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| Born | Kansas City, Missouri |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | T.J. Perkins Cobra II Puma |
| Billed height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) |
| Billed weight | 172 lb (78 kg) |
| Billed from | Parts unknown |
| Trained by | Bill Anderson, Jessie Hernandez, Kevin Quinn, Negro Casas, Antonio Inoki |
| Debut | January 2000 |
T.J. Perkins is an American professional wrestler from Southern California. Perkins wrestles under the alias Pinoy Boy, and most notably, the mask-wearing PUMA.
Career
2005 ECWA Super 8 Tournament
Puma was also involoved in the 2005 Super 8 tournament and made it to the finals, losing to Petey Williams.
Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling
On day two of the 2005 Pacific Cup tournament on April 23, 2005, Aaron Idol beat Puma and Bryan Danielson in a triple threat match in the finals of the Pacific Cup tournament that last 30 minutes. After the match Danielson broke the Pacific Cup trophy and said that ECCW was inferior to New Japan Pro Wrestling. Puma and Danielson then beat down Idol. Promoter Dave Republic then issued a challenge to New Japan and gave Antonio Inoki 30 days to respond. Inoki did not reply and the challenge was then dropped as a result.
Wrestling Society X
On February 9, 2006, PUMA wrestled as part of MTV's inaugural TV taping for their new Wrestling Society X promotion in Los Angeles, California. He's a regular member of the Pro Wrestling Guerrilla roster, where he wrestles as T.J. Perkins (as well as PUMA).
New Japan Pro Wrestling
He also competes as a semi-regular in Japan, working for NJPW, where he owns the record of the youngest non-Japanese wrestler to compete for the promotion (only 18 years and 3 weeks of age).A common misconception is that he was a student of Bryan Danielson at this point, however they were actually training partners along with the Havana Pitbulls. He also competed and received training in the Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre.
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
He has also made appearances as simply Puma with TNA, debuting in 2004, when he worked as a jobber in several TNA Xplosion tapings. He was also the first man eliminated in the 2004 Super X-Cup. His first significant performance in TNA was representing Japan in an "International X Showcase" match at TNA Destination X 2006, facing Petey Williams, Chris Sabin and Sonjay Dutt, but ultimately losing to Sabin. He also competed in an Xscape match at the following month's Lockdown.
Puma would later be a member of Team Mexico in the 2006 World X-Cup, alongside Incognito, Magno and Shocker. In that tournament, he lost a second round match to Team USA captain Chris Sabin, and was the last man eliminated in the third round gauntlet match, by Team Canada captain Petey Williams. Team Mexico finished third of four in the event with four points.
In wrestling
Finishing and signature moves
- Figure Four Deathlock (Leglock cloverleaf)
- Puma Piledriver (Tombstone piledriver)
- 720° DDT (Twisting springboard tornado DDT)
- Puma-Plex (Tiger suplex)
- Tiger feint kick
- Brainbuster
- European uppercut
- Double arm vertical suplex
- Spinning heel-kick
- Fisherman buster
- Various kicks
- Flipping senton
- Baseball slide to headscissors takedown
- Corkscrew tope
Championships and accomplishments
- 1-time APW World Internet Champion
- CMLL Best New Sensation 2003
- CMLL Match of the Year 2003
- UIWA
- 1-time UIWA Lightweight Champion
- Youngest American to wrestle in the Tokyo Dome (18)
- Youngest Gaijin in New Japan history (18 yrs 3 weeks)