Leto Deck

The happenings listed in this Wiki are listed in chronological order.Matthew Dylan Leto (June 27, 1991), best known as Leto or "The Leto Deck", is a masked American professional wrestler.

He is most well known for his second run with Ultimate Championship Wrestling. The run which he held their Universal Championship for 167 days, and was scheduled to be in a rivalry with the promotion's owner and founder, Brian The Brain, and The Carter Regime, before being released in June of 2018.

Early Life
Matthew Leto was born in Amherst, New York, the youngest of the two sons of Amy and Anthony Leto, his older brother being Michael Leto. Matthew was an average student in school, quoted as saying that he "never tried hard to get high grades". After completing sixth grade in Amherst, he and his parents moved to Orlando, Florida.

In seventh grade, Matthew's passion for professional wrestling was ignited. He reportedly spent up to twenty hours a week watching several wrestling promotions. This eventually lead to him wanting to be a professional wrestler once he graduated high school. He took amateur wrestling classes in tenth grade and twelfth grade, as well.

After graduation, Matthew took a three year break from any type of schooling to gather himself and relax. Within those three years, he taught himself techniques to certain maneuvers in professional wrestling he wanted in his arsenal. He also spent some time developing a character he wanted for wrestling, mostly focusing on making his own logo and name that he would trademark and copyright for future purposes.

After his three years of rest were up, he worked various jobs to accumulate a life savings. At the age of 23, he finally used those savings to get his own apartment and start his training.

Early Professional Wrestling Career
At the age of 23, after getting his own cheap apartment and car, Leto started training with various wrestlers, anyone he could in the area. He cites Brian "The Brain" Carter, Colby Jordan, and Robert Martyr as the specific wrestlers who taught him the most. After about a year of learning from the best, he pursued whatever opportunities he could take.

Using his connections to Brian, he was able to get booked in the promotion formerly owned by Andy Jaiden, WSCW. However, his times backstage and his experiences with the other employees and wrestlers there were much less than favorable, so he left the company weeks before debuting, and already considered giving up wrestling due to a poor first experience.

However, Leto wanted to stick to his passion. The only person in the locker room that didn't treat him badly was Brian Carter, better known as Brian The Brain. Brian had just started Ultimate Championship Wrestling less than a year before Leto was set to debut for WSCW, so Brian took him under his wing and gave him a UCW contract.

First Run With Ultimate Championship Wrestling
While training with Brian The Brain, honing his skill and improving upon his character, Leto took to social media to stir up kayfabe drama with several wrestlers to make storylines for Leto's debut. Leto debuted on December 9th, 2016 on an episode of Rampage for UCW. He debuted with a rivalry against Matthew Storm that was set up through social media.

Leto Deck would go on to face Matthew Storm and Angel for the Intercontinental Championship, winning it on the 2016 edition of Holiday Havoc. He would go on to hold the championship for 46 days before being released for having heat with several other wrestlers who didn't understand that his social media posts were in kayfabe.

IWL And Other Indy Promotions
After being released from UCW, Leto signed with IWL. He would have few matches in the promotion at the time, most notably picking up a victory over Jose Carter, known as "The Beast" Josb at the time. Other than IWL, Leto wrestled for NRGW, where he had a small rivalry with one of NRGW's top wrestlers, Dustin Gerrard, which spawned the slow transition from just the Leto Deck to "The Concussion King" Leto Deck, after ditching his old finisher, the "LDT", and trading it in for his new and current finisher, "The Concussion Buster".

During his time after his first run with UCW, Leto brought a new understanding to kayfabe to the wrestlers on his side of the community, eventually befriending some of the people who had heat with him the first time.

Second Run With UCW And IWL Return
When Leto's heat disappeared, he made his return to UCW on May 12th, 2017, as a special entrant into the Elimination Chamber match for the Cruiserweight Championship on the CPV, Lockdown. Leto was the final opponent to be eliminated by Silas Green in the match. After the CPV, Leto began a rivalry with Chase Dunn to face Silas for the Cruiserweight Championship at Bash At The Beach, a CPV Leto was also commentating. They were eventually placed in a triple threat for the belt, where Chase won the belt, and Leto returned to commentary, furious.

This sparked a heel VS heel rivalry between Chase and Leto, where Leto would really showcase his aggressive Concussion King gimmick. On the one year anniversary show for UCW, Leto jumped off of commentary to attack Chase Dunn after his match with TJR and wedged his head in a chair, hitting that chair with another one and fracturing his collar bone and his neck.

The rivalry had its big pay off at the 2017 Ultimate Rumble, where Leto defeated Chase in a Falls Count Anywhere match for the Cruiserweight Championship, wedging Chase's head in the chair again and hitting it with another chair, reinjuring Chase. He then put Chase on the injury shelf later in the night when Chase entered the Ultimate Rumble match, in which Leto eliminated himself to eliminate Chase and Concussion Buster him on the outside of the ring.

After almost ending Chase's career, Leto took to the next episode of Shattered to announce the replacement of the Cruiserweight Championship with the renewed Universal Championship. He would go on to hold this championship for 167 days. This made him the third longest reigning UCW title holder at the time.

