Who?: Joey Ryan
Promotions: PWG, ROH, IWA-MS, WSX (alumnus)
Alias: The Draw, Magnum
Current Affiliations: A member of Prince Nana's Embassy in ROH along with Ernesto Osiris, Erick Stevens and others. In PWG, Ryan is joined at the hip with Scott Lost.
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 210 lbs.
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
After the jump... Wrestling Style: Typical indie movez/highspot worker with a basic grasp of strikes and psychology as a base.
Signature Maneuvers:
Moustache Ride:
Top 10 Moves of Joey Ryan:
Titles Held:
PWG World Championship
PWG Tag Team Championship (3x, Scott Lost)
NWA World Tag Team Championships (Karl Anderson)
Promos:
Joey Ryan and Scott Lost: Then and Now
Rated "S" for Sleazy:
An NWA Promo with Tag Partner Karl Anderson:
And Just for the lulz:
Why You Should Know Joey Ryan: Joey Ryan is one of the founding members of PWG, which may be the hottest indie fed in the country, Chikara notwithstanding. As a founding member, he's got a lot of history with the fed and he's a mainstay, one that probably will never go away unless he unfortunately gets hurt like Super Dragon or gets a call from the WWE (to do more than job or appear as security during the Big Show/Mayweather match at WM24) or TNA. He's also branching out to the East Coast, having made his ROH debut last year and entrenching himself in one of the fed's oldest stables, The Embassy.
Ryan is also among the most charismatic wrestlers and best promos in the business. The guy has such great delivery, a great classic gravelly wrestling voice, so old school in tone and yet very modern in delivery. He looks like a throwback to the '70s, or at the very least a cheesy porno film, and it onloy adds to his lustre.
Either way, Ryan has flown under the radar and been a treasure known only to West Coast indie stalwarts until recently. I think he'll have no problem winning this coast over with every day he spends getting to know and work in front of the savvy ROH fans.
Photo Credit: Scott Finkelstein - Please visit his site to view the plentiful amounts of pictures he's taken for DGUSA, ROH and other indie feds: Get Lost Photography
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