Pepper Parks Jesse Guilmette ( June 3 , 1980 ) is an American professional wrestler currently working for Impact Wrestling as Braxton Sutter . Outside of TNA , Guilmette works as Pepper Parks . He has wrestled throughout numerous American independent promotions as well as Canadian promotions . Organizations Guilmette has worked for include Ring Of Honor , Squared Circle Wrestling , Neo Wrestling Federation , Classic Championship Wrestling and Combat Zone Wrestling . Professional wrestling career . Early career . Guilmette was trained by Les Thatcher . He has worked a number of matches under his legal name with the WWE , facing wrestlers such as The Boogeyman , Vladimir Kozlov and Shad Gaspard in squash matches . Independent circuit ( 2000 – 2015 ) . In 2000 , Guilmette began appearing for the Midwestern independent promotion Heartland Wrestling Association under the ring name Pepper Parks where he would be paired up with Chet Jablonski as the tag team , The A Squad . Debuting on July 27 , 2000 , the team faced Astin Ambrose and JJ Duquesne in a losing effort . Parks would wrestle for HWA for six years . During this time , he won the HWA Cruiserweight Championship on June 26 , 2001 , defeating Matt Stryker . On January 1 , 2006 , Parks gained his first heavyweight championship , defeating Jon Moxley in the tournament finals for the vacant HWA Heavyweight Championship . Parks would lose the title to Moxley on May 9 , 2006 and regain it once again on November 11 , 2006 defeating Chad Collyer in title vs . career match . His second reign lasted 28 days before vacating the title on December 5 , 2006 and leaving HWA . Throughout 2007 , Parks would primarily wrestle for the NWA New York based promotions – NWA Empire , NWA Upstate and NWA New York . On May 19 , 2007 , at the NWA Empire First Anniversary Show , he defeated Brodie Lee to become the NWA Empire Heavyweight Champion . On October 20 , 2007 Parks would also win the vacated NWA National Heavyweight Championship . On January 16 , 2010 , Parks began appearing for Empire State Wrestling , losing to Freddie Midnight in his first match . On September 11 , 2010 , he would go on to win the ESW Tag Team Championship with Kevin Grace . Parks and Grace would drop the titles on June 4 , 2011 to The Rochester Wrecking Crew . On October 11 , 2014 , he unsuccessfully challenged John McChesney for the PWR Heavyweight Championship in a casket match at PWR Halloween Mayhem . On July 18 , 2015 , Parks and Cherry Bomb made their debut for Tommy Dreamer ' s House of Hardcore at the ninth HOH event in Toronto , Ontario , Canada . They would appear at the next four HOH events , beginning a feud with Dreamer and Mickie James in the process . Ring of Honor ( 2007 , 2012 – 2015 ) . Guilmette first wrestled for Ring of Honor on April 13 , 2007 , defeating Mitch Franklin in a dark match . Years later , he would make his official debut for ROH on June 30 , 2012 , losing to Adam Cole . On February 16 , 2013 , Parks made his return , losing to former ROH World Tag Team Champion Charlie Haas . On the April 6 , 2013 , episode of " Ring of Honor Wrestling " , Parks was defeated by Roderick Strong . He continued to wrestle matches for Ring of Honor throughout 2014 and 2015 . Parks made his final appearance for Ring of Honor on September 26 , 2015 losing to Caprice Coleman on the ROH Reloaded Tour . Combat Zone Wrestling ( 2012 – 2016 ) . Guilmette would make his first appearance for Combat Zone Wrestling on September 8 , 2012 at the promotions annual Down with the Sickness event , defeating Kekoa . he would go on to make regular appearances for the promotion over the next four years . In 2015 , Parks and his wife Cherry Bomb would align themselves with BLK Jeez , and form the villainous stable known as TV Ready . On December 12 , 2015 at CZW ' s seventeenth annual Cage of Death event , TV Ready would go on to win the CZW World Tag Team Championship , defeating Dan Barry and Sozio . On May 14 , 2016 TV Ready lost the CZW World Tag Team Championship to Da Hit Squad at Prelude to Violence 2016 , the match was also Parks ' final appearance for CZW after signing with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling . On September 10 , 2016 Guilmette returned to CZW using his Braxton Sutter ring name for their annual Down with the Sickness event , teaming with BLK Jeez as TV Ready to challenge for the CZW World Tag Team