Chase Stevens

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Chase Stevens
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Statistics
Ring name(s)	Glacius, Chase Bradley, Lance Taylor, Shadow Walker, Chase Stevens
Billed height	6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Billed weight	220 lb (102 kg)
Born	January 17, 1979 Washington, Indiana
Resides	Nashville, Tennessee
Billed from	Santa Maria, California
Trained by	Tracy Smothers, Mike Samples
Debut	1998

Chase Stevens (born January 17, 1979) is an American professional wrestler. He is currently working in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and is best known as the member of The Naturals along side his tag team partner Andy Douglas.

1 Career
- 1.1 The Naturals
- 1.2 Newly Franchized
2 Wrestling facts
3 Championships and accomplishments
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Career

In high school, Chase Stevens was a Golden Gloves boxing champion. After graduating, he enlisted in the United States Army. Upon receiving his discharge in 1997, Stevens began working in a video store, and opened a boxing school, planning to turn professional. However, after attending a wrestling training session in order to watch a friend, Stevens decided to become a wrestler and joined the training school. After several weeks, veteran wrestler Tracy Smothers took him under his wing and became his trainer and mentor. Stevens debuted in 1998 under a mask as Glacius, losing to fellow trainee Johnny B. Dazzled.

Stevens found a niche as a tag team specialist, teaming with Blaze as High Velocity and Cassidy O'Reilly as The Hotshots. The latter team appeared with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in July 2002, and were given full time contracts. The team split when Reilly left TNA due to travel problems, and Stevens was sent to USA Championship Wrestling for seasoning.

In USA Championship Wrestling Stevens was placed in a tag team with Andy Douglas by Bob Ryder. While on a fishing trip they chose the name Natural Heat, which was later shortened to The Naturals. The Naturals became a pair of sneaky, cheating heels.

The Naturals began working for Jerry Lawler's Memphis Wrestling promotion in 2003, where they were renamed The Alternative Express. The Alternative Express - a gothic pair of rock fans who wore black clothing and recolored their hair and fingernails - were managed by The Goddess Athena.

[edit] The Naturals

The Naturals were brought into TNA in late 2003, immediately beginning a lengthy feud with America's Most Wanted. In the course of the feud, they defeated America's Most Wanted for the NWA World Tag Team Championships on July 7, 2004 in a twelve second long match after hitting James Storm with one of the title belts. The Naturals successfully defended their titles against Triple X, but were eventually beaten by Chris Harris and Elix Skipper (one member of each team) on September 8, 2004.

In 2005, The Naturals formed a stable with Chris Candido, who also became their manager. On April 26 they defeated America's Most Wanted to become NWA World Tag Team Champions for a second time. The sudden death of Candido two days later led to a surge in popularity for The Naturals, eventually turning them face.

On June 19, 2005 at TNA Slammiversary 2005 The Naturals were assisted in a title defence against Team Canada by Jimmy Hart. They were managed by Hart throughout mid-2005, with their reign ending on the October 22 episode of TNA iMPACT! when they lost to America's Most Wanted following interference from Jeff Jarrett and Gail Kim. They were defeated by AMW in their rematch at TNA Bound for Glory 2005 on October 23, again following interference from Kim.

During the October 25 iMPACT! tapings, Stevens injured his neck after landing badly during a match. He was diagnosed as having suffered an avulsion fracture of his C5 and C6 vertebrae, in addition to herniating his C4 vertebra (described by TNA as the "mildest form of trauma associated with a broken neck"). The injury did not require surgery, and Stevens returned for TNA Genesis 2005 on November 13, teaming with Douglas and Lance Hoyt in a loss to the Diamonds in the Rough.

In April 2006, Stevens began a bit of singles work in light of his partner being put on the shelf by Scott Steiner. Stevens' singles run did not go overly well, as he was unable to post a victory in any of his competitions, losing to Samoa Joe twice, Abyss once, and in the Xscape match at TNA Lockdown 2006.

In June 2006, Stevens and Douglas were picked up by returning TNA Star Shane Douglas and he approached them, asking them to be their manager, the duo accepted his offer and have recently been 'training' which has been shown on several vignettes which have aired on iMPACT!.

[edit] Newly Franchized

At TNA Victory Road 2006 The Naturals returned in brand new black and yellow attire (to replace their black and pink attire) and were managed by Shane Douglas. They were called 'The Newly Franchized Naturals' in reference to Shane's nickname 'The Franchize'. and beat The Diamonds In The Rough. On the August 17 edition of iMPACT, Chase Stevens defeated Chris Harris of AMW, Frankie Kazarian and BG James of The James Gang to win a Tag title shot for him and Andy. However, Shane would then officially take their tag title match away from them after they lost an iMPACT match to teach them a lesson. They then won a Tag Team "Triple Chance" Battle Royal the following month at TNA No Surrender 2006. This suggested that their push that had been going for several months would finally conclude with them getting a tag title shot at TNA Bound for Glory 2006, but they ended up losing a Four Corners Match on the undercard of the show, not even getting the title shot. Many thought this signaled the end of the the Newly Franchized storyline, but suddenly, The Naturals began a feud with Team 3D and defeated them in a Tables Match on TNA's primetime debut. Then it started speculation that the storyline would once again get better for The Naturals, but then on the December 21 episode of iMPACT! Douglas turned his back on The Naturals after they lost the second Tables Match to Team 3D, saying "This experiment is over." Many were confused by this angle, as it went back and forth between them rising to the top and suddenly falling back down several times before the plug was pulled.

Stevens wrestled Lance Hoyt at TNA's Final Resolution pay-per-view, on January 14th. He lost the match, which lead to Shane Douglas coming out asking why he was wearing the Franchised gear, when he said the experiment was over. This lead to Stevens shoving him, with security separating the two.