Stevie Richards, part 2

Stevie Richards, with the bWo, was one of the first ECW performers to perform on WWF programming, during a cross-promotional appearance.

In 1999, Richards went to the WWF in a full-time capacity. He would make his WWF debut on the August 15, 1999 episode of Sunday Night HEAT. After briefly using the Dude Love persona (he asked Mick Foley if he could use it and Foley agreed), being associated with the Dudley Boyz, bringing back the mocking gimmick, and teaming up with his old partner Blue Meanie, Richards got a haircut and formed a heel stable called Right to Censor (based on the WWF's then problems with the Parents Television Council organization). He changed his name to Steven Richards and became a manager for the many wrestlers that he recruited. When Chyna was featured in Playboy magazine, Richards demanded a match between Chyna's associate Eddie Guerrero and Val Venis. After Chyna had depantsed Richards leaving him in his white socks and blue briefs, costing Venis the match, Richards and his stable feuded against her.

Soon after the Right to Censor stable broke up, Richards joined The Alliance as the manager of KroniK briefly before Kronik was released. Richards remained on the brand's "B" shows until Team Alliance lost at Survivor Series 2001. Richards was fired along with the rest of the alliance roster by Vince McMahon until Ric Flair was able to save his job and get him drafted over to the RAW brand. There, Steven Richards began using the gimmick of a psychotic jobber and became a 22-time Hardcore Champion trading it several times with Bubba Ray Dudley, Booker T, Crash Holly, Shawn Stasiak, Justin Credible, Bradshaw, Terri, and Tommy Dreamer.

Richards eventually formed an alliance with Victoria in late 2002 as a psychotic couple helping each other win their matches. Richards also helped Victoria retain her WWE Women's Championship.

As Victoria started to make her latest face turn, the duo quietly separated. In August of 2004, Richards began dressing in drag and helping Victoria win matches.[1] He was finally unmasked at Unforgiven when saving Victoria from then heel, Trish Stratus, and Tyson Tomko, but ended up losing an impromptu match to Tomko.[1] Richards made a name for himself as one of the mainstays of Sunday Night HEAT and became the self-proclaimed "General Manager" of "Stevie Night HEAT". After the death of Richard's friend Crash Holly, Richards would wear tights with a similar design to the ones worn by Crash, as a tribute.

Richards's role as a jobber has been at times physically tasking and he was legitimately injured during the RAW debut match of Chris Masters in February 2005. After returning from injury, Richards faced Masters in a rematch but lost to Masters for a second time.

Richards made an appearance at the ECW reunion event ECW One Night Stand 2005, reuniting with his bWo comrades and proclaiming "We have only three words for you. We're – taking – over!"




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Michael "Mike" Mizanin, " The Miz" part 2

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 October 2004, Mizanin entered the fourth season of Tough Enough, a televised competition which would award the winner a World Wrestling Entertainment contract and the sum of $1,000,000. Despite coming last in an arm wrestling tournament on November 25, 2004, Mizanin outlasted six other wrestlers. On December 12, 2004 at Armageddon 2004, Mizanin faced the other remaining entrant, Daniel Puder, in a three round "Dixie Dogfight" (boxing match). Neither man achieved a knockout, and the contest was awarded to Puder on the basis of crowd reaction. On the December 16, 2004 episode of SmackDown!, Puder was announced as the winner of Tough Enough by head trainer Al Snow.

Despite losing the Tough Enough contest, Mizanin had piqued the interest of WWE, and he was eventually offered a developmental contract. Mizanin was sent to Deep South Wrestling to train under Bill DeMott, relocating to McDonough, Georgia in the process. In July 2005 he wrestled two dark matches for WWE, teaming with former Tough Enough champion Matt Cappotelli to face The Highlanders. On December 1, 2005, Mizanin defeated Mike Knox in the finals of a tournament to crown the first Deep South Heavyweight Champion.

He continued to tag with Matt Cappotelli throughout the second half of 2005 in WWE dark matches and house shows until Cappotelli, nominally of Ohio Valley Wrestling, was diagnosed with a brain tumor after an injury at a taping in December 2005.

On January 3, 2006, it was reported that Mizanin was transferred to Ohio Valley Wrestling. On the January 18, 2006, OVW TV show, Mizanin made his debut as "The Miz", with a "Miz TV" segment, where he was shown talking backstage. He talked with Chris Cage, who was supposed to be his tag team partner in OVW, but Cage said he was quitting the business after someone had cut off Johnny Jeter's hair and wished Mizanin good luck with his wrestling career. As Chris Cage left, Mike then met with his old tag team partner Matt Cappotelli and Christy Hemme as later that night they had a six person tag team match as Christy Hemme, Matt Cappotelli, and Mike Mizanin defeated The Highlanders.

On the January 28, 2006, edition of the OVW TV show, The Miz wrestled his first match against Rene Dupree. Chet the Jet and Seth Skyfire came to ringside during the match and acted as a diversion to allow Rene Dupree to gain the upper hand on The Miz. As The Miz was about to finish Rene Dupree, Chris Cage came out and attacked Seth Skyfire. When The Miz left the ring to try to control Chris Cage, he ended up losing the match by count out.

At the February 8, 2006 TV taping, The Miz and Chris Cage captured the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship, defeating Chet the Jett and Seth Skyfire. In what was deemed a "disciplinary move," WWE released Chris Cage over the weekend of March 18, 2006 making it necessary for Miz and Cage to drop the titles. On March 19, 2006, Deuce Shade defeated The Miz in a singles contest to win the titles for his team The Untouchables (Deuce Shade & Domino). On June 8, 2007 he lost to Atlas DaBone at OVW's second Summer Sizzler Series event at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky.




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WWE:Jamie Noble

Jamie Noble (born James Howard Gibson on December 23, 1976) is an American professional wrestler currently wrestling for World Wrestling Entertainment on its SmackDown! brand. He is also known for his appearances with Ring of Honor and World Championship Wrestling in its cruiserweight division.

Gibson started wrestling in 1995 after being trained by Dean Malenko, briefly working for the Jacksonville, Florida based Renegade Championship Wrestling. He was also trained by local talents in WV, known as Joey Morton and "Adorable" Danny Ray. His first national exposure was in World Championship Wrestling. He wore a mask to hide the fact that he was Caucasian and was called Jamie-San; as part of Leia Meow's Jung Dragons with Jimmy Yang and Kaz Hayashi. They feuded with "3 Count" (Shane Helms, Shannon Moore and Evan Karagias). He eventually unmasked and became Jamie Knoble to form a tag team with Karagias.

Knoble later signed with World Wrestling Entertainment under the name Jamie Noble. He made his debut as a heel on the June 6, 2002 episode of SmackDown! by attacking the Hurricane and was joined by Nidia in a trailer park trash gimmick. He won the WWE Cruiserweight Championship and feuded with Tajiri and Billy Kidman. Noble and Nidia both turned face by befriending Torrie Wilson and Billy Gunn. He also started a feud with Rey Mysterio for the Cruiserweight Championship. Noble made his second heel run by secretly turning on Nidia. She finally left him after she was "blinded" by Tajiri's mist and Noble did things he thought she couldn't see and lied to her about them. He was released on September 15, 2004 when his steroid usage came to light following a staph infection.

After his no-compete clause expired, he began wrestling promotions all over the world including New Japan Pro Wrestling, Heartland Wrestling Association, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, Ring of Honor and Italian Championship Wrestling, as James Gibson. On June 28, 2005, it was confirmed that he would be returning to World Wrestling Entertainment after a one year absence and fulfilling his independent circuit commitments.

Before returning to WWE, he became the ROH World Champion when he wrestled as James Gibson in an elimination four-way match against CM Punk (champion), Samoa Joe, and Christopher Daniels on August 12, 2005. He lost the title to Bryan Danielson on September 17, 2005.

Jamie Noble made his return to WWE on the December 17, 2005 edition of Velocity and would later frequently team with fellow cruiserweight Kid Kash; during May 2006, Noble and Kid Kash debuted a gimmick, where they would wear dog collars as well as bark and bite. The pair were soon named The Pit Bulls and would enter the hunt for the WWE Tag Team Championship. However, the team came to an end after Kid Kash's release from the company on September 27, 2006.

