Tyson Blade

**Sebastian James "Seb" Tyson** (born May 13, 1983) is a British professional wrestler, better known by his ring name **Tyson Blade.** He is signed to American professional wrestling promotion **Royal Wrestling Kingdom**.

Born and raised in Chester, England, Tyson Blade began his professional wrestling training in from 1999 to 2000 and his career from 2001 on the British independent scene. He joined The Wrestling Federation (TWF), where he spent the majority of the prime of his career.

In TWF, Blade has been regarded as one of the best wrestlers to have ever worked within the promotion, and has been noted as a major part of their success. After winning the TWF World Championship in 2015, Blade became a fixture of the promotion's main event scene and was widely regarded to be one of their greatest-ever wrestlers by the end of the decade. Tyson Blade has headlined several major TWF pay-per-view events, including their premiere event WrestleDynasty.

Tyson Blade was won numerous championships in his career, including both the TWF Hardcore Championship and the TWF World Championship, and has been honoured by The Wrestling Federation as one of the company's Hall of Famers, earning the honour in 2017 following his first retirement.

## Early life

Sebastian James "Seb" Tyson was born in Chester, England on May 13, 1983. He was introduced to wrestling during his childhood and watched his first match at a young age. Following his graduation from high school, Tyson would double-down on his desires to become a professional wrestler and enrolled to train under former wrestler Jonathan Blade, who ran a professional wrestling school in Manchester, England.

## Professional wrestling career

### Training and early career (1999 - 2001)

In 1999, Tyson began to train to become a professional wrestler at Jonathan Blade's wrestling school in Manchester. He made his professional debut on August 26, 2001 and began regularly wrestling on the British independent scene. He would frequent independent shows in the London and Midlands areas, at one point working under a mask.

### The Wrestling Federation (2014 - 2017)

#### The XSA

In September 2014, Tyson signed with The Wrestling Federation and reported to the company’s dojo in Tampa, Florida.

Tyson debuted in November 2014 under the ring name Tyson Blade. After showing promise in his early matches for the company, he was challenged to a non-title match by the current world champion, Cornelius Matthews. In a close affair, Matthews defeated Blade. After the match, he offered Blade the chance to join his newly-formed faction “Xtreme Sporting Alliance”. The following week, Blade and Dominic Clinton saved Matthews from a post-match attack from Harrison Payne, confirming their affiliation with the group. After a few weeks of teaming with Clinton and accompanying Matthews for his matches, Blade was attacked by Payne and written off television to rehab a bicep injury.

#### Heel turn & Hardcore champion

In early 2015, Blade re-emerged and returned, denouncing his association with the XSA, turning heel for the first time in his TWF career. He also announced his intentions to pursue the newly-revealed TWF Hardcore Championship. The following week, Blade would be placed in a match against Spike Cox to decide who would face off against Jerod Bowden at Bad Blood for the vacant Hardcore title. Blade would defeat Cox and call out Bowden after the match. In May 2015 at the Bad Blood event, Blade would defeat Bowden after hitting a top rope Blade Bomb to become the inaugural Hardcore Champion.

After defending the title in the weeks leading up to Summerslam, Blade would eventually lose the title at the event to The Psycho in controversial fashion. A double turn took place during the match which would see Blade once again turn face.

#### TWF World Champion

After his loss at Summerslam, Blade was now being positioned as one of the top babyfaces in the company. On the June 26th edition of Sony Storm, Blade stated that it was time he turned his attention to the world title scene. After several weeks of television matches against the likes of The Blade and Mike Thunder (the latter of which was nominated for the TWF 2015 Match of the Year), Sony Storm General Manager Dave Smith announced that in July 2015 at Backlash, it would be Tyson Blade vs. Brian Edwards with the winner being placed in the main event match of WrestleMania for the World Heavyweight Championship. At the Backlash event, Blade lost to Edwards.

