Kane and Tori - WWE

1998, when Kane formed a tag team with X-Pac and had a girlfriend...Tori.
Remember when he spoke only through the electrolarynx?
Then he could talk?
In 2000, Tori finally betrayed Kane and joined X-Pac and DX.

Stephanie Bellars aka Gorgeous George - WCW

Stephanie Bellars was born on born January 25, 1978 in Rockford, Illinois.
She is best known for her time in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as Gorgeous George (not to be confused with 1950s wrestler, but looking at her picture, is there a chance of that?)
Stephanie made her pro wrestling debut in WCW at the 1999 Spring Stampede.
"Macho Man" Randy Savage was dating her at the time and brought her in as his valet.
This was after Savage and Miss Elizabeth had broken up again.
Savage was injured, so the two didn't make it back onto TV until April 1999. The Macho Man started a feud with Ric Flair, so Stephanie (as Gorgeous George) started a feud with Flair's handpicked referee, Charles Robinson.
There was actually a match at Slamboree on May 9, 1999 where George faced Robinson, with her using the Macho Man's moves and Robinson using Flair's.
George won the match with the flying elbow, but that was enough for Stephanie and she said she didnt want to wrestle anymore.
She claimed she was injured in the match and started using crutches, which she used on "Rowdy" Roddy Piper when she turned heel.

Stephanie left WCW and went to ECW in 2000. Since Savage had trademarked the name "Gorgeous George", she was simply called "George".
At Heatwave 2000, she was the valet of Tommy Dreamer, but she turned on him, joining Justin Credible.
During her time in ECW, she also had a feud with Francine.

In 2001, George married Misfits guitarist , Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, and she also worked for GLOW as a referee.
She then went to Xtreme Wrestling Federation (XWF) and formed the X-Girls with former Nitro Girls Kristina Laum and Chiquita Anderson.

She showed up a few times after that in 2004 on TNA as Minsa, but it never really lead to anything.

In 2005, her husband Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein formed his own band "Gorgeous Frankenstein" named after his beautiful wife.

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Héctor Garza - WCW

Héctor Garza was born on June 12th, 1969 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
Although mainly a luchador in Mexico, Hector did wrestle for awhile for WCW.

In WCW he was known as Héctor Garza Jr., even though his father wrestled as Humberto Garza.
He was known in WCW for his twirling turnbuckle to floor plancha called the corkscrew plancha.
He did manage a victory over Scott Hall, but other than that, he really didnt get much of a push.
He was a part of Latino World Order along with Eddie Guerrero, Psychosis, La Parka and Juventud Guerrera.
After a painful injury, he left WCW and returned to Mexico to wrestle.

 Hector passed away on May 26th, 2013.

"Big" Rick Fuller - Pro Wrestling

"Big" Rick Fuller was born Richard Fuller in 1969, in Middleboro, Massachusetts.
Rick trained under "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka and "Mr. USA" Tony Atlas at their wrestling school in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
He made his pro wrestling debut in 1990, and made his debut in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1997 in a match against Lex Luger.
Rick wrestled (and lost to) some of the greats in the WCW.
Besides Luger, he went up against Chris Benoit, Diamond Dallas Page, The Giant (Big Show), Booker T, Jeff Jarrett, Meng, Buff Bagwell, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan and he was one of the first victims of Goldberg's winning streak in early 1998.

After WCW closed, Rick went to the Indy circuit where he has been successful and still wrestles today.
In the independent circuit he has wrestled for promotions like Chaotic Wrestling, Eastern Wrestling Alliance (EWA), Lethal Pro Wrestling (LPW), NWA New England, NWA Southwest and New England Championship Wrestling among others.

Rick also appeared as a prison inmate in the 2008 crime drama "What Doesn't Kill You" with Ethan Hawke and Mark Ruffalo.

He also appeared in the video games WCW Nitro and WCW/NWO Thunder.

Fit Finlay - WCW

David Edward Finlay, Jr. was born on January 31,1959 in Belfast, Northern Ireland and before he became "Finlay" in the WWE, he was in the WCW as the Belfast Bruiser and Fit Finlay.
He debuted in World Championship Wrestling in 1995 using the Belfast Bruiser ring name (a nickname he had used while in the UK).
His tough guy image is NOT exaggerated.

