Martin Casaus

Martin Casaus
Birth name Martin Casaus
Born March 5, 1985
West Jordan, Utah
Resides Saratoga Springs, Utah
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s) Tristan Gallo
Magnificent Martin[1]
Martin Casaus
Marty Martinez
Billed height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Billed weight 220 lb (100 kg; 16 st)
Trained by Steve Nielson
Derrick Jannetty
Bill DeMott
Debut 2003

Martin Casaus (born March 5, 1985) is an American professional wrestler of Mexican American descent. He was a contestant on WWE Tough Enough.

Career

Ultra Championship Wrestling-Zero (2003-2007)

Casaus first started training to become a wrestler in 2003 at the Utah-based Ultra Championship Wrestling-Zero (UCW). He was trained mainly by Derrick Jannetty and Steve Nielson. Adopting the ring name "Tristan Gallo", he was placed in Stevie Slick's faction, "The Dynasty", as an arrogant heel and cronie to Slick. He made his debut in a singles match against Mochi Pedro in October 2003 at "Hallowicked". Setting up a tag team with Justin Wilde called Double Cross and beginning a feud against the masked group Los Mochis.

Gallo teamed with UCW-Zero wrestler Khan Kussion to win his first wrestling title, the UCW-Zero Tag Team Championship. He won them against the same Los Mochis, Mochi Paco and Mochi Damien. He lost them to the Mochis again in a rematch the next show. After Khan Kussion was fired from UCW; Tristan teamed with cousin, GQ Gallo, to win the UCW Tag Team titles a second time from the Mochis. He Won the first ever UCW Ultra X title match in a four way elimination match with Derrick Jannetty, Mochi Paco, and Nature Boy X. This began a lasting feud against Mochi Paco.

Gallo had his first Heavyweight Title Match against trainer Derrick Jannetty. He was unsuccessful even with the help of CEO Stevie Slick. Tristan and GQ Gallo won back the UCW Tag Team Titles from the Mochis once more only to lose them from the team of Tyson Ferrari and JMB.

In 2006, Gallo got his second chance to win the UCW heavyweight title against JMB, but he lost. On his third attempt he won the UCW heavyweight Title at "Survival Quest" on July 28, 2006, Gallo lost again. After his partner GQ Gallo and former partner Khan Kussion began a feud, he found a new tag team partner in Devon Payne. They won the UCW Tag Titles for Tristan's fourth time. They teamed up to form the team "Total Control" because they were holding 3 of the 4 belts in UCW. They began a feud with Derrick Jannetty and Radical Ricky, the team called themselves "High Risk". High risk ended up winning the tag titles on "Season Beatings 5" December 2, 2006 in a 30 minute tag team iron man match.

On January 20, 2007 Gallo faced David Young in his first title defense. Tristan Gallo was pushed into Young's spinebuster by Devon Payne and lost the Heavyweight Title.[2] The tensions in Stevie slicks Dynasty grew when at Stevie slick hit Tristan with a chair in a match vs Jean Martell. Tristan soon began getting mixed reactions from fans because of the tension between him and his colleagues, Devon Payne and Stevie Slick. Devon Payne won the UCW heavyweight match at "Ring of Rage" on February 17, 2007 against Young. The match was a lumberjack match with only high risk as David Young's lumberjacks.

On March 24, High risk (Radical Ricky and Derrick Jannetty) teamed with Marty Jannetty to take on Total Control (Tristan Gallo and Devon Payne) and Validus. The team lost to a superkick by Jannetty and challenged High risk to a TLC match for the tag titles. On April 14, 2007 at "TLC Carnage" High Risk retained their tag titles when Devon Payne blatantly turned on Gallo pushing him off of a 12 foot ladder to the floor. Gallo was formally kicked out of the Dynasty when Devon Payne, Magnus, Validus, and Stevie Slick pummeled him after the match. David Young, Derrick Jannetty, and Radical Ricky made the save. Tristan was granted a title shot at Revenge with a match choice Tristan said he would have the fans choose.

On May 12, 2007 at "Revenge" Gallo faced Payne in a fan picked "No DQ, No Holds Barred, Last Man Standing match", Gallo with the help of Derrick Jannetty and Radical Ricky fought back every member of Stevie Slicks dynasty to win the UCW heavyweight championship back for the second time. Devon Payne was unable to get up to a 10 count from a "Perfector" from the top rope through a table. At "Summer Assault" Tristan was hit with the UCW heavyweight title y Validus and lost the belt. He was granted a rematch and won the UCW Heavyweight title for the third time by defeating Validus at "Survival Quest".

World Wrestling Entertainment (2011)

Casaus was announced as a competitor on the revival of WWE Tough Enough which began airing on April 4, 2011. He was forced to leave due to injury close to the end of the competition.[3]

Lucha Underground (2014–present)

In September 2014, Casaus was confirmed that he had signed with El Rey network's new show Lucha Underground, that began airing on October 29.[4] He worked the tapings under the ring name "Magnificent Martin".[1] However, Casaus debuted on (aired April 29, 2015) as Marty Martinez, a fan who interfered in the match between Cage, King Cuerno and Hernandez. On February 22, 2015, Martinez had his first aired match, where he was defeated by Prince Puma.[5]

In wrestling

Championships and accomplishments

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Johnson, Mike (2014-09-06). "Early spoiler notes from first Lucha Underground TV taping". Pro Wrestling Insider. Retrieved 2014-09-07.
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ "WWE Tough Enough". USA Network. 2012-03-30. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  4. ↑ Johnson, Mike (2014-09-06). "First Lucha Underground taping for the El Rey network tonight, updates on all we know". Pro Wrestling Insider. Retrieved 2014-09-06.
  5. ↑ Boutwell, Josh (2015-02-28). "Viva la Raza! Lucha Weekly for 2/28/15". Wrestleview. Retrieved 2015-02-28.
  6. ↑ "The Oklahoma Wrestling Fan's Resource Center". oklafan.com. Retrieved 2013-09-15.

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