Kris Travis

Trained in Sheffield by Alan Johnson,[1] Travis began competing on shows in the North of England in 2002. His earliest successes came in Grand Pro Wrestling, where he held the GPW Tag Team Championship with Scotty Hexx in an early incarnation of the popular Project Ego team, and in Norton British Wrestling, where he held the NBW Cruiserweight Championship. He received further training from Stixx and Keith Myatt, which he believed helped him get onto bigger shows.[9]

In the late 2000s, Travis added Martin Kirby to the Project Ego team. The duo found some notable success, winning the RDW Tag Team Championships, the 1PW Tag Team Championships, the 3CW Tag Team Championships, the IPW:UK Tag Team Championships and the RPW Undisputed British Tag Team Championship.[10][11] They would also compete for notable promotions like PROGRESS Wrestling, Insane Championship Wrestling, Premier British Wrestling and more.[12][13]

Travis also had singles success, most notably in Preston City Wrestling. On 17 August 2012, Kravis defeated Lionheart to win the PCW Heavyweight Championship.[14] He also had the opportunity to compete outside of the UK for Westside Xtreme Wrestling in Germany, in a triple threat with BxB Hulk and John Klinger.[15] He competed on one occasion for Total Nonstop Action, while taking part in their British Boot Camp television series.[16][17]

Travis was forced to take a hiatus from wrestling due to a diagnosis of stomach cancer in September, 2014.[18] Wrestlers such as CM Punk, Colt Cabana, William Regal and Chris Jericho gave words of support.[19] During this time he worked with cancer charities to raise funds[20] and made a couple of non-wrestling appearances at shows.[21]

In June 2015, it was announced that Travis had beaten cancer and would be returning to the ring.[22][23][24][25][26] He wrestled Sha Samuels for PCW in his return match[27] on 7 August 2015, before capturing the PWE Tag Team Championship with Lou King Sharp[28] in Scotland .[29]

He was victorious in singles competition against Chris Tyler for HOPE Wrestling in Nottingham[30] and against his Project Ego partner Martin Kirby at Attack! Pro Wrestling in Cardiff, Wales.[31] Travis also returned to Southside Wrestling Entertainment alongside Martin Kirby at the 9 August 2015 show, where the pair were revealed as the surprise final entrant in a tag-team gauntlet match for the SWE Tag Team Championships which Travis and Kirby won for the first time that night.[32]

In one of the bigger singles matches of his career, Travis was defeated by Drew Galloway in an ICW World Heavyweight Championship match in Edinburgh.[33] Travis' final match, was a victory over Marty Scurll at PROGRESS' Chapter 21: You Know We Don't Like to Use the Sit Down Gun on 6 September 2015.[34]