T. J. Perkins

TJ Perkins
TJ Perkins
	File:Puma tna.jpg
Born	Kansas City, Missouri
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Pinoy Boy; PUMA; T.J. Perkins; Cobra II; Puma
Billed height	5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Billed weight	172 lb (78 kg)
Billed from	Philippines
Trained by	Kevin Quinn; American Dragon

T.J. Perkins is an American professional wrestler from Southern California.He has recently signed a contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). Perkins also wrestles under the alias Pinoy Boy, and most notably, the mask-wearing PUMA.

Career

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).

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). He also competed and received training in the Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre.

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.