Amazing Red Jonathan Figueroa ( April 26 , 1982 ) is a Puerto Rican professional wrestler better known by his ring name , ( The ) Amazing Red , or simply Red for short . He currently wrestles on the independent circuit . He is perhaps best known for his time with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , where he is a former three - time X Division Champion . In addition to being an active wrestler , Figueroa is also one of the head trainers of the House of Glory wrestling school , based in Ridgewood , Queens , New York City . He is the cousin of fellow professional wrestlers Joel and Jose Maximo ( better known as The S . A . T . ) and Rosita . Career . Early career . Figueroa originally wrestled as Red , but Savio Vega decided to expand his ring name to include the word " Amazing " while he worked for the International Wrestling Association in Puerto Rico , giving origin to his more common pseudonym , Amazing Red . Red , who was already known for his work in the United States independent circuit , joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling at its 2002 inception , quickly establishing himself in its X Division . During his first run in TNA Red held both the TNA X Division Championship and the NWA World Tag Team Championship with Jerry Lynn , simultaneously . While working for TNA he also wrestled for Ring of Honor as a member of the three man tag team The S . A . T . with cousins , Jose and Joel Maximo . Eventually he began to team with " The Phenomenal " A . J . Styles , becoming known together as Amazing Phenomenon . The team would go on to win the ROH Tag Team Championship from Christopher Daniels and Donovan Morgan . Through late 2003 Amazing Red , wrestled as Misterio Red as well as Airwalk Spriggan while on a tour with All Japan Pro Wrestling . During the tour he suffered a near career - ending knee injury , tearing his anterior cruciate ligament and having to undergo surgery which kept him on the sideline for an entire year . Red returned to TNA to wrestle in March 2004 , staying there for the majority of the year . When he left TNA he went back to the independents , only returning on occasion to TNA throughout 2005 and 2006 . He also wrestled CM Punk in a dark match at a " WWE SmackDown " taping on May 12 , 2005 . Retirement and return . On October 15 , 2005 , Red was forced to cancel his Uniting Champions booking in Tulsa , OK at the last minute , and his replacement , a local by the name of X - Cal was dubbed as the " Amazing Blue " . Red ' s last appearance was at a New York Wrestling Connection event at the beginning of 2006 , where he lost his match to Javi - Air and re - injured his knee . It was made official on the Pro Wrestling Unplugged Website that he would be making his return to their " Haunted " event although he requested off since it was announced that his wife was expecting their child on March 14 , 2008 . Red left the wrestling business and took on a full - time job to heal his knee after several surgeries . After being on the sidelines with his injury , Red made his long awaited return on December 13 , 2008 at Jersey All Pro Wrestling ' s Best of the Light Heavyweights , the match was won by Archadia as he defeated Amazing Red , Flip Kendrick , Louis Lyndon . Return to Impact Wrestling ( 2009 – 2011 ) . In April 2009 , it was announced via the TNA website that the Amazing Red would return to the company in the Team 3D Tag Team Invitational Tournament . On the April 30 edition of " Impact ! " he teamed with then - X Division Champion Suicide to defeat the Motor City Machineguns of Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin . Suicide and Amazing Red were eliminated from the tournament on the May 14 episode of " Impact Wrestling " by the new stable , The British Invasion after interference from the Motor City Machineguns . On the May 28 edition of " Impact ! " , he challenged Suicide for the X Division Championship but was unsuccessful in winning the title for a second time . Red competed in a Steel Asylum match at the Hard Justice Pay - Per - View on August 16 , in another losing effort . On the October 1 edition of " Impact ! " Red became the number one contender to Samoa Joe ' s X Division title by defeating Jay Lethal , Consequences Creed , Sheik Abdul Bashir and Kiyoshi in a ladder match . On the following " Impact ! " Red won the X Division Championship for the second time by pinning Samoa Joe following interference by Bobby Lashley . On the October 15 edition of " Impact ! " Don West debuted as Red ' s new manager . At Bound for Glory Red retained his X Division Title in an Ultimate X match against Homicide , Daniels , Suicide , Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin . The following week on " Impact ! " Red lost to Homicide in a non - title match . The return match between the two was booked for Turning Point , where Red was able to retain his title . Afterwards Don West quietly broke off his affiliation with Red , while he went on to defend his title on TNA ' s weekly Webmatches against the likes of Chris Sabin and Homicide . At Genesis Red retained his title in a match against the returning Brian Kendrick . On the January 28 edition of " Impact ! " the British Invasion attacked Red after his six - man tag team match . As Rob Terry was going to cash in his " Feast or Fired " briefcase , which gave him the right to challenge for the X Division Championship anytime , anywhere , his stable mate Doug Williams managed to convince him to hand it over to him and defeated Red to win the Championship . On the April 12 edition of " Impact ! " Red took the place of the injured Hernandez and teamed up with Matt Morgan to successfully defend the Impact Wrestling World Tag Team Championship against the Motor City Machineguns . After the match Morgan attacked Red for getting the pinfall in the match . After a few weeks out of action , Red returned to " Impact ! " on the June 10 edition , in a losing effort against Kurt Angle . On September 23 Red defeated Jay Lethal at a live event in his hometown of New York City to win the X Division Championship for the third time . Red lost the title back to Lethal two days later at a live event in Rahway , New Jersey . On the December 23 edition of " Impact ! " Red answered Jeff Jarrett ' s MMA Challenge , but was defeated by submission . After the match Red told Jarrett that he had a younger brother , who would answer the challenge the following week . The following week Red ' s storyline brother , billed simply as Little Red ( later renamed Crimson ) , answered the challenge and was winning his match against Jarrett , before Jarrett was pulled away from the ring by his security guards Gunner and Murphy . Shortly afterwards , Crimson broke away from Red and the relation between the two was not mentioned again . On the April 19 edition of " Xplosion " , Figueroa debuted as Sangriento , a masked luchador , in a three – way match , where he defeated Jay Lethal and Chris Sabin . Sangriento made his " Impact ! " debut on May 5 , defeating Suicide . After defeating Suicide in a rematch the following week , Sangriento was not seen again for two months , until appearing in a backstage segment with Eric Young at Destination X on July 10 . At the same pay - per - view Amazing Red wrestled in an X Division number one contender ' s Ultimate X match , which was won by Alex Shelley , and which would turn out to be his final match for the promotion . On August 4 , 2011 , Figueroa announced via his Twitter account that he had parted ways with Impact Wrestling .