Leto made his return to IWL as well, winning the IWL World Championship. In addition to this, he competed in a few other independent promotions and became the "Quadruple Crown Concussion King" due to winning two more championships.

On the one of UCW's trademark PPV's, Destiny, Leto successfully defended his Universal Championship against Victor Von Dough and Rashad Wyatt in a triple threat ladders match. Victor Von Dough left UCW afterwards, leaving Rashad Wyatt to claim a rematch for Genesis II. At Genesis II, Leto had a career defining performance, successfully defending against Rashad Wyatt in a brutal TLC match.

When Season Three of UCW started in late 2017, Leto had a triple threat elimination match for the Universal Championship against Jaun Santos and Zack Sanchez. Due to an interference by Brian The Brain's nephew, Jacob Carter, Zack Sanchez eliminated Leto, and Jaun defeated Zack for the Universal Championship at Gameover.

Leto was about to start his rivalry against the Carter Regime, interrupting their promo segment on the Shattered after Gameover. However, due to backstage heat, he was suspended until the next CPV, Civil War. Eventually, since Leto did have a position in creative at the time in UCW, due to creative differences and disputes, he was released from UCW a second and final time on June 12th, 2018, only fifteen days from his 27th birthday.

Match With Aaron Slade At Wild Card
Right before being released, Leto Deck challenged Aaron Slade to a dream match at the mega CPV, Wild Card. Slade accepted after Leto was released, and their match was set for October 8th, 2018. The stipulation being that if Slade won, Leto must unmask, and if Leto won, Slade must sign a contract to do whatever Leto wants, on five separate occasions, during the year after.

Slade and Leto had the match in the main event, with Leto coming up victorious. However, after the match, Slade grabbed a mic to honor Leto's victory in saying that was the best match he wrestled, and to admit that the mask stipulation was faked in order to get the best out of Leto. Leto then also admitted that the contract stipulation was fake as well, and welcomed Slade back to the wrestling world.

PWR
Leto's father, Anthony Leto, under the kayfabe name of Anthony Paul, started a promotion called Pro Wrestling Revolution, and announced Leto as part of the roster. Leto's brother, Michael Leto, under the name of Michael Anthony, is also signed as their lead commentator. The promotion premiered on November 15th, 2018, with Leto on the first card against Joe Diaz in the first round brackets of the PWR World Championship Tournament.

Leto feuded with his former tag team partner, Dead Zone, for the first PPV, New Beginning. After being defeated in relatively easy fashion, Leto spun a narrative of how Dead Zone was there to supposedly destroy the promotion by beating everyone on the roster. This was revealed to be a ploy by Leto to get a gauntlet contendership match set, as a means for an easy way for Leto to gain a world title shot.

Leto won the gauntlet and was set to face Rob Cayman for the championship at Thunderstruck. Leto came close to victory, but was ultimately foiled when Alexander Henry jumped the barricade and ran interference. A set up for a feud between the two which eventually fell through and never happened.

In the set up to PWR's final PPV, Firewall, Leto began targetting and harrassing Dylan Sabre, a masterfully technical pro wrestler who eerily sounded exactly like Leto and had a very similar body build to him. In the closing moments of their match at Firewall, Dylan Sabre had wripped a hole in Leto's mask. Seeing what appeared to be his own face underneath the mask, it stunned Dylan Sabre and allowed Leto to pick up his only PPV victory in PWR.

Super Network TV And Retirement
After the end of PWR, Leto signed a contract to have a series of matches on the Super Network TV YouTube channel called his "Manifest Redemption Tour". The first match of the tour was against Max Harlton, in which he squeaked out an upset victory against him. The next match announced was supposed to be against Jordan Richard, however Leto quietly retired after his match against Harlton.

In his retirement, Leto Deck had become one of the sole financers of Super Network's premiere wrestling promotion, Three Lions, and was the spearhead for the transition from Three Lions Wrestling into Ring of Fire Wrestling. Since retirement, Leto has had one match in the Super Network Invitational against Black Dragon Army's Kiyoshi Saiba. Leto's final match ended in a loss to Kiyoshi, who bares many similarities to Leto in a wrestling aspect.

Championships and Accomplishments

 * Ultimate Championship Wrestling
 * Intercontinental Championship (46 days)
 * Cruiserweight/Universal Championship (167 days)
 * Slammy for Male Rising Star of the Year in 2016-17
 * IWL
 * IWL World Championship (78 days)

Moveset

 * Finishers
 * Concussion Buster (Gourdbuster G.T.S.)


 * Signature Moves
 * The Barrage (10+ count elbow drop, sometimes starting with a diving elbow)
 * Cutter
 * Front rolling exploding sunset flip powerbomb
 * Various knee strikes
 * ripcord knee strike
 * corner knee strike
 * knee strike to the gut
 * knee drop
 * Penalty kick
 * Various slaps/open palm strikes
 * Various forearms
 * Sit-out piledriver
 * Kneestomp + inner leg kick combo in the corner
 * Sliding clothesline
 * STF camel clutch
 * Hematoma Driver (Front Flip DDT), rarely used
 * Hip toss knee strike

Entrance Themes

 * "Hedorah" By Mochipet (Trimmed to fit entrance)