| Kid Lykos | |
|---|---|
 Lykos in April 2024 | |
| Born | (1997-03-22)22 March 1997 (age 28)[1] Cambridge, England[2] |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Crash Bandicoot Ethan Beach Ethan Silver Kid Lykos Mondai Lykos Sokyl Dik |
| Trained by | Mike Roberts |
| Debut | 2012 |
Ethan Beach (born 22 March 1997) – better known by hisring nameKid Lykos – is an Englishprofessional wrestler, who currently performs on theBritish independent circuit.[3]
Beach made hisprofessional wrestling debut in Coventry Pro Wrestling at ahouse show entitledCPW TheOne promoted on 9 November 2012, where he went into adouble count-out against Sky Blue Sam.[4] He is known for his tenures with various promotions from theEuropean independent scene with which he has shared brief or longer stints such asAttack! Pro Wrestling,Progress Wrestling,Revolution Pro Wrestling,International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom,Over the Top Wrestling,Defiant Wrestling and many others.[2]
One of the promotions in which Beach is best known for working isProgress Wrestling. He made his debut in the company atPROGRESS Chapter 50: I Give It Six Months on 25 June 2017, where he teamed up with "CCK" tag team partner Chris Brookes to defeatBritish Strong Style (Trent Seven andTyler Bate) to win thePROGRESS Tag Team Championship.[5] They lost the titles at the very next pay-per-view, theChapter 51: Screaming For PROGRESS from 9 July 2017, in asix-man tag team match where he and Brookes also teamed up withTravis Banks as they defended the championships under thefreebird rule against British Strong Style (Pete Dunne, Trent Seven and Tyler Bate).[6] He would go on to win the Progress tag team titles on two more occasions alongside Brookes, and one time alongside "Lykos Gym" tag team partner Kid Lykos II, lastly succeeding atChapter 112: The Flowers Are Still Standing! on 5 June 2021, where they defeated The Young Guns (Luke Jacobs and Ethan Allen) to win the vacant titles.[7] AtChapter 108: Of Course You Realize This Means War on 10 April 2021, Beach unsuccessfully challengedCara Noir for thePROGRESS World Championship.[8] AtChapter 131: 10th Anniversary Show on 25 March 2022, he teamed up with Kid Lykos II and competed in afive-way tag team gauntlet match for the Progress tag team titles won by The 0121 (Dan Moloney and Man Like DeReiss), and also involving the teams of The Smokin' Aces (Charlie Sterling and Nick Riley),Sunshine Machine (Chuck Mambo and TK Cooper) and North West Strong (Chris Ridgeway andLuke Jacobs).[9] AtChapter 160: VENDETTA on 26 November 2023, Beach fell short toSpike Trivet in a match disputed for both the latter'sPROGRESS World Championship and his very own mask. Beach revealed his true identity after the loss but continued to compete under the ring name of "Kid Lykos".[10]
Beach competed in various of the promotion's signature events such as theSuper Strong Style 16 where he made his first appearance at the 2022 edition which was also disputed for the vacantPROGRESS World Championship, in which he defeated Maggot in the first rounds but fell short to Warren Banks in the quarterfinals.[11] He succeeded in winning the2023 edition of the tournament by defeatingBig Damo in the first rounds,Nick Wayne in the quarterfinals,Nathan Cruz in the semifinals andMark Haskins in the finals.[12] AtPROGRESS Chapter 163: Twisted Metal on 25 February 2024, Beach would successfully defeatSpike Trivet in a steel cage match for thePROGRESS World Championship.[13]
Beach made his debut inRevolution Pro Wrestling at the 2017 edition of theGlobal Wars UK, a cross-over event promoted by both RevPro andNew Japan Pro Wrestling, where he teamed up with CCK stablemates Chris Brookes and Travis Banks to defeatChaos (Gedo,Hirooki Goto andYoshi-Hashi).[14] During the promotion, he chased for various championships created or promoted by the company. AtSWE Happy Robbie Xmas on 29 December 2018, he teamed up with Chris Brookes and defeated The Jawdroppers (Sean Kustom andXia Brookside) to win the SWE Tag Team Championship, title which was promoted by RevPro at that time.[15] AtRevPro Summer Sizzler 2022 on 23 July he teamed up with Kid Lykos II to unsuccessfully challenge Sunshine Machine (Chuck Mambo and TK Cooper) for theBritish Tag Team Championship.[16] AtRevPro Live In London 70 on 5 February 2023, he unsuccessfully challengedRobbie X for theUndisputed British Cruiserweight Championship.[17]
