Brody King


Nate Blauvelt is an American professional wrestler and musician known by his ring name Brody King. He is currently signed to Ring of Honor and New Japan Pro-Wrestling as part of the Villain Enterprises faction with Marty Scurll, PCO, and Flip Gordon. Outside of those two companies, he also appears for Pro Wrestling Guerilla.
King is a former triple champion across three promotions - a co-holder of the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship with PCO and Scurll in their first reign, a former co-holder of the NWA World Tag Team Championship with PCO, and a former co-holder of Australia's World Series Wrestling Tag Team Championship with Scurll. King and PCO are also former ROH World Tag Team Champions, and winners of ROH's 2019 Tag Wars tournament, and the 2019 Crockett Cup.
He has also wrestled for Major League Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, and various independent promotions. He is also the lead vocalist of the band God's Hate.

Professional wrestling career

Early career

King was trained by the Santinos Bros Academy in Bell Gardens, California, debuting in 2015. In 2016, King participated in the All Pro Wrestling' Young Lions Cup, winning the tournament.

Major League Wrestling (2017–2018)

King made his debut for Major League Wrestling at their Never Say Never show on December 12, 2017, losing to Montel Vontavious Porter. Three months later, he would be eliminated in the first round of the MLW World Heavyweight Championship tournament by Shane Strickland. Then he would participate in the 40-man Battle Riot match, where he would be eliminated. On September 6, 2018, King wrestled his first match against PCO in MLW. The match resulted in a brawl and a double disqualification after around five minutes. His final match for MLW was on the Christmas 2018 edition of MLW Fusion, a taped match from their November tapings, where he lost a no-disqualification match to PCO ending their feud.

Independent circuit (2018–present)

In 2018, he made his debut for Pro Wrestling Guerilla at Neon Knights, losing to Adam Brooks. At Time Is A Flat Circle he defeated Douglas James, Eli Everly and Jake Atlas in a Fatal-4-Way match. He received a title shot against then-champion Walter at Tremendous V which he lost, but his performance was highly praised. He participated in the 2018 Battle of Los Angeles tournament where he defeated PCO in the first round, but was defeated by Trevor Lee in the second round. At their following event he lost to Timothy Thatcher. Brody King wrestled next for PWG at their January 18, 2019 show Hand of Doom. He defeated Jungle Boy, the son of Beverly Hills 90210 actor Luke Perry at the event.
On August 31, 2018, at All American Wrestling's AAW Defining Moment 2018 King won the AAW Heavyweight Championship from ACH. He would successfully defend the title against Pentagon Jr. and Eddie Kingston before losing the title to Sami Callihan on December 29, 2018. On November 16 and 17 King appeared on two Game Changer Wrestling events. The first night he defeated Hardcore Holly and the second night he lost a GCW Heavyweight Championship match against Nick Gage. In November 2018, King allied with Marty Scurll during a World Series Wrestling's tour, forming a tag team known as Villain Enterprises. They would win the WSW Tag Team Championship during that same tour. His last match of 2018 would be for Suburban Fight Pro against Darby Allin.
Along with PCO, King participated in the 2019 Crockett Cup tournament. King and PCO defeated Royce Isaacs and Thomas Laitmer in the finals to win the cup and the vacant NWA World Tag Team Championship.

Ring of Honor (2018–present)

On December 1, 2018, King signed an exclusive deal with Ring of Honor. He debuted for ROH at the December 15 tapings, forming Villain Enterprises with Scurll and PCO.
King and PCO would then go on to with the 2019 ROH Tag Wars Tournament, and on March 15, they defeated The Briscoe Brothers in a Las Vegas street fight to win the ROH World Tag Team Championship at the ROH 17th Anniversary Show. The following night, King, PCO, and Scurll defeated The Kingdom for the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship during the Ring of Honor Wrestling tapings. This made King a double champion in ROH within a 24 hour span.

New Japan Pro Wrestling (2019–present)

His contract with ROH opened the door for him to make his debut for New Japan Pro-Wrestling. His debut match happened on January 30, 2019 in a tag team match with Scurll against Killer Elite Squad at NJPW's the New Beginning in USA event. On February 2, he wrestled on the final day of the tour, going against ROH Television Champion Jeff Cobb. His next appearance for them would be in Japan, during the Best of the Super Juniors 2019 tour. He would team with Scurll to defeat Taiji Ishimori and Gedo.

Other media

In music, King is the lead vocalist of the band God's Hate.

Championships and accomplishments