During an episode of Monday Nitro, he was in a parking lot brawl with Lord Steven Regal that resulted in him sustaining an eye injury from broken glass, which caused him to wrestle with an eyepatch on for several months.
After this, he was involved in a match with Regal where he legitimately broke Regal's nose.
During a hardcore match at a WCW house show in Jackson, Mississippi in July 1999, Finlay suffered a badly lacerated nerve, which nearly cost him use of the leg.
When WCW was bought by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), Finlay began working for them as a trainer for new wrestlers and he eventually wound up training the Divas.

While he was in the WCW, he held the WCW World Television Championship and won the WCW Hardcore Junkyard Invitational Trophy.

Mike Enos

Mike Enos was born on June 11, 1963 in Tampa, Florida.
He is a pro wrestler probably best known for his time wrestling with World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the American Wrestling Association (AWA) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).
Mike was trained by "The Trainer of Champions" Eddie Sharkey and made his pro wrestling debut in 1989.
He wrestled as “Mean” Mike Enos in the AWA, Blake Beverly in the WWF and The Mauler and his real name in WCW.

Mike wrestled as the The Masked Superstar at Wrestlewar 1990.
And Mike and his tag team partner Wayne Bloom also wrestled masked as the "Minnesota Wrecking Crew" managed by Ole Anderson.
Mike Enos retired from wrestling in 2000.

Bobby Duncum, Jr. - WCW

Bobby Duncum, Jr. was born on August 26, 1965 in Austin, Texas.
He is the son of the famous Bobby Duncum.
And is one of the wrestlers that was billed from Texas, that really was from Texas.
Bobby was trained by Skandor Akbar.
He wrestled for Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), All Japan Pro Wrestling and the WCW as a member of the West Texas Rednecks.
Bobby passed away after an accidental overdose of a prescription pain killer on January 24, 2000.

The "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase

What can you say about Theodore Marvin "Ted" DiBiase, Sr.?
I mean that hasn't already been said.
He was born on January 18, 1954 in Omaha, Nebraska to female pro wrestler wrestler Helen Hild. His stepfather, pro wrestler "Iron" Mike DiBiase passed away in the ring of a heart attack when Ted was just 15.
He was trained by wrestling legends Dory Funk, Jr. and Terry Funk.
If anyone has wrestling in their blood it's Ted DiBiase.
To list all of his accomplishments would take a blog by itself.
Or you could just write a book, which Ted did, called "Every Man Has His Price: The True Story of Wrestling's Million-Dollar Man
".
Even though retired from active wrestling, he makes occasional appearances on WWE programs from time to time.
But right now his passion is his promotion, Power Wrestling Alliance. The PWA events are a combined Christian/wrestling event, because Ted is a born-again Christian. He sometimes works with another fellow born-again Christian, Nikita Koloff (Nelson Scott Simpson), at the events.
All three of his sons, Mike DiBiase, Ted DiBiase, Jr. and Brett are professional wrestlers.
On May 26, 2008, Ted DiBiase, Jr. continued his father's wrestling legacy by debuting in the WWE.

Barry Darsow

Barry Darsow, best known as Smash, was born October 6, 1959 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a former pro wrestler .
During his career he worked for Jim Crockett Promotions, the WWF, WCW, and several regional promotions in the 1980s and 1990s.

Darsow got his wrestling cred early on in life. He attended Robbinsdale High School in Minneapolis with Curt Hennig, Richard Rood (Rick Rude), Brady Boone (Battle Kat), Tom Zenk, John Nord, and Scott Simpson (Nikita Koloff).
Was it some kind of Genetic Research facility?
He also worked as a bouncer with the Road Warriors, Hawk and Animal.
During his career he held the NWA Florida United States Tag Team Wrestling Championship with Jim Neidhart, the IAW Tag Team Wrestling Championship with Paul Roma, the NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Wrestling Championship, the NWA United States Tag Team Wrestling Championship with Ivan Koloff, the NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Wrestling Championship twice with Ivan and Nikita Koloff, the Mid-South Television Wrestling Championship and the WWF Tag Team Wrestling Championship three times with Ax.

