Bobby Lashley
Bobby Lashley

Height: 6 ft 3 in (191 cm)
Weight: 273 lb (124 kg)
Real name: Franklin Roberto (Bobby) Lashley
Hometown: Junction City, Kansas (billed from Colorodo Springs, Colo.)
Finishing move: The Dominator (Inverted Front Powerslam), Running Powerslam
Pro debut: 2003
Other aliases: Blaster Lashley (OVW), "The Real Deal", Lashley (WWE)
Career highlights: WWE United States Champion, ECW World Heavyweight Champion (2)
Trained by: Ohio Valley Wrestling

WWE profile:

The focused, driven Bobby Lashley has always been clear about his ultimate goal. He’s wrestled his entire life, all with the purpose of one day entering sports-entertainment. He’s a three-time wrestling national champion and a four-time wrestling All-American.

He’s also a two-time Armed Forces Champion and took home the silver medal in the 2002 CISM World Championships — competing against the best of the rest of the world’s military.

Yet, for Lashley, all that was a precursor to training for his WWE, and ultimately, his ECW career. This mixed martial arts expert is already a renowned champion at the amateur level, and now Lashley has begun his climb toward stardom.

Bobby Lashley's dramatic arrival in ECW shook the Land of the Extreme at its foundation, as he speared his way through the dominant Big Show to sign the contract to be the final participant in the Extreme Elimination Chamber. This move not only raised the eyebrows of those involved in the Chamber match at December to Dismember, but also put the entire ECW roster on notice.

Ultimately, Lashley would seize the moment within the first-ever weapons-filled Chamber by outlasting five competitors to become the ECW World Champion on Dec. 3.