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Australian Suicide
Australian Suicide
Birth name	Broderick Shepherd
Born	9 December 1992 (age 32); Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Australian Suicide; El Australiano; Hexagon Dark; Ryan Rollins
Billed height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Billed weight	70 kg (150 lb)
Billed from	Mexico City, Mexico
Trained by	Carlo Cannon[citation needed]; Gran Apache; Lance Storm
Debut	2005[citation needed]

Broderick Shepherd (born 9 December 1992)^{[citation needed]} is an Australian professional wrestler, best known by the ring name Australian Suicide who is famous for have been working for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), where he is the former AAA World Cruiserweight Champion. Before arriving in Mexico, Shepherd competed in other independent companies in both Australia and the United States under the name Ryan Rollins.

Professional wrestling career

Independent circuit (2005–2013)

Shepherd began fighting in various promotions under the name as Ryan Rollins during his early years in both Australia and other companies such as National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)^{[citation needed]}, Melbourne City Wrestling^{[citation needed]}, Slam Factory Wrestling^{[citation needed]} and among other promotions.^{[citation needed]}

In 2012, he was trained by Lance Storm while competing in Canada before he arrived on Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide in Mexico in 2013.^[1]

Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (2013–2020)

On 22 September 2013, Rollins debuted in the largest promotion wrestling Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) as the luchador enmascarado (masked wrestler) as Australian Suicide teaming up with Angélico and Jack Evans defeating Eterno, Pentagon Jr. and Steve Pain. On 16 March 2014, at Rey de Reyes, Suicide competed for AAA Cruiserweight Championship where he lost to Daga in a four-way elimination match who was involved with Argenis and Super Fly.^[2]^[3] At Triplemanía XXII, Suicide was part of a ten-way elimination match to unify the AAA Fusión and AAA Cruiserweight Championships.^[4] At the end of 2015, Suicide had a feud against Daga during all AAA events, including in Triplemanía XXIV where Suicide won the Copa Triplemania against his rival and being attacked by the Daga himself after finishing the match.^[5] On October 3 at Héroes Inmortales X, Suicide was defeated by Daga in a Lucha de Apuestas, hair vs mask match, where he was forced to take off his mask and reveal his name, Broderick Shepherd from Melbourne, Australia.^[6] During the period of time after losing his mask, Suicide began to modify his character as a gang. On 4 June 2017 at Verano de Escándalo, Suicide teamed up with Bengala for the AAA World Tag Team Championship where La Secta (Cuervo and Scoria) was crowned.^[7] On 26 January 2018 at Guerra de Titanes, Suicide won the AAA World Cruiserweight Championship defeating Lanzeloth for the first time in his career.^[8] At Triplemanía XXVI pre-show, Suicide lost his title to Sammy Guevara in a four-way match, and which also involved A. C. H. and Shane Strickland.^[9]

On 3 August at Triplemanía XXVII, Suicide teamed up with Vanilla Vargas for the AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship against Sammy Guevara and Scarlett Bordeaux, Niño Hamburguesa and Big Mami and Lady Maravilla and Villano III Jr., where they were crowned as new champions.^[10]

All Elite Wrestling (2021)

On 12 January 2021, Suicide made his debut in American promotion wrestling All Elite Wrestling as El Australiano teaming with KC Navarro losing against The Dark Order (Alex Reynolds and John Silver).^[11]