Report Last Updated - 5/03 (Winter)
Real Name - Mike Alfonso
Birthdate - 1/24/65
6'6" 292 lbs. - Tampa, FL

Aliases - The Gladiator

Athletic background - n/a

Teachers - Steve Keirn

Professional background - FMW, ECW(`98), All Japan(`99), ECW(`99-`00), WCW(`00-`01), WWF/WWE(`01-)

Groups - ZEN, The New Blood, Team Canada, The Alliance

Career Highlights -
- Beats Hayabusa for his first of two FMW Brass Knuckles titles
- Defeats Super Leather for his second FMW Brass Knux title
- Wins the Independent World Heavyweight title from W*ing Kanemura
- Returns from a serious injury and wins the ECW World Heavyweight in a Triple Threat match against Taz and Masato Tanaka
- Defeats Tanaka for his second ECW World title

Finisher(s) -
- Running Awesome Bomb
- Kamikaze Awesome Bomb (Top Rope Powerbomb)
- Flying Spalsh

Favorites -
- Flying Clothesline
- Liger Bomb
- Big Boot
- Big Splash
- Lariat

Ringwork Rating -
move set - 5
science - 0
aerial - 3
power - 7
strikes - 5

Intangible Rating -
entertainment - 4
selling - 5
bumping - 5
heat - 5
carrying - 4
push - 3
potential - 3

Serious Injuries - ACL (Required Surgeries)

Outlook - Mike Awesome's career looked pretty rough a few years back. As he sprained his ankle and tore his ACL. He dropped out of the scene, but retutned in a big way. After great preformances in AJPW, Awesome returned to ECW, where he immediately won the World title. After leaving, Awesome went to WCW, where he was largely misused. Though he was been held back, Awesome is a decent big man, who has accomplished much in a relatively short career. Now in the WWE, he has really struggled. His strengths have largely been overlooked and he seldom can have a match that people even care about. Unless the WWE starts catering to him by pairing him with the right people, Awesome's game will drop off more and his future may even be hurt.