Gilbert Cosme

Ricky Banderas
Geboren am	Vorlage:Birth date and age Bayamón, Puerto Rico
Wrestling-Daten
Ringname(n)	Asesor Cibernetica Judas Mesias El Mesias Muerte Cibernetica Ricky Banderas
Körpergröße	6 ft. 1 in. (185 cm)
Kampfgewicht	245 lb. (111 kg)
Angekündigt aus	The Depths of Hell (as Judas Mesias) Bayamón, Puerto Rico (as Ricky Banderas)
Debüt	1997

Gilbert Cosme (born May 25 1975 in Bayamón, Puerto Rico) better known by his ring name Ricky Banderas, is a Puerto Rican professional wrestler. He began his career in the International Wrestling Association based on Puerto Rico. While performing in the company, he won the IWA World Heavyweight Championship on five instances and held minor championships on fifteen separate occasions, before leaving the company in 2006.

On March 12 2006 he debuted in Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, a promotion based in Mexico as a character named Muerte Cibernetica and was involved in an angle where this character was "killed". In November 2006, Cosme was involved in the tapings of the Wrestling Society X television series, where he was the second and last wrestler to win the WSX Championship. Following a month of performing in the International Wrestling Association, Cosme returned to Asistencia Asesoría y Administración in a a special event presented by the company, this time under the ring name of Mesias. In September 2007, the company organized a unification tournament where all of the champions and first contenders participated. Over the course of the tournament, he won the GPCW Super-X Monster Championship and IWC World Heavyweight Championship, and on the tournament's finale, he became the first wrestler to win the AAA World Heavyweight Championship. While working in Mexico, Cosme signed a contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling where he debuted as Judas Mesias on September 13 2007.

Career

International Wrestling Association (1999–2006)

Cosme debuted in the International Wrestling Association (IWA) in 1999. He was given the gimmick of "El Patriota" Ricky Banderas, a name that, according to Cosme, was created by fusing the artistic names of Latin musician Ricky Martín and actor Antonio Banderas. Following a period of teaming with Los Boricuas, his character was teamed with Germán Figueroa under the gimmick of Gran Apolo and formed a tag team dubbed La Nueva Generacion, which won the IWA Tag Team Championship three times. On August 21 2000, in a show in Levittown, Puerto Rico, Cosme's character turned on Gran Apolo. Following this, he joined the company's dominant heel stable, Los Intocables, along with Miguel Pérez and Jesús Castillo. After the stable's dissolution, he was involved in another stable named Starr Corporation, where after Cosme's insistence his character became darker and was renamed "El Mesias" Ricky Banderas. Following this, he was teamed up with Shane Sewell in a stable known as Los Hermanos en Dolor. He won the IWA heavyweight title for a third time on June 15 2002 and remained champion until Ramón Gonzalez debuted with the company under the gimmick of "Rey Fenix" in a match that he describes as the best match he has wrestled to date.

Cosme's gimmick underwent another change when it joined then-dominant heel stable "La Compania" lead by Savio Vega. This was followed by his fourth title run after he defeated Gran Apolo on January 6 2003. He was booked as a heel until October 9 2003 when Vega's group turned on him. Following this, he feuded with Chris Kindred under his "Slash Venom" gimmick, which peaked when Ian Richard Hodgkinson was brought by the company to form a stable which feuded with Gran Apolo and Venom. In 2004, he feuded with Hangman Hughes, Kasey James, El Diamante, and Bison Smith. In 2005, he turned heel again, this time leading a stable known as La Cruz del Diablo which feuded with other groups led by Savio Vega and Ray Gonzales. Following an angle where he feuded over a number-one contender spot, Cosme departed from the company and signed a contract to wrestle in Mexico.

Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (2006–present)

Following the culmination of his contract with the International Wrestling Association, Cosme signed a contract with Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA). Where he debuted on March 12 2006 as “Muerte Cibernetica” a heel enforcer supposedly brought to the company by Octavio López Arriola under his “Cibernetico” gimmick to feud with “La Parka”. This gimmick consisted of Cosme wearing a traditional Mexican wrestling mask, often a modified version of the one used by “La Parka”. This character was placed in a feud with “La Parka”, which lasted several months. This angle came to a conclusion at Triplemania XIV, where Cosme’s character was booked to lose a Mask vs. Mask match.

