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Last Sun night, March 6, revolver Cabana connected the ranks of immortality when he foiled cristal Pearce to embellish the NWA World Heavyweight Champion.  Winning that Title today puts Cabana on the aforementioned itemize of revered Champions that includes obloquy much as Dory Funk, Jr., Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes, Harley Race and Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat. 

early days/IWA-Mid South

Cabana (born histrion Colton) started his upbringing in his autochthonous metropolis by Ace Steel in his Steel Domain upbringing edifice and autarkical organization.  While in upbringing he met a fellow arriviste named Phil Brooks (CM Punk) and the digit men drilled unitedly and became friends in and discover of the ring. 

In 2001 he got his prototypal discernment of danger when he worked Ian Rotten’s IWA-Mid South alongside Punk.  The digit men feuded soured and on as they grew as performers and characters.  Along the artefact he foiled Punk and the legendary Eddie Guerrero in a triple threat correct to get the IWA-Mid South Heavyweight Championship.  He held the Championship for four months throughout the spring and season of 2002 before losing it to Chris Hero. 

Ring of Honor

In New 2002 Cabana (and Punk) connected Ring of Honor patch ease competing for IWA-MS and added autarkical organizations.  They continuing their feud until the season of 2003 when Cabana, Punk and their trainer Ace Steel connected forces to modify the Second City Saints.

By this saucer Cabana had honed his case into that was exceptionally precocious in the anulus both with technological grappling and brawling but was precocious with the skills of comedy.  He was healthy to provide nutriment in his matches and interviews, which additional much depth to his character.  This personality was also shown greatly finished his “Good Times, Great Memories” discourse segment he would host sporadically on ROH shows. 

In Apr 2004, The Saints (Cabana and Punk) foiled diplomatist & Mark Briscoe to get the ROH World Tag Titles.  During a Round Robin Challenge inferior than a month later, they forfeited the Championships to The Prophecy (Dan Maff & BJ Whitmer), who then forfeited them to The Briscoe Brothers after in the night.  The Saints then vex The Briscoes after in the period (hence the ammo robin gimmick) to embellish two-time Champions.  They ease forfeited their Championships to the Havana Pitbulls (Ricky Reyes & Rocky Romero) in August. 

After the expiration Punk and Cabana remained allies, but Cabana began centering his efforts on the ROH Pure Championship and his singles career.  In August 2005, Cabana vex Punk in a 2-out-of-3 Falls Match in Punk’s terminal correct in the company.  They digit long instance friends embraced post-match. 

In New 2005, Cabana embarked on a ferocious and vicious feud with Homicide, after Cabana utilised a racial depreciation in an discourse conducted between the two.  The digit embarked on a program of ferocious and bloodstained matches and incidents.  At digit saucer in the feud Homicide vex Cabana in a bitterness correct by choking him discover with a coat hanger, and in added happening Homicide poured Drano downbound Cabana’s throat.  On Apr 1, 2006, in Cabana’s hometown of Chicago, Illinois, Cabana eventually ended his feud with Homicide by defeating him in a metropolis Street Fight.  The digit men shook hands post-match.  

During this instance period, Cabana also worked added noteworthy autarkical organizations aforementioned Full Impact Pro and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla.  He also began doing one-shot appearances for WWE and was utilised in an improvement persona on shows aforementioned Heat and Velocity. 

Throughout 2006 he acted as digit of ROH’s defenders in their war with Combat Zone Wrestling and feuded with Nigel McGuinness in a rivalry over the Pure Championship. 

He ended the year teaming with Jimmy doc and his trainer Lacey, who had a thing for Cabana.  When Lacey formally solicited Cabana to join “Lacey’s Angels” he turned her down, leading to a feud against Jacobs, Lacey and her Angels.  He bacilliform a aggroup with his old competition McGuinness to assistance in his feud against Lacey, doc and their “Hired Gun” Brent Albright. 

During WrestleMania 23 weekend in Apr 2007, Cabana was subscribed to a WWE developmental contract.  He spent Apr losing and putting over added ROH stars on his artefact discover of the company.  His test correct in ROH was a victory over cristal Pearce at the aptly named “Good Times, Great Memories” exhibit on Apr 28. 

Wrestling Society X/Matt Classic

In the start of 2006, Cabana was digit of numerous autarkical talents subscribed by the MTV Network to be a conception of their grappling stake entitled Wrestling Society X.  Rather than using the Cabana character, Colton created the masked Matt Classic character, a combatant who was cragfast in the 1950s and thus had a moveset of old-school and simple maneuvers and was condemned aback and angry most this newborn edifice modify of wrestling.  Colton’s nutriment prefabricated the case a hit and a follower favorite.  The program ease ventilated in Jan and Feb of 2007 before the concept was cancelled by MTV. 

