Joe Gacy

Joseph Ruby (born August 8, 1987) is an American professional wrestler.

He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the NXT brand under the ring name Joe Gacy. He was the leader of Schism.

Gacy is best known for his work in Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), where he was a three-time CZW World Heavyweight Champion and a three-time CZW Wired Champion.

He also appeared for Evolve, where he was a one-time Evolve Tag Team Champion.

On August 5, 2017, at Once in a Lifetime, Gacy appeared at the event, while ring announcer Larry Legend was about to introduce the match between Lio Rush and Joey Janela.

Gacy headbutted Legend, before criticising the direction CZW were going in, and then putting Legend through a barbed wire board.

In response to this, D. J. Hyde (kayfabe) fired Gacy on his birthday over Twitter.

On September 9, at Down with the Sickness, Gacy and his masked goons appeared after Strickland's title match with Jason Cade, but was chased off by the rest of the locker room.

On October 14, at The Wolf of Wrestling, a masked man was seen in the crowd, and offered Kit Osbourne the chance to join him.

Osbourne refused and was abducted by a group of masked men.

They resurfaced later in the night, after Strickland's title match with Ethan Page.

One of the masked men, purportedly Gacy, threatened to have Osbourne curbstomped onto a chair, unless Matt Tremont reinstated him and gave him a title shot at the next event.

Strickland urged Tremont to do so, and Tremont accepted Gacy's proposal, but Osbourne was curbstomped anyway.

This turned out to be a ruse, as Gacy ran out from the back to attack Tremont; the man initially thought to be Gacy was actually Dan Barry, and the man who curbstomped Osbourne was Matthew Palmer.

With Barry and Palmer aligning themselves with Gacy, it led to the formation of F.E.A.R.

On November 11, at Night of Infamy, Gacy faced Strickland for the title.

Towards the end, Strickland put Gacy's head in a chair, and was about to jump from the top rope, but was attacked by Barry and Gacy's masked goons.

Some of the goons brought a guardrail out from under the ring which was propped up in the opposite corner, and as Gacy was about to powerbomb Strickland through the guardrail, Sami Callihan, Dezmond Xavier and John Silver came out to make the save.

This resulted in Alex Reynolds being unmasked by Silver, who joined F.E.A.R., effectively breaking up the Beaver Boys.

Reynolds and Barry held Strickland in place, as Gacy hit a big frogsplash on him to win the match.

His second reign was short-lived as Rickey Shane Page cashed in his ultimate opportunity coin, and Larry Legend (disguised as a masked goon) struck Gacy in the back with a nightstick, allowing Page to hit a chokebreaker on him to win the match.

Following a staredown with Strickland, Page offered a rematch to the former champions at Cage of Death 19.

On December 9, Gacy faced Page and Strickland in the aforementioned stipulation match, in an attempt to win back the title.

During the match, Gacy was chokeslammed through a pane of burning glass, which led to his masked goons to come out from the back to distract Page and Strickland.

He got up and climbed the scaffolding to attack Page, but was thrown off the top by a masked man (revealed to be the debuting Anthony Gangone), onto a table with a pane of glass propped up on it, ending his involvement in the match.

On February 10, 2018, at Nineteen, Gacy, flanked by Reynolds and Barry, faced Gangone in his debut match for CZW.

Towards the end, Gangone hit a bicycle kick, followed by an inverted Go 2 Sleep on Gacy to win the match.

Afterwards, a masked man jumped Gangone, and revealed himself to be Eddy Blackwater.

At the same event, Gacy was involved in the CZW World Heavyweight Title #1 contendership 30-man rumble match, eventually won by Maxwell Jacob Friedman, but was eliminated by Gangone, continuing the feud.

On February 23, at Greetings from Asbury Park, Gacy, Barry and Blackwater interfered in the singles match in a singles match between John Silver and Reynolds, allowing Reynolds to hit his finisher on Silver and pick up the win.

Immediately after that, F.E.A.R. faced off against The House of Gangone, which ended in defeat when Gangone pinned Blackwater.

On March 10, at Proving Grounds, Gacy faced Jonathan Gresham.

Gresham had Gacy in a figure four leg lock, but F.E.A.R. came out to make the save.

The stable started beating down on Gresham, and Silver ran in to break up the attack.

In the resulting chaos, Barry accidentally hit Gacy in the head with a chair, allowing Gresham to perform a deadlift German suplex and pin Gacy for the win.

Following the match, Barry offered his spot in the Best of the Best to Gacy, as a way to stay in his good graces.

Gacy accepted the offer, but then kicked him out of the stable by superkicking, and then powerbombing him through a stack of chairs.

On April 14, at Best of the Best, Gacy defeated Brandon Kirk, Joey Janela and Rich Swann in a four-way quarter-final match, defeating Swann with a Ace Crusher, followed by a superkick.

In the semi-final, he faced Zachary Wentz.

Towards the end, Blackwater interfered by striking Wentz in the back with a kendo stick, but he kicked out at two.