Nick Cvjetkovich

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Nick Cvjetkovich


Statistics
Ring name(s)	Sinn H.N. Hardcastle Lucifer Love Nicholas Sinn Nick Sinn The Original Sinn
Billed height	188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Billed weight	106 kg (234 lb)
Born	August 29, 1973 Toronto, Ontario
Resides	Orangeville, Ontario
Trained by	Ron Hutchinson Rob Fuego
Debut	2000

Nick Cvjetkovich (born August 29, 1973 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian professional wrestler of British and Serb descent, better known as The Original Sinn, or simply Sinn.

1 Career
2 Wrestling facts
3 Championships and accomplishments
4 Personal life
5 Books
6 Filmography
7 External links
8 See Also

[edit] Career

Cvjetkovich was trained as a wrestler by Rob Fuego and Ron Hutchison in Orangeville, Ontario. His debut match was in 2000 against El Fuego during the Apocalypse Wrestling Federation Iron Man Tournament at the Canadian National Exhibition. He remained with the AWF until February 2001, when he travelled to Memphis, Tennessee to work for Memphis Championship Wrestling and Power Pro Wrestling. He soon returned to AWF, and began working for the Insane Wrestling Federation in Detroit. He also worked several dates for Scott D'Amore's Border City Wrestling promotion in Windsor, Ontario, using the name Lucifer Love (as AWF employees were not allowed to work for regional competitors, Cvjetkovich used a different ring name and gimmick so he would not be found out). At this time, Cvjetkovich regularly teamed with Flesh Gordon as Sins Of The Flesh.

In May and June 2001 Cvjetkovich toured England with Brian Dixon's All Star Wrestling promotion, where he teamed with fellow Canadian Joe E. Legend. Shortly after returning from England, Cvjetkovich began working for Northern Championship Wrestling in Montreal. He returned to the AWF in late 2001 and once again participated in the Iron Man Tournament, before forming a tag team with Fabian Stokes known as High Maintenance.

On August 13, 2003 Cvjetkovich debuted in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. The following week he formed a tag team with Slash, replacing the absent Brian Lee as Slash's partner. Slash and Cvjetkovich were part of the The New Church stable along with Shane Douglas and Father James Mitchell. They were drawn into Douglas' feud with Raven and Raven's allies, The Gathering. On September 24 the New Church were defeated by Raven and The Gathering in a dog collar match, and on October 8 Cvjetkovich lost to Raven in a singles match.

In late 2003, Cvjetkovich appeared with NWA Bluegrass in Kentucky. On December 13 in Paintsville he defeated Chance Prophet for the NWA Bluegrass Heavyweight Championship. He also worked for the Independent Wrestling Revolution promotion, and at Fallout 2003 in Warren, Michigan on September 27 he and his partner "The Dark Omen" Elvis Elliot won the IWR Tag Team Championships in a three-way tag team match. Cvjetkovich and Elliot were stripped of the titles within a month.

Cvjetkovich and Slash left TNA, returning for two weeks in March 2004 to participate in a tournament for the vacant NWA World Tag Team Championships. They defeated Glen Gilberti and David Young in the first round, but were eliminated by Kid Kash and Dallas in the next round, and subsequently disappeared once more.

In late 2004, Cvjetkovich wrestled a number of dark matches for World Wrestling Entertainment. In 2005, he began promoting, staging an event called Pro Wrestling LIVE! on June 26 at the Oshawa, Ontario civic centre. In the main event, Cvjetkovich and his partner Elvis Ozbourne were defeated by Team Canada (Petey Williams and Bobby Roode).

In November 2005, Sinn returned to TNA Wrestling, partnering with Helvis as The Beasts of Burden.

Cvjetkovich's younger brother Steve is also involved in wrestling, operating the Squared Circle Wrestling Gym in Toronto.

Currently, Cvjetkovich still works for various independent wrestling promotions around North America such as the Pure Wrestling Association in Ontario, under the 'Sinn' moniker or as 'The Original Sinn'.

[edit] Wrestling facts

Finishing and signature moves

Clothesline from Hell (Lariat clothesline)
Hell-bow

Managers

Handsome Johnny Bradford
Tracy Brooks
Father James Mitchell

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

Independent Wrestling Revolution

1-time IWR Tag Team Champion (with Elvis Elliot)

Karate

Black Belt

National Wrestling Alliance

1-time NWA Bluegrass Heavyweight Champion

[edit] Personal life

Cvjetkovich was previously in a relationship with female wrestler Tracy Brooks. As of July 2005, he was in a relationship with fellow wrestler Infynity. He is a childhood friend of two wrestlers, Edge and Christian Cage. Sinn's real life brother Steven wrestles under the name Kobra Kai.

[edit] Books

Cvjetkovich is the writer, artist and publisher of the Fred the Possessed Flower comic book series (1999-2000). With his brother Steven, he wrote a comedy-horror novel called Between Chapters, which was self-published in September 2000. The Cvjetkovich brothers have variously published as Happy Predator Press and Happy Predator Publications.