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Wrestler Name: Clayton Chandler
Height: 6'
Weight: 225
From: Shreveport, Louisiana
Finisher: The Big Timer, -HIROSHIMA-, Fifteen-Sixtey
Theme Music: "Ready or Not" by The Fugees, "Bulls on Parade" by RATM
Accomplishments: Chandler was the first ever EWA Light Heavyweight Champion, the youngest wrestler to ever hold the EWA World Championship, and the first ever two time EWA World Heavyweight Champion. Recently, Chandler has also unified the BLW, EWWA, EWO, GWA, and EWA belts under the name of the EWA World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion.
Chandler was also the only man to be involved in both the famed Hell on Earth and "I RESPECT YOU" matches, both of which have been called the greatest wrestling contest ever. Chandler was a member of the original Team Ballz along with Serial Thrylla and The Regulaters, and a founding father of the "Team Old Skool" faction. His style of promoing, in which he makes his opponenent and half of the planet genuinely hate him, has led him to be dubbed "the only genuinely scary man in wrestling... without trying". His recent A M E R I C A N P R I D E angle, and its subsequent heel turn, have launched Chandler from EWA posterboy to wrestling legend.
Career Outline: Chandler began his wrestling career in an independant promotion ran out of east Texas, mainly Dallas. The EWO, as it was called, was Chandler's first real exposure to the business at the extremely young age of 13. While small in stature, the EWO was known nationwide as one of the most violent and "hardcore" indys south of the Mason-Dixon line.
During the summer of his 14th birthday, the EWO was called to run a tour of Japan along with Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW). Chandler mainly did the openers for these Japanese shows, working mainly with his brother, Brandon, in various gimmick matches. One night on this tour, however, would change Chandler's career for ever.
On August 14th, 1994, Chandler wrestled Shoji Nakamaki to a 45 minute draw in a Balloon Pop Glass Crush No Rope Brick Barricade Deathmatch. His usual opponent, Brandon Chandler, suffered a severe leg injury the previous night (after he overshot an inside-out guillotine legdrop and crushed his thigh on the steel barricade), that eventually lead to his retirement from the sport. With no opponent to face, Chandler worked the 2nd match from the top: his classic with Nakamaki.
This match caught the eye of the man that would "make Chandler mainstream", All Pacific Pro Wrestling owner, president, and booker Hwang Tenryu. Called "Don" by just about everyone, Tenryu was the man that made APPW one of the top two wreslting promotions in Japan (along with Neo Japan Puroresu). Tenryu called Chandler to APPW offices on the 18th, and later on that evening a contract was signed and Chandler became an APPW superstar.
He was immediately thrusted into the main event scene, teaming with other gaigan against the true legends of Japan. This is where Chandler dropped his "hardcore" persona and truely formed the foundation that would launch him into wrestling superstardem within a year.
On March 15th, 1995, Chandler captured the APPW Lightweight Championship from fellow American Too Cold Scorpio. In August of that year, he jobbed the belt to Negro Casas. Chandler had more important things to worry about. It took him another full year to finally achieve that "more important thing".
The APPW Triple Crown match between champion Kenta Kobashi and Clayton Chandler took place at the Nippon Boudekon on April 22nd, 1996. The match lasted 22 minutes, and Chandler defeated Kobashi with a version of Kobashi's own Burning Hammer maneuver. WHAM, the biggest American star in Japan since Stan "The Lariat" Hanson was born.
Chandler held onto the APPW title for almost a year, and jobbed the belt back to Kobashi at Korakeun Hall in January of 1997. At this point Chandler was already making plans of a tour of America, holding meetings with several companies, including the EWA.
Chandler took two full months off from APPW, and when he returned in March, he had decided on leaving APPW for one year, effective in August (ironically, the month he started with the company). The 16 year old, who because of his numerous matches looked around 26, went MIA from APPW in May, and after taking the summer off, started for the Extreme Wrestling Association in early September, 1997.
Chandler wrestled in the first match still documented in the EWA, against Jerry Lynn in his own hometown, Shreveport, Louisiana.
His big break came at the Rage in a Cage pay-per-view. A newly formed stable of Serial Thrylla and The Regulators took on the team of DX, a stable led by Nick Diamante and Vince DiNardo. Remember that first name, he plays an extremely vital role later on in Chandler's career. At this pay-per-view, Chandler made his leap into the main event by debuting at Team Ballz's "fourth man". However, Team Ballz went down in defeat.
Between that period and the time during which Chandler re-appeared in the EWA in early '00, Chandler did do numerous things in the EWA. But all of this is well-documented and can be found on the EWA website, so there is no need to go into a huge of amount of detail. A few things will be touched on, however.
Chandler defeated La Ardilla at the "Weekend Warfare" special card to become the first ever EWA lightweight champion. He later jobbed it to X-Pac
Chandler defeated Nomad in the Spring of '99 to win his first EWA World Championship. He later lost the belt, to no one, in a situation that nobody still really understands.
And then Chandler left the EWA, bitterly, in the summer of 1999. He "shot" all over Tom Stone, the EWA in general, and especially one man, Nick Diamante. Remember him? Chandler then either quit the promotion or was fired after the show, no one still really knows for sure. But either way, as if it was meant to happen, one year after he left APPW he returned to the company, and once again won the Triple Crown Championship, and once again he won it from Kenta Kobashi. A star was once again born.
Meanwhile, the EWA closed for a short period, and when it reopened, things were less than steller. Without its "big guns", the company had trouble remaking itself an identity within the wrestling world.
Meanwhile, Nick Diamante was breaking down. Chandler's words, apparently, really got to the man, however, he did not let this be known.
Chandler jobbed the world title to Vader in November of '99, and shortly thereafter Diamante "retired" from wrestling. On his "retirement show", the highlight was Chandler's bitter, extremely bitter, promo towards Diamante. While everyone else praised the man, Chandler ran him down in classic "scariest man in wrestling" fashion. Chandler saw an oppurtunity, Diamante saw red, and Tom Stone saw dollar signs.
For an ungodly amount of money, Tom Stone signed Chandler away from All Pacific Pro Wrestling and along with Diamante and Chandler, laid out the plan for what ended up to be the greatest build up to the greatest match in wrestling history...period.
Chandler re-debuted for the EWA at Any Means Neccesary, cutting a HUGE promo on Diamante and Stone, and for the next two months, lived in Diamante's shadow.
And then all hell broke loose.
All of a sudden, it stopped being an angle, and the two men genuinely wanted to kill each other, and almost did.
"I Respect You".
At EWA: No Fear, in Chandler's hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana, he finally had his match with Diamante. And what a match it was. It was THE match, and after over an hour in the ring, Chandler made Diamante utter those three magic words, and Diamante retired from the sport.
Then he turned bad. Really bad. And at Break Down, he shocked the world and made Serial Thrylla turn bad with him, finally giving the fans their Team Ballz reunion, but not exactly how they imagined it.
And the rest, they say, is history.
Handlers Name: Clayton Chandler
Email Address: [email protected]
Other Wrestlers Held: None
Comments: Boy, did I just drop some bomb-ass shit with that bio or what? Umm, I'll just thank a few folks right quick for what they've done for me in e-wrestling over the years, and there's really only a few.
Thanks Dave Carter, for giving me "the break", and letting me run with you to the top of this shit. We've grown to be basically the same person around these parts, and thats...shit...kinda scary actually.
Thanks Tom Albanese (Stone), for letting me do my shit my own way when the time called for it, and putting up with my incoherant angle ideas over AOLIM.
Thanks Eric Jarres and Tony Doucet, just because I can do that, and any HoF wouldn't be right without givin' y'all a good shout out. I'll probably get my ass beat for using your legit names though.
Thanks Nick Diamante, for playing off of me perfectly, and letting us create one of the greatest fueds and matches ever, all on our own, with no other help. We really did reinvent a lot of shit man.
Thanks Tabatha Beech (that'd be my girlfriend of...forever), for giving me some of the craziest ideas known to man, and never getting pissed about all this shit. I'm still waiting for you to join :-).
And a big thanks to everyone else I've worked with, for listening to me and giving me the time to come up with some quality promos.
Oh yeah, on behalf of myself and the EWA, I would like to tell Vince Russo (you know you're reading this) to please quit jackin' our shit. You've done it too many times over the years for it to be a coincidence, and you even did it last week on Nitro. And I'm sure someone in the WWF is doin' that shit too, probably you, Kelley. So fuck all y'all, wait till I get older and I'll take this shit mainstream myself.
" " Serial Thrylla
" " Nick Diamante
" " Tom Stone
" " The Regulators
" " Nomad
" " The Brink
" " Thorn
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