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Osirian Portal
Nile River, Egypt[5][6]
DebutSeptember 22, 2007[7]

The Osirian Portal is a professional wrestling tag team, consisting of Amasis and Ophidian. The team mainly competed in Chikara, where they held the Campeonatos de Parejas, and Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW). They have also made appearances in Ring of Honor (ROH) and several other independent promotions based in the north eastern part of the United States. The tag team eventually expanded into a stable with the additions of Escorpion Egipcio and Hieracon. Amasis was forced to retire from professional wrestling in June 2011 as a result of a non-wrestling accident, which led to the official dissolution of the team in September. Amasis returned to the ring in early 2013, starting a rivalry between the two former tag team partners. The team reunited in mid-2013.

History

Both Amasis and Ophidian trained at the Chikara wrestling school and upon their graduation adopted their

King Cobra. Part of their gimmick involves hypnosis, wherein Amasis would hold Ophidian in a wheelbarrow hold
, while the latter places his hands together and waves them in front of their opponents, hypnotizing them.

Chikara

Amasis and Ophidian made their debut as a tag team on September 22, 2007, at the Chikara show Cibernetico and Robin, defeating ShaneSaw (

Player Dos) to win the tag team titles.[15]

Campeonatos de Parejas and Escorpion Egipcio

Amasis in 2008

In November 2008 the new champions traveled to Germany to take part in the 2008 Tag World Grand Prix 2008. In the opening round, they defeated The Thrillers (Wade Fitzgerald and

PAC. The Colony won the match after Soldier Ant forced Ophidian to tap out with the Chikara Special.[17] Upon returning to the United States, the team turned rudo and at the annual Torneo Cibernetico the Osirian Portal was a part of an eight-man team led by Vin Gerard. Ophidian was the last representative on Team Gerard, but in the end tapped out to Jimmy "Equinox" Olsen's version of the Chikara Special.[18] During the match, Amasis injured his ankle and was therefore quickly removed from the match. Earlier in the night, Amasis and Ophidian introduced a man by the name of Escorpion Egipcio, who they claimed was sent by Osiris to become a new member of their team. Egipcio defeated Ultimo Breakfast in his debut match and the next night at Armdrags to Riches he replaced Amasis and teamed up with Ophidian to successfully defend the tag titles against Equinox and Lince Dorado.[19] Afterwards, it was announced that Egipcio could no longer replace Amasis in The Portal's title defenses. Amasis had 90 days to recover, and on the first show of 2009, Revelation X, Amasis and Ophidian defended the Campeonatos de Parejas against Fire Ant and Soldier Ant of the Colony in a special one-fall match with Egipcio banned from the building. The Portal scored an upset victory and retained their titles, defeating the Colony, who came to the match with a seven match winning streak.[20]

Ophidian in 2008

In March 2009, Amasis, Ophidian and Escorpion Egipcio entered the

El Generico and Nick and Matt Jackson) to move on to the following night's quarter finals, where they were defeated by The Future is Now (Equinox, Lince Dorado and Helios).[6] The following month, after Egipcio suffered his first singles loss in a match against Helios and then a second trios loss against The Future Is Now, Ophidian wrote a blog on Chikara's official website where he blamed the losses on Egipcio and announced that he was kicked out of the team.[21] Egipcio's profile has been since been removed from Chikara's roster page, confirming his departure. On September 13, 2009, at Hiding in Plain Sight The Colony (Fire Ant and Soldier Ant) defeated the Osirian Portal in two straight falls to win the Campeonatos de Parejas.[22]

Tecnico turn

Over the course of the following October shows, Amasis and Ophidian turned

Drake Younger, who also had a history with Gerard and STIGMA, and defeated Gerard, STIGMA and Delaney in a six-man tag team match.[31]

Hieracon and split

After the match at Chikarasaurus Rex: King of Show, Amasis and Ophidian decided that being a trio felt so right that they went on to search for a new third member of the Osirian Portal.

