Ray Huffman

Raymond Darius Huffman (born January 26, 1990), is an African American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Ray Huffman. He is currently signed to UWA, ELITE, and SAW. Ray made his pro debut in late June of 2014. He won his first ever championship in UWA, becoming the first ever world champion in the company's history. Ray had also been known to train with a handful of the PW roster and good friend Tyler Freeborn.

UWA World Champion
Ray Huffman made his debut on UWA Episode 1 in a 6-Man Battle Royal to determine the first ever UWA World Champion. During the match, Andrew Savior eliminated Antonio Silva leaving Savior and Huffman being the final two men in the match. Silva came back to the ring and attacked both Savior and Huffman. Silva tossed Savior over the top rope unintentionally making Ray Huffman the new UWA World Champion. Silva attacked Huffman with the belt to end the episode. The following week, Huffman stayed backstage to avoid any contact between Silva and Savior. He went into the production booth alongside Dontrell Phillips and watched the first of two #1 Contender's Triple Threat Matches with Phillips while he commentated. After the closing sequence, Huffman made his way down to this ringside area and taunted the winner of the match, Ager Maestro to close the show. The week after, Ray made another appearance at the production booth to watch the second #1 Contender's Triple Threat match. In the closing segments of the match, Ray Huffman came out to get in the face and taunt the winner (eventually being Adrian Morgan.) Ray taunted the winner, Adrian Morgan, to end the third episode. The 4 Episode of UWA began with a confrontation between Ray Huffman, and the participants of the ongoing feud between Andrew Savior and Antonio Silva. Each man warned each other of the future and the confrontation ended with Antonio Silva getting the last word. Later that night, Ray came out after the final #1 Contender's Match for the UWA Championship. Ray extended his hand to Ager Maestro (the winner) and Maestro shook his head in the no response and walked away. The show ended with Ray taunting to the crowd. On the fifth show, Ray decided to watch the Savior vs Silva match considering he was already heavily involved in their feud. The roughly 12 minute hardcore match went on until Savior approached Ray at his seat. Savior seemed to mock Ray and Ray was easily tempted to lay the "smackdown" on Andrew Savior. Ray then assaulted Savior (thus turning him heel), screwing him out of the match as Silva picked up the scraps for the win. The episode after, Huffman came out to address his actions last week. Saying he was "provoked" so he took action. Huffman then noted he'd face anyone for the title (blaming the title for this chaos) and gave Savior the opportunity to come at it first. Silva came out to question Huffman about that choice. Silva saying where's his title shot. Huffman replied with he'll give Silva a title shot aswell, just as long as he beats Savior first. Later in the episode, Huffman and Silva teamed up to take on Savior and Maestro in a losing effort. On the 7th episode, Huffman planned on facing a jobber since he wasn't booked that night. His plans were foiled when Andrew Savior came out to not only confront Huffman, but to challange him for the UWA Championship. Huffman went on to accept and retain the title belt with the distraction of Antonio Silva. Huffman celebrated with Silva on the stage after the match to end the show. Nearing the end of the season, on Episode 8, Ray Huffman defended his UWA World Title once again. He went up against Antonio Silva (who he promised a future title match) in a 8+ minute contest. This was Huffman's first ever unsuccessful championship defence in his career, as Silva defeated Huffman to become the second ever UWA World Champion. Although this loss occured, Huffman shook hands with Silva after the match seeking confusion to the UWA audience.

Generation Zenith
Ray Huffman made his debut on the June 29th edition of SAW programming, Old School. Huffman alongside, Tyler Freeborn, and Cory Blackgate attacked both members of Sapphire Storm, taking them out of action indefinetly. On Episode 14 of SAW Last Breath, a vingette hyping the three members (known as Generation Zenith, Gen Z for short) played at the very beginning of the show. Huffman made his in-ring debut on the 16th Episode of SAW Last Breath. He defeated Jett White in a very swift action. On the 17th Episode of SAW Last Breath, Huffman took the Main Event of the show against Phillip Simmons III (PS3 for short.) This match ended as a result of outside interference on Huffman's end. Gen Z member, Tyler Freeborn, interupted the match and the two thirds of Gen Z teamed on PS3. Midway into the beating, Kevin Ace, came out to stop the Gen Z attack. Freeborn wasn't done with PS3 and went in again to finish the job with a chair. Before Freeborn was able to do any damage, Ace came out once more and took away the chair from Freeborn. Ace then smacked PS3 in the head with the chair thus turning on him. Since then, Huffman & Freeborn began tagging/plotting together regularly. The following episode, Ray and Tyler were set to face "Boom Boom Makes Art" (Boom Boom & Sean Artwood) in a tag team contest. The match never came to fruition as a pre-match attack went down as Ray superkicked Boom Boom and Tyler performed a double underhook facebuster to Sean Artwood. Episode 19 of Last Breath featured all three members of Gen Z. Cory Blackgate went to a draw with Kevin Ace while, Ray Huffman teamed with Tyler Freeborn once more, this time in a one-on-two handicap match. Their opponent was "Dangerous" Ryan Daniels. Four and a half minutes into the match, the contest was stopped and ruled as a DQ by outside interference. Alex Alpha with the initial attack started to beat down Tyler Freeborn. Ryan Daniels, Victor Scott, and Jason Storm all joined in on the attack.

