Ricochet

Ricochet in October 2017

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Alton, Illinois, United States

**Trevor Mann** (born October 11, 1988) is an American professional wrestler best known by the ring name **Ricochet**. He wrestled for New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he is a former three-times IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion, three-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion and the winner of the 2014 Best of the Super Juniors and 2015 Super Jr. Tag Tournaments.

Ricochet also wrestled for Dragon Gate and its American branch Dragon Gate USA, where he is a former Open The Freedom Gate Champion, Open The Dream Gate, Open The Brave Gate, Open The Twin Gate, Open The Triangle Gate and Open The United Gate champion.

Best known as **The Future of Flight**, Ricochet is best known for his high-fly ring-in abilities, Ricochet joined Dragon Gate in the end of 2010, where he quickly won the Open The Triangle Gate Champions. Soon after, Ricochet turned heel and formed the villanous unit, the Blood Warriors alongside then tag team partner and mentor CIMA. During this time, due to Ricochet's main high-flying abilities began a feud with late rival and future partner PAC, in the dispute of being the world's best high flyer, culminating in him winning the Open The Brave Gate Championship in the fall of 2011.

Since the beginning of 2012, Ricochet turned face and formed the WORLD-1 INTERNATIONAL unit, alongside partners and former rivals PAC, Masato Yoshino, Naruki Doi and Rich Swann, during which he became one of the stable's most prominent and highlighted members alongside Doi and Yoshino. In the fall of 2013, Ricochet formed MONSTER EXPRESS, during which his popularity began surpassing the stable leader Yoshino leading in January 2014, Ricochet winning the Open The Dream Gate Championship, thus becoming the first gaijin to ever hold the title. Since then he became one of Dragon Gate's most established wrestlers leading him to represent the promotion in New Japan Pro-Wrestling's Best of the Super Juniors for his second year, which he won, despite being unsuccessful in winning the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship.

Since then, Ricochet began wrestling more for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, making his return in the summer of 2015, unsuccessfully challenging for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship. Despite not winning the championship, Ricochet began teaming with Matt Sydal, which both men became one of the promotion's most established junior heavyweights, leading them winning the 2015 Super Jr. Tag Tournament and later the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships alongside Sydal, with the duo winning them in two occasions, including NJPW's trio championship, the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Ricochet during the 2016 Best of the Super Juniors tournament started a rivalry with the newcomer Will Ospreay, which both men's match during the tournament received widespread attention in the professional wrestling world. With some such as William Regal praised the two, others criticized the match with the most notable criticism coming from Vader, who compared the match to a "gymnastics routine". Ricochet then joined Taguchi Japan, leading him to win the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions one more time and later forming a tag team with Ryusuke Taguchi named "Funky Future", which both won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships before losing them to the newcomers Roppongi 3K, in what it was Ricochet's last appearance with the promotion. Ricochet then returned briefly to Dragon Gate, defeating Eita in his return appearance before making his last appearance with CIMA defeating former foes YAMATO and Kzy in his last match with the promotion.

## Professional wrestling career

Trevor Mann started out in Chaos Pro Wrestling where he had the ring name Cameron Locke, then in 2003 under the ring name Ricochet, he began competing on the independent circuit until he made his first major outing on February 6, 2006 at Insanity Pro Wrestling's Sacrifice event, where he took part in a five-man elimination match involving future long-time rival Chuck Taylor, DieHard, Tony Galloway and Ty Blade. Ricochet was the final wrestler eliminated as Taylor pinned him to win the match. A few weeks later on February 18, Ricochet took part in his first major championship match as he, Chuck Taylor, Jeff Jameson, Brian Sterling, and Cabana Man Dan took part in another five-man elimination match at Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South's Xtreme Warfare event for the vacant Deep South Heavyweight Championship, which Cabana Man Dan won. A few months later at IWA Mid-South's event We're No Joke! on April 1, Ricochet took part in a nine-man Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match to determine the one contender for the IWA Mid-South Light Heavyweight Championship|Light Heavyweight Championship, also involving his rival Chuck Taylor. Although he lost the match to Darin Corbin, he was involved in an infamous spot in which he performed his finishing move, a double rotation moonsault, off of a ladder to the outside of the ring and onto the other eight competitors. On that same day, Ricochet also competed at Insanity Pro Wrestling's event Mischief, Mayhem & Revenge, where he lost to Taylor for the promotion's Junior Heavyweight Championship.

