Necro Butcher

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Dylan Summers

Necro Butcher during a PWS Firestorm show on Dec 9, 2007
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Necro Butcher "Hollywood" Dylan Summers CP Munk
Billed height	6 ft 2 in (188 cm)^[1]
Billed weight	230 lb (104 kg)^[2]
Born	July 13, 1973 (1973-07-13) (age 34) Morgantown, West Virginia
Billed from	Morgantown, West Virginia^[3]
Trained by	Black Bart Jay Diego^[4]
Debut	January 2, 1998^[5]
Website	Official Website

Dylan Keith Summers (born July 13, 1973 in Morgantown, West Virginia) is an American professional wrestler best known by his stage name (The) Necro Butcher. Primarily wrestling for Combat Zone Wrestling in Philadelphia, Summers also competes in Full Impact Pro, IWA-Mid South, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla and Ring of Honor, among others. In the past, Summers made appearances in CHIKARA as CP Munk, a straightedge chipmunk that was a spoof of fellow wrestler CM Punk.

Summers is well-known for his willingness to participate in a creative and dangerous mix of hardcore wrestling and deathmatches.

1 Wrestling career
2 In wrestling
3 Championships and accomplishments
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Wrestling career

In 1998, Summers made his professional wrestling debut after teaming with Aaron White to take on Victor Pain and Canyon. Summers continued to work small independent shows across Texas. On March 16, 1999, as Necro Butcher, he won his first professional wrestling championship, after defeating Damon Richards to become IHW Hardcore champion. Butcher's popularity continued to dominate Texas wrestling, and at his debut in TCW, he defeated rival Joey Diego to become the company's Hardcore champion. His success in TCW came to a halt after a dispute with its promoter. He lost the Hardcore title to Hellhammer before leaving the company. Butcher continued to build up his reputation as the most violent Death Match wrestler in Texas. On October 10, 1999, Butcher faced "Mad" Man Pondo for the first time. He would face Pondo again in JCW (Juggalo Championshit Wrestling) in a Death Match in 2003. Another match in JCW included a "Light Tube" match from the 2003 Gathering of the Juggalos where he squared off against "Hollywood" Chuck Hogan ("Death Dealer" Tommy Starr in a Hogan-like zombie mask).

[edit] IWA Mid-South

Throughout 2001, Butcher had worked IWA Mid-South in an attempt to make a name for himself in the top independent leagues. Becoming a regular across the NWA promotions, Butcher gained widespread visibility in 2002. In July 2002, competing in IWA Mid-South, he defeated Mark Wolf, Mitch Page, 2 Tuff Tony, and finally Spyder Nate Webb to become the 2002 King of the Deathmatch. Necro would go to the finals in the 2005 Strong Style Tournament, defeating Eddie Kingston, but losing to Chris Hero.

In 2005 and 2006, Necro had two high profile matches against both Samoa Joe and Low-Ki. He lost to Joe in their first match, the main event of IWA's debut in the ECW Arena. He then went on to lose in January 2006 again to Joe. Three months later, in Low-Ki's second match in the promotion, he took out Necro. The two met in a rematch in December, where the stipulation was a tap out/knock out finish. Although Necro lost all four matches, his star remained high after taking a lot of abuse from both Joe and Ki.

Necro eventually won his first IWA gold, the Death Match title, on September 9 in Sellersburg, Indiana in a three way dance against Corporal Robinson and Tank. He would lose the title on March 1st to Danny Havoc.

[edit] Combat Zone Wrestling

His success in IWA-MS lead him to become a name attraction for hardcore oriented indy promotions in North America. For Combat Zone Wrestling, Butcher worked a program with Wifebeater, losing to him in the first Tournament of Death in 2002. Butcher returned the following year and was eliminated in round two by Ian Rotten. He reached the final at the 3rd annual Tournament of Death before finally winning Tournament of Death 4 by defeating John Zandig and Nick Gage.^[6]^[7] This victory made him the only person ever to win both the King of the Deathmatch and Tournament of Death. After this, he feuded with Nick Gage, John Zandig, and Justice Pain and fought them in a losing effort in the Cage of Death match.^[7] He briefly held the Ultraviolent Underground Championship when the current champion Zandig presented him with the belt at Tournament of Death IV: Butcher had eliminated Zandig from the tournament. Butcher and "Mr Insanity" Toby Klein teamed as "The Tough Crazy Bastards" to win the CZW tag belts from The H8 Club, Nick Gage and Justice Pain. They subsequently dropped them to The Kings of Wrestling, Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli. He is currently engaged in a feud with former CZW Junior Heavyweight Champion Danny Havoc where he has taken on a "Hollywood Hogan" type persona, after his part in the upcoming movie “The Wrestler” with Mickey Rourke, claiming he is too big for hardcore. In recent event he has been accompanied to the ring by Nick Berk aka Nicky Benz.