Art of Innovative Wrestling (2014)
Ray Huffman signed with AIW on July 5th, 2014. He has yet to make his debut. Ray has been seen making his entrance during an AIW SuperShow taping, though it has not been confirmed when his debut was official shown. Ray never made his debut in AIW (it had been put on halt) but was apart of the IAUW merger show featuring the AIW brand.

ELITE (2014-Present)
Ray Huffman signed with ELITE mid-July. He's currently teaming with Tyler Freeborn as part of The Prison City Brawlers.

Other promotions
Ray isn't known to make special appearances or work for companies on open type contracts. Although, Ray was scheduled to wrestle on the card of The Innovative Art of Upcharge Wrestling's first show. He appeared on the show's August taping and cut a promo on not getting a spot on the card even though being asked to appear that night. TCF Champion, Slash, came out to attack Ray for a breif UWA vs TCF (vs SAW) angle. It included SAW's Kevin Ace near the end. Ray has also wrestled for the Universe Mode of "Gore and Perkins." He appeared in the Royal Rumble match only lasting less than a minute.

Personal life
Ray was born in The Queen City, Buffalo, New York on January 26th, 1990. Ray is currently single and is an only child whose parents separated when Ray was 11. Huffman graduated from Loyola College. Huffman is real good friends with fellow in-ring competitor Tyler Freeborn, his original trainer Tragic, the owner of SAW, and the head booker of SAW. Ray is known to put his creative juices to the test when he isn't training for wrestling. Ray has been known to make some of his own ring gear and do GFX design for many companies.

In wrestling

 * Finishing Moves
 * BP Impaler (Implant DDT) –  2014
 * The Raid (Sitout Gutbuster) – 2014-Present
 * Knockout Punch (Sometimes performed after the Black Print Backfist combination)  – 2014-Present
 * Jacknife Powerbomb –  2014-Present
 * Skull Candy (Pepsi Twist; formerly known as the N-Sync) – 2014-Present
 * Killshot DDT (DDT assisted from the middle or top rope ; sometimes from the corner) – 2014
 * Riot Elbow (Elbow Drop with a running start and lift from the top turnbuckle) – 2014
 * Signature Moves
 * Black Print (Running boot variations) (refers to his nickname and when a boot leaves a mark on a surface)
 * Hood Kick (Running kick into the ribs/sternum; usually performed when opponent is hung on the middle rope)
 * N-Sync (Lifting reverse DDT; usually preformed with pin combo)
 * Multiple strike variations
 * Rapid punches
 * Punch-Kick combinations
 * Overhand right hooks
 * Knee strikes
 * Dark Charge (Multiple punch combo into a running knee lift into a knee strike)   – 2014
 * Black Print Backfist (Multiple punch combo into a backfist strike/Knockout Punch)
 * Technical Dissolution (Irish whip knee catches into a Russian Legsweep into a jumping Elbow Drop into a Tope Atomico) –  2014
 * Tiger Bomb
 * Hatch Suplex
 * Diving Elbow to the top of the head
 * Reverse DDT
 * Pull-Back European Uppercut (Usually performed multiple times)
 * Inverted headlock Backbreaker into Butterfly Backbreaker (now Hatch Suplex) combination
 * Head-to-Knee Facebuster (Usually performed off an Irish Whip or when running)
 * Entrance Themes
 * "Let The Sparks Fly - Thousand Foot Krutch" (May 31st, 2014 - June 20th, 2014)
 * "Beneath The Skin - Man The Mighty" (June 20th, 2014 - Present; Used while apart of Gen Z and in singles competition)
 * "Limitless - Crown The Empire" (July 21st, 2014 - Present; Used while in The Prison City Brawlers) (ELITE)
 * "Dead & Buried - A Day to Remember" (August 3rd, 2014 - Present; Used while apart of Gen Z) (SAW)
 * "Cannon (Remix) - DJ Drama" (September 1st, 2014 - Present; Used while in singles competition)
 * Nicknames
 * The Black Print (of Professional Wrestling)

Championships and Accomplishments

 * UWA World Champion (1 time, first ever)