Brian Cage

Brian Christopher Joseph Button (born February 2, 1984), better known by the ring name Brian Cage, is an American professional wrestler and bodybuilder currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW).

Cage also performs in AEW's sister promotion Ring of Honor (ROH), where he is part of The Embassy and is a former ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions.

In AEW, he is a former FTW Champion.

He also competes on the independent circuit.

Brian Christopher Button was born on February 2, 1984, in Chico, California.

He is a 2002 graduate of Pleasant Valley High School, the same year as Aaron Rodgers.

Cage's love of professional wrestling and desire to be a wrestler began with watching it on television as a child.

During those early years Cage became friends with the late Chris Kanyon following a show that was held in Sacramento at Arco Arena where he made a sign that Kanyon noticed.

Kanyon then became Cage's biggest advocate in his decision to pursue professional wrestling as a career.

This eventually led to him and his friends starting their own Federation in 2004 called Main-Event Wrestling Federation (MWF) in Chico, California.

Cage's wrestling debut happened at an MWF show, against Kanyon.

This eventually led to a second show where Kanyon once again faced Cage.

Cage ended up winning both matches against Kanyon.

During this time, Cage had been training at Pro Championship Wrestling.

Also, Cage competed at All Pro Wrestling.

This continued until Cage, under Kanyon's advice, left to move to Atlanta to be in WWE's then developmental territory Deep South Wrestling.

While not officially signed with Deep South Wrestling, Cage competed in matches with other WWE wrestlers.

When WWE ended its ties with DSW, Cage left to come back to California.

However, before Cage left, Kanyon asked Cage to become Mortis so that someday if Kanyon ever decided to make a comeback that he could still have his name out there.

Cage is the only person other than Kanyon that has portrayed the Mortis character.

Cage again came back to California and worked with promotions such as All Pro Wrestling, Supreme Pro Wrestling, and Fog City Wrestling.

Button was hired by World Wrestling Entertainment in 2008 and was assigned to their farm territory Florida Championship Wrestling, where he worked as Kris Logan.

He left the promotion the following year and began working in the American independent circuit, most notably Pro Wrestling Guerrilla as Brian Cage-Taylor.

In June 2008, WWE signed Cage to a developmental contract, he reported to their developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling, based in Tampa.

When Cage first started with FCW he was using the name Brian Cage but was eventually asked to change it and came up with the name Kris Logan.

The name Kris Logan was made to give homage to Chris Kanyon, with the Logan part due to his similar appearance to the Marvel Comics character Wolverine, along with the outfit that he wore which sported yellow tights with claw marks.

On July 23, 2009, Logan and Justin Gabriel defeated The Dude Busters (Caylen Croft and Trent Barreta) to become FCW Florida Tag Team Champions.

However, they lost the title that same night against The Rotundos (Bo Rotundo and Duke Rotundo).

Later, Cage would then come up with a new character Night Claw.

The Night Claw character was seen in a few matches and was supposed to be used during the time that Hurricane was still active in WWE.

However, this did not occur as Cage was eventually released from his contract in September 2009.

Upon his release from WWE, Cage returned to the independent wrestling circuit and even competed in Asia.

Cage would return to the Main Event Wrestling wrestling promotion where he would win the Main Event Wrestling California Cup where he beat Ryan Taylor, Joey Ryan, and finally T.J. Perkins.

In October 2010, Cage wrestled and won a match against Kenny Dykstra at Main Event Wrestling in internet pay-per-view.

Cage would then join the NWA Hollywood promotion where he would team up with Shaun Ricker to form the tag team Natural Selection managed by Percy Pringle III.

Towards the end of 2011, the team would split as Cage would feud with Ricker and would leave Cage as a single competitor.

Cage has also competed in other various promotions such as Future Stars of Wrestling.

In 2014, Button was hired to appear in El Rey Network television series Lucha Underground, where he performed as Cage.

Since Lucha Underground was created by Mexican promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, he appeared on several AAA shows.

Also, Cage appeared on AAA's American partner Impact Wrestling where he is a former Impact World Champion and a former Impact X Division Champion.