WWE Superstar Bios

Chris Jericho Bio

2009-07-04T18:28:00.000-07:00

Christopher Keith Irvine who is better known by his ring name Chris Jericho, is an American-born Canadian professional wrestler.

As a part of WWE, he is credited as being the first-ever Undisputed Champion in WWE. His first reign as WWF Champion and his second reign as WCW Champion (then known as the World Championship) together make him the first Undisputed Champion in history. In addition, he is also the ninth Triple Crown Champion and the fourth Grand Slam Champion.

A year after graduating from college, Chris Jericho was setting up rings for promoter Bob Holliday. At age nineteen, he entered the Hart Brothers School of Wrestling where, on his first day, he met Lance Evers, the future Lance Storm. The two remain close friends to this day. Two months later, he was ready to start wrestling on independent shows, making his debut in October 1990 in a draw against Storm. The pair would go on to work as a tag-team, initially called "Sudden Impact". He took the name "Jericho" from the Helloween album, Walls of Jericho.

Jericho and Storm worked for Tony Condello in the tours of Northern Manitoba with future superstars Adam Copeland (Edge), Jason Reso (Christian Cage), and Terry Gerin (Rhino). The pair also wrestled in Calgary's Canadian National Wrestling Alliance (CNWA) and Canadian Rocky Mountain Wrestling (CRMW). In the winter of 1992, he traveled to Mexico where he wrestled for several small wrestling companies as well as the largest in the country, Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL). In EMLL, Jericho took on Silver King, Negro Casas, and Último Dragón en route to an eleven-month reign as the NWA Middleweight Champion that began in December 1993. His burgeoning wrestling skills also took him to Japan in 1994 where he competed for the Wrestling and Romance (WAR) promotion, facing the likes of Gedo and Último Dragón, to whom he lost the WAR International Junior Heavyweight Championship. 1994 also saw Jericho reunited with his former teammate from CRMW, Storm, as the Thrillseekers in Jim Cornette's Smoky Mountain Wrestling promotion. In 1995, Jericho competed in the second Super J Cup Tournament, hosted by WAR, losing to Chris Benoit.

In 1996, thanks to a recommendation by Mick Foley to promoter Paul Heyman, Jericho began wrestling for the Philadelphia-based Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) promotion, winning the ECW Television Championship in June 1996. While in ECW, Chris Jericho made a name for himself, wrestling top talent such as Taz, Sabu, Rob Van Dam, Cactus Jack, Shane Douglas, and 2 Cold Scorpio. It was during this time that he drew the attention of WCW.

On August 26, 1996 Jericho made his first appearance with WCW, and on September 15, he appeared at his first pay-per-view show, in a match against Chris Benoit at Fall Brawl. On June 28, 1997, Jericho defeated Syxx in Los Angeles, California to win the Cruiserweight Championship for the first time. He won the title again on August 12, 1997, by defeating Alex Wright.

Jericho began his WCW heel run when he won the title a third time, defeating Rey Mysterio, Jr. at Souled Out by forcing him to submit to the Liontamer. After the match, Jericho assaulted Mysterio's knee with a toolbox. Mysterio (kayfabe) needed six months of recovery before he could return to the ring. Jericho then had a short feud with Juventud Guerrera with Guerrera repeatedly wanting a shot at Jericho's Cruiserweight Championship but constantly being rebuffed. This resulted in a Title vs. Mask match at SuperBrawl VIII. Guerrera lost the match and was forced to remove his mask. Following this match, Jericho began his ongoing gimmick of collecting and wearing to the ring trophy items from his defeated opponents, such as Guerrera's mask, Prince Iaukea's Hawaiian dress, and a headband from Disco Inferno.

Jericho alternated between WCW and a number of Japanese tours before his debut with the World Wrestling Federation. The build-up to Jericho's arrival was a clock labeled "countdown to the new millennium," counting down over the weeks prior to his arrival. On the home video, Break the Walls Down, Jericho states he was inspired to do this as his entrance when he saw a similar clock in a post office. Vince McMahon gave him the green light to use it as his intro to the WWF. The clock finally ran down on August 9, 1999 in Chicago, Illinois while The Rock was in the ring doing a promo. Jericho, a heel, who was actually being cheered instead of getting booed, entered the arena and proclaimed himself "Y2J" (a play on the Y2K bug). The Rock proceeded to verbally mock him for his interruption.

Jericho feuded with Chyna for the Intercontinental Championship. After losing to Chyna at the Survivor Series 1999, Jericho won his first Intercontinental title at Armageddon. This feud with Chyna lasted for many months, including a controversial decision during a rematch in which two separate referees declared each one of them the winner of a match for the title. As a result, they became co-owners of the title until Jericho attained sole ownership at the Royal Rumble. He ended up dropping the title to Kurt Angle at No Way Out.

On April 2, Jericho participated in a Triple Threat match against Chris Benoit and Kurt Angle at WrestleMania 2000. Angle entered the match-up as both the WWF European and WWF Intercontinental Champion. The first man to score a pinfall or submission would be declared Intercontinental Champion. The second man to score a pinfall or submission would be declared European Champion. Jericho was first pinned by Benoit and pinned Benoit later on in the match, making Jericho the new European Champion. Jericho lost the title the next day to Eddie Guerrero on Raw after Chyna turned heel to side with Guerrero, claiming she could not resist his Latino Heat. On the April 17 edition of Raw, Jericho upset Triple H in a WWF Championship match. Referee Earl Hebner had made a fast count when Jericho pinned Triple H, giving Jericho the title. After previous weeks of assault on referee Earl Hebner, Triple H told him that if he reversed the decision, then he would never touch him while he was under contract. After Hebner reversed the decision, he fired Hebner and assaulted him. Despite the pinfall win over Triple H, WWE does not recognize Jericho's reign as champion. After the controversial decision, Jericho went on to feud with Chris Benoit. On the May 4 edition of SmackDown!, Jericho defeated Benoit to become Intercontinental Champion for the second time, but lost the title back to Benoit four days later on Raw.

Jericho's popularity skyrocketed when he started feuding with Triple H and his wife (just married in the storyline at the time) Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley. Fans took particular delight in his promos toward Stephanie, as he showered her with insults, calling her a "filthy, dirty, disgusting, brutal, bottom-feeding, trash-bag ho" and throwing a pie in her face. He got the best of Triple H on more than one occasion, even helping the Brooklyn Brawler, a renowned jobber, gain an upset victory over the then four-time WWF Champion. Their feud climaxed at Fully Loaded, when they competed in a Last Man Standing match, with Jericho only losing the match to Triple H by one second and thanks to multiple occasions of Stephanie helping Triple H, especially in the final moments.

At WrestleMania 21, Jericho participated in the first-ever Money in the Bank ladder match. The match concept was suggested by Jericho, and he competed in the match against Benjamin, Chris Benoit, Kane, Christian, and Edge. Despite coming up with the idea for the match, he lost the match when Edge claimed the briefcase. At Backlash, Chris Jericho yet again challenged Shelton Benjamin for the Intercontinental Championship, but failed in his attempt to win the belt. On June 12, 2005 Jericho wrestled in the first match of the ECW One Night Stand pay-per-view event, against Lance Storm. Jericho used his 'Lionheart' gimmick, instead of his more well known 'Y2J' gimmick. Jericho lost after interference from Jason and Justin Credible; Jericho was hit in the head with a Singapore Cane, allowing Storm to pin him.

Later that June, Jericho became a heel for the third time in the WWE by turning on WWE Champion John Cena. Jericho lost a Triple Threat match for the WWE Championship at Vengeance which also involved Christian to Cena. The feud continued throughout the Summer and Jericho lost to Cena in a championship match at SummerSlam. The next night on Raw, Jericho faced Cena in a rematch, this time in a "You're fired" match, where the loser would be fired. Cena won again, and Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff kayfabe fired a pleading Jericho, who was carried out of the arena by security. WWE's official website confirmed on July 28, 2005 that Chris Jericho signed a short-term contract extension to stay with the company after his long-term contract expired, which presumably ended after his loss to Cena on August 22. On August 25, Jericho announced his departure from WWE in a statement on (and later pulled from) his official website, saying that after 15 years of wrestling he was mentally burnt out and no longer challenged by wrestling at that point in time, noting that he has done everything he has ever wanted to do in the business. He said that the "You're fired" match with John Cena was his last match "for now," but said he was not done with wrestling or WWE, and that if he returned to wrestling, it would be with WWE. On his official website he added a press release saying he is touring with Fozzy, acting, hosting his XM Radio show, The Rock Of Jericho, appearing on VH1's Best Week Ever, and being a guest commentator on MuchMusic's Video on Trial.

Jericho's return had been promoted since September 24, 2007 with a viral marketing campaign using a series of 15-second cryptic binary code videos, similar to the matrix digital rain featured in The Matrix series. The videos contained hidden messages and biblical links related to Jericho, although speculation existed throughout WWE fans over who the campaign targeted. The text "Save Us" and "2nd Coming" were most prominent in the videos. The campaign spread throughout the internet with numerous websites, though no longer operational, that featured hidden messages and biblical links to further hint at Jericho's return.

Jericho made his return to WWE television on the November 19, 2007 edition of Raw, where he interrupted Randy Orton during Orton's orchestrated "passing of the torch" ceremony. Jericho revealed his intentions to reclaim the WWE Championship in order to "save" WWE fans from Orton, with a new haircut and the Y2J gimmick again. Jericho wrestled in his first match in over two years on the November 26 edition of Raw, debuting a new finishing maneuver called the Codebreaker, to defeat Santino Marella. At his first pay-per-view appearance, Armageddon, he was booked in a WWE title match against Randy Orton. Jericho, however, defeated Orton by disqualification when John "Bradshaw" Layfield (JBL) interfered in the match. As a result, Orton retained the title. He began a feud with JBL and met him at the Royal Rumble. Jericho was disqualified after hitting JBL with a steel chair. At No Way Out, Jericho competed in his fourth Elimination Chamber match alongside Triple H, Shawn Michaels, JBL, Umaga, and Jeff Hardy. He was the third man eliminated when Hardy pinned him following Michaels' Sweet Chin Music. On the March 10 edition of Raw, Jericho captured the Intercontinental Championship for a record eighth time, this time defeating Jeff Hardy.

On the June 9 edition of Raw, Jericho turned heel once again by attacking Shawn Michaels during his talk show segment The Highlight Reel, and after that developed a "self-righteous businessman" gimmick, wearing a suit and tie. In doing so, Jericho purposely shed many of the trademarks associated with the "Y2J" character, taking "every characteristic that made him popular, and strip[ing] those traits away from himself." Paul Heyman was enthusiastic about the transformation, claiming "All that's left is an articulate villain who delivers his lines with little emotion but lots of conviction. Jericho's contempt for all those who dare to oppose him is a 180 degree turn from the fun-loving Ayatollah of Rock 'n' Rolla whose fan base had few peers in terms of numbers and volume." At Night of Champions, he lost the Intercontinental title to Kofi Kingston after a successful distraction by Shawn Michaels. He hosted the final version of The Highlight Reel on the July 28 edition of Raw. At Unforgiven, Jericho lost an Unsanctioned match to Michaels. But in the main event, Jericho entered in the Championship Scramble as a replacement for the defending champion CM Punk and subsequently won the World Heavyweight Championship. On the September 22 edition of Raw he successfully retained his title in a Steel Cage match against CM Punk. Later on, it was announced that Jericho would defend his World Championship against Shawn Michaels at No Mercy, thus continuing the feud between the two. He successfully defended his title against Michaels at No Mercy in a ladder match. At Cyber Sunday, Jericho dropped the title to Batista with Stone Cold Steve Austin as the special guest referee. Eight days later, however, on a three hour special episode of Raw, he defeated Batista to win back the title in a steel cage match. This reign would last until the 2008 Survivor Series, where Jericho lost to the returning John Cena. On the December 8 edition of Raw, he won a Slammy Award for the Superstar of the Year.

On the January 12, 2009 episode of Raw, Jericho was involved in a narrative in which WWE Executive Vice President Stephanie McMahon fired him. The next week, he was rehired by McMahon after a forced apology to her and the fans. One week later, Jericho qualified for the World Heavyweight Championship Elimination Chamber match at No Way Out when he defeated CM Punk. At the pay-per-view, he started the match with Rey Mysterio and survived to the final three as he eliminated Mike Knox and helped eliminate Kane and the champion John Cena. He was pinned by Mysterio when he reversed the Walls of Jericho. Jericho started a feud with real-life actor - and star of the movie The Wrestler - Mickey Rourke and with all WWE Hall of Famers. He challenged and attacked Ric Flair, Roddy Piper, Jimmy Snuka and Ricky Steamboat. Jericho won an elimination match at WrestleMania XXV against Snuka, Steamboat and Piper. Jericho then fought Ric Flair and finished the fight with a Double Knee Facebreaker called the Codebreaker. Jericho then challenged Mickey Rourke, the star of "The Wrestler. Rourke kayfabe knocked Jericho out after an elbow to the back of the head.

On the April 13 episode of Raw, Jericho was drafted to the SmackDown brand as part of the 2009 WWE Draft. On his Raw farewell address he was interrupted by Ricky Steamboat which led to the two facing off at Backlash where Jericho came out victorious. On his Smackdown re-debut, Jericho participated in a fatal-four-way elimination match which also featured Kane, Jeff Hardy and Rey Mysterio. Mysterio gave Jericho a Tiger Feint Kick and tried to follow up with a Springboard Seated Senton before Jericho threw a chair into him and was then DQ'd. This started a feud between the two and a face off at Judgment Day for the Intercontinental Championship was booked, where Mysterio pinned Jericho after a 619. The feud would continue with the two facing off in a No Holds Barred Match at Extreme Rules where Jericho was able to win and unmask Mysterio. He consequently broke his own record, increasing his number of reigns with the Intercontinental Title from eight to nine. At The Bash Jericho lost his Intercontinental Title back to Rey Mysterio. However he would compete later on in the PPV, winning the Unified Tag Team Championship with partner Edge.

Shortly afterwards, Edge suffered a real life injury and needed time off. In the storyline, Jericho announced that he had a clause in his contract stating that should Edge become injured during their title reign, Jericho would not be forced to forfeit, but rather would be allowed to select a new partner.

On July 26, 2009 at Night of Champions, Jericho revealed The Big Show as his partner, and they defeated Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase to retain the championship.

The next night on Raw NBA star Shaq O'neal was introduced as Raw's special guest host for the night. Jericho interrupted Shaq in the ring and told Shaq that when he heard that the greatest NBA player of all time was there tonight he thought that Kobe Bryant was there. Jericho continued to mock Shaq but Shaq started mocking Jericho back and began giving Jericho little pushes. Jericho then introduced his Unified tag team champion partner Big Show who came out into the ring and exchanged insults with Shaq. Shaq then set up a match for later that evening with Cryme Tyme taking on Show and Jericho and said he'd be the special guest enforcer for that tag match.

Cryme Tyme battled the tag team champs later that evening and the match came down to Big Show beating unmercifully on JTG & Shad. The ref finally called for the bell in a DQ. Show kept stomping away on Cryme Tyme and then prepared to chokeslam both men in front of Shaq. Show shoved them down and then called for Shaq to get in the ring. Shaq tore off his enforcer's ref shirt and climbed into the ring. Shaq got right in Show's face and the two kept trash talking. Show pushed Shaq, so Shaq shoved back. Show then slapped his hand around Shaq's neck, so Shaq did the same back. The two held each other there, and then Cryme Tyme ran over to kick Show. Shaq did a running shoulder block into Show to knock him out of the ring with the crowd cheering it.

On July 31, 2009 on Smackdown Cryme Tyme would battle the Hart Dynasty and the winners of the match would get the opportunity to battle Big Show and Jericho for the Unified Tag Team titles at Summer Slam 2009. Cryme Tyme won and will challenge for the Unified Tag Team titles at Summer Slam.

On August 23, 2009 at Summerslam Jericho and Big Show were able to beat Cryme Tyme as they successfully defended their Unified tag team championship belts.

Jericho then started feuding with MVP after a match in which MVP hit Jericho with brass knuckles. The match was a MVP and Mark Henry match against Chris Jericho and the Big Show. Floyd Mayweather, who had knocked out the Big Show at Wrestlemania 24 with brass knuckles was sitting ring side and tossed in brass knuckles to MVP during the match.

R-Truth Bio

2009-06-15T19:52:00.000-07:00

Ron Killings was born in Atlanta but grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina. Killings aspired to become a musician. After moving to Charlotte, Killings became enamored with hip hop music and breakdancing. Throughout his high school years, Killings was a successful track runner and football player. He was on the same football team as MLB player Ray Durham at Harding High School. He was offered college scholarships, but turned them down in order to pursue a career in music. By the time he left school at the age of sixteen, Killings had met rappers such as Tupac Shakur and Eazy-E and was determined to become a rapper himself. He joined a talent agency named Ice Productions and became an opening act for performers such as MC Lyte and 3rd Bass. In order to get his rap career going financially, Killings got involved in drug dealing and ended up getting in trouble with the law and ended up in jail where he spent just over a year. Killings was released from prison into a halfway house, where he met Jackie Crockett, an employee of the National Wrestling Alliance. Crockett tried to convince Killings to become a professional wrestler, but he was determined to focus on his music career. Killings spent two years working on his music career, this time funding his career by robbing drug dealers, before becoming disillusioned by his lifestyle. He contacted Crockett once more and expressed an interest in becoming a wrestler.

In 1997 Killings made his debut in PWF as a manager. In 1999, he debuted in NWA Wildside as K-Krush, where he was awarded the newly-created NWA Wildside Television Championship on December 12. Killings lost the title to A.J. Styles on January 8, 2000.

Killings was signed to a two year developmental deal by the WWF in 1999 and was assigned to Memphis Championship Wrestling, a WWF farm federation. On April 12 in Robinsonville, Mississippi he won a battle royal with the vacant MCW Southern Heavyweight Championship on the line. He lost the title to a masked Jerry Lawler on May 24 in Tunica, Mississippi, but reclaimed it from Joey Abs several months later in Memphis, Tennessee on August 19. His second reign ended on November 3, when he lost to Steve Bradley in Manila, Arkansas.

Killings was promoted to the main roster after the Road Dogg, whose tag team partner, Billy Gunn, had been injured early that year, requested that they be placed in a tag team. He debuted on the November 13, 2000 episode of Raw, attacking William Regal during a match against Road Dogg. Killings, renamed K-Kwik, and the Road Dogg began rapping together, performing a song called "Getting' Rowdy" as they approached the ring. After Road Dogg was released in December, Killings became a singles competitor. He took part in the Royal Rumble on January 21, 2001 but was eliminated by The Big Show. Killings then began competing in the hardcore division. He defeated Raven for the WWF Hardcore Championship on February 3, but lost the title to Crash Holly that same evening. He defeated Raven for the title a second time on February 5, this time in the Carolina Coliseum in Columbia, South Carolina, but once again he lost the title to Holly within the space of several hours. Killings became somewhat a background figure of the Invasion angle during the summer months, often seen in dressing rooms and watching TV with other superstars during inter promotional matches. Killings was released from the WWF later that year.

In 2002, Killings joined Xtreme Pro Wrestling as K. Malik Shabazz, teaming with Salid Jihad and Raphael Muhammed as the New Panthers, a gimmick based upon the Black Panther movement. On July 20, in Pico Rivera, California, Killings and Muhammed took part in a four way tag team match for the XPW Tag Team Championships which was won by Damián 666 and Halloween. He left the promotion later that year.

Killings signed with the Nashville, Tennessee-based Total Nonstop Action Wrestling promotion in June 2002, and appeared on the first weekly TNA pay-per-view on June 19 as "K-Krush". Killings immediately established himself as a villain by harassing NASCAR drivers Sterling Marlin and Hermie Sadler until he was attacked by Brian Christopher. Later that same evening, he participated in the Gauntlet for the Gold, but was eliminated by Malice. The following week, Killings lost to Christopher after Marlin and Sadler interfered in their match. On July 3, Killings and Jeff Jarrett defeated Christopher and Scott Hall after Christopher turned on Hall during the match, aligning himself with Killings and Jarrett. On July 10, Killings defeated Hermie Sadler in a squash. The decision, however, was overturned after Killings continued to attack Sadler after he had been awarded the match.

On the July 17 TNA pay-per-view, Killings delivered an angry promo in which he implied that he had been held back as a result of his race. He then stated that he was to be referred to as "The Truth". Killings eventually began using his own name, referring to himself as Ron "The Truth" Killings. In the following weeks, Killings gave several more racially charged interviews and had confrontations with fellow African American wrestler Monty Brown.

Killings defeated Ken Shamrock for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship at NWA-TNA 8 on August 7, thus becoming the first ever recognized black NWA World Heavyweight Champion in history. He successfully defended the title in matches with Monty Brown, Jerry Lynn, Low Ki, Curt Hennig, Hotstuff Hernandez, and Scott Hall before losing to Jeff Jarrett on November 20 after Vince Russo hit him with a guitar. As a result of Russo's involvement, Killings turned into a fan favorite. In subsequent months, Killings feuded with Sports Entertainment Xtreme before turning into a villainous charcter once again by attacking Jarrett on March 19. He later introduced Nelson Knight as his bodyguard, but soon turned back into a fan favorite once more.

Between May and June, Killings began teaming with Konnan and former WWF ally B.G. James, and in July the trio formed a fan favorite faction known as the 3Live Kru. The Kru first wrestled as a unit on August 13, 2003, defeating the Disciples of The New Church (Sinn, Vampire Warrior, and Devon Storm). The Kru soon went after the NWA World Tag Team Championship. On November 26, the Kru defeated Simon Diamond, Johnny Swinger, and Glenn Gilberti in a six man tag team match with the vacant NWA World Tag Team Championships on the line. The NWA World Tag Titles were thus held by all three members of the Kru until January 28, 2004, when they were defeated by Redshirt Security (Kevin Northcutt and Legend) in Nashville.

After several abortive attempts to regain the tag titles, the Kru began supporting Killings' bid to become NWA World Heavyweight Champion. On June 9, NWA World Heavyweight Champion Jeff Jarrett took part in a "3Live Kru Challenge" which saw him face Konnan, James and Killings in three subsequent matches. Jarrett defeated Konnan in a strap match and James in a "trailer park trash match" (hardcore match), but lost to Killings in a "Ghetto Justice match". On May 19, Killings faced NWA World Heavyweight Champion A.J. Styles, Raven, and Chris Harris in a four way title match. He won the bout, becoming a two-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, after Jarrett hit Styles with a guitar. His reign lasted until June 2, when Jarrett defeated him in a King of the Mountain match which also included Harris, Styles, and Raven. The Kru went on to feud with Jarrett's mercenaries, the Elite Guard (Chad Collyer, Hotstuff Hernandez, and Onyx), and on July 14, the 3Live Kru, Dusty Rhodes, and Larry Zbyszko defeated Jarrett, Ken Shamrock, and the Elite Guard in a ten man tag team match. Following the break-up of the 3Live Kru, Killings began competing as a singles wrestler once more. He briefly aligned himself with Sting in March, teaming with Sting, A.J. Styles, and Rhino as "Sting's Warriors". At Lockdown on April 23, Sting's Warriors defeated Jarrett's Army in a Lethal Lockdown match. On the May 25 episode of Impact!, Killings defeated Monty Brown to qualify for a King of the Mountain match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship at Slammiversary on June 18. At Slammiversary, however, Killings failed to win the championship. Killings then teamed with Lance Hoyt in the following months, even participating, but losing, in a Battle Royal at No Surrender. On November 19 at Genesis, Killings and his tag team partner Lance Hoyt defeated Austin Starr and Alex Shelley with Kevin Nash at ringside. He was then off the active roster due to injury. Killings returned to action at Slammiversary, teaming with James Storm in a losing effort against Frank Wycheck and Jerry Lynn, implying that he was now a villain.

On June 19, Killings tried to resign from TNA, intending to work for the Mexican Asistencia Asesoría y Administración.[7] Amidst more dissension backstage, however, TNA refused to release Killings. He returned to TNA on August 12 at Hard Justice, confronting football player Adam Jones. At No Surrender, Adam "Pacman" Jones and Ron Killings defeated Sting and Kurt Angle to win the TNA World Tag Team Championship. On October 14, A.J. Styles and Tomko defeated him and Jones's replacement, Rasheed Lucius "Consequences" Creed, for the TNA tag team titles. It was reported that Killings no-showed a New Japan event that was part of the TNA/NJPW invasion cross-promotion project: "Jeff Jarrett sent a notice to New Japan, apologizing deeply for Ron Killings' no-show at Sumo Hall on the 11th. He promised that TNA would send top-of-the-line wrestlers from now on and show what TNA is all about".[citation needed] On December 9, Ron Killings announced on his MySpace page that he and TNA management had agreed upon a mutual agreement in regards to his release from the company, stating, "I wish TNA the best and I'm looking forward to continue my wrestling career and looking to go back to my original stomping grounds.

Killings re-signed with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in 2008. On July 25, 2008, during an episode of Friday Night SmackDown, a vignette announced that Killings would debut on the SmackDown brand under the ring name R-Truth. He now enters through the crowd rapping his theme song "What's Up!". WWE completely ignored his former time with the company as K-Kwik, making no mention of his Hardcore Championship title reigns or any other events from past years in the company. He made his in-ring debut on the August 29, 2008 episode of Friday Night SmackDown as a fan favorite defeating Kenny Dykstra. At Cyber Sunday, R-Truth, along with Festus and Montel Vontavious Porter, was one of the choices to vote for to compete against United States Champion Shelton Benjamin for the title. Although he received 59% of the vote, R-Truth was unsuccessful in winning the title from Benjamin. R-Truth won the Slammy Award for the Best Musical Performance.

On July 10, 2009, R-Truth debuted a new alter ego prankster gimmick under the name Pretty Ricky in a promo on SmackDown that showed R-Truth in a sleeveless T-shirt and a set of fake teeth trying to get his way into the Rabobank Arena.

R-Truth Facts:

Birth Name: Ron Killings

Birth Date: January 19, 1972

Height: 6 feet 2 inches

Weight: 228 lbs

Shelton Benjamin Bio

2008-08-05T01:36:00.000-07:00

Shelton Benjamin is a accomplished amateur wrestler who went 122-10 on high school and was a two-time South Carolina state high school heavyweight wrestling champion, earning the title in both 1993 and 1994. In college he put together a 36–6 win-loss record. Moreover, while attending the university, he was a two-time All-American heavyweight wrestler. Benjamin went 36–6 and made 12 pins in the Big Ten Championship, in which he placed sixth. Instead of trying to qualify for the 2000 Olympics, Benjamin decided instead to try and pursue a professional wrestling career. In 2000 Benjamin signed a contract with the WWE and wrestled for Ohio Valley Wrestling where he teamed with Brock Lesner, they would the tag team titles on three occasions together. In 2002 Shelton performed in house shows for the WWE. On December 26, 2002 Shelton Benjamin joined Smackdown as part of Team Angle which consisted of Benjamin, Charlie Haas and Kurt Angle. On February 6, 2003 Benjamin and Haas would win the tag team titles from Los Guerrero's. On June 12, 2003 Kurt Angle fired Benjamin and Haas from Team Angle and the team of Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas was then called 'The Worlds Greatest Tag Team', they continued to feud with Los Guerrero's and eventually the team parted ways. During the 2004 WWE draft Shelton went to the Raw brand and feuded with Triple H and much to the surprise of many beat Triple H three times in a row, once be pin,once by count out and once by disqualification. While on Raw Shelton became the Intercontinental Champion on three different occasions. On December 11, 2006 The Worlds Greatest Tag Team was reunited and they defeated the Highlanders, they feuded with Cryme Tyme mainly on Heat. On November 27, 2007 during ECW Elijah Burke introduced ECW's newest superstar Shelton Benjamin. In his ECW debut he defeated Tommy Dreamer. The gold standard, as Benjamin was sometimes known by had a long rivalry with Kofi Kingston while at ECW. During the 2008 WWE draft Shelton Benjamin was headed back to Smackdown.

On July 20, 2008 at the Great American Bash, Shelton Benjamin beat Matt Hardy and became the United States Champion. The Gold Standard then went on a mission to add to his gold by making an attempt at the WWE Championship held by Triple H. Shelton competed in the WWE Championship Scramble match at Unforgiven on September 7, 2008 but was unsuccessful.

On the September 12, 2008 edition of Smackdown Shelton competed in a fatal four way match against MVP, Jeff Hardy and Brian Kendrick to see who would face Triple H for the WWE championship at No Mercy but again was unsuccessful in his attempt to go after the WWE championship.

Shelton began feuding with R-Truth. On the October 3rd edition of Smackdown Shelton Benjamin had a match with Raw's Intercontinental Champion Satino Marella but ended up losing the match because of a distraction by R-Truth. The following week Shelton and R-Truth battled on Smackdown with R-Truth winning the non-title match. Shelton Benjamin was in shock after losing the match. The two would finally come face to face for the United States title at Cyber Sunday on October 26, 2008. Shelton was able to defend his title and continue his reign as the United States Champion.

Shelton competed at Survivor Series on November 23, 2008. He was part of team Orton that fought against team Batista. Shelton was able to eliminate his rival R-Truth but was later eliminated himself, though Shelton's team ended up winning the match.

On the December 26, 2008 edition of Smackdown Shelton successfully defended his United State title against Gregory "Hurricane" Helms.

On the March 6, 2009 episode of Smackdown, Benjamin defeated Jeff Hardy via DQ from Matt Hardy interfering to earn a spot in the Money in the bank ladder match set for WrestleMania XXV.

On the March 20, 2009 episode of Smackdown, which was Smackdown's 500th episode, Benjamin lost his WWE United States Championship to MVP. Shelton held the United States Championship for 8 months. Shelton had an opportunity in his rematch against MVP for the United States title on the April 3rd edition of Smackdown but Shelton was not able to win and MVP retained the title.

On April 5th, 2009 Shelton Benjamin competed at Wrestlemania 25 in a 8 man Money in the Bank matchup. Unfortunately for Shelton he did not succeed in winning the match as CM Punk won the MITB match for the second year in a row.

Throughout May of 2009 Shelton started feuding with John Morrison. They would try and settle their feud on May 17, 2009 at Judgment Day. Though displaying some impressive moves Shelton Benjamin would lose the match against Morrison.

On June 29, 2009, he was traded back to ECW and redebuted against the debuting Yoshi Tatsu in a losing effort. On the August 4th edition of ECW, Benjamin confronted Abraham Washington and Zack Ryder on the Abraham Washington Show, which ended with Ryder and Benjamin in a brawl. Benjamin and Ryder continued to feud.

Shelton Benjamin Facts:

Birth Name: Shelton Benjamin

Birth Date: July 9, 1975

Height: 6 ft 2 in

Weight: 245 lbs

Mr. Kennedy Bio

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Kenneth Anderson, or as we all know him as Mr. Kennedy, was an athlete in high school excelling in swimming and track and field. He also announced school basketball games and did a radio assignment in his Mass Media class, of course this element was eventually used again in his wrestling character when encouraged by Paul Heyman. Before wrestling Mr. Kennedy worked as a security guard, a personal trainer and was in the United States Army. He was trained by All-Star Championship Wrestling owners Eric Hammers and Mike Krause. He was invited to work on a try out basis as a jobber on WWE Jakked, WWE Velocity and WWE Sunday Night Heat, he did this from 2001 to 2004. He was then approached for a contract by TNA but it never happened.

Finally in February of 2005 Mr, Kennedy signed a developmental contract with WWE. He was sent to OVW for six months, then in his WWE Smackdown debut on August 25, 2005 he was victorious over Funaki. His character was an arrogant and cocky guy who would take the microphone and introduce himself, this would become Kennedy's trademark. He even started a little feud with Smackdown ring announcer Tony Chimel because he didn't believe Chimel's announcements were good enough and lacked respect. Mr. Kennedy feuded with Funaki and then Hardcore Holly but would suffer his first loss at the hands of Eddie Guerrero on November 11, 2005. This was Eddie Guerrero's final televised match before his death. In interviews about the incident, Kennedy has stated that he considers this an "unfortunate honor". Matt Hardy rolled up. Kennedy for the victory on the July 14 edition of Smackdown, ending Mr. Kennedy's streak of never being defeated by pin or submission.Mr. Kennedy would become one of the WWE's brightest stars feuding with Batista, Scotty 2 Hottie to just name a few.

He got his first taste of the gold win he won the United States Championship in a triple threat match against Bobby Lashley and Finlay, he would later lose the title to Chris Benoit after tapping out of the crippler crossface.

In late 2006 Mr. Kennedy was part of a long feud against the brothers of destruction Kane and the Undertaker, Mr. Kennedy would team up with MVP against these two. At Wrestlemania 23 Mr. Kennedy won the 'Money in the bank' match which gave him the right to challenge any WWE title holder at any time at any place for their championship up until Wrestlemania 24. Kennedy later said that he would be cashing in at Wrestlemania 24 but he never got the chance as he lost his 'Money in the bank' briefcase when Edge challenged him for it in a match on May 7, 2007 and beat him. Kennedy never got a chance to try and get it back as Edge cashed in the next week on Smackdown to win the World Heavyweight Championship from the Undertaker.

On June 11, 2007 Mr. Kennedy was drafted from Smackdown to the Raw brand. He would feud with Carlto, Umaga and Bobby Lashley, John Cena and Jeff Hardy during his time on Raw. Another feud he had at Raw was with Shawn Michaels when Kennedy had stated that it was time for Shawn Michaels to move on and let the younger, talented superstars climb their way up the ladder. This led to many matches between the two and Mr. Kennedy introduced WWE fans to his new signature move called the Mic Check. On April 28, 2008 Kennedy started feuding with Raw GM William Regal. This led to a 'Loser Gets Fired Match' in which Kennedy won and opened up the Raw GM spot. This feud with William Regal turned Mr. Kennedy into a face.

During the 2008 WWE draft Mr. Kennedy was drafted back to Smackdown. On the July 25, 2008 edition of Smackdown Mr. Kennedy fought in a 6 man battle royal with the winner getting the right to face Triple H at Summerslam for the WWE title, Mr. Kennedy did not win though. The following week on Smackdown he would win a non-title match against United States Champion Shelton Benjamin.

On August 4, 2008 Mr. Kennedy dislocated a shoulder in a house show against Shelton Benjamin and had to have surgery done.

Kennedy made his return to the WWE on the November 24, 2008 episode of Raw, promoting his movie Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia. He would also make appearances on Smackdown. He then disappeared again as he was not yet clear to wrestle from his injury. His appearances on Raw and Smackdown during this time were to basically promote his movie. Reports have it that he won't make his return until sometime after Wrestlemania.

On April 15, 2009, Mr. Kennedy returned to the Raw brand as Raw's first pick of the 2009 Supplemental Draft.

On May 7, 2009 Kennedy returned to in-ring action at Florida Championship Wrestling, WWE's developmental territory, to gain match fitness before returning to Raw. On the May 11, 2009 episode of Raw, WWE aired a video package to promote Kennedy's return. He made his official Raw return on May 25, competing in a 10-man tag team match. which his team won.

Kennedy was released from his WWE contract on May 29, 2009 just four days after his return.

Mr. Kennedy Facts:

Birth Name: Kenneth Anderson

Birth Date: March 6, 1976

Height: 6 ft 2 in

Weight: 243 lbs

Brian Kendrick Bio

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Brian Kendrick attended North Thurston High School in Lacey, Washington. During his senior year he got a job washing dishes at a pizza joint to save up money to attend wrestling school. He began training at the NWA Southwest wrestling school and later attended the Shawn Michael's Wrestling Academy.

In February 2000, Kendrick signed a developmental deal with the WWF, spending a year in the company's farm territory MCW, but then when the promotion ended Kendrick was released from his contract. Kendrick continued wrestling for MCW winning many titles while there.

In February of 2002 Kendrick wrestled on the premier show of Ring of Honor which gained him a contract with ROH. He also wrestled for Heartland Wrestling Association and then went to Japan to wrestle under the name Leonardo Spanky, a name given because of his resemblance to actor Leonardo DiCaprio. Spanky was a nickname he already carried for years.

In late 2002 Brian Kendrick signed a contract with the WWE. He made his WWE debut on the January 9, 2003 edition of Velocity under the gimmick of a mascot representing the local sports team of the town in which he was competing. He continued wearing masks for several weeks, each time competing under a different identity. His first major storyline within WWE came on the May 1, 2003 edition of Smackdown. He reverted to his former "Spanky" ring name after he interrupted a promo by John Cena. The two feuded over their similar hip hop gimmicks, until May 22 when Cena defeated Kendrick in a match.

On October 30, Kendrick began teaming with Paul London until January 13, 2004 when Kendrick left WWE to return to ZERO1. After leaving WWE, Kendrick wrestled in different independent promotions. He returned to ZERO1 as "Spanky" and was quickly pushed to capture the NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship. In 2004 Kendrick briefly wrestled for TNA and then went back and wrestled for ROH.

In July of 2005 Brian Kendrick announced that he would be returning to the WWE. He made his return during a live event on August 22, 2005, losing in a Fatal Four Way Match for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship. He then reformed a tag team with his former partner Paul London on the September 30 edition of Velocity. On December 16, the pair remade their image, wearing theatrical masks to the ring with matching vest and shorts.

Kendrick and London won the WWE Tag Team Titles at Judgment Day from MNM. On October 14, London and Kendrick became the longest reigning WWE Tag Team Champions of all time, surpassing MNM's previous record of 145 days. On the April 20 edition of Smackdown Paul London and Brian Kendrick would lose their tag team titles to Deuce and Domino, ending their reign at 331 days.

London and Kendrick were drafted to Raw on June 17 2007 and started feuding with Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch. In late 2007 London got hurt and Kendrick was mostly used as a jobber on Raw until London came back in February of 2008.

In the 2008 WWE draft Kendrick was drafted to Smackdown and made his debut on July 18, 2008. He had a new associate named Ezekiel who would escort him to the ring. He also had new ring attire and a whole new attitude. Brian Kendrick was now a heel and beat Jimmy Wang Yang in that returning match.

On the August 22 edition of SmackDown Kendrick won a 10 man battle royal to qualify for the WWE Championship Scramble match at Unforgiven. At Unforgiven Kendrick was unsuccessful though as Triple H retained the WWE Championship. On the September 12, 2008 edition of Smackdown Brian Kendrick had another opportunity at the WWE championship as he battled in a four way fatal match against Jeff Hardy, MVP and Shelton Benjamin. The winner would earn the right to face Triple H at No Mercy. Kendrick was unsuccessful though as Hardy won the match.

Kendrick then began sometimes participating in tag team matches with his bodyguard Ezekiel. On the November 21, 2008 edition of Smackdown Kendrick and Ezekiel were able to beat the tag team champions, Carlito and Primo Colon in a non-title match. This led to a feud between the two sides. The feud with the Colon's soon died out as the WWE went more with a Collin's Vs Miz and Morrison rivalry.

On April 15, 2009, Kendrick was drafted back to the Raw brand as part of the 2009 Supplemental Draft, while Jackson was drafted to the ECW brand. His first match on Raw after being drafted came on the April 27 episode, when he lost to Kofi Kingston. He won his first match on Raw after defeating Carlito on the May 11 episode before declaring his intention to win the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship. The following week, he teamed with Goldust in a losing effort against The Colons. After the match, Goldust and Hornswoggle beat up Kendrick, as he criticized Goldust the entire match. The following week on the May 25 edition of Raw Kendrick went on to team with Festus in a losing effort against Goldust and Hornswoggle.

On July 31 2009, Kendrick was released from his WWE contract.

Brian Kendrick facts:

Birth name: Brian David Kendrick

Birth date: May 29, 1979

Height: 5 ft 8 in

Weight: 175 lbs

DH Smith Bio

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D.H. Smith is the son of the British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith. He began training when he was only eight years old by his father and his uncle Bruce Hart. At the age of 10 DH Smith wrestled in front of a WWF house show. In 2002 Smith got to wrestle with his father in tag team action before his father past away. In 2004, Smith began teaming with T.J. Wilson as the Stampede Bulldogs, a reference to the British Bulldogs, the tag team composed of his father and his second cousin the Dynamic Kid. In the same year, Smith formed a stable known as The Hart Foundation Version 2.0 with Wilson, Jack Evans, and Teddy Hart. The Hart Foundation Version 2.0 initially performed in Stampede Wrestling before expanding to the U.S.A., where they competed in Major League Wrestling. In the beginning of 2005 Smith wrestled for New Japan Pro Wrestling as Black Assassin. In April of 2006 Smith and several of his relatives attended a ceremony as Bret Hart was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. While there, Smith met with a couple WWE executives and just like that a few days later he had signed a developmental contract with the WWE. He later started wrestling dark matches for the WWE and would get his first appearance on June 5, 2006 on Raw as he ran out with several other Raw wrestlers to chase out some ECW wrestlers.

On February 14, 2007 DH Smith started wrestling for Ohio Valley Wrestling and then later Florida Championship Wrestling when the WWE ended it's relationship with OVW. While there Smith teamed up with his cousins Natalya and Teddy Hart to form the next generation Hart Foundation. He made his television debut under the name DH Smith (the D for Davey Boy Smith and the H for Hart) on October 22, 2007 as he beat Carlito by using his dads trademark move, the running powerslam, the match was dedicated to his father.

On November 2, 2007 Smith was suspended for violating the WWE Substance Abuse and Drug Policy. He was suspended for 30 days but came back on December 17, 2007 to beat Charlie Haas on Heat. During the 2008 WWE draft D.H. Smith was drafted to Smackdown but never made his debut as he was sent to Florida Championship Wrestling on August 26.

He made the decision to return to FCW on a full-time basis so he could mature, and put more effort into developing his in-ring work and his personality. On October 30, Smith won the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship with TJ Wilson, defeating Joe Hennig and Sebastian Slater, but they lost it to Tyler Reks and Johnny Curtis on December 11, 2008 at the FCW television taping.

On April 15, 2009, Smith was drafted to the ECW brand as part of the 2009 Supplemental Draft, without making any appearances on SmackDown. Smith made his ECW debut on May 12, as a villain, attacking Finlay during Finlay's match with Tyson Kidd (TJ Wilson), using the name David Hart Smith. Smith, Kidd and Natalya formed a new version of The Hart Foundation, named the The Hart Trilogy, although on the May 27 episode of ECW, the name was tweaked to "The Hart Dynasty". Smith was victorious in his first match for ECW, defeating Finlay on the May 19 episode, with help from Kidd and Natalya.

On June 29, 2009 during WWE brand trades, The Hart Dynasty was traded to the SmackDown brand.

D.H. Smith Facts:

Birth Name: Harry Smith

Birth Date: August 2, 1986

Height: 6 ft 5 in

Weight: 260 lbs

Harry Smith is the son of British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith who married Diana Hart, Harry's mother making Bret Hart his uncle so you can say that Harry has the British Bulldog in him and the Hart family legacy in him.

Maria Bio

2008-08-02T05:00:00.000-07:00

Maria's full real full name is Maria Kanellis but WWE fans simply know her as Maria. Maria was a contestant on Outback Jack in 2004 and that same year entered the WWE diva contest after seeing an advertisement after watching Raw. Though Maria finished in fifth place in that diva search the WWE still decided to hire her.

She was trained at OVW under Paul Heyman and landed a spot on the Raw roster after her great work at OVW as she even contributed in bookings.

Maria then started to work on Raw as a backstage interviewer. She was seen as a sort of dingy girl who would ask all the wrong questions at the wrong time. On January 5, 2005 Maria was involved in her first in the ring match against Christy Hemme in a pillow match. Many matches against the WWE's top divas followed after that as she has battled Melina, Jillian Hall and Victoria to name a few. In 2007 she began an on screen relationship with Santino Marella. After former Playboy cover-girl Ashley Massaro's return in early 2008, Kanellis engaged in backstage segments where Ashley suggested Maria should be on the cover of Playboy, including at the Royal Rumble, to the disdain of Marella. As a part of the Playboy storyline, Maria defeated Beth Phoenix on February 18, ending her undefeated streak, to "earn the right" to be on the cover of the magazine.

During her Playboy cover unveiling, Maria's cover was plastered over with images of Marella. After Marella offered an ultimatum of posing for the magazine or staying with him as a couple, she stated, "No man and no one is going to make this decision for me" and broke up with her on-screen boyfriend. In her match at Wrestlemania, Maria, along with Ashley, was defeated by Phoenix and Melina at Wrestlemania XXIV in a Playboy Bunny Mania Lumberjack match. After the match, Maria kissed the Master of Ceremonies, Snoop Dogg.

As part of the 2008 WWE Supplemental Draft, Maria was drafted to the SmackDown brand. Maria made her debut on the August 1, 2008 edition of Smackdown by defeating Victoria. Maria then formed an alliance with the other Smackdown faces Michelle McCool and Brie Bella. Maria began feuding with Maryse, Victoria and Natalya.

On the October 17, 2008 edition of Smackdown Maria competed in a Diva poll match. The winner of the match would become the number one contender for Michelle McCool's Divas Championship. Maria battled against Victoria, Natalya, Brie Bella and Maryse. Maria ended up winning the match and soon will fight her friend Michelle McCool for the WWE Divas Championship. On the November 14th edition of SmackDown she failed to win the championship from McCool. Both Maria and Michelle McCool were part of the Smackdown Divas team as they battled the Raw Divas team at Survivor Series on November 23, 2008. During the match Mickie James and Maria had a spirited face off, but a distraction by Maria allowed Mickie to DDT Michelle and pin her. The Raw Divas ended up winning the match.

On the December 22, 2008 edition of Smackdown Maria was a special guest referee for the Divas Championship match between McCool and Maryse, in which Maryse won the title. After the match, McCool attacked Maria for supposedly letting Maryse win.

On the February 13, 2009 edition of Smackdown, Maria won her return match against Michelle McCool after help from Eve Torres.

Maria will compete in the Divas Battle Royal on April 5th, 2009 at Wrestlemania 25!

Maria Facts:

Birth Name: Maria Kanellis

Birth Date: February 25, 1982

Height: 5 ft 7 in

Weight: 120 lbs

Maria refused to pose in Playboy a few times because her little sister was still in high school and she did not want to embarass her. She eventually posed in April of 2008.

Carlito Bio

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Carlito is a Puerto Rican native who started wrestling for the World Wrestling Council (WWC) under the name Carly in 1999. Carlito is the son of former WWF wrestler Carlos Colon, Sr. and the oldest of four siblings, including Eddie Colon and Stacy Colón, both of whom have performed with Colón in the World Wrestling Council. His mother, Nancy, is Canadian. A second sister, Melissa didn't enter the wrestling business. Other members of Colón's family have also been involved in the World Wrestling Council; his uncle José Colón and cousin Orlando Colón have been involved in several angles within the company.

After great success in the WWC Carlito signed a developmental contract with the WWE in 2003. This move by Carlito caused much controversy in Puerto Rico as many fans seen Carlito as a sell out to Americas flashy company. Carlito's reply to his critics was "I did not care about what they thought. I've always dreamed of working for the WWE when I was young, and I took that chance when it came." Carlito occasionally still performs for the WWC where he is a multiple time Universal Heavyweight Champion.

He wrestled for WWE's farm territory then started doing dark matches for Raw beginning in December of 2003. On October 7, 2004 Carlito made his WWE debut on the Smackdown brand. He defeated John Cena for the United States Championship. No mistake here, in his debut! Carlito held the title for forty two days before John Cena took the title back. Carlito would then get his own segment called Carlito's Cabana.

In 2005 Carlito was drafted to WWE's Raw brand and in his Raw debut he beat Shelton Benjamin to become the new Intercontinental Champion. Carlito sure has ways with debut's! Carlito then had an on screen relationship with WWE diva Trish Stratus until Trish's wrestling career came to retirement. Carlito has been quite a ladies man as he would later also get involved in an on screen relationship with Torrie Wilson.

During his career Carlito has feuded with WWE's biggest superstars and was drafted back to Smackdown in the 2008 WWE draft. After the draft Carlito was given some time off because he wanted to attend his father's official retirement ceremonies at Aniversario 2008, where he also wrestled against Ray Gonzalez.

On September 12, 2008 Carlito re-debuted with his brother Primo Colon on Smackdown. They appeared as the Colons and beat the tag team champions Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder in a non title match.

On September 26, 2008 Carlito and Primo would once again face Ryder and Hawkins on Smackdown. This time though the WWE tag team belts were at steak. Carlito and Primo didn't disappoint as they became the new WWE tag team champions.

The Colins then became good friends with the Bella twins and started feuding a lot with Brian Kendrick and Ezekiel. After that feud ended a new feud began with the World tag team champions, the Miz and John Morrison. The feud even eventually led one of the Bella twins, Nickie Bella to stray away and side with the Miz and Morrison. This rivalry would eventually lead to a match at Wrestlemania 15 on April 5, 2009 in a Lumberjack Match as these teams both both up their tag team titles on the line. The Colons won the match at Wrestlemania 25 to hold the WWE Tag Team Titles and the World Tag Team Titles.

During the 2009 Supplemental Draft the Colon brothers were both drafted to RAW.

At The Bash, the duo dropped the Unified Tag Team Titles to Edge and Chris Jericho in a Triple Threat Tag Team Match also involving Ted DiBiase and Cody Rhodes. Carlito and Primo invoked their rematch clause the next night on Raw, but were unsuccessful. On the July 6 episode of Raw, they lost to Edge and Jericho, and afterwards Carlito attacked Primo thus ending the Colons' partnership and turning Carlito into a heel in the process.

Carlito Facts:

Birth Name: Carlos Edwin Colin Jr.

Birth Date: February 21, 1979

Height: 5 ft 10 in

Weight: 220 lbs

Umaga Bio

2008-08-01T03:54:00.000-07:00

Umaga is from America Samoa and a member of the famous Anoa'i wrestling family. His mother, Vera, is the sister of Afa and Sika of the Wild Samoans, and his later Umaga gimmick would be compared to their "wildness". Jr., Eddie's brother and Matt's cousin, that ended up being quickly dropped and they were sent to the was first used on April 3, 2006 on Raw. This then took the Intercontinental Championship from Jeff Hardy. He feuded with Bobby His two older brothers, Sam (better known as Tonga Kid and Tama) and Solofa Jr. (Rikishi, the Sultan), are also professional wrestlers who have achieved success of their own. Umaga trained to become a professional wrestler at the "Wild Samoan Pro Wrestling Training Center" operated by his uncles, Afa and Sika. In 1995, with his training complete, he started wrestling for Afa's World Xtreme Wrestling (WXW). The next year, both Fatu and his cousin Matt were brought into the WWF to take part in an angle with Solafa FatuWWF's farm territory. In 2003 Umaga wrestled for TNA and went under the name Ekmo. He then left for All Japan Pro Wrestling and went under the name Jamal. In December of 2005 Umaga was resigned by the WWE and wrestled in dark matches. The new gimmick of UmagaUmaga character was a destructive savage and feuded with Ric Flair and Kane. Umaga was impressive as he never got pinned by anyone during 34 televised matches. That came to an end in January of 2007 when John Cena rolled him up for a pin during an WWE Championship match. Umaga was named Mr. McMahon's representative at Wrestlemania 23 in the Mr. McMahon-Donald Trump battle of the billionaires feud. UmagaLashly and lost his Intercontinental title to Santino Marella, he would later get his belt back with a match against Santino. On September 3, 2007 Umaga would lose the title as it went back to Jeff Hardy after Hardy beat him. In June of 2008 Umaga was drafted from Raw to Smackdown. After a short rivalry with Mr. Kennedy and a feud that looked like it was about to begin with the Big Show; Umaga suffered a torn PCL at a Smackdown live event.

Umaga finally made his return on the January 30, 2009 edition of Smackdown with a easy win over Jimmy Wang Yang. Umaga then suffered his first defeat since his return by losing to Triple H by disqualification, after Triple H was attacked by The Legacy (Randy Orton, Ted DiBiase, Jr. and Cody Rhodes).

After a short hiatus, he returned on the May 1, 2009 episode of SmackDown, attacking CM Punk on multiple occasions, repeatedly interrupting Punk's attempts to cash in his Money in the Bank briefcase. At Judgment Day, Umaga defeated Punk, and on the May 22, 2009 episode of SmackDown, he spoke in English for the first time under the Umaga gimmick, when he challenged Punk to a Samoan strap match which Punk would accept.

Umaga and Punk battled once again on June 7, 2009 at Extreme Rules in their Samoan Strap match. In this match, both men were fastened at opposite ends of the Samoan Strap. The wrestler who touched all corners of the ring in succession first would be called the winner. Umaga was not able to win this time as Punk hoisted Umaga in the GTS then touched the fourth turnbuckle to win it.

The next day, June 8th, 2009 Umaga was surprisingly released by the WWE as the WWE released the following statement on their website. World Wrestling Entertainment has come to terms on the release of SmackDown Superstar Umaga as of today, June 8, 2009. WWE wishes Umaga the best in all future endeavors.

Umaga Facts:

Birth Name: Edward Fatu

Birth Date: March 28, 1973

Height: 6 ft 4 in

Weight: 350 lbs

Triple H Bio

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Triple H is one of wrestlings biggest stars. As a youngster he was a wrestling fan and his favorite wrestler was Ric Flair. After becoming involved with body building he met Ted Arcidi and began to consider a career in professional wrestling. In 1992 he enrolled in wrestling school and later joined the IWF using the name Terra Ryzing. Triple H joined the WCW in 1993 still using the name Terra Ryzing. That was changed to Jean-Paul Lévesque before he joined the WWF in 1995, later his name would be changed to Triple H. The name Triple H comes from another former ring name which was Hunter Hearst Helmsley. As part of a storyline Triple H married Stephanie McMahon and later in real life would marry Stephanie on October 25, 2003.

Overall, Triple H is a twelve-time world champion: a seven-time and current WWE Champion, and a five-time World Heavyweight Champion. In 1997 Triple H became part of D-Generation X which included Shawn Michaels, Chyna and Rick Rude. By January 2000, already a three-time WWF champion, Triple H had dubbed himself "The Game," implying that he was at the top of the wrestling world.

The 2000 and 2001 years were known as the McMahon-Helmsley era as Triple H and Mr. McMahon feuded." During the May 21, 2001 broadcast of Raw, he suffered a legitimate and career-threatening injury. In the night's main event, he and Steve Austin were defending the Tag Team title against Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit. At one point, Jericho had Austin trapped in the Walls of Jericho submission hold. Triple H ran-in to break it up, but just as he did, he suffered a tear in his left quadriceps muscle, causing it to come completely off the bone. Despite his inability to place any weight on his leg, Triple H was able to complete the match. He even allowed Jericho to put him in the Walls of Jericho, a move that places considerable stress on the quadriceps. The tear required an operation, which was performed by orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews. This injury brought an abrupt end to the McMahon-Helmsley Era, as the rigorous rehabilitation process kept Triple H out of action for over eight months, completely missing the Invasion storyline of WCW/ECW.

He made his return on January 7, 2002 and at Wrestlemania X8 beat Jericho for the WWF Undisputed Championship, he would later lose it to Hulk Hogan. Triple H would later become part of a stable called Evolution along with Ric Flair, Randy Orton and Batista. At No Mercy in 2007 Triple H would beat Randy Orton, making Triple H an eleven-time world champion. Orton would later win a match to take the title back but then at Backlash Triple H would once again claim the gold.

Triple H was drafted from Raw to Smackdown during the 2008 WWE draft, taking the WWE title with him to Smackdown. Edge welcomed Triple H to Smackdown by telling him that Smackdown belonged to Edge. Triple H started feuding with Edge and during Edge and Vickie Guerrero's wedding celebration Triple H revealed a videotape of Edge cheating on Vickie. On July 20, 2008 at the Great American Bash Triple H defended his title against Edge.

On August 18, 2008 Triple H would defend his WWE Title against the great Khali. Triple H was victorious after hitting his signature move the Pedigree on Khali.

On September 7, 2008 at Unforgiven, Triple H would defend his WWE championship in a scramble match. The match featured MVP, Shelton Benjamin, Jeff Hardy and Brian Kendrick. Triple H would not have to be pinned to lose his WWE championship belt in the match, the winner would be the one who last covered another superstar at the end of the 20 minute match. Jeff Hardy looked like he would become the new WWE champion after pinning Brian Kendrick but with only seconds left Triple H pinned MVP to retain his WWE championship.

On the October 24, 2008 edition of Smackdown, Triple H would have to defend his WWE title against the Undertaker. There was no decision in the match though as it was interrupted by the Big Show.

With Jeff Hardy coming so close in that Unforgiven match it led to a feud between two fan favorites. On the September 12, 2008 edition of Smackdown a few insults were exchanged by the two superstars in the ring. Later that evening Jeff Hardy won a fatal four way match against MVP, Shelton Benjamin and Brian Kendrick, the winner of that match would earn the right to face Triple H for the WWE championship at No Mercy. At No Mercy Triple H was able to defend his WWE title in a hard fought match. On the October 10 edition of Smackdown it was made clear that Jeff Hardy still sought after Triple H's title. It was also made clear that the Big Show and Vladimir Koslov had their eyes on the WWE title.

On October 26, 2008 at Cyber Sunday Triple H defended his WWE title against Jeff Hardy. Triple H was able to hit the Pedigree and capture the pinfall victory to defend his title.

On November 23, 2008 at Survivor Series Jeff Hardy would have once again another shot at Triple H's WWE title in a triple threat match involving Vladimir Koslov but it was reported that Jeff Hardy had been attacked by a mysterious assailant so he was not going to be able to compete. It ended up being just Koslov battling Triple H for the WWE title. After working on each other and both men layed out in the ring Smackdown GM Vickie Guerrero appeared to announce that this will be a Triple Threat as originally planned. The Rated-R superstar Edge then came rushing in to the ring and though Jeff Hardy later rushed to the ring and hit Edge over the head with a chair, Edge would recover and get the pinfall on Triple H to take Triple H's WWE title away.

Edge had an opportunity to recapture the WWE title at Armageddon on 12-14-08. HHH battled Jeff Hardy and Edge in a triple threat match. Triple H ended up hitting the Pedigree on Edge but then Jeff Hardy took advantage of that and hit the Swanton and got the pin and the victory thus ruining HHH's opportunity.

At the 2009 Royal Rumble event Tripe H was runner up to winner Randy Orton. Triple H eliminated Dibiase and Rhodes, but then Orton snuck behind Triple H to eliminate him and win the Royal Rumble.

On February 15, 2009 Triple H took part in the Smackdown Elimination Chamber match at No Way Out. Participants of the match were Edge (who was defending his WWE title), Jeff Hardy, Big Show, Undertaker, Vladimir Koslov and of course Triple H. The match went down to only Triple H and the Undertaker remaining. In a great match, Triple H was finally able to end it with a Pedigree and a pin as Edge became the new WWE Champion.

On the February 16, 2009 episode of Raw, Triple H made an appearance aiding Stephanie and Shane McMahon, after they were attacked by Randy Orton. On the February 20 episode of SmackDown, Triple H was interviewed by Jim Ross, in the interview, footage was shown highlighting the events that occurred on the February 16 episode of Raw. Ross asked Triple H how he felt seeing that footage, in response, he broke character (after 5 years of marriage) by admitting that Vince McMahon is his father-in-law, that Shane is his brother-in-law, and that Stephanie is his wife, thus creating a rivalry between Triple H and Randy Orton. On the February 23 episode of Raw, Triple H confronted Orton, before attacking him, Ted DiBiase, and Cody Rhodes with a sledgehammer and chasing them from the arena.

Triple H battled Randy Orton to defend his WWE title on April 5th, 2009 at Wrestlemania 25! In that match Triple H ended it in stylish fashion by hitting his Pedigree move before getting the pin on Orton. Triple H celebrated his revengeful victory.

During the 2009 WWE Draft, Triple H was drafted from SmackDown to Raw; since he was the reigning WWE Champion during this time, he brought the title to Raw due to draft regulations. At Backlash, Triple H lost the WWE Championship to Randy Orton after The Legacy defeated Triple H, Shane McMahon and Batista in a six-man tag team match. Triple H was taken out on a stretcher and it was said the next night on Raw that he would be out for an unknown amount of time.

Triple H returned on the June 8 episode of Raw, when he confronted The Legacy. Legacy was shocked when they were expecting Batista to come out to face Orton for the WWE title. Actually they didn't expect Batista to make it as Legacy had injured him earlier on the show which had Batista taken away in an ambulance. When Batista's music hit there was no Batista coming out and it was agreed that if Batista doesn't show then the WWE title would be awarded to Randy Orton. Triple H shocked Legacy though when he came out. Rhodes and DiBiase tried to protect Orton by meeting Triple H on the ramp but Triple H's sledgehammer took care of them. Triple H and Orton started going at it in the ring until Triple H hit Orton with a Spinebuster. HHH smashed the chair on Orton's skull, then flexed for the crowd before smashing the chair on Orton repeatedly. HHH stood with one foot on Orton's head, then drove the top of the chair into the back of his neck. With Orton layed out, the fans began to chant "Pedigree!" so HHH placed the chair on the mat, then picked up Orton and Pedigreed him right onto the chair to finish him off. Orton layed face down on the mat. with HHH posing as Raw went off the air.

On the June 15, 2009 episode of Raw held was a 10 man battle Royal to determine the WWE Title #1 Contender against Orton. Earlier that evening there was a fatal 4-way match between Orton, Triple H, Big Show and John Cena for the vacant WWE title in which Randy Orton had won. Competing in the 10 man battle royal match were Triple H, John Cena, Big Show, The Miz, MVP, William Regal, Kofi Kingston, Cody Rhodes, Ted Dibiase and Matt Hardy. As the match was underway, Randy Orton came out from backstage to watch the match from the ramp. The match came down to Triple H, Rhodes, Dibiase and Cena. Cena managed to eliminate Dibiase first dumping him out. HHH then clotheslined Rhodes out. Triple H eliminated John Cena to become the #1 Contender for the WWE Title to face Randy Orton at the Bash. As Orton looked down to the ring in horror at his future opponent, Donald Trump's music hit and Trump's picture appeared on the big screen. Trump congratulated HHH for the win. Trump said they won't wait for the Bash to have the WWE title match, they'll do it next week on Raw in a Last Man Standing Match. Raw went off the air with HHH pointing to Orton up on the ramp to give him notice.

The next week on Raw Triple H battled Orton for the WWE championship in a Last Man Standing match. Lillian Garcia gave the rules that the only way to win is to incapacitate your opponent so they can't answer the ref's 10 count. Late in the match HHH finally hit the Pedigree, but his hurt knee also hit the steel ramp. Both men were down as the ref counted. Triple H tried to use the ladder to get to his feet, but it slid forward and he fell. The ref told Lillian neither man answered the 10 count, so Orton retained. Match a draw when neither man could answer the ref's 10 count, so Orton retains the WWE Title.

On June 28, 2009 at the Bash, Triple H would again battle Randy Orton for the WWE title. This time yhough it would be a (3 Stages of Hell ) WWE Title Match. The first stage of this hellish contest was a standard wrestling match in which Orton won when HHH was disqualified after smashing a chair over Orton's head, this pur Orton up 1-0. The second stage was a Falls Count Anywhere match which HHH won evening it up 1-1. The final stage of Hell in this contest was a Stretcher Match. Triple H almost had stage 3 won as he put Orton on the stretcher, Cody Rhodes rushed out to prevent him from crossing the line. HHH took Rhodes down, but as he went back to the stretcher for Orton, Ted Dibiase came out to attack. Rhodes & Dibiase attacked HHH putting him on the stretcher with HHH fighting back. Eventually, Triple H grabbed his Sledgehammer to take Dibiase and Rhodes down. Orton had some sort of weapon of his own which he attacked HHH with from behind, then placed HHH on a stretcher to wheel him across the finish line to win the 3 Stages of Hell match and retain the WWE title.

The fued continued and HHH had another opportunity at the WWE championship on July 26, 2009 at Night of Champions. The match featured Triple H, John Cena and WWE champion Randy Orton. Randy Orton once again was able to retain his WWE championship.

Throughout the following weeks on Raw Triple H would fued with Legacy facing Rhodes and DiBiase in various matches.

On the August 10, 2009 episode of Raw Footage was shown of Triple H's visit to Houston, Texas. HHH was on his cell phone leaving a message for Shawn Michaels. The next week on Raw a white limo was shown arriving in the garage with DX painted on its sides. Triple H stepped out first and started to walk, then went back to the car to get HBK. He grabbed Michaels and pulled him out, then the two started walking on their way to the arena. Out in the dark arena, the DX theme music started up with the fans going wild. DX got into the ring with the fans still going wild. it was the incarnation of DX! After several minutes of dancing around, crotch chops and pyro smoke, the crowd started to chant for D-X. HHH delivered the "Are you ready?" lines to the crowd, and got on the corner to ask if the fans were ready. Just then, Legacy was in the ring to attack out of nowhere. Rhodes and Dibiase took down both men, tossing HHH to the outside, then shoving Michaels into the corner. Triple H got back in the ring and started trying to fight both guys on his own, but he was quickly put back down to the mat. Rhodes pulled one of Michaels' boots off and Dibiase held HHH so Rhodes could clock him in the head. Rhodes turned and smashed the boot on Michaels as he tried to grab Rhodes' leg. A second shot was delivered by the boot to HHH's head. Dibiase took a mic and got down in HHH's face saying he had the answer to his question "yes, we are ready".

Triple H and Shawn Michaels would get their revenge on August 23, 2009 at Summerslam. D-Generation X was in full affect when toward the end of the match Triple H hit the Pedigree on Rhodes and Michaels was able to hit the Sweet Chin Music on Rhodes to end the match.

Triple H Facts:

Birth Name: Paul Michael Levesque

Birth Date: July 27, 1969

Height: 6 ft 4 in

Weight: 260 lbs

Zack Ryder Bio

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In February of 2006 Zach Ryder had signed a developmental contracts with the WWE along with Curt Hawkins. In early 2007 they started wrestling in dark matches for RAW while competing in OVW. On May 1, 2007 Hawkins and Ryder made their WWE debut on ECW by defeating Matt Striker and Marcos Cor Van. At this time they were known as the Major Brothers. Zach Ryder was known as Brett Major and his partner as Brian Major. They were not on ECW for too long as they were drafted to Smackdown in June, 2007 during the 2007 WWE draft. The team was impressive winning matches but then suffered a loss to Deuce and Domino in August of 2007. After that they would not be seen wrestling on Smackdown for a couple of months. In November they tried for the tag team titles but lost to the odd tag team of MVP and Matt Hardy. At Armageddon things changed for Zach.

While Edge was competing in a World Heavyweight Championship match both Curt Hawkins and Zach Ryder turned heel by posing as look alikes for Edge and helping Edge in the match. They were later revealed to be close acquaintances to both Edge and Vickie Guerrero. Curt and Zach were repackaged as the Edgeheads and the Major Brothers no longer existed, it was now Curt Hawkins and Zach Ryder. Zach Ryder became part of La Familia, a group of heels led by Edge.

Hawkins and Ryder started competing in major events and on July 20, 2008 at the Great American Bash they won the tag team titles by winning a four team tag team match. They would hold the WWE tag team titles until the September 26, 2008 edition of Smackdown when they were beat by Carlito & Primo Colon.

On April 15, 2009, Ryder was drafted back to the ECW brand as part of the 2009 Supplemental Draft, separating the team. Ryder re-debuted on ECW on Sci Fi on May 5, 2009 with a new look, in a backstage promo with Tiffany. His new look featured short hair, sunglasses, a purple headband, and frequent use of the catch phrase "Woo Woo Woo". Ryder's first match since the draft was on WWE Superstars on May 7, 2009 in a losing effort against Finlay. On the May 19 episode of ECW on Sci Fi, Ryder picked up his first victory since rejoining the ECW roster when he defeated Adam Green. Ryder then started a small feud with Shelton Benjamin.

Zack Ryder Facts:

Birth Name: Matthew Cardona

Birth Date: May 14, 1985

Height: 6 ft 1 in

Vladimir Koslov Bio

2008-07-30T02:56:00.000-07:00

Vladimir Koslov's real name is Oleg Prudius and he was born in Russia. Vladimir Koslov signed with the WWE in 2006 and was assigned to the Deep South Wrestling training facility in Georgia. He also wrestled at Ohio Valley Wrestling under his real name. On April 24, 2008 Vladimir made his Smackdown debut under the name Vladimir Koslov, he came out as a heel. He was victorious in a match against Matt Bentley. This would be the beginning of a long winning streak as week after week on Smackdown Koslov would crush the competition and at times could be heard yelling that he needs better competition. One thing about Vladimir Koslov that was noticeable by everyone was that he had no intro music as he came down the isle, the arena lights would just go out as he came down the ramp. Vladimir would soon get some intro music but week after week would still complain that he needed some real competition.

