WRESTLER PROFILES

	Wrestler: Skip Sheffield Real Name: Ryan Reeves Birthday: November 10, 1981 Hometown: Las Vegas, Nevada Marital Status: Height & Weight: 6'2"- 275 lbs Trained by: Al Snow DSW Training OVW Training FCW Training Debut: 2004 Previous Names: "Silverback" Ryan Reeves Ryback (OVW/FCW) Skip Sheffield (FCW) Finishing Move: Silverback Attack (Suplex Powerslam) Favorite Moves: Overhead Belly to Belly Suplex The Clothesline Diving Headbutt Notable Feuds: Bad Company ~~Eddie Craven III ~~Shawn Osborne ~~Mike Kruel
OVW (Ohio Valley Wrestling) Heavyweight title defeating Anthony Bravado (November 29, 2008);
In The Beginning: 2005: Ryan Reeves was a contestant on Tough Enough 4 which took place at Smackdown! Television tapings.. Deep South Wrestling: September 1, 2005--Deep South Wrestling: Team Elite (Derrick Neikirk & Mike Knox) defeated Lash LeRoux & Ryan Reeves.. September 8, 2005--Deep South Wrestling: The Regulators (The Shane Twins) defeated Jack Bull & Ryan "Silverback" Reeves.. September 15, 2005--Deep South Wrestling: Ryan Reeves & Ryan O'Reilly defeated The Regulators (The Shane Twins).. September 22, 2005--Deep South Wrestling: Ryan Reeves & Mike Mizanin defeated Team Elite (Mike Knox & Derrick Neikirk).. October 6, 2005--Deep South Wrestling: The Slaughter Brothers defeated Nick Mitchell & Ryan Reeves.. October 13, 2005--Deep South Wrestling: Mike Shane defeated "Silverback" Ryan Reeves.. October 20, 2005--Deep South Wrestling: "Silverback" Ryan Reeves defeated Mike Knox.. October 27, 2005--Deep South Wrestling: "Silverback" Ryan Reeves defeated Palmer Cannon by DQ.. November 3, 2005--Deep South Wrestling: Team Elite (Derek Neikirt & Mike Knox) beat Nick Mitchell & Ryan "Silverback" Reeves.. November 10, 2005--Deep South Wrestling: The Regulators (The Shanes) defeated "Silverback" Ryan Reeves & Nick Mitchell.. November 23, 2005--Deep South Wrestling: Mac Johnson defeated Ryan Reeves in the 1st round of the DSW Title Tournament! December 15, 2005--Deep South Wrestling: Freakin Deacon defeated Ryan "Silverback" Reeves.. December 22, 2005--Deep South Wrestling: The Regulators (w/Trenesha) defeated Ryan Reeves & Damien Steele.. ~~~In The Second Hour: Mike Knox defeated "Silverback" Ryan Reeves in a 1-on-1 match.. January 19, 2006--Deep South Wrestling: "Silverback" Ryan Reeves defeated Joseph Slaughter.. ~~~Team Elite (Mike Knox & Derrick Neikirk) defeated Roughhouse O'Reilly & Ryan Reeves.. January 26, 2006--Deep South Wrestling: Gymini (The Shane Twins) defeated Roughhouse O'Reilly & Ryan Reeves... February 16, 2006--Deep South Wrestling: The Freakin Deacon defeated "Silverback" Ryan Reeves.. February 2006: "Silverback" Ryan Reeves was transferred from Deep South Wrestling to Ohio Valley Wrestling.. Ohio Valley Wrestling: March 1, 2006--OVW TV Tapings: Ryan Reeves defeated K.C. James in a dark match.. March 4, 2006--Ohio Valley Wrestling: "Silverback" Ryan Reeves defeated "Platinum" Pat Buck.. March 22, 2006--OVW TV Tapings: "Silverback" Ryan Reeves defeated Da Beast in a dark match.. April 5, 2006--OVW TV Tapings: Ryan Reeves & Mikey Batts defeated Billy Kryptonite & Russell Simpson.. April 8, 2006--Ohio Valley Wrestling: Ryan Reeves & Mikey Batts defeated Jack Bull & Vic Devine.. April 15, 2006--Ohio Valley Wrestling: Ryan Reeves defeated Double N (Nick Nemeth).. April 19, 2006--OVW TV Tapings: Ryan "Silverback" Reeves defeated Vic D. Vine.... May 10, 2006--OVW TV Tapings: Ryan Reeves & Roadkill & Kasey James beat Aaron Stevens & Deuce & Domino.. May 13, 2006--Ohio Valley Wrestling: K.C. James & Roadkill beat Ryan Reeves & Mikey Batts to retain the Tag Team titles... June 17, 2006--Ohio Valley Wrestling: Cody Runnels/Shawn Spears/Ryan Reeves/Elijah Burke beat Los Locos & Deuce & Domino.. August 19, 2006--Ohio Valley Wrestling: Ryan Reeves defeated seven different wrestlers in a row in a Gauntlet Match.. ~~Ryan Reeves beat Johnny Punch, Rod Steele, Ramon Loco, Mr. Strongko, Mike Kruel, Shad