He competed in various of the promotion's signature events such as theBritish J-Cup in which he made his first appearance at the2021 edition of the tournament where he fell short toMike Bailey in the first rounds.[18] As for theGreat British Tag League, he made his first appearance at the 2022 edition where he teamed up with Kid Lykos II, placing themselves in the Block B where they scored a total of two points after going against the teams of The VeloCities (Jude London and Paris De Silva), Sunshine Machine (Chuck Mambo and TK Cooper), and The Legion (Shota Umino andYota Tsuji).[19] At the 2023 edition, Beach teamed up with Kid Lykos II, placing themselves in the Block A of the competition where they scored a total of six points after going against the teams ofThe Billington Bulldogs (Mark Billington andThomas Billington), Kieron Lacey and Mark Trew, andAnthony Ogogo andRicky Knight Jr., failing to qualify for the finals.[20]
Beach briefly competed inChikara, making his first appearance at the 2017 edition of theKing of Trios tournament in which he teamed up with Chris Brookes and Elijah as "House Calamari" to defeat House Bike Cops (Dez Peloton (Donald Kluger and Jasper Tippins)) and Officer Warren Barksdale) in the first rounds and falling short to Casa Dorada (Juan Francisco de Coronado, Cornelius Crummels and Sonny Defarge) in the quarterfinals.[21] On the third night of the event, Beach competed outside of the tournament's competition, taking part in atag team gauntlet match in which he teamed up with Chris Brookes and fell short to the winners of the bout Los Ice Creams (El Hijo del Ice Cream and Ice Cream Jr.) and to various other notable teams such as The Rumblebees (Solo Darling and Travis Huckabee), The Throwbacks (Dasher Hatfield andMark Angelosetti),Millie McKenzie and Omari, and others.[22] Beach made a one-time return to the promotion on 5 April 2019, atCHIKARA Once Upon A Beginning where he teamed up with Brookes in a losing effort against Cornelius Crummels and Sonny Defarge in tag team action.[23]
Beach has worked for several promotions from theJapanese independent scene as a developmental talent sent by RevPro and Progress. He started with the cross-over event ofGlobal Wars UK in 2017.[14] He wrestled in two ofBig Japan Pro Wrestling's events, first atBJW Big Ben Japan ~ Englishman In BJ on 5 January 2019, where he teamed up with Chris Brookes to defeatKazuki Hashimoto andYuya Aoki[24] and secondly on 6 January atBJW Look Now where he again teamed up with Brookes, this time to defeatKota Sekifuda andTatsuhiko Yoshino.[25] In 2022, Beach competed in a couple of events promoted byDDT Pro-Wrestling. First of them was theDDT Konosuke Takeshita 10th Anniversary from 10 September where he teamed up with Chris Brookes in a losing effort againstTakeshita himself and hisThe37Kamiina stablemateYuki Ueno.[26] AtDDT Who's Gonna Top? 2022 Tour In Asakusa on 13 September Beach teamed up again with Brookes to defeatHideki Okatani andTakeshi Masada.[27] He also competed in an event promoted byGatoh Move Pro Wrestling, theGatoh Move 10th Anniversary ~ Phoenix Rises from 15 September 2022, where he teamed up withKaori Yoneyama andMinoru Fujita to defeatBaliyan Akki,Riho andSaki.[28]
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For most of his career, Beach competed as aluchador enmascarado (masked wrestler). However, contrary to the lucha libre traditions, his real name was a matter of public record all along.Kid Lykos II (Joe Newboult) shares the same type of wrestling gimmick with Beach, as they've been competing under the tag name of "Lykos Gym" since 2021. Beach wanted to take the decision of making Newboult the one to take the Lykos moniker after temporarily retiring from professional wrestling at the beginning of 2020. Beach returned in February 2021 and they competed as a team with same gimmicks until early 2024 when he lost the mask toSpike Trivet.[29]
| Year | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 293 | – | – | – |  259 | – |  317 |
| Winner (wager) | Loser (wager) | Location | Event | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kid Lykos (mask) | Chuck Mambo (hair) | London, England | PROGRESS Chapter 146: They Think It's All Over... | 27 November 2022 | |
| Spike Trivet (title) | Kid Lykos (mask) | London, England | PROGRESS Chapter 160: VENDETTA | 26 November 2023 | [34] |
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