On the September 5, 2008 edition of Smackdown Big Show would answer his request and as the two were about to square off in the ring Smackdown GM Vickie Guerrero stopped them and demanded them to both leave the ring.

The following week on Smackdown Koslov would attack the number one contender for the WWE championship, Jeff Hardy.

On the September 26, 2008 edition of Smackdown Koslov's competition was getting what he requested, more competitive. He had a match with the great Khali but there was no winner in the match as Triple H invaded the match as did Jeff Hardy.

Vladimir has been feuding with some good competition now as he has been feuding with Triple H, Jeff Hardy and the Big Show.

On the October 17, 2008 edition of Smackdown Vladimir remained undefeated after an impressive win over Jeff Hardy. The show ended with Vladimir and Triple H standing face to face.

On November 23, 2008 at Survivor Series Vladimir Koslov would get his long awaited WWE title shot against Triple H. In what was scheduled to be a triple threat match with Jeff Hardy it ended up being just Koslov against Triple H due to Hardy being attacked by an unknown someone prior to the match backstage and not being able to compete in the match. Koslov and Triple H had each other layed out in the ring with the ref counting when all of a sudden Vickie Guerrero announced that this would be a triple threat match as scheduled. The Rated-R superstar Edge then ran into the ring and ended up pinning Triple H to become the new WWE champion. Vladimir failed to get his long sought WWE title.

On December 14, 2008 at Armageddon Kolov battled ECW Champion Matt Hardy. Koslov was able to get the victory in the non title match up.

On February 15, 2009 Kolov was part of Smackdown's Elimination Chamber match at No Way Out for the WWE title. The match featured WWE champ Edge, Undertaker, Triple H, Jeff Hardy, Big Show and Koslov. Kolov though, was eliminated by the Undertaker, who pinned Koslov.

Kozlov's undefeated streak in televised singles competition ended on the March 2, 2009 episode of Raw, in which he was defeated by Shawn Michaels; this match was for the opportunity to face The Undertaker at WrestleMania XXV.

On April 13, 2009, Kozlov was drafted to the ECW brand as part of the 2009 WWE Draft, as ECW's only pick of the night. Shortly after the draft, his gimmick was tweaked to further highlight the training he received within the Russian military. He won his first match on the brand when he easily defeated a local competitor. Similar to his SmackDown debut, Kozlov has continued winning his matches on ECW rather quickly, prompting him to demand better competition.

On the June 30 episode of ECW Koslov teamed with William Regal to defeat Christian and Tommy Dreamer. His first defeat in singles competition on ECW came on the July 9, 2009 edition of ECW where he lost a number one contenders match to Christian for Tommy Dreamer's ECW Championship at Night of Champions.

Vladimir Koslov Facts:

Birth Name: Oleg Aleksandrovich Prodius

Height: 6 ft 6 in

Weight: 310 lbs

Natalya Neidhart Bio

2008-07-30T02:16:00.000-07:00

Natalya is a third generation wrestler. Her father is Jim "the Anvil" Neidhart and her grandfather is Stu Hart. Natalya received her wrestling training from her family, were there is a long legacy of wrestlers including Brett "the Hitman" Hart, Bruce Hart and Ross Hart just to name a few. In 2003 she began working for the Hart Family's own Stampede Wrestling, beginning a long time feud with Belle Lovitz. The pair wrestled each other repeatedly until 2005, when they joined forces against the Myers Family. In January, 2007 Neidhart would sign a contract with the WWE. She was assigned to the WWE's farm territory. She would make her appearance on the WWE on April 4, 2008 on Smackdown. She was introduced as Natalya Neidhart but it was later shortened to just Natalya. She came out as a heel and formed a partnership with Victoria and became enemies with Michelle McCool and Cherry. Her televised in-ring debut came two weeks later, in a win over Cherry. At the Great American Bash on July 20, 2008 Natalya lost to Michelle McCool in a match to determine the first ever WWE Divas Champion.

Natalya and her BFF Victoria then feuded with Brie Bella. They were confused how Bella would always get some extra energy every time they faced her after she would crawl under the ring. Bella would get back in the ring and beat them. It all made sense when it was later revealed that Brie had a twin sister Nikki.

At Survivor Series on November 23, 2008 Natalya would take part in the Smackdown Divas Vs Raw Divas contest. Natalya teamed up with Victoria, Maria, Maryse and Michelle McCool . The Smackdown Divas were defeated by Raw Divas Beth Phoenix, Candice Michelle, Jillian, Kelly Kelly and Mickie James.

She made her debut for the ECW brand on February 10, 2009, managing her real life boyfriend Tyson Kidd (TJ Wilson). In her ECW in-ring debut, on the March 3 episode, Natalya defeated Alicia Fox.

Natalya Facts:

Birth Name: Natalie Katherine "Nattie" Neidhart

Birth Date: May 27, 1982

Height: 5 ft 6 in

Weight: 120 lbs

Bam Neely Bio

2008-07-30T01:52:00.000-07:00

Bam Neely began his wrestling career as part of a tag team called the Hellraisers, Blood and Gutz. Bam was Gutz and his uncle and mentor Richard Martin was Blood. They traveled the country wrestling and were always a main event draw. After his uncle suffered a career ending illness Bam Neely began wrestling for Steel Domain Wrestling, this was 2002 and his name was now Magnus Maximus. He signed with Ohio Valley Wrestling and used the name Justin "The Ox" LaRouche while becoming a tag team champion there. On April 8, 2008 he made his first appearance under the name Bam Neely on ECW. After Chavo Guerrero and Kane signed a contract for a ECW Championship match at Backlash he stormed the ring along with Zach Ryder and Curt Hawkins aiding Chavo Guerrero in beating down Kane. Later it was told that Bam Neely was a former body guard and was hired by Chavo Guerrero to be his personal body guard. Bam became part of La Familia and won his in ring debut during a handicapped match in which he teamed up with Chavo Guerrero against Kane. He wouldn't have any luck though in his first singles match on the June 20, 2008 edition of Smackdown as Matt Hardy beat him. On the August 8, 2008 edition of Smackdown Bam Neely along with the rest of La Familia were betrayed by their ring leader Edge. On August 12, 2008 on ECW Neely lost a match against Evan Bourne. On September 23, 2008 he would lose to Finlay on ECW as he made his way to the ring without Chavo Guerrero who had been missing after being attacked the previous week on Smackdown by the Undertaker. Chavo would soon return but Bam and Chavo started having miscommunication during their matches and would start arguing with each other. The two then parted ways and tarted wretling alone. Bam was soon released by the WWE on January 9, 2009.

Bam Neely Facts:

Birth Name: Justin LaRouche

Birth Date: June 17, 1975

Height: 6 ft 7 in

Weight: 275 lbs

Curt Hawkins Bio

2008-07-30T01:23:00.000-07:00

In February of 2006 Curt Hawkins had signed a developmental contracts with the WWE along with Zack Rider. In early 2007 they started wrestling in dark matches for RAW while competing in OVW. On May 1, 2007 Hawkins and Ryder made their WWE debut on ECW by defeating Matt Striker and Marcos Cor Van. At this time they were known as the Major Brothers. Curt Hawkins was known as Brian Major and his partner as Brett Major. They were not on ECW for too long as they were drafted to Smackdown in June, 2007 during the 2007 WWE draft. The team was impressive winning matches but then suffered a loss to Deuce and Domino in August of 2007. After that they would not be seen wrestling on Smackdown for a couple of months. In November they tried for the tag team titles but lost to the odd tag team of MVP and Matt Hardy. At Armageddon things changed for Curt.

While Edge was competing in a World Heavyweight Championship match both Curt Hawkins and Zach Ryder turned heel by posing as look alikes for Edge and helping Edge in the match. They were later revealed to be close acquaintances to both Edge and Vickie Guerrero. Curt and Zach were repackaged as the Edgeheads and the Major Brothers no longer existed, it was now Curt Hawkins and Zach Ryder. Curt Hawkins became part of La Familia, a group of heels led by Edge.

Hawkins and Ryder started competing in major events and on July 20, 2008 at the Great American Bash they won the tag team titles by winning a four team tag team match. They would hold the WWE tag team titles until the September 26, 2008 edition of Smackdown when they were beat by Carlito & Primo Colon.

On April 15, 2009, Ryder was drafted back to the ECW brand as part of the 2009 Supplemental Draft, separating the team. Hawkins is currently wrestling on its SmackDown brand

Curt Hawkins Facts:

Birth Name: Brian Myers

Birth Date: ?-?-1985

Height: 6 ft 1 in

Mick Foley Bio

2008-07-29T01:08:00.000-07:00

Michael Francis Foley was born on June 7th, 1965, in Long Island, New York. He was nicknamed Mick by his father because his father was a big Yankees fan especially a big Mickey Mantle fan. All it took for Foley to know that he wanted to be a wrestler was a match he seen live between Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka and Don Moraco in New York City. He trained under the tutelage of Dominic DeNucci, alongside such wrestlers as Shane Douglas and made his debut in the late 1980's. He wrestled all around the U.S., Europe, Japan and Africa before landing a job in World Championship Wrestling as under the name Cactus Jack. Later he would wrestle for WCW under Paul Heyman, and in Japan, where he took place in (and won) the now legendary IWA King of the Death Match (1995). This attracted the attention of 'Vince McMahon', who brought Foley in to the World Wrestling Federation, under the name Mankind. Foley's first feud was with The Undertaker, against whom he wrestled several classic matches, most notably, King of the Ring 1998, where, in possibly the most famous professional wrestling moment of all time, The Undertaker threw Foley off the top of a 20-foot cage, through a table. Foley's lifelong dream came true on December 28th, 1998, when he defeated The Rock to win the WWF World Title. He would hold the belt three times before his career ended at Wrestlemania 2000.

Foley then went on to write a bestselling book and became an acclaimed author, having wrote two autobiographies (both of which topped the New York Times bestseller charts), a series of children's books, and a novel. Though retired Foley was still involved with wrestling, Foley had a stint as WWF commissioner. Through out the years Foley though retired would still become involved in many WWE story lines.

In 2008 Mick Foley would replace Jonathon Coachman as the Smackdown color commentator where he sat with Michael Cole at first but now sits along side Jim Ross.

On the August 1, 2008 edition of Smackdown Edge was going to have a surprise guest on his Cutting Edge show. No one knew who his special guest would be until Edge slid out of the ring and near the announcers table and introduced his special guest as Mick Foley. Foley was as surprised as anyone else! Edge wanted some advice for his upcoming Summerslam 'Hell in a Cell' match against the Undertaker. Since Foley had a long history with Undertaker and 'Hell in the Cell' battles Edge wanted the man who knew Undertaker the best. Foley stepped in the ring and gave Edge some advice, some of his advice was that the old Edge would have had a chance at 'Hell in a Cell' but this current Edge who confesses his love to Vickie Guerrero doesn't have a chance. Edge, not liking the advice punched Foley and Foley fell out of the ring. Edge went after him but Foley fought back and the crowd was behind Mick Foley 100%. The two went at it some more in the ring but Edge ended up on the winning side and Smackdown went off of the air with Mick Foley lying in the ring motionless and Edge with a smirk on his face.

WWE sold that Mick Foley was recovering from injuries but Foley allowed his contract with the WWE to expire on September 1, 2008. WWE and Foley had mutually agreed to sever business ties at this time. On September 3, 2008, Foley's agency, the Gillespie Agency, issued a press release that stated Foley had signed a short-term deal with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). Foley claimed in the statement to be "very excited about the specifics of this agreement and the potential it holds". Foley made his TNA debut on September 5, at a TNA houseshow in hometown of Long Island by giving a short speech about how he loved the product.

Mick Foley Facts:

Birth Name: Michael Francis "Mick" Foley

Birth Date: June 7, 1965

Height: 6 ft 2 in

Weight: 287 lbs

Was the first ever WWE Hardcore Champion

Was WWF Champion three times

Has held a title over 25 times

Foley is a multiple-time New York Times bestselling author

Jeff Hardy Bio

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Early in Jeff Hardy's wrestling career he wrestled for his brother Matt Hardy's wrestling promotion called OMEGA which stood for Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts. Two other notable names that wrestled for OMEGA were Gregory Helms and Shannon Moore. In 1998 Jeff and Matt both signed with the WWF and OMEGA folded. They spent the first months on the WWF as jobbers but then became the Hardy Boyz. In 1999 they would win their first WWF tag team championship. In 2000 they would team up with their real life friend Lita and the three became known as Team Xtreme, they feuded most of the year with Edge and Christian. In 2001 Jeff Hardy showed that he was not only a great tag team performer but also a great singles competitor as he won the Intercontinental, Light Heavyweight and Hardcore Championships. Jeff though still was mainly a tag team wrestler with his brother as the Hardy Boyz. In 2002 when Matt hardy left to Smackdown Jeff Hardy became mainly a singles competitor. That same year Jeff Hardy won the European Championship in a match against William Regal. In 2003 Jeff had a kayfabe relationship with Trish Stratus, that same year he was also released by the WWE. Jeff claimed "Burn out" and just needing some time off though the WWE claimed erratic behavior, drug use, refusal to go to rehab, deteriorating ring performance, as well as constant tardiness and no shows. Hardy made a one time performance for ROH and won but was booed by the crowd as they chanted "We want Matt" and "You were fired". After a whole year not wrestling Hardy made his debut on TNA on June 23, 2004 and wrestled there for a couple of years. On August 4, 2006 Jeff Hardy re-signed with the WWE and was a member of Raw. He feuded with Edge but his most noticeable feud was with Johnny Nitro whom he took the Intercontinental title from, only to lose it back to Nitro but able to win it yet again from Nitro. On November 21, 2006 Jeff and Matt teamed up once again as the Hardy Boyz for the first time in five years, they beat the Full Blooded Italians. On April 2, 2007 the Hardy Boyz would win the tag team championship in a ten team battle royal for the gold, they would later lose their belts to Cade and Murdoch. On September 3, 2007 Hardy successfully captured his fourth Intercontinental Championship by defeating Umaga for the title. Hardy and Triple would sometimes tag team together but this led to a friendly rivalry between the two superstars. At Armageddon Jeff Hardy beat Triple H to become the number one contender for the WWE championship. Jeff Hardy would end up feuding a lot with Triple H and Randy Orton and became one of Raws most popular wrestlers and a fan favorite. During the March 3 edition of Raw, Hardy appeared on Chris Jericho's Highlight Reel segment as a special guest, but ended up delivering a Twist of Fate to Jericho. This led to an Intercontinental title match on the following Raw where Hardy dropped the title to Jericho. Off-screen, Hardy dropped the title after he was suspended for sixty days, as of March 11, for his second violation of the company's Substance Abuse and Drug Testing Policy. Hardy was also removed from the Money in the Bank ladder match at WrestleMania XXIV after the suspension was announced. Hardy returned on the May 12, 2008 edition of Raw, defeating Umaga via pinfall. This reignited the feud between the two, and they met in a Falls Count Anywhere match at One Night Stand which Jeff Hardy won.

On June 23rd, 2008 Jeff Hardy was drafted to Smackdown during the 2008 WWE draft. A few weeks after going to Smackdown Hardy was on MVP's VIP Lounge. During the show MVP attacked Hardy's personal character which led to a feud between the two. Hardy met up with MVP at Summerslam 2008 and was about to win the match but Shelton Benjamin interfered in the match and MVP got the win over Hardy.

On September 7, 2008 at Unforgiven Hardy competed in the WWE championship scramble match against WWE champion Triple H and challengers MVP, Shelton Benjamin and Brian Kendrick. After hitting the Swanton Bomb and pinning Brian Kendrick, Hardy was seconds away from becoming the new WWE champion but Triple H was able to pin MVP with seconds left in the match to retain his title.

After coming so close to winning the WWE championship Jeff Hardy competed in a fatal four way match on the September 12 edition of Smackdown. The winner would go on to face Triple H at No Mercy for the WWE championship, Jeff Hardy was able to win the match. During the show Hardy and Triple H both made insults to one another though showing the respect they have for each other.

At No Mercy Hardy came within a second of becoming the WWE Champion but Triple H was able to hold on to his title when he reversed a pin for the victory. Hardy, still hungry for another shot at the WWE title started feuding with Vladimir Koslov, another guy who had his eyes on Triple H's title.

On October 26, 2008 at No Mercy Jeff Hardy would get another shot at the WWE title against Triple H but once again came up short as Triple H retained his title.

Hardy was scheduled again to get another shot at Triple H's WWE title at Survivor Series on November 23, 2008. It was to be a Triple Threat match that included Vladimir Koslov. Unfortunately for Jeff Hardy though, he was attacked backstage prior to the match by someone unknown and was not able to compete so it ended up being a one on one match between Koslov and Triple H. After injuring each other and both men laying on the mat as the refs counted, Vickie Guerrero appeared and announced that this match will continue to be a Triple Threat match as scheduled. It was not to be Jeff Hardy though, suddenly the Rated-R superstar Edge came rushing into the ring. Hardy, later came rushing into the ring and hit both Koslov and Edge over the heads with a steel chair. Edge though would recuperate and would end up winning the WWE title from Triple H. Both Jeff Hardy and Vladimir Koslov who have sought the WWE title for months lost their opportunity that night thanks to Edge.

On December 14, 2008 at Armageddon, Hardy would take part of a triple threat match for Edge's WWE title. It was Jeff Hardy Vs. Triple H V. Edge. After Triple H was able to hit his Pedigree move on Edge, Hardy was able to quickly do a Swanton off the corner ropes and grab the winning pinfall. Jeff Hardy was finally able to capture the WWE title.

In the weeks of January 2009, Hardy seemed to be getting in lots of accidents, including a hit-and-run automobile accident and an accident involving his ring entrance pyrotechnics. Edge was suspected to be involved with these incidents since they had a WWE title match coming up at Royal Rumble but Edge plead his innocence. At the 2009 Royal Rumble, Hardy lost his WWE Championship to Edge after Hardy's brother, Matt, shocked the WWE fans when he interfered on Edge's behalf and hit Hardy with a steel chair over the head thus cauing Jeff to lose his WWE title to Edge.

Jeff Hardy though would get another chance at the WWE title but he would have to win a Smackdown Elimination Chambers match on February 15, 2009 at No Way Out against not only Edge but also, Vladimir Koslov, Undertaker, Big Show and Triple H. Hardy got off to a good start as he quickly pinned Edge which guaranteed a new WWE champ that night. Later though, Undertaker would hit a Tombstone Piledriver on Hardy which led to a pin and Jeff's elimination from the match. Triple H though, was the man who would win that night and became the new WWE champion.

Jeff then would have to put up with his brother Matt mocking Jeff week after week, trying to persuade Jeff to fight him which Jeff refused to do until the March 13th, 2009 episode of Smackdown were Jeff just had enough. This led to an official match between the two brothers as they battled in an Extreme Rules Match on April 5th, 2009 at Wrestlemania 25. This match saw framed poster, trash can, chairs and a vacuum cleaner used. In the end Matt was victorious as he nailed Jeff with a Twist of Fate with Jeff's head through a chair.

On April 26, 2009 at Backlash Jeff and Matt would once again battle in a 'I Quite" match. Jeff picked up a much needed victory over his brother in the match.

On May 17th, 2009 at Judgment Day, Hardy would challenge Edge for the WWE Title. In a hard fought battle it seemed as is Jeff just might win but some outside interference from Matt Hardy had a impact on the match and Edge was able to defeat Jeff and retain his WWE title.

On June 7, 2009 at Extreme Rules Jeff Hardy would get another chance to take the Heavyweight Title in a Ladder Match. Late in the match Jeff began to climb the ladder, Edge fought tooth and nail to keep Hardy from grabbing the belt, but Jeff got Edge caught up in the rungs of the ladder. This allowed Jeff to grab the belt hanging above the ring to become the new World Heavyweight Champion. Unfortunately for Jeff, CM Punk decided it was time to cash in his Money in the Bank briefcase and attacked Jeff and took the World Heavyweight Championship from Jeff. Hardy only held on to the title for about 2 minutes.

On July, 26, 2009 at Night of Champions, Jeff Hardy battled CM Punk for the Heavyweight Title. Punk hit the Twist of Fate, and then got to the top to connect on the Swanton Bomb. After a 3 count, Jeff Hardy regained the World Heavyweight Championship.

On the August 7, 2009 episode of SmackDown Jeff Hardy defended his World Heavyweight Championship match against CM Punk with Matt Hardy as the special guest referee.Jeff was not to happy about it but after Punk accidentally hit Matt, Matt ended up going at it with Punk for a while. This set up the match more in Jeff's favor. Matt ended up counting the pinfall as Jeff defended his title. Matt then just walked away after the match.

On the August 14, 2009 episode of Smackdown Jeff Hardy battled DH Smith & Tyson Kidd in a 2 on 1 handicapped match. CM Punk would get involved and triple team with the Hart's against Jeff but then John Morrison ran into the ring to help out Jeff. The Hart's took care of Morrison though and then Punk hit Morrison over the head with a steel chair. Punk then put a chair on Jeff's neck to try to do the same thing he did the previous week. Just then, Matt Hardy rushed out to the ring and started fighting Punk to prevent any harm. Morrison was able to recover to start fighting the Harts off, and eventually they cleared the ring. Matt went over to help up Jeff Hardy, who was resistant at first. After all was over, backstage, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon went up to Teddy Long and asked what's in store for next week's show. Long announced Morrison & The Hardys vs. CM Punk and Hart Dynasty.

The next week on the August 21, 2009 episode of Smackdown Jeff Hardy would team up with his brother Meff Hardy and John Morrison and battle the Hart Dynasty and CM Punk. Matt and Jeff were introduced together and came down the ramp together reminding fans of all the old Hardy Boys memories. Matt and Jeff jelled quickly as the old Hardy Boyz team chemistry never missed a beat. John Morrison was also impressive in the match along side the Hardy's. The match ended when Matt hit CM Punk with the Twist of Fate and the pin. After the match, Jatt and Meff hugged each other.

On August 23, 2009 at Summerslam Jeff would defend his World Heavyweight title against CM Punk in a tables, ladders and chairs match. During the match, Jeff climbed to the top of a very tall ladder and did a major Swanton dive off the ladder to crash down onto Punk through a table. This prompted EMT's to come out and put Jeff on a stretcher. As they were taking Jeff away, he got off the stretcher and crawled back into the ring. Meanwhile, Punk was setting a ladder up. Jeff climbed up the other side and fought with Punk while Punk had his hand on the title. Punk eventually was able to knock Jeff off the ladder down to the mat, then pulled down the title to win the match and become the new World Heavyweight champion.

On the August 28, 2009 edition of Smackdown Jeff Hardy battled CM Punk in a loser leaves WWE steel cage match in which CM Punk won. As Hardy got up, he got a great applaud from the WWE crowd. Jeff said that he was sorry if he let anyone down and that if it's in his future that he will one day be back in the WWE again. Jeff said that at least there is still one Hardy left in the WWE, he of course was talking about Matt. As Jeff left the ring he took off his shirt and arm sleeve covers to give to fans. Hardy raised his hand up at the top of the ramp, but out of nowhere CM Punk came back out and smashed him with the World Heavyweight Championship.

Jeff Hardy Facts:

Birth Name: Jeffrey Nero Hardy

Birthday: August 31, 1977

Height: 6 feet and 1 inch

Finishing Move: Twist of Fate & Whisper in the wind

Jeff Hardy wrestled in a match for the WWF as a jobber against the 1-2-3 Kid in 1994, Jeff was only 16 years old.

In 2003, Hardy formed a band, Peroxwhy?gen, with members of the band Burnside 6, and Moore, who later left. The band recorded two songs.

Hardy appeared on the February 7, 1999 episode of 'That 70's Show entitled "That Wrestling Show", along with Matt, as an uncredited wrestler. He also appeared in the February 25, 2002 episode of 'Fear Factor' competing against five other WWF wrestlers. He was eliminated in the first round.

Victoria Bio

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Victoria had started a career in fitness modeling and acting in the late 90's. In South Florida while, during the 1998 Miss Galaxy Contest she met and became friends with Torrie Wilson. A year later Wilson signed with WCW and invited Victoria to attend a show. While backstage visiting Tori, Victoria was asked if she would do a small part in a taping, she did and sat on Scott Hall's lap playing with his hair. This led her to the idea that wrestling might be a good idea but despite Torrie Wilson's effort to help land Victoria a WCW contract, it just did not happen so Victoria returned to California to secure work in a television career. While working as a trainer in 2000 she met WWE superstar Chyna who complimented her on her fit body and encouraged her to pursue a wrestling career. She introduced her to some WWF officials and Victoria landed a job at UPW. She later made her WWE debut as one of "the godfathers" hoes, like so many other WWE divas. She was responsible for the on screen break up of Eddie Guerrero and Chyna. She was then sent to MCW, another development territory. In 2002 she returned to the WWE as a heel and fought Trish Stratus, her character was jealous of Trish's success and that began the feud. She ended up winning the WWE Womans Championship from Trish months later. She became a face. Victoria spent all those years on RAW and finally became part of the SMACKDOWN brand during the 2007 draft. After coming to SMACKDOWN she began feuding with Torrie Wilson and her character began a relationship with Kenny Dykstra . Dykstra then disappeared and she then feuded with Michelle McCool and Cherry as she sided with her new best friend Natalya Neidhart.

Victoria found herself on the losing end of Brie Bella's debut in September of 2008 getting pinned in back to back weeks. Victoria and her BFF Natalya would consistently lose against Brie Bella and couldn't figure out why. When they seemed to have Brie out of air, Brie would always crawl under the ring and when she came back out she seemed to have a little more pep in her step and would end up winning. It was later discovered that Brie's twin sister, Nikki Bella had been the one coming out from under the ring full of energy.

At Survivor Series on November 23, 2008 Victoria would compete in the Smackdown Divas Vs Raw Divas match. Victoria teamed with Natalya, Maryse and her rivals Michelle McCool and Maria. They battled Beth Phoenix, Candice Michelle, Jillian, Kelly Kelly and Mickie James. Both teams had problems getting along but the Raw Divas were able to get the win as Victoria's Smackdown team had to suffer the loss.

On the January 9, 2009 edition of Smackdown, Victoria would team up with her rival throughout 2008, Michelle McCool. McCool had just recently turned heel and would join Victoria to battle the Bella Twins. Victoria ended up getting pinned in the match and was then attacked my McCool for making them lose the match.

The following week on Smackdown Victoria would seek revenge on McCool as the two battled it out in what would be Victoria's final match. McCool won the match and Victoria then announced her official retirement from the WWE.

Victoria appeared for the WWE on April 5th, 2009 at Wrestlemania 25 and participated in the 25 Diva Battle Royal.

Victoria Facts:

Birth Name: Lisa Marie Varon
Birth Date: February 10,1971
Height: 5' ft 8' inch
Finishing Move: Widows Peak

Torrie Wilson Bio

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Torrie Wilson was born in Boise, Idaho. After high school she gained an interest in modeling but was told that she would have to lose some weight, this led to years of battling bulimia. She ended up moving to Los Angeles and took some acting classes. She made her debut in 1999 on WCW. She made her WWF debut in June of 2001. When the brand separation took place in April of 2002 Torrie Wilson was drafted by Smackdown. Though she had many feuds the most popular was with Dawn Marie who tried to marry Torrie's father as blackmail to have a lesbian relationship with Torrie. Torrie ended up beating Dawn Marie at No Mercy 2002 and the Royal Rumble 2003 in a stepmother VS stepdaughter match. In May Torrie Wilson was Playboys cover girl. This led to another WWE Diva Sable coming back to Smackdown and having a sometimes friendly feud with Torrie. Sable had posed for Playboy years ago. In 2004 Torrie and Sable both posed for Playboy together! In August of 2005 Torrie moved to Raw and turned heel over there, that didn't last too long as she would turn face soon again. In June of 2007 Torrie Wilson was back were she belonged getting drafted by Smackdown and coming home, she began feuding with Victoria. Since November of 2007 Torrie has taken some time off away from wrestling to under go physical therapy due to a back injury. She was released from her WWE contract on May 8, 2008.

Torrie appeared for the WWE on April 5th, 2009 at Wrestlemania 25 and participated in the 25 Diva Battle Royal.

Torrie Wilson Facts:

Birth Name: Torrie Anne Wilson
Birth date: July 24, 1975
Height: 5' ft 7' inch
Finishing Move: Nose Job
She was 1998 Miss Galaxy winner
In September of 2006 was covergirl for FHM magazine
On numerous times was voted one of askmen.com's most desired woman of the world

Michelle McCool Bio

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Michelle McCool competed in the 2004 RAW diva contest but didn't last too long, she was the 4th one eliminated. Even though that didn't go the way she planned WWE still saw something in her and in November of 2004 she was signed to a three year contract. She came to SMACKDOWN as a face and a personal trainer and unlike many WWE divas she was really inspired to the wrestling part of the business. She wrestled in a couple matches and feuded with Dawn Marie and Melina. She actually fought Melina in Melina's first ever match, after that match we didn't see McCool again in the WWE for almost a year. She was then sent to DSW, a developmental facility and then was sent to OVW. In June of 2006 she came back to the WWE this time as a heel and her gimmick was that of a teacher (her real life profession before wrestling). In April of 2007 she became face again when she aided Ashley who was being attacked by Jillian Hall. She was then in a feud with Victoria after insulting Victoria's boyfriend Kenny Dykstra. She has been a good friend to Chuck Palumbo and escorts him to his matches but lately their relationship has been on the rocks thanks to Jamie Noble who is infatuated with Michelle. MIchelle ended up going on a date with Noble after Noble won the date by beating Chuck Palumbo in a match. Michelle started to feel a soft spot for Jamie and later tried to make a triple team of herself, Jamie Noble and Chuck Palumbo. Noble and Palumbo hated each other but would try to get along in front of Michelle. On the 01-25-08 Smackdown the triple team had a match in which Noble and Palumbo would get into an argument. Michelle tried to stop the nonsense but was betrayed by Chuck Palumbo who threw her to the ground. Michelle McCool then started appearing on Jamie Noble's side of the ring as Palumbo became a heel and Noble a face. On the April 4, 2007 edition of Smackdown Michelle was announced as the winner of the Smackdown diva contest, a competition that had been going on for weeks. She began feuding with Victoria (one of the diva competitors who got eliminated) who is really angry that Michelle won the contest. Then Victoria had a new friend and partner who came to Smackdown named Natalya. Natalya quickly began a vital enemy of Michelle.

On the July 4th edition of Smackdown McCool won the Golden Dreams Diva match which earned her the right to take part in the first match for the newly created divas championship belt. The title was created by Smackdown GM Vickie Guerrero. The other diva who was to compete to become the first to wear the new belt was Natalya. They met up July 20, 2008 at the Great American Bash with Michelle McCool winning and becoming the first to wear the Divas championship belt.

On September 7, 2008 at Unforgiven McCool would successfully defend her WWE Divas title by defeating Maryse.

On the November 14, 2008 edition of Smackdown Michelle McCool would have to defend her title against her friend Maria, who had won the honor of becoming the number one contender for the Divas championship after beating other Divas at the Las Vegas poll match on the October 17, 2008 edition of Smackdown. Weeks leading into the match the two friends had not been too pleased with each other but still had a handshake before their match. McCool was able to defend her title once again by beating Maria.

McCool would team up Maria at Survivor Series as well as the other Smackdown Divas as they would battle the Raw Divas. It was McCool, Maria, Victoria, Natalya and Maryse against Beth Phoenix, Candice Michelle, Kelly Kelly, Jillian and Mickie James. Victoria and the Smackdown Divas were defeated by the Raw Divas.

On the December 26 episode of SmackDown!, McCool lost the Divas Championship to Maryse in a match which involved Maria as the special guest referee. Following the match, Michelle officially turned heel by attacking Maria and blaming her for the loss.

In the following weeks McCool would attack Eve Torres from behind and then later attacked Victoria from behind. On the January 16, 2009 edition of Smackdown, Victoria would approach McCool and tell her that she is not like any of these little girl divas and that Michelle had messed with the wrong person. McCool and Victoria battled in a match that night and Michelle McCool would win the match in what would be Victoria's final match as she afterwards announced her retirement from the WWE.

In many consecutive weeks she also attacked Eve Torres and Victoria. On January 19 she defeated Victoria in her final WWE match. A few weeks later she defeated Eve Torres in her debut match via the heel hook but after the match Maria came to Eve's aid after Mccool refused to let go of the hold. The next week Maria defeated McCool with the help of Eve Torres.

On February 20 on SmackDown, she teamed with Maryse to defeat Maria and Eve Torres. A few weeks later on SmackDown she once again teamed with Maryse in a losing effort against Melina and Maria after Michelle refused to tag in, following the bout the two divas got into a brawl. On the March 27 episode of Smackdown she got her rematch for the Diva's Championship against Maryse. During their match, Gail Kim made her Smackdown debut by succeeding in planting a dropkick on Michelle from the top rope, causing her to lose via disqualification. Maryse still now remains Diva's Champion.

Maryse Bio

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Maryse started out as a beauty pageant contestant and won the Miss Hawaiian Tropic Canada in 2003 and finished second in the international finals. She then appeared on magazines and some television in Canada and ended up becoming a glamour model. In the summertime of 2006 Maryse entered the WWE diva contest. She was eliminated early, coming in 7th place but was still invited by the WWE to their training facility. In August of 2006 she was given a WWE development contract and was active in Ohio Valley Wrestling. At the beginning of 2007 WWE fans would start seeing Maryse welcoming viewers back to the show after commercial breaks both in English and French. Starting in February of 2008 we started seeing a bit more of Maryse as she made a backstage appearance with Teddy Long. Then in March of 2008 she competed in a SMACKDOWN diva contest against Michelle McCool, Cherry, Eve Torres and Victoria. Unfortunately, she was the first one eliminated. On the March 28, 2008 Smackdown we got to see Maryse team up with Victoria in a "Wet and Wild" match against Michelle McCool and Cherry, her team lost. Maryse would then become good friends with Deuce and Domino. Deuce and Domino then dumped Cherry for Maryse. We got to see Maryse in some ring action on the May 16, 2008 edition of Smackdown as she battled Cherry in a losing effort. Maryse would then week after week team up with Natalya and Victoria and battle Michelle McCool, Cherry and Kelly Kelly.