Gaspard, Charles Evans.. August 23, 2006--OVW TV Tapings: "Silverback" Ryan Reeves defeated Ranger Milton in a dark match...... August 30, 2006--OVW TV Tapings: "Silverback" Ryan Reeves defeated Raul Loco.............................. Ohio Valley Wrestling - High Dosage: Ryan Reeves formed a tag team with Jon Bolen known as "High Dosage".. September 13, 2006--OVW TV Tapings: High Dosage (Ryan Reeves & Jon Bolen) defeated Los Locos in a dark match.. September 20, 2006--OVW TV Tapings: High Dosage (Ryan Reeves & Jon Bolen) defeated Johnny Punch & Pat Buck.. September 27, 2006--OVW TV Tapings: Eddie Craven & Mike Kruel defeated High Dosage (Ryan Reeves & Jon Bolen).. October 4, 2006--OVW TV Tapings: "Bad Seed" Shawn Osbourne w/Mike Kruel defeated Ryan Reeves w/Jon Bolen October 18, 2006--OVW TV Tapings: Shawn Osbourne/Eddie Craven/Mike Kruel beat Jon Bolen/Ryan Reeves (Handicap match) November 4, 2006--Ohio Valley Wrestling: High Dosage (Ryan Reeves & Jon Bolen) defeated Pat Buck & Johnny Punch.. November 5, 2006--Ohio Valley Wrestling: High Dosage (Jon Bolen & Ryan Reeves) defeated Eddie Craven III & Mike Kruel.. ~~~The team of High Dosage won "five minutes" with Shawn Osbourne but Eddie Craven & Mike Kruel prevented it........ November 8, 2006--OVW TV Tapings: High Dosage defeated Los Locos (Aaron Lamata & Lowrider) in a dark match... November 15, 2006--OVW TV Tapings: Shawn Osbourne/Mike Kruel/Eddie Craven defeated Chris Rombola/Jon Bolen/Ryan Reeves! November 29, 2006--OVW TV Tapings: High Dosage defeated Bad Company in a Handicap Coal Miner's Glove on a Pole match.. December 9, 2006--OVW Live: Eddie Craven & Mike Kruel & Milena Roucka defeated Jon Bolen & Ryan Reeves & Seth Skyfire.. December 13, 2006--OVW TV Tapings: Seth Skyfire & Paul Burchall won a 4-WAY Tag Team Elimination Christmas Present match.. ~~~Seth Skyfire/Paul Burchill beat Justin LaRoche/Charles Evans and Ryan Reeves/Mike Kruel and T.J. Dalton/Steve Lewington.. January 6, 2007--Ohio Valley Wrestling: Justin LaRoche & Charles Evans defeated High Dosage (Ryan Reeves & Jon Bolen).. January 10, 2007--OVW TV Tapings: Cody Runnels & Shawn Spears defeated Jon Bolen & Ryan Reeves to retain the Tag Titles! January 20, 2007: Ryan Reeves was released (along with a lot of others) from his World Wrestling Entertainment contract.. For anyone interested in booking former Million Dollar Tough Enough contestant and former WWE/OVW wrestler "Silverback" Ryan Reeves he is currently accepting bookings and can be reached at Silverback247@hotmail.com November 14, 2007--OVW TV Tapings (Airs 11/24): Colt Cabana & Shawn Spears (Champions) defeated Pat Buck & Ryan Reeves.. Florida Championship Wrestling - Skip Sheffield: January 18, 2010--RAW: Skip Sheffield defeated Chavo Guerrero in a dark match... World Wrestling Entertainment - NXT: William Regal (WWE Pro) was paired with Skip Sheffield (WWE Rookie) for a new television program called WWE NXT.. March 2, 2010--WWE NXT: Matt Hardy & Justin Gabriel defeated William Regal & Skip Sheffield in a tag team match.. March 8, 2010--RAW: Evan Bourne defeated William Regal w/Skip Sheffield to qualify for the Money in the Bank match! March 16, 2010--WWE NXT: Wade Barrett w/World Heavyweight champion Chris Jericho defeated Skip Sheffield w/William Regal.. ~~~BACKSTAGE: Regal attempted to mentor Skip Sheffield, but he kept accidentally interrupting him - so Regal just walked away.. March 23, 2010--WWE NXT: Heath Slater & Justin Gabriel defeated Wade Barrett & Skip Sheffield w/William Regal.. March 30, 2010--WWE NXT: David Otunga won an NXT battle royal to earn the right to guest host an episode of RAW.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Participants: David Otunga & Justin Gabriel & Daniel Bryan & Heath Slater.