Vic Grimes

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Vic Grimes
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Grimes Key Vic Murdoch Vic Grimes
Billed height	6 ft 4 in (193 cm)
Billed weight	315 lb (143 kg)
Born	January 3, 1963 New York, New York
Resides	Sacramento, California
Trained by	Michael Modest Spike Dudley Dory Funk Jr.
Debut	1996

Vic Grimes is a professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling, his tenure in Xtreme Pro Wrestling, and his short run in the World Wrestling Federation as Key.

1 Career
2 In wrestling
3 Championships and accomplishments
4 References

[edit] Career

Grimes began his career in California's All Pro Wrestling promotion, where he had a classic series of matches against "Leprechaun" Erin O'Grady. This "little man vs. big man" feud between the two even saw O'Grady actually run over Grimes' leg with a car.^[1] Grimes would also face off against Donovan Morgan, Michael Modest, and "Brown Bomber" Robert Thompson during his time in APW and developed a reputation for taking insane bumps for such a large wrestler.

Jim Cornette saw a tape of Grimes and O'Grady's feud in All Pro Wrestling and scheduled them for a dark match before an edition of Monday Night RAW. WWF officials were so impressed by the match that they signed both men to contracts on the spot; it was the first time in 15 years that both wrestlers who participated in a dark match were signed to contracts after one night. Grimes would be moved to the Memphis developmental territories before being brought up to WWF TV under the ring name Key. As Key, Grimes formed a short-lived drug dealer gimmick along with Droz and Prince Albert and feuded with The Godfather. However, The Godfather suffered an injury just as the feud between the two was developing, which led to Grimes being taken off TV.

The WWF encouraged Grimes to work for the Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion to further develop his skills. There, Grimes joined Tony DeVito and Spanish Angel to form Da' Baldies. The highlights of his ECW tenure were a fast-paced match against Kid Kash, an ECW World Heavyweight Title shot against Mike Awesome, and a Danbury Street Fight with Tommy Dreamer.

During ECW's Living Dangerously pay-per-view in March 2000, a breakdown in communication between New Jack and Grimes led to both men tumbling off a 20-foot high scaffolding rig onto concrete. Jack suffered brain damage and was permanently blinded in his right eye, which kept him out of wrestling for several months.

This was not be the last confrontation between New Jack and Grimes as the Xtreme Pro Wrestling promotion took the real-life incident and turned it into a storyline. During this feud, New Jack dived off platforms that ranged from 15-20 foot and even a 35-foot-high platform with the purpose of putting Grimes through tables.

The feud culminated in February 2002, when Jack threw Grimes off a scaffolding rig, sending him crashing to the ring 40 feet below . There were over 10 tables stacked on top of each other to break the fall, but Grimes missed all but two of them and came within less than a foot of missing the ring completely. Grimes dislocated his ankle on the ring ropes and suffered multiple other injuries from the incident. Towards the end of this match, Jack broke from the script and legitimately electrocuted Grimes with a tazer.

In the 2005 documentary Forever Hardcore, New Jack claimed that he had intentionally thrown Grimes too hard in the hope that he would be injured or die.

Other highlights of Grimes' XPW tenure included a violent match-up involving Sabu, feuds involving Shane Douglas and SNUFF, and a number of match-ups with cruiserweights such as Psichosis, Little Guido, and his trainee, Altar Boy Luke. During the first half of his run in XPW, he was a prominent member of the Black Army stable, headed by XPW CEO Rob Black.

After XPW folded, Grimes went on to work for various California independent promotions such as Supreme Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Iron, and perhaps most notably Full Contact Wrestling.

[edit] In wrestling

Nicknames
- "The Master of West Coast Violence"
- "The Vicious One"
- "Vicious" Vic Grimes

Finishing and signature moves
- Grimes Cutter (Catching midair stunner)
- Grime Time (Sitout crucifix powerbomb off the middle turnbuckle)
- Grimes-U-Up
- Face Eraser
- Just Another Victim
- Powerbomb
- Victimizer (Canadian backbreaker drop)
- Victimizer 2.0 (Iconoclasm)
- Victimizer 3.0 / Wild Fandango (Belly-to-back inverted mat slam, occasionally off the middle turnbuckle)
- Grimessault (Moonsault)
- Arm twist ropewalk leg drop
- Flying somersault senton
- Flying corkscrew somersault senton
- Flying frog splash
- Scoop into a facebuster
- Signature illegal weapon: Pizza cutter

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

All Pro Wrestling
- 1-time APW Universal Heavyweight Champion
- 2-time APW Tag Team Champion (1-time with Little Dic Grimes, and 1-time with Frank Murdoch)