Afterwards, Noble would return to competing in the cruiserweight division and jobbing to the stars. He was last seen at No Way Out in a cruiserweight Gauntlet Match for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship where he was eliminated by his former WCW teammate, Jimmy Wang Yang.

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WWE: Shannon Moore

Shannon Brian Moore (born July 27, 1979) is an American professional wrestler currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment wrestling on the Smackdown! brand.

Moore befriended Matt and Jeff Hardy as a boy, and competed in their backyard wrestling circuit. After the Hardy brothers began wrestling professionally, they trained Moore, and he debuted on April 8, 1995 against Jeff. Moore began working the independent circuit, wrestling for the North Carolina-based Southern Championship Wrestling and National Championship Wrestling promotions as Kid Dynamo. In addition, he frequently wrestled for OMEGA, the promotion operated by the Hardys. In the late 1990s Moore began wrestling for the Tennessee-based Music City Wrestling promotion.

In 1999, Moore was hired by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) by Hulk Hogan, who had been granted the authority to employ twenty-one young cruiserweights for the Atlanta-based promotion. He was placed in a team known as 3 Count by Jimmy Hart. 3 Count, which consisted of Moore, Evan Karagias and Shane Helms, was a trio of young male wrestlers who utilised a boy band gimmick. 3 Count debuted in WCW in November 1999, and began lip-synching the song "Can't Get You Out Of My Heart" in the ring before their matches.

On the February 28, 2000 episode of WCW Monday Nitro in Minneapolis, Minnesota, all three members of 3 Count defeated Brian Knobbs to win the WCW Hardcore Championship with all 3 members of the team simultaneously pinning him. By doing this, Moore became the youngest Hardcore champion in WCW history, a record he held until the company folded. 3 Count reigned as "co-champions" until March 19, at Uncensored where Knobbs regained the title by pinning all three men consecutively.

3 Count were not involved in the Millionaires Club versus New Blood angle that took place during the summer of 2000 because Helms was (legitly) sidelined with a broken nose. When the team reconvened late in the summer of 2000 they began performing a new song, "Dance With 3 Count". Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial artist Tank Abbott (kayfabe) became an avid fan of 3 Count, and began protecting them during their performances, attacking anyone who disrupted them, eventually acting as their talent manager and occasional inserting himself as a back-up dancer.

3 Count began to fall apart in late 2000, with Karagias joining forces with Jamie-San, a former member of the Jung Dragons. At Starrcade 2000, Moore and Helms defeated San (renamed Jamie Noble) and Karagias and the remaining Jung Dragons in a three way tag team ladder match. The six men went on to feud with one another in early 2001, with Helms pinning Moore in a cruiserweight elimination match at SuperBrawl Revenge on February 18. Moore and Karagias joined forces once again to take part in a tournament for the WCW Cruiserweight Tag Team Championships, but were eliminated by Billy Kidman and Rey Mysterio, Jr..

After WCW was purchased by the World Wrestling Federation in March 2001, Moore signed a contract with them and was assigned to the Heartland Wrestling Association (HWA), a Louisville-based WWF developmental territory. He teamed with Karagias in HWA until Karagias was released by the WWF. Moore would make his TV debut on the July 13, 2002 episode of Velocity.

After competing in the cruiserweight division for several months as a face, Moore became a heel acolyte of then heel, Matt Hardy, who had begun proselytizing a philosophy known as "Mattitude" and calling himself "Matt Hardy Version 1.0". Moore became a "Mattitude Follower" (abbreviated "MF'er"), and started dressing like Hardy and accompanying him to ringside. Moore would often lose to a more physically dominant opponent or (unsuccessfully) attempt to help Hardy win his matches, both things that would result in Hardy attacking Moore in order to vent his frustrations claiming that he had "failed to comprehend [Hardy's] coaching!"

Moore did, however, assist Hardy in his bid to lose several pounds in order to qualify for a WWE Cruiserweight Championship title shot, which he won when Moore came through again, this time distracting then babyface, Billy Kidman to enable Hardy to get the win and the title.

On April 24, Crash Holly also became an MF'er. He was subordinate to Moore and as such was also referred to as a "Moore-on". The group was short-lived though as Crash was released from WWE on June 30.

Moore and Hardy continued to work together until November 17, when Hardy left SmackDown! and joined the RAW brand. As a result Moore was a face again and Paul Heyman (SmackDown!'s then, general manager) decided to punish Hardy vicariously for leaving his show by forcing Moore to face a series of much larger opponents. In successsive weeks, Moore was squashed by Matt Morgan, Nathan Jones and The Big Show before unexpectedly defeating A-Train in an upset victory on the December 11 episode of SmackDown!. The following week, WWE Champion Brock Lesnar was scheduled to defend his title against a random wrestler, with the name of his opponent selected arbitrarily by a lottery machine. Moore was selected as Lesnar's opponent, and Lesnar defeated him with ease, then revealed that all the balls had borne Moore's named, with Lesnar having rigged the process in order to ensure that he would have a much smaller opponent. Immediately after the match, Moore and Hardcore Holly were scheduled to face A-Train and Matt Morgan in a tag team match, with Holly gaining a title shot if he won and being fired if he lost. Despite Moore being incapacitated, he and Holly were able to win the match.

At WrestleMania XX Moore took part in a "Cruiserweight Open" for the Cruiserweight Championship, but was eliminated by Ultimo Dragon. His next high profile appearance was on the July 8, 2004 episode of SmackDown!, which saw Moore wrestle under a mask as "El Gran Luchadore". Moore faced John "Bradshaw" Layfield (JBL) in the match for the WWE Championship, and was initially dominated by his much larger opponent. However, a second Luchadore (the disguised Eddie Guerrero) took Moore's place, prompting Layfield to run away, thus giving Moore the victory by count out.

Moore competed in the cruiserweight division and as a jobber for the remainder of 2004 and the first half of 2005. In early 2005 he adopted the gimmick of a punk, and began wearing punk clothing to the ring. On March 21, 2005 he was concussed and suffered Whiplash after his Hummer was involved in a head-on collision with a vehicle driven by an inebriated United States Army Sergeant in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He quickly recovered from his injuries, but was fired by WWE on July 5, 2005.

Moore returned to the independent circuit soon thereafter, although the no-compete clause in his contract (which prohibits WWE employees who are fired or who negotiate a contract release from appearing on television within a given time period) did not expire until November 1 of that year. One of Moore's more high profile appearances came at an American Wrestling Association show where Moore featured in a 30-man AWA Light-Heavyweight Title Tournament that took place in Burlington, North Carolina. Moore defeated Dexter Poindexter, Ricky Landell, and "Amazing" N8 Mattson before losing to "Krazy K" Kirby Mack in the finals. He also wrestled A.J. Styles on a United Wrestling Association charity show on February 2, 2006. Proceeds benefitted Ricky Morton who was jailed at the time for unpaid child support.

During this time Moore opened a professional wrestling school known as the "School of Punk". He also became a guest star on Matt & Jeff Hardy's online reality show, entitled, "TheHardyShow.com".

Moore debuted in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) on November 16, 2005, losing to Chris Sabin in a dark match. He made his television debut on the December 17 iMPACT!, appearing on stage holding a sign reading "The X Division needs to get Punk'd." Upon joining the roster, he was known as "Prince of Punk" Shannon Moore.

On the January 1, 2006 episode of iMPACT!, Moore began a program with A.J. Styles, attacking him during a tag team match and preventing him and partner Christopher Daniels from winning the NWA World Tag Team Championship. He continued to stalk Styles, attacking him and stealing his "Mr. TNA" award plaque, leading to a street fight between the two, which Moore won.

The entire time he was with TNA Moore was not under a contract with the company, choosing instead to wrestle while they negotiated one. However, instead of signing with TNA he opted to return to WWE, wrestling his last match in TNA alongside Americas Most Wanted (Chris Harris and James Storm) and Alex Shelley against Rhino, Ron Killings, Styles, and Daniels. Moore was pinned following a Styles Clash by Styles in the match, which aired the day after he'd officially left the company.

