage likewise won matches against Los Locos and Bad Company overcoming them later in a Handicap Coal Miner's Glove on a Pole match on November 29. On December 9, High Dosage cooperated with Seth Skyfire and lost to Craven, Kruel and Milena Roucka. Reeves additionally partook in a four-manner Elimination Christmas Present match with Kruel four days after the fact. The members included Justin LaRoche and Charles Evans, T.J. Dalton and Steve Lewington, and Seth Skyfire and Paul Burchill who in the long run won the match.

On January 6, 2007, High Dosage lost to Justin LaRouche and Charles Evans. They additionally lost to the Tag Team Champions Cody Runnels and Shawn Spears four days later. This was their last match together as Reeves was formally discharged from his agreement under two weeks later. Despite having been discharged from his formative contract, Reeves came back to OVW on November 14 and collaborated with Pat Buck in a losing push to Colt Cabana and Shawn Spears for the Tag Team Championship.

After over a year's nonappearance from OVW, Reeves came back to OVW under the ring name Ryback and under another Terminator trick. In his first match since returning, he figured out how to win the OVW Heavyweight Championship on October 15, 2008 by crushing Anthony Bravado. After wrestling Bravado to a twofold countout on October 22 and accordingly holding the title, he at last lost the title to Bravado on October 29. Soon after the title misfortune, Reeves was then re-marked to a formative contract with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). To clarify his takeoff, Ryback lost a Loser Leaves OVW match to Bravado on December 17.

Florida Championship Wrestling

On December 16, 2008, Reeves, under his Ryback ring name and character, made his in-ring debut in Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), losing a label match with Jon Cutler against Kris Logan and Taylor Rotunda. Ryback soon shaped a label group with Sheamus O'Shaunessy and the couple unsuccessfully tested for the Florida Tag Team Championship on a couple events until O'Shaunessy was rung to the primary roster. After the Ryback character was scrapped, Reeves made his FCW redebut on October 25 under the ring name Skip Sheffield, a cowpoke contrivance, where he crushed Jimmy Uso.

The Nexus

On February 16, 2010 amid the last scene of ECW, Sheffield was reported as one of eight FCW wrestlers, called "new kids on the block", to partake in the primary period of WWE's new NXT show. Although Montel Vontavious Porter was initially to be his guide, or "genius", he was later supplanted by William Regal. Sheffield made his NXT in-ring debut on the March 2 scene, where he cooperated with Regal to lose to Matt Hardy and Justin Gabriel. On the April 27 NXT, Sheffield got his first triumph with a win over Daniel Bryan. Be that as it may, Sheffield was dispensed with by the Pros on May 11, in spite of a prior win over Darren Young, in the principal NXT end survey. He was one of three disposals that same night, behind Bryan and Michael Tarver, and said he would be back.

On the June 7 scene of Raw, Sheffield alongside the other NXT season one new kids on the block, meddled in the headliner match between John Cena and CM Punk, assaulting both contenders and also the declaring group before disassembling the ring region and encompassing equipment. On the June 14 Raw, the new kids on the block assaulted General Manager Bret Hart, when he declined to give them contracts. The next week on Raw, Vince McMahon let go Hart and reported the procuring of an unknown General Manager, who had marked each of the seven season one NXT tenderfoots to contracts. The next week, the gathering was named The Nexus. On the July 12 Raw, The Nexus (without Darren Young) contended in their first match together, overcoming John Cena in a six-on-one debilitation match. The quarrel proceeded at SummerSlam, where Team WWE battled the Nexus in a seven-on-seven end label group match. Sheffield disposed of both John Morrison and R-Truth from the match before turning into the third individual from the Nexus to be dispensed with. At last, the Nexus lost the match. On August 18, amid a live occasion in Honolulu, Hawaii, Reeves softened his lower leg up a label group match with David Otunga against The Hart Dynasty.

Reeves experienced three surgeries subsequent to breaking his lower leg, returning at a Raw house show on December 3, 2011.

WWE Championship interests

Reeves, now wearing a facial hair and another clothing, came back to TV on the April 6, 2012, scene of SmackDown, under his Ryback ring name and as a face. Over the next weeks, he would squash merchants, and also more settled wrestlers (yet at the same time in the "agent" positions) like Heath Slater and Derrick Bateman. At Extreme Rules, he made his compensation per-view debut as a singles contender when he vanquished two more middlemen (Aaron Relic and Jay Hatton) in less than two minutes. At Over the Limit, Ryback crushed Camacho in another squash match. At No Way Out, Ryback by and by vanquished two more middlemen (Dan Delaney and Rob Grymes) in less than two minutes. On July 3 amid The Great American Bash scene of SmackDown, he crushed Curt Hawkins to proceed with his triumphant streak. After vanquishing Tyler Reks the next week on SmackDown, Ryback crushed both Hawkins and Reks in an impairment match at Money in the Bank and again amid Ryback's Raw redebut on the August 6 episode. On the July 27 scene of SmackDown, Ryback started his first fight since coming back to the primary list against Jinder Mahal, after Mahal lost by means of countout as opposed to proceeding to wrestle. Ryback confronted Mahal in a rematch on August 3 SmackDown, however won through exclusion after Mahal hit him with a microphone. On the August 24 scene of SmackDown, Ryback at last crushed Mahal by means of pinfall and did as such again on the September 3 scene of Raw.

