Danny Doring

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Dan Morrison
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Danny Doring Danny Morrison The Sugarmask Dandandan
Billed height	5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Billed weight	201 lb (91 kg)
Born	February 19, 1974 (1974-02-19) (age 34) Pepper Pike, Ohio
Resides	Wildwood, New Jersey
Trained by	Tazz, Perry Saturn, D-Von Dudley, Bubba Ray Dudley and Mikey Whipwreck
Debut	May 1997

Dan Morrison (born February 19, 1974) is an American professional wrestler better known as Danny Doring, who started with Extreme Championship Wrestling. He most recently worked in World Wrestling Entertainment in its revived ECW brand.

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

[edit] Career

Danny Doring was trained by Taz, Bubba Ray Dudley and Perry Saturn at the ECW House of Hardcore in 1996. Once his training was complete, he joined the ECW roster, facing Taz in his debut match in May 1997. Doring's original gimmick was that of a wrestler who used many unexciting holds and had vertigo, so would not use high-flying moves. When the audience chanted "boring", Doring would pretend that they were chanting for him.

In December 1997, Doring changed his gimmick to that of a womanizer, and formed an unlikely tag team with his fellow House of Hardcore graduate, Roadkill. They were managed by Miss Congeniality until she left ECW in 1999 to join the World Wrestling Federation, and then by Elektra until she turned on them in 2000.

Doring and Roadkill quickly embarked on a two year long feud with Nova and Chris Chetti. This was followed by a series of matches with Simon Diamond and Johnny Swinger and Joey Matthews and Christian York. The team won the ECW Tag Team Championship on August 26, 2000, at the Massacre on 34 Street pay-per-view, defeating Tony Mamaluke and Little Guido. They held the title until ECW declared bankruptcy in March 2001.

After leaving ECW, Doring and Roadkill made appearances with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, and wrestled dark matches for World Wrestling Entertainment. Doring also pursued a singles career, working for Xtreme Pro Wrestling in 2003 and various other independent promotions, particularly NWA Florida.

[edit] World Wrestling Entertainment

Doring appeared at the WWE promoted ECW reunion show, ECW One Night Stand 2005 on June 12, 2005. Since then he has competed in try-out matches for the WWE SmackDown! brand alongside Roadkill. On May 5, 2006, WWE announced through their mobile news service that Doring had signed a contract with them to appear on the upcoming ECW brand.

Doring appeared on an episode of ECW against Mike Knox and lost to him. After losing a match to Rob Van Dam on the August 22 edition of ECW, he and Van Dam were both attacked by the returning Hardcore Holly. He was released from WWE in December 2006.

[edit] Maryland Championship Wrestling

Doring appeared at Maryland Championship Wrestling's Holiday Homecoming event in Glen Burnie, Maryland on December 28, 2006, wrestling as The Sugarmask (as the name suggests, under a mask) in the opening match against D.J. Hyde. After defeating Hyde, he unmasked to reveal himself to the fans.

[edit] Force One Pro Wrestling

Danny Doring debuted at the January 5, 2008 show of Force One Pro Wrestling, titled Badge of Honor. He won a four-way elimination match, featuring Mike Reed, Nicky Benz, and Rockin' Rebel. At the March 16, 2008 Force One show titled Never Surrender Doring defeated Breaker Morant to win the Force One Iron League Heavyweight Championship.