And his legacy lives on, as now his son Dakota Darsow has signed a developmental contract with the WWE.

Mike Maraldo / Ace Darling

Mike Maraldo was born on June 27, 1975 in Jersey Shore Brick Township, New Jersey.
He is a pro wrestler best known by his wrestling name Ace Darling.
Ace has wrestled for many promotions including East Coast Wrestling Association, Jersey All-Pro Wrestling, New Jack City Wrestling, Independent Superstars of Pro Wrestling, ECW, and Pennsylvania Championship Wrestling.
He appeared on WCW in 1997 when he and Devon Storm (Crowbar) formed a tag team known as The Extremists.

"The Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels

And now a person that I think is really under rated.
He's a very solid in ring performer and has the showmanship ability a lot of wrestlers lack.
This has nothing to do with the fact that he's from my home state.
Heck, if this keeps up I may just do a blog on North Carolina Wrestlers.
Daniel Christopher Covell was born on December 24, 1973 Fayetteville, North Carolina.
He is a pro wrestler better known by his ring names "The Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels or Curry Man.
Daniels wrestled for the WCW back in 2001 and had a famous match during an episode of WCW Monday Nitro where he botched an attempted springboard moonsault, nearly breaking his neck. Despite losing almost all control of his left arm, he wrestled the match to it's finish.
Daniels was offered a 90-day contracts after the match, but the WWF bought WCW right after that and Christopher would never wrestle for the WCW again.

WCW: Yuji Nagata

Yuji Nagata (born April 24, 1968) is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is known for his perennial 'tweener status and his stiff, shoot style wrestling technique.

Before turning professional, Nagata was a successful amaresu (amateur) wrestler. Competing in the Greco-Roman style, Nagata represented Japan in the Asian Championships twice (1993, placing fifth, and 1994, placing fourth), in one World Cup at the Espoir level in 1988, and in the 1991 World Championships, placing twenty-first.

Nagata joined New Japan Pro Wrestling in April 1992 and trained in the New Japan Dojo. He debuted on September 14 of that year, facing Hiroyoshi Tenzan. Nagata increased in stature during the 1995 inter-promotional angle pitting NJPW loyalists against UWF International wrestlers. Taught the shoot-style by Kazuo Yamazaki, who had returned to NJPW after leaving UWFI, Nagata learned the style that has been his trademark ever since.

Nagata joined the American World Championship Wrestling promotion in February 1997 as an arrogant heel. He was managed by Sonny Onoo, who also acted as his translator. He began feuding with Ultimo Dragon, with Nagata repeatedly injuring Dragon's shoulder. The two rivals faced one another at Halloween Havoc on October 26, with Nagata forcing his smaller opponent to submit with an arm submission hold. They faced one another in a rematch at WCW World War 3 on November 23, with the added stipulation that, should Dragon win, he would receive five minutes alone in the ring with the interfering Onoo. Nagata was able to pin Dragon following a distraction by Onoo, thus ending their feud.

In 1998 Nagata teamed with Kensuke Sasaki and entered a tournament for the number one contenderships to the WCW World Tag Team Championships. The partners won the tournament, but were unable to win the titles in their subsequent title match. Nagata left WCW in August 1998 and returned to Japan.

Upon his return, Nagata began challenging for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. On September 23, 1998, Nagata fought Scott Norton for the vacant title (the previous champion, Masahiro Chono, had suffered a neck injury) in Yokohama, but was defeated.

On August 28, 1999 in Tokyo, Nagata and Manabu Nakanishi defeated Shiro Koshinaka and Kensuke Sasaki for the IWGP Tag Team Championships. They held the title untils July 20, 2000, when they lost to Satoshi Kojima and Hiroyoshi Tenzan in Sapporo, Hokkaido. Nagata and Nakanishi feuded with Kojima and Tenzan for several months, but were unable to regain the titles. In January 4, 2000, his old mentor Kazuo Yamazaki retired and Nagata served as his final opponent, winning the match.

