In Wrestling
- Finishing moves
- 450° splash
- Brainbuster, sometimes from the second rope / Starrbuster
- Horns of Aries / Last Chancery (Bridging arm triangle choke)
- Signature moves
- Crucifix driver
- Death Valley driver, sometimes onto the ring apron
- Figure Eight Leglock (Modified figure four leglock)
- Fish Hook of Doom (Aries presses both knees onto a facedown opponent's arm before applying a fish hook)
- Forward Russian legsweep
- Frog splash
- Head stand into a dropkick to a seated opponent, as a neckscissors counter
- Heat Seeking Missile (Suicide dive through the middle and bottom rope)
- IED (Running dropkick to a cornered opponent)
- Inverted suplex slam
- Japanese arm drag
- Leaps over the corner as an evasion, then performs a forward roll to the opposite corner and then finally hits a leaping back elbow
- Macho Neck Snap (Springboards off the back of an opponent draped over the second rope and hits a neck snap to the rope hung opponent)
- No-handed springboard moonsault
- Pendulum Elbow (Pendulum backbreaker hold followed by an elbow drop to the opponent's face)
- Powerdrive Elbow (Twisting elbow drop, with theatrics)
- Rolling elbow
- Rolling fireman's carry slam
- Running jumping delayed knee drop, with theatrics
- Scissored armbar
- Shin breaker followed into a leg hook Saito suplex
- Sidewalk slam
- Slingshot into either a back elbow to a cornered opponent or a corkscrew splash
- Nicknames
- "A Double"
- "The Star"
- "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived"
- "The Vascular Vegetarian"
- "MV3 (Most Valuable Vascular Vegetarian)"
- "Mr. It"
- "The Greatest Manager That Ever Lived"
- Entrance themes
- Independent circuit
- "Born of a Broken Man" by Rage Against the Machine
- "Personal Jesus" by Marilyn Manson
- "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)" by Weezer
- Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
- "Raging of the Region" by Dale Oliver
- Independent circuit
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