Michael Depoli

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Michael DePoli (born on August 10, 1976) is a professional wrestler who started with Extreme Championship Wrestling. He worked for World Wrestling Entertainment in its Ohio Valley Wrestling developmental territory. He is best known as Roadkill, where his wrestling gear was traditional Amish dress and he was billed as being from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, an area of large Amish population. He is also known for his one word answer to most interview questions: "Chickens!"

1 Career
2 In wrestling
3 Championships and accomplishments

[edit] Career

[edit] Extreme Championship Wrestling

Roadkill was trained by Taz and Perry Saturn at the ECW House of Hardcore in 1996. Once his training was complete, he joined the ECW roster, and had his first professional match on October 18, 1996 in LuLu Temple in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania against Taz.

In December 1997, Roadkill formed an unlikely tag team with his fellow House of Hardcore graduate, Danny Doring. 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 feuds with the Impact Players (Lance Storm and Justin Credible), Simon Diamond and Johnny Swinger, Joey Matthews and Christian York and then Tommy Dreamer and Raven. The team won the ECW World Tag Team Championships on December 3, 2000, at the Massacre on 34th Street pay-per-view, defeating Tony Mamaluke and Little Guido. They held the titles until ECW declared bankruptcy in March 2001. Doring and Roadkill were the last team to hold the ECW Tag Team Titles.

[edit] TNA Wrestling

Roadkill and Doring wrestled on 3 TNA pay per veiws when TNA was running weekly pay per views back in early 2000. They wrestled Simon Diamond and Johnny Swinger, for the TNA Tag Team Titles, twice. And in their last TNA appearance they wreslted Eckmo Fatu and Sonny Siaki.

[edit] World Wrestling Entertainment

After ECW folded, Doring and Roadkill wrestled dark matches for World Wrestling Entertainment. They appeared against fellow ECW originals the FBI, Little Guido and Tony Mamaluke, in early 2001 at Madison Square Garden. And they wrestled MNM on WWE's Velocity in 2005.

Roadkill appeared at the WWE promoted ECW reunion show, ECW One Night Stand on June 12, 2005. He signed a contract with WWE and was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling facing (and defeating) Johnny Jeter of the Spirit Squad. After the match, Roadkill was assaulted by the rest of the Spirit Squad. Roadkill would continue his work with OVW, even winning the promotion's tag titles with Kasey James

On the June 13, 2006 edition of ECW, Roadkill took part in a battle royal, being eliminated by Big Show. Two weeks later, he faced Sabu in an Extreme Rules Match in which he lost by tapping out to the Camel clutch.

Roadkill was released on February 4, 2008 from WWE.