On March 14, 2006, wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer claimed that Moore had committed to a verbal agreement with World Wrestling Entertainment. Three days later WWE.com confirmed it and released an interview with Moore talking about his imminent return to the company. During the interview Moore's response to the question of what he has been up to during his time away from WWE was as follows:

“ Well, I’ve been keeping busy on the independent circuit, and I went over to Japan for a while, which was great for me. I also did some work down south. Plus, I opened a small wrestling school, and I have four students that I’ve been training down here over the last few months. ”

In July 2006, Moore became a WWE heel again and was part of WWE's ECW brand, making his first appearances in vignettes and calling himself "The Reject" while still dressed in the fashion of his "Prince of Punk" gimmick. His in ring debut was a loss to CM Punk on September 12, a week after Punk had confronted Moore and called him a poseur before slapping him across the face. After one more loss to Punk, Moore was a face once more and relegated to jobber status on the ECW brand, and making only sporadic appearances.

On the February 16, 2007 edition of Friday Night SmackDown! Moore suddenly switched brands, appearing in an in-ring brawl with other SmackDown! cruiserweights, which was itself a prelude to a "Cruiserweight Open" at No Way Out, which Moore also took part in, but was eliminated by the defending Cruiserweight Champion Gregory Helms.On the May 8th Smackdown Taping He lost to Eddie Colon.

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WWE: Michael "The Miz" Mizanin, part 2

Despite losing the Tough Enough contest, Mizanin had piqued the interest of WWE, and he was eventually offered a developmental contract. Mizanin was sent to Deep South Wrestling to train under Bill DeMott, relocating to McDonough, Georgia in the process, and in July 2005 he wrestled two dark matches for WWE, teaming with former Tough Enough champion Matt Cappotelli to face The Highlanders. On December 1, 2005, Mizanin defeated Mike Knox in the finals of a tournament to crown the first Deep South Heavyweight Champion.

He continued to tag with Matt Cappotelli throughout the second half of 2005 in WWE dark matches and house shows until Cappotelli, nominally of Ohio Valley Wrestling, was diagnosed with a brain tumor after an injury at a taping in December 2005.

On January 3, 2006, it was reported that Mizanin was transferred to Ohio Valley Wrestling. On the January 18, 2006, OVW TV show, Mizanin made his debut as "The Miz", with a "Miz TV" segment, where he was shown talking backstage. He talked with Chris Cage, who was supposed to be his tag team partner in OVW, but Cage said he was quitting the business after someone had cut off Johnny Jeter's hair and wished Mizanin good luck with his wrestling career. As Chris Cage left Mike then met with his old tag team partner Matt Cappotelli and Christy Hemme as later that night they had a six person tag team match as Christy Hemme, Matt Cappotelli, and Mike Mizanin defeated The Highlanders.

On the January 28, 2006, edition of the OVW TV show, The Miz wrestled his first match against Rene Dupree. Chet the Jet and Seth Skyfire came to ringside during the match and acted as a diversion to allow Rene Dupree to gain the upper hand on The Miz. As The Miz was about to finish Rene Dupree, Chris Cage came out and attacked Seth Skyfire. When The Miz left the ring to try to control Chris Cage he ended up losing the match by count out.

At the February 8, 2006 TV taping, The Miz and Chris Cage captured the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship, defeating Chet the Jett and Seth Skyfire. In what was deemed a "disciplinary move," WWE released Chris Cage over the weekend of March 18, 2006 making it necessary for Miz and Cage to drop the titles. On March 19 Deuce Shade defeated The Miz in a singles contest to win the titles for his team The Untouchables (Deuce Shade & Domino).

On March 8, 2006, WWE.com featured a video of "The Miz" stating that he was headed to Friday Night SmackDown! and throughout April, SmackDown! aired video packages hyping his debut. However, when Mizanin actually attempted to make his debut on the April 21 SmackDown! (taped April 17) 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.

With the April 21 show being pre-taped to allow WWE to tour Italy, both WWE and The Miz were caught unaware when Palmer Cannon abruptly quit the company on April 20. As a result, the planned Miz/Cannon program had to be shelved and Miz was left with nothing to do until WWE.com announced that he would serve as SmackDown!'s "host" on May 31.

Miz debuted as "host" on June 2 announcing the planned card at the top of the show and attempting to hype up the crowd. Other "host" duties included backstage interviews and hosting a bikini contest. The hosting duties seemed sporadic at best, with some weeks having little to no Miz at all.

Starting in July, Miz, along with Ashley Massaro, became host of the annual Diva Search competition appearing on both RAW and SmackDown!. At the start of his new hosting duties, in front of the live RAW crowd, Miz was noticeably nervous and flubbed his lines, including calling contestants by the wrong name. Though he seemed to get better as the weeks went on he quickly became the butt of on-air jokes by other WWE Superstars.

After the end of the Diva Search competition, The Miz returned exclusively to SmackDown! and adopted a cocky heel persona, starting his in-ring competition with a win over Tatanka on September 1. After this win he, along with commentator Michael Cole, began to note whenever possible that he was "undefeated", though he only wrestled five matches over the next two months. At the same time he began a feud with Diva Search winner Layla El, who spurned his advances on more than one occasion, leading to Miz helping Kristal Marshall defeat her in various competitions. Soon, however, Miz and Kristal found themselves being stalked by the returning Boogeyman, beginning a feud during which The Boogeyman handed Miz his first defeat at Armageddon.

Following a brief absence from TV, Miz returned to SmackDown to host an interview segment called Miz TV.

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WWE:Michael "The Miz" Mizanin,part 1

Michael "The Miz" Mizanin (born October 8, 1980) is an American professional wrestler working for World Wrestling Entertainment on the SmackDown! brand.

He is probably best known for his time on numerous MTV reality shows prior to becoming a professional wrestler.

Mizanin attended Miami University, where he was a member of the Theta Chi Fraternity, and studied business at the Richard T. Farmer School of Business. That freshman year, he roomed with former Miami RedHawks hockey star Nick Jardine, and bodybuilding male gymnast Todd J. Hartman.

Mizanin later relocated to southern California in order to attend acting classes. He also visited high schools and colleges, delivering motivational speeches.

Mizanin dropped out of college in order to appear on the tenth season of MTV's reality television program The Real World in 2001. He went on to appear in multiple spin-offs, including seasons 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10 of The Real World/Road Rules Challenge with contestants from MTV's Road Rules. He appeared on the Challenge seasons Battle of the Seasons, The Gauntlet, The Inferno, Battle of the Sexes 2, and The Inferno 2. He was known for doing well on the challenges and made it to the end of them all except for Battle of the Sexes 2, winning Battle of the Seasons and The Inferno 2.

It was during an episode of The Real World that Mizanin first displayed an alter ego known as "The Miz". In contrast to Mizanin's usually placid demeanor, The Miz was angry, confrontational and headstrong. Mizanin later realized that "The Miz" would make an excellent professional wrestling gimmick.

Mizanin had a number of relationships during his various "Challenge seasons"; during The Gauntlet he dated Trishelle Cannatella of The Real World: Las Vegas, during The Inferno he had a relationship with Kendal Shepard of Road Rules: Campus Crawl and during Battle of the Seasons he had another brief relationship with Tara McDaniel of Road Rules: Northern Trail.

He's also known for his roller coaster friendship with Coral Smith on The Real World and various seasons after.

In 2004, he appeared on the Bravo reality show Battle of the Network Reality Stars where his team finished second.

Mizanin was also a contestant in the Reality Stars episode of Fear Factor. His partner was his former girlfriend and cast mate, Trishelle Cannatella, and the two of them ended up winning the competition.

On April 20, 2007, he appeared on the game show Identity, where he appeared as a stranger, and contestant John Kim correctly identified his identity as a professional wrestler.

