Teddy Coronado

Theodore Courtney, better known by his ring name Teddy Coronado, is a semi-retired professional wrestler, trainer, and wrestling promoter best known for his time with Wresting is Reddit!. Teddy began his career as a face, before making a name for himself as a heel, beginning a reign of terror while he held the WiR Independent Championship as the deranged "host of TCTV". Teddy holds the record for longest uninterrupted time as Independent Champion, holding the title for 237 days. Soon after losing the title to Tyler Dylan, Teddy announced his retirement from active competition, moving to a behind-the-scenes role on the newly-founded QWF, serving as a member of the booking team and as a trainer for the company.

Teddy Coronado re-signed with Wrestling is Reddit on April 12th, 2020.

WiR Career
Teddy Coronado has had a wide variance of gimmicks and characters ove the course of his WiR career, beginning as a blue-chip babyface on the developmental territory Sound Off! and then House Party (with his first match ending in controversy, as his grandfather Barry Coronado interfering to give him the win). He made his internet pay-per-view debut on WiR's third anniversary show, simply titled III, in a multi-man tag match. After meager successes, an AMUDOV appearance, and a brief feud with Tyler Dylan, Teddy turned heel by assaulting the Garcias backstage and crippling Felix Garcia. Teddy would then sign a brand-new iron-clad contract with WiR, cementing his place as one of the fastest-rising stars in WiR history.

Teddy would proceed to spend his newfound contractual immunity tormenting House Party General Manager Russell Sharp, but would get his comeuppance when Sharp revealed who his opponent would be: Andrew Garcia. Teddy, to the surprise of all but him and his newly-made entourage, would beat Andrew Garcia at AHDS and have his contract boosted to an even higher level, earning the use of his own ring announcer and a personal referee. For the next month, Teddy would dominate over the meager local talent, destroying them using a combination of his own entourage and by having his personal referee (his uncle, Walt) simply call the matches in his favor. His short reign of terror would be ended by the revelation that Teddy used steel-toed boots to give himself an unfair advantage in his AHDS match, leading to a rematch at Please Don't Torrent This. This rematch would be an I Quit match, where the loser would literally leave the company. In a brutal match, Andrew Garcia refused to lose, fighting off the entourage and overcoming the odds to get revenge on Teddy Coronado, forcing him to say "I quit".

Teddy Coronado's retirement would be short-lived - but his entourage abandoning him and his contract gone, Teddy then transitioned to a new, deranged persona - or personas, no one can say which - that presented itself as the host of a variety of television programming, surrounded by an order of television-headed goons known only as Tedheads. Coronado would lose to Andrew Garcia at Holy Spotfest, Batman!, but his time as host would not end, as only two weeks later, he would emerge to challenge Dalidus Nova for the Independent Championship at House Party. With the distraction of Doctor De La Sangre, Teddy, to the shock of many, would end up as Independent Champion.

Teddy Coronado would then immediately establish that TCTV would have its place in WiR, taking over the end of that night's After Party. Teddy would then face BBC in a trios match, stating that his team would be Buster Bravado and a Tedhead, despite the fact that Buster Bravado would be on the other team. Teddy would show up, revealing that Buster Bravado was, in fact, a cardboard cutout of Pitbull and that whenever a Tedhead was hurt, it would be replaced by another, but be disqualified. Teddy then faced BBC member Sierra Briggs, resulting in his first successful title defense, at AMUDOV IV.

Teddy's reign with the Independent Championship would turn out to be the longest in WiR history. His second defense and the first against a singles competitor would be a brutal match against Brodie Hansen, challenging and defeating the man who had once dominated WiR's World Championship scene at his debut. Continuing a long-standing mutual dislike, Teddy was granted the opportunity to select three of the six people that would compete for the #1 Contendership for the Independent title at WiR Presents!. Teddy selects the Well Hungarian and Alex Perilmorde for his first two picks, hoping to get easy or, in Perilmorde's case, well-known competition. Sharp would then select Andrew Garcia, the man who had beaten Teddy thrice before, Yasmin Hyland, an up-and-coming star, and Scotty Apocalypse.

Coronado would reveal his pick last, selecting none other than retired wrestler Santiago Martinez, who had once been Independent Champion and commentator for Teddy Coronado's debut in Sound Off!. To the surprise of everybody, Martinez would walk again and accept the challenge. Martinez would go on to beat the other five and challenge Teddy for the Independent Championship, hoping to beat him before he could break Martinez and Garcia's shared record of longest single time as Independent Champion. Teddy would successfully beat Martinez at House Party on January 15th, in a closely-contested fight. Teddy would then be forced to fight both Garcia, who had transformed into a vicious heel, and Martinez at SSDY 2K18, defending his title in one of the closest matches of his career. Only a few weeks later, he'd face off against Dalidus Nova, currently tag champion, making it a match for the ages: If Nova won, he would become WiR's first double champion, while Teddy sought to defend his record-setting reign.

Now deeply overconfident, Teddy would allow himself to be booked in a 6-Man Gauntlet match, facing off against five different opponents, drawing a random place in the match. Due to the luck of the draw, he'd be second-to-last in the match, only having to face off a weakened Santiago Martinez - who would then roll him up in the middle of the ring, ending his reign once and for all. Furious and shocked, Coronado would assault Martinez in revenge - only for the next man to be the re-debuting Tyler Dylan. Teddy would witness his title being won by Tyler Dylan. Desperate for vengeance, Teddy demanded a rematch, only for Sharp to reveal that the only way he could get his title shot would be to beat Santiago Martinez.

Teddy would fail and, upon his defeat, retire from wrestling.