D-Ray 3000

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Ring name(s)	D-Ray 3000
Billed height	5 ft 11 in
Billed weight	180 lb
Resides	Detroit, MI
Trained by	Doug Chevalier, PrimeTime Tommy Johnson Sika
Debut	Sept.9,2000

D-Ray 3000 is a former NWA-TNA Superstar. He gained fame on the independent circuit, most notably for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. He uses the name "D-Ray 3000" due to his likeness to Andre 3000 of the rap group Outkast.

[edit] Career

The 5-foot-11, 180-pound D-Ray 3000 has worked all over the U.S. and in Canada. He initially trained to be a wrestler under Windsor, Ontario's "Canadian Destroyer" Doug Chevalier, and PrimeTime Tommy Johnson when he was just 16, before heading to Pensacola, Florida were he trained under Sika, one of the Wild Samoans.

[edit] Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

D-Ray sent a tape to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in 2003, and was signed after wrestling a tryout match. Upon entering TNA, D-Ray was paired with Shark Boy to form a tag team, periodically filming humorous vignettes outside the iMPACT! Zone. D-Ray's contract with TNA was for a year and after his contract was up in the summer of 2005. He went up to the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) for a tryout but his match with Simon Dean was cut 30 minutes befor the match. He returned to TNA in October 2006 for TNA's Bound for Glory pay-per-view in Detroit, Michigan for the "Kevin Nash Open Invitational X Division Gauntlet Battle Royal", reuniting briefly with Shark Boy before being eliminated by Austin Starr. Since then D-Ray 3000 has been wrestling all over the mid-west and east coast and he is still to this day one of the most talked about wrestlers that ever came out of TNA.