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Ron Reis

American professional wrestler (born 1970)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ3940980
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Ronald Allen Reis (born April 26, 1970) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling between 1995 and 1998 under the ring names The Yeti and Reese.

Early life

Ron Reis is the son of Ron Reis, Sr., who was a member of National Collegiate Athletic Association title-winning basketball teams in 1961 and 1962 while studying at the University of Cincinnati.

Reis attended Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, California. He played on the school's basketball team, scoring 2,082 points and competing in the 1987 Central Coast Section championship. Reis went on to attend Santa Clara University, where he played basketball for four years. He played in 116 career games and averaged 10.7 points, 7.4 rebounds, and 1.4 assists per game. He led the West Coast Conference in total rebounds (320) and rebounds per game (11.0) during the 1990–91 season. He was named to the All-WCC team in 1990–91 and 1991–92. He has the highest career field goal percentage (.606) in school history and is fifth in career rebounds (851).

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“Ron Reis” enters the record as american professional wrestler (born 1970). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Reis, American and professional can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 1995, 1998, 1961—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-04-26. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Reis, American and professional.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3940980. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970, 1995, 1998 and 1961.

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This entry incorporates text from Ron Reis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.