The Blade (wrestler)

Jesse Guilmette (born June 3, 1980) is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) under the ring name The Blade.

He is best known for his tag team work with The Butcher under the name The Butcher and the Blade.

Outside of that, he is known for his work in Impact Wrestling under the ring name Braxton Sutter and on the independent promotions such as Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) - where he was a one-time CZW World Tag Team Champion - under the ring name Pepper Parks.

Guilmette was trained by Les Thatcher.

He has worked a number of matches under his legal name with the WWE, facing wrestlers such as The Boogeyman, Vladimir Kozlov and Shad Gaspard in squash matches.

In 2000, Guilmette began appearing for the Midwestern independent promotion Heartland Wrestling Association under the ring name Pepper Parks where he would be paired up with Chet Jablonski as the tag team, The A Squad.

Debuting on July 27, 2000, the team faced Astin Ambrose and JJ Duquesne in a losing effort.

Parks would wrestle for HWA for six years.

During this time, he won the HWA Cruiserweight Championship on June 26, 2001, defeating Matt Stryker.

On January 1, 2006, Parks gained his first heavyweight championship, defeating Jon Moxley in the tournament finals for the vacant HWA Heavyweight Championship.

Parks would lose the title to Moxley on May 9, 2006 and regain it once again on November 11, 2006, defeating Chad Collyer in title vs. career match.

His second reign lasted 28 days before vacating the title on December 5, 2006 and leaving HWA.

Throughout 2007, Parks would primarily wrestle for the NWA New York based promotions – NWA Empire, NWA Upstate and NWA New York.

On May 19, 2007, at the NWA Empire First Anniversary Show, he defeated Brodie Lee to become the NWA Empire Heavyweight Champion.

On October 20, 2007, Parks would also win the vacated NWA National Heavyweight Championship.

Guilmette first wrestled for Ring of Honor on April 13, 2007, defeating Mitch Franklin in a dark match.

On January 16, 2010, Parks began appearing for Empire State Wrestling, losing to Freddie Midnight in his first match.

On September 11, 2010, he would go on to win the ESW Tag Team Championship with Kevin Grace.

Parks and Grace would drop the titles on June 4, 2011, to The Rochester Wrecking Crew.

Years later, he would make his official debut for ROH on June 30, 2012, losing to Adam Cole.

Guilmette would make his first appearance for Combat Zone Wrestling on September 8, 2012, at the promotions annual Down with the Sickness event, defeating Kekoa.

He would go on to make regular appearances for the promotion over the next four years.

On February 16, 2013, Parks made his return, losing to former ROH World Tag Team Champion Charlie Haas.

On the April 6, 2013, episode of Ring of Honor Wrestling, Parks was defeated by Roderick Strong.

On October 11, 2014, he unsuccessfully challenged John McChesney for the PWR Heavyweight Championship in a casket match at PWR Halloween Mayhem.

He continued to wrestle matches for Ring of Honor throughout 2014 and 2015.

On July 18, 2015, Parks and Cherry Bomb made their debut for Tommy Dreamer's House of Hardcore at the ninth HOH event in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

They would appear at the next four HOH events, starting a feud with Dreamer and Mickie James in the process.

Parks made his final appearance for Ring of Honor on September 26, 2015, losing to Caprice Coleman on the ROH Reloaded Tour.

In 2015, Parks and his wife Cherry Bomb would align themselves with BLK Jeez, and form the villainous stable known as TV Ready.

On December 12, 2015, at CZW's seventeenth annual Cage of Death event, TV Ready would go on to win the CZW World Tag Team Championship, defeating Dan Barry and Sozio.

First appearing at the 2015 One Night Only event X-Travaganza 2015, losing against Kenny King and Jay Rios, he would next appear on 2015's Gut Check PPV, losing to Drew Galloway.

On May 14, 2016, TV Ready lost the CZW World Tag Team Championship to Da Hit Squad at Prelude to Violence 2016, the match was also Parks' final appearance for CZW after signing with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

On September 10, 2016, Guilmette returned to CZW using his Braxton Sutter ring name for their annual Down with the Sickness event, teaming with BLK Jeez as TV Ready to challenge for the CZW World Tag Team Championship against Da Hit Squad, in a losing effort.

Guilmette initially appeared in Impact Wrestling through the company's One Night Only PPV's under his Pepper Parks ring name.

The following year on January 8, 2016; Parks appeared for the company again in the first One Night Only PPV of the year losing to Trevor Lee.

He appeared for the company again for the January 19 edition of Impact Wrestling, where he suffered a loss against Mike Bennett.

On March 23, Impact Wrestling announced that Guilmette had signed a contract.

On the June 7 edition of Impact Wrestling, he made his Impact debut under the name Braxton Sutter, defeating local independent wrestler Bill Callous in a singles match.

On June 12, 2016, at Slammiversary, Sutter wrestled James Storm in a losing effort.