### Evolve and Dragon Gate USA (2010–2017)

On January 16, 2010, Ricochet would make his debut for Evolve at the company's debut show *Evolve 1: Ibushi vs Richards* in a winning effort against Arik Cannon. However Ricochet would lose at the next event on March 13, 210 at *Evolve 2: Hero vs Hidaka* to Chuck Taylor and again via countout on May 1, 2010 at *Evolve 3: Rise Or Fall* to Johnny Gargano. After being defeated by Drake Younger in a four-way match on July 23, Ricochet ended his losing streak on September 11, by defeating Kyle O'Reilly.

On July 24, 2010, Ricochet made his debut for Dragon Gate USA at Enter the Dragon 2010, being defeated by Chuck Taylor in a four-way match, which also included Arik Cannon and Adam Cole. At the following event on September 25, Ricochet teamed with CIMA to defeat Speed Muscle (Masato Yoshino and Naruki Doi) in a tag team match. After the match Cima gave Ricochet a spot in his Warriors International stable. The following day Ricochet defeated Gran Akuma in a singles match. On October 29 at Dragon Gate USA's first live pay-per-view, Bushido: Code of the Warrior, Ricochet wrestled in a four–way match, which was won by Chuck Taylor and also included Arik Cannon and Johnny Gargano. At the following day's tapings of Freedom Fight 2010, Ricochet teamed with his Warriors International stablemate Genki Horiguchi and Austin Aries in a six-man tag team match, where they were defeated by Ronin (Chuck Taylor, Johnny Gargano & Rich Swann). When Dragon Gate USA returned on January 29, 2011, Ricochet now represented heel stable Blood Warriors and teamed with new stablemate Naruki Doi in the tournament to determine the first-ever Open the United Gate Champions. In their first tournament match, Ricochet & Doi were defeated by Ronin representatives Chuck Taylor & Johnny Gargano. The following day, Ricochet & Doi were defeated in the main event of the evening by the World–1 team of Masato Yoshino & Pac. On April 2 at Mercury Rising 2011, Ricochet, Cima & Naruki Doi defeated Ronin (Chuck Taylor, Johnny Gargano & Rich Swann) in the main event six-man tag team match. During the match, Ricochet suffered an ankle injury, which forced him out of the following day's match for the Open the United Gate Championship. On September 11 at Way of the Ronin 2011, Ricochet & Cima defeated Masato Yoshino & Pac to win the Open the United Gate Championship in a match, where Ricochet's & Cima's Open The Twin Gate Championship was also on the line. After the merger of Evolve and Dragon Gate USA, Ricochet took part in the final official professional wrestling match in the Asylum Arena, when he unsuccessfully challenged Johnny Gargano for the Open the Freedom Gate Championship at an Evolve event on January 14, 2012. On March 30, Ricochet & Cima were forced to vacate the Open the United Gate Championship, after Cima was sidelined with a neck injury. In the main event of the evening, Ricochet teamed with Masato Yoshino to defeat Johnny Gargano & Chuck Taylor and regain the Open the United Gate Championship. On June 21, Ricochet & Yoshino were stripped of the title due to Yoshino being unable to appear at the following month's Dragon Gate USA events. On July 29, Ricochet teamed with Rich Swann in a match to determine the new Open the United Gate Champions. They were, however, defeated in the match by Cima & AR Fox. On November 2 at Fearless 2012, Ricochet was defeated by Fox in a Respect match and, as a result, was forced to tell his opponent that he respected him. Two days later at Freedom Fight 2012, Ricochet unsuccessfully challenged Johnny Gargano for the Open the Freedom Gate Championship in a four-way elimination match, which also included Akira Tozawa and AR Fox. On April 4, 2014, Ricochet defeated Gargano to win the Open the Freedom Gate Championship. On November 16, 2014, during Dragon Gate USA's parent company WWNLive's tour of China, Ricochet lost the title back to Gargano.