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Participants: Skip Sheffield & Wade Barrett & Darren Young & Michael Tarver.. April 2, 2010--WWE SmackDown!: Kane said he was getting bored so he challenged the NXT rookies to an 8-on-1 Handicap match.. ~~~Kane defeated the NXT Rookies by DQ in a Handicap match when the rookies all ganged up on Kane at the end of the match.. April 6, 2010--WWE NXT: Skip Sheffield cut a promo claiming that he was done being a "nice guy".. April 13, 2010--WWE NXT: Skip Sheffield participated in an NXT rookies "promo challenge" (which was won by Wade Barrett).. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~William Regal w/Skip Sheffield defeated Daniel Bryan w/Mike "The Miz" Mizanin.. April 20, 2010--WWE NXT: Skip Sheffield defeated Wade Barrett in the 1st Round of a Rock'em Sock'em NXT Challenge.. ~~~Skip Sheffield defeated Heath Slater (2nd Round) | Skip Sheffield defeated Darren Young in the Finals to win the challenge! ~~~~~~Darren Young (w/C.M. Punk & Luke Gallows & Serena) beat Michael Tarver (w/Carlito) and Skip Sheffield in a 3-WAY.. April 27, 2010--WWE NXT: Skip Sheffield w/William Regal defeated Daniel Bryan w/Mike "The Miz" Mizanin.. May 4, 2010--WWE NXT: Skip Sheffield participated in an "Obstacle Course" challenge and finished the course in 1:31.. May 10, 2010--RAW: The 8 NXT Rookies defeated John Morrison & Santino Marella & Goldust & Yoshi Tatsu (Handicap match) ~NXT = Daniel Bryan- Heath Slater- Michael Tarver- David Otunga- Darren Young- Skip Sheffield- Wade Barrett- Justin Gabriel. May 11, 2010--WWE NXT: Skip Sheffield w/William Regal defeated Darren Young... ~~~Later that night: Skip Sheffield was eliminated from NXT - and proclaimed that we have not yet seen the REAL Skip Sheffield.. ~~~~~Skip Sheffield said William Regal was not to blame for his failures, and that he should have listened more to Regal's advice.. May 18, 2010--WWE NXT: Skip Sheffield said he was eliminated because they viewed him as a threat and are intimidated by him. . June 1, 2010--WWE NXT: Skip Sheffield was on hand for the NXT season finale where Wade Barrett was announced the winner.. June 3, 2010--Florida Championship Wrestling: NXT Season 1 defeated NXT Season 2 in a 5-on-5 match.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~NXT Season 1 = Skip Sheffield & David Otunga & Michael Tarver & Heath Slater.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~NXT Season 2 = Eli Cottonwood & Husky Harris & Percy Watson & Lucky Cannon.. World Wrestling Entertainment - The NXT Invasion Angle: June 7, 2010--WWE Viewers Choice: Wade Barrett led the other 7 NXT rookies in a shocking invasion of the RAW television show.. ~~~The eight "Rookies" from NXT Season 1 showed up during a match and viciously attacked John Cena like a rabid pack of wolves.. ~~~~~They destroyed the ring, the ringside area, and Daniel Bryan assaulted ring announcer Justin Robert by choking him with his tie.. June 14, 2010--RAW: The NXT group was ordered to apologize but they refused and instead demanded guaranteed WWE contracts.. ~~~RAW General Manager Bret "Hitman" Hart came out and refused to give them contracts and even fired NXT winner Wade Barrett! ~~~LATER: NXT tried to attack John Cena again, but several other WWE Superstars hit the ring and chased them out of the building.. ~~~LATER: The NXT guys attacked Bret Hart, stuffed him into a limousine and then rammed him into other vehicles in the parking lot.. June 21, 2010--RAW: Vince McMahon blamed Bret Hart for the chaos surrounding the NXT group and fired him as General Manager.. ~~~Mr. McMahon said the new General Manager asked to remain anonymous, and he would run RAW by sending Michael Cole emails.. ~~~The new General Manager hired back all of the NXT members - and then each issued arrogant apologies in the middle of the ring.. ~~~~~~MAIN EVENT: John Cena vs. WWE champion Sheamus ended in a No Contest with special outside enforcer Vince McMahon.. ~~~~The NXT group showed up and attacked John Cena... but then they surrounded Vince McMahon and shockingloy destroyed him! June 28, 2010--RAW: Jerry Lawler and some other legends honored Ricky Steamboat and hyped the release