In March 2000 Nagata formed an ill-fated stable known as Fighting Club G-EGGS, with all the stable member having legitimate sporting backgrounds. The stable included Manabu Nakanishi, Nagata's tag team partner and co-IWGP Tag Team Champion at the time, Masakazu Fukuda, Yutaka Yoshie and Brian Johnston. Fukuda died in April 2000 from a brain hemorrhage suffered during a match with rookie Katsuyori Shibata, and was honoured with a ten-bell salute and a tribute show in September of that year. Johnston's participation in the group was largely limited after he suffered a stroke, and Nagata eventually disbanded G-EGGS on June 16, 2001.

In August 2001, Nagata won the eleventh annual G-1 Climax tournament, defeating Keiji Mutoh in the finals by submission. Nagata had entered the tournament twice before, but was eliminated in semi-final matches on both instances. Nagata challenged for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship once again after it was vacated by the injured Kazuyuki Fujita on January 4, 2002, but lost to Tadao Yasuda on February 16, 2002, in a tournament final. Nagata defeated Yasuda for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship on April 5, 2002 in the Nippon Budokan. Immediately following his victory, Nagata was attacked by Pro Wrestling NOAH mainstay Yoshihiro Takayama. He held the title for thirteen months before losing to Takayama on May 2, 2003 in the Tokyo Dome.

In April 2005, Nagata formed Team JAPAN, a group of former amateur wrestlers with a grudge against the younger generation of wrestlers in NJPW.

On June 28, 2006, Nagata was announced as a participant in the 2006 G-1 Climax, his eighth appearance in the tournament.

Nagata challenged for the AJPW Triple Crown at the January 4th Tokyo Dome show against the current Triple Crown champion, Minoru Suzuki. Nagata was submitted very quickly in a very dissapointing match.

Yuji Nagata always gives a salute before applying the Nagata Lock I on his opponents. ( see: Smackdown vs Raw 2006)
Nagata's motto is "Be Ambitious" which is usually written on his wrestling tights.
Nagata is the 3rd longest reigning IWGP Champion, with a reign of 392 days

WCW: Ernest "The Cat" Miller

Ernest Clifford Miller was born January 14, 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia.
He is a former pro wrestler who worked in both the WCW and WWE. He was the karate instructor to R and B superstar Usher Raymond and TV star Emmanuel Lewis while they were younger, and has stated that, like his other students, both still refer to him as Mr. Miller as a sign of respect.

After a career as a karate tournament competitor, Miller was brought to the WCW by Eric Bischoff. Miller was teaching Bischoff's son Garrett, when Bischoff asked him to become a wrestler.

Starting out as Glacier's tag team partner in his feud with Mortis and Wrath, he soon left Glacier and became a heel with Sonny Onoo as his manager. It was during this time that Miller's popularity heightened.

As a heel, he often gloated that he could beat anybody within two minutes and managed to do so on several occasions using his signature move, The Feliner (Corkscrew roundhouse kick).
It was also around this time that Ernest Miller began wearing ruby slippers in the ring (?) and dancing in a James Brown-like fashion to celebrate his victories. This led to a PPV "dance-off" between Miller and James Brown, who had been brought in for this.
He also holds the distinction of being one of the only men to make the fiercely professional Gene Okerlund break character and visibly laugh during an interview (Okerlund told Miller that - due to Miller's unreliable nature - he would never buy a used car from him, at which point Miller retorted with "I'll sell my foot to your ass", causing Okerlund to visibly crack on screen). Miller even went as far promoting his own instructional, karate home video with a presumably pseudo infomercial.
During this time, Billy Blanks' Tae Bo exercise videos were quite popular, so Miller's infomercial was obviously a comedic parody that fit his gimmick. While Miller was most often a heel, he eventually turned face and became WCW Commissioner in 2000. He began the storyline as a heel but eventually turned face due to the high fan reaction he was getting whenever he entered an arena. He was feuding with Ric Flair's Magnificent Seven group when WCW was purchased by Vince McMahon.

He appeared at some World Wrestling All-Stars shows before going to the WWF where he had a somewhat brief career.