Fergal Devitt

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Fergal Devitt
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Fergal Devitt Pegasus Kid II Prince Devitt
Billed height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Billed weight	91 kg (200 lb)
Born	July 25, 1981 (1981-07-25) (age 26) Dublin, Ireland
Resides	Wicklow, Ireland
Trained by	NWA UK Hammerlock Andre Baker
Debut	2000

Fergal Devitt (born July 25, 1981) is an Irish professional wrestler currently contracted by New Japan Pro Wrestling. He is better known by his ring name, Prince Devitt, as well as the alter ego of Pegasus Kid II.

1 Career
2 In Wrestling
3 Championships and accomplishments

[edit] Career

[edit] Early Career

Devitt always had a dream of becoming a professional wrestler. He fulfilled this dream when he debuted for NWA UK Hammerlock in 2000 at the relatively young age of eighteen, soon winning the NWA British Commonwealth Heavyweight Championship. After graduating, his wrestling career started quickly, and he started touring Ireland, the United Kingdom, and even the United States. In mid-2002 Devitt opened up NWA Ireland, his own wrestling club in Ireland along with his co-promoter and fellow graduate of NWA UK Hammerlock, Paul Tracey; the company became the sister promotion of British counterpart under the same banner. On October 8, 2005, in Nashville Tennessee, at the NWA 57th anniversary show, Fergal Devitt defeated Dru Onyx for his second British Commonwealth title. After the match both participants were invited to the New Japan Inoki Dojo in Santa Monica California to train in the Japanese style of pro wrestling, In November 2005 he started the training, where he continued to study in the art of professional wrestling. After impressing many promoters and trainers, he was invited to train in New Japan's main dojo in Japan, where, in early 2006, he began training in the Japanese style of professional wrestling.

[edit] New Japan Pro Wrestling

In April 2006, he made his New Japan Pro Wrestling debut against El Samurai, becoming the first foreign wrestler in many years to graduate from New Japan's world famous dojo. Although still relatively young, Devitt has made remarkably quick progress and has been compared by many to another New Japan foreign dojo graduate - Chris Benoit. In May 2006, New Japan started doing some brand-exclusive events, and Devitt debuted for their WRESTLE LAND promotion as Pegasus Kid II, an homage to the man he had been recently compared to in Chris Benoit.

During his tour of New Japan in late August/early September, he started competing under his real identity as an Irish superstar. He eventually turned heel and started teaming with the Control Terrorism Unit (CTU) in an apprentice-type role. While teaming with CTU, he began a losing streak, aggravating his fellow teammates to such a degree that they didn't want anything to do with him anymore. This led to him being given one final chance on October 6, where he rose to the occasion and impressed his CTU teammates enough to continue his association with them. To solidify his status with the stable, Devitt teamed with CTU leader, Jushin Liger to take on Wataru Inoue & Ryusuke Taguchi. In a huge twist, Devitt was the one to make the final cover on Inoue following a stiff brainbuster. From then on he was officially recognised as a member of the CTU.

His momentum was halted in January 2007, when he suffered a serious knee injury, sidelining him from action in New Japan until early May of that year. Since then, he has returned to action, showing great improvement and has been recently touted by fellow CTU teammate, Minoru, to win the 2007 Best of The Super Jr's Tournament in June 2007. However, this was not meant to be, as Devitt scored no points in the event. In November of 2007, TNA made a tour of NJPW, where Senshi and Christopher Daniels defeated Devitt and Minoru.

In January of 2008, Devitt and Minoru won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team titles together, Devitt's first major title reign.

[edit] NWA International

He entered the tournament for the National Wrestling Alliance called Recaliming the Glory in June of 2007 to crown a new NWA World Heavyweight Champion after the title was stripped from TNA. In the first round he faced Australian wrestler Mikey Nicholls to obtain the victory, but lost in the second round to Bryan Danielson.