Tristan Archer | |
Birth Date: | September 7, 1985[1] |
Birth Place: | Amiens, France |
Names: | Clément Petiot David Goliath Tristan Archer |
Height: | 179 cm[2] |
Weight: | 105 kg |
Trainer: | Lance Storm Joey Ryan Jesse Hernandez |
Debut: | 2009 |
Clément Petiot, better known by his ring name Tristan Archer, is a French professional wrestler mostly performing in Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw) where he is a former wXw Unified World Wrestling Champion. He is also known for his various tenures with promotions from the European independent scene and for his participation in the WWE Cruiserweight Classic.[3] [4]
Petiot made his professional wrestling debut under the name of David Goliath at 2FC Controverse Dans La Ville Rose, a house show promoted by Force Francophone de Catch on November 21, 2009, where he competed twice, first by falling short to Stixx in singles competition, and secondly in a battle royal to determine the number one contender for the 2FC Heavyweight Championship, bout won by Darren Burridge and also involving Jody Fleisch, Mark Haskins and others.[5]
Petiot spent a month in the Japanese independent scene in the summer of 2023 where he mainly competed in Big Japan Pro Wrestling as a foreign guest. He made his first appearance on the second night of the BJW Hatagaya Rokugou-dori Shopping Street Event Pro-Wrestling on July 22, 2023, where he competed in a battle royal won by Yuki Ishikawa and also involving various opponents such as Kazuki Hashimoto, Ryuji Ito and Yasufumi Nakanoue.[6] At BJW Shopping Street Wrestling 2023 Series ~ New Chapter Begins on July 29, 2023, he teamed up with Daichi Hashimoto and Kota Sekifuda to unsuccessfully challenge Hideyoshi Kamitani, Kazumi Kikuta and Yuki Ishikawa for the Yokohama Shopping Street 6-Man Tag Team Championship.[7] Besides BJW, Petiot competed in a match promoted by Total Triumph Team (TTT) at a house show promoted on July 23, 2023, where he teamed up with Fuminori Abe to unsuccessfully challenge Syuou Fujiwara and Takumi Tsukamoto for the TTT Indie Unified Tag Team Championship.[8]
Petiot made his debut in Westside Xtreme Wrestling at wXw 14th Anniversary Tour: Borken on October 24, 2014, where he fell short to Kim Ray.[9]
After a six-year no-show, he returned to the promotion at one of its signature events, the wXw Shortcut To The Top, at the inaugural edition of 2020 from August 21, where he unsuccessfully challenged Bobby Gunns for the WXw Unified World Wrestling Championship.[10] One year later at the 2021 edition of the event, Petiot competed in the pay-per-view's signature traditional battle royal, bout won by Jurn Simmons which also involved various other notable opponents, both male and female such as Aigle Blanc, Avalanche, Levaniel, Tayra Gates and many others.[11] He continued to make regular appearances for the company in its other signature events. As for the WXw Catch Grand Prix, where he made his first appearance at the 2020 edition in which he placed himself in the block B, where he finished as a runner-up by scoring a total of eight points after going against Cara Noir, Senza Volto, Emil Sitoci, Prince Ahura, Norman Harras and Vincent Heisenberg, failing to qualify to the finals.[12] At the 2021 edition, he competed in a four-way first round match won by Axel Tischer and also involving Francesco Akira and Dennis Dullnig.[13] In the 16 Carat Gold Tournament, Petiot made his first appearance at the 2023 edition where he defeated Mike D. Vecchio in the first rounds, but fell short to Shigehiro Irie in the second.[14]
Petiot won his first title in the company, the WXw Unified World Wrestling Championship by defeating Axel Tischer on the finals night of the 2022 16 Carat Gold Tournament.[15] He would hold the title on one more occasion beginning with April 30, 2022, when he defeated Jurn Simmons at We Love Wrestling - SLAM In Den Mai.[16] Another title for which he competed was the WXw Shotgun Championship by battling in a three-way match against reigning champion Elijah Blum and Aigle Blanc at wXw We Love Wrestling - Live in Bad Säckingen on November 4, 2023.[17]
Due to being a developmental talent representing wXw, Petiot shared two brief tenures with the American promotion WWE. In the first one, he competed in the Cruiserweight Classic, a tournament held to determine the inaugural WWE Cruiserweight Champion in which he fell short to Cedric Alexander in one of the first round matches from July 13, 2016.[18] In his second tenure, he competed in two bouts promoted by the NXT UK brand. In the first one from WWE NXT UK #154 of July 22, 2021, he fell short to Joseph Conners in singles competition.[19] At WWE NXT UK #155 on July 29, 2021, he fell short to Jordan Devlin.[20]