Championship against Da Hit Squad , in a losing effort . Total Nonstop Action Wrestling / Impact Wrestling ( 2015 – present ) . Guilmette initially appeared in Impact Wrestling through the company ' s One Night Only PPV ' s under his Pepper Parks ring name . First appearing at the 2015 One Night Only event X - Travaganza 2015 , losing against Kenny King and Jay Rios , he would next appear on 2015 ' s Gut Check PPV , losing to Drew Galloway . The following year on January 8 , 2016 ; Parks appeared for the company again in the first PPV of the year losing to Trevor Lee . he appeared on Impact Wresting TV again for the January 19 edition of " Impact Wrestling " , where he suffered a loss against Mike Bennett . On March 23 , 2016 , Impact Wrestling announced that Guilmette had signed a contract . On the June 7 , 2016 edition of " Impact Wrestling " , he made his Impact debut under the name Braxton Sutter , defeating local independent wrestler Bill Callous in a singles match . On June 12 , 2016 , at Slammiversary , Sutter wrestled James Storm in a losing effort . On the June 21 , 2016 , episode of " Impact Wrestling " , Sutter was challenged by Rockstar Spud who had interrupted Sutter ' s scheduled match against indy wrestler Balam , Sutter went on to defeat Spud and following his victory , was viciously attacked by Spud . On the June 28 edition of " Impact Wrestling " , he won a battle - royal to become the number one contender for the Impact Wrestling X Division Championship , but was defeated by then champion Mike Bennett who invoked his match against Sutter immediately following the battle - royal . On the July 5 episode of " Impact Wrestling " , he participated in an Ultimate X match for the X Division Championship , in a losing effort . During the match , he broke a tooth of Rockstar Spud . At 2016 ' s Destination X , he competed in a six - man ladder match to be number one contender to the X Division Championship , losing to DJZ . Over several months , Rockstar Spud and Sutter had many confrontations , during X Division matches . On the September 1 edition of " Impact Wrestling " , Rockstar Spud viciously attacked Sutter with a chair during a Ultimate X match , and attacked him once again on the September 8 edition of " Impact Wrestling " after his match against Drew Galloway , breaking one of his teeth . On the September 15 edition of " Impact Wrestling " , Sutter defeated Rockstar Spud in an " Empty Arena , No Turnbuckles " match , ending their feud . At Bound for Glory he participated in the Bound for Gold but was eliminated first by the eventual winner Eli Drake . On the October 6 episode of " Impact Wrestling " , Braxton Sutter took part in the first Team X Gold match , teaming with DJZ and Mandrews , and defeated The Helms Dynasty and Marshe Rockett . On the October 27 episode of " Impact Wrestling " , the team defeated Decay and Rockstar Spud . On the November 3 episode of " Impact Wrestling " , the team , now dubbed " Go for Broke " defeated The Helms Dynasty and Marshe Rockett and Rockstar Spud and Decay in a three - way tag team match . They once again defeated the two teams , this time in an elimination match on the October 24 episode of " Impact Wrestling " . On the December 1 episode of " Impact Wrestling " , Sutter faced Mandrews and DJZ for his Impact Wrestling X Division Championship , but lost the match . On the January 12 episode of " Impact Wrestling " , Sutter inserted himself into the feud between Maria Kanellis - Bennett and Allie , defeating Maria ' s husband Mike Bennett . The following week , Maria would blackmail him into breaking it off with Allie , after he said that she couldn ' t control him like everyone else . He was then forced to drive Laurel Van Ness home and later propose to her , or else Allie would be fired . But on the February 23 episode of " Impact Wrestling " , Sutter rejected Van Ness ' marriage during the ceremony when he announced that he ' s in love with Allie . On the March 9 episode of " Impact Wrestling " , Sutter defeated DJZ , Marshe Rockett and Caleb Konley in a four - way match with the help of Allie . After the match , they were confronted by an angry Laurel Van Ness who observed them from the ramp . Personal life . On September 21 , 2013 , Sutter married fellow professional wrestler Laura Dennis , better known as Cherry Bomb on the independent circuit and Allie in Impact Wrestling .