Eventually, DeAndre Coleman, tired of having to hide his face behind the hockey mask, told Johnny B. he wanted a different gimmick. So Johnny B. brought in Coleman's brother, who was in college wrestling, William Fields, to take the place of Slayer, and one month later, brought DeAndre Coleman back in with a flat top and a go-tee, wearing black pants, black boots, and a leather jacket with shoulder spikes: a black German "punk". He called him Ring Troll, a man that made his mark by attacking people during a match by coming out from under the ring, thus, a ring troll. Upon arrival, he was brought into the crappy, curtain jerking nWo, and nWo manager Scarface said he wasn't concerned with winning matches, just hurting opponents. Well, unlike everyone else in the nWo, Ring Troll did win matches. In fact, the PDL League Champion, Iron Colossus, and his only top challengem Death Stroke, both told him to leave the nWo because he was too good for them. Eventually, the nWo turned face. They changed their stable name to the Yin Yang, and helped Iron Colossus and Death Stroke in their battles. However, only three weeks later, the Yin Yang turned against Iron Colossus and Death Stroke, declaring themselves to be nWo for life. The only people who didn't turn? A man named Lord of Illusions (who was never nWo, he came into the PDL as a Yin Yang member) and Ring Troll.
The nWo left the PDL right after the attack. In reality, all 34 curtain jerking members were fired except for GG Allin, who instead was teamed up with a man named Francis Casear Bacon Marino II and another Jim Big trainee, Sneaky Steve, and became a main event stable. However, Ring Troll and Lord of Illusions were accepted as mid-card wrestlers in the PDL. Yet, only days later, Lord of Illusions suffered 3rd degree burns over his face. As Ring Troll continued to do well for himself, Lord of Illusions trained with Mr. Big when Ring Troll gave Lord of Illusions the address to the gym. Months went by, and Lord of Illusions returned to Ring Troll's side, but this time under an executioner's mask and this time with MUCH more muscle mass, Scott Steiner-esque. He now called himself BeHeader, and the two became huge stars. As a way to take advantage of this, Johnny B. decided to pull a Sting and turned Ring Troll and BeHeader into free agents. They even went as far as to make it a stable. When Ring Troll and BeHeader became FREE AGENTs, Ring Troll debuted with a new look. He painted his face black with white streaks around his eyes, wore a long black trench coat, shaved his head bald, and wielded two black Chicago White Sox baseball bats. After a couple months of rebelling against the PDL and it's wrestlers, they looked as if they had joined Death Stroke's Death Squad. But they hadn't, and they attacked the Death Squad. The next week, they revealed themselves to be members of the Iron Colossuss' Pantheon Elite. They went on to win many PDL titles under the Pantheon banner. But, it wasn't meant to be.
Just a month after joining the Pantheon, Ring Troll and BeHeader began wrestling for the XWA, Xtreme Wrestling Alliance, with a man known as Eric Bohringer, E.G.B.'s older brother, as their manager. The XWA was on a much higher level than the PDL, as the PDL was just a league run in San Diego. It wasn't quite as small as an independant, but it wasn't as big as the XWA. Eric Bohringer had been employed by the XWA for quite some time, and he wanted to get involved in managerial duties instead of just being a referee. When the XWA hired Ring Troll and BeHeader after E.G.B. recommended them, Bohringer was finally able to become a manager, and he made a friend for life in Ring Troll. Soon, however, the XWA's money problems became evident, and they folded. Ring Troll and BeHeader no longer wanted to small atmosphere of the PDL, so they quit, and with Ring Troll's financial backing, Bohringer opened up his own federation, the IWZ. This is where Ring Troll finally made it big, as he won the IWZ World Heavyweight Title. It's also the first time he met Joe Linini, who was wrestling as Joe Pesci, and was the man who Ring Troll beat for the World title.
From 97 to 99, Ring Troll became a multi-time World champion among many other titles in many different leagues, but mostly in the IWZ. He wrestled in several World wide leagues, such as the XBWL, IWF-W, and in later years, the IWZ when it finally became a huge worldwide promotion. He helped Eric Bohringer become a multi-millionaire, while also earning more and more money from his paychecks in the wrestling federations and from the interest his 10 billion was earning in the bank. And in `99, in the XBWL, he even changed his gimmick. He was now going by his real name, DeAndre Coleman, and was no longer a face painting Sting/Undertaker wanna-be. Instead, he became an egotistical, money grubbing, billionaire who was obsessed with always winning. Not very far from his real life, as he was a billionaire, and he was ALWAYS winning, even against the odds.
Finally, in June of 1999, just days away from his 28th birthday, and four months after getting his wife, Victoria, pregnant, he won the XBWL World title, the second biggest accomplishment of his career (the first was in late 98, as he won the IWF-W(orld) World title, the first of four, with the IWF being the biggest federation in the world, having numerous lower leagues, IWF-E(ast), IWF-WE(st), IWF-S(outh), IWF-N(orth). The only way to be entered into the IWF-W was to win your federations title). Now, he was deciding it was time to move on with his life. The XBWL was his main goal, even though not his biggest accomplishment, and he had now achieved it. Coleman now decided it was almost time to hang up the tights. He lost the XBWL World Title a month later to one of his most hated rivals, "Dangerous" Dave Taylor.
Teens - Part 2
First Break - Part 3
Life Is Good - Part 4
Retirement - Part 5
New Job - Part 6
Back In The Game - Part 7
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