With Blade seemingly not having a spot on the WrestleMania card, TWF announced the Gauntlet of Champions, a match where if he could be the last man standing after running the gauntlet, he would be given a briefcase which inside contained a contract for a world title match that could be cashed in. At WrestleMania, Blade would successfully run the gauntlet and win a guaranteed match for the world title at a place and time of his choosing. Later that night, after Jay Anderson defeated Brian Edwards in the main event, Blade would cash-in his briefcase for a world title match right then and there. After hitting Anderson with the Bladedge, Blade would pin him to become the World Heavyweight Champion. This was also Blade’s first world title of his career.

#### Feud with Jordan Bull

After becoming world champion, Blade’s next test would be against Jordan Bull. Stemming from his anger towards The Blade (the two had a marquee match at that year’s WrestleMania, and The Blade was also close friends with Tyson), and also the fact that Bull and Blade became a part of the company at the same time, Jordan stated that without him, Blade wouldn’t have a job, let alone be the world champion. This eventually culminated in a gruelling match at Backlash, with Blade successfully retaining his title.

The following night on Sony Storm, Tyson would be brutally attacked by Bull, who not only hit Tyson with repeated chair shots to the head, but also hit Tyson with a Package Piledriver onto the steel steps. Following this, Bull would call out Blade for one final match at Payback, which Tyson accepted on the condition that the stipulation would be No Holds Barred. In what became one of the most violent matches of the Sony Storm era, Blade would once again defeat Bull after hitting an avalanche Bladedge onto a ladder.

#### Longest Reigning World Champion & Hiatus

After a month away to deal with nagging injuries, Blade returned and announced that there would be a tournament over the next few weeks, and the winner would face him in a match at January 2016’s Road To The Throne. At the event, Blade would face off against the eventual tournament winner, CRASH. Blade would retain the title in dominant fashion.

Tyson’s next challenge came in the form of Anthony Black. Black had made quite the name for himself, picking up wins against top TWF talent, such as Jack Rogue, and The Scat. At TWF Viewer’s Choice, the stipulation for the match chosen by the fans was a tables match. Blade would retain his championship by putting Black through the announcer’s table with the Bladedge.

The following night, Blade was ordered to defend his world championship against Danny Jacobs or be stripped of the title. Blade no-showed the event and the title was awarded to Jacobs. In actuality, Blade’s contract with the company had expired. Blade’s departure was a shock to both the company and the fans; he would later cite creative differences as the reason for his departure.

#### Feud with Jack Rogue & First Retirement

Inking a new deal with TWF, Blade would return to the promotion later that year making his return on an episode of Sony Storm, only to be attacked by Mike Thunder later that night. The following week, Thunder would explain his reasoning for the attack; citing that he had always felt like he had been “worked his ass off and was constantly overshadowed and overlooked by the promotion for people like Tyson.” This led to a match at TWF: Extreme Rules, where Thunder would defeat Blade after hitting him with back-to-back Brainbuster’s. During the match, Tyson would suffer a legitimate fracture of his femur bone, which would require him to be out of action for 3-4 months.

After contemplating his future, Tyson had stated in several interviews (non-kayfabe) that he felt like he was in the final chapter of his career, but that he would only retire when he felt like the time was right.

Upon his successful rehabbing of his injury, Blade returned in an interview segment establishing himself as a heel, calling out TWF for the direction the company was going in, and criticising its stars, specifically Jack Rogue. The week after, Rogue would state he had no intentions of facing Blade come Wrestle Dynasty. After many failed attempts to goad Rogue into a match; both with personal insults directed at Rogue and his family, Blade added the stipulation that should he lose to Rogue, he would retire from active competition, which was enough for Rogue to accept.

At TWF: Wrestle Dynasty, Rogue would defeat Blade in a hard-fought match that went almost 30 minutes, effectively ended Blade’s in-ring career. After the match, Rogue would shake hands with Blade. The two would share a moment, until they were interrupted by then-commissioner Trent Kingsley and the entire TWF roster, who would announce that Tyson would be the first inductee into the TWF Hall of Fame.

## Personal life

During an independent show in 2008, Tyson would suffer a legitimate knee injury that threatened to derail his career. Despite the setback, Tyson would successfully rehabilitate the knee and return back to the ring. Despite this, he has worn a knee brace on the injured knee ever since.