Joseph Dorgan

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Joseph Dorgan
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Chris Hahn Joe Dorgan Johnny Paradise Johnny Parisi Johnny Swinger Swinger
Billed height	5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Billed weight	250 lb (113 kg)
Born	July 3, 1975 Niagara Falls, New York
Resides	Atlanta, Georgia
Billed from	Long Island, New York
Trained by	Charlie Fulton, Ron Hutchinson, Sweet Daddy Siki
Debut	1993

Joseph Robert Dorgan (born July 3, 1975 in Niagara Falls, New York) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his former work in Extreme Championship Wrestling and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as Johnny Swinger and in World Wrestling Entertainment as Johnny Parisi, a name derived from his great uncle Tony Parisi, a former WWWF performer.

Contents 1 Career 2 Wrestling facts 2.1 Finishing and signature moves 2.2 Managers 2.3 Quotes 3 Championships and accomplishments

[edit] Career

After training in Toronto, Ontario, Dorgan started wrestling on the independent circuit in 1993 as Johnny Paradise. After he discovered that another wrestler was already using that name, he renamed himself Johnny Swinger and began to make a name for himself as a heel as part of Scott D'Amore's "Syndicate" faction in Border City Wrestling.

Swinger began working for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as a jobber in 1997 and remained there for three years without receiving a push before joining Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) in 2000. He was placed in a tag team with Simon Diamond by booker Paul Heyman in May 2000, and shortened his name to Swinger. He remained with ECW until the promotion folded in April 2001.

He had a brief stint in the earlier part of 2003 in World Wrestling Allstars here he created a friendship with Buff "The Stuff" Bagwell. On July 9, 2003, Simon and Swinger debuted as a team in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). They feuded with America's Most Wanted (Chris Harris and James Storm) for some time before winning the NWA World Tag Team Championships. The team split on February 18, 2004 when Swinger turned heel by pledging allegiance to Jeff Jarrett, and feuded with one another. Swinger eventually formed a stable known as The New York Connection with Glenn Gilberti, Vito and Trinity.

Dorgan signed a developmental deal with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in 2005, and began training at Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) in May 2005. He made his WWE debut on the July 31, 2005 episode of Sunday Night Heat as Johnny Parisi winning his debut match for the company. However, since then he was relegated to jobber status, losing every match he was in since that victorious debut.

In September 2005 Parisi was sent to Deep South Wrestling wrestling there for 2 months until being taken off of television in November due to an injury. He came back in December 2005 being sent back to DSW until he was released on June 29, 2006. Parisi has the dubious distinction of being one of the only WWE wrestlers to never appear on camera or wrestle on his brand's main show: RAW His time stay in the WWE has became a running joke on many wrestling message boards and he has reached a type of cult status.

Johnny Swinger has resurfaced as a TNA agent, at least on trial basis. After being released from the WWE he went back to wrestling on the independent circuit mainly wrestling for Great Championship Wrestling (GCW). He has great title success there winning the GCW Heavyweight title on 2 occasions and the GCW Tag Titles twice, once with Glenn Gilberti and currently with Bull Buchanan. Raven came to GCW to help Swinger with his feud against Michaels Inc. in December 2006. After winning the GCW title from Chris Stevens, Swinger turned on Raven and joined Michaels Inc. In January 2007, Swinger began challenging TNA wrestlers to try to come to challenge him in GCW. In response to this, TNA Director of Authority, Jim Cornette came to Phenix City, AL.(GCW's location)to confront Swinger. Swinger and Bull Buchanan were defeated by Raven and David Young on 1/31/07. Afterwards, David Young challenged Swinger for the GCW title.

[edit] Wrestling facts

[edit] Finishing and signature moves

• Shaft (Running Spike DDT)
• Long Island Legsweep / Swing Thing / Swing Shift (half nelson legsweep)
• Long Island Stinger / Swinger Stinger (Shoulder jawbreaker)
• Mood Swing (forward Russian legsweep)
• Swing Time (Swinging neckbreaker)
• Problem Solver (flapjack DDT) (with Simon Diamond)

[edit] Managers

• Glenn Gilberti (TNA)
• Dawn Marie (ECW)
• Trinity (TNA)
• Angel Williams (DSW)

[edit] Quotes

• "Don't sing it, swing it!"
• "It ain't easy being Johnny Parisi!"

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

• Border City Wrestling

• BCW Can-Am Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
• BCW Can-Am Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Otis Apollo

• Cleveland All-Pro Wrestling

• CAPW North American Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

• Elite Wrestling Federation

• 1-time EWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Scott D'Amore

• Georgia / Great Championship Wrestling

• GCW Heavyweight Championship (2 times) (current)
• GCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Glenn Gilberti

• Independent Championship Wrestling

• ICW Northern States Championship (1 time)

• Maximum Pro Wrestling

• MXPW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Simon Diamond

• Mid-West Championship Wrestling

• MWCW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

• Motor City Wrestling

• MCW Tag Team Championship (4 times) – with Scotty Summers

• Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

• NWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Simon Diamond