Chris Youngblood

Chris Romero
Chris Romero
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Born	1967
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Chris Youngblood; Pronto; "The Visionary"; Brave Sky; Medicine Man; "El Crusader"
Billed height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Billed weight	[undue weight? – discuss]
Trained by	"Rapid" Ricky Romero
Debut	1985
Retired	April 28, 2007

Chris Romero is a semi-retired second generation professional wrestler who is better known as Chris Youngblood.

Rise to Fame

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.

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. During this time Chris had a feud with a young up and coming Stone Cold Steve Austin.

World Championship Wrestling

FMW Japan

In the late 1990s Chris began using the name "The Visionary" Chris Romero. Chris completed many Japanese tours as a singles competitor where he gained victories over ECW's own, Rob Van Dam. Chris later 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. The two were constant top runners for the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Titles until Chris went into semi-retirement in late 1999 due to an agonizing hip injury.

Semi-Retirement

Chris has done work in numerous independent promotions across the State of Texas including the Texas based NWA Southwest where Chris was at one point in top contention for the NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship. During this time he also teamed up with his nephew "Radical" Ricky Romero III against numerous teams including The Lone Star Connection. In 2005 Chris began booking shows and wrestling part-time for Panhandle Wrestling Federation, later renamed West Texas Wrestling Legends, an independent promotion exclusive to Amarillo, Texas.

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

A few months later in April of 2007, Chris began running Romero Academy of Wrestling out of the Amarillo based Wrestleplex. The Wrestleplex was also home to the newly renamed Professional Wrestling Federation (formerly known as West Texas Wrestling Legends) where Chris was also the booker and manager to a stable known as "Bloodline." Bloodline was the first stable of its kind consisting only of second and third generation superstars "Radical" Ricky Romero III, Cody Jones and Mike DiBiase Jr. Then four months after PWF's resurrection, Chris Romero resigned from the promotion on August 14, 2007. With him he took the top tier title of the PWF, the West Texas Wrestling Legends Heritage Championship, which he owned. A couple of weeks after leaving PWF, Chris made a rare wrestling appearance on August 29, 2007 in Socorro, NM at New Mexico Tech for the locally based L.A.W where he defeated up and comer Nick A. Demus in a match that saw Chris seriously injure his knee.

Chris Romero continues to run Romero Academy of Wrestling and is starting his own independent wrestling promotion named Renegade Outlaw Wrestling, which will run shows every Friday night at the Aztec Music Hall in Amarillo, TX starting October of 2007.