Born | 1974 Long Island, New York |
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Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) |
Mike Sullivan Freedom Ryder |
Billed height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
Billed weight | 220 lb (100 kg) |
Trained by |
Brett Sawyer Dory Funk, Jr. Steve Keirn Jimmy Del Ray Tommy Rogers Pat Tanaka Luke Williams Butch Miller |
Debut | 1998 |
Mike Sullivan (born 1974) is an American professional wrestler who competes in Southeastern independent promotions including Full Impact Pro, Future of Wrestling, International Professional Wrestling and NWA Florida. He also had several brief appearances in the X Wrestling Federation, World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation.
One half of Naturally Marvelous with Scoot Andrews, he and Andrews were part of the stable Tampa Clique with Buck Quartermain and Pepi Prado and later Kevin Kelly's Alliance of Defiance with Billy Fives and Rod Steel during the early 2000s.
Growing up in Long Island, New York, Sullivan was a fan of professional wrestling as a child watching the World Wrestling Federation's Saturday morning television show Superstars of Wrestling on local WOR-TV. He later attended live events at the Nassau Coliseum and Madison Square Garden as well as a rare American Wrestling Association card at Ward Melville High School, where wrestler Mick Foley graduated from. Sullivan also attended Foley's first show in June 1986.