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Michael Paris (born October 5, 1986) is an American professional wrestler.

He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand, under the ring name Joaquin Wilde.

He is a member of the Latino World Order.

He was a former founding member of Legado Del Fantasma.

In 2002, a 15-year-old Paris won a contest to design the first logo for Ring of Honor, which the promotion used until 2004.

In 2003, Paris began training to become a professional wrestler at the Coalition of Competition in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania under trainers Super Hentai, Shirley Doe, and Glenn Spectre.

Paris began his career in 2004, wrestling on several independent promotions under the name of Shiima Xion.

He had his first national exposure when he participated as Zema Ion in the X Division Showcase, a tournament held by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

While he did not win the tournament, he signed a contract with TNA.

He trained there for 14 months before debuting as Shiima Xion, the "first Filipino male model of wrestling" on August 21, 2004, against Jason Gory in Wheeling, West Virginia for Black Diamond Wrestling.

Shiima Xion competed throughout West Virginia and Ohio in late 2004, since he was not old enough to compete in the state of Pennsylvania.

Shortly after turning 18, however, Xion began competing regularly for the International Wrestling Cartel, as well as making appearances in Chikara, Far North Wrestling, and Pro Wrestling Unplugged.

Shiima Xion made his International Wrestling Cartel debut on November 6, 2004, in Munhall, Pennsylvania, shortly after his eighteenth birthday.

Shiima lost to Jason Gory, who was also making his IWC debut that night.

The two feuded into 2005, culminating at IWC No Excuses on July 29, 2005, where Gory came out victorious.

Next month, Shiima would receive a shot at Shirley Doe's IWC World Heavyweight Championship and lost.

For the next few months he would team with Chris Maverick as the International Males which ended with an IWC Tag Team Championship match against the Gambino Brothers Moving Company, which Xion and Maverick lost.

By early 2006, the Shiima Xion character had become more of a glam rock star than a male model, as Xion began wearing make-up to the ring, and had also changed his hair color from black to red/blonde.

His bizarre hair style soon became his trademark, with Shiima becoming best known for hairspraying his hair during matches.

The androgynous character eventually caught the attention of Japanese wrestling promoter Sanshiro Takagi, who invited 19-year-old Shiima to tour Japan with his company, Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) in the summer of 2006.

Shiima would once again come across Gory at IWC Super Indy V on April 15, 2006, in which Shiima defeated Gory with the Filipino Destroyer.

Post-match saw the two shake hands for the first time in their near two-year-long rivalry and eventually led to them forming a tag team known as Team Catfish and eventually Babyface Fire (BFF).

BFF teamed for the first time on July 7, 2006, and were defeated by Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli.

The team is best known for their scramble matches with the Gambino Brothers, Sexual Harassment, and the Cleveland Mafia.

The second of these scrambles, which took place on December 9, 2006, saw BFF capture their first IWC Tag Team Championship.

Shiima Xion was featured in the Introducing... article in Pro Wrestling Illustrated's The Wrestler (volume 19, 2007).

The magazine was released on newsstands nationwide on December 4, 2007, with a two-page article spread on Shiima.

Xion and Gory held onto the belts until March 2007, in which The Gambino Brothers challenged the champions, despite both BFF members already competing in singles action earlier in the night.

The challenge was accepted, and Xion was pinned by Marshall Gambino after interference from Jimmy DeMarco.

After losing the titles, Shiima reached the final of the Super Indy VI Tournament but was defeated by Larry Sweeney.

Later that year, after a violent feud with the Gambinos, BFF won their second IWC Tag Team Championship on December 8, 2007.

They would hold onto the tag titles twice as long as their first reign, until Sexual Harassment defeated BFF for the belts in June 2008.

They also lost their rematch in a huge TLC match in August 2008.

In September 2008, Xion defeated Marshall Gambino to qualify for another tournament, for the vacant IWC World Heavyweight Championship.

Xion defeated Justin Idol, John McChesney, and Raymond Rowe to advance to the finals, where he defeated Jimmy DeMarco with a 630 splash to win the tournament and the title on October 26, 2008.

After only one successful defence, Shiima lost the IWC World Heavyweight Championship to Raymond Rowe.

He stayed with the promotion until 2018.

During his time, he joined Robbie E and Jessie Godderz in the BroMans stable, changing his name to DJZ.

He is a former two-time X Division Champion and one-time World Tag Team Champion with Andrew Everett.

He has also worked for various other promotions, such as Major League Wrestling (MLW), Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) and DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT).