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
8th during an episode of Nitro. Over the next few months, Blitzkrieg
would face several of the top cruiserweights and would face Juventud Guerrera
at Spring Stampede in a match to determine the number contender, in which
Guerrera gave Blitzkrieg a Juvi Driver off the top rope for the victory. Guerrra’s
title shot turned into a four-way boat with Blitzkreig, Psicosis, and the
champion Rey Mysterio Jr. Psiciosis would pin Blitzkrieg for the win and the
would become the champion, as for Blitzkrieg he would get another shot at the
title once Mysterio Jr reclaimed the title, but would go down in defeat.
Blitzkrieg would wrestle on several house shows before meeting Evan Karagias in
a number one contenders match but would lose and retire from wrestling a month
later. Blitzkrieg’s final match was a tag team with Kaz Hayshi where they would
lose to Guerrera and Sliver King. Blitzkrieg would be become a full-time computer
technician and would later become registered nurse after graduating from University of Texas at Austin. 
On December 12, 2004 at a wrestling event
in California, Blitzkrieg finalized his retirement from the ring by allowing
Jack Evans to assume the Blitzkrieg gimmick and attire. Evans become inspired to
become a pro wrestler because of Blitzkrieg. Evans would compete Blitzkrieg II
for a short time to honour the original Blitzkrieg.
In 1999, the Wrestling Observer named
Blitzkrieg the Rookie of the Year and with ranked as the 99th best
wrestler on the PWI 500. To this day, wrestling fans wonder what kind of career
Blitzkrieg could have had if he had continued his in-ring career. He had the
talent to be a decent star, but we will truly never know how blitzkrieg’s
career would have ended.
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