Bobby Fish

Robert "Bobby" Anthony Fish (born October 27, 1976) is an American professional wrestler currently performing for Major League Wrestling (MLW).

He is best known for his tenure with WWE, where he performed on the NXT brand and was a member of The Undisputed Era.

In WWE, he is a former 2-time NXT Tag Team Champion alongside his tag team partner Kyle O'Reilly.

He is also known for his time with All Elite Wrestling (AEW) from 2021 to 2022 and Ring of Honor (ROH) from 2013 to 2017, where he wrestled as one-half of the tag team reDRagon (also with O'Reilly) and held the ROH World Tag Team Championship three times and the ROH World Television Championship once.

He is also known for his appearances in Japan both for Pro Wrestling Noah and for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he held the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship twice.

Robert Anthony Fish was born on October 27, 1976, in Albany, New York, and is the youngest of three children to Richard and Ann Fish.

Fish's father worked as a firefighter in Albany, and was a former U.S. Marine.

He grew up near Central Avenue.

Fish attended Colonie Central High School, where he played as a linebacker for the football team.

He then played football at Hudson Valley Community College, before moving to Siena College during his junior year.

He graduated in 2000, with a bachelor's degree in English, becoming the first member of his family to graduate from college.

He previously worked as a bartender and also returned to his former high school as a substitute teacher, while working independent events on the weekends.

Bobby Fish made his pro wrestling debut in 2002 after training with Tony DeVito and Harley Race.

He competed for several years in the Northeast under the names Jerkin Jackson and Madden Fisher before settling on the name he continues to use, Bobby Fish.

He made his debut for Ring of Honor on October 2, 2004, where he teamed with Scott Cardinal and lost to the Rebel's Army.

He was utilized as a jobber for ROH for the entirety of his early appearance.

Fish wrestled for Pro Wrestling Unplugged for the majority of his early career making his debut in February 2005.

He formed a partnership with Scott Cardinal, whom he had wrestled many times on the Northeast indie scene.

On May 20, he and Cardinal defeated three other teams to win the vacant PWU Tag Team Championship before vacating them in September.

After returning from his first tour with Noah, Fish returned to the Northeastern independent circuit and continued to compete there when he returned from Noah tours.

Fish wrestled for New England Championship Wrestling regularly between his early tours of Noah.

Fish first toured Japan in 2006 with Pro Wrestling Noah, making his debut on May 19, 2006, defeating Atsushi Aoki.

For a number of years Fish toured with Noah at least once a year, sometimes enjoying several tours a year.

In April 2007, he defeated DC Dillinger by disqualification in a match for the NECW Undisputed Triple Crown Championship, but failed to win the title.

Fish took part in Iron 8 2007, making it to the finals where he lost to Eddie Edwards.

Fish returned to ROH at Reborn Again in a loss to Claudio Castagnoli, teamed with Matt Cross at Final Battle 2007 in a loss against the Vulture Squad (Ruckus and Jigsaw), and appeared in several matches on Ring of Honor Wrestling in 2009.

In 2009, he was announced as one of the participants scheduled to wrestle on the first Evolve Wrestling show.

On January 10, 2010, he performed in the opening match at Evolve 1, in which he lost to Kyle O'Reilly via pinfall.

In 2010, Fish and Eddie Edwards lost to Ricky Marvin and Taiji Ishimori in the semi-final of the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship tournament.

Fish participated in 2011s Global League gaining only four points.

In 2012, he was about to take a job at a Target distribution center in Wilton, until Ring of Honor offered him a contract, continuing his wrestling career.

In 2012, Fish and Edwards participated in NTV G Cup Junior Heavyweight League, once again gaining four points.

In 2012, Fish debuted in Ring of Honor, where he formed a tag team with Kyle O'Reilly named the "reDRagon".

From April 17 to 24, 2013, Fish and Edwards took part in the 2013 Global Tag League, where they won one of their four matches, failing to advance from their block.

On March 2, 2013, reDRagon defeated the Briscoe Brothers for the ROH World Tag Team Championship.

They successfully defended the championship against Alabama Attitude (Corey Hollis and Mike Posey) that same month, and retained it at Best in the World 2013 in June in a three-way match against the C & C Wrestle Factory (Caprice Coleman and Cedric Alexander) and S.C.U.M. (Cliff Compton and Rhett Titus).

They lost the title to Forever Hooligans (Alex Koslov and Rocky Romero) on July 27.

They regained the title from The American Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) on August 17.

Throughout the remainder of 2013, reDRagon successfully defended the championship against teams including the C & C Wrestle Factory, the Forever Hooligans, Jay Lethal and Michael Elgin, and Outlaw, Inc. (Homicide and Eddie Kingston).

In 2014, they retained the championship against Adrenaline Rush (A. C. H. and TaDarius Thomas) at the 12th Anniversary Show in February, before losing the title on March 8 to The Young Bucks.