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The Irish Airborne

OI4K
Irish Airborne at AlphaOne 2012.jpg
The Irish Airborne making their ring entrance in July 2012
Tag team
Members Dave Crist / Ring Ryda Blue
Jake Crist / Ring Ryda Red
Sami Callihan
JT Davidson (manager)
Name(s) The Flying Mendoza Brothers
The Irish Airborne
Jake and David Crist
Lotus and Crazy J
OI4K
The Ring Rydas
Heights 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) – Dave
5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) – Jake
Combined
weight
393 lb (178 kg)
198 lb (90 kg) – Dave
195 lb (88 kg) – Jake
Hometown Dayton, Ohio
Billed from Dayton, Ohio – OI4K
Dublin, Ohio – The Irish Airborne
Southwest Detroit – Ring Rydas
Former
member(s)
Dezmond Xavier
Zachary Wentz
Dustin Rayz
Aaron Williams
Eric Ryan
Gerome Phillips
Jon Murray
Ron Mathis
Nevaeh (manager)
Debut 2003
Promotions AAW
BJW
BPW
Chikara
CZW
HWA
IPW
IWA
JCW
PWG
ROH
Trainer Bill Kovaleski
Matt Striker

The Irish Airborne or Ohio Is 4 Killers (OI4K) is an American professional wrestling tag team consisting of brothers Dave Crist (born David Crist, Jr. on November 10, 1982) and Jake Crist (born John Crist on July 13, 1984) from Dayton, Ohio. They are based primarily in the Midwestern United States "indy circuit", most notably Rockstar Pro Wrestling and the Heartland Wrestling Association, where they won the HWA Tag Team Championship a record six times. They have also worked in Combat Zone Wrestling, Chikara, IWA Mid-South and Ring of Honor as well as Canadian promotions Far North Wrestling and UWA Hardcore Wrestling. The team currently also competes for Juggalo Championship Wrestling as the Ring Rydas, where they are former JCW Tag Team Champions.

Both Dave and Jake were fans of professional wrestling growing up, favoring wrestling styles of a more extreme nature such as the Hardy Boyz in the Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match and the promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling. The two brothers along with other friends from high school began a backyard wrestling promotion. The promotion drew attention from large numbers of students from their high school and even drew the attention of the local media in a news segment. They were introduced to their trainer Bill Kovaleski who himself was in the process of forming an independent promotion and was looking for young talent. From that point on, they began formally training as singles wrestlers under the names Lotus and Crazy J. At a local promotion named UCW, there was a chance encounter with Shark Boy, who invited the brothers to a match in his Buckeye Pro Wrestling company.


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