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 October 2004, Mizanin entered the fourth season of Tough Enough, a televised competition which would award the winner a World Wrestling Entertainment contract and the sum of $1,000,000. Despite coming last in an arm wrestling tournament on November 25, Mizanin outlasted six other wrestlers. On December 12, 2004, at the WWE pay-per-view Armageddon 2004, Mizanin faced the other remaining entrant, Daniel Puder, in a three round "Dixie Dogfight" (boxing match). Neither man achieved a knockout, and the contest was awarded to Puder on the basis of crowd reaction. On the December 16 episode of SmackDown!, Puder was announced as the winner of Tough Enough by head trainer Al Snow.

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WWE: King Booker, part 8

King Booker would go on to compete in the beat the clock challenge to see who would challenge Batista for the World Heavyweight Championship at the Royal Rumble. He defeated Gregory Helms and gained the shortest time, but was ultimately superseded by Mr. Kennedy.

While competing in the Royal Rumble match, Booker was eliminated by Kane. A frustrated Booker then returned to the ring illegally and eliminated Kane. This caused a short feud between the two forcing a match at No Way Out which Kane won. Booker then went on to win a Money in the Bank qualifying match, defeating Kane (with assistance from The Great Khali) and earned himself a spot in the match at WrestleMania 23, which was won by Mr. Kennedy.

At Wrestlemania, Matt Hardy set up Sharmell for a Twist of Fate during the Money in the Bank match with the briefcase in Booker's grasp - thus forcing him to choose between a guaranteed title shot and his wife. He chose to defend his Queen and ended up losing the match. On the April 6th edition of Smackdown, King Booker attempted to take revenge. However, Booker lost the match against Matt Hardy and Sharmell declared her disappointment in him and slapped him. In an attempt to impress his Queen King Booker then attacked The Undertaker but was Tombstoned on an announce table. On WWE.com it was announced that King Booker will be out of action with sprain and strained contusion of the neck and will also be treated for his previous injuries of chronic knee pain, where he has a meniscus tear, and a chronic elbow strain and sprain. He is expected to return from injury towards the late end of June. It was reported on WWE.com that Booker had a successful surgery on his knee where they removed a bone fragment stuck in his joint.( Geeez!)

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WWE: King Booker, part 7

Booker T did not wrestle again until after the "Best of Seven" series with Benoit was completed. Booker T was scheduled to face Chris Benoit in Match 5 of the Best of Seven Series at the SmackDown! tapings the following night. At the beginning of the show, General Manager Theodore Long said that Booker would have to forfeit. Both Booker and Benoit protested, with Benoit not wanting a cheap victory. Booker managed to persuade Long to allow him to choose a stand-in for the matches.

Booker selected Randy Orton, over an unhappy Orlando Jordan, as his stand-in. Benoit was able to beat Orton in two matches, due to interference from both Sharmell and Jordan, tying the series 3 matches apiece. However Randy Orton was able to defeat Benoit in the final match up to win the series and the title for Booker T, who would hold the title until No Way Out 2006 where Benoit won it back.

After losing the title, Booker T would be involved in a feud with The Boogeyman, who would sneak up and scare Booker T and his wife Sharmell over a few months. The feud culminated in a match during WrestleMania 22 on April 2, where both Booker T and Sharmell would face the Boogeyman in a handicap match and lose. The feud came to an end on the April 7 edition of Smackdown! where it was announced that Booker T and his wife had taken out a restraining order on the Boogeyman.

Booker T would next be entered into the King of the Ring tournament on SmackDown!, Booker would defeat his first round opponent Matt Hardy before advancing through to the finals due to a bye as his semi-final opponent, Kurt Angle, was unable to wrestle. The finals were held at Judgment Day 2006 where Booker T defeated Bobby Lashley with help from Finlay.

Upon winning the King of the Ring tournament, Booker T changed his ring name to King Booker. Huffman was not thrilled with the change to his wrestling character going from Booker T to King Booker due to all of the "kings" that had been in the wrestling business such as Jerry "the King" Lawler, "Macho King" Randy Savage, King Haku, and "King" Harley Race. But after negotiations, he agreed to the character change. As King Booker, he went on to form King Booker's Court, which included Queen Sharmell, William Regal, and Finlay.

Over time, King Booker began to act as if he were a real king (in the style of "Macho King" Randy Savage) of "The SmackDown Kingdom", including mannerisms and appearance of a typical English-style King. (This would be broken whenever he was riled up, which always drove him to making a tirade in the former Booker T style.) King Booker even went as far as having Lashley kiss his royal feet. Bobby Lashley would go on to defeat King Booker in a steel cage match to retain the United States Title.

King Booker won a #1 Contenders battle royal to win a World title shot at The Great American Bash 2006. King Booker would win the World Heavyweight Championship from Rey Mysterio at the event, after Chavo Guerrero hit Mysterio with a steel chair, winning his first World Title in WWE thus causing him to proclaim himself as the "King of the World."

Booker then entered a rivalry with Batista and lost by disqualification to him at SummerSlam, but defeated him at No Mercy 2006, the latter of which also included Finlay and Bobby Lashley. In spite of the break-up of his Court, the King defeated Batista on the October 20 edition on SmackDown, due to interference from WWE Champion John Cena and then ECW World Champion The Big Show. At Cyber Sunday , King Booker retained his World Heavyweight Championship after Kevin Federline interfered and hit John Cena with the World title belt. King Booker became the "Champion of Champions" in a match that marked the first time in which the World Champions from RAW, SmackDown, and ECW have fought each other. Booker lost the World Heavyweight Championship to Batista on November 26, 2006 at Survivor Series. After losing the World title, Booker then feuded alongside former royal court member Finlay against Batista and John Cena, which lead up to Armageddon where they lost.

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WWE: King Booker, part 6

Booker T teamed with Eddie Guerrero for short time before getting shunted into a feud with Heidenreich who would read poetry in honor of Booker T. He appeared at WrestleMania 21's dark match where he won a 30 man battle royal.
Booker was part of the tournament to name a new number one contender and made it to the Final Four. After Kurt Angle eliminated Booker, he returned the favour, costing Angle the match against JBL. Angle made it personal, going after Booker's new wife, Sharmell. Angle began stalking Sharmell. Angle referred to Sharmell as a "gutter slut", claiming that he "liked it". He also remarked that he wanted to have "bestiality sex" with her. Booker would go on to defeat Angle at Judgment Day 2005. On the May 26 edition of SmackDown! Booker T participated in a "Winners Choice" Battle Royal, with the winner chosing his opponent for next week which Kurt Angle won and he wanted to wrestle Sharmell. Booker protested and the match was made into a Handicap match. Angle won by pinning Sharmell in a sexual position. Next week Booker defeated Angle with a Scissors Kick.

After dealing with Angle, Booker T began teaming with Chris Benoit, eyeing the United States Championship again. Meanwhile, things were not going smoothly between Booker and his wife, with Sharmell introducing some heelish characteristics unknown to Booker. On the October 21 edition of SmackDown!, Booker T defeated Chris Benoit for the United States Championship, due to an unseen assist from Sharmell. Theodore Long later showed footage of Sharmell interfering in Booker T's matches. Later Booker T and Sharmell went to apologize to Benoit and give him a rematch, but instead he attacked Benoit while Sharmell was laughing, officially turning heel once again. Booker then boasted that he had been fully aware of what Sharmell had been doing and had been playing dumb to fool everyone.

On November 25 Booker T fought against Benoit for the United States Championship. The match ended when Benoit superplexed Booker T and two referees made a three count on either competitor, claiming that their wrestler had won. Booker T was stripped from the belt by Theodore Long, because of the confusion of who won since they pinned each other at the same time. Long decided to put Benoit and Booker against each other in a best of seven series, just like the two had in their WCW days.

Booker T defeated Benoit to take a 1-0 lead at the Survivor Series 2005 and then jumped out to a commanding 3-0 lead. In a must win match during Armageddon 2005 Benoit was able to defeat Booker T to bring the series to 3-1. At a house show in White Plains, New York on December 26, Booker T strained his groin muscle.

