· July 4, 1980 - The Butcher makes his debut in the New York Wrestling Association. He was defeated by Shane Lawson. · August 12, 1982 - The Butcher is released by NYWA. He looked at other feds but no one wanted him since he couldn't wrestle very well. · September 5, 1982 - The Butcher went to Japan to wrestle in various events and promotions as a hired jobber. · November 5, 1986 - The Butcher gets his ass kicked in a match against Stone. The Butcher wrestled battered and broken, having a broken right leg, dislocated left shoulder and broken left arm. · November 12, 1988 - The Butcher wins Hardcore Hell surprisingly. He won a barbedwire match, flaming tables match, baseball bat match and a scaffold match. This began his career in the hardcore business. · January 15, 1989 - The Butcher's record hits 15 wins and 400 loses as he continues to wrestle worldwide as a hired jobber. · April 15, 1999 - Joins the Global Fanstasy Wrestling Alliance. His friend The GrimReaper showed him the new federation and he joined. · July 13, 1999 - Gets his ass kicked by Brian Watts in a barbedwire scaffold match. All though he lost, his friends, Team Perfect, destroyed Brain Watts after. The Butcher becomes the GFWA Extreme Legend on this night. · August 15, 1999 - The Butcher retires from the wrestling world and begins to work at McDonald's. · September 1, 1999 - The Butcher opens up a small fast food chain called "Butcher Burger". · October 20, 1999 - The Butcher returns to action by helping his friends Cody and Tomorrow Man reclaim the GFWA Tag Team Titles against the Master Race. At this point in time, The Butcher begins to take his wrestling career and life seriously. · October 22, 1999 - "Butcher Burger" is shut down due to cases of mad cow disease. · November 10, 1999 - The Butcher defeats long time GFWA rival Brian 'Primetime' Watts in the Heavyweight Tournament. · November 20, 1999 - The Butcher reaches the GFWA Heavyweight Tournament Final and faces Biggunn at Winter Harvest in the best match of his career. All though The Butcher lost the match he claimed the hearts of GFWA fans when he congratulated Biggunn on the win. · January 11, 2000 - The Butcher announces he will retire at Y2K Meltdown in the GFWA Championship match against Mike Powers. · Januray 20, 2000 - The Butcher retires from the wrestling world once again in a loss against Mike Powers for the GFWA Championship. Team Perfect comes together for the last time to bid the Extreme Legend a farewell. · Febuary 2000 - "The Butcher's Table" premiers on television. The Butcher, along with his sidekick The GrimReaper, host a well liked recap/interview show in the GFWA on Thursday nights. · April 2000 - The GFWA closes its doors once again. This time due to legal matters. With the close of the federation this marked the end of "The Butcher's Table." · May 2000 - The GFWA re-opens its doors and looks strong. The Butcher does not restart his show but he begins writing letters to the GFWA which recaps events and give his opinions on the GFWA. "The Letter to the GFWA" were well liked in the wrestling community. · July 2000 - The GFWA merges with the Brutal Wrestling Organization in a stunning move. This created the gWa which had a roster of 60 wrestlers. · July 2000 - The Butcher becomes A Tendency 2 Start Fires' manager in the GWA. He led them to become the first and only gWa Tag Team Champions. · August 2000 - The gWa closes its doors stating that too many egos led to the fall of what could have been the greatest federation of all time. · September 2000 - The GFWA re-opens but The Butcher is nowhere to be found. · November 20, 2000 - The Butcher returns to the wrestling ring in a stunning turn of events. He was the 'Mystery Man' in the Extreme Championship match against The UnKnown, which later turned out to be the former bWo legend Faze. All though he lost the match, he put on a good showing and made it known that he should be taken seriously in the GFWA World Championship rankings. · December 2000 - His return stunned the wrestling world and he was once again vying for the GFWA Championship belt against major opponents in Chaos, Jostrodomus, and current GFWA World Champion, Phobia. · December 31, 2001 - The Butcher led his team, The Butcher's Clinic, past Biggunn and his team in a special gimmicked pay-per-view: GFWA No Escape. In the final match of the night, The Butcher was one of the three winners of the #1 Contendership to the GFWA World Championship. This event was what many consider the greatest event in GFWA and wrestling history. · January 27, 2001 - The Butcher finally achieves his dream of becoming a champion by defeating the once unbeatable GFWA World Champion, Phobia. It took The Butcher over 20 years to win any gold and he truly deserved it after a hard fought battle. · February 3, 2001 - A week later after winning the GFWA World Championship, The Butcher loses it to Chaos. This was a great match also and proved to be The Butcher's last GFWA match ever. All though he was the champion for a week, he was happy that his quest for gold had finally ended...ended the way he wanted it to end. · March 2001 - The Butcher becomes the new GFWA Commissioner. · May 5, 2001 - The Butcher sends President Dupin his resignation as Commissioner of the GFWA. His reason for leaving was: "Nobody cares in the GFWA anymore". But The Butcher had a change of heart and later became the President while Dupin went AWOL. · May 13, 2001 - The Butcher, being the president of the GFWA, closes the federations doors forever due to chaos backstage. He did not want to ruin the GFWA name so he thought this was the smartest thing to do. How ironic it was for a man that was at the bottom of the barrel in the GFWA 2 years ago and now he's the owner and last man standing. · August 7, 2001 - The Butcher is inducted into the GFWA Hall of Fame and he becomes the Commissioner of the gfwa OMEGA. The gfwa OMEGA is a merger of the GFWA and OWA and run by former GFWA United States Champion, Max Danger. · August 12, 2001 - The Butcher and Max Danger take the gfwa OMEGA on a world tour. The Butcher disagreed with the idea, but that wasn't the first thing he and Max Danger ever disagreed on. · September 2, 2001 - The Butcher, signs his friends Cody and Tomorrow Man for a one night match-up against Devilz Darkside to increase profit that the gfwa OMEGA was losing on the world tour. · January 5, 2002 - The Butcher marries Nikki Sizzio. · February 3, 2002 - The Butcher ends his Commissionership in the gfwa OMEGA and returns to the ring once again to face GHC Champion, Frostie, in the first ever Butch Match. He loses and leaves on the brink of death. · February 13, 2002 - The Butcher dies due to complications he suffered during the Butch Match. There is talk in the gfwa OMEGA of renaming their new arena as "The Jimmy Cortez Arena" in memory of the legend of wrestling. · August 8, 2002 - The Butcher makes an amazing return to the wrestling world in a new federation called the World Wrestling Corporation. After many months of speculation that Jimmy Cortez was deceased, he appears out of no where, plotting vengence against Frostie, the man that nearly killed The Butcher in the first ever Butch Match. · October 27, 2002 - The Butcher finally gets his revenge on Frostie at the wWC's final event, Halloween Havoc, in the second Butch Match of all time. All though The Butcher has not stated it, many believe that this was Jimmy Cortez's final match of his career. He has overcome all the odds, beaten all of his opponents, and gained hoards of fans worldwide. There is nothing left to accomplish and this is a fitting way for him to go out too. Out on top with one final bittersweet victory over a man that destroyed his life. · December 5, 2002 - The Butcher opens up a wrestling school called "The Butcher's Clinic" in San Francisco, CA. This is Jimmy Cortez's way of giving back to the profession that game him so much.