### Dragon Gate (2010–2015, 2017)

Through his work in Dragon Gate USA, Ricochet got to make his first tour of Japan with its parent promotion Dragon Gate, making his debut on December 10, 2010, in Toyama where he teamed with his Warriors stablemate CIMA and Masaaki Mochizuki in a six-man tag team match, where they defeated Gamma, Kzy and Naruki Doi. Ricochet's first tour of Japan ended on December 26, when he, Cima and Dragon Kid defeated Naoki Tanizaki, Takuya Sugawara & Yasushi Kanda in Fukuoka at *Final Gate 2010* to win the Open The Triangle Gate Championship. Ricochet turned heel on January 14, 2011, along with the rest of Warriors, attacking Masato Yoshino & World–1, and joining forces with Naruki Doi's group. On January 18 the new group was named Blood Warriors. On February 10 Cima, Naruki Doi & Gamma defeated World–1 representatives Masato Yoshino, BxB Hulk & Susumu Yokosuka in a six-man tag team match and as a result, Pac was forced to leave World–1 and join Blood Warriors. However, Ricochet blocked the move as he felt that he, not Pac, was the top high flyer in the world and instead challenged him to a match for his Open The Brave Gate Championship. The title match between Pac and Ricochet took place on March 1 and ended with Pac retaining his title. On May 15, the rest of Blood Warriors turned on Dragon Kid and kicked him out of the group, despite the fact that he still held the Open the Triangle Gate Championship with Ricochet & Cima. As a result, the title was declared vacant. On July 17, Ricochet & Cima defeated Dragon Kid & Pac of rival group Junction Three to win the Open The Twin Gate Championship. On November 19, Ricochet defeated Pac for the Open the Brave Gate Championship. After their third successful defense of the Open the Twin Gate Championship on November 30, Ricochet & Cima vacated the title in order for Ricochet to concentrate on defending the Open the Brave Gate Championship and Cima to concentrate on chasing the Open The Dream Gate Championship. On January 19, 2012, Akira Tozawa took over the leadership of Blood Warriors, kicking Cima out of the group. After Ricochet continued to team with CIMA in Dragon Gate USA, it was announced on February 9, that he was also kicked out of Blood Warriors. On March 4, Ricochet & Cima decided to mutually split up, with Ricochet joining Masato Yoshino's and Naruki Doi's new World-1 International stable and Cima reviving the Veteran-gun. On May 6, Ricochet lost the Open the Brave Gate Championship to Dragon Kid in his fourth defense. On May 25, 2013, Ricochet defeated Shingo Takagi in the finals to win the 2013 King of Gate tournament. As a result, Ricochet earned a shot at the Open the Dream Gate Championship, but was defeated in the title match on June 16 by Cima. On July 21, Ricochet & Naruki Doi defeated Akira Tozawa & BxB Hulk for the Open the Twin Gate Championship. They lost the title to Dragon Kid and K-ness on August 30. On September 12, Doi turned on Masato Yoshino, signaling the end of World-1 International. Ricochet quickly found a new alliance, forming Monster Express with Yoshino, Akira Tozawa, Shachihoko Boy, Shingo Takagi, and Uhaa Nation. On March 2, 2014, Ricochet defeated Monster Express stablemate Masato Yoshino for the Open the Dream Gate Championship, becoming the first *gaijin* to hold the title. Ricochet made his first successful title defense just four days later against another stablemate, Uhaa Nation. After a two-month reign, Ricochet lost the Open the Dream Gate Championship to YAMATO in his second defense on May 5.

