Ace Austin | |
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![]() Austin in 2019 | |
Birth name | Austin James Highley |
Born | Reading, Pennsylvania | February 28, 1997
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Ace Austin Ace Austin Highley Ace Austin Shakespeare Ryan DePolo[1] RIP Rayzor[2] |
Billed height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm)[3] |
Billed weight | 190 lb (86 kg)[4] |
Billed from | Atlantic City, New Jersey |
Trained by | The Wild Samoans[5] |
Debut | April 4, 2015[6] |
Austin James Highley (born February 28, 1997), better known by the ring name Ace Austin, is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he is one-half of the tag team ABC with Chris Bey. He also makes sporadic appearances for New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a neutral member of Bullet Club.
He began his career in Combat Zone Wrestling[7] after graduating from the "Wild Samoan Pro-Wrestling Training center" wrestling school and has also competed for various promotions throughout the United States and Mexico including Major League Wrestling, Tommy Dreamer's House of Hardcore,[8] Florida-based World Xtreme Wrestling, and Mexico's Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA).[9][10]