Sean O'Haire

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Sean O'Haire
An image of Sean O'Haire.
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Ring name(s) Sean O'Haire
Billed height 6 ft. 7 in. (200 cm)
Billed weight 275 lb. (125 kg)
Born February 25, 1971 (1971-02-25) (age 37)
Hilton Head, South Carolina
Resides South Carolina
Billed from Hilton Head, South Carolina
Trained by Paul Orndorff
Debut June 2000
Retired January 2006

Sean Christopher Haire[1] (born February 25, 1971) is an American mixed martial artist and former professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Sean O'Haire.[1]

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[edit] Wrestling career

[edit] World Championship Wrestling

Sean O'Haire began his career in WCW in June 2000, in Des Moines, Iowa (during the Vince Russo era), where he formed a tag team with fellow WCW Power Plant graduate Mark Jindrak. In August, O'Haire and Jindrak helped form the Natural Born Thrillers with Mike Sanders, Shawn Stasiak, Chuck Palumbo, Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli, and Reno. They were briefly "coached" by Kevin Nash. In September, O'Haire and Jindrak won the WCW World Tag Team Championship for the first time.

O'Haire and Jindrak won the title once more before splitting when O'Haire and Jindrak participated in a tag team battle royal with the Natural Born Thrillers teammates Shawn Stasiak and Chuck Palumbo. After the conclusion of the match, Mike Sanders declared both teams victorious and said that the teams should trade partners. O'Haire formed a new tag team with Palumbo, while the second team consisted of Jindrak and Stasiak.

Palumbo and O'Haire defeated The Insiders (Diamond Dallas Page and Kevin Nash) in January 2001. A short time later, The Natural Born Thrillers broke up when Stasiak and Jindrak became jealous of the new tag team champs. The teams met at SuperBrawl Revenge on February 18, 2001 for the tag team gold. Palumbo and O'Haire retained their titles.

O'Haire and Palumbo next feuded with Totally Buff (Buff Bagwell and Lex Luger) and defeated them at WCW Greed on March 18, 2001 to retain their tag team championship. For the next two weeks, O'Haire and Palumbo feuded with Team Canada Lance Storm and Mike Awesome, defeating them on the final Nitro on March 26. WCW was purchased by Vince McMahon, and both O'Haire and Palumbo's contracts were picked up.

[edit] World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment

Sean O'Haire and Chuck Palumbo made their WWF debuts on the June 28, 2001 episode of SmackDown! as part of The Alliance, attacking the Hardy Boyz. O'Haire and Palumbo started feuding with the A.P.A. in the following weeks, which ended at WWF Invasion on July 22, 2001 when the APA defeated them. Subsequently, O'Haire and Palumbo defeated the Hardy Boyz on the August 2, 2001 edition of SmackDown!.

O'Haire and Palumbo next dropped the WCW Tag Team titles to the Brothers of Destruction (The Undertaker and Kane) on the August 9, 2001 edition of SmackDown! and lost their rematch for the tag-team gold in a steel cage match the following week on RAW. O'Haire and Palumbo's last televised match together was on the August 26 edition of HEAT defeating Hardcore Holly and Crash Holly.

Chuck was thrown out of The Alliance in late October and joined the WWF in November 2001. Also in September, Sean was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) for seasoning where he joined Kenny Bolin's "Bolin Services". Sean O'Haire returned to WWE on the June 30, 2002 edition of Heat, defeating Justin Credible. He made a few more appearances on Heat, in dark matches and at house shows throughout the rest of 2002, facing off against and teaming with the likes of Shawn Stasiak, Doug Basham, Damaja, Crash Holly, D'Lo Brown, Johnny Stamboli, Shelton Benjamin, Charlie Haas, Christopher Nowinski, Raven, and Justin Credible. During this time, he still worked in OVW, as well.

In January 2003 vignettes started to appear on WWE programming showing O'Haire in his new gimmick - a Devil's advocate character. He urged people to commit adultery, break the law, not pay taxes, and not go to church, among other things. He ended each vignette with the line "Hey, I'm not telling you anything you didnt already know". In 2003, O'Haire returned to the main SmackDown! roster, telling various superstars to perform indecent acts which included persuading Spanky to streak through the arena and Dawn Marie to flash the audience.

Sean O'Haire's dark persona included a long black trench coat he wore to the ring and his obsession with spiders, including fairly new tattoos with black flames on each wrist and on his left wrist was a red spiderweb shooting out from the flames and on his right wrist had a blue spider web. Also on the inside of his left forearm held a blue spider and on the inside of his right forearm held a red spider. His titantron video was also inside the body of a spider with a spiderweb in the background. O'Haire's quickly came under the tutelage of wrestling legend 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper in April 2003. O'Haire's promising new persona was abandoned but he held victories over Rikishi, Mr. America (Hulk Hogan), Chris Benoit, Funaki, and Eddie Guerrero. WWE officially released Piper from his contract on June 26, 2003, right after O'Haire and Piper made their last appearance together on SmackDown!. O'Haire was left to fend for himself.

