Wrestler Name: Mr. BIG Real Name: Gerwyn Rhys Edwards Inducted: 2003 (Nominated by TWF Fans) Notes: Current TWF Managing Director & CEO 5x TWF World Champion Former RWF, XCW, WEW, NCW, XWF, HDW World Champion Perhaps the most overdue inductee in any Hall of Fame. Although some people wouldn't like to admit it, Mr. BIG, not Marz, made the TWF what it is today. Very few people have anything bad to say about him at all. He sacrifices himself for business and for his friends. As part of the Original 5, Biggie kept the TWF going through it's tough times. The story began with the very first TWF Grit BasH, where AJ Jeffers defeated Mr. BIG to become TWF World Champion. However, Biggie pinned him on the first Friday Nitro to gain the crown. Biggie then began his 200+ day run as TWF Champion, defeating allcomers in his quest to keep the crown his. To begin with, Mr. BIG was hated by the fans, who seemed to hate him because he had a cocky air about him, and the fact that he was the leader of FX, where all he seemed to do was boss people around from the FX battlebus. But at Summer Break 2000, an astonishing double turn happened. Mr. BIG was cheered and his opponent 'Real Deal' Murphy was booed out of the building. The fans haven't stopped cheering since. A few months after that, Mr. BIG walked into the XWF promotion, where he left an un-deniable legacy, becoming the first Intercontinental Champion and the very first 2-time XWF World Champion. Biggie had arrived. He met many people there who influenced his career: The Bandit, JT Money, VP Rivers, Ottobomb, Bubba Jones, Big Sexy Badass, Silver, Tom Nolan and so on. He became XWF Owner in December 2001, but that was not a success at all and gave back ownership to Bandit, who shut the promotion soon after. Many have blamed Mr. BIG because of this, but his running of the TWF has defied their expectations. March 4th 2002. The date sends a chill down many people's spine. An episode of Monday Raw is War was Main Evented by High Voltage and The Shott in a Hardcore Match. High Voltage through out the night dropped hints that a former TWF Superstar would return that night. Triple J was many people's favourite to return, but then something magical happened. During the match, the TWF Arena lights went out and Mr. BIG's XWF Entrance began! The entire crowd exploded with cheers and the few who said Mr. BIG would return were cheering louder. BANG! The immortal words of 're-Arranged' played as Biggie walked slowly down the ramp to deafening cheers from the entire crowd. Shott and HV stopped and looked stunned as Biggie slide into the ring and debuted his new finishing manuever: The BIG Storm. Biggie reunited with his friend Marz and the TWF was THE wrestling promotion. Everyone was talking about it. Many, including Biggie have called it 'The Golden Era'. Marz however turned his back on Biggie that August and formed Total Extreme Championship Wrestling (TECW). Many argued that Marz used his position as Biggie's friend to gain knowledge so that he would form his own promotion. He did just that. For the first time in it's history, TWF and more specifically Mr. BIG, was out-witted and out-smarted. TWF fought back but TECW ruled all, become #1 that September. October and November saw TECW struggle and Mr. BIG became IC Champion and he also guided the TWF back to #1. Many see that Mr. BIG's leadership during the high-point of the war was his finest hour, masterminding the TWF's revenge on TECW. We all know how that story ended. Since then, Mr. BIG embarked on feuds with Hawke, 'Stone Kold' Karl Davies, Stephen Dimmock, Frekishi and Jason Davies. It was in his feud with Frekishi that one of the most infamous moments in TWF history occured, as Frekishi powerbombed Mr. BIG almost 60 feet from the top of a TotalTron to the ground. Biggie only walked away with a shoulder injury, but that kept him out of action for almost 6 months. When he returned, it was right back where he started, returning at No Way BacK to cost Mr. Edwards's team the 5-on-5 elimination match. The Z-Pack was re-united as Biggie and NJS continued their reign at the top of the TWF, bringing their own brand of humour with it, that made them one of the most popular wrestlers in professional wrestling. At Summer Break V at the TWF Arena in 2004, Mr. BIG finally helped his friend NJS win the TWF Full House, partnering him to win the elusive TWF Tag-Team Championships. However, many noticed Biggie was not the same after his return. He was not at his best and he seemed to have lost his edge. Already he felt his career was taking it's toll on his personal life and his health, with a heart scare in mid-2005. In January 2005 however, Mr. BIG applied for the Managing Director's position in the TWF that was then held by his grandfather, Douglas Edwards. Biggie won the election to become the MD and this was announced at Shockwave. On the episode of Grit BasH following No Way Back that year, Mr. BIG dropped one of the biggest bombshells in wrestling: he was retiring. Biggie however said he wanted one last match with an old enemy for old time's sake: Hawke. The two contested argueably the greatest wrestling match in TWF history that had the ENTIRE ARENA standing throughout. Biggie won the match and with some emotional scenes afterward, the old enemies shook hands and traded Cherry Cokes. Mr. BIG, around this time, was one of the people behind the RWF's successful return, pumping his own money into promoting shows, something he had not done since the TWF's early days. These RWF shows were a big success until lack of support from local arenas, already in demand with XCW and WEW, dried up and the RWF was unable to book anywhere big enough to hold shows. Biggie did not disappear from the TWF for long however, as he made an appearance at Against All Odds in June with his brother and grandfather to announce the nominees for the TWF Hall of Fame. Biggie also made an appearance at Summer Break VI, presenting the TWF World Championship belt to the new champion AJ Jeffers at the shows end, in the same way he presented the belt to Frekishi the year before. Following Summer Break VI, the TWF entered it's long hiatus that had many doubting whether it would return. Biggie continued in his roles as TWF Managing Director, and as the host of his successful late night talk show, "The Last Word". It was on this show, he emotionally told the audience of the troubles facing him in his personal life, surrounding his health and other aspects of his personal life, such as when Louise left NJS. On March 12th 2006, almost one year to the day after his retirement, Biggie announced that the TWF would return for a one-off show to be broadcast on Pay-Per-View entitled 'One Night Only', to test the waters for the TWF's return. That "test" turned into a full-blown return of the TWF, and more importantly, Biggie announced his intentions to return to wrestling on a regular basis.