of his new DVD.. ~~~The other legends in the ring consisted of Arn Anderson & Dean Malenko & Mike "IRS" Rotunda & Michael P.S. Hayes .. ~~~The Nexus (minus Wade Barrett) showed up and attacked Ricky Steamboat and physically destroyed him with all their finishers. July 5, 2010--RAW: The Nexus assembled in the ring where they were informed the physical contact ban on them would be lifted.. ~~~John Cena came out with Randy Orton, Evan Bourne, David Hart Smith, Tyson Kidd, R-Truth, and John Morrison with him.. ~~~However, some heels (Sheamus, Edge, Jericho, The, Ted DiBiase, and the Usos) attacked them allowing the Nexus to escape! ~~~~~~~~The anonymous General Manager called for a truce, so John Cena met Wade Barrett in the ring at the end of the night.. ~~~~~~~~Cena teased a handshake but pulled it... then he was attacked by the Nexus until a bunch of babyfaces storm the ring! July 12, 2010--RAW: The Nexus surrounded Sheamus backstage, and he felt threatened so he ran off to find John Cena! ~~~Nexus (Wade Barrett & Heath Slater & Justin Gabriel & Skip Sheffield & Michael Tarver & David Otunga) beat John Cena .. ~~~After the match; Nexus surrounded Cena in the ring until Sheamus ran out and stood side by side with Cena with steel chairs.. July 13, 2010--NXT: Nexus were invited back to NXT and participated in a 20-Man Battle Royal featuring Season 2 Pros & Rookies.. .. ~~~Nexus (Justin Gabriel & Heath Slater & David Otunga & Wade Barrett & Michael Tarver & Skip Sheffield) won the battle royal ! July 18, 2010--Money in the Bank: Sheamus defeated John Cena in a Steel Cage match to retain the WWE Championship.. ~~~Nexus interfered and sabotaged John Cena's chances of winning, and Sheamus used this to his advantage and escaped the cage! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~John Cena was extremely angry and took his frustrations out on Nexus members Darren Young & Michael Tarver.. World Wrestling Entertainment - The Road to SummerSlam: July 19, 2010--RAW: Wade Barrett defeated Mark Henry - (After the match; Barrett called out John Cena for an in-ring truce).. ~~~Instead, Cena formed an Army consisting of Edge, John Morrison, R-Truth, Great Khali, Chris Jericho, & Bret "Hitman" Hart! July 26, 2010--RAW: The Nexus as a group surrounded the Great Khali in the ring but eventually allowed him to leave unharmed... ~~The Nexus beat Team RAW (Goldust & Mark Henry & Yoshi Tatsu & Jerry Lawler & Evan Bourne & Tyson Kidd & DH Smith) ~~~The Nexus eliminated all seven members of the RAW B-team and promised that the same thing would happen at SummerSlam! August 2, 2010--RAW: Edge vs. Wade Barrett ended in a No Contest when the Nexus showed up (Edge then quit Team WWE!) August 9, 2010--RAW: The Nexus attacked the Hart Dynasty backstage to get under the skin of Team WWE member Bret Hitman Hart. ~~~~~~~The Nexus attacked Mark Henry (who was set to join Team WWE) - they also took out the Great Khali in a backstage assault.. ~~~John Cena & Bret Hart vs. Edge & Chris Jericho with the Nexus as Lumberjacks ended with Team WWE coming together as a group.. August 15, 2010--SummerSlam: Team WWE defeated Team Nexus in a 7-on-7 Elimination match (John Cena sole survivor!) ~~~~~Team WWE (John Cena & Edge & Chris Jericho & John Morrison & R-Truth & Daniel Bryan & Bret "The Hitman" Hart) ~~~~~Nexus (Wade Barrett & Heath Slater & Justin Gabriel & Darren Young & Michael Tarver & Skip Sheffield & David Otunga) World Wrestling Entertainment - The Nexus gets stronger: August 16, 2010--RAW: Skip Sheffield & David Otunga defeated John Morrison & R-Truth (Nexus went 5-1 vs. Team WWE tonight) ~~~~~~~~Later that night; The Nexus destroyed Darren Young (the only member to lose his match) and kicked him out of the group! August 18, 2010: Skip Sheffield broke his left ankle at the house show in Honolulu and will likely need surgery.. August 23, 2010--RAW: Slow week for the Nexus... Wade Barrett was put in a Six Pack Challenge at Night of Champions..