Eddie Edwards (wrestler)

This article is about the professional wrestler. For other uses, see Eddie Edwards (disambiguation).

Eddie Edwards
Edwards in 2015
Birth nameEric Maher
Born (1983-12-30) December 30, 1983 (age 40)[1]
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Spouse(s)
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(m. 2015)​
Children1
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Eddie Edwards
John Cahill[2]
Billed height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[3][4]
Billed weight214 lb (97 kg)[3][5]
Billed fromBoston, Massachusetts[4][5]
Trained byKiller Kowalski
Slyck Wagner Brown
Debut2002[5]

Eric Maher[6] (born December 30, 1983) is an American professional wrestler who is known by the ring name Eddie Edwards. He is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). He is a member of The System.

In TNA, Edwards is a former two-time TNA World Champion, two-time TNA X Division Champion and a seven-time TNA World Tag Team Champion, where he won it five times with Davey Richards and twice with Brian Myers.

Edwards has also wrestled for Ring of Honor (ROH), where he is a former World Champion, the inaugural Television Champion and a two-time World Tag Team Champion with his partner Davey Richards as the American Wolves. He won ROH's Survival of the Fittest tournament in November 2010 which propelled him to win the World Championship. His World Championship victory made him the first wrestler to win the ROH Triple Crown and the first wrestler to ever hold both the TNA and ROH Triple Crowns. He was also a regular for the Southern California-based promotion Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) and has made several tours of Japan with Pro Wrestling Noah, where he is a former GHC Heavyweight Champion, making him the first gaijin to hold that title.

Between TNA, ROH and Noah, Edwards has won 15 total championships (including four world championships) and is the only wrestler to have held the TNA, ROH and GHC world championships.

  1. ^ "Eddie Edwards: Profile & Match Listing - Internet Wrestling Database (IWD)". www.profightdb.com.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference NXT name was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b "Eddie Edwards". ImpactWrestling.
  4. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference PWGroster was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ a b c "Eddie Edwards profile". Ring of Honor. Archived from the original on June 16, 2012. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
  6. ^ Saalbach, Axel. "Wrestlingdata.com - The World's Largest Wrestling Database". wrestlingdata.com.