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WWE: King Booker, part 5

By 2003, Booker T's popularity had soared and he amicably separated from Goldust (at Goldust's request) in order to pursue the World Heavyweight Championship. In February 2003 he eliminated The Rock to win a battle royal for the number one contendership, granting him a title shot at WrestleMania XIX.

Booker T targeted Evolution after Batista and Randy Orton attacked Booker's former partner, Goldust. Booker would take aim at Evolution's leader, Triple H. Several weeks before WrestleMania, the incumbent champion, Triple H, cut a controversial promo on Booker T in order to gain heat. Triple H downplayed Booker T's WCW success, pointing out that the WCW Championship had been held by non-wrestlers like Vince Russo and actor David Arquette. He implied that Booker T, as a black wrestler, would never win a world championship in WWE. A week later Booker would get revenge by attacking Triple H in the bathroom laying him out. Booker T ended up losing to Triple H at WrestleMania XIX.

After several weeks of matches teaming with Shawn Michaels and Kevin Nash in a feud against Triple H, Ric Flair and Chris Jericho. A match at Backlash took place which saw Booker's team lose after Triple H pinned Kevin Nash after a sledgehammer shot. Afterward, Booker decided to set his sights on the WWE Intercontinental Championship. After losing a battle royal for the title at Judgment Day, Booker would feud with the champion Christian and after a few matches (getting screwed out of the title on several occasions), managed to defeat him to become the new champion. About a month later, Booker was diagnosed with a bulging disc in his back and lost the Intercontinental title to Christian at a house show. Booker, meanwhile, was out of action until September, when he battled Mark Henry and Test for the rest of the year.

On the February 16 edition of Raw, Booker T and Rob Van Dam defeated Ric Flair and Batista for the World Tag Team Championship. Booker and RVD held the titles for a month even defending the belts at WrestleMania XX in an 8-Man tag team match. They lost the belts the next day on RAW back to Ric Flair and Batista.

On March 22, 2004 he was traded to the SmackDown! brand along with the Dudley Boyz in exchange for Triple H. On SmackDown!, Booker T quickly established himself as a heel again by disparagingly referring to SmackDown! as the "minor leagues". Booker walked out on RVD during a tag team match. RVD beat Booker T by DQ when RVD got caught in the ropes and Booker punched away at him. Next week Booker T defeated Rob Van Dam when RVD was distracted by pyro going off on the stage. Later on, Booker T bragged about how he was the biggest star on Smackdown!, until The Undertaker gong played and Booker ran! Booker would try to utilize voodoo magic in order to try and overcome his "supernatural" foe, however it did nothing to prevent him from losing to the Undertaker at Judgment Day.

In the middle of 2004, Booker T set his sights on the WWE United States Championship along with its champion, John Cena. After general manager Kurt Angle stripped Cena of his title, Booker took advantage of this and won an eight-man elimination match to become United States Champion. Booker and Cena participated in a best-of-five series of matches for the United States Championship. After an initial 2-1 lead against Cena, Booker T would lose to Cena in the following matches and was defeated in the final match at No Mercy 2004.

On October 21, SmackDown! general manager Theodore Long placed Booker T in a six man tag team match with Rob Van Dam and Rey Mysterio against John "Bradshaw" Layfield, René Duprée and Kenzo Suzuki. JBL expected Booker T to betray his partners, but instead Booker T pinned JBL, thus turning face once again. Booker T faced JBL for the WWE Championship at the 2004 Survivor Series on November 14, but lost after he was hit in the head with the championship belt. The next night Booker T demanded a rematch, citing Orlando Jordan's interference. He was then joined by Eddie Guerrero and The Undertaker who also wanted a shot at JBL's title, prompting Theodore Long to make a Fatal Fourway match for the WWE Championship at Armageddon. Once again Booker T would fail to take the title as JBL retained.

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WWE: King Booker, part 4

After WCW was bought by the WWF in March 2001, Booker T made his WWF/E debut at the King of the Ring 2001 pay-per-view attacking WWF Champion Stone Cold Steve Austin during his match. He became a leading member of the The Alliance during The Invasion storyline. During July 2001, Booker defended his WCW World Heavyweight Championship against men Buff Bagwell and in the first WWF vs. WCW match, Kurt Angle. At InVasion Team WCW/ECW defeated Team WWF when Steve Austin joined the Alliance. On July 26, Booker gave up his WCW United States Title and handed it over to Chris Kanyon. He later lost the WCW World title to Kurt Angle but he went on to win the title back on the July 30 episode of Raw

Booker kept the title until SummerSlam when he lost the title to The Rock after feuding with him over the similarity in their gimmicks and their identical finishing moves, the Book End / Rock Bottom. Booker T won the WCW World Tag Team Championship for an eleventh time this time with Test and he also had a WWF World Tag Team Championship reign with Test. At the 2001 Survivor Series, Booker T was eliminated 5th by The Rock after a roll up and eventually The Alliance was defeated, causing them to disband. In its aftermath, Booker remained a heel and joined forces with Vince McMahon and The Boss Man in December to feuded with Stone Cold Steve Austin. After Booker T cost Austin a match against Chris Jericho for the WWF Undisputed Championship at Vengeance 2001, Austin gained revenge by attacking Booker T in a grocery store, humiliating him by covering him in food.

Booker T's first WrestleMania appearance was at WrestleMania X8 against Edge. Because it was taking place in Edge's hometown of Toronto, Ontario; the match was thrown on the card only a few weeks before the event. Due to this, the reason they were feuding was quickly contrived- over who would appear in a non-fictional Japanese shampoo commercial. When the brand extension was introduced in March, Booker T was drafted to the Raw brand. Booker T held the WWF Hardcore Championship twice in May 2002.

With the nWo now operating in WWE, Booker T was eventually invited into the faction. However, his time there was short-lived, when he got kicked out of the group ( literally) by Shawn Michaels, who believed Booker T was taking away from his own spotlight, and turning Booker face. Booker would find an unusual partnership with Goldust and the pair would team to battle the nWo and then later, the Un-Americans.

Booker was also involved in the first ever Elimination Chamber at Survivor Series 2002 where the World Heavyweight title was on the line, however he was eliminated by Chris Jericho.

He would spend the rest of 2002 teaming with Goldust, his unlikely yet very successful tag team partner, as they won World Tag Team Championship at Armageddon 2002 in a Tag Team Elimination match defeating the teams of Christian & Chris Jericho, Lance Storm & William Regal and the Dudley Boyz. In which they held the belts for about three weeks. The loss of the titles would lead to the breakup of the their team, as the two partners agreed to go their separate ways. The gimmick for Booker and Goldust was Goldust being a strange, yet dependable ally who Booker eventually warmed up to after initial skepticism.

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WWE: King Booker, part 3

During a match with Bret Hart, Booker injured his knee and missed several months. When he returned, he quickly regained the TV Championship from Scott Steiner, who would, in turn, defeated Booker in the finals of the WCW United States Championship tournament. By the end of 1999, Booker had convinced his brother, Stevie Ray, to leave the nWo and the reunited Harlem Heat won the WCW World Tag Team Championship three more times.

However, the team didn't last and eventually Harlem Heat split up and began to feud during 2000, Stevie Ray reformed Harlem Heat with Big T, and had lawyer J. Biggs strip Huffman of his right to use the letter "T" as part of his name. Stevie Ray and Big T would dub themselves Harlem Heat 2000. Throughout this period, Huffman was referred to simply as Booker.

When Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff formed The New Blood, Huffman would eventually completely change his in-ring name, joining General Rection's military-themed Misfits in Action faction as G.I. Bro reprising his gimmick from his days in the WWA. He regained his more popular alias shortly before his World Title win.

Huffman was elevated to the main event in 2000; Lane Huffman has speculated that this could in part have been due to a number of racial discrimination lawsuits filed against WCW. After WCW booker Vince Russo grew disgruntled with WCW World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan's alleged politicking, he fired Hogan during the live broadcast of Bash at the Beach 2000 and announced an impromptu match between Jeff Jarrett and Huffman for the now-vacant World Title. Russo supposedly picked Huffman because he claimed Hogan used his political stroke to keep him out of the Main Event scene. Huffman won the match, in the process becoming the second ever African American champion in WCW, after Ron Simmons. He was then defeated by Kevin Nash. He regained the title a few weeks later in a steel cage match with Nash, but would again lose the title, this time to Vince Russo himself in a cage match (Russo was speared out of the cage by Goldberg, and won the title), Russo vacated the title and Booker won it for the third time in a San Francisco 49er Box Match against Jeff Jarrett.

