Ring name(s) The Latin Terror,Homicide
Billed height 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Billed weight 220 lb (100 kg)
Born Brooklyn, New York, New York
Billed from Bed-Stuy Do or Die Brooklyn, New York
Trained by Manny Fernandez
Debut March 5, 1993
Nelson Rodriguez Erazo (born in Brooklyn, New York, New York) is an American professional wrestler of Puerto Rican descent, better known by his ring name, Homicide. Homicide is currently working for Ring of Honor where he is a former ROH World Champion, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling where he is one half of the NWA World Tag Team Champions. In TNA, he is one third of the Latin American Exchange with his partner, Hernandez and manager Konnan. In ROH, he is managed by Julius Smokes, collectively known as The Rottweilers.
Erazo was a wrestling fan from the age of five, and decided that he wanted to become a wrestler at the age of fifteen. After amassing a series of athletic qualifications including football and amateur wrestling, he was offered a scholarship to the University of Miami, which he rejected, preferring to pursue "fast money". Erazo trained himself as a wrestler in a bodega, debuting on March 5, 1993. After wrestling for three years without any formal training, Erazo attended a professional wrestling school in New Jersey operated by Manny Fernandez.
Erazo initially wrestled as The Latin Terror, a reference to his Puerto Rican ethnicity. He grew bored with the gimmick in 1995, and decided to create a new character based on his own past. Erazo had been a gang member as a youth, and he incorporated this into the Homicide character, taking his ring name from an episode of America's Most Wanted where a man was arrested for the crime of homicide.
As Homicide, his stiff wrestling style, extensive use of weapons during matches and gangsta gimmick have led to frequent, sometimes pejorative, comparisons to New Jack.
Erazo worked on the independent circuit throughout the 1990s. While on a year-long hiatus from wrestling, he operated a training school in New York known as The Doghouse along with Laithon and Lowlife Louie. The Doghouse produced approximately twenty two graduates, including a number of ROH wrestlers, most notably Low Ki, now known as Senshi in TNA.
Erazo also formed a tag team called The Natural Born Sinners with Boogalou (which saw Boogalou wear a Leatherface mask and Homicide wear a Michael Myers mask).
Billed height 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Billed weight 220 lb (100 kg)
Born Brooklyn, New York, New York
Billed from Bed-Stuy Do or Die Brooklyn, New York
Trained by Manny Fernandez
Debut March 5, 1993
Nelson Rodriguez Erazo (born in Brooklyn, New York, New York) is an American professional wrestler of Puerto Rican descent, better known by his ring name, Homicide. Homicide is currently working for Ring of Honor where he is a former ROH World Champion, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling where he is one half of the NWA World Tag Team Champions. In TNA, he is one third of the Latin American Exchange with his partner, Hernandez and manager Konnan. In ROH, he is managed by Julius Smokes, collectively known as The Rottweilers.
Erazo was a wrestling fan from the age of five, and decided that he wanted to become a wrestler at the age of fifteen. After amassing a series of athletic qualifications including football and amateur wrestling, he was offered a scholarship to the University of Miami, which he rejected, preferring to pursue "fast money". Erazo trained himself as a wrestler in a bodega, debuting on March 5, 1993. After wrestling for three years without any formal training, Erazo attended a professional wrestling school in New Jersey operated by Manny Fernandez.
Erazo initially wrestled as The Latin Terror, a reference to his Puerto Rican ethnicity. He grew bored with the gimmick in 1995, and decided to create a new character based on his own past. Erazo had been a gang member as a youth, and he incorporated this into the Homicide character, taking his ring name from an episode of America's Most Wanted where a man was arrested for the crime of homicide.
As Homicide, his stiff wrestling style, extensive use of weapons during matches and gangsta gimmick have led to frequent, sometimes pejorative, comparisons to New Jack.
Erazo worked on the independent circuit throughout the 1990s. While on a year-long hiatus from wrestling, he operated a training school in New York known as The Doghouse along with Laithon and Lowlife Louie. The Doghouse produced approximately twenty two graduates, including a number of ROH wrestlers, most notably Low Ki, now known as Senshi in TNA.
Erazo also formed a tag team called The Natural Born Sinners with Boogalou (which saw Boogalou wear a Leatherface mask and Homicide wear a Michael Myers mask).
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