On September 7, 2008 at Unforgiven Maryse would get her first title shot as she went up against Michelle McCool for the Divas championship. She was unsuccessful in her attempt though as McCool retained her title.

On November 23, 2008 at Survivor Series Maryse would be part of the Smackdown Diva team that would battle the Raw Diva team. Maryse teamed up with Victoria, Natalya, Maria and Michelle McCool. Maryse and McCool had a hard time getting along during the match and even ended up in a shoving match with each other. Some of the Raw Divas had a hard time getting along too but in the end were able to beat the Smackdown Divas.

On the December 26, 2008 edition of Smackdown, Maryse battled Michelle McCool for the Divas championship with Maria as the special guest referee. Maryse was able to get the pin on McCool and became the new Divas champion.

On December 28, 2008 at a house show in Raleigh, North Carolina, Maryse dislocated her knee in a tag team match against The Bella Twins, when one of the twins initiated a dropkick that landed on her kneecap, it was later announced that the injury was not too serious and that she would be able to return in a few weeks. On the January 23, 2009 episode of SmackDown, Maryse returned in a non-wrestling role and sat at ringside commentating, during a Divas' tag team match. Maryse returned to wrestling on February 20, 2009 in a tag team match with Michelle McCool and defeating Maria and Eve Torres.

Maryse will compete in the Divas Battle Royal on April 5, 2009 at Wrestlemania 25!

Maryse Facts:

Birth Name: Maryse Quellet
Birth Date: January 21, 1983
Height: 5' ft 8' inch

Kristal Marshall Bio

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Kristal was a huge success in life even before her life her on Smackdown. She was a competitor in the 2004 Miss California contest, a model for Deal or no Deal, in commercials, in music videos and was one of Bob Barkers lovely ladies on 'The Price is Right'. She came to the WWE in 2005 during a Diva search and finished 4th but WWE officials liked her and kept her around and toward the end of the year had her doing backstage correspondence. In 2006 she had a feud with Jillian and started seeing some ring action. She also became heel and started beef with diva search winner Ashley. In 2006 when the new diva search winner Layla came to Smackdown Kristal immediately warned her from trying to make a name for herself. Kristal has been involved in many bra and pantie matches with other WWE divas. In 2007 Krystal became engaged to Smackdown GM Teddie Long. Their wedding was held on the September 21 edition of Smackdown. Unfortunately for them the wedding was a time of disaster and Teddy Long had to be rushed off in the ambulance. After this happend we didn't see Krystal anymore. Word has it that she was let go by Smackdown because she did not agree where the storyline was heading and she moved on. She said the storyline they were giving her was morally wrong.

Kristal Facts:

Birth Name: Kristal Marshall
Birth Date: November 11, 1983
Height: 5'ft 5'inch
Finishing Move: Kristal crash

Eve Torres Bio

2008-07-03T00:43:00.000-07:00

Eve Torres went to college at USC and graduated in 2006. She then began her career as a dancer and model and ended up landing a spot as a member of Spirit Dance Team which are the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers dancers. She also did some actress work and appeared on the soap opera 'Days of our Lives'. In the summer of 2007 Eve entered the WWE diva contest. The final two divas left were Eve Torres and Brook Gilbertsen. Eve was crowned the winner on the October 29 episode of RAW and won $250,000 and a one year WWE contract. So began her wrestling training! She made her SMACKDOWN debut on the February 1, 2008 episode of SMACKDOWN when she interviewed Batista. She later competed in a SMACKDOWN diva contest were her opponents were Michelle McCool, Cherry, Maryse and Victoria. She was the third diva eliminated from the contest which was voted upon by the WWE fans. Eve then started mostly doing backstage interviews for Smackdown but she has also wrestled at Wrestlemania 24 in the Lumberjill in the Bunnymania match.

On September 19, 2008 edition of SmackDown, Eve asked General Manager Vickie Guerrero for a match, but Vickie just laughed and teased her.

Torres participated in the Halloween Costume Contest on October 26, 2008 at Cyber Sunday, Torres was dressed as Raphael from the Ninja Turtles.

On November 3, 2008 the 800th episode of RAW, Eve made her in-ring debut in a 16 Diva Tag-Team Match. Eve and her team of Candice Michelle, Mae Young, Tiffany, Michelle McCool, Mickie James, Kelly Kelly and Brie Bella, came up on the short end.

On November 7, 2008 editon of SmackDown, Eve asked for advice about training for wrestling from Michelle McCool, until Maria interrupted, and Eve said she would talk to Michelle later.

On the January 2 edition of SmackDown, Torres was attacked by Michelle McCool after earlier telling McCool during an interview that she should apologize to Maria for the rude actions she has made the week before. At a series of house shows Eve showed off her improved wrestling abilities when she defeated Natalya on several occasions.

On the February 6 edition of SmackDown, Torres made her singles match debut in a losing effort against McCool via submission.

Eve till take part at Wrestlemania 25 as she will compete in the Divas Battle Royal

Eve Torres Facts:

Birth Name: Eve Marie Torres
Birth Date: May 5, 1984
Height: 5' ft 8' inch

Eve is very supportive in charity work

She was born in California but grew up in Denver, Colorado

Has demonstrated the ability to solve a Rubik's Cube in less than 5 minutes

Eve is Mexican-American

Cherry Bio

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Drew became involved with wrestling in 1999 managing in the IWF, at the same time she was training to be a wrestler. Eventually by 2003, she was just wrestling. She bounced around independent circuits and then in 2005 she started traing at the OVW. A few months later was signed to a development contract with the WWE. In January of 2006 she made her OVW debut as 'Cherry' and was part of the Throwbacks (later to be known as Deuce and Domino). She became part of their 1950's gimmick always on roller skates and chewing gum. In January of 2007 she made her WWE debut on Smackdown as the manager of boyfriend Deuce and brother Domino, they are announced to be 'from the other side of the tracks'. In April of 2007 she was on the side of Deuce and Domino when they became the WWE tag team champions. In March, 2008 Cherry has began participating in the Smackdown diva contest. A bit surprising to SMACKDOWN fans as this is not her usual self. Her competition was Michelle McCool, Eve Torres, Maryse and Victoria. Cherry made it to the final two but lost to Michelle McCool on the April 4, 2007 Smackdown. On the April 18, 2008 Smackdown, Cherry made her first match debut against Victoria. Despite Victoria dominating the match, Cherry was able to pick up the win with some distraction help from Michelle McCool. The following week on Smackdown Cherry had another match, this time against Natalya Neidhart. Cherry lost her second match but did show that she does have some wrestling skills. With Cherry now involved with the actually wrestling, she stopped appearing with Deuce and Domino and in a WWE exclusive Deuce and Domino had said that they wanted nothing more to do with her and were dumping her for their new friend Maryse, whom they started hanging out with more. After that Cherry competed in many matches and has formed a friendship with Michelle McCool. Cherry and McCool often feuded with Natalya and Victoria. Cherry was released from her contract by the WWE on August 15, 2008.

Cherry Facts:

Birth Name: Kara Elizabeth Drew
Birth Date: July 15, 1975
Height: 5' ft 6' in

Ashley Massaro Bio

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Ashley grew up in Long Island, New York. Her brother and her dad wrestled as amateur wrestlers so that may be how here love for wrestling came to be. Ashley was the winner of the RAW diva search in 2005 and won the $250,000 prize and a one year contract with the WWE, so it all began. Candice and Torrie Wilson welcomed here to RAW, well kind of, by turning heel and feuding with her. In June of 2006 Ashley came to SMACKDOWN and started feuding with Kristal Marshall alot. She later started accompanying Paul London and Brian Kindrick to the ring during their matches. 2007 was the year that Ashley became Playboys cover girl. It was also the year that WWE diva Melina began feuding with Ashley. At Wrestlemania 23 the two divas went at it but Ashley was defeated by Melina and defended her woman championship. On the June 8, 2007 edition of SMACKDOWN Ashley was indefinitely suspended when she accidentally spilled some coffee on Mr. McMan. Since she was taking some time off, Ashley appeared on the TV reality show 'Survivor - china'. She returned to WWE wrestling in January of 2008 on the RAW brand and won a lingerie divas pillow fight. Ashley would compete at Wrestlemania XXIV as she teamed up with Maria in a Playboy Bunnymania match against Melina and Beth Phoenix. Unfortunately her and Maria lost the match.

In May 2008, Rolling Stone reported that Massaro was employed by a Los Angeles escort agency. The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed it was investigating the agency - but did not address Massaro's relation to them. On her MySpace page, Massaro said she was "beyond upset" and urged fans "don't believe it for a second.

On July 9, 2008 Ashley was released from her WWE contract. Ashley reported that she had asked to be released from her contract due to her daughter being sick.

Ashley Facts:

Birth Name: Ashley Marie Massaro
Birth Date: May 26, 1979
Height: 5' ft 5' inch
Finishing Move: Starstruck

John Morrison Bio

2008-07-03T00:25:00.000-07:00

John first came to the WWE after co-winning the WWE's 2002 'Tough Enough' reality program. For winning he was given a WWE developmental contract and sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling, whom the WWE used at the time to train and develop their future talent. In March of 2004 John appeared on RAW as Johnny Blaze. A couple weeks later he was Johnny Spade. Again, a few weeks later it was changed to Johnny Nitro. After a few months on RAW he was sent back to OVW were he began to be partnered with Joey Mercury and their manager Melina. The team, known as MNM, won the OVW Southern tag team titles there until finally called up to SMACKDOWN in April of 2005. They immediately made an impact on SMACKDOWN by winning the tag team titles three times during their first year. They lost their titles for the final time at 'Judgment Day' 2006 to Paul London and Brian Kendrick as Johnny Nitro and Melina suddenly turned on Joey Mercury. This led to then SMACKDOWN GM Teddy Long firing Nitro and Melina from SMACKDOWN and the two became part of the RAW roster the following week. At RAW he won his first singles competitor belt by capturing the WWE Intercontinental Championship and defending it for four months before losing it to Jeff Hardy on the October 2, 2006 episode of RAW. The following month Nitro got the belt back from Hardy but then lost it back to him the following week. That same month there was a small reunion of MNM as Joey Mercury came back to partner up with Johnny Nitro and Melina to take on an open challenge made by the Hardy Boys. The teams feuded for months with one another until Mercury had an legitimate injury. Nitro then teamed up with Kenny Dykstra until drafted to ECW during the 2007 WWE draft. In June of 2007 he made his ECW debut with a victory and then captured the vacant ECW title with a victory over CM Punk when he was a last second replacement for Chris Benoit. A couple of weeks after winning the title Johnny Nitro's name was changed to John Morrison. CM Punk had several opportunities to try and take John Morrison's ECW title but failed multiple times. Punk finally took Morrison's ECW belt on September 1, 2007. On the November 16, 2007 episode of SMACKDOWN, Morrison and a rival of his, the Miz, teamed up and won the WWE tag team championship belts from Matt Hardy and MVP. At Wrestlemania XXIV John Morrison competed in the 'Money in the Bank' ladder match but was unsuccessful.

In February of 2008 Morrison and the Miz were given their own streaming segment on the official WWE website called 'The Dirt Sheet'. They would usually mock other wrestlers and the show has became very popular.

On June 29, 2008 John Morrison and the Miz defended their tag team titles against the father-son team of Finlay and Hornswoggle at Night of Champions. Morrison and Miz defended their titles on many occasions but their luck would run out on July 20, 2008 at the Great American Bash when they were involved in a four way tag team match with their tag team titles up for grabs. Curt Hawkins pinned Jesse in the match making Zach Ryder and Curt Hawkins the new tag team champions.

After losing the tag titles, Morrison and Miz entered a feud with ECW newcomers Evan Bourne and Ricky Ortiz, who they had previously mocked (and continued to do so) on the Dirt Sheet, as well as an Internet-centered feud with RAW's Cryme Tyme based on which WWE.com online show was the best (between the Dirt Sheet and Cryme Tyme's "Word Up"). Recently RAW's Jillian Hall has also aligned herself with the tag team.

On October 28, 2008 at Cyber Sunday Morrison and the Miz would battle Cryme Tyme. The match was voted by fans as the tag team match that they wanted to see. Miz and Morrison would get the victory in the match.

At Survivor Series on November 23, 2008 John Morrison and his partner the Miz would be on Team JBL along with JBL, MVP and Kane. They would battle Team HBK which consist of Shawn Michaels, Rey Mysterio, Cryme Tyme and the great Khali. Unfortunately, Morrison and his team lost.

On December 13, Morrison and The Miz won the World Tag Team Championship from CM Punk and Kofi Kingston at a Raw house show.

A long fued came abouts between the World Tag Team Champs Miz and Morrison with the WWE Tag Team Champs the Colons. After months and months the two teams met on April 5th, 2009 at Wrtestlemania 25 with both teams putting their titles on the line. Miz and Morrison were not able to pull out the win and lost their World Tag Team Titles as the Colons became the undisputed tag team champs by holding both tag team titles.

As part of the 2009 WWE Draft on April 13, The Miz was drafted to the Raw brand to split up the team, and, as a result, Miz attacked Morrison.

On April 15, 2009, Morrison was drafted to the SmackDown brand as part of the 2009 Supplemental Draft. His first match back for the brand was on April 17, when he defeated R-Truth. Morrison subsequently turned into a fan favorite on the May 1 episode of SmackDown by defeating Shelton Benjamin, and then engaging in a backstage fight with Chris Jericho, after Jericho slapped him.

He started a feud with Shelton Benjamin defeating him and his tag team partner Charlie Haas in numerous tag team matches. The feud eventually led into a match at Judgment Day on May 17, 2009 Pay-Per-View event which Morrison won.

On the July 31, 2009 edition of SmackDown, Morrison had his first ever world championship match against the new World Heavyweight Champion Jeff Hardy. However, he failed to capture the title after Hardy hit a second Swanton Bomb and scored the pinfall. Morrison would later form an alliance with Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy.

On the September 4, 2009 edition of Smackdown John Morrison would battle Rey Mysterio in a match for the Intercontinental championship. John Morrison was able to win after hitting the Starship Pain and getting the pinfall to become the new Intercontinental Champion.

John Morrison Facts:

Birth Name: John Hennigan
Birth Date: 10-03-79
Height: 6' ft 1' inches
Finishing Move: Corkscrew neckbreaker

Was born in Los Angeles, California

Was in a real life long term relationship with Melina

Has had many ring names through out his wrestling career, though keeping Johnny consistently:

Johnny Hennigan
Johnny Blaze
John Morrison
Johnny Nitro
Johnny Onyx
Johnny Spade
Johnny Superstar

Big Show Bio

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The Big Shows real name is Paul Wright, Jr. He was born in Florida and became involved in wrestling after he was introduced to Hulk Hogan in 1994. Show was discovered by Jim Strauser who had a NFL football career in mind for him but Big Show didn't really have interest in football, he was interested in wrestling. He signed with WCW in March of 1995 and called himself "The Giant". Since then the Big Show has been a main attraction for all wrestling fans around the world! He claimed to be Andre "The Giant's" son and blamed Hulk Hogan for his fathers death. He began feuding with Hulk Hogan and had his first in ring debut with the Hulkster by winning the WCW title in controversial fashion. Wight performed as "Big Nasty" Paul Wight for several weeks before being renamed "Big Show" Paul Wight. He then gradually dropped his real name, eventually being referred to simply as The Big Show, sometimes shortened to simply Big Show. Big Show would feud with Mankind, Mick Foley, X-Pac, Triple H, Boss Man, the Rock and Kane among others. In February of 1999 the Big Show signed a ten year contract with the WWE. He debuted as a member of Vince McMahon's "The Corporation". When Vince McMahan fought Steve Austin at the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre Big Show attacked Austin and he threw Austin into the side of the cage and the cage broke; causing Vince Mcmahan to lose the match. He basically became the bodyguard of Vince McMahan. When The Undertaker was sidelined with injuries, Wight set his sights on the WWF Championship. After Steve Austin was run-over at the 1999 Survivor Series, Big Show was given his place in the triple threat match for the WWF Championship. In that match, which also featured The Rock, he pinned Triple H to become champion. In 2000, the Big Show was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling to try to try to lose some weight and improve his cardiovascular skills. He returned in the 2001 Royal Rumble. He was eliminated by the Rock but then chokeslammed the Rock through a table out of frustration. While working at RAW Big Show had a little losing steak going on for a while losing to Matt Hardy, Booker T and others. In the latter part of 2002 he came to SMACKDOWN. He made his presence known right away by challenging Brock Lesler for the WWE Championship. He ended up defeating Brock Lesler when Paul Heyman turned on Brock. He feuded with Eddie Guerrero, John Cena, Brock Lesner, the Undertaker and others. On the April 15, 2004 episode of Smackdown, Big Show promised to quit if he failed to defeat Eddie Guerrero that night. He lost to Guerrero and believing that Torrie Wilson had laughed at him for losing, upended her car and threatened to throw her off a ledge. Then the General Manager of SmackDown Kurt Angle ascended the ledge to try and talk some reason into Big Show, but the Big Show chokeslammed Angle off the ledge, concussing him and breaking his leg. After the event, Big Show was not seen nor heard from on WWE television for months. In mid-2004, Show was reinstated by new General Manager Teddy Long, he returned during a lumberjack match between Eddie Guerrero and Kurt Angle, interfering in the match. At No Mercy, Show fought Angle, where the Big Show defeated Angle. In the weeks before the match, the Big Show claimed to have "lost his dignity" when Angle tranquilized him in the middle of the ring using a dart gun and shaved his head. In June 0f 2005 the Big Show was drafted back to RAW. At WWE vs ECW Head to Head on June 7, 2006 Big Show jumped to the returning ECW brand; he removed his Raw shirt to reveal an ECW shirt during a twenty man battle royal. He went on to win the match for ECW by eliminating Randy Orton. Now wrestling for ECW Big Show won the ECW world heavyweight title from RVD. This made Big Show the only wrestler to ever have held the WCW title, the WWE title and the ECW title. After many title defenses he finally lost his title to Bobby Lashley who speared the Big Show and pinned him to win the match and claim the ECW Championship, after busting Show open by breaking one of the plexiglass pods with the Big Show's face. On December 6, following an unsuccessful rematch, WWE.com announced that the Big Show was taking time off from the ring to heal injuries he had sustained during wrestling in ECW. He didn't wrestle for 14 months after that except for one time. That match was April 27, 2007 against Hulk Hogan at PMG - Clash of the Legends. He went by the name Paul 'The Great' Wight in that match up. This match was suppose to be like a rematch of Wrestlemania III where Hulk Hogan defeated Andre the Giant. The match ended in a similar way when Hulk Hogan ended the match with a massive leg drop and got the win. Big Show then announced that he had lost 60 lbs since leaving the WWE. He then gave professional boxing a shot but that didn't work out and he came back to the WWE shortly thereafter. In 2008 the Big Show returned to the WWE at 'No Way Out' stating that he had lost 108 lbs, he used to tip the scale at 500 lbs. He then got in a confrontation with Floyd Mayweather Jr. Big Show was brought back to the Smackdown brand and his feud with Mayweather lead to a match with him at Wrestlemania XXIV. Big Show lost the match when Mayweather used brass knuckles to knock out the Big Show. Big Show then turned face and began a feud with the great Khali. This led to a match at Backlash were Big Show chokeslammed Khali and got the win.

Big Show competed at Night of Champions on June 29, 2008 in a match for the ECW championship. It was a triple threat match against the champion Kane and Mark Henry. There was a new ECW champion that night but it was Mark Henry.

On July 25, 2008 during a six man battle royal on Smackdown that would decide the number one contender for the WWE Championship, Big Show clothelined Umaga over the top ropes which eliminated Umaga. Umaga took this personal and had been making it known that he wanted the Big Show. The feud never really got started though as Umaga soon really got injured in a house show match against Shelton Benjamin and had to take some time off.

Big Show then felt that Smackdown GM was not giving him the kind of attention he deserved. For example, Smackdown would hold a tournament to see who would be in the WWE Championship Scramble Match at Unforgiven. Big Show was not even given a chance to compete. Show retaliated by interrupting matches sometimes that he was not involved in. This led to a fued with Vickie Guerrero. With Big Show and Vickie at each others throats week after week it came as a surprise to everyone when he spontaneously assaulted The Undertaker and sided with Vickie Guerrero at Unforgiven.

Big Show then became sort of Vickie Guerrero's bodyguard against the Undertaker. He had promised her protection against the Undertaker and that he would help her get Smackdown to were she wanted it. In return she would help him get the WWE title. The following week after Unforgiven Big Show, Vickie, Chavo and the rest of La Familia would replay the footage of the Big Show clobbering Undertaker at Unforgiven and laugh about it. On the September 19, 2008 edition of Smackdown Vickie was scared that the Undertaker would be there to take her soul as he promised he would. Undertaker was not seen through out the show until toward the end when he chocked Chavo Guerrero backstage.

The following week Big Show, Vickie and Chavo were in the ring and were calling out the Undertaker. The lights went out and Chavo suddenly disappeared. Chavo was suddenly backstage and the Undertaker was giving Chavo a beating. Big Show then ran from the ring to help Chavo backstage. This left Vickie Guerrero alone in the ring and after the lights went out and came back on, Undertaker was behind Vickie and gave her a tombstone piledriver.

On October 5, 2008 at No Mercy, the Big Show beat the Undertaker after he delivered a knock out punch to the back of Undertaker's head. On the following Smackdown Vickie Guerrero rewarded Big Show for what he did to Undertaker at No Mercy by giving him a match against Triple H for the WWE championship. During the match Big Show seemed like he may have well been going for the victory but then the lights went out and the Undertaker interrupted the match and attacked the Big Show.

Big Show and Undertaker battled it out again at Cyber Sunday with the WWE fans getting to vote what kind of match it will be. The fans voted for a Last Man Standing match. Big Show would end up losing the match to the Undertaker.

On the November 7, 2008 edition of Smackdown the Big Show challenged Undertaker to another match at Survivor Series. The following week Undertaker said he’d drag Big Show’s soul down to the depths of hell. Then the casket opened and Taker sat up out of it. On November 23, 2008 at Survivor Series the two would battle in a Casket Match. Big Show ended up losing the match as Undertaker got Show into the casket, the casket fell and the lid shut.

Big Show still had not had a title shot from Vickie as he thought he would when they became all buddy and buddy. Show had wasted months feuding with the Undertaker. Things got worse for him when Edge made his return at Armageddon. On the December 26, 2008 edition of Smackdown Big Show made it clear that he wanted a shot at the WWE title. Vickie Guerrero set up a non title match for the Big Show to face WWE champion Jeff Hardy that evening. Vickie said that if Big Show won then he and Edge would have a match against each other to see who would be the number one contender and face Hardy for the title. Edge was hoping that Big Show would not win and his wish came true as Show got counted out and Jeff Hardy won the match.

Edge would later take the WWE title from Hardy at the 2009 Royal Rumble but the Big Show would get his chance at the WWE title on February 15, 2009 at No Way Out as WWE Champ Edge would defend his title in a Smackdown Eliminations Chamber match against Jeff Hardy, Vladimir Koslov, Undertaker, Big Show and Triple H. Big Show though, was the third man eliminated as the Undertaker pinned him. Triple H would go on to win the match and become the new WWE Champion that night.

The following weeks to come would expose that the Big Show was engaging in an affair with Smackdown GM Vickie Guerrero. World Heavyweight Champion Edge exploded after learning of his wifes misbehavior and this led to a match set for Wrestlemania 25 on April 5th, 2009 as Edge will defend his title against the Big Show and John Cena who is the one who exposed the taped footage of Vickie and Big Show being together.

On April 5th, 2009 at Wrestlemania 25 Big Show battled Edge for the World Heavyweight Title, also participating in the Triple Threat match was John Cena. Unfortunately Big Show was not the Big Show of the night as the match went down to Cena and Edge with Cena pinning Edge and taking Edge's title.

On April 13, 2009, Big Show was drafted to the Raw brand as a part of the 2009 WWE Draft. At Backlash, Big Show intefered a Last Man Standing match for the World Heavyweight Championship against John Cena and Edge,he threw Cena into a spot light causing Cena to smash it and make it explode, in which Edge successfully won.

On May 17, 2009 at Judgment day Big Show would battle John Cena. Big Show would lose the match after Cena hit a Attitude Adjustment on Show.

On June 7, 2009 at Extreme Rules Big Show would get a rematch against John Cena in a submission match. In this match, the only way to win would be by submission. Cena eventually locked on the STF on Show and despite trying to escape it, Big Show was forced to tap out.

On July, 26, 2009 at Night of Champions, Big Show was announced as Chris Jericho's new tag team partner, replacing the injured Edge. The new duo was able to successfully defend the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship against The Legacy when Big Show forced Ted DiBiase to submit to the camel clutch.

The very next day on Raw NBA Superstar Shaq O'neal was introduced as Raw's special guest host for the night. As Shaq was speaking Big Show's partner Chris Jericho intruded on Shaq in the ring, coming out in a suit and had a few words for Shaq. Shaq insulted Jericho back and pushed him a little until Jericho introduced his partner the Big Show. Show entered the ring in a suit and told Shaq Show told Shaq he's got a better chance of hitting two straight free throws, than intimidating him. Shaq challenged Show right there for a match. Show said he knows Shaq's plan, to get Show to hurt him and then have NBA breathing down his neck. Since Show and Jericho refused to fight Shaq, he said he hired two wrestlers who would fight them instead. Cryme Tyme came out from backstage, down to the ring. Shaq stood side by side with Cryme Tyme, and Show/Jericho backed down then left the ring. Shaq then announced he'd be the special guest enforcer for that tag match.

Cryme Tyme battled the tag team champs later that evening and the match came down to Big Show beating unmercifully on JTG & Shad. The ref finally called for the bell in a DQ. Show kept stomping away on Cryme Tyme and then prepared to chokeslam both men in front of Shaq. Show shoved them down and then called for Shaq to get in the ring. Shaq tore off his enforcer's ref shirt and climbed into the ring. Shaq got right in Show's face and the two kept trash talking. Show pushed Shaq, so Shaq shoved back. Show then slapped his hand around Shaq's neck, so Shaq did the same back. The two held each other there, and then Cryme Tyme ran over to kick Show. Shaq did a running shoulder block into Show to knock him out of the ring with the crowd cheering it.

On July 31, 2009 on Smackdown Cryme Tyme would battle the Hart Dynasty and the winners of the match would get the opportunity to battle Big Show and Jericho for the Unified Tag Team titles at Summer Slam 2009. Cryme Tyme won and will challenge for the Unified Tag Team titles at Summer Slam.

On August 23, 2009 at Summerslam Big Show and Chris Jericho were able to beat Cryme Tyme as they successfully defended their Unified tag team championship belts.

After Summerslam, Floyd "Money" Mayweather came back to haunt the Big Show. On the August 24, 2009 edition of Raw, Big Show and Jericho battled MVP and Mark Henry in a tag team match. During the match, Mayweather (who was sitting in the front row) tossed into the ring to MVP some brass knuckles in which MVP used on Chris Jericho.

Festus Bio

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Festus real name is Drew Hankinson. Hankinson began his career in Pennsylvania with the World Star Wrestling Federation (AWA/World Star Wrestling), Summit Wrestling Kane. The two continued to battle one another over subsequent weeks, the impersonator continually gaining the upper hand; this led to a match being scheduled for Vengeance. Association of Southern Pennsylvania, and Maryland-based National Wrestling League, wrestling as Dorian Deville. In April 2005, he was signed to a contract by World Wrestling Entertainment and assigned to the Deep South Wrestling (DSW) developmental territory, where he formed a partnership with Palmer Cannon. Hankinson wrestled in DSW as Deacon Deville before changing his ring name to The Freakin' Deacon. On May 29, 2006, the Wrestling Observer reported that Hankinson debuted on WWE RAW, confronting Kane while dressed in Kane's original ring attire, complete with a full face mask. Without saying a word, Hankinson chokeslammedHankinson went on to defeat Kane at Vengeance with a chokeslam. On the following episode of Raw, Hankinson was beaten down by the real Kane, who then tore the mask from his face and threw him out of the arena, claiming that it belonged to him. This marked Hankinson's last appearance on RAW began to air. On the September 7, 2007 edition of won his debut match on changed into his determined and monstrous face. . Following his feud with Kane, Hankinson returned to Deep South Wrestling, in addition to appearing at Smackdown house shows as The Freakin' Deacon. In late January he formed a tag team with G-Rilla. On the May 11`, 2007 edition of Smackdown, a vignette aired suggesting that Hankinson would be repackaged as Festus Dalton as part of a tag team using a 'Southern' gimmick, alongside fellow WWE developmental talent Ray Gordy. On June 2, 2007, however, it was reported that WWE was dropping the "Dalton Boys" gimmick. The explanation for the reason they didn't show up on Smackdown was because (kayfabe) they got lost on their way to the arena. Hankinson and Gordy had actually been sent back to OVW and Hankinson changed his name to Justice Dalton. It marked the second time Hankinson had been dropped from the main roster. On the June 29, 2007 edition of SmackDown, vignettes hyping Jesse and FestusSmackDown, there was a segment featuring Jesse and Festus now actually in the arena rather than in a studio. On October 5th, HankinsonSmackdown! with his partner Jesse. When the opening bell rang, Festus' persona changed into a very focused competitor as compared to the aloof, absent-minded character he had portrayed. When the bell rang signifying the end of the match, Festus returned to his "normal" self. On the December 21, 2007 of Smackdown, Hankinson defeated Deuce in a Santa Match with both of them wearing Santa Claus outfits. On the January 25 edition of Smackdown Jesse explained the reason they haven't been around since the new year is because Festus has been seeing doctors about his problems. In 2008, Jesse and Festus came out and before the bell rang Jesse explained that Festus has been changed. After the bell rang FestusFestus did not change and continues to make a determined and monstrous face after the bell has rung. In April of 2008 Festus had one of his biggest challenges ever as he faced the Undertaker on Smackdown, he suffered his first loss that evening. Currently Festus and Jesse then feuding with Hawkins and Ryder. They were able to battle them as four teams were involved in a four way tag team match on July 20, 2008 at the Great American Bash. John Morrison and the Miz's tag team titles were up for grabs but Festus partner Jesse was pinned by Curt Hawkins making Ryder and Hawkins the new tag team champions.

Recently Festus and his partner Jesse have developed a gimmick where after Festus faces and opponent they duct tape and bubble wrap their opponent and take them to the back. On the September 27, 2008 edition of Smackdown you could see that Festus and Jesse had their last two opponents from the previous weeks of Smackdown tied up still with the duct tape and bubble wrap in the back of their moving van. The gimmick highlighted SmackDown's move to MyNetworkTV, complete with overalls bearing the parodic company title of "MyMoving Company".

In October Festus became infatuated with Maria and on the October 17, 2008 edition of Smackdown he gave her some flowers backstage. Of course this was done through Jesse interpreting for Festus, Festus just stood there and drolled at her.

The team was separated when Festus was drafted to the Raw brand in the 2009 Supplemental Draft. He made his first appearance on Raw on May 4, winning a singing competition against Jillian Hall, but he was attacked afterwards by The Miz. He has also appeared in a tag team match, teaming with The Brian Kendrick

Festus Facts:

Birth Name: Andrew William "Drew" Hankinson
Birth Date: December 22, 1983
Height: 6' ft 7' Inch
Finishing Move: Fireman's carry flapjack

Jesse Bio

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Jesse's real name is Ray Gordy. He is the son on of legendary wrestler Terry Gordy of the Fabulous Freebirds. Before coming to the WWE he worked for NWA Georgia, NOAH in Japan and NAWA. In August 2005, Gordy signed a developmental contract with the WWE and debuted for Deep South Wrestling in early 2006 as Ray Geezy and had a wigger gimmick. He teamed with Damien Steele, who was preppy and well-spoken. In November of 2006, he began teaming with Henry Godwinn at some Smackdown house shows and changed his name to Cousin Ray, dropping his gangsta gimmick to reform The Godwinns with Henry. On the May 11, 2007 edition of SmackDown, a vignette aired with Gordy as Jesse Dalton alongside fellow WWE developmental talent Drew Hankinson as Festus. It was reported on June 2, 2007 that the "Dalton Boys" gimmick was being changed by WWE. The Dalton Boys was their hillbilly gimmick. Jesse and Festus were put in traditional wrestling gear and transformed their gimmick to be a little less country. On the June 29, 2007 edition of SmackDown, vignettes hyping Jesse and Festus return to the roster began to air. Jesse and Festus made their official televised in-ring debut on the October 5, 2007 edition of SmackDown, defeating Mike Tolar and Chad Collyer.

Since then Jesse and his partner Festus have battled some of the top tag team on Smackdown with Jesse being the rational one of the team. On July 20, 2008 Jesse and Festus were involved in a four way tag team title match at the Great American Bash. They were unsuccessful as Jesse was pinned by Curt Hawkins making Ryder and Hawkins the new tag team champions.

Recently Jesse and his partner Festus have developed a gimmick where after Festus faces and opponent they duct tape and bubble wrap their opponent and take them to the back. On the September 27, 2008 edition of Smackdown you could see that Jesse and Festus had their last two opponents from the previous weeks of Smackdown tied up still with the duct tape and bubble wrap in the back of their moving van.

Jesse was separated from Festus when Festus was drafted to the Raw brand in the 2009 Supplemental Draft.

Jesse Facts:

Birth Name: Terry Ray Gordon Jr.
Birth Date: March 23, 1982
Height: 5' ft 10' inch
Finishing move: Swinging leg hook fireman's carry slam

Is married and resides in Louisville.