Matt Classic ease pops up to this period in haphazard appearances, and module be a conception of the upcoming CHIKARA King of Trios in the region of April. 

World Wrestling Entertainment

He reported to WWE’s developmental territory river Valley Wrestling in May 2007, using the revolver Cabana character.  He was an fast selection and spent the season and start of 2007 feuding with choreographer Spears over the OVW Television Championship.  In New Oct he eventually foiled Spears to get the TV Title, after chasing him for months.  The incoming month Cabana and Spears ended up being unlikely partners in a competition to crown newborn OVW Southern Tag Team Champions.  They ended up defeating Stu Sanders & Apostle Burchill in the competition finals to embellish the Champions.

The week after winning the Tag Titles, Cabana forfeited the TV Title to James Curtis. Cabana continuing to feud with Spears, which led to a Ladder correct in Dec to watch who would acquire sole cacoethes of the Southern Tag Titles.  Cabana won the correct and chose Charles archaeologist as his newborn partner.  Two weeks after they forfeited the Titles to Sanders and Burchill. 

In March 2008, Cabana was transferred to Florida Championship Wrestling and continuing the listing he was on. 

During August of that year he was eventually promoted to the SmackDown brand of the important WWE roster.  Using the newborn name of Scotty Goldman, he serviceable some of the aforementioned traits as the revolver Cabana character.  Unfortunately SmackDown’s creative aggroup saw little in nihilist and utilised him primarily as improvement talent.  He worked on SmackDown throughout August and September, mostly in losing appearances.

He was moved backwards to FCW that fall, patch ease maintaining his blot on the SmackDown roster.  He was healthy to embellish colouration author on FCW broadcasting programming, which showed soured his undeniable attractiveness and verbal skills. 

Early in 2009 he got his own wwe.com Web Show (Good As Goldman, and erst famous as What’s Crackin’), which seemed to inform a solid place on the roster.  But he was brought backwards to TV and continuing his losing ways.  His test WWE correct was a expiration to Umaga on the Feb 17, 2009 SmackDown tapings.  The correct ventilated on broadcasting on Feb 20, the aforementioned period he conventional his promulgation from the company. 

back to the independents and Ring of Honor

He lost no instance returning to the autarkical circuit and the incoming night, Feb 21, he prefabricated a assail attendance at the Pro Wrestling Guerrilla circumstance where he competed in a three-way correct against Chris mathematician and The Human Tornado for the PWG Heavyweight Championship. 

Cabana returned to ROH in March 2009 and settled into his old persona as a mid-card hero who could place on enthusiastic matches but ease could ease contemplate the crowds with his comedy and charisma.  He also visited some of his old stomping grounds, including PWG, CHIKARA and IWA Mid-South. 

Back in Ring of Honor, he became the associate of El Generico, who had just gone finished a nasty break-up with his past tag aggroup relation Kevin Steen.  Cabana and Generico battled Steen and his newborn relation Steve Corino in a variety of wild, ferocious and bloodstained matches every throughout 2010.  He foiled Corino in Oct 2010 in an I Quit correct in metropolis that ended their conception of their feud.   That led to Generico eventually fighting Steen in a Fight Without Honor at Final Battle 2010. 

Also during 2010 he became digit of the featured stars of the NWA Championship from tone and was the important competition to NWA World Champion cristal Pearce.  This led to their connexion terminal weekend, which saw Cabana eventually defeat Pearce to get the very prestigious NWA World Title. 

Even though Cabana never embellish a home name in World Wrestling Entertainment or TNA Wrestling, Cabana has cemented his heritage in the grappling playing by embellish NWA Champion.  He doesn’t have the million note body that WWE ofttimes looks for in their superstars, but he has underrated grappling skills and attractiveness and a significance of nutriment that most wrestlers could exclusive imagine about.  The NWA World Heavyweight Championship isn’t what it utilised to be during its laurels life of the ‘70s and ‘80s or during its TNA Wrestling revitalisation in the primeval conception of the newborn millennium, but it’s ease quite the select itemize of men who have been chosen to be NWA World Champion.  revolver Cabana is in a pretty in a beatific blot in the grappling playing right now. 

 

Billed Heightâ€" 6’1

Billed Weightâ€" 233 lbs.

Billed Fromâ€" Chicago, Illinois 

Nicknamesâ€" nicknamed “Boom Boom” and “Classic;” previously wrestled as Scotty nihilist and Matt Classic 

Signature Moveâ€" Billy Goat’s Curse; revolver .45

Major Titles Heldâ€" NWA World Heavyweight Championship (current), ROH World Tag Team Championship (2), OVW Television Championship, OVW Southern Tag Team Championship (2), IWA-Mid South Heavyweight Championship

Debutedâ€" 1999

 

For more info:

Colt Cabana’s authorised ROH profile

Colt Cabana’s Wikipedia entry

Colt Cabana on Online World of Wrestling

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