David Finlay

David Finlay Jr.
Professional wrestling career
Height	182 centimeters (6 ft. 0 in.)
Weight	91 kilograms (200 lbs.)
Debut	December 22, 2012

David Stephen Finlay III (May 16, 1993) is a German-born Northern Irish^{[citation needed]} professional wrestler known simply as David Finlay. He is currently signed to New Japan Pro Wrestling where he is currently in his first reign as one second of the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship with Ricochet and Satoshi Kojima. David is the son of former WCW/WWE wrestler Fit Finlay.

Professional Wrestling Carrer

Early Carrer

On December 22 Finlay made his debut in professional wrestling at the European Wrestling Promotion when was against Big Van Walter. In the same day he and his father Dave Finlay defeated Danny Collins and Robbie Brookside in a Irish Street match. Then he compete in various independent promotions like Universal Independent Wrestling, All Star Wrestling and World of Unpredictable Wrestling. On October 10, 2014 Finlay won his first professional wrestling title the POW Junior Championship in a three-way match.

New Japan Pro Wrestling (2015-Present)

On May 7, 2015 it was announced that Finlay was hired by the Japanese promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling and it was announced that he would participate on the Best of the Super Jr. XXII and that he would be entring in the B block. At his debut match in njpw and hi first match at the Best of the Super Juniors he lost to Alex Shelley he also had a personal attire. At end of the tournament Finaly lost all his qualifying matches. Later he would competed as one of NJPW's "Young Lions" a class of rookie wrestlers who work mostly mostly against each other early on, wearing all black gear and with no particular ring character, all part of the structured learning process in NJPW. He would later compete with and some matches against fellow Young Lion Jay White some times with him had begun teaming together on a regular basis and with both men trading victories in both singles and tag team competition. On May 19 Finaly was called to replace Matt Jackson at the 2016 Best of the Super Juniors. On May 21 to June 7, 2016 Finaly participated at the tournament and only scored 2 points defeating the veteran Gedo. On September 1 Finlay was involved at the Lions Gate Project 3 where he debuted a new wild attire and new finisher named Prima Nocta and he also defeated GO Asakawa. After that Finlay was given a push at the company and he started to win more matches.

Ricochet, David Finlay and Satoshi Kojima as the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions

On September 25 Finlay won his firs champion at NJPW when he and Ricochet and Satoshi Kojima defeated Bullet Club (Adam Cole and Matt and Nick Jackson) to win the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship where he graduated form his "Young Lion" status. This led to a match on October 10 at King of Pro-Wrestling, where Finlay and Ricochet unsuccessfully challenged The Young Bucks for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. Finlay and Ricochet entered the 2016 Super Jr. Tag Tournament, defeating Gedo and Will Ospreay. Finlay and Ricochet lost at the semifinals to ACH and Taiji Ishimori. Finlay, Ricochet and Kojima lost the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship to Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, EVIL and Sanada) in a four-team gauntlet match at Wrestle Kingdom 11 in Tokyo Dome on January 4, 2017.

In wrestling

• Finishing moves
  • Air Raid Crash (Running over the shoulder back to belly piledriver)
  • European Uppercut
  • Prima Nocta
• Signature moves
  • Scarf hold
  • Granby roll
  • Kamikaze
  • German Suplex

Championships and accomplishments

• Power Of Wrestling
  • POW Junior Championship (1 time)
• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • PWI ranked him #431 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2016
• New Japan Pro Wrestling
  • NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Ricochet and Satoshi Kojima

References

• POW Junior Championship « Titles Database « CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database . cagematch.net. Retrieved on 2016-12-10.
• David Finlay « Wrestlers Database « CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database . cagematch.net. Retrieved on 2016-12-10.
• Career « David Finlay « Wrestlers Database « CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database . cagematch.net. Retrieved on 2016-12-10.
• Matches « David Finlay « Wrestlers Database « CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database . cagematch.net. Retrieved on 2016-12-10.
• Matches « David Finlay « Wrestlers Database « CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database . cagematch.net. Retrieved on 2016-12-10.
• Matches « David Finlay « Wrestlers Database « CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database . cagematch.net. Retrieved on 2016-12-10.
• Matches « David Finlay « Wrestlers Database « CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database . cagematch.net. Retrieved on 2016-12-10.
• Matches « David Finlay « Wrestlers Database « CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database . cagematch.net. Retrieved on 2016-12-10.
• Matches « David Finlay « Wrestlers Database « CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database . cagematch.net. Retrieved on 2016-12-10.
• Matches « David Finlay « Wrestlers Database « CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database . cagematch.net. Retrieved on 2016-12-10.

External links

• David Finlay on Twitter