Booker's next feud was with Scott Steiner, to whom he would eventually lose the title. Steiner would go on to be WCW's longest reigning champion in years, whilst Booker was briefly out with an injury. Booker returned to the roster and defeated Rick Steiner for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship, and on the final episode of Monday Nitro, defeated Scott Steiner to win the World title for the fourth time.

Huffman won a total of twenty three titles in WCW, making him the most decorated athlete in the history of the organization. Booker was also the reigning U.S. Champion and WCW Champion when he accepted a contract with the WWF.

WWE: King Booker, part 2

Booker and his brother Lane signed with WCW in the mid-1990s on the recommendation of WCW wrestler Sid Vicious. They were originally slated to debut as two wrestling slaves called The Ghetto Blasters. This gimmick was aborted, however, due to the racial insensitivity of the planned characterization. They debuted as the tag team Harlem Heat, with Booker renamed Kole and Lane renamed Kane. At their request, Kole and Kane were once again named Booker T and Stevie Ray. By the end of 1994, they were already Tag Team Wrestling Champions, having defeated Stars & Stripes (The Patriot and Marcus Alexander Bagwell) in December, en route to a five-month title reign. This would be their first of ten WCW World Tag Team Championship reigns together.

Over the next two years, Harlem Heat would continue to be at the top of the WCW Tag Team scene, defeating the Nasty Boys (Brian Knobs & Jerry Sags), Bunkhouse Buck and Dick Slater, Public Enemy (Rocco Rock & Johnny Grunge), Sting and Lex Luger, the Steiner Brothers and the American Males (Scotty Riggs & Marcus Bagwell) to begin one tag team title reign after another.

After the loss of their seventh WCW World Tag Team Wrestling Championship, to the Outsiders (Kevin Nash & Scott Hall) on October 27, 1996, Stevie Ray was put out of action with an ankle injury and in the late 1990s, Huffman made the transition into singles action. Huffman won the WCW World Television Championship six times (a company record), winning it first from Disco Inferno and would feud over the title with Perry Saturn and Rick Martel culminating in a gauntlet match at SuperBrawl VIII. Another impressive aspect of the match was that Martel, the man that was originally supposed to win the match, went down early due to a knee injury, meaning the finish and the remainder of the match had to be called in the ring.

In the spring of 1998, Booker crossed paths with Chris Benoit. The two began a series against each other out of mutual respect for one another. However, as the months progressed and the TV title switched hands, tempers flared. Benoit cost Booker the title during a match against Fit Finlay. As spring became summer, it was decided that Booker and Benoit would engage in a "best-of-seven series", on Nitro, Thunder, WCW Saturday Night, and pay-per-views with the winner meeting Fit Finlay for the title. After seven great matches and interference from Bret Hart and a returning Stevie Ray, Booker T won the series and, on June 14th, would go on to regain the Television Championship. He was the first ever African American to hold the WCW World Television Championship and the only one to legitimately win the title (Stevie Ray also held and defended the title while Booker was injured).

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WWE: King Booker, part 1

Wrestlers Ring name(s) Booker T,G.I. Bro,Kole,King Booker
Billed height 6 foot 3 in (1.92 m)
Billed weight 256 lb (116 kg)
Born March 1, 1965,Houston, Texas
Billed from Harlem, New York
Houston, Texas
Trained by Scott Casey
Pro Wrestling Debut March 1, 1990

Booker Robert Tio Huffman (born March 1, 1965), better known by his wrestling persona Booker T, is an American professional wrestler. He is owner of Pro Wrestling Alliance and currently signed to WWE wrestling on its SmackDown! brand. Huffman changed his name to King Booker upon winning WWE's King of the Ring tournament in mid-2006. Booker T is a five-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion and a six time World Champion overall

Booker was working for a storage company with a young son of his own when the wrestling world came calling. His brother Lane suggested that he and Booker check out a new wrestling school being opened, run by former WWF star Ivan Putski, in conjunction with his Western Wrestling Alliance organization.

His boss from the storage company loaned him the $3,000 to pay for the wrestling lessons and Booker began training under another former wrestling star Scott Casey, who helped to turn Booker's background in drama and dance into "sports entertainment", teaching the newcomer ring psychology and ring generalship.

Eight weeks later, Booker debuted as G.I. Bro on Putski's Western Wrestling Alliance Live! program. The character, a tie-in to the raging Gulf War and the WWF's Sgt. Slaughter angle, would return in years to come when Booker traveled to WCW. Even though the WWA would meet its demise some time later, Booker continued to wrestle on the Texas indy circuit, often with his brother Stevie Ray. During one such show, they were spotted by Skandor Akbar who hired them to work for the Global Wrestling Federation, which he and Eddie Gilbert were involved in. Gilbert, soon to be fired from the GWF, did one thing before he left: he teamed Stevie Ray and Booker T together as the Ebony Experience.

He and his brother Lane wrestled in the Texas-based Global Wrestling Federation as The Ebony Experience, with Booker known as Booker T and with Lane known as "Stevie Ray". The Ebony Experience held the GWF Tag Team Championship on three occasions, despite Booker taking time off to recover from a knee injury.

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WWE: MR.KENNEDY!...part 3

On September 8, 2006 edition of SmackDown!, Kennedy announced that he wanted to move over to RAW, as SmackDown didn't interest him anymore because he had already defeated every top performer on the roster. This led to SmackDown! General Manager Theodore Long making a match between Kennedy and The Undertaker (who Kennedy had never faced) to be held at WWE No Mercy 2006, which Kennedy would go on to win by disqualification.

On the October 13, 2006 edition of SmackDown!, Kennedy, now with a win over The Undertaker in the books, again stated his desire to move to RAW, and again Long put him against an opponent who he had never faced - this time Chris Benoit - with Kennedy's title on the line. Long said that, if Kennedy were to defeat Benoit, he would be given his release and be allowed to go to RAW. Kennedy lost the United States Championship to Benoit after a distraction from The Undertaker, who was standing in the entrance. Kennedy tapped out to the Crippler Crossface, marking his first submission loss.

Late in 2006, Kennedy and Montel Vontavious Porter took on the Brothers of Destruction (Kane and Undertaker) in various combinations. Kennedy was able to beat Kane with help from MVP in a No DQ Match. The next week, Kennedy and MVP lost to the Brothers Of Destruction. They first got counted out, and Theodore Long restarted the match with no countouts. Then they disqualified themselves with a low blow by Kennedy, and Long restarted the match again with no countouts and no disqualifications.

Kennedy and MVP would continue to feud with the brothers, with MVP feuding with Kane while Kennedy challenged The Undertaker to a match at Survivor Series, which was later announced as a First Blood match. Kennedy won that match after MVP turned on him and aimed for his head with a steel chair, but missed and hit The Undertaker instead, busting him open. After the match, the Undertaker viciously attacked Kennedy, forcing him to bleed. The Undertaker would finally get his revenge at Armageddon, when he defeated Kennedy in a Last Ride match.

After a brief hiatus, Kennedy returned to SmackDown! on January 5, 2007 and defeated Chris Benoit in a "Beat the Clock" match, with the overall prize being a shot at Batista's World Heavyweight Championship at the upcoming Royal Rumble. Kennedy's time of 5:07 ended up being the fastest, but he was unable to win the title from at the pay-per-view, though he did put Batista's shoulders on the mat for longer than three seconds when the referee was out of position. In a rematch on SmackDown! Batista defeated Kennedy again. From there Kennedy began a short feud with ECW World Champion Bobby Lashley, leading to a match at No Way Out which Kennedy won, but by disqualification, preventing him from becoming champion. Kennedy would challenge Lashley unsuccessfully on ECW on Sci-Fi and SmackDown! as well.

