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Ryback

Ryback
Ryback April 2014.jpg
Ryback in 2014
Birth name Ryan Allen Reeves
Born (1981-11-10) November 10, 1981 (age 35)
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Residence Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Website feedmemore.com
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s) The Big Guy
Ryan Reeves
Ryback
Skip Sheffield
Billed height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Billed weight 291 lb (132 kg)
Billed from College Station, Texas
Las Vegas, Nevada
Trained by Al Snow
Bill DeMott
Jody Hamilton
Ohio Valley Wrestling
Debut 2004

Ryback Allen Reeves (born Ryan Allen Reeves; November 10, 1981) is an American professional wrestler, wrestling as The Big Guy or Ryback. He was previously signed to WWE, but he now wrestles on the international independent circuit.

One of the eight finalists on Tough Enough 4, Reeves later signed a developmental contract with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and wrestled in its developmental territories Deep South Wrestling (DSW), Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), and Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW). He participated in the first season of NXT in early 2010 under the ring name Skip Sheffield, and joined the main WWE roster later that year as part of The Nexus before being sidelined due to injury. Following his return as Ryback, Reeves headlined several pay-per-view events for WWE – sometimes competing for the WWE Championship – and became a one-time Intercontinental Champion before his acrimonious departure from the company in 2016.

Reeves was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. He started watching wrestling at the age of eight; he was allowed to ring the bell at a live WWF event, and was the guest bell ringer at the age of 12. Wanting to become a professional wrestler, Reeves began lifting weights at 12 years old. He was nicknamed "Silverback" as a teenager, after a childhood friend joked that he resembled a gorilla, and later adopted it as a part of his ring name.


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