Mike Diamond

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For the Beastie Boy Mike D., see Michael Diamond.

Mike Diamond was a professional wrestler better known as Kortsia Korchenko or Skull Murphy, Jr..

[edit] Career

Mike Diamond started wrestling in 1984 as Skull Murphy, Jr. in Tennessee's Mid-Southern Wrestling.

In 1986, he changed his gimmick to that of the "Russian" persona Kortsia Korchenko. He went to Mid-South Wrestling just as it was changing into the Universal Wrestling Federation and started a feud with the patriotic Bill Watts. He joined Eddie Gilbert's "Hot Stuff, Inc." and often teamed with Ivan and Nikita Koloff. When Jim Crockett Promotions purchased the UWF, Diamond went back to the independents. He also promoted a few shows of his own and, briefly, operated a wrestling school in Colorado Springs, CO. in late 1992-early 1993.