Dennis Rivera

Dennis Rivera
Rivera as the IWA World Tag Team Champion
Born	Vega Alta, Puerto Rico
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	D-nnis Dennis Rivera Dennis Rodríguez
Billed height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Billed weight	205 lb (93 kg)
Trained by	Alex "Lighting" Cruz Savio Vega
Debut	2007

Dennis Alexis Rivera Rodríguez is a Puerto Rican professional wrestler. He is part of a tag team known as La Malicia along Noel Rodríguez, which after holding the International Wrestling Association's World Tag Team Championship on several occasions participated in the only unificatory tag team contest co-sanctioned by the two major Puerto Rican promotions of the 2000s, when they challenged for the World Wrestling Council's titles on September 24, 2011. The result of the match remains controversial, Rivera and Rodríguez were originally declared winners and left the building with both sets of belts, but WWC revoked the original result to a "no contest" minutes later. However, the IWA still recognized the coronation of the first Undisputed Tag Team Champions in Puerto Rico. Rivera also worked in the World Wrestling League, where he held the WWL Trios Championship.

Rivera's brother, Juan Rivera is a professional wrestler who has wrestled in the World Wrestling Council and World Wrestling Federation, better known by his ring name, Savio Vega. Due to his family's involvement in the business, he became familiar with its inner workings early in his life. Dennis Rivera visited his brother Savio Vega while working in the WWE and got the opportunity to meet many WWE wrestlers backstage. His brother would be involved in the establishment of the International Wrestling Association in 2001, along Miguel Pérez, Jr. and Victor Quiñones. Due to this, Rivera formed friendships with several of the company's employees. He decided to join a group in a training exercise out of curiosity, eventually choosing to practice full-time. Before entering professional wrestling, Rivera was working in a factory and as a bass player for a rock band. Upon learning that he was training, his brother enrolled him in a wrestling school, seeking better training. On February 19, 2012, he debuted a professional wrestling blog titled "La Rompecuellos", his first published work, for mainstream digital newspaper Noticel.