El Phantasmo

Riley Vigier (born October 24, 1986), better known by his ring name El Phantasmo (often shortened to ELP), is a Canadian professional wrestler.

He is signed to New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he is one-half of the current Strong Openweight Tag Team Champions and a former IWGP Tag Team Champions along with Hikuleo.

In NJPW, Phantasmo is a three-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion, a two-time Super J-Cup winner and is a former member of Bullet Club.

His ring name is a reference to a song on White Zombie's Astro-Creep: 2000.

El Phantasmo's wrestling training group in 2005 included Kyle O'Reilly and Gurv Sihra.

Phantasmo's debut in professional wrestling for NWA: Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling (ECCW) was in a battle royal at Halloween Hell in October 2005.

Phantasmo formed a tag team with Halo known as the Masked Dudes of Doom.

El Phantasmo debuted for PowerZone Wrestling in Lethbridge, Alberta, on October 11, 2006.

He was defeated in an intergender wrestling match by Veronika Vice on the show's midcard.

On March 3, 2007, they became the #1 contenders to the NWA/ECCW Tag Team Championship after beating Models, Inc. in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match main eventing in Vancouver.

After falling short on three occasions, the Masked Dudes of Doom finally won the titles in another TLC match against Chill Town on May 5 in Vancouver.

After only one successful title defense, they went on to lose the titles to Greatness on Demand in a six-man tag match on July 27 in Surrey.

A regular competitor in the ECCW Pacific Cup tournament, Phantasmo made it to the finals in two consecutive years.

El Phantasmo made his debut for ASW on September 15, 2007, in Comox, British Columbia, against Azeem The Dream.

Phantasmo was victorious, as he was in his second appearance in Surrey on December 7.

He defeated T Kasaki.

In 2008, Billy Suede won the tournament in the three-way final which also included Phantasmo and O'Reilly.

In 2009, Phantasmo finally won the Pacific Cup by beating Rick The Weapon X and Azeem The Dream in the finals.

In 2010, however, Phantasmo lost to eventual tournament winner Artemis Spencer in the semi-finals.

Though he did present Spencer with the trophy, Phantasmo received a kick to the groin for his show of sportsmanship towards his ex-teammate and rival.

As of August 13th, he is a member of the Guerrillas of Destiny stable.

He also worked for Impact Wrestling, and various independent promotions in Canada, the European Union and the United Kingdom.

Phantasmo won his first ECCW Championship on July 6, 2013.

He lost the championship to "Ravenous" Randy Myers on January 18, 2014, at Ballroom Brawl 1 in a ladder match.

He won the ECCW Championship for the second time on January 16, 2016, at Ballroom Brawl 5 by defeating Scotty Mac in a steel cage match.

Phantasmo lost the title to O'Reilly on January 14, 2017, at Ballroom Brawl 7, in an open challenge to any TV wrestler.

His last match in ECCW for 2017, was on May 27, 2017, for the Canadian Championship, where he was defeated by Andy Bird.

He defeated Joey Ryan on March 10, 2017.

His last match in ASW for 2017, was on May 26, 2017, where he was defeated by Adam Ryder.

El Phantasmo debuted for Revolution Pro Wrestling at the Cockpit 17 on June 4, 2017, and was defeated by David Starr.

In 2018, he participated in the British J-Cup, a tournament he won.

On May 19, 2019, he defeated Starr in a ladder match at RPW's Epic Encounter event to win the RPW British Cruiserweight Championship for the first time.

During the first night of the New Japan Cup 2019, a vignette was shown promoting El Phantasmo's debut.

In doing so, he was announced as the newest member of Bullet Club.

In his debut, he pinned Will Ospreay in a tag team match.

His first singles win came against Bandido shortly after.

Phantasmo then entered the Best of the Super Juniors and ended third in his block ending with 6 wins and 3 losses with a total of 12 points.

On June 16, 2019, Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori defeated Roppongi 3K (Yoh and Sho) to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.

On night four of the Kizuna Road tour, Phantasmo, Yujiro Takahashi and Chase Owens competed for the NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Championship but were defeated by Ryusuke Taguchi, Togi Makabe and Toru Yano.

On February 14, 2020, Phantasmo lost the title to Michael Oku, ending his reign at 280 days.