Jeff Farmer (wrestler)

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Jeff Farmer on WCW Nitro as The nWo Sting
Jeff Farmer on WCW Nitro as The nWo Sting

Jeff Farmer is a professional wrestler best known as The nWo Sting or Imposter Sting.

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[edit] Career

[edit] Early days

Pectacular Jeffrey T. Farmer started wrestling in 1990 as Lightning in the tag team of "Thunder & Lightning" in the IWF promotion in Florida. In 1993, they moved to World Championship Wrestling and had a small feud with Harlem Heat.

Farmer left WCW and toured Europe and returned to WCW in 1996 as Cobra to feud with Craig Pittman.

[edit] nWo Sting

In late 1996, the nWo put one over on the fans of WCW by having Farmer dress as Sting and attack Lex Luger. The WCW wrestlers and fans were fooled into thinking that Sting had joined the nWo. It finally came out that there was a "fake Sting", played by Farmer.

The highlight of Farmer's WCW stint came about in September of 1996 at the Fall Brawl Pay Per View when he was in the WarGames match. Farmer as the nWo Sting along with Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, and Scott Hall defeated Lex Luger, Ric Flair, Arn Anderson and the real Sting when Farmer made Luger submit to the scorpion death lock.

In 1997, he travelled back and forth to New Japan Pro Wrestling where he was a part of nWo Japan, where he regularly teamed with Masahiro Chono. The Extreme Sting aka EXterminator in NJPW, was much more popular than the real Sting. To the fans of NWO Japan, Farmer was the better Sting. As a result, he spent more time in New Japan.

[edit] Team 2000

In 1999, Farmer left nWo Japan and formed "TEAM 2000" with Chono as Super J. They made a couple of appearances in WCW with this gimmick and they teamed together through 2001 and then TEAM 2000 disbanded. The Super J gimmick went over very well with the NJPW audience.

In 2004, Farmer went back to the nWo Sting gimmick on the independent circuit in the Carolina's until he started wrestling exclusivly for Ultimate Championship Wrestling in 2005 when he won the title.

He still travels back to Japan as Black Scorpion to wrestle for NJPW and various smaller feds. [[1]]

[edit] Profile

[edit] Wrestling facts

[edit] Finishing and signature moves

[edit] Managers

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

  • 1-Time UCW Heavyweight Champion
  • 1-Time IWF Tag Team Champion (with Thunder)
  • Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) ranked him # 240 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003.

[edit] Trivia

  • Farmer is of Irish heritage
  • The Black Scorpion gimmick was so popular, his particular brand of face paint was used in video games, cartoons, even modern interpretations of Kabuki makeup.
  • Jeff is the brother of Dr. Paul Farmer.

[edit] See Also

[edit] External link

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