Sean O'Haire spent the majority of the rest of 2003 and his career in matches on Velocity, dominating anyone in his path until early December. At that time, O'Haire was involved in a motorcycle accident which required stitches, which kept Sean out of action for the next month or so. When he recovered in February 2004, he was sent back to OVW and despite never being pinned on WWE television, he was released on April 3, 2004.

[edit] Independent circuit

Sean O'Haire went to work for New Japan Pro Wrestling in May 2004. On July 17, 2004 O'Haire and Roddy Piper re-united at a Buffalo Brawl show where O'Haire was Roddy Piper's hand picked wrestler to face Jimmy Hart's wrestler Abyss. O'Haire defeated Abyss by disqualification.


[edit] Mixed Martial Arts career

On October 21, 2006 O'Haire fought Eric "Butterbean" Esch at PRIDE 32 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Esch was originally announced to be fighting Mark Hunt, but the NSAC would not allow Hunt to fight Esch arguing that Hunt had an unfair mat advantage. PRIDE had stated that "visa issues" were preventing Hunt from competing in the bout, but it was later confirmed that Hunt could not compete due to the NSAC's ruling. The fight was stopped 29 seconds into the first round after Esch landed 4-5 straight punches to O'Haire's head to bring him to the ground.

On April 6, 2007, O'Haire suffered serious injuries in a fight that took place outside a bar in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. O'Haire suffered a fractured orbital bone (in three places) as well as other fractures to his face and skull. Vision in his left eye is impaired, possibly permanently, and he may require extensive plastic surgery. Conflicting versions of the incident were reported with O'Haire claiming he was coming to the aid of a friend, but other witnesses saying O'Haire tried to start a fight with his alleged assailant, Juan Brantley. Previously, on March 17, Brantley had filed a complaint with the sheriff's office stating that O'Haire had attempted to start a fight with him at another bar.[1]

On August 17, 2007, O'Haire was scheduled to fight Mark Kerr at the Mohegan Sun Arena for the Global Fighting Championships promotion but the entire card was canceled Friday night after four of the eight scheduled bouts fell through. There were hundreds of disappointed fans yet no explanation was given at that time, only a guarantee of a full refund.

It was revealed by GFC representative Joel Parker that half of the night's fights were called off, prompting the decision to nix the card rather than put on a lackluster event. Parker did reveal that a few fighters were disqualified for either failing to meet their contracted weight or for medical reasons.

Mixed martial arts agent Ken Pavia confirmed on Friday that Mark Kerr and Edwin Dewees both represented by Pavia, were pulled from the card by the overseeing athletic commission. According to commission doctors, said Pavia, Kerr registered an unhealthy blood pressure reading on Thursday. Kerr was set to fight Sean O'Haire.[2]

O'Haire is still active in MMA. However, he looks significantly smaller than what he used to in his wrestling days. He gave an interview on September 27th, giving his side of the story regarding the bar brawl. As of October 2007, he fights in Champions Quest Fighting Challenge. He was successful in his first fight on September 29th, winning in the first round.

[edit] Personal life

According to fansite SEANsational.com, Sean O'Haire got married to Joy Elizabeth in Maui, Hawaii on May 15, 2005.[3] Approximately a year and a half later he announced their divorce during a radio interview with SquaredCircleRadio. .[4]

[edit] In wrestling

[edit] MMA Record

Professional record breakdown
5 matches 3 wins 2 losses
By knockout 3 1
By submission 0 1
Result Opponent Method Event Date Round Time
Win Frankie Parkman KO Champions Quest - Fighting Challenge 12/7/2007 1 1:04
Win Darrell Wood KO Champions Quest - Fighting Challenge 9/29/2007 N/A
Loss Eric Esch TKO (Punches) PRIDE 32 - Real Deal 10/21/2006 1 0:29
Loss Min Soo Kim Submission (Guillotine Choke) K-1 - Seoul Hero's 11/5/2005 1 4:46
Win Shungo Oyama TKO (Punches) ROTR 6 - Rumble on the Rock 6 11/20/2004 1 0:31

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Crites, B. (2007-04-06). Ex-pro wrestler hurt in fight outside island bar. IslandPacket.com. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
  2. ^ *SherDog*
  3. ^ *SEANsational*
  4. ^ SquaredCircleRadio.com

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