Miz Bio

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The Miz is a native of Parma, Ohio and attended Miami University. He later relocated to California and to attend acting classes. He was known for appearing on many reality shows such as 'The Real World', 'Fear Factor' and others. Pursuing the goal of becoming a professional wrestler which he had harbored from an early age, Mizanin joined Ultimate Pro Wrestling, where he trained in the Ultimate University. He made his in-ring debut in 2003. In 2004 he joined the television show 'Tough Enough' were the winner would get a WWE developmental contract and $1,000,000.00. Despite not winning 'Tough Enough', the Miz caught the eyes of the WWE anyways and was offered a developmental contract anyways and was sent to Deep South Wrestling. In January of 2006 the Miz was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling where him and his tag team partner Chris Cage won the OVW tag team championship. In March of 2006 WWE.com featured a video of stating that he was headed to Smackdown and throughout April Smackdown hyped his debut. However, when Mizanin actually attempted to make his debut on the April 21, 2006 edition of SmackDown he was (kayfabe) barred from entering the arena by "network executive Palmer Cannon who told him that he had been "canceled" before having security escort him from the premises. He eventually became a host on Smackdown, doing backstage interviews and WWE diva bikini contest. He hosted the Diva search contest along with Ashley and was kind of seen as a dork by everyone as he would stumble his lines alot and call the divas by the wrong names, he appeared to always be really nervous. When he started to actually have matches, though routinely the underdog, he somehow found ways to win his first five matches. He finally lost one to the Boogeyman at Armageddon. Miz was drafted from SmackDown to ECW on June 7, 2007 as part of the WWE draft. He started a new gimmick for himself of a self-proclaimed "chick magnet". Extreme Expose then became managers for The Miz and the Miz seemed like a man of a new self confidence. He then began feuds with Balls Mahoney, CM Punk and John Morrison. He was voted at Cyber Sunday to face CM Punk for the ECW Championship but lost the match. In November of 2007 the Miz and John Morrison teamed up on Friday Night Smackdown and beat Matt Hardy and MVP for their tag team titles. They have successfully defended their titles on many occasions but it came to an end on July 20, 2008 at the Great American Bash. Miz and Morrison were involved in a four way tag match with their tag team titles on the line. The title was lost even though the Miz or Morrison were neither involved with the cover of the match. Curt Hawkins pinned Jesse giving the tag team title to Zach Rider and Curt Hawkins.

In February of 2008 Morrison and the Miz were given their own streaming segment on the official WWE website called 'The Dirt Sheet'. They would usually mock other wrestlers and the show has became very popular.

After losing the tag titles, Morrison and Miz entered a feud with ECW newcomers Evan Bourne and Ricky Ortiz, who they had previously mocked (and continued to do so) on the Dirt Sheet, as well as an Internet-centered feud with RAW's Cryme Tyme based on which WWE.com online show was the best (between the Dirt Sheet and Cryme Tyme's "Word Up"). Recently RAW's Jillian Hall has also aligned herself with the tag team.

On October 28, 2008 at Cyber Sunday Miz and John Morrison would battle Cryme Tyme. The match was voted by fans as the tag team match that they wanted to see. Miz and Morrison would get the victory in the match.

At Survivor Series on November 23, 2008 Miz and his partner the John Morrison would be on Team JBL along with JBL, MVP and Kane. They would battle Team HBK which consist of Shawn Michaels, Rey Mysterio, Cryme Tyme and the great Khali. Unfortunately, the Miz and his team lost.

On December 13, Morrison and The Miz won the World Tag Team Championship from CM Punk and Kofi Kingston at a Raw house show.

A long fued came abouts between the World Tag Team Champs Miz and Morrison with the WWE Tag Team Champs the Colons. After months and months the two teams met on April 5th, 2009 at Wrtestlemania 25 with both teams putting their titles on the line. Miz and Morrison were not able to pull out the win and lost their World Tag Team Titles as the Colons became the undisputed tag team champs by holding both tag team titles.

On the April 13 episode of Raw, The Miz lost a match to Kofi Kingston due to Morrison's inadvertent interference, which gave Raw a draft pick in the 2009 WWE Draft. The pick was then revealed to be The Miz, and he subsequently attacked Morrison, ending their partnership. He challenged John Cena to a match on the April 27 episode of Raw, but as Cena was out due to injury, Miz claimed an unofficial win via forfeit and has continued to do this for weeks. Cena ended all the talk when he defeated Miz in a singles match at The Bash.

With the Miz losing the match to Cena, that meant in storyline that he was banned from the Staples Center, Raw and SummerSlam (and Summerfest). The following week, on the August 10, 2009 episode of Raw, Miz competed under a mask as "The Calgary Kid", and won a contract on pole match against Eugene, earning a contract in storyline, and revealing himself by removing his mask afterwards.

With his spot back now on Monday Night Raw. On the August 17, 2009 episode, The Miz announced his intention to challenge for the WWE United States Championship, and also debuted new ring attire and a new finishing move to defeat Evan Bourne.

Miz Facts:

Birth Name: Mike Mizanin

Birth Date: October 8, 1980

Height: 6' feet 1' inches

Finishing Moves: Reality Check

CM Punk Bio

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CM punk began wrestling in backyard wrestling and was part of a tag team called 'Chick Magnets'. Thus, the CM in his now name CM Punk. He decided that he wanted to be a real wrestler and seen it more than something that was just fun to do so he enrolled in wrestling school in Chicago. He then became a professional wrestler and wrestled in the independent circuit. He joined ROH Ring of Honor) later and became an icon there. At the same time he also joined as wrestled for TNA (Total Nonstop Action). In June of 2005 Punk accepted a deal with the WWE but still won the ROH World Championship in mid-June against Austin Aries. After that match Punk turned heel and threatened that he would take the ROH world championship belt with him to the WWE. Punk mocked his ROH title to the other wrestlers and ROH fans but ended up losing it in August to James Gibson. The next day after losing the title he lost a best out three match to Colt Cabana. After the match was over Punk was visibly crying in the ring and was showered with streamers in the middle of the ring, truly a ROH legend. In September of 2005 Punk began wrestling for the WWE's training circuit, Ohio Valley Wrestling until June of 2006 when he made his ECW debut during a house show. The next month he made his first TV promo and appeared as a face preaching a straight life style, alcohol and drug free. In August he made his TV wrestling debut by defeating Justin Credible and went on defeating ECW superstars one after another. He feuded with Mike Knox, Hardcore Holly and Matt Striker to name a few. In Wrestlemania XXIIV he competed in the 'Money in the bank ladder match' as the only ECW wrestler to qualify for the match but did not win. CM Punk had many opportunities as he tried to capture the ECW Championship on many occasions but failed. He finally got his wish when he defeated John Morrison for the gold on September 1, 2007. He retained his title in multiple matches but finally lost it in January of 2008 when Chavo Guerrero beat him in a no disqualification match with outside interference from Edge.

On March 30, 2008 at Wrestlemania XXIV, CM Punk once again competed in the 'Money in the bank ladder match' but was able to win it this time. On June 23 of 2008 CM Punk was drafted to Raw. That following week on Raw CM Punk cashed in his money in the bank contract and won the World Heavyweight Championship after pinning Edge. Edge had just taken a beating from Batista and Punk seen a great opportunity. Later that same night Punk was challenged for the belt by JBL. Punk successfully defended his title with a victory.

On July 20, 2008 CM Punk would defend his World Heavyweight Championship against Batista. Batista looked like he was on his way to take Punk's title but the match was interrupted by Kane and the match was ruled a double disqualification thus allowing CM Punk to retain his belt and still be the World Heavyweight Champion.

On August 17, 2008 at Summerslam 2008 CM Punk defended his World Heavyweight Title against JBL after hitting the Go to Sleep on him.

On September 7, 2008 at Unforgiven CM Punk would have to defend his World Heavyweight Championship in a scramble match against Batista, Kane, Rey Mysterio and JBL. Punk never got the opportunitty though as before the match got under way he was attacked backstage by Randy Orton, Cody Rhodes, Ted Dibiase and Manu. It was announced that Punk could not compete in the match and Punk involuntarily forfeited the title. The replacement for CM Punk would be Chris Jericho, who would go on to win the match and the title. He received a re-match eight days later on September 15 on Raw, where failed to regain the title in a steel cage match against Jericho. Punk Battled Jericho again on the October 13, 2008 edition of Raw, this was a non title match with Batista as the guest referee, CM Punk was able to get the victory in this one.

Punk was not titleless for too long. On the October 27, 2008 edition of Raw Punk teamed up with Kofi Kingston against World Tag Team champions Ted DiBiasi and Cody Rhodes. Punk and Kiungston would win the match and become the new tag team champs.

Punk was then entered in a Intercontinental Championship Tournament, in which the winner would get to challenge for the championship in the future. He would defeat Snitsky in the First Round and then John Morrison in the Semi-Finals. He would then go on to face off with Rey Mysterio at Armageddon, which he won to get the title shot.

Punk and Kingston lost the World Tag Team Championship to John Morrison and The Miz at a live event on December 13, 2008, the day before Armageddon.

CM Punk would later have his eye et on the Intercontinental Championship held by William Regal. On the January 5, 2009 edition of Raw, Punk battled Regal for the IC belt. During the match, Punk hoisted him up in the GTS. Regal frantically grabbed the ropes to prevent it. Punk was able to pull him away, but Regal grabbed the ref's shirt next. The ref quickly called for the bell for a DQ as Regal put his hands on him thus Regal defended his title due to the DQ. Stephanie McMahon was not going to have it though and said that she can't have the first title defense of the new year go on like this. She aid that the next week on Raw, Punk will battle Regal again for the Intercontinental championship but if William Regal gets disqualified, he will lose his IC title. The January 12, 2009 edition of Raw came as Punk challenged Regal again. During this match Punk turned and punched Regal in the midsection, Regal acted as if he was hit by a low blow, and the ref immediately called for the bell to disqualify Punk. Stephanie was till not satisfied though and ordered another match between Punk and Regal for the IC title again the next week on Raw. On the January 19, 2009 edition of Raw Punk was able to hit the GTS on Regal and get the pin to win the Intercontinental Championship. Punk was able to hold on to the title for about six weeks until JBL was able to win it.

In Wrestlemania 24 Punk won the Money in the Bank match and that eventually led to him winning the World Heavyweight Championship. On April 5th, 2009 at Wrestlemania 25 Punk was once again able to win the 8 man MITB match despite Kane grabbing and grabbing at him. Punk was able to break loose from the Big Red Machine before finally grabbing the briefcase.

During the 2009 WWE Draft, Punk was drafted from the Raw brand to SmackDown. He continued his feud with Kane, which started after Punk won the money in the bank ladder match, after Kane was also moved to Smackdown through the draft. Punk was defeated by Kane at Backlash.

At Judgment Day on 05-17-09 CM punk would battle Umaga but was unsuccessful as Umaga was able to pick up the win.

Punk and Umaga would go at it again on June 7, 2009 at Extreme Rules in a Samoan Strap Match. In this match, both men were fastened at opposite ends of the Samoan Strap. The wrestler who touched all corners of the ring in succession first would be called the winner. In the end Punk hoisted Umaga in the GTS then touched the fourth turnbuckle to win the match. Later that same evening Punk would cash in his MITB briefcase and defeat Jeff Hardy for the World Heavyweight Championship. Hardy, had only won the World Heavyweight Championship 2 minutes before from Edge.

Punk retained his title in a Triple Threat match against both Edge and Hardy eight days later on the June 15 episode of Raw. At The Bash in Sacramento, California, Punk lost to Hardy by disqualification after kicking the referee after being afflicted with a storyline eye injury, claiming he could not see the referee, but, due to the notion that titles cannot change hands on a disqualification, Punk retained the championship. Hardy called Punk into question about his eye injury, believing he had been feigning it, leading to Punk losing favor with the fans, claiming to be the moral superior of those who support Hardy due to his drug-free lifestyle. At Night of Champions, Punk lost the championship to Hardy.

On August 23, 2009 at Summerslam Punk would get another shot at the World Heavyweight title against Jeff Hardy as Jeff would defend his World Heavyweight title. The match was a tables, ladders and chairs match. During the match, Jeff climbed to the top of a very tall ladder and did a major Swanton dive off the ladder to crash down onto Punk through a table. This prompted EMT's to come out and put Jeff on a stretcher. As they were taking Jeff away, he got off the stretcher and crawled back into the ring. Meanwhile, Punk was setting a ladder up. Jeff climbed up the other side and fought with Punk while Punk had his hand on the title. Punk eventually was able to knock Jeff off the ladder down to the mat, then pulled down the title to win the match and once again become the new World Heavyweight champion.

On the August 28, 2009 edition of Smackdown CM Punk would battle Jeff Hardy in a loser leaves the WWE steel cage match. CM Punk won the match and Jeff Hardy had to leave the WWE. Hardy made a farewell speech to the emotional crowd and when he got to the top of the ramp raised his hands in the air but out of no where came CM Punk who came back out and smashed him with the World Heavyweight Championship.

The next week on Smackdown Matt Hardy would try to avenge his brothers departure from the WWE in a match against CM Punk. In the match Punk started using a chair to smack Hardy with and got disqualified from the match. With Matt hurt, the lights went out and the Undertaker's bells tolled and the lights went out. All of a sudden, the lights came back with Taker standing right near CM Punk. Punk was shocked and ran right into Undertaker who grabbed him and chokeslammed him right through the commentator's table.

CM Punk Facts:

Birth Name: Phil Brooks
Birth Date: October 26, 1978
Height: 6' ft 1' inch
Finishing Move: G.T.S. (Go to sleep)

CM Punks inspiration to become a wrestler happened when watched Roddy Piper slam a coconut over Jimmy Snuka's head during Pipers Pit in the early-mid 80's.

He made a commitment to stay away from alcohol after growing up with his father as a alcoholic and reading that it was hereditary, his father ended up giving up drinking.

The words "Straight Edge" are spelled out on his stomach. This tattoo is one of Punk's oldest tattoos and has been referred to by Punk as his identity.

Big Daddy V Bio

2008-07-02T23:34:00.000-07:00

Big Daddy V began his wrestling career under the name Nelson Knight as part of the Knight Brothers along with Bobby Knight in the USWA and PWF as they became tag team champs along the way. He signed with the WWF in 1993 with his partner as they came in as faces and won the tag team championship under their new name 'Men on a Mission'. During this time Big Daddy became known as Mabel and later King Mabel as he won 'King of the Ring'. In 1996 he was released from the WWF and wrestled for other wrestling promotions. In July of 1998 he made a brief comeback to the WWF but officially came back in 1999 and ended up becoming the Hardcore Champion but then left the company again in 2000. He once again spent some time wrestling for some independent circuits but returned once again in late 2004 to the now WWE under a name he had used in the past, Viscera. He made a couple appearances on SMACKDOWN but was then sent to RAW were he teamed up with Trish Stratus for a while. Eventually he became known as 'The Worlds Largest Love Machine' and was not shy about trying seduce women. He was then a tag team partner with Val Venus (who was another ladies man) for nearly nine months. In June of 2007 he was sent to the ECW in the WWE draft and would later challenge CM Punk for the ECW Championship but would lose via DQ. When he went to the ECW he was repackaged under the name Big Daddy V. Since the SMACKDOWN-ECW merging was going on Big Daddy V has had feuds with Kane and the Undertaker. He participated in the Wrestlemania XXIV 24 man battle royal but was eliminated. After that it was speculated that Big Daddy V was sent on a mission to lose some weigh by the WWE. In the 2008 WWE draft Big Daddy V was drafted to Smackdown from ECW. Big Daddy V never quite showed up on Smackdown though and was official released by the WWE in August of 2008.

He is currently signed with the National Wrestling Alliance and wrestling under the name King V.

Big Daddy V Facts:

Birth Name: Nelson Frazier Jr.
Birth Date: February 14, 1972
Finishing Moves: Running pointed elbow drop pin
Height: 6' ft 9' inch

Vickie Guerrero Bio

2008-07-02T23:30:00.000-07:00

Vickie Guerrero is the widow of the late Eddie Guerrero. In 2005 she started making some cameo appearances on SMACKDOWN during the feud between Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio. On November 13, 2005 Eddie past away in real life of heart failure. After seven or eight months after Eddie's passing Vickie starting regularly appearing on SMACKDOWN, Mysterio and Chavo Guerrero were feuding and Vicki ended up taking her nephew Chavo's side and said that Rey was just a part of her past. This feud eventually led to a Rey VS Chavo "I Quite" match which Chavo won thanks to the help of Vickie. In this match Chavo hurt Rey's leg really bad which led to Rey being out of action for many, many months. Vickie and Chavo then started feuding with Chris Benoit which led to Chavo challenging for Benoit's United States Championship. In December of 2006 Chavo betrayed Vickie and pushed her over. In January OF 2007 in an interview with Krystal, Vickie Guerrero stated how she wished people like Chavo Guerrero and Chris Benoit would let go of the past and let her concentrate on her future instead. In May of 2007 Vickie was given the General Managers Assistant job on SMACKDOWN. She was the maid of honor at Kristal's wedding and Teddy Long suffered a heart attack during the ceremony and is recovering so Vickie Guerrero has taken over the GM duties. Vickie then started a love affair with Edge and is now a heel GM. Vickie has turned into one of the most hated people on Smackdown as she uses deceiving ways to help Edge get what he wants, even helping him to win the World Heavyweight Championship. She was at odds alot with the Undertaker and Batista as these were the two WWE superstars who were most threatening to taking the World Heavyweight Championship belt from her Edge. It was later announced that Vickie and Edge would be getting married, right on Smackdown. On the July 4 edition of Smackdown the couple got into a heated argument as Edge had currently lost his belt when he visited Raw. The event has left Edge in a not so good mode and the wedding is at jeopardy now. Vickie still set Edge up in another title match at the upcoming Great American Bash though as he will challenge Triple H for the WWE title. Vickie and Edge's arguments got even worse on the July 11 edition of Smackdown. Vickie ended up setting up Edge with a punishable match with Big Show. It was set as sort of a punishment match and to show Edge who the real boss is. Vickie took a front row seat at the side of the ring for the match to see Edge punished but when the Big Show was about to really punish Edge Vickie called off the match and ordered it to be stopped as she felt sympathy for Edge. She went in the ring to comfort the injured Edge and when he regained consciousness the two gazed into each others eyes and started making out. The following week Vickie would marry Edge but it would soon be revealed by Triple H that Edge was cheating on Vickie with their wedding planner Alicia Fox. Triple H showed the video tape and Vickie went frantic on Edge. At the Great American Bash Edge accidentally speared Vickie during his match with Triple H. Then on the following Smackdown Edge tried to make up with Vickie but instead she reinstated the Undertaker in the WWE and set up a Edge versus Undertaker Hell in a Cell match for Summerslam. A few episodes later The Undertaker appeared to be killing off members of La Familia and laying a black rose on them. Edge then invited Vickie and Chavo into the ring to face Undertaker. But he hit Chavo with a steel chair, making it obvious that it was really Edge who had been killing off the members of La Familia, he then tipped Vickie from her wheelchair to get revenge on Vickie by hurting her family for putting him in the Hell in a Cell match with Undertaker. Despite her hatred against Edge and her apology to the fans, she was still a heel since she was still siding with Chavo and the rest of the La-Famila. Thus she still got negative crowd reactions and was threatened by the Undertaker who refused to accept her apology for his banishment. On the August 29 episode of SmackDown, Vickie was shown trapped in her office alone throughout the night. At the end of the night, all of the lights went out in the office and SmackDown ended with an earsplitting scream. The following week, Vickie mentally snapped, as she kicked Big Show and Vladimir Kozlov off the show for the night. She then stated that she was not afraid of Undertaker's threatenings and stated that at WWE Unforgiven, she would force an apology out of him, no matter what it would take.

Then at Unforgiven, Vickie came out the ring and confronted the Undertaker. She demanded an apology from him. As Undertaker wouldn't cooperate with her request, the Big Show then beat down the Undertaker down. Vickie also than proceeded to spit in the face and slap the Undertaker.

On the September 28, 2008 edition of Smackdown Vickie Guerrero, Chavo Guerrero and the Big Show were in the ring calling out the Undertaker. The lights went off, then back on and all of a sudden Chavo was backstage getting a beating from the Undertaker. Big Show, who has become Vickie's protection against the Undertaker then ran out of the ring to the backstage area to help Chavo and attack the Undertaker. Unfortunately for Vickie, once Big Show left, she was all alone in the ring. The lights went off, then back on and the Undertaker was in the ring behind her. He then gave Vickie a Tombstone Piledriver to end Smackdown.

At No Mercy Big Show beat the Undertaker. On the following Smackdown Vickie Guerrero rewarded Show with a match for the WWE title against Triple H. The match was interupted though by the Undertaker. Vickie has set up another Big Show-Undertaker match for Cyber Sunday in which the fans get to vote what kind of match it is. The choices were either be a Knock Out match, a Last Man Standing match or a I Quit match. Last Man Standing ended up winning and at No Mercy Undertaker wrapped up Big Show in a Gogoplata to choke Show. Undertaker released the hold, leaving Show down for the count, and Vickie Guerrero looking enraged at the top of the ramp.

On November 23, 2008 at Survivor Series Vickie schemed up with on screen husband Edge to get him the WWE title. Edge was at the time the WWE Champion and was scheduled to have a Triple Threat match against Jeff Hardy and Vladimir Koslov but someone attacked Jeff Hardy backstage and it was announced that Hardy could not compete in the event. Only Koslov battled Triple H for the title until Vickie Guerrero announce that the match will be a Triple Threat match as scheduled. She had a big smile on her face and kept screaming in excitement "He's back!" Edge came out to the ring to battle for the title and when it was all said and done, Vickie Guerrero's man Edge had become the WWE champion.

On the special December 8, 2009 edition of Raw, Vickie and Edge won a Slammy Award for the Couple of the Year.

On the January 2, 2009 edition of SmackDown, Vickie appeared in some nude photos and (kayfabe) put them on eBay, Triple H took advantage of the situation to get some laughs out of the crowd. WWE.com later released censored versions of these photos.

On February 23, 2009 she was appointed the interim General Manager of Raw during Stephanie McMahon's absence.

On the following edition of Raw, Guerrero announced that Edge would be facing The Big Show for his title at Wrestlemania XXV.

On the March 9, 2009 edition of Raw, John Cena showed footage of Vickie cheating on Edge with The Big Show after Guerrero had added Cena to the World Heavyweight Championship match, making it Triple Threat.

As an April fools joke John Cena said she was pregnant later announced it was kayfabe.

On the April 6 edition of Raw, Guerrero was given the choice of either being General Manager of Raw or SmackDown. She then announced that she would move to Raw in order to become its new General Manager, subsequently resulting in her being separated from Edge. However, The Big Show and her nephew Chavo was also moved to Raw during the 2009 WWE Draft and Supplemental Draft, respectively.

After being insulted for a few weeks by Santino Marella, Vickie, with help from William Regal, won the "Miss Wrestlemania" crown from Santina Marella, Santino's "twin sister", in a no disqualification match sanctioned by Chavo on the May 18 edition of Raw.

On the May 25 edition of Raw, it was announced that Vickie will defend her "Miss Wrestlemania" crown against Santina Marella in a hogpen match at the first-ever Extreme Rules pay-per-view.

On June 7, 2009 Vickie would do battle with Santina Marella. This match was pretty simple as it involved a hog pen complete with mud and pigs. The first one to pin their opponent in the hog pen wins the match. Vickie Guerrero decided to bring Chavo with her and make it into a handicap match. Late in the match Chavo accidentally threw slop on Vickie as Santina avoided it. This allowed Santina to put a bucket on Chavo's head and then pin Vickie for the win. Santina wins the Hog Pen Match over Vickie Guerrero to become the new Miss Wrestlemania.

On the June 8th episode of Raw Vickie Guerrero announced in the ring that she would be quiting as the GM of Raw because she is tired of the WWE fans laughing and making fun of her. Vickie cried as she made her announcement but things even got worse for her as Edge's music hit and Edge made his way to the ring and told Vickie that he wanted a divorce and that he was only using her for the power she had as GM but that she was now useless to him.

Michael Cole Bio

2008-07-02T23:27:00.001-07:00

Michael Cole is the play by play announcer for WWE's Monday Night Raw. He went to SMACKDOWN in 1997 and was a backstage interviewer. In 1997 he became one of three announcers for the first hour of Monday Night RAW along with Jim Ross and Kevin Kelly. Eventually Cole was replaced by Jerry Lawler. In 1999 he became the play by play announcer for RAW substituting for Jim Ross. When the new SMACKDOWN debut later that year Michael Cole was chosen to be the regular play by play announcer. In June of 2006 Michael Cole's partner Tazz (color commentator) left SMACKDOWN for ECW shoving the microphone in Michael Cole's chest as he walked off the job. JBL replaced Tazz as the new SMACKDOWN color commentator the following week. JBL would last for a while but would not last to the end of the year announcing that he would return to the ring on RAW. Jonathan Coachman then took over as Smackdown's color commentator but stood only a few months before being replaced by Mick Foley. In the 2008 WWE draft Michael Cole was drafted to Raw and Jim Ross was drafted to Smackdown, sort of a swap. Both WWE play by play announcers were not to happy about the move at first but soon settled on their new positions. It ended a nearly ten year span for Michael Cole as the Smackdown broadcaster.

On the July 7, 2008 edition of Raw Cole was attacked by Kane and thrown in the ring. Kane was about to Chokeslam Cole but Cole's partner commentator Jerry "The King" Lawler went in the ring and saved him. Michael Cole was able to escape the ring but Jerry Lawler took punishment for his interference. Kane had turned into a mad man after losing a four way fatal match and started attacking everyone in sight. He approached Michael Cole and started screaming to him and everyone else "Is he alive or dead?" No one knew what he was talking about and when Cole couldn't answer Kane chose him as his main bait. The following week Kane would apologize for what he did but Jerry Lawler said that he could apologize all he wants but he's still a nut.

Cole ended up making his in-ring debut as Lawler's partner against the tag team of Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase; a match for the World Tag Team Championship.Cole and Lawler lost after Cole inadvertently tagged himself in, and was quickly pinned by Rhodes after a lariat.

Michael Cole Facts:

Birth Name: Michael Sean Coulthard
Birth Date: December 8, 1968
Height: 5' ft 7' in

Teddy Long Bio

2008-07-02T23:23:00.000-07:00

Teddy started out as a errand boy and eventually in 1985 was promoted up to referee in the NWA. Long became a heel referee making fast three counts for heel wrestlers and was soon let go by the NWA and became a talent scout/manager. He then became the manager of Doom (Ron Simmons and Butch Reed) who went on to win the World Tag Team Titles. He also managed Chris Jericho, Ice Train, Jim Powers and many other wrestlers. He came to the WWF in 1990 and performed as a referee from 1990 up until September of 2002. He became a manager and managed D'Lo Brown, Rodney Mack, Mark Henry and Jazz telling fans to get "Down wit' da brown" & to "Back da mack". He played a stereotypical "held-down" minority, using ebonics (such as, "Don't be drinkin' that Hate-orade." and "You know I'd look good on the dolla dolla bill.") His stable would be referred to by fans as "Thuggin' & Buggin' Enterprises." When he was drafted to SMACKDOWN, he managed his second white wrestler,Mark Jindrak.

After Kurt Angle was fired from the General Manager position in July 2004, Long became the new and first African-American General Manager of SmackDown!. Unlike other WWE managers, such as Eric Bischoffand Mr. McMan , his new position saw him as a face , giving the fans what they wanted and making matches that put heels at disadvantages, notably JBL . At first, he continued use of his "Hate-orade" talk, but less aggressively, and with humor. One example was when he stripped Booker T of the U.S. Championship for "drinkin' Hate-orade." In the RAW VS SMACKDOWN fued Teddy fought Eric Bischoff at the 2005 Survival Series and came out winning with a little help from Boogie Man.

In April of 2007 Teddy Long became the on screen boyfriend of WWE SMACKDOWN diva Krystal. To spend more time with his new love he hired Vickie Guerrero as his assistant so he could spend more time with Krystal. In June of 2007 Teddy asked Krystal to marry him, at first she just ran out of the room but later accepted. On September 21st on SMACKDOWN they were getting married! There were constant disruptions and as Teddy was about to say "I do", he suffered a heart attack. As Teddy was recovering, Vickie Guerrero was brought in as the temporary fill in General Manager of SMACKDOWN. In November of 2007 Teddy returned to SMACKDOWN but Vickie Guerrero retained the GM job and Teddy was demoted the assistant GM. Teddy was usually seen wheeling the injured Vickie Guerrero around and sometimes you would see a smirk on his face when things didn't go the way of Vickie or her boyfriend Edge. Many times when La Familia would all be together (La Familia was Vickie Guerrero, Edge, Chavo Guerrero, Ryder, Hawkins and Bam Neely), Teddy would be right there with them but he never fit in with them. Im mid-May of "08" Teddy quite his job as Smackdown's assistant manager after confronting Vickie Guerrero in the ring about her horrific tactics to strip the Undertaker his World Heavyweight Championship belt.

On the June 3rd, 2008 edition of ECW Teddy was announced as the new general manager for ECW.

On the April 7, 2009 edition of ECW, Long announced he was returning to SmackDown as General Manager, with Tiffany replacing him on ECW. By doing this, he became the first person in the history of the company to have a second term as General Manager on the SmackDown! brand. He made his official TV return to SmackDown! on April 10, when he announced that Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy would face each other in the first stretcher match in SmackDown history. On the June 26th 2009 edition of SmackDown, Vince McMahon announced Long would be (kayfabe) put on probation.

After being pressured by Vince McMahon to "make an impact" on the June 26, 2009 edition of WWE SmackDown!, Long made a last minute change to the WWE Unified Tag Team Championship match at WWE The Bash by adding the team of Edge and Chris Jericho to the match.

Teddy Long Facts:

Birth Name: Theodore Robert Fufus Long
Birth Date: September 15, 1955
Height: 5' ft 10' in
Has one son and a grandson

Dave Taylor Bio

2008-07-02T23:21:00.000-07:00

Dave Taylor is a third generation wrestler and made his wrestling debut in the late 1970's under the name Dave "Rocky" Taylor. He spent many years wrestling in different parts of the world then came to the United States in the mid 90's and joined the WCW. Taylor formed a bond with William Regal until Regal was fired from WCW in 2000 at which Taylor left too. In 2001 he joined the WWF acting as a trainer in the HWA but left after the WWF asked him to relocate to Ohio. In 2006 Taylor was hired by the WWE. During the October 20 episode of SMACKDOWN William Regal announced that he would be joined by Taylor and the old team picked up a victory over Scottie 2 Hottie and Funaki. They feuded with all the top tag teams on SMACKDOWN. During Wrestlemania 23 they began a feud with Kane. The Boogeyman soon joined Kane as his tag team partner. In June of 07 the tag team of Taylor and Regal would come to an end when Regal was sent to RAW during the WWE draft. After Regal left you didn't see much of Taylor on SMACKDOWN for weeks until he finally lost a singles match to old rival Kane. He and Paul Burchill then lost to Jesse & Festus on the August 21 taping of Friday Night Smackdown. Then Taylor has just seemed to disappear and was on a leave of absence. It was announced on April 28, 2008 that Dave Taylor was released by the WWE.

Dave Taylor Facts:

Birth Name: David Steven Taylor
Birth Date: May 1, 1957
Height: 6' ft 3' in
Finishing Move: Float over double underhook suplex pin

Kenny Dykstra Bio

2008-07-02T23:18:00.000-07:00

Ken was only 15 years old when he made his wrestling debut in 2001. He wrestled in New England. Once contracted with the WWE he wrestled at OVW (developmental territory). In 2006 Kenny Dyksta appeared on RAW. He then feuded alot with Ric Flair then teamed up with Johnny Nitro until Dykstra was sent to SMACKDOWN during the 2007 draft. On July 6, 2007 Kenny made his SMACKDOWN debut, going up against Chuck Palumbo (who was returning to SMACKDOWN). He has formed an on-screen relationship with WWE diva Victoria and the two usually tag team. They were going up against Jimmy Wang Yang and Torrie Wilson then started feuding with Chuck Palumbo and Michelle McCool. After that Dykstra just disappeared for over eight months but appeared on the August 15, 2008 edition of Smackdown as he wrestled Triple H in a losing effort. The following weeks Dykstra appeared in a couple matches losing to R-Truth and Festus. Dyksta has been letting it be known how the WWE has not been utilizing such a great young talent that they have in him and had let them know how it had been making him feel. Before a match against R-Truth he questioned how the WWE could build off of an ex-felon instead of him.

Dykstra then began feuding with Jesse and Festus and usually would never get the upper hand on them. Dykstra even got bubble wrapped and loaded into a moving van by Jesse and Festus, a hobby they started to do to their opponents.

On November 10, 2008 WWE announced that Kenny Dykstra had been released from his contract.

Since his WWE release, Doane has wrestled on the independent circuit primarily in the New England area.

Kenny Dykstra facts:

Birth Name: Ken George Doane
Birth Date: March 16, 1986
Height: 6' ft 4' in
Finishing Move: Diving Guillotine legdrop

Chuck Palumbo Bio

2008-07-02T23:13:00.000-07:00

Palumbo's wrestling career began in 1998 in the independent circuit. His gimmick was that of a surfer guy who would go by the name 'The Dude'. His WCW debut came in October of 1998 as he was a fan who accepted a challenge from Ernest "the cat" Miller. Six months later, he was offered a contract by WCW. He came to the WWF in June of 2001, he was part of the Billy and Chuck tag team (along with Billy Gunn) who ended up winning the tag team titles on SMACKDOWN. The team got kind of too close and there was evidence that they were having a romantic relationship with one another. In late 2002 Chuck proposed to Billy and they even had a ceremony on SMACKDOWN. Just before they tied the knot they declared that the whole thing was just a public stunt. In February of 2003 Chuck formed the FBI (Full Blooded Italians) team. This happened after Nunzio threatened to bring in 'The Family' after getting a beating from Rikishi. They feuded with Los Guerrero's, Chris Benoit and many other WWE superstars and then the team turned face and started growing on the fans, but then the team broke up and Chuck Palumbo was traded to the RAW brand in early 2004. On RAW his new gimmick was half greaser and half auto mechanic. In November of 2004 Chuck Palumbo was released by the WWE and started wrestling in Japan. In April of 2007 he returned to the WWE and Chuck had yet a new gimmick, a biker guy. He would defeat Kenny Dykstra in that match. He returned to SMACKDOWN in September of 2007 once again defeating Kenny Dykstra. He started to be occupied to the ring by Michelle McCool and they had long feuds with Kenny Dykstra and Victoria. Toward the end of 2007 Chuck and Michelle's friendship starting to get shaky when Jamie Noble became infatuated with McCool. This caused mnay problems, to top it all off Chuck after many attempts could not beat Noble in a match. Jamie Noble won a date with Michelle McCool after beating Chuck Palumbo in a match and kind of grew on Michelle. At the beginning of 2008 Michelle tried to make Noble and Palumbo become a triple team that could work together. It backfired on Michelle and Chuck Palumbo turned on Michelle McCool after she tried to defend Noble against him. Thus, Palumbo turned heel and has been feuding with Kane and other faces. In June of 2008 during the 2008 WWE draft Palumbo was drafted to Raw. Palumbo though never did not appeared on Raw. It was reported that he had a nagging shoulder injury and that his knee has been bothering him but then on November 6, 2008 Chuck Palumbo was released by the WWE.

