Arik Cannon

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Arik Cannon


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Ring name(s)	"The Anarchist" Arik Cannon
Billed height	5 ft 9 in
Billed weight	210 lb
Born	December 23, 1981 Chicago, Illinois
Trained by	Chris Hero

Arik Cannon is a professional wrestler known for competing in companies such as Chikara Pro Wrestling, IWA Mid-South and Wrestling Society X.

[edit] Career

Arik Cannon was trained at Midwest Pro Wrestling and attending training clinics with Chris Hero and is known for wrestling in IWA Mid-South. There, he became the IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Champion by defeating Petey Williams in the Ted Petty Invitational Tournament. He defended it against Roderick Strong and Austin Aries, but was forced to give it up due to injury in 2004.

He returned to wrestling in 2005 and entered CHIKARA's Tag World Grand Prix 2005 with partner Claudio Castagnoli and made it to the finals to face Superfriends, Chris Hero and Mike Quackenbush. That night, Hero turned on Quackenbush and joined Cannon and Castagnoli, leading Cannon and Castagnoli to win the Tag World Grand Prix. The three began calling themselves the Kings of Wrestling. The began feuding with Quackenbush, but Cannon left the group in 2005. Cannon competed in the Tag World Grand Prix 2006 with Jigsaw as his partner, but lost in the second round. During June of 2006, Arik Cannon wrestled in CHIKARA's fourth annual Young Lions Cup tournament. In the final round, he defeated Cheech to win the tournament. At CHIKARA's Cibernetico Forever event in October 2006, however, Max Boyer manage to beat him for the Cup.

In November of 2006, Arik Cannon partook in the Wrestling Society X promotion's first season of television tapings. Which later aired on MTV.