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Chris Romero is a retired 2nd generation professional wrestler who is better known as Chris Youngblood.

The Beginning

Chris Romero is the son of Ricky Romero. He began his pro-wrestling training at the age of 13 and made his professional debut as Chris Youngblood in 1985. He started teaming with brother Mark in 1986 upon their older brother Jay's death.

Rise to Fame

Chris and Mark had success in the World Class Championship Wrestling, World Wrestling Council and also as The Tribal Nation in the Global Wrestling Federation and the United States Wrestling Association. In the USWA, Chris turned heel and wrestled for manager Skandor Akbar's "Devastation Inc." as Pronto, a mockery of his American Indian heritage.

Leaving World Wrestling Council

Chris and Mark had a very successful run in being one of the most popular tag teams in WWC and having numerous Tag Title reigns under their belts. But on July 17, 1988 The Romero's were in the locker room when a wrestler named Jose Huertas stabbed and killed The Legendary Bruiser Brody. Huertas went to trial but did not do any jail time for the crime. The WWC did nothing to help convict Huertas and The Romero's left The WWC right after the incident.

World Championship Wrestling & Singles Career

Chris and Mark had a brief stay in World Championship Wrestling as "The Renegade Warriors". Frequently used on WCW TV, he and his brother had numerous feuds with the likes of The Steiner Brothers and The Road Warriors.

As a singles wrestler, Chris gained victories over the likes of Stone Cold Steve Austin and Rob Van Dam.

FMW Japan

In the late 1990's Chris began using the name "The Visionary" Chris Romero and formed a Tag Team in Japan's FMW with "Super" Leatherface. The team got notable wins over Tag Teams like Jado and Gedo, and Masato Tanaka and Iko Kuroda.

Chris went into semi-retirement in 1999.

Semi-Retirement

Chris Romero currently trains students at The Romero Academy of Wrestling in Amarillo, Texas. He also wrestles at a local Amarillo based Independent Federation called West Texas Wrestling Legends where he is also WTWL General Manager.

Chris has also done work in East Texas for NWA Southwest and was always in Top Contention for The NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship. While in During this time he also teamed up with his nephew "Radical" Ricky Romero III against The Lone Star Connection.

In 2006, World Wrestling Entertainment showed interest in hiring Chris as a Producer for training and scouting talent.

On September 9, 2006 a pre-taped promo aired before a live audience in Amarillo, Texas that saw TNA's own Lance Hoyt challenge Romero to a West Texas Death Match with Romero's WTWL Brass Knuckles Title being on the line. The stipulation being that if Hoyt is victorious WTWL's Brass Knuckles Title be renamed The WTWL Hardcore Title.

November 25, 2006 at WTWL's Remember November event, Chris Romero was a special guest referee in the night's Main Event between his nephew "Radical" Ricky Romero III and Widow Maker. The match ended in no contest when Widow Maker and WTWL Champion Thunder and Angel of Death attacked The Romero's. Then the locker room emptied out and made the save.

At WTWL's Season's Beatings II event on December 9, 2006, Chris Romero teaming with his nephew "Radical" Ricky Romero III and "Hobo" Hank defeated the team of Angel of Death, Widow Maker and The WTWL Champion Thunder in a Six Man Tag Team match.

On January 13, 2007 at WTWL's Wrestlution event, Chris Romero was in his brother Mark's corner in the nights Main Event where Mark Romero made a rare in-ring appearance using the famous Youngblood name. Mark defeated WTWL Champion Thunder to gain the title. Afterwards Chris and WTWL's Superstars "Hobo" Hank, Mike DiBiase, Dice Murdock and nephew "Radical" Ricky Romero III celebrated with the new champion.

Retirement

In April of 2007, West Texas Wrestling Legends changed its name to Professional Wrestling Federation and opened up The PWF Wrestleplex, which holds weekly events every Saturday Night. The Wrestleplex is also home to Romero's Academy of Wrestling.

On April 28th in front of a sold-out crowd, an emotional Chris Romero announced his retirement from in-ring wrestling and vacated his PWF Brass Knuckles Championship. The vacated title was put up for grabs later on in the evening in a Triple Threat Match that saw Chuey Martinez defeat PWF Texas Panhandle Champion CoCo "The Latin Sensation" and Tejano Kid to capture the vacated title for the first time. Chris' last match was the night before on April 27th when he teamed up with CoCo in a tag team match against Tejano Kid and Chuey Martinez in The 2007 Tag Team Memorial Cup Tournament for Chris' brother, the late, great Jay Youngblood.

Chris still runs R.A.W (Romero's Academy of Wrestling) and is the head booker for the Amarillo based Professional Wrestling Federation.

Profile

  • Height: 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
  • Weight: 235 lbs.
  • Birthday: 1967
  • Hometown: Amarillo, Texas
  • Trainer: "Rapid" Ricky Romero
  • Debut: 1985
  • Other Gimmicks: Chris Youngblood, Pronto, "The Visionary", Brave Sky, Medicine Man, "El Crusader"
  • Previous Managers: Skandor Akbar, "Rapid" Ricky Romero

Championships and accomplishments

  • 1-time WTWL/PWF Brass Knuckles Champion
  • 1-time WWWA Heavyweight Champion
  • 6-time WWC Tag Team Champion (with Mark Youngblood)
  • 3-time WWC Caribbean Tag Team Champion (with Mark Youngblood)
  • 1-time GWF Tag Team Champion (with Mark Youngblood)
  • 1-time NWA Australasia Tag Team Champion (with Mark Youngblood)
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