Obariyon and Kodama and Incoherence (Hallowicked and Frightmare) in a four-way elimination tag team match and then BDK representatives Delirious and Daizee Haze in a tag team match.[28] The Osirian Portal received their title match on October 24, 2010, but were defeated by the defending champions, Ares and Claudio Castagnoli of the BDK, in two straight falls.[35]

Hieracon in April 2011

At the season nine finale, titled Reality is Relative, on December 12, 2010, Amasis and Ophidian teamed with

Dragon Gate (Akira Tozawa, KAGETORA and Super Shisa) to advance to the semifinals of the tournament.[39] The following day, the Osirian Portal was eliminated from the tournament in the semifinal stage by The Colony (Fire Ant, Green Ant and Soldier Ant), who would go on to win the entire tournament.[40]

On April 21, Amasis was named one of twelve participants in the tournament to determine first ever Chikara singles champion.[41] However, on May 11 it was announced that Amasis had suffered "severe injuries in a non-wrestling accident" that would sideline him indefinitely and force him out of the tournament.[42] On June 23 it was announced that Amasis had been forced to retire from professional wrestling due to his injuries.[43] The following month Ophidian was sidelined with a severely broken jaw.[43] On September 22, Chikara's Director of Fun, Wink Vavasseur, announced that without Amasis there would be no Osirian Portal, effectively dissolving the group.[44]

Feud between Amasis and Ophidian

On November 13, 2011, at Chikara's first internet pay-per-view,

The Batiri.[28][50] This led to Chikara's fourth iPPV, Aniversario: Never Compromise on June 2, where Amasis defeated Ophidian in a Sarcophagus match.[28] On July 21 at Chikara's sister promotion Wrestling is Cool's inaugural event, Ophidian returned to save Amasis from a post-match beatdown at the hands of Chuck Taylor and Orange Cassidy.[51] While Chikara was inactive, the Osirian Portal once again began teaming together in promotions such as Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) and Dragon Gate USA.[52][53]

Ring of Honor

Amasis and Ophidian made their

Kevin Steen and El Generico in a non-title match.[55]

Pro Wrestling Zero1

On May 5, 2010, Amasis and Ophidian made their debut for Japanese promotion

NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship.[57]

Combat Zone Wrestling

Amasis and Ophidian made their debuts for Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) on August 14, 2010, at Tangled Web 3, where they defeated The Best Around (Bruce Maxwell and T.J. Cannon) in the first round of a tournament for the vacant

G4's Attack of the Show! It cemented Amasis' and Ophidian's spots as favorites among the CZW crowd.[62][63] The finals of the tournament took place on December 12, 2010, at the Cage of Death XII pay-per-view, where the Osirian Portal was defeated by Philly's Most Wanted (Joker and Sabian).[64] Amasis and Ophidian returned to CZW on February 12, 2011, at Twelve: The Twelfth Anniversary Event, interfering in a six–way Best of the Best qualifying match and using hypnosis to turn it into a dance–off, before helping Jonathan Gresham pick up the win.[65] The Osirian Portal returned to CZW on August 10, 2013, defeating BLKOUT (Ruckus and Sabian) via disqualification in a CZW World Tag Team Championship match; as a result, BLKOUT retained the title.[66] A rematch between the Osirian Portal and BLKOUT took place on September 14 and saw BLKOUT pick up a clean win to retain the title.[67]

Championships and accomplishments
  • NWA Force One Pro Wrestling
    • NWA Force One Pro Wrestling Tag Team Championship (1 time) – Amasis and Ophidian[69]
  • Pro Wrestling Illustrated
    • PWI ranked Amasis #349 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2011[70]
    • PWI ranked Ophidian #346 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2011[70]
  • Real Championship Wrestling
    • RCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – Amasis and Ophidian[71]
  • Wrestling is Fun!
    • WiF! Banana Championship (1 time) – Amasis[72]
  • Vicious Outcast Wrestling
    • VOW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – Amasis and Ophidian

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