Joe Hitchen

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Joe Hitchen
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Psycho Joe Sampson Cowboy Billy Johnson Master Joe Storm Dragon Bluto Belushi Nord Just Joe Joe E. Legend Joe X. Legend Legend LEGEND XL Legend
Billed height	193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Billed weight	114 kg (252 lb)
Born	September 2, 1969 Toronto, Ontario
Trained by	Ron Hutchison
Debut	1995

Joseph Edward (Joe) Hitchen (born September 2, 1969 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Joe E. Legend (sometimes abbreviated to "Legend" or "LEGEND").

1 Career
2 In wrestling
3 Championships and accomplishments
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Career

Joe Legend began wrestling in Canada before becoming a part of Sex and Violence with Sexton Hardcastle, a successful tag team in the Detroit area. During 1997 Sex and Violence were a part of a bigger gang which was known as THUG Life -- Legend, Hardcastle, Christian Cage, Bloody Bill Skullion and Rhino Richards. Legend would later team with Rhino to win CWA's World Tag-Team Championships on October 10, 1998 holding the belts for over a year until November 27, 1999.

He competed as Just Joe in the WWF before going off to wrestle in Japan and Europe. When he was in the WWF his gimmick was a messenger. He wrestled a few times in the WWF, including matches against Dean Malenko and even a Hardcore title match. The majority of these matches were shown on programs such as WWF Heat and WWF Metal. In what may have been Joe's last WWF appearance- an October 2000 episode of Jakked (Metal), he had the dubious distinction of having to job to the Brooklyn Brawler- a man famous for losing. After his departure from the WWF in the spring of 2001, Legend found success in Germany, and England before returning to America in 2004 to compete in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. During his time in TNA as part of the Red Shirt Security, he won the NWA World Tag Team Titles with Kevin Northcutt; holding the belts from January 28, 2004 until the February 4, of the same year.

In April 2005, he was one of the lead trainers of "Celebrity Wrestling" in the United Kingdom on ITV. This Saturday evening reality show saw celebrities learn wrestling and compete in challenge matches. After a few weeks the program was set to be cancelled, but instead was moved to Sunday morning to finish its final episodes.

He can now be found wrestling in and around the United Kingdom for promotions such as Frontier Wrestling Alliance, Varsity Pro Wrestling, Main Event Wrestling, and All Star Wrestling, working regular shows at Butlins holiday parks after throwing out an open challenge to potental rivals for his Pan Pacific and GSA heavyweight titles.