Friday, July 18, 2008

JTG / Jayson Paul


Jayson Paul was born December 10, 1984, in Harlem, New York City, New York. He is an American professional wrestler better known by the ring name JTG (Just That Gangsta)
He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment where he and his partner Shad Gaspard wrestle on the Raw brand as the tag team, Cryme Tyme.

Jayson began his career in 2006 working in the WWE developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) under the ring name The Neighborhoodie. While there he was placed into a tag team with Shad Gaspard, and, calling themselves The Gang Stars, they held the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship for awhile.

In 2006, the team was promoted from OVW to the WWE Raw brand under the name Cryme Tyme, with Paul changing his name to JTG. On September 4, 2006, a series of vignettes start airing on RAW, hyping the debut of Cryme Tyme. On the October 16, 2006 edition of Raw, Cryme Tyme debuted and defeated two members of the then World Tag Team Champions, the Spirit Squad (Mikey & Johnny), in a non-title match. In November 2006, at Cyber Sunday, Cryme Tyme defeated Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch, Charlie Haas and Viscera and The Highlanders in a Texas Tornado match (as voted by the fans).

As part of their gimmick, Cryme Tyme regularly stole items belonging to other wrestlers and on-air personalities, and sold them to fans. A few months later at the New Year's Revolution pay-per-view, Cryme Tyme won a Tag Team Turmoil Match against The Highlanders, The World's Greatest Tag Team, Cade and Murdoch, and "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan and Super Crazy, earning them a shot at the World Tag Team Championships. At the Royal Rumble, they sold false entry numbers. They then competed mainly on Heat for the next few months, although they made a backstage appearance at WrestleMania 23. They also took part in the tag team battle royal on April 2. After Mr. McMahon's "death", Cryme Tyme plugged some merchandise and auctions on WWE.com in memory of him. On June 29, 2007, on an episode of SmackDown, Deuce 'n Domino (with Cherry) defeated Cryme Tyme in an inter-brand match tag team match. While Deuce, Domino & Cherry celebrated their victory, Cryme Tyme appeared on the titantron and stole their car, taking it to Brisco Brothers Auto Shop to sell it for parts chanting their signature catchphrase, "Money, money, yeah, yeah." On July 21, 2007, Cryme Tyme defeated the James Boys to win the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship for the second time. On August 13, 2007 Cryme Tyme returned to their hometown of New York City on an episode of RAW from Madison Square Garden, losing to then-World Tag Team Champions Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch in a non-title match by disqualification when Shad used a chair on Murdoch. On the August 20, 2007 edition of RAW, Cryme Tyme stole Murdoch's hat and sold to a fan, and the following week, stole Cade's and gave it away to a fan. In the middle of this feud, on September 2, 2007, both Paul and Gaspard were released from World Wrestling Entertainment.

Paul, along with Gaspard, wrestled at the Jersey All Pro Wrestling 10th Anniversary Show on October 27, 2007. Wrestling as Crime Time, they defeated the "Dirty Rotten Scoundrelz". Paul appeared in Derby City Wrestling (DCW) at their end of year show. He was then involved in a feud with "The Mobile Homers" in DCW.

Paul and Gaspard returned to WWE on the March 31, 2008 edition of RAW, as Cryme Tyme where they defeated Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch in their first televised WWE match in nearly six months.

Cryme Tyme began working with John Cena on the June 30 edition of Raw when they helped him interfere during JBL's match. The following week, they again appeared together in a backstage segment when they vandalised JBL's limo. After a house show match Cena confirmed that they had in fact created a faction and that its name would be CTC, "Cryme Tyme Cenation".




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Friday, July 11, 2008

Chris Jericho


Christopher Keith Irvine was born November 9, 1970 in Manhasset, New York. He is better known by his ring name Chris Jericho. Chris is an Canadian-American television and stage actor, author, radio host, rock musician, and professional wrestler. He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), wrestling on its Raw brand. As a part of WWE, he is credited as being the first-ever Undisputed Champion in professional wrestling history. Also, he has won the Intercontinental Championship a record 8 times.

Jericho is also known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and internationally in Canadian, Mexican and Japanese promotions.

Jericho is a three-time world champion, having won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship twice and the WWF Championship once.

His father, Ted Irvine, is a former National Hockey League (NHL) player. Jericho has strong Christian beliefs, and his stage name was partly inspired by the ancient Biblical city of Jericho, and partly by the heavy metal album entitled Walls of Jericho by the German power metal band Helloween. His finisher, The Walls of Jericho was the name of the first full length album by Helloween.

Outside of the WWE, Jericho is the frontman of Fozzy, an American heavy metal band, and a star of the wrestling documentary Bloodstained Memoirs.

You can visit his website here:
www.chrisjericho.com/

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Thursday, July 3, 2008

Ted DiBiase Jr.


Theodore Marvin DiBiase, Jr. was born November 8, 1982. He is an American professional wrestler currently signed with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he appears on its Raw brand, and its Florida Championship Wrestling developmental territory. He is currently one-half of the World Tag Team Wrestling Champions with Cody Rhodes.

Ted Jr. is a third generation professional wrestler. His step-grandfather "Iron" Mike DiBiase, grandmother Helen Hild, and father "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase have been professional wrestlers.

DiBiase grew up in Clinton, Mississippi, and attended Morrison Heights Baptist Church. Teddy, as he was known at Clinton, would graduate from Clinton High School in 2001. At Clinton, DiBiase was the football team's starting quarterback. He enrolled at Mississippi College in Clinton, and was a starting wide receiver for Mississippi College's football team before leaving the squad following his freshman season. He graduated in 2005 with a Bachelor's in Science and Business Administration.

After considering a career in the ministry, DiBiase and his older brother, Mike DiBiase II, decided to follow the path of their father and enter the wrestling business. Both brothers received training at the Harley Race's Wrestling Academy.

DiBiase and Mike made their professional debut on July 8, 2006 for World League Wrestling (WLW), a wrestling academy run by former world champion wrestler and WWE Hall of Famer Harley Race, in Eldon, Missouri. DiBiase also wrestled in Japan for Pro Wrestling NOAH.

On July 24, 2007, Race announced that DiBiase had signed a developmental deal with the WWE, and that he would be training at their Florida Championship Wrestling Training Ground.

On December 18, 2007, DiBiase defeated TJ Wilson to win the FCW Southern Heavyweight Championship in New Port Richey, Florida. DiBiase was however, unable to defend it due to injury, so he awarded the Championship to his partner Heath Miller in New Port Richey, Florida on January 19.

DiBiase made his WWE television debut as a heel on May 26, 2008, where he cut a promo about his intent to become a champion like his father, Ted DiBiase, challenging the World Tag Team Champions, Cody Rhodes and Hardcore Holly. At Night of Champions, DiBiase won the World Tag Team Championship in his first match in WWE, after Rhodes turned on Holly, revealing himself to be DiBiase's partner.

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