TNA: Homicide, Part 1

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).

Hernandez

Ring name(s) Hernandez,,Hotstuff Hernandez,,Mr. Texas,,Shawn Hernandez
Billed height 6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Billed weight 295 lb (134 kg)
Born Houston, Texas
Trained by Tugboat Taylor,Texas Wrestling Academy,Rudy Boy Gonzalez,Shawn Michaels
Debut November 1996

Shawn Hernandez is an American professional wrestler of Puerto Rican descent, better known by his ring names, "Hotstuff Hernandez" and "Hernandez".

Hernandez is currently wrestling for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is a member of the Latin American Exchange and current NWA World Tag Team Champion with Homicide. He has also wrestled for independent promotions such as Ring of Honor, and in Japan.

Following the end of his Arena Football career, Hernandez trained under Tugboat Taylor in Texas All-Star Wrestling and debuted in November 1996.

In 2000, Hernandez brought his deathly ill second cousin Michael Hernandez to one of his matches in Chicago.

In 2000 and 2001 Hernandez worked for the World Wrestling Federation as a jobber, appearing on episodes of WWF Jakked.

In 2001, Hernandez began wrestling for the National Wrestling Alliance. At the October 13, 2001 NWA Anniversary Show in St. Petersburg, Florida he defeated Kevin Northcutt to win the NWA National Heavyweight Championship. He held the title for over a year before losing to Ricky Murdock on January 11, 2003 in Greenville, Missouri. Hernandez defeated Jorge Estrada for the NWA North American Heavyweight Championship on May 3, 2003 in Cornelia, Georgia. On September 28, 2003 in Hawaii, he lost the title to J.T. Wolfen.

Hernandez debuted in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling on the November 22, 2003 episode of TNA Xplosion, losing to Shane Douglas. He returned to TNA on June 16, 2004 as one-third of "The Elite Guard", a trio of mercenaries working for Jeff Jarrett. The Elite Guard (Hernandez, Chad Collyer and Onyx) feuded with the 3Live Kru over the next two months. On July 14, 2004, Jarrett, The Elite Guard and Ken Shamrock lost to Dusty Rhodes, Larry Zbyszko and the 3Live Kru in a ten man tag team bout. The Elite Guard remained with TNA until September 2004, when all three wrestlers were released.

After leaving TNA, Hernandez worked on the Texas independent circuit throughout 2005. In March 2006, he signed a new contract with TNA. He returned on the March 31, 2006 episode of TNA Xplosion as a member of the Latin American Exchange. On the August 24, 2006 episode of TNA iMPACT!, Hernandez and Homicide defeated A.J. Styles and Christopher Daniels for the NWA World Tag Team Championship. Styles and Daniels regained the titles from Hernandez and Homicide in an Ultimate X match on September 24, 2006 at No Surrender, but Hernandez and Homicide won the titles back on October 22, 2006 at Bound For Glory

Abyss vs. Former NFL Star

411mania.com:

"TNA News:Abyss vs. Former NFL Star, Lockdown Ticket Sales and More
Posted by Larry Csonka on 02.21.2007

Some Wednesday TNA news!

-TNA officials are happy with early ticket sales for the Lockdown PPV is St. Louis. One of the main reasons St. Louis was selected is because they are among the top rated cities for Impact viewership.

-The 2006 Genesis PPV has been released nationally this week. The show features Abyss winning the NWA Title and the first Angle vs. Joe match. [Credit:PWInisder.com]

-FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

'BAD MOON' RISON GETS RUDE RECEPTION IN PRO WRESTLING
Former Pro Bowl receiver falls victim to TNA's Abyss on iMPACT! this Thursday, February 22 at 9 PM, ET/PT only on Spike TV"

TNA: Chris Harris

Ring name(s) Chris Harris
Billed height 6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Billed weight 238 lb (108 kg)
Born December 25, 1973
Billed from Fort Wright, Kentucky
Wrestling Debut November 1994

"Wildcat" Chris Harris is a professional wrestler currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. He was one-half of the tag team America's Most Wanted along with partner James Storm.

Chris Harris began watching wrestling in 1986.He entered his first wrestling promotion under promoter Burt Prentice.Graduating from Covington Catholic High School in 1991, he attended Northern Kentucky University for two years, but dropped out in order to train as a wrestler. His initial training took place with Charlie Fulton and Kid Collins in Marion, Ohio while he worked as a truck driver for 7-Up, and he later trained with former World Wrestling Entertainment referee Roger Ruffen. Once his training was complete, Harris wrestled for independent promotions in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia for five years.

Along with several other wrestlers, including future tag team partner James Storm, Harris was signed to a World Championship Wrestling (WCW) developmental deal in October 2000. Terry Taylor proposed a country singer gimmick for him, but it was rejected by management (possibly because of similarities to the character of Jeff Jarrett). The highlight of Harris's WCW career was appearing as a fake version of the popular wrestler Sting at Halloween Havoc 2000 (this parody would be repeated in TNA in 2006). He wrestled on the WCW B-shows WorldWide and Saturday Night as part of R and B Security (the "Run and Bump" team) until the promotion was sold in early 2001.

On June 1, 2002, Harris was given a tryout match against his long-term independent circuit rival James Storm with the flegling wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action (TNA) by Bert Prentice. Both were subsequently signed to short term contracts. He wrestled in the Gauntlet for the Gold match on the first TNA Pay Per View, and was placed in a tag team with James Storm on the second Pay Per View by Bob Ryder, the creative force behind the team. Storm came up with the name "America's Most Wanted" for the team, which quickly became the heart of the TNA tag division.

In March and April of 2003 the duo teased a split, with Storm and Harris facing off in a singles match on May 7, 2003. Storm won the match, but the partners shook hands afterwards. Harris rejected Vince Russo's offer to join his stable of degenerates, Sports Entertainment Extreme (S.E.X).