Chuck Palumbo facts:

Birth Name: Charles Ronald Palumbo
Birth Date: June 15, 1971
Height: 6' ft 7; in
Finishing Move: Full throttle

Chris Masters Bio

2008-07-02T04:03:00.000-07:00

Chris Masters started out competing in amateur body building in California and began his wrestling career in UPW before being given a development contract with OVW. He made his WWE career with RAW in February of 2005 and appeared as a heel. During his next appearance he claimed that he had a master lock that was unbreakable, this was his full nelson move. He had so much confidence that he would have shows where he would put up $1000 of his own money if anyone were able to break it. He began challenging audience members and no one could break it, then he started to challenge WWE superstars who also failed. This led to the Big Show wanting an opportunity at the challenge but Chris Masters left the ring not wanting anything to do with the Big Show. No one fairly broke the master lock until March of 2007 when ECW champion Bobby Lashley broke it, this ended the life of the master lock challenge. In June of 2007 Master's was sent to SMACKDOWN via the WWE draft. Since coming to SMACKDOWN we have not seen much of Master's except for a small feud with Chuck Palumbo and a couple master lock challenges. As of December of 07 Masters has not been seen on Smackdown for months because he was released by the WWE. Chris Masters made an appearance on The Shoot radio show last week. On the show Masters said that he was one of twelve wrestlers to get suspended over the Signature Pharmacy case. He said that he took a month off to train and get healthy but was tested three times in one week with one of the tests coming back positive. Masters said that it surprised him that one of three tests came up positive but John Lauranitis still notified him to let him know that he was done for 60 days. After Masters saw the CNN special he knew that his job was in jeopardy and he was right. In December of 2007 it was reported that Chris Masters had competed in Antonio Inokis Inoki Genome Federation under the name Chris Moore. On December 29th, 2007 he wrestled under the name Chris Masters again for WLW at Harley Races show and was defeated by Branden Tatum.

Mordetzky returned to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) under his 'Chris Masters' gimmick on the July 27, 2009 episode of Raw, in which he faced Montel Vontavious Porter in a match that resulted in a double-countout after applying his Masterlock submission hold to Porter while he was trying to get back into the ring.

Chris Masters Facts:
Birth Name: Chris Mordetsky
Birth Date: January 8, 1983
Height: 6' ft 4' inch Nickname:
Finishing Move: Masterlock (full nelson lock)

Shannon Moore Bio

2008-07-02T03:50:00.000-07:00

Shannon Moore was friends with Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy as a boy and used to wrestle with them in their backyard wrestling circuit. After the Hardy brothers became professional wrestlers they trained Shannon Moore who debut in 1995 against Jeff Hardy and began working in the independent circuit. He went to the WCW when wrestling legend Hulk Hogan hired him after given authority to hire twenty one young cruiserweights. When WCW was purchased by the WWF in 2001 Shannon was sent to HWA (a WWF development circuit).

He made his first televised debut in 2002 and would be a Matt Hardy follower who would try to dress like Matt Hardy and would occupy him to the ring. He would often try to help Matt Hardy but would screw things up leading Matt Hardy to slap him and toy with him. Hardy ended up going to RAW and Moore became a jobber losing to more dominant opponents.

In 2005 he started a gimmick of a punk often wearing punk clothing. In March of 2005 Shannon was involved in a real life auto accident and suffered whiplash, this led to the WWE firing him.

He then began wrestling in the independent circuit and he started a wrestling school called 'School of Punk'. He then went to TNA before coming back to the WWE in it's ECW brand in July of 2006 as a heel. In February of 2007 he came back to Smackdown and established himself as a face. He started toying with Jamie Noble, using Nobles obsession with Hornswoggle against him. Shannon later started teaming with Jimmy Wang Yang as they became one of Smackdowns top tag teams.

In August of 2008 Shannon Moore was released from his contract by the WWE.

Shannon Moore Facts:

Birth Name: Shannon Brian Moore
Birthdate: July 27, 1979
Height: 5' ft 9' inch
Finishing Move: Halo
Shannon Moore was married to Kristal but they divorced in 2005
He owns a tattoo shop

Jamie Noble Bio

2008-07-02T01:50:00.000-07:00

Jamie Noble started wrestling in 1995. He started his first major exposure in WCW and wore a mask all the time to hide the fact that he was Caucasian and was called Jamie-San. He was part of the Jun-Dragons along with Jimmy Yang and Kaz Hayashi. Eventually he would unmask and become known as Jamie Noble. In June of 2002 he made his debut with the WWE under its Smackdown brand. He was a heel and became cruiserweight champion. He ended up turning face for a while then turned heel again. He has feuded with Rey Mysterio as well as some of the other great cruiserweights on Smackdown. In September of 2004 he left the WWE for about 10 months and wrestled all over the world. He came back to the WWE in December of 2005. At the 2007 'Great American Bash' Noble would take part in the cruiserweight open and was pinned by Hornswoggle who became the cruiserweight champion. This led to a feud between these two with Noble often getting embarrassed by losing to the leprechaun, usually by count out or something as Hornswoggle always seems to be a step ahead of Noble. Shannon Moore played a big part using Nobles obsession with Hornswoggle to embarrass him. Currently Noble is infatuated with WWE diva Michelle McCool and has been trying to make a move on her. Noble offered her a deal, that if he would beat her good friend Chuck Palumbo then she would have to go out with him, she agreed. Jamie not only beat Chuck once, but three times in a row causing major problems in McCool's and Palumbo's friendship. Palumbo would later then turn heel and Noble turned face with Michelle McCool now on Nobles side. After weeks and weeks on friendly terms with McCool, Noble ran into Michelle in the hallways on Smackdown and told her that their relationship had to cool down, that he can't be stuck on one woman. Michelle McCool told Jamie that it was OK, letting Jamie feel good about himself and giving him the impression that he dumped her or something.

In June of 2008 Noble was drafted to Raw in the supplemental draft. Upon arriving to Raw Jamie Noble tried to be the ladies man that he tried to be at Smackdown. He tried to impress some of the WWE divas, mainly Layla but it backfired as he would get beaten by usually larger wrestlers. During this time Noble would start feuding with with William Regal with each one exchanging wins and Layla with the wins. On the September 15, 2008 edition of Raw Layla would come out and tell Noble that it was all over and that she has found a man worthy of her, William Regal.

On the February 3rd edition of ECW, Noble approached ECW GM Teddy Long about joining ECW. Jamie said that since Matt Hardy is headed to Smackdown that he'd lend his quality services to the show, Teddy was for it and gave Jamie a match against the Boogeyman in which Noble lost.

On the February 23 episode of Raw, Noble received a neck injury in a match with Mike Knox, and was taken to a local hospital. His injury meant that the scheduled segment between Chris Jericho and Ricky Steamboat that was meant to take place in the ring, had to take place on the stage instead. It was later confirmed, however, that the injury was not severe.

Noble then returned on Raw from his injury and wrestled in matches often teaming up with Brian Kendrick and Chavo Guerrero.

Jamie Noble facts:

Birth Name: James Howard Gibson
Birth Date: December 26, 1976
Height: 5' ft 7' inch
Finishing Move: Firemans carry double knee gutbuster

Domino Bio

2008-07-02T01:46:00.000-07:00

Domino's WWE debut came on Smackdown on January 19, 2007. He was one half of the tag team simply called Deuce and Domino. They came out as 50's greasers, they were also occupied by Cherry who is Domino's sister. Before appearing on Smackdown the threesome were together in OVW which is WWE farm territory. They were first called the Throwbacks and then the Untouchables there. Their first couple of matches were against jobbers and they immediately made a impact gaining two victories. Then they threatened the then tag team champions Brian London and Brian Kendrick by beating them in a non-title match. This feud eventually led to them taking the tag team titles from London and Kendrick in April of 2007. They feuded with the former tag team champs until London and Kendrick were sent to RAW in the WWE draft. On the August 31, 2007 edition of Smackdown they would lose their tag team titles to the odd face/heel team of Matt Hardy and MVP. They tried to recapture their titles against them at 'Unforgiven' but were unsuccessful. After coming into SMACKDOWN hot, since losing their tag team titles, the team of Deuce and Domino simply become SMACKDOWN jobbers for the rest of the SMACKDOWN superstars. On the 06-13-08 edition of Smackdown Deuce and Domino wrestled a match against Jesse and Festus. They lost the match and began fighting and wrestling each other, surely the inability to win any matches was building up inside of them.. The following week during another match they went at it again and it was sure now that the long time partners were through. In late June of 2008 during the WWE draft Deuce was drafted to Raw. Domino stood on Smackdown and Cherry was doing here own thing now so the greasers from the other side of the tracks was clearly all broken up now. Domino then became a Smackdown jobber. On August 8, 2008 Domino was released by the WWE along with several other WWE superstars.

Domino facts:

Birth Name: Cliff Compton
Birth Date: November 2, 1979
Height: 6' ft 1' inch
Finishing Move: Crack' em in da mouth

Deuce Bio

2008-07-02T01:42:00.000-07:00

Deuce is the real life adopted son of former wrestling superstar Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka. He has many famous X-wrestling stars in his family, a few of his cousins are the Rock, Yokuzuna and the Tonga Kid. Deuce along with his partner Domino debut on Smackdown on January 19, 2007. They came out as 50's greasers, they were also occupied by Cherry who is Deuce's girlfriend. Before appearing on Smackdown the threesome were together in OVW which is WWE farm territory. They were first called the Throwbacks and then the Untouchables there. Their first couple of matches were against jobbers and they immediately made a impact gaining two victories. Then they threatened the then tag team champions Brian London and Brian Kendrick by beating them in a non-title match. This feud eventually led to them taking the tag team titles from London and Kendrick in April of 2007. They feuded with the former tag team champs until London and Kendrick were sent to RAW in the WWE draft. On the August 31, 2007 edition of Smackdown they would lose their tag team titles to the odd face/heel team of Matt Hardy and MVP. They tried to recapture their titles against them at 'Unforgiven' but were unsuccessful. After losing their titles Deuce and his partner Domino seem to have become jobbers on SMACKDOWN. On the 06-13-08 edition of Smackdown Deuce and Domino wrestled a match against Jesse and Festus. They lost the match and began fighting and wrestling each other. The following week the same thing happened again as the two fought again during a match and afterward made it clear to one another that their long time partnership was over.

In June of 2008, Deuce was drafted to Raw during the WWE draft and made his debut on September 22, 2008 as he lost a match to Santino Marella. On the December 15, 2008 episode of Raw, Deuce announced that his new ring name would be Sim Snuka, after revealing his father is Jimmy Snuka.

Snuka became part of the Raw storyline when Randy Orton was forming the Legacy stable, yet Snuka and Manu were ousted from the group and received a beatdown from Rhodes, Dibiase and Orton. That was about the last that was seen of Snuka.

Sim Snuka was then released by the WWE on June 19, 2009 and released the following statement.

World Wrestling Entertainment has come to terms on the release of Raw Superstar Sim Snuka as of today, June 19, 2009. WWE wishes Sim the best in all future endeavors.

Deuce Facts:

Birth Name: James William Reiher, Jr.
Birth Date: September 1, 1971
Height: 6' ft 0' inch
Finishing Move: Crack' em in da mouth

Gregory Helms Bio

2008-07-02T01:38:00.000-07:00

Gregory Helms started wrestling off wrestling in many independent promotions. In 2000 he and his good friend Shannon Moore signed with WCW. He became known as Sugar Shane Helms and was WCW cruiserweight champion when the WWF bought WCW. Along with the transaction Sugar Shane Helms came to the WWF and began going by his real name Gregory Helms. Later he became Hurricane Helms and would wear a super hero costume, this character became a fan favorite and he became face. In 2002 he came to Smackdown but later that year went to RAW where he won the tag team title with Kane. Gregory Helms years later came out of the costume and turned heel, going by Gregory Helms. During the 2006 Royal Rumble Gregory Helms was still a member of the RAW brand and he ended up winning Smackdown's WWE Cruiserweight Championship. He was able to participate because the match was open to all formal cruiserweight champions. Helms won after hitting the 'shinning wizard' on Funaki. This brought him back to Smackdown. On Smackdown he started feuding with Nunzio, Scottie 2 Hottie and other cruiserweights. He started getting cocky and started saying that basically he is better than all other cruiserweights. This led to all cruiserweights invading the ring at once and each one of them performing their signature move on Helms. He proved to many time after time that he deserved the cruiserweight championship by holding the title longer than anyone in WWE history and also holding a title (any title) longer than anyone ever on Smackdown. In May of '07' Gregory Helms suffered a neck injury that he had to have surgery on and spent much time away from wrestling.

Helms returned to SmackDown on the September 19, 2008 edition. Throughout the show, he gave short video promos on the upper right hand corner of the television screen, these were called Hurrapops, he also started referring to himself by his old name - Hurricane Helms. He made fun of United States Champion Shelton Benjamin by saying that the price of gold just went down. He also made fun of the WWE Tag Team Champions Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder by calling them Curt and Jerk. In the following weeks Helms has been appearing on that upper right hand corner of the screen making short comments as a WWE Superstar heel makes his way to the ring.

On the November 28 episode of SmackDown, a "Hurrapop" appeared in which Helms announced that he would make his return to the ring on the next episode of SmackDown. On the December 5 episode of SmackDown, Helms defeated Montel Vontavious Porter in his ring return. He then started a feud with Shelton Benjamin over the United States championship. Hurricane Helms got his chance at the United States Championship on the December 26, 2008 edition of Smackdown. Though very impressive in the match he was not able to beat Shelton in the match as Shelton defended his United State title.

On April 15, 2009, Helms was drafted to the ECW brand as part of the 2009 Supplemental Draft. Helms made his ECW debut as a backstage interviewer on April 28, 2009, reverting back to his Gregory Helms ring name, interviewing Evan Bourne.

He started a storyline where, while he was interviewing someone, a scripted accident would occur, leading to Helms leaving the interview seconds before the person in distress was saved by Helms in the Hurricane costume. Helms would then re-appear at the interview in the same clothes as before, thus creating the illusion that he was a real superhero under a protected identity in real life.

Gregory Helms Facts:

Birth Name: Gregory Shane Helms
Birth Date: July 12, 1974
Height: 6' ft
Finishing Move: Shining Wizard
Helms is a comic book fan, one of his favorites is the Green Lantern. He has a tattoo on his biceps which is the Lantern's logo and his original WWE character The Hurricane was inspired by Green Lantern.

Undertaker Bio

2008-07-02T01:31:00.000-07:00

One of wrestlings most popular and fan favorite is the Undertaker. The Undertaker began his career in 1984 with World Class Championship Wrestling. In 1989 he joined WCW. He finally joined the WWF in 1990 as a member of 'Ted Dibiase's' million dollar team and was a heel the first couple of years. His character appeared as a mortician from the old western days who possessed some magical like powers. In 1992 when Jake "the Snake" Roberts lost to Randy "Macho Man" savage on Saturday Nights Main Event, Jake tried to attack Macho Mans manager Elizabeth with a steel chair. Undertaker did not let this happen and thus became a face. Undertaker was managed for many years by Paul Bearer until Paul betrayed him in 1996 in a match against Mankind. He feuded during his years with top wrestling superstars such as Stoned Cold, Hulk Hogan, Shawn Michael's and Kane, who would later be revealed as his story line brother. In 1999 Undertaker had a groin injury that put him out of action for about a year but when he returned in 2000 at Judgement day his character was changed to an intimidating tough biker type guy. In 2003 Undertaker lost a buried alive match and disappeared for a while, Kane claimed that Undertaker was gone forever. At Wrestlemania XX Undertaker returned, using the old school deadman persona again and defeated Kane. On Smackdown he then had some feuds with Randy Orton and JBL and Mr. Kennedy. On May 11th of Smackdown Undertaker was in a steel cage match with Batista which resulted in both men's feet landing outside of the ring at the same time, Mark Henry then came and assaulted Undertaker. Edge, who had the money in the bank ticket saw this as a good opportunity to challenge the champ for the title and went in and speared Undertaker, covered him and became the new World Heavyweight Champion. Undertaker has been gone since then. Mark Henry started taunting Undertaker about coming back to face him. In September of 2007 at 'Unforgiven' Undertaker returned and beat Mark Henry. On 12-14-07 at Armageddon Undertaker had a chance to regain his world heavyweight championship as he competed in a triple threat match against Batista and Edge. Edge, using many tricks in the match ended up taking the title and becoming the new champion. Batista lost his title and Undertaker lost this opportunity after Edge snuck over and was ringing the matches bells, thus fooling Undertaker about what was going on. Undertaker then started feuding with Big Daddy V and Mark Henry. At Wrestlemania XXIV the Undertaker once again captured the world heavyweight championship as he beat Edge and continued his perfect Wrestlemania streak which went to 16-0. On April 27, 2008 at Backlash Edge got his rematch opportunity but was unsuccessful as the Undertaker used his triangle chokehold to defend his title.

On the May 2, 2008 edition of SMACKDOWN Vickie Guerrero announced that the Undertaker is being stripped of his World Heavyweight Title for using an illegal move on opponents. She said the triangle chokehold was not to be used again. She also said that he will have another opportunity at the title when he battles Edge at Judgment Day and if he loses, he will be banished from the WWE forever.. Undertaker ended up losing the match at Judgment day and Edge became the World Heavyweight Champion with lots of outside interference help from Ryder, Hawkins, Chavo Guerrero and Bam Neely. Since he lost, Undertaker was banished from the WWE.

The news of Undertakers returning to the WWE happened on the July 25, 2008 edition of Smackdown. Vickie Guerrero, who is the one who banished Undertaker in the first place, reinstated him and said that he will make his return at Summerslam. She did this out of spite toward her new husband Edge after she found out he was cheating on her.

On August 17, 2008 the Undertaker made his return. He fought Edge at Summerslam 2008 in a Hell in a Cell match. The Undertaker was victorius in his return and ended the match by giving Edge the Tombstone and then got the cover and the win.

On September 7, 2008 at Unforgiven while Vickie Guerrero was in the ring the Undertaker went into the ring to take her to hell. He had promised that she would be leaving in a coffin. Big Show was already in the ring as he was complaining to Vickie that she did not include him in the Smackdown scramble match. As Undertaker made his way to the ring Big Show held Vickie Guerrero in the ring. As Undertaker was about to grab Vickie the Big Show shocked everyone when he punched the Undertaker and gave him a brutal beating. Big Show even held the Undertaker up so that Vickie could slap him and spit on him. Little did everyone know that there was a truce going on between Vickie Guerrero and the Big Show. Big Show would protect her and take Smackdown to where she wanted it to go and she would help him get the WWE title.

On the September 19, 2008 edition of Smackdown members of La Familia kept playing on a monitor the footage of Unforgiven when the Big Show destroyed the Undertaker and kept laughing about it. Toward the end of Smackdown as Chavo Guerrero was watching it alone the television monitor went to static and the Undertaker appeared on the screen. The Undertaker's music sounded and a hand, the Undertaker's was shown grabbing Chavo around his neck.

The next week on Smackdown Big Show, Vickie and Chavo called out the Undertaker from inside of the ring. The light went out, then back on and all of a sudden the Undertaker was giving a beating to Chavo Guerrero backstage. The Big Show then raced out of the ring and headed backstage to help Chavo. This left Vickie alone in the ring and the lights went out again, then back on. When they came back on the Undertaker was standing behind Vickie in the ring. Undertaker ended Smackdown by giving her a Tombstone Piledriver.

The stage was all set at No Mercy on October 5, 2008 where the Undertaker and the Big Show squared off. Unfortunately for the Undertaker he lost the match when Big Show delivered a knock out punch to Undertaker in the back of his head. On the October 10, 2008 edition of Smackdown, Undertaker would get somewhat revenge though as he interrupted a WWE championship match between Big Show and Triple H. As Big Show looked like he may win the match the lights went out and Undertaker attacked Show.

On the October 24, 2008 edition of Smackdown, the Undertaker would battle Triple H for the WWE title but there was no decision in the match as it was interupted by the Big Show.

A rematch was set for another Undertaker-Big Show match at Cyber Sunday. The WWE fans got to vote what kind of match it would be. Their choices were either a Knock Out match, a Last Man Standing match or a I Quit match. The WWE fans voted for a Last Man Standing match and Undertaker was the last man standing as he won the match.

Once again Undertaker would battle Big Show at Survivor Series in a Casket Match. The Undertaker was able to get the Big Show in the casket but had a hard time closing it on the big guy. Finally with Show in it, the casket fell and the lid shut as the Undertaker won the match.

On February 15, 2008 the Undertaker would take part in Smackdown's Elimination Chamber match for the WWE title. The match took place at No Way Out and featured the WWE champion Edge, Big Show, Vladimir Koslov, Jeff Hardy, Triple H and of course the Undertaker. The match went down to only the Undertaker and Triple H. Triple H was able to hit the Pedigree and get the cover on the Undertaker to win the match and the WWE title.

On April 5th, 2009 at Wrestlemania 25 the Undertaker battled Shawn Michaels. Michaels would try to end the streak and prevent Undertaker from going 17-0 at Wrestlemania events. Unfortunately for him he was no different from the last 16 men who have faced the Undertaker at Wrestlemania as Undertaker ended the match after catching Michaels during an attempt at a Moonsault. This led to a Tombstone Piledriver by Taker who got the pin and improved to 17-0. The streak stood alive.

After months and months away fromwrestling the Undertaker made a surprising return on August 23, 2009 at Summerslam. The World Heavyweight championship match that evening featured Jeff Hardy defending against CM Punk in which Punk won thus becoming the new champ. After the match had ended, CM Punk stood triumphantly over the fallen Jeff Hardy on the mat. Suddenly, the arena went dark with the Undertaker's bells sounding. As the lights came on again, it was Undertaker laying in Jeff Hardy's spot with Jeff nowhere to be seen. Taker grabbed Punk by the throat and then delivered the Chokeslam to close out Summerslam with a bang.

Undertaker made his return to Smackdown on September 4, 2009. After CM Punk had been Disqualified during a match with Matt Hardy the lights went out and the Undertaker's bell tolled. All of a sudden, the lights came back with Taker standing right near CM Punk. Punk was shocked and ran right into Undertaker who grabbed him and chokeslammed him right through the commentator's table. Smackdown ended with Taker standing over a fallen World Champion CM Punk, right before Undertaker's pyro went off.

Undertaker Facts:

Birth Name: Mark William Callaway
Birth Date: March 24, 1965
Height: 6' ft 10' inch
Nickname: The Dead Man - The Phenom
Finishing Move: Tombstone Piledriver - The chokeslam
Undertaker is 17-0 during Wrestlemania events.

Edge Bio

2008-07-02T01:24:00.000-07:00

Edge rose through the ranks of wrestling along side his real life best friend and stage brother Christian. Together they were tag team champions. His WWF career began in 1998 and he has spent mostly the majority of his career in the RAW brand of the WWE. During his career he has at one time or another won all of the major championship belts, which puts him in good company with other WWE wrestling legends. In May of 07 on RAW Edge beat Mr. Kennedy to claim the victory in the money in the bank match giving him the pink slip to a title opportunity. That same week Batista and the Undertaker were going at it in a brutal match that also saw Mark Henry come out and viciously attack Undertaker. Edge saw this as the perfect time to cash in and with one 'spear' to the injured Undertaker, he became the new world heavyweight champion. As a result, he then became part of the SMACKDOWN brand of the WWE. Batista who wanted what he thought of as his belt then began feuding with Edge but never got it back after three tries. Kane then began feuding with Edge and became the number one contender but didn't get much of a chance because Edge had to give up his belt due to an injury. He stated he would need about four months to recover to make his return back to Friday Night Smackdown. After much time off Edge came back to Smackdown but everyone was shocked because it was learned that he had an on going affair with what he called the love of his life - Vickie Guerrero. After coming back Edge then recaptured the World Heavyweight Championship belt back and defended it against Rey Mysterio among others. Chavo Guerrero, whom Edge helped to capture the ECW Championship and the Edgeheads (formerly known as the Major Brothers) became part of Edge's alliance. On March 30, 2008 Edge lost his world heavyweight championship belt to the Undertaker at Wrestlemania XXIV as he tapped out of the Undertakers submissive move. Edge had an opportunity to recapture the title at Backlash but once again fell prey to the Undertakers triangle chokehold and lost. He would get another undeserved chance at One Night Stand thanks to his love, SMACKDOWN GM Vickie Guerrero. Edge this time though was able to become the new World Heavyweight Champion as he was victorious.

On June 29, 2008 Edge successfully defended his World Heavyweight Championship at Night of Champions against Batista. With the 2008 WWE draft sending Batista to Raw, Edge figured that he would not have to worry about Batista anymore. Edge made a vital mistake though when later that week he visited Raw to let all Raw WWE superstars know that they will never get a shot at his belt. When Edge was leaving Batista attacked him. As Edge was hurt in the ring another newly acquired Raw draftee CM Punk decided to cash in his Money in the Bank contract and pinned Edge to become the new World Heavyweight Champion.

On the following Smackdown Edge showed his disappointment of not having his belt anymore. This led to conflict between him and his finance Vickie Guerrero. They argued and their wedding became jeopardized. Earlier in the show though Vickie had set up a match at the Great American Bash for Edge to Battle Triple H for the WWE title.

On the July 11 edition of Smackdown the arguing between Edge and Vickie got even worse so Vickie set up Edge in a punishment match against the Big Show. During the match Vickie had a close seat to see Edge punished but when Big Show had Edge almost unconscious and about to slam him with a steel chair, Vickie ordered the match to be stopped and got in the ring to comfort Edge. The two made up as they gazed into one each others eyes and started to make out.

The next week on Smackdown Edge and Vickie got married and celebrated during the whole episode of Smackdown. The good times ended though when Triple H revealed a video tape of Edge cheating on Vickie with their wedding planner Alicia Fox. Smackdown ended with Vickie screaming at Edge and Edge not knowing what to do or say.

On July 20, 2008 at the Great American Bash Edge would challenge Triple H for the WWE Championship. Late in the match both men were lying in the ring hurt. Alicia Fox then picked up the belt and placed it by Edge. Vickie Guerrero then attacked Fox which later led to Edge spearing Vickie on accident. Edge looked distraught, he would then lose the match as Triple H pinned him. On the following Smackdown Vickie would punish Edge by telling him that she has allowed the Undertaker to return back to the WWE, months ago she had banished him from the WWE. She also told Edge that he will fight Undertaker at Summerslam, Edge was in shock.

On the July 1, 2008 edition of Smackdown with his upcoming match in mind Edge had announced that he had a special guest that evening on his 'Cutting Edge' show. It was a mystery who his guest would be as no one seemed to know. Chavo Guerrero even made an effort to find out from various superstars through out the show but to no avail. Finally during the Cutting Edge show it was announced by Edge that his special guest would be Smackdown color commentator Mick Foley. Foley was as shocked as anyone else and got into the ring for the show. Edge told him that he wanted his advice since Foley had been through some of the greatest Hell in the Cell matches in history against the Undertaker. Foley gave Edge advice that Edge didn't like and Edge attacked him. The retired Foley battled back but Edge got the best of Foley and the show ended with Foley passed out in the ring and Edge with a smirk on his face.

On the August 8, 2008 edition of Smackdown Edge ended La Familia when he attacked Bam Neely, Zack Ryder and Curt Hawkins (Each time when each superstar was found backstage it was first suspected that the Undertaker was at work). Vickie Guerrero and Chavo Guerrero had suspected that the newly reinstated Undertaker was to blame for it because each time they found a member of La Familia there would be a black rose laid upon them. Vickie and Chavo sake Edge's help to deal with the Undertaker and Edge told them that he will but that it has to be done his way, they agreed. All three of them entered the ring and Edge called out the Undertaker. Undertaker never showed and Edge smacked Chavo Guerrero in the back with a steel chair and harassed Vickie Guerrero. This was officially the end to La Familia.

Edge would battle the Undertaker on August 17, 2008 at Summerslam 2008 in a Hell in a Cell match. Edge would lose the match after Undertaker hit a Tombstone on him.

Edge was away from wrestling for a while until he made his return on November 23, 2008 at Survivor Series. The WWE title match for that night was Triple H defending his WWE title in a Triple Threat match against Jeff Hardy and Vladimir Koslov but someone had attacked Hardy backstage before the match began. That made it a one on one match since Hardy could not compete. After battling it out for a while both Triple H and Koslov were down on the mat with the ref counting. That's when Vickie Guerrero appeared and announced that the match will go on as scheduled and be a Triple Threat match. All of a sudden Edge made his way to the ring and was able to get the win in the match and become the new WWE Champion.

Edge would have to defend his WWE title at Armegeddon on December 14, 2008 in a triple threat match against Triple H and Jeff Hardy. Edge lost the title after getting hit with a Pedigree from Triple H and then a Swanton from Jeff Hardy, who became the new WWE champ that night.

Edge would have a rematch against Jeff Hardy at the 2009 Royal Rumble. Edge succeeded and reclaimed the WWE title with some help from Matt Hardy who interfered in the match and betrayed his brother, Jeff, by whacking him over the head with a steel chair.

Edge's WWE title did not last too long though as he would have to defend his title on February, 15, 2009 at No Way Out in a Smackdown Elimination Chambers match which included the Undertaker, Jeff Hardy, Triple H, Vladimir Kozlov and the Big Show. Edge would get eliminated early in the match as Jeff Hardy pinned him. Triple H would go on to win the WWE title. Later that same evening though, Edge would use his trickery ways to be part of the Raw Elimination Chamber match. That match would feature Chris Jericho, Rey Mysterio, Kane, Mike Knox, John Cena and Kofi Kington. As Kofi Kinston made his way out to the ring, Edge attacked him and bashed his head into the steel chairs which knocked Kington out. Edge then replaced Kingston in the match and would be there at the end of the match against Rey Myterio. Edge would hit a spear on Mysterio to finish it and win the World Heavyweight Championship.

During the next month or so as Edge was enjoying his World Heavyweight belt, he would learn that his wife Vickie Guerrero had been having an affair with the Big Show. This would lead into a title defense match for Edge against the Big Show at Wrestlemania 25 on April 5, 2009. It would not only be Big Show though that Edge would have to defend his title against. John Cena (who exposed the Big Show-Vickie affair) would also be part of the match as it was a Triple Threat Match for the World Heavyweight Championship. The match came down to a Attitude Adjustment move by John Cena that led to a pinfall win as Cena won the World Heavyweight Championship from Edge.

Cena would not hold the title for too long though as he would have to defend the World Heavyweight belt at Backlash on April 26, 2009 against Edge, the match would be a Last Man Standing match. In the match the Big Show interfered and choke slammed Cena on a near by light which caused it to explode and caused Cena to get a 10 count and lose the match making Edge once again the World Heavyweight Champion.

Jeff Hardy then challenged Edge for the World Heavyweight title and on May 17th, 2009 at Judgment Day, Edge would successfully defend his World Heavyweight title against Jeff Hardy with some outside interference help from Matt Hardy.

On June 7, 2009 at Extreme Rules Jeff Hardy would get another chance to take the Heavyweight Title in a Ladder Match against Edge. Before the match started Vickie assured Edge that no Raw superstar would be going into the ring to help out Edge this time. Edge told Vickie that she better soon find a good divorce lawyer. Late in the match Jeff began to climb the ladder, Edge fought tooth and nail to keep Hardy from grabbing the belt, but Jeff got Edge caught up in the rungs of the ladder. This allowed Jeff to grab the belt hanging above the ring and take the World Heavyweight title away from Edge.

On June 8th 2009, Edge's on screen wife Vickie Guerrero would make an announcement live from the Raw ring. Vickie announced that she would be quiting her position as Raw's general manager. Edge then made his way to the ring and told Vickie that he wanted a divorce because she was now useless to him and that he only used her before because of the power that she had as the GM.

At the Bash Edge won the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship with Chris Jericho after being a late entry by Teddy Long.

On July 3, Edge suffered a real life torn Achilles tendon while competing at a live event in San Diego in a match against Jeff Hardy, and later underwent surgery.

On the July 17th edition of Smackdown Edge talked about his injury to the Smackdown fans and his personal accomplishments. He said his torn achilles is the toughest injury to return from, but he'll do everything he can to return and become champion. Chris Jericho then interrupted Edge. Jericho said he won't allow himself to be punished over Edge's selfish actions, so he'll find a new partner at Night of Champions who's even better than Edge. Jericho listed off all of Edge's injuries broken neck, torn pectorial and now torn achilles. Jericho called Edge frail and weak, saying Jericho's never been injured before in his career. Edge said he'll use what Jericho said to motivate him, and said when he comes back, he'll prove Jericho and everyone else wrong.

Birth Name: Adam Joseph Copeland
Birth Date: October 30, 1973
Height: 6' ft 5' inch
Finishing Move: Spear
He is from Canada and used to play lots of hockey.
Was a Hulkamaniac as a child.
Had a real life affair with WWE diva Lita when she was in a serious relationship with WWE superstar Matt Hardy.

