Jay Bradley

Brad Bradley
Brad Bradley
Born	November 17, 1980 (age 43); DeKalb, Illinois
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Brad Bradley; Bradley Jay; Jay Bradley; Ryan Braddock
Billed from	Chicago, Illinois
Trained by	Steel Domain Wrestling; Ace Steel; Danny Dominion; Kevin Quinn; Deep South Wrestling, LLC
Debut	1999

Brad Bradley (born November 17 1980) is a professional wrestler under contract to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestling for its SmackDown brand as well as the ECW brand as Ryan Braddock

Career

Early career

Bradley started his wrestling training at the Steel Domain Wrestling school in Chicago, where he trained alongside such wrestlers as CM Punk and Colt Cabana. Bradley suffered several setbacks in his career as he suffered from an overactive thyroid, which would cause him to fall asleep during matches.^[2] He worked for several independent promotions in the Mid-West, most notably for IWA Mid-South, before signing a developmental contract with World Wrestling Entertainment.

World Wrestling Entertainment

Deep South Wrestling

Bradley signed a World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) developmental contract in December 2005^[1]. He debuted in then WWE developmental territory Deep South Wrestling (DSW) as "The Monster of the Midway" Bradley Jay. During his time in DSW he won the Deep South Heavyweight Championship on several different occasions. Meanwhile he also wrestled dark matches for both the RAW and SmackDown! brand shows. Occasionally, he made appearances on Heat as well. When WWE ended their relationship with DSW he was then sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling to continue his development. He was the last reigning Deep South Heavyweight Champion to date.

Ohio Valley Wrestling

On May 16 he debuted in Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) under the name Jay Bradley. On May 19 he had his first televised match defeating former OVW Heavyweight Champion, Chet the Jett. He defeated Paul Burchill and Idol Stevens in a three-way match via two Lariats to win the OVW Heavyweight Championship on June 1 at OVW's first Summer Sizzler Series event at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky to become the first man to hold both the OVW and DSW heavyweight titles. On June 15, 2007 at Ohio Valley Wrestling's third Super Summer Sizzler Series event of the year at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky, he defeated Idol Stevens to retain the OVW title. He then lost the title to Paul Burchill in a match taped on June 27th and aired on June 30th. He has also wrestled at RAW house shows on August 11th and 12th and September 1st (losing to "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan). He also did a dark match against D'Lo Brown before the SmackDown! taping during August 2007. On December 22, in OVW, he won the "Love Thy Neighbor" four corners tag team match to win a future OVW Heavyweight title shot.

He then was starting a feud with Matt Sydal and had defeated him in a tag team match where he and Mike Kruel defeated Sydal and Charles Evans. Unfortunately, before Bradley could exercise his title opportunity, OVW was dropped by the World Wrestling Entertainment as a devolpement territory which means that he will move to Florida Championship Wrestling.

SmackDown

On the August 15 edition of SmackDown, Bradley debuted under the name Ryan Braddock as a heel and was defeated in easy fashion by then-babyface, Big Show after a knockout hook. At the August 14, 2008 Florida Championship Wrestling TV tapings, Bradley wrestled under the Ryan Braddock name once again, making it his permanent and new ring name. On the August 22 edition of SmackDown, Braddock competed in a battle royal to qualify for the WWE Championship Scramble match at Unforgiven but was eliminated by Big Show, who was not offically in the match. On the September 2 edition of ECW, Braddock faced Ricky Ortiz in a losing effort after being pinned by Ortiz's Big O finisher.On September 19 ,Braddock ended up getting duct tape and bubble wrapped after his match against Festus