In the wake of vanquishing the Intercontinental Champion The Miz in a non-title match on the September 24 scene of Raw, Ryback defied the WWE Champion CM Punk toward the end of the show after Punk assaulted Mick Foley. On the following two scenes of Raw, Ryback again went up against Punk after he debilitated Jim Ross amid a "Thankfulness Night" fragment regarding Ross, and after he fought with WWE Chairman Vince McMahon. McMahon then proclaimed Punk must safeguard the WWE Championship against Ryback or John Cena at Hell in a Cell, and on the off chance that he can't, McMahon would decide for him. On the October 15 scene of Raw, Cena enthusiastically pulled out of testing Punk for supporting Ryback as Punk's adversary at Hell in a Cell. On October 28 at the compensation for every perspective, Ryback's thirty-eight match undefeated streak was broken by Punk because of a low pass up ref Brad Maddox. After the match, Ryback assaulted Maddox and hit Punk with the Shell Shocked on top of the cell. The next night on Raw, Ryback was named as the last individual from Mick Foley's group to face CM Punk's group at Survivor Series. The following week, Ryback and John Cena were reserved in a triple risk match for Punk's WWE Championship at the compensation per-view instead. On the November 13 scene of Raw, Ryback picked up reprisal against Brad Maddox by squashing him in a match before tossing him into an emergency vehicle, in this manner denying Maddox a chance at joining the WWE program as a wrestler.

On November 18 at Survivor Series, Ryback was unsuccessful in the title match after he was assaulted by Seth Rollins, Dean Ambrose, and Roman Reigns, who powerbombed him through the declare table, permitting Punk to stick Cena and hold the title. The next night on Raw, Ryback was again assaulted by Rollins, Ambrose, and Reigns, now aggregately known as The Shield, before they again powerbombed him through the report table after Ryback endeavored to assault Punk while he was praising his year-long rule as WWE Champion. On the November 26 scene of Raw, Ryback requested another open door at the WWE Championship, with Vickie Guerrero at last yielding and giving him the title match at TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs. Soon thereafter, Ryback assaulted Punk with a stepping stool and seat before at long last powerbombing him through a table. Punk endured a real knee harm amid to the assault, and the title match was postponed. Ryback was rather combined with the WWE Tag Team Champions Team Hell No (Daniel Bryan and Kane) to go up against The Shield in a six-man Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match, where The Shield was victorious. The next night on Raw amid the 2012 Slammy Awards, Ryback won three Slammy Awards for Newcomer of the Year, Crowd Chant of the Year, and #Trending Now. On the January 7, 2013 scene of Raw, Ryback again neglected to catch the WWE Championship from Punk in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match, after The Shield meddled and powerbombed Ryback through a table on top of the ring steps.

On January 27 at the Royal Rumble, Ryback entered the Royal Rumble match as the thirtieth and last contestant and dispensed with five geniuses before being the last man wiped out by John Cena. Ryback would then resume his competition with The Shield on the February 4 Raw, when he collaborated with John Cena and Sheamus to assault the stable. This finished in a six-man label group match on February 17 at Elimination Chamber, where The Shield developed triumphant when Seth Rollins stuck Ryback for the win. The next night on Raw, Ryback and Sheamus collaborated with Chris Jericho to confront The Shield in a rematch, yet were again defeated. Ryback then started a quarrel with Mark Henry after a few non-verbal encounters prompted them assaulting Drew McIntyre with their completing moves trying to one-up each other. On the March 15 scene of SmackDown, Ryback crushed Henry by means of preclusion taking after impedance from The Shield. A short time later, Henry conveyed the World's Strongest Slam to Ryback three times in a row. Ryback and Henry contended in a Bench Press Challenge on the March 29 SmackDown, where Ryback tied Henry at 53 reps after Henry gagged him with the weight. On April 7 at WrestleMania 29, Ryback was crushed by Henry in a singles match.