Following a legitimate injury suffered by López, Cosme’s gimmick was slightly changed, as he was renamed “Asesor Cibernetica” and entered into an angle where he pursued the leadership of Cibernetico’s stable, which then went by the name of La Secta Cibernetica. The character was booked to be the leader of the stable after supposedly convincing several members of the group. The events of the angle were used to hype an eventual feud between López and Cosme’s characters that took place in January 2007. In the angle, “Asesor Cibernetica” won the first encounter between the two with help of his stable. The angle culminated in a Casket match between the two characters. Cibernetico was booked to win the match and subsequently “kill” his opponent by throwing him into the ocean. This was used to explain Cosme’s absence when he departed from the company to wrestle in the International Wrestling Association.

Following a month of performing in Puerto Rico, Cosme returned to Asistencia Asesoría y Administración in an annual event entitled Rey de Reyes under a new gimmick by the name of Mesias. From then on, he started to get a bigger push as a main event heel, feuding with Cibernetico and his stable "Hell brothers". During the feud, Cosme was both leader of "La secta" and member of "La legion extranjera". Later, Cosme took both the IWC heavyweight championship from Cibernetico and the GPCW SUPER-X Monster Title from "La Parka". As Mesias, he became the first wrestler to win the AAA World Heavyweight Championship in AAA's pay-per-view event Verano de Escandalo after defeating Chessman by disqualification. On November 29 2007, he successfully defended the company's championship in a triple threat match at a pay-per-view titled Guerra de Titanes.

Wrestling Society X (2006)

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Banderas sets Vampiro's face on fire.

Cosme participated as "Banderas" in the Wrestling Society X television series (taped in Los Angeles, California), with the gimmick of a disgruntled and kayfabe disfigured man pursuing a feud with "Vampiro". The feud commenced after "Banderas" threw a fireball at Vampiro's face, which resulted in MTV pulling the episode from its original airdate, with concerns that viewers would try it at home. The episode later aired in edited form on February 27 2007.

The pursuit of Vampiro was explained in the following episode in a promo where Banderas claimed that Vampiro rigged a casket with explosives during a match, with the explosion resulting in the damage done to his face. On the eighth episode (which was taped on November 15 2006) of the series, Banderas won the WSX Championship in his debut match for the promotion. Beforehand, he was involved in a series of brawls with Youth Suicide (who was believed to be an ally of Vampiro), as well as an allusion to a partnership with 6-Pac.

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2007–present)

As noted on the "TNA Mobile" service, Cosme signed a contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). Cosme was billed as James Mitchell's kayfabe son. Beginning on July 1 2007, vignettes began to air for this "monster-like" character. His name was eventually billed as Judas Mesias. At No Surrender, he pulled Abyss under the ring by cutting a hole through it with a knife and pulling him underneath. On the September 13 2007 edition of iMPACT, during a submission match between Abyss and Kurt Angle in the Six Sides of Steel, Cosme made his official debut, climbing up from underneath the ring and viciously attacking Abyss. On the September 20 edition of iMPACT, Cosme defeated Eric Young in his debut match in TNA. Later in the same show, he was seen choking Sting with a rope tied in a noose.

On September 21 2007 it was reported that Cosme was suffering from sciatica and that the condition's treatment required several weeks of rest, followed by physical therapy to recover. This injury was the result of a fall from a ladder at a titular match at AAA's Verano de Escandalo pay-per-view, which also knocked him out.

He returned on the December 13 2007 episode of iMPACT! where he attacked Abyss by strangling him with a piece of barbed wire, which he also used to cut his forehead open, and repeatedly hit him in the head with a chair. He finished his assault by deliver his finisher to Abyss on the same chair. In his TNA pay-per-view debut, Mesias defeated Abyss at Final Resolution after hitting Abyss with the Straight to Hell facebuster onto a barbed wire steel chair.

In wrestling

• Finishing and signature moves
  • La Patriota (Sharpshooter) - AAA
  • Straight to Hell (Leaping reverse STO) - TNA
  • Frog splash
  • Dragon suplex
  • Cradle piledriver
  • Electric chair drop
  • Superkick
  • Samoan drop
  • Shoulderbreaker
  • Reverse figure four leglock
  • Sitout facebuster
  • Spinebuster
  • Spear

• Managers
  • James Mitchell

Championships and accomplishments

• Asistencia Asesoría y Administración
  • AAA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time, current) (First)
  • GPCW Super-X Monster Championship (1 time, current)
  • IWC World Heavyweight Championship (1 time, current)
• International Wrestling Association
  • IWA Hardcore Championship (9 times)
  • IWA Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
  • IWA World Heavyweight Championship (5 times)
  • IWA World Tag Team Championship (5 times) – with Gran Apolo (3), Glamour Boy Shane (1) and Cruzz (1)
• Wrestling Society X
  • WSX Championship (1 time) (Last)