Chad Fortune

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Chad Fortune
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Ring name(s)	Chad Fortune, Travis
Billed height	6'4"
Billed weight	240 lbs.
Born	August 13, 1967 Roswell, Georgia

Chad Fortune (born August 13, 1967) is a monster truck driver and former professional wrestler in the WWF, as part of the short lived tag team called Tekno Team 2000 with Erik Watts.

[edit] Professional Wrestling

In the WWF, Chad Fortune was renamed "Travis" while Erik Watts was renamed "Troy" and put in a tag team known as "Tekno Team 2000". Their gimmick was that they were two men from the future. The duo failed to achieve any real success. They both made their debut on the May 27, 1995 episode of Superstars in a victorious effort against Brooklyn Brawler & Barry Horowitz. They wrestled two more matches on TV before disappearing for a year, only to resurface back on WWF television in 1996. They still failed to achieve any real success and both men were released from the WWF.

[edit] Monster trucks

In 2000, SFX Entertainment (now Live Nation) signed a contract with World Championship Wrestling to bring WCW-based trucks to their USHRA Monster Jam series, which gave Fortune, through wrestling, his start in monster trucks. He was initially an unnamed "spokesman" for the nWo truck, who would give antagonistic interviews while the driver, Rob Knell, acted as being focused on the truck. Many in the industry were vocal against the use of professional wrestling gimmicks for drivers, and the truck only lasted one season.

The following year, Fortune began driving the WCW Nitro Machine truck in the winter season, then bounced around trucks during the summer. His real break came in 2002, when Karl Malone signed a deal with SFX/Clear Channel to create a truck called Power Forward. Fortune was chosen as the driver, and drove the truck for three years.

In 2005, Fortune got the call up to drive the newly created Superman truck. Based on his professional wrestling background, he decided to dye his hair black and alter his look to match the character of Superman. He has been fairly successful in the truck, and has made the final rounds of several stadium events.