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Chase Tatum

Chase Tatum Born: November 3, 1973 in Atlanta, Georgia Died: March 23, 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia Chase Tatum against Dave Taylor Chase Tatum is best remembered for being a member of Master P’s No Limit Soldiers. Tatum started his WCW training at the WCW Power Plant after winning the Mr. Georgia bodybuilding competition and started his career as an enhancement talent and was part of a tag team with Master Blaster Blade (Al Green), Tatum was known as Master Blaster Iron, and the team was known The Master Blasters. After a year in WCW, Tatum become a member of the No Limit Soldiers and feuded against The West Texas Rednecks. In 1999, Tatum had a WCW World Television title match against Rick Steiner in a losing effort. Tatum was released from WCW and wrestled once in UPW against Prototype (future John Cena) in a losing effort before retiring from wrestling because of severe back problems.  His back problems led to a dependence to painkillers, leading to an acciden...

Bobby Duncum Jr

Bobby Duncum Jr Born: August 26, 1965 in Amarillo, Texas Died: January 24, 2000 in Austin, Texas When you look at the size, look, and in-ring ability, Duncum Jr had the tools to become a star, but because Duncum Jr was taken from the wrestling world too soon, we will never find out what could have been for the big Texan. Bobby Duncum Jr started his career in the 1992 with Global Wrestling Federation (GFW). Duncum Jr would form a tag team with Johnny Hawk known as The Texas Mustangs and win the GFW Tag Team Championships against the Rough Riders (Black Bart and Jonny Mantell). A few months later, the Mustangs would lose the title to The Bed Breed (Axl and Ian Rotten) and the team would disband.  After a two-year hiatus from wrestling, Duncum Jr would make his in-ring return with All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) teaming up with Gary Albright, Joel Deaton in a winning effort against Eagle, Lacrosse, and The Patriot. Duncum Jr would wrestle in single and six-man tag...

Blitzkreig

Blitzkrieg Born: August 2, 1975 in Southern California There may never be wrestler with the impact and a career as short as Blitzkrieg. The cruiserweight division was a big part of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and for a brief time Blitzkrieg was one of the top wrestlers in the division with his high-flying style and high impact moves. Blitzkrieg started in wrestling career in later 1994 with All Pro Westling (APW) in a tag team match with Hellblazer as his partner. Blitzkrieg and Hellblazer would go on to lose the match and would begin feuding with each other. The feud would reach the boiling point in August 1997, in tag team where Blitzkrieg would team with Super Dragon in a winning effort over Hellblazer and American Wild Child.   By 1998, Blitzkrieg signed with WCW and made is television debut against Rey Mysterio Jr on Februray 8 th during an episode of Nitro. Over the next few months, Blitzkrieg would face several of the top cruiserweights and would face...

The Renegade

  The Renegade Born: October 19, 1965 in Marietta, Georgia Died: February 23, 1999 in Atlanta, Georgia Was the Renegade a rip-off of the Ultimate Warrior? Yes. Renegade with Savage, Hart, and Hogan The Renegade had a Warrior-like backstory as Hulk Hogan proclaimed; he found The Renegade atop a mountain of human bodies (sounds like a Manowar album cover). Hogan said The Renegade was the powerful man he had ever met, and he was unlike the Ultimate Warrior, but like the Warrior, The Renegade ran to the ring; he was a power-based wrestler, had face paint, long wild hair, and did several of the Warrior’s signature moves, including his finishing move, the Ultimate Splash which The Renegade called his the Renegade Splash. But, unlike the Warrior, Renegade was able to do more in the ring than the Warrior could as he was able to jump off the top rope and handspring-like move which was rather impressive for a man of his size. The Renegade might have been based on th...