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WWE: MR.KENNEDY!...part 2

In December 2005 Kennedy participated in WWE's "overseas" tour. On the second day in Italy Kennedy suffered a serious latissimus dorsi tear. He attempted to work through the injury, but was said to have been hurting so bad that he couldn’t even put his hand in his pocket to get his wallet at a restaurant. Seeing a doctor he was informed that he'd suffered a complete tear, compared to Batista's partial tear from earlier in the year, and that he would not be able to work through it, even with a somewhat lighter schedule, instead he would need surgery. The December 6, 2005 surgery was a success but Kennedy was still forced out of the ring for nearly six months while he rehabbed the injury.

Though he couldn't wrestle, Kennedy still returned to SmackDown! on January 6, 2006. This time, it was as a color commentator for a Cruiserweight Title match. He continued to make appearances on SmackDown! and Velocity throughout January and February, making his ring announcement and commentating specific matches as a representative of The Network. He even made an appearance on the January 11, 2006 edition of Byte This! with Todd Grisham to maintain visibility.

At the OVW tapings on May 10, 2006, Kennedy returned to in-ring action facing the OVW Heavyweight Champion, CM Punk in a title match that Kennedy was unable to win. Kennedy would make his return to SmackDown! on June 9, 2006 with a victory over Scotty 2 Hotty after using the Kenton Bomb.

Since returning he has continued his ongoing "mini-feud" with SmackDown! ring announcer, Tony Chimel, which began prior to his injury in 2005. The feud is based on Kennedy believing Chimel's announcing is not well enough or done with the right amount of respect and thus Kennedy must either perform his own introductions or force Chimel to announce him again.

Kennedy lost by pinfall, ending his streak of never being defeated by pin or submission, on the July 14, 2006 edition of SmackDown!, when he was rolled up by Matt Hardy.

On the July 21, 2006 edition of SmackDown!, Batista put out an open challenge to replace his opponent Mark Henry, who had been injured, at The Great American Bash on July 23, 2006 for the Number 1 Contender spot. Kennedy accepted the challenge and went on to win the match by disqualification. However, he suffered a severe injury during the match after being thrown headfirst into the steel steps, resulting in an exposed cranium laceration which required 20 stitches to close. He then entered into a short feud with Batista, defeating him by count out in their second match, but losing via pinfall in the third.

Kennedy would also help Shane and Vince McMahon in their feud with DX, appearing at both SummerSlam and the August 28, 2006 edition of RAW along with others from the SmackDown! and RAW rosters, to attack DX.

On the September 1, 2006 edition of SmackDown!, Kennedy defeated Finlay and Bobby Lashley in a Triple Threat Match to win the WWE United States Championship, his first title reign in WWE.

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WWE: MR.KENNEDY!...part 1

Ring name(s) Ken Anderson,Kamikaze Ken,Mr. Anderson,Mr. Kennedy,Ken Kennedy
Billed height 6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Billed weight 242 lb (110 kg)
Born March 6, 1976,Minneapolis, Minnesota
Billed from Green Bay, Wisconsin
Trained by Eric Hammers,Mike Mercury,Ken Patera,OVW staff
Pro Wrestling Debut 1999

Kenneth Anderson is an American pro wrestler better known as Mr. Kennedy currently performing for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) on its SmackDown! brand.

After serving in the United States Army, Anderson was trained by All-Star Championship Wrestling owners Eric Hammers & Mike Krause. He continued his training under wrestling legend, Ken Patera. He was invited to appear on WWE Jakked, WWE Velocity and WWE Sunday Night Heat in a try-out basis as an independent jobber several times until February 2005, when Anderson signed a developmental contract with WWE. Prior to signing with WWE, Anderson also made some appearances on TNA Xplosion.

Competed in the first ever Ted Petty aka Rocco Rock, Flyboy Invitational, which was at one time named the Sweet Sixteen Competition. He had appeared in the first match of the night of Nov 1 2002 against Colt Cabana under the name of "Kamikaze" Ken Anderson and lost.

Upon signing with WWE, Anderson was sent to the Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) farm league. After six months he was called up to work on Velocity. Before his first SmackDown! match, a victory over Funaki, he showed himself to be a cocky and arrogant wrestler with not only his mannerisms but by taking a microphone and performing his own ring announcement. He referred to himself as "Mr. Anderson" for this match. To avoid comparisons with the more famous Anderson family, he changed his name to "Mr. Kennedy". As Kennedy himself mentioned on the WrestleCast podcast, 'Kennedy' was chosen as his name because it is Vince McMahon's middle name. This idea was initially suggested by Paul Heyman.

Kennedy made his SmackDown! debut on August 25, 2005, once again defeating Funaki. He introduced himself before the match, which he would do week after week. While working on Velocity and SmackDown! he was also still working in OVW.

Kennedy made his pay-per-view debut at SmackDown!'s 2005 No Mercy, defeating Hardcore Holly, injuring Holly's ribs during the match.

On the November 11, 2005 edition of SmackDown!, Kennedy faced Eddie Guerrero for a spot on SmackDown's Survivor Series team. He lost the match when Guerrero tossed him a steel chair and played possum, a move which Guerrero had made famous. The groggy referee turned around and saw Guerrero on the ground with Kennedy holding the chair, and consequently disqualified Kennedy, awarding the place on Team SmackDown! to Guerrero. This was Kennedy's first loss. In retaliation, Kennedy struck Guerrero over the head with the chair after the match. This ended up being Guerrero's final televised match, as he died on November 13, 2005 in his hotel room in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where a SuperShow taping of both RAW and SmackDown! was to be held. In interviews about the incident, Kennedy has stated that he considers this an "unfortunate honor".

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WWE: Kane, part 7

At the 2007 Royal Rumble,Kane eliminated King Booker. Booker then came back in the ring and eliminated Kane, even though he had already been eliminated. A couple weeks later on SmackDown, while receiving the key to the city in his hometown of Houston, Booker was attacked by Kane starting a feud between the two.

At No Way Out 2007, Kane defeated King Booker. On February 23rd, 2007, Kane lost to King Booker in a Falls-Count Anywhere Money in the Bank Qualifying match after interference from The Great Khali.

On February 26th, 2007, Kane interrupted a Master Lock Challenge to The Great Khali when Masters was unable to apply the Master Lock. Kane delivered a Chokeslam and a chair shot to Masters then clotheslined The Great Khali over the top rope, starting a feud between the two. Recently, Jacobs has started to walk around with a hook, similar to the hook he used as Jacob Goodnight in See No Evil.

Jacobs made his film debut as "Jacob Goodnight" in the first production of WWE Films, See No Evil, which was released on May 19, 2006.
Jacobs appeared on a special WWF edition of "The Weakest Link" in March 2002 and became the strongest link by defeating Bubba Ray Dudley in the final round. The money won, was donated to Jacob's chosen charity, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, in Memphis, Tennessee.
The "Kane" character was featured in the fourteen issue Undertaker comic book produced by the now-defunct Chaos! Comics in 1999. The character only spoke once, in the Undertaker Halloween Special, which tied into the single issue Mankind comic book produced by the same company. This series introduced a comic-exclusive character, Kane's younger half-sister, "Jezebelle" (like Kane, supposedly the result of a liaison between Paul Bearer and an unnamed woman). As Jezebelle was related to Kane only in that they shared a common father, she was presumably no relation to The Undertaker.
A book written by Michael Chiappetta detailing the kayfabe origins of the Kane character entitled "Journey into Darkness" was released in 2005.
Jacobs appeared on the March 22 episode of Smallville as a warrior from Krypton, and faced Clark Kent/Kal-El in a fight to the death.
I marked bad for him. He even used the chokeslam at one point!
Ashley was also in the episode with him.

