American professional wrestler
Anthony Greene is an American
professional wrestler currently performing in the Japanese promotion
Pro Wrestling Noah as a freelancer. He also known for his time in
WWE where he mainly performed in the
205 Live brand under the
ring name of August Grey .
[3]
Professional wrestling career
American independent scene (2012–2022)
Northeast Championship Wrestling (2012–2021)
Greene made his
professional wrestling debut in Northeast Championship Wrestling, at NCW Meltdown , an event promoted on July 14, 2012, where he defeated Jack Krueger in singles competition in a match with
J. T. Dunn serving as special guest referee.
[4] He won two of the promotion's titles, the NCW Tag Team Championship once with Mike Paiva and the NCW Heavyweight Championship.
[5] He seldomly took part in various match gimmicks such as
Rumble matches . He competed in one of these bouts at NCW Big City Rumble 2014 on August 8. The match was won by GA West.
[6]
Other promotions
Due to mainly competing as a freelancer, Greene is known for working in various promotion of the
American independent scene . Greene worked for
Tommy Dreamer 's promotion of
House of Hardcore in 2014, getting booked for
a few shows .
[7] At
Chikara 's 2018 edition of the
Young Lions Cup from March 17, Greene competed in a first-round
four-way match won by Cajun Crawdad and also involving Gabby Ortiz and Super Beetle.
[8] On the second night of
Ring of Honor and
New Japan Pro Wrestling co-hosted event of
Global Wars 2018 , Greene teamed up with Brad Hollister and Brad Johnson and fell short to Shinobi Shadow Squad (
Cheeseburger ,
Eli Isom and Ryan Nova) in a dark match.
[9] At EVOLVE 145 , an event promoted by
Evolve on February 29, 2020, Greene unsuccessfully challenged
Josh Briggs for the
Evolve Championship .
[10] Greene also collaborated with other promotions from under
WWNLive 's jurisdiction such as
Full Impact Pro . He won the
FIP Florida Heritage Championship at WWN Supershow: Battle Of The Belts on November 14, 2021, by defeating Troy Hollywood.
[11] He competed at
Impact Wrestling #961 episode from December 10, 2022, where he fell short to
Mike Bailey .
[12]
Chaotic Wrestling (2013–2019)
Greene is best known for his time in
Chaotic Wrestling . During his ten-year plus tenure with the company, he won all the eligible titles promoted by it (excepting the
Television and
Light Heavyweight titles) which were short lived). The first championship he won was the
Chaotic Wrestling Tag Team Championship , which he accomplished alongside his "The Cam-An Connection" tag team partner Cam Zagami by defeating
freebird champions The Mill City Hooligans (Bryan Logan, Chase Del Monte and Matt Logan) at Cold Fury 16: Unstoppable on March 17, 2017.
[13]
[14] The second title he won was the
New England Championship , which he accomplished at a
house show promoted on August 3, 2018.
[15] To complete the Triple Crown task, Greene won the
Heavyweight title on July 19, 2019, at CW Elevated by defeating
Christian Casanova .
Combat Zone Wrestling (2017–2020)
Greene shared a three-year tenure with the
hardcore wrestling promotion
Combat Zone Wrestling . He made his first appearance at CZW Dojo Wars #154 on November 29, 2017, where he unsuccessfully challenged Mike Del for the
CZW Medal of Valor Championship .
[16] Greene is known for competing in various of the promotion's signature events. One of them is
CZW Cage of Death , in which he made his first appearance at the XX edition from December 9, 2018, where he picked up a victory over
David Starr .
[17] He also competed at the XXI edition, the last before the closure of the series from December 14, 2019, where he teamed up with Ava Everett to defeat
Alex Reynolds and John Sterling in an
interdenger tag team match .
