Douglas Shane

Troy Shane Martin (born the November 21st 1964) is a American all-in wrestler more known semi-pensioner under his name of boxing ring Shane Douglas . To the current of its career, which proceeded over two decades, Douglas passed to the Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Championship Wrestling in " The Franchise" Douglas Shane and with the World Wrestling Federation in Douglas Dean . It is currently employed by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

Career

Beginnings

Troy Martin was pulled by Dominic DeNucci with Pittsburgh in the surroundings of Freedom, Pennsylvania, at the sides of Mick Foley about the middle from annés the 80. However, he already fought professionally since 1982 to earn money. When it began, it used the gimmick Troy Orndorff , the fictitious nephew of Paul Orndorff. In 1986, it began wrestling as a face for the Universal Wrestling Federation by using the name Shane Douglas, which was given to him by " Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert and Missy Hyatt. Douglas beat Gilbert for UWF Television Championship, the August 3rd 1987 but it did not move of the statute of bottom of chart. Douglas the title the September 2nd 1987 lost vis-a-vis Terry Taylor.

National Wrestling Alliance/World Championship Wrestling (beginning of the year 90)

It signed finally with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)/World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It continued to use the name Shane Douglas and was put in a team of skateboarders known under the name of Dynamic Dudes with Johnny Ace. None of both could make skateboard, the fans saw it well and did not hang to the characters. Jim Cornette, which dealt with the Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane) at that time, decided to be their manager for help. Whereas Eaton and Lane (Kayfabe) did not accept, they claimed a match between the two teams with Cornette remaining neutral apart from the boxing ring. It finished by being turned in favor of Douglas and Ace whereas the two teams started to compete during several months. The change of Cornet was made to make of Dynamic Dudes the largest babyface team, but this change had a light-back and saw The Midnight Express more popular than than it was not auaparavant.

Dynamic Dudes separated in 1990 after Ace started to fight more and more for the All Japan Pro Wrestling which started to make its hole vis-a-vis the American federations. Douglas soon the NWA/WCW left and catchait in the independent Circuit American. In 1990, he also concluded an agreement with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Its larger performance with the WWF proceeded with the Royal Rumble 1991, where there remained 26 minutes and 23 seconds, making of him the third all-in wrestler with being remained longest on the boxing ring this day. Little time afterwards, it left the federation to deal with his/her suffering father

He turned over to the WCW in 1992 to make team with Ricky Steamboat and to gain WCW World Tag TEAM Championship of Dustin Rhodos and Barry Windham the December 18th. The team of Steamboat and Douglas had a long competition with the Hollywood Blondes (" Stunning" Steve Austin and " Flyin'" Brian Pillman), they ressemblaits both and carried masks and were done called the " Back Hombres ". They lost the titles against the Blondes the March 11th 1993. After having lost the titles by team, Douglas left the WCW for the Eastern Championship Wrestling (ECW).

Extreme Championship Wrestling

With the ECW, they supported in the beginning the faces but was turned over against Tommy Dreamer during a match in which Douglas defended with him the titles by teams against Kevin Sullivan and The Tasmaniac. Douglas Dreamer for the defeat blamed and was turned over against him, becoming a heel, a attaitude which was going to define it and to give him success.

Douglas became an asset in the development assistance of wrestling " extreme " when it gained a tournament to become NWA World Heavyweight Champion the August 27th 1994. In a storyline to which only him Tod Gordon and Paul Heyman knew, Douglas jettait belt NWA saying that he did not want to be the champion of a " morte" federation;. It held up then titrates it Eastern Championship Wrestling Heavyweight Title and declared World Heavyweight Championship -- the appealing one like the only World title. Little time after, Eastern Championship Wrestling changed its name for Extreme Championship Wrestling. Capitalizing the controversy around its rejection of belt NWA and the promotion which suiv has, Dougals was ecnouragé to express its truths feelings in the interviews by the script writers of the ECW and thus started to be called itself the Frankness . This helped to assemble the ECW in the regard of the fans and the journalists until him to make it possible to be an alternative to the WCW and WWF.

It was during this time that it formed first Threat Triple, being aligniant with Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko.