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WWE: Kane, part 6

Kane returned in January 2005, defeating Snitsky at New Year's Revolution 2005. He went on to compete in the Money in the Bank ladder match at WrestleMania 21, which was won by Edge. After WrestleMania, Kane and Lita (still "married") reconciled with one another and began antagonizing Lita's rival Trish Stratus, leading to a match between Kane and Stratus's hired bodyguard Viscera at Backlash 2005 that was won by Kane. Lita later turned on Kane and sided with Edge, leading to a feud between the two that ended when Edge defeated Kane in a stretcher match on the July 25, 2005 episode of RAW. Lita's heel turn resulted in her real life affair with Edge and her dumping Matt Hardy, and Hardy's subsequent sacking for making the affair public, resulting in fans heavily booing the "face" Lita during her feud with Trish. In this feud with Edge, Kane played the role of Matt until Hardy was later re-hired and the angle was dropped, with Hardy and Edge having a worked shoot feud (a storyline based on something that has happened in real life but is not a shoot/real fight).

Kane returned to WWE television on October 17, 2005, winning an eighteen-man battle royal. As a result of his victory, he, along with The Big Show and Shawn Michaels, was featured in an internet poll to decide who would receive a shot at the WWE Championship at Taboo Tuesday 2005. In the weeks before Taboo Tuesday, Kane and Big Show teamed together on several occasions. The poll was won by Michaels, and Kane and Big Show teamed together to face Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch, defeating them for the World Tag Team Championship. The duo successfully retained their titles throughout the remainder of 2005, during which time they engaged in an inter-promotional feud with members of the SmackDown! brand.

In early 2006, Kane made several attempts to win the WWE Championship. He took part in an Elimination Chamber match for the title at New Year's Revolution 2006 on January 8, 2006, entering the chamber last, but did not win. Kane also took part in the 2006 Royal Rumble and the 2006 Road to WrestleMania Tournament, but did not win either event. He and Big Show feuded with Carlito and Chris Masters throughout early 2006, culminating in a successful title defense at WrestleMania 22 on April 2, 2006.

On the following evening, Kane and Big Show lost the World Tag Team Wrestling Championship to Spirit Squad members Kenny and Mikey. One week later, Kane and Big Show faced Spirit Squad members Johnny and Nicky in a title rematch, but were disqualified after Kane "snapped" (ostensibly due to "voices in his head"). In subsequent weeks, Kane began attacking anyone who mentioned the date "May 19". During the match between Kane and Big Show at Backlash, Kane's voice began echoing throughout the arena saying "May 19", "They're all going to know", and "You can't hide from it," leaving Kane visibly shaken. Big Show then struck Kane with a chair, resulting in a no contest.

On May 19, 2006 Kane appeared on SmackDown! as JBL's hand-picked opponent for Rey Mysterio. After both the aforementioned voices and mask video began playing, Kane chokeslammed both Layfield and Mysterio before leaving the ring. On the following episode of RAW, he claimed that "May 19" was the date on which his mother and adopted family were killed in a fire. The voices continued on to the May 29, 2006 episode of RAW, when Kane was confronted by the source of the voice, a wrestler wearing his old mask and ring attire, who chokeslammed Kane during his match against Shelton Benjamin for the WWE Intercontinental Championship. Kane and the look-alike continued to fight one another in subsequent weeks, leading to a match between the two being scheduled for Vengeance 2006, in which the real Kane lost to the impostor. On the June 26 episode of RAW, Kane threw the impostor out of the arena and removed his mask, saying "I believe this belongs to me."

Kane was absent from WWE television for several weeks thereafter as he toured Europe to promote See No Evil. Upon his return, he engaged in a feud with Umaga that concluded on the October 9, 2006 episode of RAW when Umaga defeated him in a "Loser Leaves RAW" match. On October 13, 2006, Kane returned to the SmackDown! roster for the first time since the 2002 brand extension. On November 3, 2006, Kane reunited with The Undertaker as the Brothers of Destruction to defeat Montel Vontavious Porter and Mr. Kennedy. Kane would continue a feud with MVP competing in several gimmick matches. The end result of the feud being an Inferno Match at Armageddon 2006 between Kane and MVP, in which Kane won by setting MVP's back on fire which resulted in first degree burns.

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WWE: Kane, part 5

Kane formed a tag team with Rob Van Dam, with the duo eventually winning the World Tag Team Championship. In June 2003, Triple H offered Kane a spot in his stable "Evolution". RAW Co-General Manager "Stone Cold" Steve Austin offered Kane the opportunity to face Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship if he rejected Triple H's offer; however, Co-General Manager Eric Bischoff insisted that Kane unmask should he lose the match. Kane accepted Austin's offer and went to challenge Triple H the following week in Madison Square Garden. Triple H won the match following interference from his stablemates, and on the June 23, 2003 RAW, Kane removed his mask (and, in the process, his hair), revealing that his face was not actually scarred. He then immediately turned heel by chokeslamming Van Dam, who he went on to defeat at SummerSlam 2003. In an interview with Jim Ross, it became apparent that Kane's facial scars were actually mental scars (this explanation ignored instances in which other wrestlers had recoiled upon seeing Kane's unmasked face). At the end of this interview, Kane, believing that he was being mocked, attacked Ross and set him on fire.

Unmasking rendered Kane emotionally unstable, on one occasion driving him to Tombstone Linda McMahon on the RAW stage. This action sparked a feud between Kane and Linda's son Shane, with Kane defeating Shane in a Last Man Standing match at Unforgiven 2003 and an ambulance match at the 2003 Survivor Series. During the latter event, Kane interfered in a Buried Alive match between Vince McMahon and The Undertaker, helping McMahon bury The Undertaker and win the match. He had previously helped Stone Cold Steve Austin bury Undertaker in a match at Rock Bottom: In Your House in 1998.

In January 2004, Kane took part in the 2004 Royal Rumble match. He was eliminated after a video promoting The Undertaker's return aired, distracting and distressing Kane and enabling Booker T to eliminate him from the ring. Over the following weeks, Kane repeatedly insisted that The Undertaker was "dead", only to be met with various paranormal incidents such as a rainstorm localized over the ramp on which he stood. The Undertaker finally returned at WrestleMania XX (with Paul Bearer at his side), defeating Kane. Kane is the only man to lose to the Undertaker at 2 WrestleManias.

Following his defeat at WrestleMania XX, Kane fell in love with Lita, but was spurned. This led to him kidnapping Lita in May 2004 and asking her an unknown question, which she replied to in the affirmative later that month. On the same night, Kane won a twenty man battle royal to receive a World Heavyweight Championship title shot against Chris Benoit at Bad Blood 2004, where he was defeated.

Lita later announced that she was "pregnant", with Matt Hardy (her then-boyfriend in both kayfabe and reality) assuming that he was the child's father. On the June 21, 2004 episode of RAW, Kane claimed that he was the father. The following week, Kane explained that he had impregnated Lita in order to continue his legacy, and justified a vicious attack on Shawn Michaels several weeks earlier by claiming that Michaels had stood in the way of him winning the World Heavyweight Championship. In order to appease Kane, General Manager Eric Bischoff gave Kane a rematch with Benoit, instructing Benoit that he could only win by submission, whereas Kane could win the title by any means. Despite dominating much of the match, Kane again lost to Benoit. Following the match, Lita came to the ring and low-blowed Kane, who initially went to chokeslam her in revenge but stopped when he realized that she was trying to force him to cause her to miscarry their "child". Kane and Matt Hardy faced one another in a "'Till Death Do Us Part" match at SummerSlam, with Lita obliged to wed the victor. Kane defeated Hardy, and "married" Lita on the August 23, 2004 episode of RAW, after being attacked by Hardy during the ceremony but nevertheless gaining the upper hand and ultimately chokeslammed Hardy off the stage. (In reality, Hardy needed time off because of a knee injury and later a staph infection).

On the September 13, 2004 episode of RAW, Kane accidentally fell on Lita during a match with the debuting Gene Snitsky, ostensibly causing Lita to miscarry. Kane turned face as a result, and began seeking revenge against Snitsky for causing the death of his child. He lost to Snitsky in a steel chain match at Taboo Tuesday 2004, and was sidelined for several months after Snitsky crushed his larynx with a chair following the match. This attack was a repeat performance of when Kane "injured" Michaels in the same exact manner. The "injury" gave Kane time to film his starring role in the film, See No Evil.

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