Ricochet (wrestler)
American professional wrestler (born 1988) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trevor Dean Mann[1] (born October 11, 1988), better known by his ring name Ricochet, is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure in WWE from 2018 to 2024, where he is a former WWE Intercontinental Champion, WWE United States Champion, NXT North American Champion, the 2019 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic winner (with Aleister Black), and the inaugural WWE Speed Champion.
Ricochet | |
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Birth name | Trevor Dean Mann[1] |
Born | October 11, 1988 (1988-10-11) (age 35) Alton, Illinois, U.S. |
Partner | Samantha Irvin (2021−present; engaged) |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Cameron Locke[1] Trevor Mann[2] King Ricochet[1] Helios[3] Speedin' Black Bullet[3] Prince Puma[4] Ricochet[5] |
Billed height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm)[6] |
Billed weight | 207 lb (94 kg)[6] |
Billed from | Las Vegas, Nevada Paducah, Kentucky[7] Boyle Heights, California[8] |
Trained by | Brandon Walker[9] Chuck Taylor[9] |
Debut | October 11, 2003[1] |
Outside of WWE, Mann is best known for his tenure with various Japanese promotions such as Dragon Gate (DG) and its American branch Dragon Gate USA (DGUSA), DDT Pro-Wrestling's umbrella brand CyberFight, and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). In DG and DGUSA, he held the Open the Brave, Dream, Triangle, Twin, and Freedom Gate Championships, and also won the 2013 King of Gate. In DDT, he won the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship once, and in NJPW, he won the 2014 Best of the Super Juniors tournament, and the 2015 Super Junior Tag League tournament alongside Matt Sydal, in addition to being a former three-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion and a former three-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion.
Mann also wrestled as Prince Puma for American promotion Lucha Underground, where he was the inaugural and first-ever two-time Lucha Underground Champion. He is also known for his tenure with Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) from 2010 to 2018, where he is a former PWG World Champion, and the only two-time Battle of Los Angeles (BOLA) winner, winning the 2014 and 2017 tournaments. Mann also worked for the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Chikara promotion, working under a mask as Helios.
Mann would marshall a reputation for his wrestling performance, marked by innovative acrobatics, agile movement, mid-air flexibility, and coordination. He signed with WWE in 2018 and defeated Fabian Aichner in his debut match for WWE's developmental brand NXT and later competed at NXT TakeOver: New Orleans for the NXT North American Championship, a title he would eventually win four months later at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn IV. In February 2019, he started appearing on the main roster, making appearances on Raw and SmackDown. This led to him teaming with Aleister Black, winning the fourth annual Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, and challenging for the Raw Tag Team Championship at Fastlane and the SmackDown Tag Team Championship at WrestleMania 35. After officially moving to the main roster following WrestleMania 35, he won his first main roster title, the United States Championship, at Stomping Grounds. He later would go on to win the Intercontinental Championship on an episode of SmackDown in 2022. In mid-2024, he became the inaugural Speed Champion before leaving WWE at the end of June.