World Wrestling Federation

In 1995, Douglas began with the WWF, becoming Dean Douglas , a character of professor. To be affirmed, they made several promotions in " enseignant" with all-in wrestlers and fans. With its beginning with the WWF, it became forever the first old ECW Heavyweight Champion in the active roster, and only until 1998, when Terry Funk began as Chainsaw Charlie.

It was made give the Intercontinental Titer the October 22nd 1995 by fixed price when Shawn Michaels was not in a position to fight (legitimately) after being itself made tabassé severely by a group of Marines to Syracuse, New York. However its reign was very short, it was beaten by Razor Ramon later this same evening.

Return to the ECW

Later in 1995 Douglas turned over to the ECW and prenanit for target the ECW World Heavyweight Champion, Raven. During this time it had also a memorable competition with Cactus Jack. Cactus was ready from to go away with the WWF and turned of promotions to encourage Tommy Dreamer to come with him, criticizing the style hardcore ECW and encensant the atch " clean". During several matches, he refused to fight hardcore. Douglas Cactus Jack in a match beat after memorable a drop toe hold on a chair. After having missed success in its matches of championship, it began a competition with 2 Cold Scorpio, based on the lack of respect of Douglas for ECW World Television Championship. Douglas the title TV briefly carried, and lost it vis-a-vis Pitbull #2.

Douglas the title TV (Chris Jericho) in a 4-way dance recovered which included also 2 Cold Scorpio and Pitbull #2 (which had lost the title vis-a-vis Jericho) when to manage it Pitbulls Francine, was turned over against them and helped Douglas. When Pitbulls tried a superbomb on it through a table after the match following a dispute, Pitbull #1 was wounded and suffered from a broken neck.

Douglas, with Francine, competed with Pitbull #2 for the remainder of 1996 and at the end of 'lannée, the Triple Threat with Chris Candido and " reformed; Primetime" Brian Lee, joined later by Bam Bam Bigelow when Lee left the ECW. It held the title TV during nearly one year before losing it vis-a-vis Taz. It jettait then its reserved on the ECW World Heavyweight Champion, Terry Funk and with '' Hardcore Heaven '' 1997, in a match revenge of The Night the Line Was Crossed , Shane Douglas beat Sabu (which beat Funk one week earlier for the title in a barbed wire deathmatch) and Terry Funk in a three way dance to recover title ECW World Heavyweight. In October 1997, it lost the title vis-a-vis Bam Bam Bigelow, but 15 days later with November to Remember 1997 regained it, in its town of Pittsburgh. With the exception of these two weeks, its reign of champion lasted until in January 1999, finally losing the title vis-a-vis Taz, with which it competed during a good part of the year 1998. It was as for this period as the Pro Wrestling It recognized officially title ECW like a " Titrate Mondial."

Return to the WCW

Differences with Paul Heyman led at the beginning of the Frankness from the ECW for the WCW at the beginning of 1999. On its arrival with the WCW, he promised " to put an end to the cancer" WCW, cancer being Ric Sense of smell (with which it did not get along in truth). It met with the former members of Triple Threat Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko, with the former all-in wrestler of the ECW Perry Saturn, to form The Revolution. Asya was their manager.

Douglas a competition with the screen with Ric Flair had, which was the unde its targets favorite in its interviews with the ECW. However, the clan never really showed itself dominating and is never took to the principal all-in wrestlers of the WCW, which thus did not put them ahead, whereas Benoit and Malenko became increasingly proposed in solo. It belonged to the clan New Blood lance by Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff which competed with that of the Millionaire' S Club. It gained the title by team (with Buff Bagwell), the Titer Hardcore and the United States Championship at the time when Torrie Wilson was his manager.

Total Nonstop Wrestling Action

Following the closing of the XPW, Douglas had a short passage to the World Wrestling All-Stars before engaging with the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in June 2003. When it began with the TNA, it immediately took again its old competition with Raven. Both ended up joining two different factions (The New Church for Douglas, The Gathering for Raven) and clashed at the summer 2003.

When the competition was completed, Douglas left New Church and began a search at the sides from its news manager Tracy, to find " The NEW Frankness ". It decided to accommodate Michael Shane which it took under its wings at the end of 2003 and at the beginning of 2004. However, when the team of Shane and Douglas separated, Douglas moved towards semi-fretarite, becoming commentator and interviewver in the weekly televised show of the TNA, impact! , and in the pay-per-views. In addition to this role to the screen, he worked in the slides like agent and script writer.

