Chris Hamrick

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Chris Hamrick


Statistics
Ring name(s)	Chris Hamrick Crimson Dragon (TNA) Hamrick (WSX)
Billed height	6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Billed weight	210 lb (95 kg)
Born	October 21, 1966 (1966-10-21) (age 41) Mooresboro, North Carolina
Resides	Bridgeport, Connecticut
Billed from	Bristol, Tennessee
Trained by	Self-trained Ricky Morton
Debut	1982

Chris Hamrick (born October 21, 1966 in Mooresboro, North Carolina) is an American professional wrestler. He is perhaps best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling throughout the early 2000s. He is now wrestling with a promotion in South Carolina called CWA Pro Wrestling where is the current cruiserweight champion.

1 Career
2 In wrestling
3 Championships and accomplishments
4 References

[edit] Career

Hamrick began watching wrestling as a child and received a wrestling ring as a ninth birthday present. He made his professional debut at the age of sixteen in a promotion operated by his father, facing Alvin Melton in Mooresboro, North Carolina.^[1] Hamrick wrestled on the independent circuit for several years. In 1992 and 1993, he wrestled several televised matches for the World Wrestling Federation as a jobber. Hamrick went on to wrestle for Smoky Mountain Wrestling before returning to the independent circuit.

Hamrick wrestled a tryout match with Extreme Championship Wrestling on May 25, 2000 in Columbia, South Carolina, and remained with the promotion until it declared bankruptcy in April 2001.^[2] In ECW, Hamrick was known as "Confederate Currency" Chris Hammerick and was part of the stable known as Hot Commodity with EZ Money, Elektra and Julio Dinero.

In 2002, Hamrick made several appearances with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, wrestling under a mask as the luchadore character Crimson Dragon. In 2002 and 2003, he frequently wrestled for Xtreme Pro Wrestling, where he formed a tag team with Tracy Smothers known as Southern Comfort, also having a long running feud for the TV title with Kaos and The Enterprise.

In early 2007, Hamrick was featured on Wrestling Society X's first episode on MTV, getting into an argument with fellow ECW alumni New Jack, then getting eliminated by him in the WSX Rumble later that night. Despite the both of them getting eliminated from the bout, Hamrick took an elbow drop from New Jack off of the top of a truckbed through a table. At HCW: Beg 4 Mercy '07 in April, Hamrick returned to Mooresboro, NC and defeated New Jack in an Extreme Weapons Match. Three months later, Hamrick won the HCW Triple Crown Championship after defeating Axl Knight and Wicked in a Three Way Dance at HCW's Cold Blooded & Hardcore event.

On the August 20, 2007, edition of WWE Raw, Hamrick made an appearance as a fake version of Triple H, in which he placed a crown on King Booker's head during a royal ceremony, leading up to King Booker's match with Triple H at SummerSlam.