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| Crash Holly
Height: 5 ft 9 in Weight: 225 lbs. Real name: Michael John Lockwood Hometown: Salisbury, North Carolina Finishing move: The Crash DDT (DDT), Crash Landing / Bottom Feeder (Belly-to-back inverted mat slam) Pro debut: 1989 Other aliases: Johnny Pearson, "The Leprechaun" Erin O'Grady (Indies), The Green Hornet, The Green Ghost (Mexico), Crash (WWE), Mad Mikey (NWA-TNA) Career highlights: APW Light Heavyweight Champion, IWA Hardcore Champion, IWA Junior Heavyweight Champion, MEWF Cruiserweight Champion, PPW Tag Team Champion, PPW Young Guns Champion, WWE European Champion, WWE Light Heavyweight Champion, WWE World Tag Team Champion (w/Hardcore Holly), WWE Hardcore Champion (22) Trained by: Jerry Monti, Michael Modest, Ric Thompson Born in Anaheim, California, Lockwood made his wrestling debut in 1989 and competed in Bay Area Wrestling until 1994. He used the alias Johnny Pearson during his stay. In 1996, Lockwood moved to All Pro Wrestling (APW), where he became "The Leprechaun" Erin O'Grady. Lockwood became known especially for his matches with Vic Grimes. After viewing a tape of a match between O'Grady and Michael Modest, Extreme Championship Wrestling employee Taz contacted Lockwood about joining ECW. Prior to entering the World Wrestling Federation, he competed in Monterrey under a mask, using the alias The Green Ghost. Lockwood (now using the ring name Crash Holly) entered the WWF as the cousin of Hardcore Holly, whom he slightly resembled. He made his TV debut on the August 16, 1999 episode of RAW is War. The relationship between the cousins was strained, with the grizzled Hardcore Holly frequently threatening Lockwood. He was often seen bringing a weighing scale when he took out the gimmick of claiming himself to be well over 400 lbs along with Hardcore so that he will be considered as heavyweight. He was moderately successful, with his most notable achievement being his victory over Test for the WWF Hardcore Championship on the February 22, 2000 episode of SmackDown! Lockwood decreed that he must defend the championship twenty four hours a day, seven days a week ("24/7"). This meant that the title was permanently contested, not just in the course of sanctioned matches, and could thus change hands anywhere as long as a referee was present to administer the three count. Lockwood was frequently attacked by other wrestlers while in unlikely locations, including an airport, a funhouse, a circus and even in his hotel room. While Lockwood was often pinned, he normally immediately regained the title from his opponent. In total, he would win the title 22 times thus earning him the title "The Houdini Of Hardcore" (even though Raven won the title 5 more times than Crash did). Lockwood also held the WWF European Championship, WWF Light Heavyweight Championship and the WWF Tag Team Championship (with Hardcore Holly). In late 2000, Holly's onscreen "cousin" Molly Holly was introduced. In 2001, the Holly Cousins began a feud with The Dudley Boyz. In the course of this feud, Molly Holly began a relationship with Spike Dudley, leading to internal disputes within each family, as well as a Romeo & Juliet-style feud between the six of them. When the WWF was renamed World Wrestling Entertainment and then divided into two "brands", Lockwood was initially drafted to the RAW roster, where he had little success. Hardcore Holly was drafted to SmackDown! Lockwood later jumped ship to SmackDown! in the midst of a match with Jeff Hardy, shortly after Eric Bischoff, having been informed that a RAW wrestler would leave RAW to reunite with a sibling on SmackDown! that night, ordered a beatdown on Jeff (who he thought was leaving RAW to be with his brother Matt Hardy). In the weeks following Lockwood's jump to SmackDown!, Hardcore Holly suffered a serious injury during a match with Brock Lesnar which some attribute to the fact that Holly was Sandbagging Brock's moves. Hardcore took over a year to recover. The "Holly reunion" storyline was quickly scrapped and Lockwood was left with nothing to do until mid-2003. Later on SmackDown!, Lockwood (now referred to simply as Crash) joined Matt Hardy and Shannon Moore as part of the "Mattitude Followers" stable (as Moore's supposed apprentice, Crash was also referred to by Hardy as a "Moore-on") but failed to recreate his earlier success, and was released by the WWE in July 2003. Lockwood later joined TNA and was renamed Mad Mikey, as well as joining some of his friends at Pro Wrestling Iron, an offshoot of APW, in Hayward, California. |