Ricochet returned to Dragon Gate during the summer of 2015. On July 20, he and Matt Sydal unsuccessfully challenged Naruki Doi and Yamato for the Open the Twin Gate Championship. On October 29, 2017, it was announced that Ricochet would return to Dragon Gate facing Eita at the Gate of Destiny which he won. He wrestled his last match on Dragon Gate on November 8 teaming with CIMA defeating YAMATO & Kzy.

### New Japan Pro Wrestling (2013–2017)

On May 3, 2013, New Japan Pro Wrestling announced Ricochet as a participant in the 2013 Best of the Super Juniors tournament. He made his debut for the promotion on May 22, teaming with Kenny Omega in a tag team match, where they defeated *Suzuki-gun* (Taichi & Taka Michinoku). In the round-robin portion of the tournament, which ran from May 24 to June 6, Ricochet managed to win five out of his eight matches with a loss against Alex Shelley on June 6, costing him a spot in the semifinals.

Ricochet returned to take part in the 2014 Best of the Super Juniors tournament on May 30, this time advancing to the semifinals, after finishing second in his block with a record of five wins and two losses. On June 8, Ricochet first defeated Ryusuke Taguchi in the semifinals and then KUSHIDA in the finals to win the 2014 Best of the Super Juniors and become the number one contender to the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship. With his win, Ricochet became the youngest person to win the tournament and the second American to do so. On June 21 at Dominion 6.21, Ricochet unsuccessfully challenged Kota Ibushi for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship.

On July 3, 2015, Ricochet made a surprise return to NJPW, challenging the winner of the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match between Kenny Omega and KUSHIDA, set to take place two days later, to a title match. Ricochet received his title match on August 16 but was defeated by KUSHIDA. Ricochet returned to NJPW on October 24, when he and Matt Sydal entered the 2015 Super Jr. Tag Tournament, defeating Time Splitters (Alex Shelley & Kushida) in their first-round match. On November 1, Ricochet & Sydal defeated The Young Bucks to advance to the finals of the tournament. On November 7 at Power Struggle, Ricochet & Sydal defeated Roppongi Vice (Beretta & Rocky Romero) in the finals to win the 2015 Super Jr. Tag Tournament. On January 4, 2016, at Wrestle Kingdom 10 in Tokyo Dome, Ricochet & Sydal took part in a four-way match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, but were defeated by The Young Bucks. On February 11 at The New Beginning in Osaka, Ricochet & Sydal defeated The Young Bucks and reDRagon (Bobby Fish & Kyle O'Reilly) in a three-way match to become the new IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. They lost the title to Roppongi Vice on April 10 at Invasion Attack 2016 before regaining the title on May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2016. Later in the month, Ricochet entered the 2016 Best of the Super Juniors tournament. On May 27, Ricochet faced Will Ospreay in the tournament in a match, which received widespread attention in the professional wrestling world. While some like William Regal praised the two, others criticized the match with the most notable criticism coming from Vader, who compared the match to a "gymnastics routine". Ricochet finished the tournament with a record of four wins and three losses, failing to advance to the finals due to losing to Chase Owens in his final round-robin match.

