Claude Marrow

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Claude Marrow


Statistics
Ring name(s)	Ruckus
Billed height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Billed weight	225 lb (102 kg/16.1 st) "A street value of over 31 million"
Born	August 15, 1978 (1978-08-15) (age 29) Baltimore, Maryland
Billed from	Baltimore, Maryland Chocolate City
Trained by	Chad Olsen Brainbusters Wrestling School
Debut	April 18, 1999

Claude Marrow (born August 15, 1978 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American independent professional wrestler better known by his ring name Ruckus. Marrow current performs in Combat Zone Wrestling, Ring of Honor, Maryland Championship Wrestling, CHIKARA and Jersey All-Pro Wrestling. While often appearing at a number of other independent promotions, Ruckus is a member of the Blackout/BLKOUT stable with Eddie Kingston, Sabian, Joker, and Robbie Mireno.^[1]

1 Career
2 Wrestling facts
3 Championships and accomplishments
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Career

Ruckus began training in September 1998 at Brainbusters. A former backyard wrestler with HCW (Hardcore Championship Wrestling)^[2], Ruckus made his official professional wrestling debut against Chad Olsen on April 18, 1999 for the MEWF (Mid Eastern Wrestling Federation)^[3]. Ruckus was trained, despite the claims made by people that he wasn't (He trained after he LEFT the backyard). Ruckus and The Hurricane Kidd were hired by Combat Zone Wrestling when owner John Zandig saw them working for Power House Wrestling and was impressed by their ability. When Ruckus started in CZW he weighed nearly 300 lbs. but has since dropped over 75 pounds.^[4]

He began wrestling in CZW around 2001 and became known for doing high flying moves, such as the 450 Splash, that are not normally done by people of his size. He won his first title, the CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship, in December 2001, but only held it briefly, dropping the strap at Cage of Death III to Trent Acid. He regained this title in January 2003. During his 2nd reign, Ruckus began teaming with Sonjay Dutt.^[5] They wrestled many matches as a team, but Ruckus became jealous of Sonjay and turned on him at Night of Infamy 2. This led to a match at Cage of Death V which Sonjay won to become the new Junior Heavyweight Champion.^[6]

In 2004, Ruckus and Robbie Mireno formed a stable called The Blackout (BLKOUT). The stable also featured Sabian and Joker and they feuded with Chris Cash. Eddie Kingston would later join them. In June 2004, Ruckus and Sabian won the CZW World Tag Team Championship from Nick Gage and Nate Hatred. Ruckus competed in the Cage of Death match at Cage of Death VI against Team Cash. Not only was Ruckus eliminated, but his team also lost the CZW Tag Team Titles.^[7]

Also in 2004, Ruckus spent some time working on the Playstation 2 video game Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood along with fellow wrestler and friend Sonjay Dutt. The game ranks currently 3,739 of 39,707 out of all games and 686 of 2,865 out of all PS2 games reviewed on Gamespot.com.^[8].

In February 2005, Ruckus defeated Messiah for the CZW World Heavyweight Championship. He held the title for quite some time, defending it against wrestlers such as Sonjay Dutt, B-Boy, Sexxxy Eddy, and Beef Wellington. Later in 2005, Ruckus and the rest of The BLK OUT began a feud with the Kings of Professional Wrestling and Super Dragon. At Night of Infamy 4, Ruckus successfully defended the title against Claudio Castagnoli. At the next show, Cage of Death 7, Ruckus lost the title to Super Dragon.^[9]

Ruckus, Sabian, and Eddie Kingston won a six man tag match against the Kings and Super Dragon at the next show. At CZW's next show, Ruckus regained the World Championship, with his allies Joker and Eddie Kingston bringing home the tag team titles.^[10] On May 13, 2006, Ruckus won the Best of the Best tournament by defeating Sabian, Claudio Castagnoli, and Austin Aries in the final match. After Ruckus won the tournament, Chris Hero came out demanded a title shot and defeated Ruckus for the belt. In August 2006, Eddie Kingston was kicked out of Blackout and his title was given to Ruckus, making Ruckus and Joker the new champions. However, once Joker left CZW, Blackout was stripped of the titles. The same night they were stripped, Ruckus and the debuting Ricky Reyes helped Eddie Kingston win the World Championship and welcomed him back into the fold.^[11]

Since his debut, Ruckus has also spread his talents to numerous countries including England, Mexico, Japan, Canada, Italy and Germany, as well as making appearances in a variety of feds along the east coast and inland. In 2006, Ruckus made his debut for other northeast feds, such as CHIKARA and Jersey All-Pro Wrestling.^[12] He is still very much involved with the BLK OUT in CZW, where they recently engaged in a war over the CZW Tag Team Titles with NWA-Anarchy's Kory "Rainman" Chavis and Onyx, who claimed they were the original Blackout.^[13]

Recently, he has joined the WSX roster with Babi Slymm in the tag team Keepin' It Gangsta. Wrestling Society X is a top-rated show on MTV Trés and MTV Australia,^[14] but is in negotiations with other networks in the United States due to poor marketing campaigns and too small of a time slot.

The Maryland Championship Wrestling Tag Team Titles were awarded to both Ruckus and Sabian on April 21, 2007 when they defeated MCW champions Phat Blues Inc. (Kelly Bell and Buzz Stryker) and The Best of Both Worlds (Doyle Day and Buck Chyld).^[15] On May 19, 2007, Ruckus beat Christopher Daniels for the German Wrestling Promotion's World Heavyweight Championship belt in Germany.^[16]

At CZW's Best of the Best Tournament, July 14, 2007, Ruckus beat reigning CZW champion Justice Pain for the CZW World Heavyweight Title in a surprise non-tournament match. Later that night, the now three-time CZW Heavyweight Champion, Ruckus, joined his tag partner Sabian in ring to award their BLKOUT enforcer, Joker, the Best of the Best trophy he won by defeating B-Boy in the evening's final match.^[17]

At Manhattan Mayhem II on August 25, 2007, Ruckus made his Ring of Honor debut, coming in as the first member of Jack Evans's faction "The Vulture Squad."

On December 8, 2007, at CZW Cage of Death IX, Ruckus lost the CZW World Heavyweight Title to the returning Nick Gage in a Triple Threat match also featuring the returning Messiah.