Chris Gomez
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Chris Gomez | |
Ring name(s) | Chris Sabin Josh Green |
Billed height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
Billed weight | 205 lb (93 kg) |
Born | February 4, 1982 (age 30) Pinckney, Michigan |
Billed from | Detroit, Michigan |
Trained by | Scott D'Amore Rudy Boy Gonzalez Nate Mattson Bobo Brown |
Debut | January 23, 2002 |
Christopher "Joshua" Gomez (born February 4, 1982) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Chris Gomez. He is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
After being trained by Scott D'Amore, Gomez debuted in 2000 for Border City Wrestling, and quickly began competing for numerous other independent promotions. In 2003, Gomez joined TNA, and quickly won the TNA X Division Championship, which he later unified with the WWA International Cruiserweight Championship. In 2004, he also wrestled for Ring of Honor. In 2005, Gomez wrestled in the UK at International Showdown for The Wrestling Channel's first year anniversary at a sold out Coventry Skydome. Throughout the next few years, Gomez competed mainly in TNA's X Division, until forming The Motor City Machine Guns with Alec Leon in mid-2007.
Throughout his career, Sabin has held numerous championships, and was the last WWA International Cruiserweight Champion. He has also held titles in Border City Wrestling and Maryland Championship Wrestling. In Pro Wrestling Zero1-Max, he held the ZERO-1 MAX International Lightweight Tag Team Championship, and in TNA he is a former four-time X Division Champion. In 2007, Gomez won the All Japan Pro Wrestling Junior League Tournament, and also won the TNA Super X Cup in 2003. He was a member of the winning team in the TNA X Cup Tournaments in 2004, and 2006.
Contents |
[edit] Career
[edit] Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
[edit] X Division Champion (2003–2007)
[edit] Motor City Machine Guns (2007–2012)
- Main article: The Motor City Machine Guns
[edit] Return to X Division; World Heavyweight Champion (2012–present)
[edit] Ring of Honor (2003–2010)
[edit] Pro Wrestling Zero and New Japan Pro Wrestling (2006–2010)
[edit] Personal life
[edit] In wrestling
[edit] Championships and accomplishments
- All American Wrestling
- AAW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Alex Shelley
- Blue Water Championship Wrestling
- BWCW Cruiserweight Championship (1 time)
- Border City Wrestling
- BCW Can-Am Television Championship (2 times)
- Pro Wrestler of the Year (2007)
- Full Impact Wrestling
- FIW American Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- Great Lakes All-Pro Wrestling
- GLAPW Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- International Wrestling Cartel
- IWC Super Indy Championship (1 time)
- IWC Super Indy Tournament (2004)
- Maximum Pro Wrestling
- MXPW Cruiserweight Championship (2 times)
- MXPW Television Championship (1 time)
- Michigan Wrestling League
- MWL Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- New Japan Pro Wrestling
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Alex Shelley
- NWA Great Lakes
- NWA Great Lakes Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- NWA Great Lakes Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- Ontario Championship Wrestling
- Tag Team Championship (1 time)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- PWI Tag Team of the Year (2010) – with Alex Shelley
- PWI ranked him #28 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2007
- Pro Wrestling Report
- Tag Team of the Year (2010) - with Alec Leon
- Pro Wrestling Zero1
- NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Alex Shelley
- Ring of Honor
- ROH World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Alex Shelley
- Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
- TNA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- TNA X Division Championship (8 times)
- TNA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Alex Shelley
- Sixth Triple Crown Champion
- Super X Cup (2003)
- World X Cup (2004) – with Jerry Lynn, Elix Skipper, and Christopher Barnhart
- World X Cup (2006) – with Jay Lethal, Alex Shelley, and Jeremiah Dutt
- Match of the Year (2003) vs. Mikhail Kazarian and Michael Fonger, August 20, 2003
- Memorable Moment of the Year (2003) The first Ultimate X match
- Tag Team of the Year (2007) with Alex Shelley
- Xtreme Intense Championship Wrestling
- XICW Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- XICW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Truth Martini
- Other titles
- MMWA Marquee Heavyweight Championship