[18] As for the
CZW Best of the Best , Greene made his only appearance at Best of the Best 18 from April 13, 2019, where he competed twice. First in a Best of the Best 18 quarterfinal
4-Way match for the
CZW World Heavyweight Championship where he defeated
B-Boy , Anthony Gangone, and reigning champion
Mance Warner to win the title, and secondly, in singles competition against David Starr for the same title which he dropped to the latter.
[19]
WWE (2020–2021)
Greene shared a brief tenure with
WWE where he competed in the
205 Live and
NXT brands. He made his debut in 205 Live on October 16, 2020, where he fell short to
Ariya Daivari in singles competition.
[20] He competed in the 2021 edition of the
Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic , where he teamed up with Curt Stallion and fell short to
Drake Maverick and
Killian Dain in the first rounds from January 15.
[21] His most notable work in
NXT took place at
WarGames 2020 on December 6, where he teamed up with Curt Stallion and Ashante Adonis, falling short to
Legado del Fantasma (
Santos Escobar ,
Raul Mendoza and
Joaquin Wilde ).
[22] Greene got released by WWE on June 25, 2021.
[23]
All Elite Wrestling (2021–2022)
Shortly after his WWE release, Greene started competing in
All Elite Wrestling , where he worked mainly on
AEW Dark ,
[24]
[25] but also appeared on
AEW Dynamite on September 29, 2021.
[26]
Pro Wrestling Noah (2022–present)
Greene made his debut in
Pro Wrestling Noah at NOAH Sunny Voyage 2022 on July 10, where he defeated Stallion Rogers.
[27] He soon started competing in various of the promotion's
flagship events . His first presence at a major
pay-per-view took place at
Destination 2022 on July 16, where he teamed up with
El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. ,
René Duprée ,
Simon Gotch and Stallion Rogers to defeat
Daiki Inaba ,
Kazushi Sakuraba , Kinya Okada,
Masaaki Mochizuki and
Shuhei Taniguchi in a
ten-man tag team match .
[28] At
Departure 2022 on August 5, Greene teamed up with Stallion Rogers in a losing effort against
Kongo (
Katsuhiko Nakajima and
Manabu Soya ).
[29] After a three-month hiatus with the company, Greene returned on January 22, 2023, at
The Great Muta Final "Bye-Bye" , where he was presented as one of the newly founded "
Good Looking Guys " stable members. He teamed up with
Jake Lee and
Jack Morris to defeat
Masa Kitamiya , Daiki Inaba and
Yoshiki Inamura .
[30] On the first night of the
Star Navigation 2023 event from February 5, Greene teamed up with Lee and Morris again, this time coming up short against
Kaito Kiyomiya ,
Naomichi Marafuji and
Takashi Sugiura .
[31] On the second night from March 9, he teamed up with Lee to defeat Kaito Kiyomiya and
Atsushi Kotoge .
[32] At
Great Voyage in Osaka 2023 on February 12, Greene and Lee fell short to
Kongo (
Kenoh and Manabu Soya).
[33] At
Keiji Muto Grand Final Pro-Wrestling "Last" Love on February 21, 2023, Greene teamed up with Jake Lee and Jack Morris to defeat
Sugiura-gun (Takashi Sugiura,
Timothy Thatcher ) and
Satoshi Kojima .
[34] At
Great Voyage in Yokohama 2023 on March 19, Greene teamed up with Morris to defeat Naomichi Marufuji and El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr.
[35] At
Green Journey in Sendai 2023 on April 16, Greene outmatched Daishi Ozawa in singles action.
[36]
Greene competed in one of the promotion's signature tournaments, the
N-1 Victory in which he made his first appearance at the 2022 edition, placing himself in the Block B where he scored a total of two points after going against
Hideki Suzuki ,
Kazuyuki Fujita , Kenoh,
Go Shiozaki , El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr.,
Masato Tanaka and
Masaaki Mochizuki .
[37] On September 24 at
Grand Ship In Nagoya , Greene and Jack Morris defeated Real (
Timothy Thatcher and
Saxon Huxley ) to win the
GHC Tag Team Championship .
[38]
Championships and accomplishments
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