In 2005, Douglas organized (whereas he worked always with the TNA) a show of meeting of the ECW called Hardcore Homecoming . At the time of the inaugural event on June 10th, it lost Three-Way dance barbed wire rope match against Sabu, which included also Terry Funk. The show passed under the fomre of a " Turn of Réunion" in September, with two shows of organized. With these two shows, it was essential in Three-Way dance against Jerry Lynn and Sabu on Cleveland, and against Pitbull #1 in Pittsburgh. Hardcore Homecoming organized its last official reception (prmu November Reign ) the November 5th, where Douglas lost Dog-Collar match against Pitbull #1.

In 2006, Shane Douglas was withdrawn following a Réhabilitation with drugs following an excess of painkillers (see in bottom).

It on television turned over the May 18th to impact! . During a promotion where it offered its services to reappearing ECW way WWE, it showed its remonstrance towards Vince McMahon for " to exploit the mémoire" federation which it helped to build in the 15 last years. He was the manager of the Naturals until he is turned over against them the December 21st to impact! , after Naturals lost vis-a-vis the TEAM 3D in Tables Match, saying Douglas, " This experiment is terminée." However the February 8th 2007, it and Douglas Andy (auncun line of relationship), came to help Chase Stevens after it is attacked by Abyss, which is had some took in Naturals and to manage this night later to them.

Facts catchesques

  • Taken completion and favorite
* Pittsburgh Plunge / Final Exam (Fisherman brainbuster)
* Franchiser (Shoulder jawbreaker)
* ''' Belly to belly suplex '''
* Snap suplex
* Neck snap
* Cobra clutch
* Attémi
* Individual ARM DDT
* Stiff kicks
  • favorite illegal Weapon
* Chain in Iron

  • Managers

Prize list

  • To border City Wrestling
    • BCW Edge-Am Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

  • Eastern Championship Wrestling | Extreme Championship Wrestling

  • International Wrestling Association

    • IWA Heavyweight Champion (Ohio version) (1 time)

  • Major League Wrestling

    • MLW Heavyweight Championship (1 time) (First Champion)

  • Midwest Wrestling United

    • MWU Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

  • New Era Wrestling

    • NEW Northeast Heavyweight Championship (2 times)

  • North American Wrestling Alliance

    • NAWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

  • Pro Wrestling It

    • PWI classified Douglas number 118 of the 500 best all-in wrestlers in the PWI Years of 2003.
    • PWI classified Douglas number 82 of the 100 best teams in the PWI Years in 2003 - with Ricky Steamboat.

  • Pro Wrestling Xpress

    • PWX Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

  • Southeastern Championship Wrestling

    • NWA Continental Southeast Tag TEAM Championship (1 time) - with Lord Humongous
  • Southern Championship Wrestling
    • SCW Heavyweight Champioonship (1 time)

  • Superstar Wrestling Federation

    • SWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

  • the USA Pro Wrestling

    • the USA Pro Wrestling Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

  • United States Wrestling League

    • USWL Unified Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

  • Universal Wrestling Federation

* UWF Television Championship (1 time)

  • World Wrestling Federation

    • Intercontinental WWF Championship (1 time)

  • Xtreme Pro Wrestling

    • XPW World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

  • Superstar Wrestling Federation

    • SWF Heavyweight Championship

Life personnel

Douglas passed its diplomas in the Bethany College in 1986 making a success of the Baccalauréat of Histoire and Political science. It received a license of professor of the Geneva College. Douglas taught at the university of Beaver to beginning of the year 90, teaching the emotions, the economy and the Histoire of the United States.

Douglas is marrié in Carla. Their first wire, Connor, were born at the beginning of 2001, and their second wire, Caden Andrew, were born the December 6th 2005.

Douglas entered in Réhabilitation in February 2006 after being become dependant with the analgesics Oxycontin. It left the rehabilitation in April 2006, not yant more took oxycontin since January 2006.

Bonds

  • FranchiseFansite.com (Official site)
  • Profiles TNA

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