Martin Casaus
| Martin Casaus | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Martin Casaus |
| Born |
March 5, 1985 West Jordan, Utah |
| Residence | Saratoga Springs, Utah |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Tristan Gallo Magnificent Martin Martin Casaus Marty Martinez |
| Billed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Billed weight | 220 lb (100 kg; 16 st) |
| Trained by | Steve Nielson Derrick Jannetty Bill DeMott |
| Debut | 2003 |
Martin Casaus (born March 5, 1985) is an American professional wrestler, voice over artist, and actor of Mexican descent. He is a former contestant on WWE Tough Enough and currently wrestles on Lucha Underground.
Martin was born March 5, 1985 to Francis and Cheryl Casaus in West Jordan, Utah. Casaus was a 4 sport student athlete in high school and turned down college scholarships in Lacrosse and Football to pursue his academic studies. His parents put in overtime at their jobs so they could enroll Casaus in private schools until college. Casaus was the first in his family to graduate college. He received a bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a 3.98 GPA. Casaus has one brother who is currently in the United States Navy. Casaus holds a series 7 and 63 financial professional licenses
Casaus first started training to become a wrestler in 2003 at the Utah-based Ultra Championship Wrestling-Zero (UCW). He was trained by Derrick Jannetty and Steve Nielson. Adopting the ring name "Tristan Gallo", he was placed in Stevie Slick's faction, "The Dynasty", as an arrogant heel and cronie to Slick. He made his debut in a singles match against Mochi Pedro in October 2003 at "Hallowicked". Setting up a tag team with Justin Wilde called Double Cross and beginning a feud against the masked group Los Mochis.
Gallo teamed with UCW-Zero wrestler Khan Kussion to win his first wrestling title, the UCW-Zero Tag Team Championship against the same Los Mochis, Mochi Paco and Mochi Damien. They lost the titles to the Mochis in a rematch the next show. After Khan Kussion was fired from UCW; Tristan teamed with cousin, GQ Gallo, to win the UCW Tag Team titles a second time from the Mochis. He won the first ever UCW Ultra X title match in a four way elimination match with Derrick Jannetty, Mochi Paco, and Nature Boy X. This began a lasting feud against Mochi Paco.
Gallo had his first Heavyweight Title Match against Derrick Jannetty. He was unsuccessful even with the help of CEO Stevie Slick. Tristan and GQ Gallo won back the UCW Tag Team Titles from the Mochis once more only to lose them from the team of Tyson Ferrari and JMB.
...
Wikipedia