JBL Bio

2008-07-02T01:16:00.000-07:00

Before wrestling JBL was a professional football player. He started wrestling in 1992 in the Global Wrestling Federation. In the late part of 1995 JBL appeared on the WWF as Justin"Hawk" Bradshaw, his character was that of a tough cowboy/mountain man. He teamed up with Barry Windham but when Barry Windham had to leave because of injuries JBL just became a generic wrestler who would show up once in a while and was called just 'Bradshaw'. In 1998 JBL teamed with Faaroog and they were called the APA. They were faces and ended up winning the tag team titles three different times. In 2002 the APA had to split because of the WWE draft and JBL went to Raw. After an injury kept JBL out of action for 6 months he returned to Smackdown and once again teamed up with Faaroog, only this time he had a new look. He shaved his long hair, stopped dying it black and had no facial hair. The two then had a tag team match were the loser would have to retire, APA lost and Faaroog had to retire (in reality he was just retiring from the WWE). The Smackdown GM told JBL that the retirement thing didn't apply to him and despite it looking like JBL turned on Faaroog on screen, in real life these two are two best friends. The next week JBl became a heel with a cowboy hat, a suit and a tie and began using the name JBL or John "Bradshaw" Layfield. Many of his feuds were with Eddie Guerrero and Kurt Angle. JBL became the WWE Heavyweight Champion and labeled himself the 'wrestling god'. He held on to the title for nine months, losing it to John Cena. In May of 2006 JBL participated in a match were the loser would have to retire, JBL lost. In June of 06 he took over as color commentator for Smackdown alongside Michael Cole. He continued as commentator until December of 2007 when he announced that he was going to RAW to start wrestling again due to a challenge by Chris Jericho. He went on to defeat Jericho at the 2008 Royal Rumble. In February JBL announced to everyone that Hornswoggle was not really Mr. McMahan's son and that his real father was Finlay which Finlay later admitted. This caused a big rivalry between JBL and Finlay who would later meet up in a Belfast Brawl at Wrestlemania XXIV to settle their differences. JBL was able to capture the win at Wrestlemania over Finlay. JBL competed for the WWE Title at Backlash in a fatal four way elimination match against John Cena, Randy Orton and Triple H. JBL was not successful though as he was the first one eliminated.

On the July 30, 2008 edition of Raw JBL challenged CM Punk for his World Heavyweight Championship belt. CM Punk had only won the gold that night when he cashed in his Money in the Bank contract to steal it from Edge after Edge had taken a beating from Batista. JBL was unsuccessful in his attempt for the gold as CM Punk beat him.

JBL would later compete in a four way match with John Cena, Batista and Kane to see who would battle CM Punk for the World Heavyweight Championship at the Great American Bash. Batista won that match but it fueled the feud between JBL and John Cena. They would meet up July 20, 2008 at the Great American Bash in a parking lot brawl which involved a lot of cars crashing into each other. JBL was able to pick up the win when he pinned Cena on top of a car.

On August 17, 2008 JBL would get another chance at the World Heavyweight Title against CM Punk but was unsuccessful.

On October 5, 2008 at No Mercy JBL would have a match with Batista. The winner would win the honor of becoming the number one contender for the World Heavyweight Title. JBL lost though after Batista hit a Spinebuster and a Batista Bomb.

JBL then began feuding with Shawn Michaels. It became known that Michael's wa going through a tough time financially. JBL offered to help Shawn out with a deal to have Shawn work for him and at Armageddon 2008 Michaels accepted the deal. This feud is based on the film The Wrestler, which was released the week after Armageddon. With help from his new employee, Shawn Michaels, JBL won a Fatal Four-Way Elimination match on the December 29, 2008 episode of Raw by defeating Chris Jericho, Randy Orton and Shawn Michaels, earning JBL a World Heavyweight Championship match at the Royal Rumble against John Cena.

At the 2009 Royal Rumble JBL would face Cena for the World Heavyweight Championship but would lose the match after Cena reversed a JBL Clothesline From Hell and turned it into a FU. During the match, Shawn Michaels kicked both JBL and Cena down and then put JBL on top of Cena before leaving the ring, unfortunately for JBL, it didn't help.

The JBL and Shawn Michaels situation had been going on for months but all would be laid on the line as the two would battle on February 15, 2009 at No Way Out in a All or Nothing Match. Late in the match, Michaels would hit his Sweet Chin Music to win it, saving himself and his wife Rebecca from becoming JBL's property! Rebecca cried happily in the crowd as Michaels celebrated in the ring.

On March 9th, 2009 JBL would win the Intercontinental Championship from CM Punk.

With Wrestlemania 25 not far away there started to be talk about who would face the Undertaker and try to end the streak. What eventually went down was a match between Shawn Michaels and JBL with the winner taking on the Undertaker at Wrestlemania. JBL lost the match but would still make a Wrestlemania appearance as he defended his Intercontinental title against Rey Mysterio. That was not a good day for JBL as he lost the title to Rey in only 21 seconds as Mysterio was able to knock JBL down, hit the 619 and hit a slash from the top ropes before the pinfall and the IC belt. After the match was over JBL grabbed the Mic and announced to the crowd "I Quite!" before dropping the mic and walking off.

In April of 2009, days after Layfield's retirement, OVW owner Danny Davis announced in a press-release that Layfield was to become a commentator and host for the up-start MMA promotion and OVW's affiliate Vyper Fight League in which Layfield also sponsors with Layfield Energy.

JBL Facts:

Birth Name: John Charles Layfield
Birth Date: November 29, 1966
Height: 6' ft 6' inch
Finishing Move: Clothesline from hell

Mark Henry Bio

2008-07-02T01:12:00.000-07:00

Mark Henry is one of the most powerful WWE wrestlers. He should be as he is the 'worlds strongest man'. The nickname came when he qualified for the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona as he respectfully finished in 10th place. In 1996 Mark Henry came to the WWF and one of his first feuds was with Jerry Lawler. Some story lines had Mark as a sexual addict who would always be womanizing and he even picked up the nickname 'Dark Chocolate" for a while. In 2000 he was sent to OVW to improve his conditioning, later that year he started consecrating on weight lifting and ended up winning the strongman competition during the Arnold Classic and won a $75,000 vehicle. He made a brief return to Smackdown (Now the WWE brand), left to OVW for reconditioning again and then the following year went to Raw (the other WWE brand). In 2006 Mark Henry came back to Smackdown and joined up a while with MNM when he helped them defeat Mysterio and Batista in a tag team match. He then feuded with then World Heavyweight Champ Batista and ended up hurting Batista which required some surgery so Batista had to give up the championship. Then came a battle royal to crown a new champion but Mark Henry didn't get the belt as he was tossed out by Kurt Angle. Later the two would battle one on one for the title but Angle was able to defend his title and beat Mark Henry. Mark Henry feuded with Undertaker, Mysterio, Chris Benoit and the greatest of the great Smackdown superstars. Henry needed surgery following an injury toward the end of 2006 but then made his return in May of 2007 to Smackdown. Henry began feuding with Kane for a while and then offered an open challenge to anyone to challenge him with no one accepting. Mark Henry then started taunting Undertaker awaiting his comeback after Henry put him out of action for a while. Undertaker returned at 'Unforgiven' in September 2007 as the two squared off, Mark Henry lost the match though.

Henry started feuding with the Big Show which eventually led to a three way handicapped match at Night of Champions on July, 29, 2008. The match was between the two challengers Mark Henry and Big Show versus the ECW Champion Kane. Mark Henry ended up winning the match to become the ECW Champion. It was fitting as a couple of days earlier Henry was drafted from Smackdown to ECW during the WWE draft.

On July 20, 2008 at the Great American Bash Mark Henry defended his ECW title against Tommy Dreamer. Mark Henry would now have a new escort to the ring. Former wrestling star Tony Atlas would now escort Mark Henry to the ring.

On August 17, 2008 Mark Henry would defend his ECW title against Matt Hardy. During that match Matt Hardy delivered a Twist of Fate to Mark Henry and looked like he may take the title but Tony Atlas rescued Henry by pulling Matt Hardy off of Henry. Hardy won the match by DQ but Mark Henry was still ECW Champion. Hardy had a rematch for the title a few days later on ECW but once again fell with outside interference from Tony Atlas as mark Henry beat him to retain his championship.

On September 7, 2008 at Unforgiven Mark Henry would lose the title twice in one night in the Championship Scramble, first to Chavo Guerrero and secondly to Finlay. Matt Hardy ended the match as the new official ECW champion.

On October 5, 2008 at No Mercy Mark Henry had another shot to reclaim the ECW Championship but came up short as Matt Hardy hit the Twist of Fate on Mark Henry and then the win.

On November 23, 2008 Henry was part of team Orton as they battled team Batista. Mark Henry was eliminated but his team did win the match.

On April 5th, 2009 Mark Henry competed at Wrestlemania 25 in a 8 man Money in the Bank matchup. Unfortunately for Mark Henry he did not succeed in winning the match as CM Punk won the MITB match for the second year in a row.

On June 29, Henry was traded to the Raw brand, and had his first match that night as the third opponent in a three-on-one gauntlet match against Randy Orton, which he won, turning Henry into a fan favorite in the process.

Mark Henry then began teaming with Hornswoggle and began feuding with Chavo Guerrero. While Hornswoggle continued feuding with Chavo, Henry started teaming up with MVP and started feuding with Chris Jericho and the Big Show.

Mark Henry Facts:

Birth Name: Mark Gordon Henry
Birth Date: June 12, 1971
Nickname: The Worlds Strongest Man
Height: 6' ft 1' Inch
Finishing Move: The Worlds Strongest Slam (Falling Powerslam)

Funaki Bio

2008-07-02T01:09:00.000-07:00

Funaki joined the WWF in 1998 along with Teioh and Togo. In 1999 Teioh and Togo were released. Funaki stood and found himself doing a lot of backstage interviews while at the same time competing as a lower class wrestler in the cruiserweight division.

In 2004 Funaki won his first Cruiserweight Championship when he defeated Spike Dudley. Funaki later teamed up with Scottie 2 Hottie for a while and competed with many top WWE superstars.

In May of 2007 Funaki had a short lived match with the return of Mark Henry who ended the match quickly as he had been doing to many Smackdown stars.

Besides winning the Cruiseweight Championship one time , Funaki once won the Hardcore Championship.

Funaki was not seen that much on Smackdown for a while but in October of 2008 starting making appearances for Smackdown as a backstage interviewer. In one interview with R-Truth, R-Truth asked Funaki his real name in which Funaki revealed his full name to be Kung Fu Naki. This led to a tag team match on the October 24, 2008 edition of Smackdown. It was R-Truth and Funaki against Shelton Benjamin and MVP. Funaki came out with the old song 'Kung Fu Fighting' as his intro music and appeared to be a martial arts specialist. He was impressive in the match as he took down MVP with a Ralph Machio Karate Kid type kick and then got the cover and the victory for his team.

Funaki Facts:

Birth Name: Shoichi Funaki
Birth Date: August 24, 1968
Height: 5' ft 7' inch
Finishing Move: The Rising Sun
Funaki is fluent in spanish
He is married with two children
Is good friends with Lita and Stoned Cold Steve Austin in real life

Jimmy Wang Yang Bio

2008-07-02T01:02:00.000-07:00

Jimmy Wang Yang was one third of the jung dragons on WCW and spent years wrestling for other independent wrestling brands. In August of 2006 he came to Smackdown as a redneck sporting a cowboy hat. He has become one of Smackdowns top high flying acts. Jimmy has feuded with all the top Cruiserweight wrestling superstars since coming including Chavo Guerrero, Gregory Helms, Jamie Moore and Daivari. He would become a tag team dual with Shannon Moore who took on Jimmy's cowboy gimmick also for a while. They became one of the top tag teams on Smackdown. Shannon Moore was later released and Jimmy Wang Yang has been used as one of Smackdown's premier jobbers.

Jimmy Wang Yang Facts:

Birth Name: James Eas Yun
Birth Date: May 13, 1980
Nickname: Americas Redneck
Height: 5' ft 9' inch
Finishing Move: Moonsault
Jimmy was born in Hollywood, California

Hornswoggle Bio

2008-07-02T00:07:00.000-07:00

Hornswoggles real name is Dylan Postl. Before Hornswoggle came to Smackdown he was probaly best known for appearing on NWA. In May of 2006 he first showed up as the leprechaun who seemed to live under the ring and come out during Finlay's fights. Before he had a name Smackdown announcer would refer to him as 'the little bastard' and the name kind of grew from there despite color commentator JBL objecting to it. Soon, he wanted a public apology from Michael Cole for naming him 'the little bastard' and Finlay also told Michael Cole aggressively that he was to be called by the name Hornswoggle. It was good for Finlay to back up his little friend because Hornswoggle has been a key to many Finlay victories.

To many peoples surprise Hornswoggle ended up winning the WWE Cruiserweight Championship after pinning Jamie Noble in a Cruiserweight open at the 'Great American Bash'. Though he was not scheduled to participate in the match, he ran across the ring as the bell was rung before going back under the ring. All the other participates of the match didn't even know he was in the match until he pinned Noble. This has led to a feud between Hornswoggle and Jamie Noble as Hornswogge has continued to embarrass Jamie Noble week after week.

At the beginning of September of 2007 Hornswoggle had to honor to find out that Mr. Vince McMahan was his father. This happened as Mr. McMahan was searching for his long lost son, whom he knew was currently in the WWE. Mr. McMahan tried to have Hornswoggle adopted but Hornswoggle rebelled and chased his supposedly new parents away.

In late September of 2007 Vickie Guerrero who at the time has been filling in for GM Teddy Long took the Cruiserweight title away from Hornswoggle, telling him that she was worried about him and that he was a target of the other Smackdown superstars because of his title but also because it is now known that he is a McMahan. Hornswoggle sadly handed over the belt. Hornswoggle had been in a feud with the great Khali along with fellow Irishman Finaly who would always have Hornswoggle's back. On the February 18 Hornswoggle had a match with Mr. McMahan, McMahan was showing his son, in his mind some tough love. Finlay tried to help Hornswoggle but got tied to the ropes with handcuffs by JBL. McMahan left the ring and Finlay was helpless as JBL beat on Hornswoggle. A few weeks later JBL had an announcement to make, he claimed that Hornswoggle was not really Vince McMahan's son and that Finlay was really his father. The next week on RAW Finlay said that it was true.

On the April 11th, 2008 Smackdown, Hornswoggle and Finlay both made their official return to Smackdown after going through all that drama over there on Raw. On June 29, 2008 Hornswoggle and Finlay challenged Morrison and Miz for their tag team titles at Night of Champions but were not able to capture the gold as they lost.

On April 13, 2009, Hornswoggle was drafted to the Raw brand, without Finlay, as part of the 2009 Supplemental Draft. He then formed an alliance with Goldust, after Goldust saved him when he had a match against The Big Show on WWE Superstars. The two officially became a team on the May 25 edition of Raw. Hornswoggle teamed with Goldust in a winning effort against The Brian Kendrick and Festus.

Hornswoggle and Goldust's partnership was ended as Goldust was traded to ECW. After that Hornswoggle had numerous matches with the Mexican warrior Chavo Guerrero which he won, due to special stipulations for Chavo such as wrestling blindfolded or having one arm tied behind his back.

Hornswoggle then started teaming with Mark Henry and they both continued to feud with Chavo Guerrero.

Chavo continued to battle Hornswoggle in strange matches such as a boxing match in which Chavo had to wear really big over sized boxing gloves. In another match Chavo and Hornswoggle had to tie up the other in a bull rope and that would declare the winner.

Hornswoggle Facts:

Birth Name:Dylan Postl
Birth Date: May 29, 1986
Nickname: The Little Bastard
Height: 4' ft 4 inches
Finishing Moves: Tadpole Splash

MVP Bio

2008-07-02T00:01:00.000-07:00

Alvin Burke's on screen name is Montel Vontavious Porter who is an arrogant athlete who is full of himself. Before getting into wrestling Burke actually served nine years of an 18 year sentence for armed robbery and kidnapping. He first appeared on Smackdown in August of 2006 and fueded with Kane. He then began a long fued with Chris Benoit and is currently as of September, 2007 fueding with Matt Hardy. MVP has claimed that he is better than Matt at anything and has been challenging Matt to many different competitions. One on one basketball games, arm wrestling, a boxing match and the list goes on. MVP became tag-team champion with his odd partner Matt Hardy when they took the titles from Deuce and Domino, they ended up losing it later to the Miz and Jim Morrison. MVP is also the United States Champion. MVP currently lost a couple non title matches to Batista but won when it counted and defended his United States Championship. He competed in the 'Money in the Bank' match at Wrestlemania XXIV but was not able to get the win. On April 27, 2008 MVP battled rival Matt Hardy at Backlash for the United States Championship. MVP lost his title to Matt Hardy after holding it for nearly a year. MVP then started feeling like he was unappreciated on Smackdown and let everyone know how he felt, even Smackdown GM Vickie Guerrero. MVP wanted to renegotiate his contract but continually felt disrespected by Vickie. Soon the 2008 WWE draft would come and MVP was probably the only WWE wrestler who was wishing to be drafted. Unfortunately for him he wasn't, as MVP stood on Smackdown.

One guy who did get drafted was Mr. Kennedy who came to Smackdown from Raw. On the July 11, 2008 edition of Smackdown as MVP sat at the commentary table with J.R and Foley; Mr. Kennedy had a match and as he was introducing himself with the mic he talked about how he is once again changing Friday night Smackdown (he used to be on Smackdown). He also made some rude references toward MVP when he said that he is the real MVP of Smackdown catching MVP's attention. Nothing ever esculated after that as it seemed like this was a feud that the WWE thought of running with but thought not of after.

On the July 25, 2008 edition of Smackdown during the VIP Lounge Jeff Hardy was MVP's guest. MVP got real personal with Hardy by bringing up his house that burned down, Jeff's dog and Jeff Hardy's overall character. This led to a feud between the two. They battled it out on August 17, 2008 at Summerslam and MVP was able to get the victory.

On September 7, 2008 MVP competed in the Smackdown scramble match for the WWE title. MVP did not win though as Triple H retained his WWE title.

MVP started having trouble getting one more victory, something he used to do on a normal occasion. MVP needs just one victory to earn him some bonus incentives from the WWE. Unfortunately for him, he is on the worst losing streak of his WWE career. MVP had a sure win on the November 21, 2008 edition of Smackdown as he battled an amateur wrestler. His match though was interrupted by the great Khali, the distraction allowed the amateur to roll up MVP and get the win.

On November 23, 2008 at Survivor Series MVP would be on team JBL. Team JBL asso had the Miz, John Morrison and Kane. Their opponents were Team HBK, joining Michaels on his team were Rey Mysterio, Cryme Tyme and the great Khali. Khali ended up eliminating MVP from the match as Team HBK ended up winning the match.

Week after week MVP carried on his losing streak and every week Mr. Kennedy would come out and mock him about it. On the January 16, 2008 edition of Smackdown MVP had to face the Big Show in a Last Man Standing match. This match was ordered by Smackdown GM Vickie Guerrero. The match was made to punish Triple H, if MVP lost the match then Triple H would no longer be part of the 2009 Royal Rumble. Even though the heel MVP had not ever been liked by fans since coming to the WWE the crowd was chanting "MVP", "MVP", "MVP" during the match. MVP didn't disappoint as he looked impressive in the match against the giant. Big Show got counted out and MVP won the match. The long losing streak had ended!

The following week on Smackdown MVP would battle Chavo Guerrero in a match and won the match via pinfall to get himself a two match winning streak going. MVP was really hearing it from the crowd as MVP seemed to be loved dearly by the fans. After the win, MVP spoke of the United States championship he once held and said that he plans to get it back.

On March 20th, 2009 during Smackdown's 500th show anniversary MVP would get a chance at the United States Championship against Shelton Benjamin. The crowd now began to love MVP and he did not disappoint them as he hit his Playmaker trade mark move and got the win to once again be the United States Champion.

Shelton would have his rematch on the April 30th, 2009 edition of Smackdown but once again MVP was able to hit the Playmaker and get the win to defend his title.

On April 5th, 2009 MVP competed at Wrestlemania 25 in a 8 man Money in the Bank matchup. Unfortunately for MVP, he did not succeed in winning the match as CM Punk won the MITB match for the second year in a row.

On April 13, 2009, MVP was drafted as the first overall pick to the Raw brand as a part of the 2009 WWE Draft. As a result of being the reigning WWE United States Champion, he transferred the title to Raw for the first time in history.

On the June 1, 2009 edition of Raw MVP would lose his United States title to Kofi Kingston. In a show of sportsmanship, MVP handed over the belt to Kofi before leaving the ring.

On June 7, 2009 at Extreme Rules MVP had an opportunity to regain is United States championship as Kofi Kingston had to defend his title in a fatal four way. Kofi defended against MVP, William Regal and Matt Hardy. MVP would not regain his title as Kofi Kingston ended up pinning Matt Hardy to retain his title.

On the July 6, 2009 episode of Raw MVP had Jack Swagger as his guest on the VIP Lounge. MVP called Swagger a fraud for getting the automatic countout against Randy Orton in his debut on Raw last week. Swagger called out MVP for spending time in prison, saying he's the fraud pretending to be an MVP athlete. Swagger said if anyone is the MVP on Raw it's him. This began a feud between MVP and Jack Swagger.

MVP met up with Jack Swagger on August 23, 2009 at Summerslam. In the match MVP hit a running boot followed by his Playmaker to take the pinfall on Swagger.

MVP then starting feuding with Chris Jericho after MVP used brass knuckles in a match when MVP teamed with Mark Henry against Jericho and Big Show. The brass knuckles were thrown in the ring to MVP by Floyd Mayweather who used brass knuckles to knock out the Big Show at Wrestlemania 24.

MVP Facts:

Birth Name: Alvin Burke Jr.
Birth Date: October 28, 1973
Height: 6 ft
Finishing Move: The playmaker

Kane Bio

2008-07-01T00:25:00.000-07:00

Kane made his first professional wrestling debut in 1992 in St. Louis. He worked for USWA, then SMW before finding his way to the WWF competing as Dr. Issac Yankem DDS and was Jerry "the king" Lawler's private dentist. In 1997 the Kane we know came to be as he was packaged as the younger brother of the Undertaker. The storyline says that Paul Bearer and Undertakers mother bore Kane. Undertakers parents owned the funeral home and Paul Bearer was an employee. When they were children Undertaker accidentally burned down the funeral home killing his parents. Paul Bearer was able to save himself and Kane. When things went sour between Paul Bearer and Undertaker Paul brought Kane in to destroy his half brother. They've had many encounters since this time. Kane ended up turning into a face (good guy) a few years later and began teaming up with Undertaker as "Brothers of Destruction". Over the years he has been back and forth as a heel and a face and has been the WWE champion, tag team champion (with Undertaker), Hardcore champion, Intercontinental champion and world tag team champion eight times. After the WWF split into Smackdown and Raw brands Kane spent most of the time at Raw and has been on Smackdown since October, 2006 and has been one of Smackdowns biggest stars. At Wrestlemania XXIV Kane won a 24 man battle royal which gave the winner a shot at the ECW champion Chavo Guerrero's belt that same night. Kane then defeated Chavo Guerrero in about 6 seconds to become the ECW champion. Kane held on to his ECW title until June 29, 2008 at the Night of Champions PPV event. Kane had to defend his title in a triple threat match against the Big Show and Mark Henry, Henry ended winning and becoming the new ECW champion. In the 2008 WWE draft Kane was sent to Raw from Smackdown. On the July 7, 2008 edition of Raw Kane was involved in a fatal four way match against Batista, JBL and John Cena to determine who would go on to the Great American Bash to challenge CM Punk for the World Heavyweight Championship. It came down to Kane and Batista but after a spear by Batista, Kane lost the match. After that Kane turned into a mad man and started attacking everyone along ringside. Kane started yelling at everyone "Is he alive or dead?". No one knew what Kane was talking about and when Kane asked WWE Raw broadcaster Michael Cole and Cole did not know, Kane abused Cole and threw him in the ring. Cole was saved by fellow broadcaster Jerry Lawler but many wonder what had gotten into Kane as he looked like he may be turning heel. On July 20, 2008 at the Great American Bash Kane interrupted a World Heavyweight Championship match between CM Punk and Batista. Kane attacked both of them and when walking away kept saying "Is he alive." Kane also kicked a camera man. A few weeks later on Raw Kane said "He's in a better place"and the unknown "He" was dead. Kane started carrying around a small burlap with him for weeks and everyone wondered what was in it. On the August 11, 2008 edition of Raw Kane pulled a luchador mask out of his burlap sack after weeks of claiming that what was in the sack had died, "he" was revealed by Kane to be Rey Mysterio saying he had been "beaten and tortured beyond recognition".

On September 7, 2008 at Unforgiven Kane battled in the Raw scramble match for the World Heavyweight Championship in which Chris Jericho (who was a replacement for CM Punk) ended up winning. Others to compete in that match were Batista, JBL and Rey Mysterio.

The feud with Rey Mysterio led into No Mercy where Kane would lose by DQ after smashing a chair into Mysterio. Three weeks later Kane would have a match again with Mysterio at Cyber Sunday. Kane lost the match though after Mysterio hit the 619 on him. The next day on Raw though Kane would attack Mysterio after Mysterio won a match. Kane would take down Rey with a massive chokeslam.

Kane competed at Survivor Series on November 23, 2008 as part of Team JBL that would battle Team HBK. Team JBL lost though. Kane was personally eliminated when Mysterio and Khali double teamed on him.

Kane turned face once again in a promo with Chris Jericho, telling him that he loved the fans and did not like Jericho. Kane accompanined Kelly Kelly in the 2008 Slammy Awards, announcing The Couple of the Year (won by Edge and Vickie). While presenting the award, Kelly Kelly said love is a beautiful thing. Kane apparently thought she loved him.

The following week Kelly was attacked after winning a Diva's tag match, when Kane saved her, and after offering to help her up (which Kelly refused and ran away) Kane stalked her, until sitting her in a room and tell him who she was in love with. Kelly lied and said it was The Miz, which led Kane to attack Miz, first with a Chokeslam, then a Tombstone. The following week, Kane, told to by Stephanie McMahon, apologized in a not so pleasant way to Kelly for his behavior. He then got annoyed by Kelly for lying to him. Kane lost to Shawn Michaels in the Race to the Royal Rumble match after the promo with Kelly.

In February, 2009 at the 2009 No Way Out. Kane would participate in the Raw Elimination Chambers match for the World Heavyweight Championship. Kane though, was the first one eliminated. Edge, who earlier that night had lost the WWE Championship, would win the Raw Elimination Chambers Match and win the World Heavyweight Championship.

On April 5th, 2009 Kane competed at Wrestlemania 25 in a 8 man Money in the Bank matchup. Unfortunately for Finlay he did not succeed in winning the match as CM Punk won the MITB match for the second year in a row.

At the 2009 WWE Draft, Kane defeated Smackdown's The Brian Kendrick to earn a draft pick for Raw, and later in the night Kane himself would be drafted back to SmackDown. He continued his feud with CM Punk, who was also drafted to Smackdown, and defeated Punk at Backlash.

After a period of absence to tour India and also heal injuries, he returned at The Bash to aid Dolph Ziggler in his match with The Great Khali by hitting Khali with a steel chair allowing Ziggler to win, starting a feud with Khali. The feud escalated when Kane kidnapped Ranjin Singh.

On August 23, 2009 at Summerslam tempers would fly as Kane battled Khali. Khali had control early but Kane was able to hit a running DDT to pick up the pinfall victory.

Kane Facts:

Birth name: Glenn Thomas Jacobs
Birth date: April 26, 1968
Nickname: The Big Red Machine
Height: 7 ft
Finishing move: Chokeslam from hell

In 1988-89 was an NCAA basketball all star

Matt Hardy Bio

2008-07-01T00:18:00.000-07:00

Matt Hardy at one time teamed up with his younger brother Jeff Hardy as they were known as the Hardy Boyz. He has also been very successful as a singles competitor. His WWF career began in 1998 when he and his brother were given contracts. From 1998 to 2001 Matt was part of the Hardy Boyz tag team and after that has mostly wrestled in singles competition but still didn't give up on tag team wrestling as he and his brother still had great success together but there also came a period were Matt & Jeff couldn't get along. One of the famous stories in Matt's career was about his real life love life with WWE diva Lita, whom Matt was with for 6 years. The relationship came to an end in February of 2005 when Lita had an affair with fellow WWE superstar Edge. Along with his friend Rhyno, Matt Hardy was released by WWE on April 11, 2005. Edge and Lita received jeers from the crowds at WWE events, sometimes resulting in chants, "You screwed Matt," and, "We want Matt." Paul Heyman, in a worked shoot promo, mocked Edge for his actions at One Night Stand 2005. Lita, for the first time in over five years, turned heel as a result of the affair becoming public knowledge. Matt Hardy released two character promotional vignettes, that he was planning to use before he was offered a new contract by WWE. Hardy called himself The Angelic Diablo with the tagline "the scar will become a symbol" in reference to the way in which he has been treated by Lita and WWE. On the June 20, 2005 edition of RAW, during the storyline wedding of Edge and Lita, Matt Hardy's entrance music and video were played when the priest asked if anyone had a reason why Edge and Lita should not be wed. On the July 11, 2005 episode of RAW, Matt Hardy made his return, attacking Edge as he made his way to the ring. On the July 13, 2005 edition of WWE's webcast Byte This!, which featured Lita as its guest, one of the callers was Matt himself. The two engaged in a huge argument which led to Lita walking off the set. Matt ended up winning the tag-team title with his enemy MVP as they were forced to team together and beat Deuce and Domino. They have since lost the titles to the Miz and Jim Morrison after Hardy was back-stabbed by MVP, a move many saw coming. Hardy was injured in the altercation and had to take some time off for his injurie. After being out for around five months Hardy made a surprise visit at Wrestlemania XXIV when he interfered in the 'Money in the Bank Ladder Match'. With MVP looking like he may when it, Hardy went in the ring and gave MVP a 'twist of fate' right before MVP could grab the suitcase. After that Hardy returned to Smackdown and had a mission to get MVP's United States Championship. That opportunity came April 27, 2008 at Backlash when Hardy beat MVP and became the United States Champion. In June of 2008 during the 2008 WWE draft Matt Hardy was drafted from Smackdown to ECW. Matt Hardy would hold on to the United States Championship belt until July 20, 2008 at the Great American Bash when Shelton Benjamin beat him.

On August 17, 2008 Matt Hardy battled Mark Henry for the ECW Championship at Summerslam 2008. Hardy won the match and almost won the title but did not because of outside interference from Mark Henry's sidekick Tony Atlas which caused Henry to lose by DQ. Hardy received a rematch a few days later on ECW but the same thing happened again as Tony Atlas interfered and Mark Henry retained his ECW title.

Henry's luck would not last though as both Matt Hardy and Mark Henry competed in the ECW scramble match at Unforgiven on September 7, 2008. Others competing in the match were Chavo Guerrero, Finlay and the Miz. Matt Hardy hit the Twist of Fate on the Miz and got the cover and spent the rest of the match breaking up attempted pinfalls by others. The match ended and Matt Hardy became the new ECW Champion. On October 5, 2008 at No Mercy Mark Henry had his rematch against Matt Hardy since he never actually got pinned by Hardy when he lost his ECW title. Matt Hardy was able to surprise Henry late in the match though with a Twist of Fate and defended his ECW championship title.

On October 26, 2008 at Cyber Sunday Matt would defend his ECW title against the high flying Evan Bourne. Hardy would eventually hit his Twist of Fate on Bourne and retain his ECW title.

Hardy defended his title again on the November 11, 2008 edition of ECW against Finlay. Hardy was able to hit his Twist of Fate to seal the victory and retain his title.

At Survivor Series on November 23, 2008 Matt hardy was part of Team Batista which would battle Team Orton. Hardy and Batista ended up being at a disadvantage in the match as they were the only ones left against four members left from Team Orton. Mark Henry then eliminated Matt Hardy with a powerslam as Team Orton went on to win the match.

Hardy's ECW championship run would come to an end on 01-13-09 when Jack Swagger would beat him on the January 13, 2009 edition of ECW. Matt would get another shot to claim the ECW title once again when he had a rematch against Swagger a few weeks later in the 2009 Royal Rumble. After getting hit with Swaggers gut wrench power bomb, Matt could not recover and lost the match. Later that same evening Matt's brother Jeff Hardy would defend the WWE championship in a match against Edge. After Vickie Guerrero and Chavo Guerrero would interfere in the match for Edge, Matt came in what appeared to be helping his brother Jeff. Matt

grabbed a chair and handed it to Jeff. He then grabbed another one for himself and it looked like they were going to do a conchairto on Edge before Matt betrayed his brother and hit Jeff over the head with the chair thus causing Edge to take the WWE title.

On the January 30th, 2009 edition of Smackdown Matt Hardy opened up the show taking stage in the ring. With Matt Hardy officially turning heel, fans wanted some answers with the main question being, WHY? Matt said that the WWE fans never liked him as much as they did Jeff and went on to say that there is no such thing anymore as the Hardy Boys. Matt even went on to say that Jeff is not his brother anymore.

Week after week Matt would then try to engage Jeff Hardy into hitting him but Jeff refused to hit his brother time after time, week after week until he couldn't take it anymore on the March 13th, 2008 edition of Smackdown. This would lead to an Extreme Rules match between the brothers on April 5th, 2009 at Wrestlemania 25. This match saw framed poster, trash can, chairs and a vacuum cleaner used. In the end Matt was victorious as he nailed Jeff with a Twist of Fate with Jeff's head through a chair.

On the April 13 episode of Raw, Hardy was drafted to the Raw brand as part of the WWE draft. Two weeks later, in a rematch from WrestleMania, Hardy lost to Jeff in an "I Quit" match at Backlash, in which he broke his hand. Hardy continued to wrestle with his hand in a cast, incorporating it into his persona and claiming that he was wrestling under protest.

On June 7, 2009 at Extreme Rules Matt would battle MVP, William Regal and Kofi Kingston in a fatal four way for the United States championship. Kofi Kingston ended up defending his title though as he pinned Matt.

At the June 22 taping of WWE Superstars, Hardy suffered an injury, when his intestines "exploded" through his abdominal wall, during a Triple Threat match against MVP and Kofi Kingston. Hardy had suffered a tear in his abdominal muscle two years previously, but had not needed surgery until it worsened, and became a danger to his health. He was then traded to the SmackDown brand on June 29, and underwent surgery for the torn abdominal muscle on July 2. He made his return on the August 7 episode of SmackDown as the special guest enforcer in the World Heavyweight Championship match between his brother, Jeff, and CM Punk, and helped Jeff retain the championship by counting the pinfall.

