Jonathan Gresham

Jonathan Gresham (born March 20, 1988) is an American professional wrestler currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).

He also makes appearances on the independent circuit.He has previously wrestled for All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and Ring of Honor (ROH), where he is a former ROH World Champion, ROH Pure Champion, and ROH World Tag Team Champion with Jay Lethal.

Earlier in his career, Gresham wrestled regularly on the independent circuit, in such promotions as Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) where he is a former CZW World Heavyweight Champion as well as Chikara, IWA Mid-South, Full Impact Pro (FIP), and Evolve among others.

He also has international experience, having wrestled in over 15 countries, including in Germany with Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw), and in England for Progress Wrestling, where he is a former Progress World Champion.

Joanathan Gresham was born on March 20, 1988, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Gresham competed in amateur wrestling until he was 17.

Some of Gresham's influences were Rey Mysterio, Hayabusa, Bam Bam Bigelow, Dean Malenko, Jushin Thunder Liger, Low Ki, The Hardy Boyz, Ikuto Hidaka and Alex Shelley among others.

Gresham trained under Mr. Hughes, Jay Fury and the WWA4 wrestling school in Atlanta.

His first match was in Douglasville, Georgia, against Heath Miller.

At the time he was only 16 years old.

Gresham made his National Wrestling Alliance debut in 2006 as Jonathan Davis in a four-way tag team match losing to Darin Childs and Seth Shai.

In 2007, he defeated Amien Rios in his debut match for Great Championship Wrestling in Alabama.

Gresham debuted for Booker T's Pro Wrestling Alliance in 2008 as Hero Tiger defeating Chaotix.

In 2010, Gresham defeated A. R. Fox for GCW.

He returned to the company in 2010 defeating Ryan Davidson to become the PWA Iron Man Championship.

Gresham made his Chikara debut in 2010 teaming with The Osirian Portal and defeating Bruderschaft des Kreuzes (Lince Dorado, Delirious and Pinkie Sanchez).

In the first round of Full Impact Pro's Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup in 2011, Gresham debuted losing to Bobby Fish.

At Declaration Of Independence, Gresham successfully defended his ZERO1 International Junior Heavyweight Championship against Lince Dorado.

In January 2011, Gresham now as Hieracon and now part of the Osirian Portal stable defeated Team F.I.S.T (Johnny Gargano, Icarus and Chuck Taylor).

The group disbanded after Amasis retired.

Ophidian attacked Amasis and unmasked him, turning rudo (heel).

Gresham's last match in Chikara was a loss to Ophidian.

After the match Ophidian took Hieracon's mask.

He once again returned to the company (now known as Reality of Wrestling) in 2014 as Jonathan Gresham.

In 2015, Gresham made his Evolve debut losing to Matt Riddle.

At Evolve 65 he lost to Catch Point.

Gresham defeated Drastik Boy to win Desastre Total Ultraviolento's Alto Rendimiento title at Coyotes Hambrientos in 2015.

He lost the championship to Kim Ray on a Westside Xtreme Wrestling tour.

Gresham debuted for International Wrestling Cartel in 2016 in the Super Indy 15 tournament making it to the finals only to be eliminated by Josh Alexander.

At Reloaded 3.0, Gresham won a four-way Super Indy 16 qualifying match.

This led to a two out of three falls match between the two later that month at Americanrana 2016.

Gresham defeated Sabre by pinning him twice.

Gresham later won the IWC Super Indy title in June 2017 by defeating Chris LeRusso in the Super Indy 16 tournament in the semi-final only to lose it to Adam Cole in the finals.

Gresham defeated Tracy Williams at Beyond Wrestling's Battle Of Who Could Care Less.

Gresham beat Zack Sabre Jr.. at Beyond Ripped Off In The Prime Of Life.

The following month he defeated Sabre once again at Flesh.

At Americanrana 2017, Gresham defeated Brian Cage.

Gresham defeated Joey Lynch to become the inaugural Independent champion in October 2017.

He successfully defended the title at Wazzup against Nick Gage.

Gresham lost the Independent championship to Tracy Williams in a three-way elimination match at Beyond Abbondanza.