Shawn Hernandez

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Shawn Hernandez


Statistics
Ring name(s)	Hernandez, Hotstuff Hernandez, Mr.Texas, Shawn Hernandez
Billed height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Billed weight	295 lb (134 kg/21.1 st)
Born	February 11, 1973 (1973-02-11) (age 35) Houston, Texas, United States
Trained by	Tugboat Taylor Texas Wrestling Academy Rudy Boy Gonzalez Shawn Michaels
Debut	November 1996

Shawn Hernandez (born February 11, 1973) is an American professional wrestler of Puerto Rican descent, better known by his ring names, "Hotstuff Hernandez" and "Hernandez".

Hernandez is currently wrestling for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is a member of the Latin American X-Change and one half of the TNA World Tag Team Champions with Homicide. He has also wrestled for independent promotions such as Ring of Honor, and in Japan.

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

[edit] Football career

Following the end of his Arena Football cer, Hernandez trained under Tugboat Taylor in Texas All-Star Wrestling and debuted in November 1996.

[edit] Wrestling career

[edit] World Wrestling Federation

In 2000 and 2001 Hernandez worked for the World Wrestling Federation as a jobber, appearing on episodes of WWF Jakked.

[edit] National Wrestling Alliance

In 2001, Hernandez began wrestling for the National Wrestling Alliance. At the October 13, 2001 NWA Anniversary Show in St. Petersburg, Florida he defeated Kevin Northcutt to win the NWA National Heavyweight Championship. He held the title for over a year before losing to Ricky Murdock on January 11, 2003 in Greenville, Missouri. Hernandez defeated Jorge Estrada for the NWA North American Heavyweight Championship on May 3, 2003 in Cornelia, Georgia. On September 28, 2003 in Hawaii, he lost the title to J.T. Wolfen.

[edit] Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

Hernandez debuted in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling on the November 22, 2003 episode of TNA Xplosion, losing to Shane Douglas. He returned to TNA on June 16, 2004 as one-third of "The Elite Guard", a trio of mercenaries working for Jeff Jarrett after his first King of the Mountain match victory. The Elite Guard (Hernandez, Chad Collyer and Onyx) feuded with the 3Live Kru over the next two months. On July 14, 2004, Jarrett, The Elite Guard and Ken Shamrock lost to Dusty Rhodes, Larry Zbyszko and the 3Live Kru in a ten man tag team bout. The Elite Guard remained with TNA until September 2004, when all three wrestlers were released.

After leaving TNA, Hernandez worked on the Texas independent circuit throughout 2005. In March 2006, he signed a new contract with TNA. He returned on the March 31, 2006 episode of TNA Xplosion as a member of the Latin American X-Change. On the August 24, 2006 episode of TNA iMPACT!, Hernandez and Homicide defeated A.J. Styles and Christopher Daniels for the NWA World Tag Team Championship. Styles and Daniels regained the titles from Hernandez and Homicide in an Ultimate X match on September 24, 2006 at No Surrender, but Hernandez and Homicide won the titles back on October 22, 2006 at Bound For Glory. After winning the titles back, they engaged in a feud with America's Most Wanted, defeating them in a match at Genesis and then a flag match at Turning Point. Then they started feuding with Team 3D, and, after winning three consecutive matches at Final Resolution (by DQ), Against All Odds (in a Little Italy Street fight) and Destination X (in a Ghetto Brawl), lost the NWA tag-team championships to Team 3-D at TNA lockdown 2007 in an electrified Steel-cage match when Homicide was pinned after a 3-D. They have since turned face and are in a feud with Lance Hoyt & Jimmy Rave (The Rock 'n Rave Infection).

In 2008 L.A.X. got another title shot by beating The Rock 'n Rave Infection and The Motor City Machineguns at Destination X and was cashed in on the 4/17/08 edition of iMPACT against the Tag Team Champions A.J. Styles and Tomko and the team that won Cuffed in a Cage at Lockdown, Eric Young/Super Eric and Kaz. At the end of the match Super Eric and Kaz won but the decision was revoked due to Eric Young and Super Eric not being the same person and apparently was considered outside interferance when Young left and came back as Super Eric for the win. Currently there are no Tag Team Champions. On the May 8th edition of impact Hernandez and homicide attacked team 3D,Cage, and Rhino during their impromptu brawl backstage.

On the May 11th pay-per-view Sacrifice, LAX won the vacant TNA Tag Titles after defeating Team 3D in the "Deuces Wild".