On the August 14, 2009 episode of Smackdown Jeff Hardy battled DH Smith & Tyson Kidd in a 2 on 1 handicapped match. CM Punk would get involved and triple team with the Hart's against Jeff but then John Morrison ran into the ring to help out Jeff. The Hart's took care of Morrison though and then Punk hit Morrison over the head with a steel chair. Punk then put a chair on Jeff's neck to try to do the same thing he did the previous week. Just then, Matt Hardy rushed out to the ring and started fighting Punk to prevent any harm. Morrison was able to recover to start fighting the Harts off, and eventually they cleared the ring. Matt went over to help up Jeff Hardy, who was resistant at first. After all was over, backstage, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon went up to Teddy Long and asked what's in store for next week's show. Long announced Morrison & The Hardys vs. CM Punk and Hart Dynasty.

The next week on the August 21, 2009 episode of Smackdown Matt Hardy would team up with his brother Jeff Hardy and John Morrison and battle the Hart Dynasty and CM Punk. Matt and Jeff were introduced together and came down the ramp together reminding fans of all the old Hardy Boys memories. Matt and Jeff jelled quickly as the old Hardy Boyz team chemistry never missed a beat. John Morrison was also impressive in the match along side the Hardy's. The match ended when Matt hit CM Punk with the Twist of Fate and the pin. After the match, Matt and Jeff hugged.

With Jeff Hardy recently losing his World Heavyweight Championship to CM Punk and then losing a match to Punk in a loser leaves the WWE match; Matt Hardy would try to avenge his brother with a match against CM Punk on the September 4, 2009 edition of Smackdown. During the match CM Punk would use a steel chair to his advantage and thus , would get disqualified. Then the lights went out. Undertaker's bell tolled. All of a sudden, the lights came back with Taker standing right near CM Punk. Punk was shocked and ran right into Undertaker who grabbed him and chokeslammed him right through the commentator's table.

Some Matt Hardy Facts:

Birth Name: Mathew Moore Hardy
Birth Date: September 23, 1974
Height: 6" ft 2" inch
Finishing Moves: Twist of fate
Before signing with the WWF Matt and brother Jeff created their own wrestling promotion called Omega Wrestling.
Matt Hardy was offered my Melina to join her M&M team of Johnny Nitro and Joey Mercury but refused.
In 1999 appeared on 'That 70's Show'
In 2002 won on fear factor

Finlay Bio

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Finlay is definitely what he claims to be, the man who loves to fight. He’s proven it too time and time again. He is seen by fellow wrestlers as a brawler and one of the toughest opponents to face. The Irishman held 16 major championships before coming to the USA in the mid 90’s. He went to the WCW and wrestled there from 1995 to 2000. He then took some time off away from the ring and finally started working on a comeback in 2004. In early 2006 Finlay made his debut on Smackdown fighting Matt Hardy and got disqualified, fighting real dirty in the match and quickly establishing himself as a bad guy. In May we started seeing a “little bastard” (later known as Hornswoggle), a leprechaun who seemed to live under the ring who would come out and help Finlay cheat and win matches. Finaly has held the WWE Smackdowns United States Championship and came to Smackdown as a heel but lately has been a face along with Hornswoggle. Finlay continued his feud with the great Khali who he beat in December, 2007 at Armageddon. Both he and Khali were participants in the 2008 Royal Rumble but Finlay was disqualified quickly as he went into the ring before his time and smacked both Mark Henry and Big Daddy V with his shillelagh. Lately Finlay has been appearing more over at RAW due to the Hornswoggle-Vince McMahan thing going on over there. Mr. McMahan had been showing Hornswoggle some tough love that seemed a little to tough to Finlay. Over at RAW JBL had informed McMahan that Hornswoggle was not really his son and that Hornswoggle's real father was Finlay. On the March 3, 2008 edition of RAW, Finlay admitted that Hornswoggle was his son and later faced JBL in a Belfast Brawl match at Wrestlemania XXIV. Finlay was not able to beat JBL at Wrestlemania and suffered the defeat. On the April 11th edition of Smackdown Finaly and Hornswoggle made their official return to Smackdown after going through all that drama over there on Raw. On June 29, 2008 at Night of Champions Finlay and his son Hornswoggle challenged Miz and John Morrison for the tag team titles but where unsuccessful. Finlay and Hornswoggle had another chance again at the Great American Bash in a four way tag team match but once again were unsuccessful.

Over at ECW Finlay began being challenged by Mike Knox. Knox accused Finlay of being soft because Finlay would dance around with his son Hornswoggle and invite kids from the audience to dance in the ring. On the August 26 edition of ECW Finlay and Knox had a match with Finlay getting the victory and proving that though he is a family man he still is the man who loves to fight.

On September 7, 2008 Finlay competed in the ECW Scramble match at Unforgiven against the then ECW Champion Mark Henry, Miz, Matt Hardy and Chavo Guerrero. The match was won by Matt Hardy who became the new ECW Champion that night.

On November 11, 2008 on ECW Finlay would battle fellow face Matt Hardy for the ECW Championship. In a hard fought match Matt Hardy was able to defend his title after hitting the Twist of Fate on Finlay.

Finlay would battle Mark Henry December 14, 2008 at Armegeddon in a Belfast Brawl. With a little help from Hornswoggle and a shilaleigh, Finlay was able to get the win over the worlds strongest man.

On the February 3rd edition of ECW Finlay beat ECW champion Jack Swagger ending the match with a Celtic Cross and pin in non title match. Finlay became the first to beat Swagger since Swagger joined ECW.

This led up to a ECW Championship match for Finlay against Swagger on February 15, 2008 at No Way Out. Finlay was not able to get the win that night though as Jack Swagger would successfully defend his ECW title.

On April 5th, 2009 Finlay competed at Wrestlemania 25 in a 8 man Money in the Bank matchup. Unfortunately for Finlay he did not succeed in winning the match as CM Punk won the MITB match for the second year in a row.

In the 2009 Supplemental Draft, Finlay and Hornswoggle were separated when Hornswoggle was drafted to Raw.

In late May 2009, Finlay suffered a legitimate eye injury, sidelining him temporarily. He returned on June 16, attacking Christian, Tommy Dreamer and Jack Swagger.

At The Bash he participated in a Championship Scramble match for the ECW Championship, but was unsuccessful.

He was traded to the SmackDown brand on June 29, 2009. His first match returning to the brand was against Ricky Ortiz which Finlay won.

Some Finlay Facts

Birth Name: David Edward Finlay
Birth Date: October 20, 1958
Nickname: The man who loves to fight
Height:6' ft 2 inch
Finishing Move:The celtic cross & using his weapon - the shillelagh
Has a wife and one son

Rey Mysterio Bio

2008-06-30T04:37:00.000-07:00

Mysterio is always exciting to watch with his high flying act. Rey Mysterio made his wrestling pro debut in 1989 at the age of 14 at a small church in Tijuana, Mexico and spent most of the early part of his career in AAA promotions in Mexico. In 1995 he wrestled for ECW and then in 1996 signed with the WCW.

In the summer of 2002 Rey made his WWE debut and his first feud was with Kurt Angle. In 2003 he became the cruiserweight champion and in 2005 he became a tag team champion with the late Eddie Guerrero until Eddie turned on him. Eddie then held a secret that Rey's son was really Eddie's son and was adopted by Rey. They had a match to see who would win custody and Rey won. Since Eddie's real life death Rey has dedicated every match he has to his real life good friend.

In 2006 Rey shocked everyone when he won the World Heavyweight Championship at Wrestlemania 22 by beating Kurt Angle and Randy Orton. Chavo and Vickie Guerrero celebrated with him but later would turn on him. He was put out of action for many months by Chavo Guerrero who severely injured his leg by bashing it repeatedly with a steel chair.

At Summerslam of 2007 Rey came back and beat Chavo and has returned to Smackdown and already has taken the number one contender spot for the current heavyweight champion Khali's belt. Rey then started feuding with MVP and beat MVP in their 2007 Armageddon match but did not take MVP's United States title because he won the match via count out.

On February 14, 2008 Smackdown announced that Mysterio had suffered a bicep injury on an overseas tour. On February 22nd Rey announced that he would have to take around 6 months away from wrestling as his injury will require surgery.

In June of 2008 Mysterio was drafted to Raw during the 2008 WWE draft. Rey gave the Smackdown fans a good-bye and thank you speach on the June 27, 2008 edition of Smackdown. On the June 30 edition of Raw Mysterio came to make an announcement to all the Raw fans which led to a minor fight Santino Marella. Mysterio made his Raw in-ring debut the next week, pinning Marella after hitting his signature 619 move.

On the August 11, 2008 edition of Raw Kane incinuated that Mysterio had died, pulling a luchador mask out of his burlap sack after weeks of claiming that what was in the sack had died. This of course is all kayfabe.

On September 7, 2008 Mysterio competed in the Raw scramble match at Unforgiven. The match was for the World Heavyweight Championship and featured Rey, CM Punk, Batista, JBL and Kane. Unfortunately for the then World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk, he could not compete at the last minute because of a backstage attack by Randy Orton, Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase. This led to Punk being replaced in the match by Chris Jericho. Jericho ended up winning the match and became the new World Heavyweight Champion that night.

On October 5, 2008 at No Mercy Mysterio's rivalry with Kane continued as the two squared off in a match. Mysterio won the match after Kane got disqualified for using a chair in the match.

Three weeks later Mysterio and Kane would meet again at Cyber Sunday in a No Holds Barred match in which Mysterio was able to win via pinfall after a successful 619 and springboard splash off the ropes onto Kane. The next day on Raw though after Rey had a successful match against Evan Bourne; Mysterio was attacked by Kane. Bourne tried to help Mysterio but Mark Henry also came in to attack Bourne. Mysterio suffered a hard choke slam by Kane to end the attack.

Mysterio and Kane would meet again at Survivor Series but this team it wasn't one on one. Mysterio was part of Team HBK. Joining Michaels and Mysterio were the great Khali and Kryme Tyme. Kane was part of Team JBL which had Kane, MVP, Miz, Johnn Morrison and of course JBL. During the match Mysterio and Khali double teamed on Kane to eliminate him from the match. At the end, team HBK had won the match.

Myterio would compete in Raws Elimination Chambers match on February 15, 2009 at No Way Out for the World Heavyweight Championship. After Kane, John Cena, Mike Knox and Chris Jericho had been eliminated, it came down to Mysterio and Edge. Edge was able to surprise Mysterio with a Spear and win the Eliminations Chambers match and the World Heavyweight title.

On April 5th, 2009 at Wrestlemania 25, Mysterio battled for the Intercontinental Championship against JBL. Mysterio was abole to surprise JBL and end the match quickly as he knocked JBL down, hit the 619 and then did a splash to get the cover and become the new IC Champion. With this win, it signified the end of JBL's in ring performance. JBL said that if Eddie Guerrero could not be there for his last match, then he wanted his last match to be against Rey Mysterio.

Mysterio was drafted to SmackDown during the 2009 WWE Draft on the April 13 episode of Raw, in the process making the Intercontinental Championship exclusive to SmackDown.

On May 17, 2009 at Judgment Day, Mysterio would successfully defend his Intercontinental Championship Title against Chris Jericho after hitting the 619 and hitting a springboard off the top ropes.

On June 7, 2009 at Extreme Rules Chris Jericho would get another shot at Mysterio and his IC title. The match was a No Hold Bars Match. Mysterio was able to trip Jericho into the set up chair in the ring and eventually went for a 619. Jericho avoided the 619 and instead ripped off Rey's mask. The unmasking of Mysterio took him by surprise, and Jericho scored a pinfall to win the match and take the Intercontinental title from Mysterio.

Mysterio and Jericho were booked in a Title vs. Mask match at WWE The Bash, in which Mysterio was victorious to regain the Intercontinental Championship.

Rey then began feuding with Dolph Ziggler, in which he defeated Ziggler at WWE Night Of Champions. The feud between these two continued up to Summerslam on August 23, 2009 as Mysterio defended his Intercontinental belt. In that match Mysterio was able to do a spin move followed by the Hurricanrana onto Ziggler from the top rope and get the pinfall victory to defend his title.

On the September 4, 2009 edition of Smackdown Rey would lose his Intercontinental Championship to John Morrison after Morrison hit his Starship Pain move and then got the pinfall.

Some Mysterio facts:

Birth Name: Oscar Gutierrez
Birth Date: December 11, 1974
Height: 5' feet 6' inches
Finishing Moves: The 619 and the springboard splash

He was born in San Diego, California
Resides still in San Diego with his wife and two children
Mysterio means king of 'mystery in spanish'

Chavo Guerrero Bio

2008-06-30T04:30:00.000-07:00

Chavo Guerrero comes from a great wrestling family, the Guerrero's. Wrestling is deep is his blood. His grandpa was legendary wrestler Gory Guerrero who was one of the most famous wrestlers in Mexican history and his uncle was the late Eddie Guerrero. His father Chavo Guerrero Sr. also wresrled in the WWF and other family members are Hector Guerrero, Mando Guerrero, Enrique Llanas, Javier Llanas and Hector Mejia. Chavo is from El Paso, Texas. As a child Chavo and Eddie (who were close in age even though Edie was his uncle) would wrestle during intermission at Gory's shows in Texas. Chavo made his official wrestling debut in Mexico and then wrestled in different parts of the world for a while and then went to the WCW in 1996. He finally came to the WWE in 2001 and is a multiple time Cruiserweight Champion and a multiple time tag team champion. One of the times he held the tag team gold was with his uncle Eddie Guerrero who together were known as 'Los Guerrero's' in 2002. Him and Eddie would sometimes have skits during Smackdown when their motto was to 'Lie, steal and cheat'. In 2005 Chavo ended up going to "Raw" for a while and then later that year a tragic event happened in the Smackdown family as Eddie Guerrero passed away, Eddie was not even 40 years old yet. Chavo dedicated every match he had to his late uncle and even took Eddie's signature move - the frog splash and the three amigos- to remember him by. Rey Mysterio was also dedicating every match he had to Eddie Guerrero and jealousy soon got the best of Chavo as he claimed that Mysterio was just using the Guerrero name to benefit himself. Chavo then seemed to appear more and more on Smackdown and used a chair to seriously injure Mysterio's leg that had put him out of action for months. Chavo has recently lost the Cruiserweight title to Hornswoggle in a open Cruiserweight title match, Hornswoggle was not officially in the match against the other superstars but got the title. His concentration then went back to Mysterio who would be coming back soon from his injury. He got his chance at Summerslam 2007 but lost to Rey Mysterio. Chavo was not seen on Smackdown for many months but returned toward the end of 2007. Chavo then was against the ongoing relationship between Vickie Guerrero and Edge but soon joined them and was later helped by Edge to defeat CM Punk and become the new ECW Champion. At Wrestlemania XXIV Chavo Guerrero would lose his ECW Championship belt to Kane. On April 27, 2008 Chavo had a rematch with Kane to try to recapture the ECW title but once again failed as Kane beat him.

Chavo then became part of Los Familia. This group of heels included Edge, Zach Rider, Curt Hawkins, Vickie Guerrero Bam Neely and of course Chavo Guerrero. Los Familia would later break up when Edge would turn on the other members of Los Familia on the August 8, 2008 edition of Smackdown. During that show other members of Los Familia were found knocked out with a black rose laying on them. Suspecting the Undertaker was involved Chavo and Vickie sake Edge's help. Edge, Chavo Guerrero and Vickie all went in the ring and Edge called out the Undertaker but then hit Chavo from behind with a steel chair and harassed Vickie Guerrero. This was officially the end to La Familia.

On September 7, 2008 Chavo competed in the ECW scramble match at Unforgiven. Matt Hardy ended up winning the competition and became the new ECW champion that night.

Chavo would then become the unfortunate victim of the Undertaker due to the Undertaker and Vickie Guerrero feud. On the September 19, 2008 edition of Smackdown the Undertaker chocked Chavo backstage to end the show as sort of a message to Vickie. The next week Chavo seemed traumatized by the incident and was scared the Undertaker would show up again. Vickie and Big Show wanted to go in the ring and call the Undertaker out. Despite Chavo not wanting to go Vickie viciously insisted. As they called Undertaker out the light went off, back on and all of a sudden Chavo was backstage getting a beating from the Undertaker.

Chavo then became sort of a walking floor mat assistant for the Big Show. Though he looked like he didn't want to comply with everything that the Big Show told him, he didn't argue about it. Chavo seemed to always be in situations he did not want to be in (and usually paid a high price) because of Show and Vickie Guerrero.

On the December 26, 2008 edition of Smackdown, Triple H pointed out to Chavo what a shame it was for him to be a Guerrero and having turned into an errand boy for Vickie. That evening Vickie even made Chavo fight Triple H in a match even though Chavo didn't want to proving Edge's point. During the match Chavo tried to imitate his uncle, the late Eddie Guerrero's trickery moves by throwing a chair in Edge's hands and lying down while the ref was not looking. This would result in disqualifications for Eddie's opponents as the ref would think that they hit Eddie with the chair. It didn't work for Chavo though as his plan backfired and Triple H won the match.

Guerrero was with the SmackDown brand until April 2009, when he was drafted to the Raw brand as part of the 2009 Supplemental Draft.

Chavo then started feuding with Santino Marello and after a loss to Santino on the 05-18-09 edition of Raw would set up a match between his Aunt Vickie Guerrero and Santino's sister Santina Marello for the Miss Wrestlemania Crown. Despite Vickie not pleased with Chavo setting up the match she competed in the match and beat Santina thanks to some help from Chavo.

Upon Vickie's departure from WWE, Chavo continued to feud with Marella and defeated him on the June 18 edition of WWE Superstars.

Chavo then began feuding with Hornswoggle and began fighting Hornswoggle in a variety of strange matches such as a boxing match in which Chavo had to wear real big over sized gloves. In another match the first one to tie the other in a bull rope would be the winner.

Some Chavo Guerrero Facts:

Birth Name: Salvador Chavito Guerrero III
Birthdate: October 20, 1970
Height: 5 ft 9inch
Finishing Move: Gory Bomb, Frog Splash
Comes from the legendary Guerrero familiaChavo is married and has 2 sons. His wife is named Susan, and they have been married since 1998.
After Eddie's death Chavo began wearing wrestling boots similar to the boots Eddie would wrestle in.Chavo Guerrero is currently the last member of the Guerrero family that competes on a regular basis.

Great Khali Bio

2008-06-30T04:21:00.000-07:00

When The Great Khali first appeared on Smackdown he was an unnamed monster who came out and interrupted a match between The Undertaker and Mark Henry who had a rivalry going on at the time. Khali went into the ring and destroyed the Undertaker and everyone marveled at the size and stregth of this unnamed giant. Khali was escorted to the ring by his manager at the time Shawn Daivari. The next week on Smackdown Daivari inroduced this giant to the wrestling world as "The Great Khali". Khali grabbed the mike and spoke but in a foreigh language that most could not understand. The following week he had his first match against Funaki and completely dominated the match and since then has dominated all of his opponents. Khali had a great rivarly with then World Heavyweight Champion Rey Mesterio and when they battled it was compared to David and Goliath, of course Khali was Goliath. Khali beat Mysterio but did not win the championship belt because it was a non-title match. Another famous rivalry was with Undertaker. After the Undertaker rivalry Khali went to the ECW for a while and then to RAW. He came back to Smackdown via the WWE draft on June 11th, 2007. On July 20th Smackdown World Heavyweight Champion Edge had to give up his belt due to a injury that will keep him out of action for a while. Smackdown GM then set up a 20 man Royal Rumble in which the winner would be the new World Heavyweight Champion. It came down to Khali, Batista and Kane, Khali eliminated them both and became the WWE Smackdown World Heavyweight Champion. At 'Unforgiven' in September of 2007 Khali had to defend his title in a triple threat match along with Batisa and Rey Mysterio. Batista beat Khali and took the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Khali participated in the Elimination Chamber match at 'No Way Out' but was eliminated by the Undertaker. He also participated in a 24 man battle royal at Wrestlemania XXIV but was eliminated. At Backlash Khali battled the Big Show. Khali lost the match when the Big Show leveled him with a choke slam. On the July 25, 2008 edition of Smackdown Khali won a six man battle royal.

On August 17, 2008 at Summerslam 2008 Khali would challenge Triple H for the WWE Title but was unsuccessful.

In late September of 2008 the great Khali started having in the ring appearances where a girl would be picked from the audience and he would plant a kiss on her, the name of this event - The Khali Kiss Cam. During this time the great Khali went through a change and became a face even teaming up on team HBK during Survivor Series. Khali teamed up with Shawn Michaels, Rey Mysterio and Kryme Tyme as they defeated Team JBL which consisted of JBL, Miz, John Morrison and MVP. Khali has also made MVP's life hard as he has interrupted the MVP Lounge show saying that it is a boring show and would rather do the Khali Kissing-Cam.

The Great Khali later feuded with Dolph Ziggler, winning by disqualification after Ziggler attacked him with a steel chair. In the next few weeks, Khali lost to Ziggler by countout and disqualification after Ziggler made it look like Khali hit him with a steel chair. At The Bash, Khali lost to Ziggler by pinfall, after Kane returned and attacked Khali.

Khali then began feuding with Kane. The feud escalated when Kane kidnapped Ranjin Singh. Tempers flew as they two would do battle at Summerslam 2009. Khali had control early on in the match but Kane was able to hit a running DDT to pick up the pinfall victory over Khali.

On the August 28, 2009 edition of Smackdown while Kane was battling Rey Mysterio in a match Great Khali and Ranjin Singh rushed down to the ring. Khali cleared Kane out of the ring, and then Singh hit him with a kendo stick. Kane grabbed Singh by the neck, but Khali saved him by smashing the kendo stick on Kane repeatedly. Kane eventually retreated backstage.

Some Great Khali facts:
Birth Name: Dalip Singh Rana
Bith Date: August 27, 1972
Height: 7'3"
Weight: 400 Pounds
Finishing Move: The Claw, the power bomb and the choke slam
He was Mr. India in 1997 and 1998
He had a great acting role in Adam Sandlers "The Longest Yard" movie
His chest meausures 63 inches
He is a Rajput Hindu and a devout one for that.
He likes to eat all sorts of Punjabi food and hasn't yet developed a liking for any type of Fast Food.
He is a real bodybuilder which is rare for a man of his size.

Ric Flair Bio

2008-06-30T04:05:00.000-07:00

Ric Flair is one of wrestlings top performers and will surely go down in history as one of wrestlings greatest. Ric Flair made his wrestling debut in 1972 in the AWA. His early success came in the NWA were he had much success for nearly two decades. He held many championships during his time with NWA but then got into a dispute with the NWA/WCW management team and immediately headed off to rival WWF. When he went to the WWF along with him he took the World Heavyweight Championship Belt and proclaimed himself to be the real World Heavyweight Champion. He ended up selling the belt back to WCW. Flair ended up capturing the WWF Championship belt a couple times in his short stay until 1993 when he headed back to WCW and had rivalries there with superstars such as Hulk Hogan and Randy "Macho Man" Savage who had come over from the WWF and of course were big superstars.

Ric Flair spent most of his career with the NWA/WCW and after the WWF purchased WCW Ric Flair had the honor of being in the last match ever for WCW, it was Ric Flair VS Sting. He appeared on "Raw" in 2001 and eventually become part of Triple H's "Evolution". He stood on "Raw" until June of 2007 when he was sent to "Smackdown" as part of the WWE draft. Ric Flair is known for his famous "Whooooooooo" sound he lets out when things are going his way in a match and also his Nature Boy Strut. Ric Flair came to Smackdown from Raw during the 2007 draft. On August 3rd, 2007 Ric Flair was a victim of Khali's new claw move and unfortunately that may be the last time we see Ric Flair as there have been many reports that he has quite the company because he was not to happy with the WWE writers. Ric Flair will finally be making his comeback to Smackdown after 5 or 6 months off. He will probably return 12-21-07. Ric Flair made his comeback and announced on Smackdown that he will be having a match against someone he really respects - Edge. He said he wants to fight the best. If Flair is to lose to lose the match he will retire. He ended up surviving the Edge match and seems to be making a habit of these retirement matches and succeeding each time. Flair will be the first inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2008. This will make him the first inductee ever while still an active wrestler. At Wrestlemania XXIV Ric Flair had yet another retirement match against old buddy Shawn Michaels. It was an emotional loss for Ric Flair as he and HBK began to tear up. Flair thanked the fans and gave a memorable departure to his historic wrestling career. The following day on Monday Night RAW Ric Flair gave his final farewell to a teary eyed crowd at Amway Arena. The 2008 hall of fame inductee was honored in the ring by Triple H, Batista, John Cena, Greg Valentine, Ricky Steamboat and many other wrestling stars.

On the February 9, 2009 episode of Raw, Flair made an appearance to confront Chris Jericho, telling him to respect the WWE Legends and the fans.

On February 16, Ric Flair signed a multi-event contract with Ring of Honor. The deal includes autograph sessions at ROH events. Flair made his first ROH appeareance on March 13, 2009 in Colinsville, Illinois, where he had a confrontation with World Heavyweight Champion Nigel McGuinness.

On the February 23 episode of Raw, it was announced that Flair will be inducting Ricky Steamboat into the WWE Hall of Fame.

At the March 9, 2009 episode of Raw, Flair appeared during a Money in the Bank qualifier match between Jericho and Kofi Kingston, distracting Jericho which cost him the match. Jericho subsequently suggested Flair come out of retirement and challenged him to a match on the March 16 Raw. That week, Flair declined Jericho's challenge. Instead he, along with Piper, Steamboat and Jimmy Snuka attacked Jericho. On the March 23 episode of Raw, after telling Jericho he would be proud to stand tall with his fellow Hall of Famers at WrestleMania, he was attacked by Jericho. Jericho then took Flair's golden watch (which was given to him on the Raw after WrestleMania XXIV as a gift from Shawn Michaels) and destroyed it.

All of this would lead into a Chris Jericho Vs. Legends match on April 5th, 2009 at Wrestlemania 25. It would be Jericho against Ricky Steamboat, Roddy Pipper and Jimmy Superfly Snuka. Of course Ric Flair will be very close watching this match!

At Wrestlemania 25 Jericho beat the legends but it wasn't easy for him. After the match Flair went in and went all out on Jericho until Jericho laid Flair out. Jericho got the win but he wasn't the last man laughing as actor Mickey Rourke also went into the ring and gave Jericho a left hook that knocked him out. Flair got back up and held Rourke's hand up in the air celebrating.

On May 17, 2009, Flair returned to WWE during the Judgment Day pay-per-view, coming to the aid of Batista, who was being attacked by The Legacy faction (Randy Orton, Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase). He also appeared the following night on Raw, in a verbal confrontation with Orton.

In an interview with the Associated Press, Flair announced that he will wrestle again, although unlikely for WWE. He was quoted to have said "I haven't retired, they retired me."

Birth Name: Richard Morgan Fliehr
Birthdate: February 25, 1949
Nickname: The Nature Boy
Height:6'1"
Finishing Move: Figure Four Leg Lock
Dropped out of wrestling school three times.
In 1975 Ric Flair and a few other wrestlers were in a plane crash which broke his back.
Was a medical student but dropped out to be trained as a wrestler
Has been a world champion 21 times

Batista Bio

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Batista first appeared on Smackdown in 2002 He was the bodyguard for Reverend D-Von Dudley. He didn't stay too long on Smackdown though and later during that year he appeared on Monday Night Raw and quickly became good friends with Rick Flair. In January of 2003, on RAW, Evolution was put together which were Batista, Ric Flair, Triple H, and Randy Orton.

Batista won the 2005 Royal Rumble and became World Heavyweight Champion when he defeated Triple H at Wrestlemania 22. He then got drafted into Smackdown and with him came the World Heavyweight Championship belt. JBL was not going to let Batista come into Smackdown and think he was the man so JBL feuded alot with him, Batista getting the best of him. Batista teamed up with Eddie Guerrero until the sad loss of Eddie Guerrero's passing. In December of 2005 Batista teamed up with Rey Mysterio and took the Tag-Team titles away from M&M. In January of 2006 Batista gave up his belt explaining to Teddy Long that it was because of a injury. The belt eventually made it's way to King Booker but upon Batista's return he made it clear that he wanted his belt back. In November of 2006 he certainly did get it back by defeating King Booker. Batista ended up losing his title after a long feud with the Undertaker. It was probably one of the best wrestling matches one would ever see but Undertaker came out on top defeating Batista in April, 2007 at Wrestlemania 23 and taking his title. Edge ended up later becoming the champion and then the great Khali. Batista ended up getting the WWE World Heavyweight Championship belt back at 'Unforgiven' 2007 as he picked up the victory over Khali in what was a triple threat match between Batista, Khali and Rey Mysterio . Batista ended up losing the title to Edge after Edge came back after many months away from wrestling in a triple threat match between Batista, Undertaker and Edge. Edge used many tricks to pick up the victory ringing the bell to fool the Undertaker and introducing his Edgeheads. Batista went on to compete in the 2008 Royal Rumble but was eliminated. At Wrestlemania XXIV Batista would represent SMACKDOWN in the SMACKDOWN VS RAW match up. Batista was able to get the win for SMACKDOWN over RAWS Umaga. A couple weeks after Wrestlemania Batista approached Shawn Michaels and started a feud with him over the Michaels-Ric Flair match at Wrestlemania that ended the nature boys career. A match was set up for Backlash but Batista lost the match to Shawn Michaels. On June 23, 2008 Batista was sent to Raw from Smackdown during the 2008 WWE draft. On July 20, 2008 Batista battled CM Punk for the World Heavyweight Championship title. Batista looked like he was about to win the title once again in his career but the match was interrupted by Kane and the match was ruled a double disqualification thus CM Punk held on to his title. On the August 4, 2008 edition of Raw Batista became a World Tag Team Champion for the third time in his career when he and John Cena (who would be his opponent at Summerslam) defeated Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase. Batista and John Cena would only hold on to those World Tag Team titles for only a week though as on the next edition of Raw they lost to DiBiase and Rhodes.

On August 17, 2008 Batista battled John Cena at Summerslam. Batista was able to get the victory over John Cena.

On September 7, 2008 Batista battled in Raw's scramble match for the World Heavyweight title. Others competing in the match were Rey Mysterio, Kane, JBL and Chris Jericho (who replaced the then champion CM Punk who could not attempt to defend his title after being attacked and injured backstage). Batista was not able to win the match as Chris Jericho ended up being victorious and became the new World Heavyweight Champion that night.

On October 5, 2008 at No Mercy Batista would have a match with JBL. The winner would win the honor of becoming the number one contender for the World Heavyweight Title. Batista was victorious after hitting a Spinebuster and a Batista Bomb.

Batista battled World Heavyweight Champion Chris Jericho at Cyber Sunday as the fans voted for "Stoned Cold" Steve Austin to be the special guest referee in the match. Batista would go on to beat Jericho and once again become the World Heavyweight Champion. This reign as the World Heavyweight Champion would not last long for Batista though as on the November 3, 2008 segment of Raw; Chris Jericho would take the title back from Batista by winning a steel cage match. Batista only held on to the title for 8 days.

On November 23, 2008 Batista would lead Team Batista against Team Orton at Survivor Series. Batista had CM Punk, Matt Hardy, R-Truth and Kofi Kingston on his team. Randy Orton had Shelton Benjamin, William Regal, Cody Rhodes and Mark Henry on his side. It came down to Batista alone against four members of Team Orton. Batista eliminated two and was going for a third but then Rhodes did a blind tag to Randy Orton. Batista pinned Rhodes but since he wasn't the legal man, Orton was able to sneak up on Batista, hit the RKO and get the win for his team.

On December 14, 2008 at Armageddon Batista battled Randy Orton to see who would become the number one contender for the World Heavyweight title. Despite Manu and Rhodes interferring in the match Batista was able to finish off Orton with a Batista Bomb to become the number one contender for the World Heavyweight title which at this time belong to John Cena.

Soon after this match it was announced that Batista had suffered a hamstring tear that will require surgery and that he would be out of action for months. The storyline version to Batista's departure was sold as Batista suffered a concussion to the head after being kicked there by Randy Orton.

Batista returned from his hamstring injury on the April 6, 2009 episode of Raw, to save Triple H, Shane McMahon, and Vince McMahon from The Legacy (Randy Orton, Cody .Rhodes, and Ted DiBiase, Jr). Vince McMahon, then announced that Batista would take his place at Backlash, where he would team up with WWE Champion Triple H, and Shane McMahon, to face The Legacy. During the match, Batista had brought out a chair, but Triple H tried to stop him, so they would not get disqualified. This distraction however, cost Triple H his championship, after he lost it to Orton. On the April 27, 2009 episode of Raw, Batista won the No. 1 Contender's Match against Big Show to determine the No. 1 Contender for the WWE Title against Randy Orton, the man that punted him and placing him in the inactive list for 4 months at Judgment Day.

On May 17, 2009 Batista would challenge Randy Orton for the WWE title at Judgment Day. During the match Orton would try to purposely get counted out and lose the match so that he could retain his title. Batista would not let it happen though and found ways to keep getting Orton back in the ring. Orton finally got his way though when he slapped the referee and got disqualified. Batista won the match but Orton was still the WWE champion.

On June 7, 2009 at Extreme Rules Batista would get another shot at Randy Orton's WWE title. This time tough it would be a Steel Cage match assuring to Batista that Orton would not be able to try and run away and win via DQ. During the match Orton tried to escape several times but Batista would keep pulling Orton back in. Batista ended up hitting the Batista Bomb on Orton and pin him and become the WWE champion.

The next day on Raw while displaying his new belt for the WWE fans, the new WWE Champion Batista would get attacked in the ring by Legacy; Randy Orton, DiBiase and Rhodes. They targeted Batista's left arm and ended up snapping it. Batista ended up on a stretcher and had to be taken by ambulance. Later in the evening Vickie Guerrero announced that Batsta would still have to defend his title that night in a rematch with Orton and if he didn't show up then Orton would win the WWE Championship back. An ambulance ended up pulling up for the match but it was not Batista, it was Triple H. Triple H handled Rhodes and DiBiase and then ended up giving Randy Orton the Pedigree to end the show.

The left arm snap to Batista was kayfabe as Batista needed to have a real life surgery on his left shoulder. It is unknown at this time how long Batista will be out of action.

SOME BATISTA FACTS:

Birth Name: David Michael Batista
Birth Date: January 18, 1969
Nickname: The Animal
Height 6'5"
Finishing Moves: Batista Bomb - Spinebuster
He is half Greek and half Filipino
He is a skilled break dancer
He has three daughters
He grew up in Washington DC and worked mainly as a bouncer at clubs.
He went to the WCW Power Plant for tryouts to be a wrestler and was told that he would never make it in the wrestling business.