Charlie Haas

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Charlie Haas
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Charlie Haas R.C. Haas
Billed height	6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Billed weight	242 lb (110 kg)
Born	March 27, 1972 Edmond, Oklahoma
Resides	Dallas, Texas
Billed from	Edmond, Oklahoma, Dallas, Texas
Trained by	Jim Kettner John Smith "Iron" Mike Sharpe Vince Sylva Jim Rogers
Debut	1996

This article is about the professional wrestler. For the film and television director, see Charles F. Haas. For screenwriter, see Charles S. Haas.

Charles David (Charlie) Haas Jr. (born on March 27, 1972), is an American professional wrestler currently wrestling on the RAW brand of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as one half of the World's Greatest Tag Team with Shelton Benjamin. He was an academic and wrestling All-American at Seton Hall University.

1 WWE career
2 Release
3 Return to WWE
4 In Wrestling
- 4.1 Theme music
5 Championships and accomplishments
6 Personal life
7 References
8 External links

[edit] WWE career

After working in various developmental territories, Haas debuted in the WWE on the December 26, 2002 episode of SmackDown! as a heel along with Shelton Benjamin as "Team Angle". The tag team was the "contingency plan" of Paul Heyman, and were intended to help WWE Champion Kurt Angle retain his title, attacking Chris Benoit and Brock Lesnar in an attempt to weaken them. Angle eventually fired Team Angle after he turned face during that time and they began to question his leadership. The duo then became the "(Self-Proclaimed) World's Greatest Tag-Team". The team won the WWE Tag Team Championship on two occasions before being separated when Benjamin was moved from SmackDown! to RAW in the 2004 WWE draft.

With Benjamin gone, Haas turned face and teamed up with Rico and his valet Miss Jackie to win the tag team titles once again. The team became a dominating force, with the strait-laced Haas clashing with the campy, charismatic Rico. After Rico was released, Haas struck out on his own again, accompanied by Miss Jackie. Haas would come out the loser in a match against Luther Reigns at the The Great American Bash 2004.

Haas was later involved in an angle in which he was in a love triangle with Miss Jackie (acknowledged on air as his fiancée) and Dawn Marie. The story culminated when Haas served as the referee in a match at Armageddon 2004 between the two women. After the match, Haas left both women (for kayfabe purposes; his off-screen relationship with Miss Jackie continued). Then he formed a tag team with Hardcore Holly. They had limited success on SmackDown!, including a feud with MNM for the WWE Tag Team Championships, but never won the titles.

[edit] Release

On July 6, 2005, Haas was released by World Wrestling Entertainment along with his wife, Jackie Gayda. He returned to Jersey All Pro Wrestling that same month, and began a feud for the JAPW Heavyweight Championship, Jay Lethal. On September 10 at JAPW Haas of Pain, Lethal defeated Haas to retain his title.

He won the Natural Heavyweight Championship at Ballpark Brawl V on August 13, 2005, defeating then-champion Christopher Daniels and Chris Sabin in a triple threat match. He successfully defended the title the next night at Ballpark Brawl VI against Harry Smith. He was stripped of this title when he returned to WWE, and has thus far been the only man to successfully defend the title.

During this time, Haas also competed in the 2006 ECWA Super 8 Tournament, getting into the finals but then losing to Davey Richards.

[edit] Return to WWE

In late December 2005 Charlie Haas re-signed with WWE, returning to OVW on February 22, 2006. He returned to WWE television on the April 17, 2006 episode of RAW as Rob Van Dam's handpicked opponent for his former partner, Shelton Benjamin. Haas defeated Benjamin in the ensuing match.

Haas would continue to wrestle on the lower midcard spot, often competing on HEAT as well as RAW sometimes.

On the June 5, 2006 edition of RAW, Charlie Haas inadvertently knocked Lilian Garcia off the ring apron as he was entering the ring. It was announced on WWE.com that as a result, Lilian suffered a sprained wrist. It was reported that he received no heat over this as everyone understood it was an accident (it should be noted that the injury was not a work). The result was a feud with Lilian's storyline love interest Viscera, and Haas's second heel run of his career in the WWE. Haas would make advances towards Lilian, at one point forcefully kissing her and then dropping her to the ground. Haas and Viscera continued to fight for Lilian's affection in the ring, until Lilian stated to the both of them that she wants to be "just friends." Haas gave Viscera an eye rake in anger, and a blinded Viscera accidentally gave Lilian a Samoan drop. Though it was unintentional, when both Charlie and Viscera had seen what had happened to their now former love interest, they simply had a laugh about it. Since then, Viscera and Charlie have become a tag team, usually found competing on WWE.com's HEAT in random matches until splitting in December 2006. After Shelton Benjamin won a match against Super Crazy on the December 4, 2006 edition of RAW, Haas came out to celebrate his win with a bewildered Benjamin. Haas and Benjamin announced the return of the World's Greatest Tag Team on the December 11, 2006 edition of RAW and they defeated The Highlanders in their return match.

[edit] In Wrestling

Finishing and signature moves

Haastile Takeover (Scoop lift into an inverted DDT)
Haas of Pain (There are solo and tag team variations; originally done in unison with Russ Haas)
Exploder suplex
Bridging German suplex
Dropkick
Northern Lights suplex
Overhead belly-to-belly suplex
Double underhook suplex
Moonsault
Missile dropkick

Managers

[edit] Theme music

Haas debuted new theme music in May 2006, a song performed by Eric & The Hostiles entitled Pay The Price. It was formerly used as the song for The Great American Bash 2005 pay-per-view, but WWE composer Jim Johnston changed the drum beat for Haas's theme. Additionally, it was offered as a bonus track on the WWE Wreckless Intent album as an iTunes exclusive download, to those who purchased the full album via that outlet's music store.