Tracy Smothers

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Tracy Smothers
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Ring name(s) Tracey Smothers
Freddie Joe Floyd
Golden Vampire XIII
Shaquille Ali
The Wild Eyed Southern Boy
The Main Man
Jason The Terrible
Billed height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Billed weight 235 lb (107 kg)
Born September 2, 1962
Springfield, Tennessee
Resides Nashville, Tennessee
Trained by Stan Lane,
Steve Keirn
Debut 1982

Tracy Smothers (born September 2, 1962) is an American professional wrestler and is the current Cleveland All-Pro Wrestling Heavyweight Champion.

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[edit] Career

[edit] WCW 1990-1992

Tracy Smothers competed in World Championship Wrestling for a number of years, forming a long-term tag team with Steve Armstrong known variously as the Southern Boys and the Young Pistols. They feuded heavily with The Fabulous Freebirds (Michael Hayes and Jimmy Garvin). Smothers' last major appearance for WCW was on January 21, 1992 at The Clash of Champions, as he teamed with Terry Taylor in a loss to Marcus Alexander Bagwell and Brian Pillman.

[edit] SMW 1992-1995

Smothers achieved his greatest singles success in Jim Cornette's Smokey Mountain Wrestling promotion which was based out of Knoxville, Tennessee. Between 1992 and 1995, "The Wild Eyed Southern Boy," competing as a babyface for SMW and won the Heavyweight title twice, the tag team titles once (with "Dirty White Boy" Tony Anthony, known as the "T.H.U.G.'S"), and the "Beat the Champ" TV title on three separate occasions. Smothers had notable feuds during this time against "Prime Time" Brian Lee, Chris Candido, Tony Anthony, The Heavenly Bodies, and the The Gangstas. He also competed as a heel in the United States Wrestling Association during the SMW vs. USWA feud in 1995.

[edit] USWA 1995-1996

After SMW folded, Smothers continued to work for the USWA (and the WWF). Smothers at one pointed even joined the USWA branch of the Nation of Domination, changing his name to Shaquille Ali (a take off of NBA star Shaquille O'Neal and legendary boxer Muhammad Ali).

[edit] WWF 1995-1998

Before SMW folded in late 1995, Smothers began wrestling in the summer of that year as Freddie Joe Floyd in the WWF as a babyface jobber to various up and comers, most notably Hunter Hearst-Helmsley and Stone Cold Steve Austin. His only meaningful win under the Floyd gimmick was an upset of Justin "Hawk" Bradshaw in his debut, which resulted in Bradshaw beating Floyd in a subsequent rematch. He also scored a count out win over Triple H, thanks to Mr. Perfect distracting Helmsley. His enitre gimmick was a rib on Gerald Brisco and Jack Brisco, as they both came from Bowlegs, Oklahoma (the same home town Freddie Joe Floyd was billed as being from). Jack Brisco’s real name is Fred Joe Brisco, and Gerald’s full name is Floyd Gerald Brisco.

[edit] ECW 1998-2000

Later in his career he joined Extreme Championship Wrestling as "The Main Man" Tracy Smothers and was part of the Full Blooded Italians (or F.B.I.). He was most notably remembered for doing a goofy dance, that ECW announcer Joey Styles often commented on by saying "what the hell is with that awful dance." The FBI during this time was mostly a comedy heel tag team, which also featured Little Guido, "The Big Don" Tommy Rich, and the "Italian Stallion" JT Smith. Smothers, long associated with being a stereotypical southern wrestler, was billed as being from "Nashville, Italy" during this time.

[edit] ECW Reunion Shows

Smothers wrestled at both of the June 2005 ECW reunion shows, defeating The Blue Meanie at Hardcore Homecoming with the help of J.T. Smith, and accompanying Little Guido to ringside for his match with Yoshihiro Tajiri and Super Crazy at ECW One Night Stand 2005. On June 18, 2005 at a Championship Wrestling event, Smothers challenged WWE employee John "Bradshaw" Layfield to a fight after JBL shot on The Blue Meanie during a brawl at the end of One Night Stand. He also wrestled at all 4 Hardcore Homecoming events.

[edit] Indys 2005 to present

In late 2005 and early 2006, Smothers worked a full-time schedule at various independent promotions in Tennessee and around the midwest and eastern United States. He also toured the United Kingdom and teaming with Chris Hamrick on 1 Pro Wrestling shows there as 'Southern Comfort'.

In late 2006, he worked a multi-month, full-time tour of Europe for a number of small independent promotions in the UK, Germany, and Scotland, such as Wrestle Zone Wrestling where in Hartlepool, England, Smothers was crowned the new wZw Heavyweight Champion. He later relinquished that title.

On February 25, 2007 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Smothers defeated Corporal Robinson to win the Pro Wrestling Unplugged Hardcore Championship.

[edit] Wrestling facts

[edit] Finishing and signature moves

[edit] With Little Guido

[edit] Managers

[edit] Quotes

  • "Shutuppa you face!"
  • "If I hear anybody say 'Tracy sucks,' everybody dies!"
  • "I'll commit ultra mega mass homicide!"
  • "I'm a 'tweener, man, what can I say?"
  • "It's not hyperbole. I'm powerful."

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

  • Bad 2 The Bone Wrestling
  • BBW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • Cleveland All-Pro Wrestling
  • CAPW HeavyWeight Championship (1 time, current)
  • Continental Wrestling Federation
  • IWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Cactus Jack
  • International Wrestling Cartel
  • IWC Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Chris Hamrick
  • Main Event Championship Wrestling
  • MECW Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • PWI ranked him # 371 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003.
  • Pro Wrestling Unplugged
  • PWU Hardcore Championship (1 time)
  • 1993 Most Improved Wrestler
  • wZw British Heavyweight Championship (1 time) – Stripped of Title

[edit] Trivia

Tracy Smothers wrestled an unmuzzled bear in the Continental Wrestling Federation. The bear was announced as 550 lbs. and Tracy took the bear to the mat several times. [1]

On October 26, 2006 it was reported in the Nashville city paper that Tracy Smothers is facing a new round of criminal charges for alleged threats he made to his girlfriend.

[edit] External links

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