El Phantasmo

Riley Vigier (born October 24, 1986) is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he performs under the ring name El Phantasmo (often shortened to ELP).

In NJPW, Phantasmo was a former member of Bullet Club and became a three-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion (all with Taiji Ishimori) and a two-time Super J-Cup winner while in the stable. Starting in 2023, he transitioned into the heavyweight division and would also be kicked out of Bullet Club, leading to him joining the Guerrillas of Destiny. He would team with Hikuleo, with whom he became a two-time Strong Openweight Tag Team Champion and one-time IWGP Tag Team Champion, and at one time held both sets of tag team championships simultaneously. He won his first NJPW singles title, the NJPW World Television Championship, at Wrestle Kingdom 19 in January 2025. He has also worked for Impact Wrestling, and various independent promotions in Canada, the European Union and the United Kingdom.

El Phantasmo's wrestling training group in 2005 included Kyle O'Reilly and Gurv Sihra. His ring name is a reference to a song on White Zombie's Astro-Creep: 2000. Phantasmo's debut in professional wrestling for NWA: Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling (ECCW) was in a battle royal at Halloween Hell in October 2005. Phantasmo formed a tag team with Halo known as the Masked Dudes of Doom. On March 3, 2007, they became the #1 contenders to the NWA/ECCW Tag Team Championship after beating Models, Inc. in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match main eventing in Vancouver. After falling short on three occasions, the Masked Dudes of Doom finally won the titles in another TLC match against Chill Town on May 5 in Vancouver. After only one successful title defense, they went on to lose the titles to Greatness on Demand in a six-man tag match on July 27 in Surrey.

A regular competitor in the ECCW Pacific Cup tournament, Phantasmo made it to the finals in two consecutive years. In 2008, Billy Suede won the tournament in the three-way final which also included Phantasmo and O'Reilly. In 2009, Phantasmo finally won the Pacific Cup by beating Rick The Weapon X and Azeem The Dream in the finals. In 2010, however, Phantasmo lost to eventual tournament winner Artemis Spencer in the semi-finals. Though he did present Spencer with the trophy, Phantasmo received a kick to the groin for his show of sportsmanship towards his ex-teammate and rival.

Phantasmo won his first ECCW Championship on July 6, 2013. He lost the championship to "Ravenous" Randy Myers on January 18, 2014, at Ballroom Brawl 1 in a ladder match. He won the ECCW Championship for the second time on January 16, 2016, at Ballroom Brawl 5 by defeating Scotty Mac in a steel cage match. Phantasmo lost the title to O'Reilly on January 14, 2017, at Ballroom Brawl 7, in an open challenge to any TV wrestler. His last match in ECCW for 2017, was on May 27, 2017, for the Canadian Championship, where he was defeated by Andy Bird.

El Phantasmo debuted for Revolution Pro Wrestling at the Cockpit 17 on June 4, 2017, and was defeated by David Starr. In 2018, he participated in the British J-Cup, a tournament he won. On May 19, 2019, he defeated Starr in a ladder match at RPW's Epic Encounter event to win the RPW British Cruiserweight Championship for the first time. On February 14, 2020, Phantasmo lost the title to Michael Oku, ending his reign at 280 days.

During the first night of the New Japan Cup 2019, a vignette was shown promoting El Phantasmo's debut. In doing so, he was announced as the newest member of Bullet Club. In his debut, he pinned Will Ospreay in a tag team match. His first singles win came against Bandido shortly after. Phantasmo then entered the Best of the Super Juniors and ended third in his block ending with 6 wins and 3 losses with a total of 12 points. On June 16, 2019, Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori defeated Roppongi 3K (Yoh and Sho) to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. On night four of the Kizuna Road tour, Phantasmo, Yujiro Takahashi and Chase Owens competed for the NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Championship but were defeated by Ryusuke Taguchi, Togi Makabe and Toru Yano. At night one of Southern Showdown, he defended his RPW British Cruiserweight Championship against Rocky Romero. On August 25, Phantasmo defeated Dragon Lee to win the 2019 Super J-Cup tournament.

At Royal Quest, Phantasmo and Ishimori lost to Chaos (Will Ospreay and Robbie Eagles). At Road To Destruction Yamaguchi, the Bullet Club team of Phantasmo, Owens and Ishimori defeated Eagles, Ospreay and Tomoaki Honma in a six man tag team match. At King of Pro-Wrestling, Phantasmo lost to Ospreay in an IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match. At Wrestle Kingdom 14, Phantasmo and Ishimori lost the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship to Roppongi 3K. At New Year Dash!!, Phantasmo and Ishimori competed in fatal 4-way tag team match which was won by Suzuki-gun (Yoshinobu Kanemaru and El Desperado). On December 12, Phantasmo defeated ACH in the finals of the Super J-Cup. Immediately after the match, Phantasmo called out Hiromu Takahashi and accepted his challenge to a match at Wrestle Kingdom 15, where the winner would face IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Ishimori on the second night of Wrestle Kingdom for the title. On night one, Phantasmo lost to Takahashi, who earnt the title match on night two.