Ian Riccaboni (born January 13, 1987) is an American professional wrestling commentator, sports broadcaster, author, and politician.
In early 2006, Riccaboni was cast for an MTVU commercial for their Best Music on Campus competition, competing on guitar, harmonica, and vocals.
During his time at Penn, he returned to television, playing bass guitar as lead singer for the house band on "Hump Night with Kris Fried" on Service Electric TV 2.
[24] Riccaboni began his professional wrestling announcing career after a chance meeting with The Blue Meanie, Brian Hefron.
Riccaboni phoned Cage about getting started in professional wrestling after the completion of the segment before beginning to work with the Monster Factory as an interviewer and commentator.
[30] He and Cabana hold the distinction of being the first duo to ever call a Minoru Suzuki match on American soil when they did so at the Death Before Dishonor XV Pay Per View event.
On December 15, 2018, Riccaboni and Cabana were presented with the 2018 Broadcast Team of the Year Award by veteran wrestling writer, photographer, and editor Bill Apter.
In November 2019 at the Ring of Honor event "Unauthorized", Riccaboni wrestled the first match of his career, teaming with Camera Man Gator, Colt Cabana, Gary Juster (Ring of Honor's Director of Operation), and Todd Sinclair (a referee) to defeat Brian Johnson and Shane Taylor Promotions in a ten-man tag team match.
[34] On December 23, 2019, RetroSoft Studios announced Riccaboni and Cabana would be providing commentary for the sequel to the 1991 arcade game WWF WrestleFest, RetroMania Wrestling, on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PC.
[35] Riccaboni represented Ring of Honor at Impact Wrestling's Hard To Kill (2022) calling the ROH World Championship bout between Jonathan Gresham and Chris Sabin.
[36] On a Lehigh Valley with Love broadcast, Riccaboni announced he was still under contract with ROH but would begin on a tryout basis with New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s NJPW Strong on their January tapings in Seattle.