[edit] Ring of Honor

Necro first wrestled in the Ring of Honor promotion in 2006. He came in as part of Chris Hero's invasion of the company, representing CZW. He had several big matches, including being part of Team CZW in the Cage of Death match at Death before Dishonor IV. His last appearance was in a No Ropes Barbed Wire Match against B.J. Whitmer.

He returned to ROH in September 2007 at ROH's third pay-per-view Man Up, as part of debuting stable The Age of the Fall with Jimmy Jacobs, Tyler Black and Lacey. With barbed wire around his arm and fist, the three attacked Briscoe Brothers. Later that night he was responsible for the end of two matches. First, he threw a chair into the ring, hitting Jack Evans as he was wrestling Tyler Black, and then he broke up an ensuing Six Man Tag Team match after punching the referee.

In early October 2007, as a result of the incident at Man Up, Butcher won two back-to-back Anything Goes Matches against Jay Briscoe. Since then Butcher has been featured in a number of high-profile 'brawling' and hardcore-style matches, including a loss to Bryan Danielson in a 'Relaxed Rules' match, losing to Jack Evans in a No Disqualification Match, defeating Kevin Steen in a Street Fight, and a loss in a 3-Way No Disqualification Match to Roderick Strong for the FIP World Heavyweight Championship.

[edit] Non-deathmatch accomplishments

Outside of the lighttubes and barbed wire which gave him his fame, Butcher has also gained critical acclaim for his wild brawls and very physical "slugfests". Perhaps the most famous of these was his first match against TNA and ROH veteran Samoa Joe at the IWA Mid-South "Something To Prove" in 2005.^[8] Despite no weapons beyond a chair and a guardrail coming into play, the match was exceptionally brutal and well-received by deathmatch fans and purists alike, proving that Butcher could put on compelling matches without necessarily needing the weapons with which he was normally associated.

He also competed in the CHIKARA Tag World Grand Prix 2005 along with Mad Man Pondo (making it to the quarter-finals before being eliminated via disqualification for illegal tactics)^[9] and has wrestled (and won) a European catch wrestling match with Chris Hero.^[10] On April 9, 2006, he challenged for the PWG World Championship , but lost to the champion Joey Ryan.^[10] Most recently, many promoters have taken note of Butcher's brawling skills and have increasingly begun to put him in non-deathmatch competitions with wrestlers he would not normally be paired up against. IWA-MS in particular has attempted matches between Butcher and Samoa Joe (twice), Homicide, Roderick Strong, Chris Hero, Super Dragon, Low Ki and Eddie Kingston.

Butcher once wrestled in CHIKARA as part of 'Team WWF' on their February 24, 2006 Tag-Team Tournament show as CP Munk - the 'Straight Edge' Chipmunk (Acorn Free and Better Than You), a parody of CM Punk as it was a large chipmunk costume with 'CM Punk-style' markings (including a large Pepsi logo on his arm and tape over his fists with a 'X' drawn on each). He was partnered by 'Colt Ca-Bunny' (a parody of Colt Cabana, Punk's tag-team partner, in the form of a rabbit costume) who was actually Joker. They would defeat ROH students Matt Turner & Anthony Franco in the first round, but lose to Eddie Kingston & Sabian in the second.^[10]

Currently he has wrestled regularly for Full Impact Pro, where he first gained notoriety as both a brawler and as half of a hardcore tag-team with the "Mad Man" Pondo especially in their feud for the FIP Tag-Team Championship against The Briscoe Brothers. Since then he had memorable matches against Roderick Strong in an unsuccessful challenge for the FIP World Heavyweight Championship, and an Anything Goes match against Delirious.