Kyle O'Reilly | |
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O'Reilly at a Ring of Honor show in 2013
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Birth name | Kyle Greenwood |
Born |
Delta, British Columbia, Canada |
March 1, 1987
Residence | St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Kyle O'Reilly |
Billed height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
Billed weight | 207 lb (94 kg) |
Billed from |
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia Vancouver, British Columbia |
Trained by |
Aaron Idol Scotty Mac Davey Richards Tony Kozina |
Debut | 2005 |
Kyle Greenwood (born March 1, 1987) is a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Kyle O'Reilly. He is perhaps best known for his time in with Ring of Honor (ROH). He also worked for New Japan Pro Wrestling and competed for several independent promotions, most notably Pro Wrestling Guerrilla. O'Reilly is a former one-time ROH World Champion, three-time ROH World Tag Team Champion alongside Bobby Fish as reDRagon, while in PWG he is a former one-time World Champion and the winner of the promotion's 2013 Battle of Los Angeles.
O'Reilly appeared at NWA: Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling (ECCW)'s television tapings on December 23, 2005, where he and Tony Tisoy lost to Wrathchild and Killswitch. In January 2006, O'Reilly was in the main event of ECCW's tenth anniversary show, teaming with Fast Freddy Funk and Kurt Sterling to defeat Michelle Starr, Johnny Canuck and Vance Nevada. O'Reilly graduated from ECCW's House of Pain Wrestling School on May 29, 2006. At the graduation show, O'Reilly pinned his trainer Aaron Idol. He continued to appear in ECCW throughout the remainder of 2006 and early 2007. In March 2007, O'Reilly began a feud with Sid Sylum, losing to him in a "European Rounds" match on March 2, before he teamed with Veronika Vice to defeat Sylum and Nikki Matthews in a mixed tag team match the following night. On March 30, O'Reilly defeated Sylum in an "I Quit" match to end the feud.