When Storm was incapacitated by the recurrence of an old shoulder injury in early 2004, Harris received a NWA World Title shot on March 17, 2004 and was defeated by then champion Jeff Jarrett. He went on to compete in a "King of the Mountain" ladder match for the title on June 2, 2004, but was again bested by Jarrett. America's Most Wanted resumed teaming together, but on August 25, 2004, James Storm was sidelined with neck and shoulder injuries, leaving Harris without a partner. Harris teamed with Elix Skipper to win an NWA Tag Team Title for an unprecedented fifth time on September 8, 2004. Harris and Storm later reunited.

Harris has stated in the past that "I love TNA and plan on staying for a while". On January 16, 2005 Harris became a six time NWA Tag Team Champion (along with James Storm), winning the Tag Titles from Bobby Roode and Eric Young.

Harris would win the titles a seventh time, sixth time as part of AMW, after turning heel later in 2005 and beating The Naturals on October 15, 2005. In league with Jeff Jarrett, he would semi-reprise his role as a fake Sting when he would play the Crow Sting in a Planet Jarrett retrospective of Sting's career on TNA iMPACT! on January 7, 2006.

America's Most Wanted split as a team on the December 14, 2006 edition of iMPACT! during a tag team match with LAX in a Titles vs Team match. James Storm effectively chose the outcome of the match by assaulting Chris Harris with a beer bottle allowing him to be pinned by Homicide putting an end to AMW.

Harris and Storm have both rejected offers from World Wrestling Entertainment.

Harris also works regularly for NWA Cyberspace along with James Storm in the Tag Team division and as a singles Heavyweight. On November 19, in a match that was booked before AMW's heel turn, Harris was forced to fight against Jeff Jarrett for the NWA Cyberspace Heavyweight Championship (Though Jarrett was also NWA World Heavyweight Champion, that title was not on the line). Jarrett let Harris beat him with a Fingerpoke of Doom-style match, but NWA CS Commissioner Jasmin St. Claire immediately booked them for a three-way dance immediately with fellow Cyberspace and TNA wrestler "The Monster" Abyss. Abyss beat both and won the Cyberspace Heavyweight Championship.

Harris's dream opponent is Bret Hart. He is not a country music fan, however, he appeared in the video for the Clay Davidson song "I Can’t Lie to Me". In 1999 he married his girlfriend of four years, Susan. He also still wrestles indipendent shows in London, Kentucky.

TNA: Sonjay Dutt

Ring name(s) Sonjay Dutt
Billed height 5 ft 8 in (172 cm)
Billed weight 185 lb (84 kg)
Born April 7, 1982,Washington, D.C.
Billed from Bollywood,Bombay
Trained by Larry Sharpe
Debut September 2000

Retesh Bhalla (born April 7, 1982 in Washington, D.C.), better known by his ring name, Sonjay Dutt, is an Indian American professional wrestler, currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and Combat Zone Wrestling.

His stage name is modelled after that of famous Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt.

Sonjay Dutt is one of the first Indian American professional wrestlers; his parents moved to the United States of America from India in 1979, and most of his extended family still lives in New Delhi. Dutt graduated from the Kyda Pro Wrestling training school in northern Virginia. He perfected his craft inside the squared circle at Kyda pro wrestling for the first two years of his professional career. Dutt got his first break wrestling in Major League Wrestling in 2003.

Since then, he has worked for independent promotions such as Ring of Honor,UWA, Combat Zone Wrestling, NWA Virginia and has toured Japan with Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX.

Dutt began working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling on a regular basis in 2004. Sonjay began to be noticed after he participated in the America's X-Cup as apart of Team USA along with Jerry Lynn, Chris Sabin and Elix Skipper against Team AAA (Hector Garza, Mr. Águila, Juventud Guerrera and Abismo Negro). After several months, Dutt became the onscreen protégé of Sabu, with Raven using him to vicariously assault Sabu. In addition, Dutt acted as a mouthpiece for the perpetually mute Sabu. This angle was postponed and then dropped after Sabu was sidelined with various health problems, and in the interim Dutt made appearances with World Wrestling Entertainment, provoking rumours of an imminent contract offer.

Dutt's presence in TNA was reduced in late-2004 and early-2005 during the tenure of Dusty Rhodes as booker, but his role within the promotion was once again expanded after Rhodes resigned as booker. Dutt won a four-way X Division match at No Surrender 2005 on July 17, 2005, thus qualifying for the 2005 Super X Cup, but lost to Samoa Joe in the first round of the tournament.

In September 2005, Dutt, Shark Boy and Simon Diamond spent two weeks in India, where they visited several cities, promoting the debut of iMPACT! on ESPN Star Sports. On September 28 in Bhopal, a riot broke out when 1000 fans were excluded from an event after attendance exceeded expectations. None of the three TNA wrestlers were injured.

At Bound For Glory on October 23, Dutt defeated Austin Aries, Roderick Strong and Alex Shelley in a four way X Division match on the preshow.

In 2006, Dutt earned a spot on Team USA in the 2006 World X-Cup.

Dutt occasionally wrestles in full-length black tights adorned with the Ashoka Chakra on the outside of either leg.

On July 28th 2006, Sonjay Dutt lost to Último Dragón in UWA Hardcore Wrestling.

In November 2006, Sonjay won the 2006 Grand Prix Tournament Championship.

Throughout late 2006, early 2007, Sonjay Dutt was involved in the Paparazzi Championship Series, lead by Kevin Nash. Although he didn't win it (Alex Shelley), it put him over with the fans. He is now involved in a tag team with fellow X Divisioner, Jay Lethal. Kevin Nash has taken both Dutt and Lethal under his wing and promised to give them an extreme makeover.