On July 3, Ricochet & Sydal teamed up with Satoshi Kojima to defeat Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks for the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship. They were stripped of the title on September 25 due to Sydal failing to make a scheduled title defense at Destruction in Kobe because of travel issues. That same day, Ricochet & Kojima, now teaming with David Finlay, defeated Adam Cole & The Young Bucks to regain the vacant title. This led to a match on October 10 at King of Pro-Wrestling, where Ricochet & Finlay unsuccessfully challenged The Young Bucks for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. Ricochet, Finlay & Kojima lost the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship to *Los Ingobernables de Japon* (BUSHI, EVIL & Sanada) in a four-team gauntlet match at Wrestle Kingdom 11 in Tokyo Dome on January 4, 2017. Afterwards, Ricochet joined the Taguchi Japan stable as part of which he, Ryusuke Taguchi, and Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated *Los Ingobernables de Japon* on April 4 to win the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship. On April 29, Ricochet unsuccessfully challenged Hiromu Takahashi for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship. On May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2017, Ricochet, Tanahashi & Taguchi lost the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship back to L.I.J.

Ricochet then formed a new tag team named "Funky Future" with Ryusuke Taguchi under the banner of Taguchi Japan. On August 13, the two defeated The Young Bucks to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. They lost the titles to Roppongi 3K (Sho and Yoh) on October 9 at King of Pro-Wrestling. Following the match, Ricochet took responsibility for the loss and thanked both NJPW and Taguchi Japan. His mannerisms were interpreted as meaning he had wrestled his final NJPW match.

## In wrestling

* **Finishing moves**
	+ 630° senton
	+ *Cradle Shock* (Cross-legged Samoan driver)
	+ *Benadryller* (Fireman's carry dropped into a Roundhouse Kick)
	+ *Benadryller 2point* (Fireman's carry dropped into an Overhead Kick)
	+ Double rotation moonsault
	+ *King's Landing* (High-angle Lifting reverse STO)
	+ Shooting star press
	+ *Vertigo* (Spin-out Inverted fisherman driver)
* **Signature moves**
	+ Backflip Kick
	+ Brainbuster
	+ *Burning Screwdriver* (Cobra clutch backbreaker followed by a Spin-Out Cobra clutch mat slam)
	+ *Chocolate Rain* (Diving double knee drop to a standing opponent)
	+ Corkscrew 450° splash, sometimes from the second rope
	+ Horizontal Gory special
	+ Jumping reverse bulldog
	+ Northern lights suplex, followed by a Deadlift vertical suplex
	+ Rolling thunder, transitioned into a Jumping DDT
	+ Recoil (Single knee facebreaker)
	+ Snap suplex
	+ Springboard clothesline
	+ Springboard european uppercut
	+ Superman punch
	+ Tornado DDT
* **Nicknames**
	+ "The Future of Flight"
	+ "Mr. High Fly"
* **Entrance themes**
	+ "White Ghetto" by Teenage Rehab
	+ "Why Are You So Cold" by Jackson Eppley
	+ "The Future of Flight" by Yonosuke Kitamura

## Championships and accomplishments

* **DDT Pro-Wrestling**
	+ Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship (1 time)
* **Dragon Gate**
	+ Open The Brave Gate Championship (1 time)
	+ Open The Dream Gate Championship (1 time)
	+ Open The Triangle Gate Championship (1 time) – with CIMA and Dragon Kid
	+ Open The Twin Gate Championship (2 times) – with CIMA (1) and Naruki Doi (1)
	+ King of Gate (2013)
	+ Fourth Grand Slam Champion
	+ Tenth Triple Crown Champion
* **Dragon Gate USA**
	+ Open The Freedom Gate Championship (1 time)
	+ Open The United Gate Championship (2 times) – with CIMA (1) and Masato Yoshino (1)
* **New Japan Pro Wrestling**
	+ IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Matt Sydal (2) and Ryusuke Taguchi (1)
	+ NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Matt Sydal and Satoshi Kojima (1), Satoshi Kojima and David Finlay (1) and Hiroshi Tanahashi andRyusuke Taguchi (1)
	+ Best of the Super Juniors (2014)
	+ Super Jr. Tag Tournament (2015) – with Matt Sydal
* ***Wrestling Observer Newsletter***
	+ Best Flying Wrestler (2011, 2014, 2015)
	+ Best Wrestling Maneuver (2010, 2011) *Double rotation moonsault*

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