Joseph Ryan Meehan

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Joseph Joey Ryan Meehan is a retired American professional wrestler from Southern California best known by his ring name Joey Ryan He is also known for his time on the independent circuit working for promotions such as Pro Wrestling Guerrilla PWG which he founded with five other wrestlers and where he held the PWG World and PWG World Tag Team Championships NWA Championship Wrestling from Hollywood for which he was the head booker of from January 2011 to August 20117 Lucha Va Voom and Wrestling Retribution Project where he worked as Chase Walker He also worked for the shortlived MTV promotion Wrestling Society X and in Ring of Honor ROH in 20092010 He has also worked for WWE as local talent In 20072008 he was a trainer at Ultimate Pro Wrestlings training school and is currently the head trainer at Mach One Wrestlings training school in Anaheim California He worked as an assistant trainer for the television series Hulk Hogans Celebrity Championship Wrestling In 2012 he was featured as a trainer on RuPauls Drag Race episode two Also in 2012 Meehan made the top 30 finalist of 22000 in the Major League Baseball Fan Cave contest In 2012 he was signed by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling He is a former NWA World Tag Team Champion with Karl Anderson On October 14 at Bound for Glory Ryan defeated Snow following interference from Matt Morgan to earn a TNA contract On the October 25 episode of Impact Wrestling Ryan and Morgan entered the ring after Rob Van Dam had successfully defended the X Division Championship against Zema Ion with Morgan hitting him with the Carbon Footprint after which Ryan posed with his title belt The following week Ryan defeated Van Dam in a nontitle match with help from Morgan On November 11 at Turning Point Ryan unsuccessfully challenged Van Dam for the X Division Championship On December 9 at Final Resolution Ryan and Morgan unsuccessfully challenged Chavo Guerrero Jr and Hernandez for the TNA World Tag Team Championship after losing to them via disqualification Ryan and Morgan challenged Guerrero and Hernandez again on January 13 2013 at Genesis but were again unsuccessful in winning their titles After not being seen for several weeks Ryan returned on March 10 at Lockdown losing to Joseph Park in a singles match On July 3 2013 Ryan was released from his contract along with several other TNA talents including Crimson Madison Rayne and Christian York On December 14 2015 it was announced that Ryan signed with Lucha Underground and would appear on the shows second season His character was introduced as an undercover Los Angeles police officer and the new partner of fellow undercover officer Cortez Castro although their cover will be that they are enemies He lost his debut match on the February 17 2016 episode of Lucha Underground against Cage On the May 25 episode of Lucha Underground Ryan defeated Mascarita Sagrada During the third season Ryan allied himself with Dario Cuerto revealing Castro is a cop They started a feud ending in a Police match with an Aztec Medallion on the line