The next night on Raw, Ryback spared WWE Champion John Cena from strike by Mark Henry before assaulting Cena too, turning heel in the process. The next week on Raw, Ryback clarified his assault on Cena as venturing out from his shadow and getting revenge for Cena not having his back against The Shield; Ryback got a measure of retribution soon thereafter, by permitting the Shield to assault Cena. After turning into the main contender to the WWE Championship, Ryback proceeded with his quarrel with Cena by assaulting him on a few events while additionally having encounters with The Shield. Ryback got his title opportunity in a Last Man Standing match on May 19 at Extreme Rules, be that as it may, the match finished in a no challenge after Ryback smashed Cena and himself into the electric background at the highest point of the ramp. The next night on Raw, Ryback entered the field in an emergency vehicle and tested Cena to a rescue vehicle match for the WWE Championship at the first-historically speaking Payback pay-per-view. The next week on Raw, Cena acknowledged Ryback's test, however declared their match would rather be a 3 Stages of Hell match; the principal fall a logger match, the second a tables match, and the third an emergency vehicle match. At the compensation per-view on June 16, Ryback won the logger match, yet went ahead to lose both the tables and emergency vehicle matches and his shot at the WWE Championship. Ryback then started fighting with Chris Jericho, which prompted a singles match on July 14 at Money in the Bank, where Ryback developed victorious.

In August, Ryback appeared another trick, where he started tormenting different backstage workers. Also as a feature of the contrivance, Ryback would move in an opposite direction from battling rivals of equivalent size and exploiting littler and defenseless opponents.

RybAxel

On September 15 at Night of Champions, Ryback adjusted himself to Paul Heyman in the wake of helping him rout CM Punk. Despite being a harasser himself, Ryback asserted he despised domineering jerks and promised to stop CM Punk and any other person who went about as such. On October 6 at Battleground, Ryback was vanquished by Punk in a singles match taking after a low blow from Punk. On October 27 at Hell in a Cell, Ryback and Heyman were crushed by Punk in a 2-on-1 handicap Hell in a Cell match. The quarrel finished the next night on Raw, when Punk vanquished Ryback in a Street Fight match in the wake of compelling him to submit to the Anaconda Vise, denoting Ryback's first since forever accommodation loss. On the November 11 scene of Raw, the organization together amongst Ryback and Heyman arrived at an end when Heyman verbally castigated him. On November 24 at Survivor Series, Ryback was crushed by the returning Mark Henry after he addressed Ryback's open challenge.

Ryback then started a label group with kindred previous Paul Heyman Guy Curtis Axel all in all marked as "RybAxel", and on the December 6 scene of SmackDown, they vanquished WWE Tag Team Champions Cody Rhodes and Goldust in a non title match to win a shot at the titles. Rybaxel got their title shot on December 15 at TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs, yet were crushed by Cody Rhodes and Goldust in a four-manner end match, likewise including Big Show/Rey Mysterio and The Real Americans (Antonio Cesaro and Jack Swagger). RybAxel got another shot at the WWE Tag Team Championship on April 6, 2014, on the WrestleMania XXX pre-appear, yet were vanquished by guarding champions The Usos in a lethal four-manner disposal match, which additionally included Los Matadores and The Real Americans. At Payback, Rybaxel crushed Cody Rhodes and Goldust in a label group match. At Money in the Bank, RybAxel lost to Gold and Stardust. On July 2, it was reported that Ryback and Axel would seek the empty Intercontinental Championship in a 19-man fight regal at Battleground, yet neither Ryback or Axel figured out how to win. On August 26, 2014, Ryback experienced hernia surgery.

Different quarrels and Intercontinental Champion

Ryback returned on the October 27 scene of Raw, as a face interestingly since 2013, coming back to his old "Food Me More" trick, and crushing Bo Dallas. Ryback would later end his relationship with Axel on the November 6 scene of Superstars. After four days on the November 10 scene of Raw, Ryback seemed to join Team Authority for Survivor Series in the wake of assaulting John Cena, however assaulted his assumed colleagues after they meddled in his match against Cena, joining Team Cena the next week. Ryback was disposed of by Rusev, yet Team Cena won the match, putting The Authority out of force. Ryback vanquished Team Authority part Kane in a Chairs match at TLC. After Seth Rollins urged Cena to bring The Authority over into force, Ryback, alongside Erick Rowan and Dolph Ziggler, were (kayfabe) let go by Triple H on the January 5 scene of Raw as discipline for rebellion, yet they were re-enlisted after Cena vanquished Rollins, Kane and Big Show in an impediment match because of the diversion brought about by Sting, on the January 19 scene of Raw. On the January 22 scene of SmackDown, Ryback crushed Rusev by means of number out to win a spot in the Royal Rumble match, where he was dispensed with by Big Show and Kane. At Fastlane, he cooperated with Rowan and Ziggler in a six-man label group match against Rollins, Big Show and Kane, however lost. Ryback took an interest in the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 31, yet was dispensed with by the possible champ, Big Show. On the Raw after Extreme Rules, Ryback was assaulted by Bray Wyatt (who sent a progression of baffling promos went for Ryback weeks earlier), prompting a match at Payback, which Ryback lost.

