This champion wrestler will bring red balloons and horror to Lakeland and Miami for ROH

The Kingdom is the Ring of Honor six-man tag team champs, and within that championship grouping is a king, of course, though a different type of king, a spirited looking character known fittingly as the Horror King Vinny Marseglia.

The pride of Warwick, R.I., Marseglia, 32, is a horror film fan who enjoys metal music. His masks, tattoos, hair styles, wrestling garb, wild eyes and red balloons make for an interesting look.

It’s Rob Zombie meets Lost Boys with his own twist in this bizarre and unique pro wrestling persona.

The Kingdom also features 33-year-old Matt Taven (Derry, N.H.) and 29-year-old TK O’Ryan (Worcester, Mass.). Growing up and training wrestling in the Northeast, they are champions in ring and friends away from it.

When they formed as The Kingdom in Ring of Honor, it clicked immediately. The Kingdom brought it strong in their ROH debut in October 2016 against Bullet Club (Adam Cole and The Young Bucks).

These Northeasterners are also ultra New England Patriots fans. Well, two are.

The Horror King discusses his persona, Rob Zombie, New England Patriots, The Kingdom and more.

The Kingdom is three-time ROH six-man tag team champs.

And Marseglia found his niche, his passion in the ring and out -- something he shares with his horror fan wife.

The Horror King talks about The Kingdom’s ROH debut, Bullet Club, Warwick, masks, gear, the Horror Queen, red balloons and more.

Marseglia, elevating his Warwick status in pro wrestling, joins WCW and WWE alum Chuck Palumbo and Micro Championship Wrestling’s Short Sleeve Sampson as pro wrestlers with Warwick, R.I. ties.

ROH in Miami

Ring of Honor invades Miami with “Bound by Honor” at 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10 at the Watsco Center at the University of Miami in Coral Gables.

This story was originally published January 31, 2019 at 11:35 AM.

Jim Varsallone

Miami Herald

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Jim Varsallone writes a high school sports column twice a week, featuring top performers in all varsity sports (boys and girls) in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. He also covers pro wrestling, something he’s done since his college days in the late 1980s. Now in his fifth decade of coverage, he currently follows WWE (Raw, SmackDown and NXT), AEW, Ring of Honor, TNA Impact Wrestling, MLW, WOW, NWA, and the South Florida indies, mainly CCW. He writes MMA, too -- mostly profile stories and video interviews with American Top Team and Sanford MMA fighters in South Florida. As for pro wrestling, he writes feature stories and profile pieces, updates upcoming show schedules in South Florida, photographs the action and interviews talent (audio and video) -- sharing the content here and via social media on his Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channel: jim varsallone (jimmyv3 channel). Support my work with a digital subscription