At Elimination Chamber, Ryback won the empty Intercontinental Championship, his first expert wrestling title in WWE, by vanquishing Sheamus, Dolph Ziggler, R-Truth, King Barrett and Mark Henry in an Elimination Chamber match. The next night, before Ryback was booked to make his first title safeguard against The Miz; Big Show assaulted Miz and faced Ryback, beginning a quarrel between the two. At Money in the Bank, Big Show crushed Ryback by exclusion after Miz assaulted him; Ryback held the title accordingly. Ryback was planned to protect the title against Big Show and Miz in a triple danger match at Battleground, however the match was deferred after Ryback built up a staph disease in his knee; the match was rescheduled for SummerSlam, where Ryback stuck Miz to hold the title. Ryback at the end of the day protected his title against Big Show on the August 31 scene of Raw, where he stuck Show after a diversion from The Miz, finishing the quarrel. On the September 11 scene of SmackDown, Kevin Owens, who was one of the loggers, cost him a win against Seth Rollins. On the September 14 scene of Raw, it was reported that he would confront Owens at Night of Champions for his Intercontinental Championship. Owens won the match by pinfall after he raked Ryback's eyes, finishing his rule at 112 days.

After at first neglecting to recapture the title utilizing his rematch condition after Owens continued to get himself numbered out, Ryback crushed Rusev to win another open door at Hell in a Cell, where Ryback neglected to recover the title from Owens, finishing the quarrel. On the November 12 scene of SmackDown, Ryback would enter the 16-man competition to crown the new WWE World Heavyweight Champion, yet he would lose to Kalisto in the first round. At Survivor Series, Ryback took part in a five-on-five end label group match, collaborating with The Usos and The Lucha Dragons to crush The New Day, Sheamus and King Barrett. In December, Ryback began a quarrel with Rusev in the wake of interfering with Rusev and the returning Lana on Miz TV, which would prompt a match between the two at TLC, where Ryback was crushed by Rusev by TKO.

On January 24, 2016, Ryback contended in the Royal Rumble match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship as the ninth contestant, however was disposed of by Big Show.

On the February 4 scene of SmackDown, Ryback appeared another look, forsaking his singlet and now brandishing dark trunks, where he vanquished Erick Rowan, however was assaulted by The Wyatt Family. Ryback collaborated with Big Show and Kane, being charged as "the titans" of WWE, to thrashing Wyatt Family individuals Rowan, Luke Harper and Braun Strowman in a six-man label group match at Fastlane, with Ryback sticking Harper for the triumph. On the February 22 scene of Raw, amid a rematch between the two groups, Ryback left Big Show and Kane, and later announced that he was burnt out on being in label group matches, turning heel in the process surprisingly since 2014.

On the March 7 scene of Raw, Ryback faced United States Champion Kalisto backstage, prompting a title match between them on the WrestleMania 32 pre-appear, which Ryback lost. In a non-title rematch between the two on the April 21 scene of SmackDown, Ryback vanquished Kalisto, reigniting their quarrel. With the win, he earned another shot at Kalisto's United States Championship at Payback, yet was again crushed on the pre-appear. This would be his last match for WWE.

On May 2, 2016, it was accounted for that WWE had sent Reeves home from TV because of an agreement debate, and he didn't take an interest in a Battle Royal match he was advanced for. The next day, on May 3, Reeves posted a long clarification on his own Tumblr page, affirming that he himself settled on the choice to go home, and refered to an absence of equivalent pay for ability and imaginative disappointment as essential explanations behind his departure.

On August 5, 2016, Reeves reported on his Instagram that he and WWE had separated ways. Three days after the fact, WWE formally went separate ways with Ryback.

Individual life

In a scene of his podcast, discharged on September 12, 2016, Reeves expressed that he was attempting to legitimately change his name to Ryback Allen Reeves with a specific end goal to have the capacity to keep utilizing the name Ryback taking after his takeoff from WWE. It was reported on September 22nd that he was fruitful in changing his name to "Ryback Allen Reeves", therefore permitting him to utilize the Ryback name.

Titles and accomplishments

Ohio Valley Wrestling

OVW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

Professional Wrestling Illustrated

Quarrel of the Year (2010) The Nexus versus WWE

Most Hated Wrestler of the Year (2010) As a major aspect of The Nexus

Most Improved Wrestler of the Year (2012)

Positioned No. 13 of the main 500 wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2013

Wrestling Observer Newsletter

Most Overrated (2012)

World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE

WWE Intercontinental Championship (1 time)

Slammy Award (5 times)

Swarm Chant of the Year (2012) Feed Me More!

Match of the Year (2014) – Team Cena versus Group Authority at Survivor Series

Newcomer of the Year (2012)

Stunner of the Year (2010) The presentation of The Nexus

Slanting Now (2012) #FeedMeMore