Ace Steel

Ace Steel
Birth name Chris Guy
Born (1973-01-25) January 25, 1973
Chicago, Illinois[1]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s) Ace Steel[2]
Chris Guy[3]
Scott Colton[2]
Donald Trump[2]
Billed height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[4]
Billed weight 215 lb (98 kg)
Billed from Hollywood, California
Chicago, Illinois[3]
Trained by Windy City Pro Wrestling[3]
William Regal
Dave Finlay
Dave Taylor
Debut October 1991[3]

Chris Guy[2] (born January 25, 1973) is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Ace Steel. He is perhaps best known for his time with Ring of Honor and occasional appearances for World Wrestling Entertainment, as well as his stint in WWE's Ohio Valley Wrestling developmental territory.

Professional wrestling career

Guy became interested in professional wrestling after watching American Wrestling Association shows at the International Amphitheatre as a child. He debuted in October 1991 after training with Windy City Pro Wrestling, and began using the name Ace Steel.

Independent circuit (1991–present)

Steel eventually formed a tag team with Danny Dominion first known as the L.A. Connection in Windy City Wrestling then the Hollywood Hardbodies. Along with Dominion, Steel worked as both wrestlers and trainers for St. Paul Championship Wrestling, an independent promotion and professional wrestling school, from 1998 to 2001 until the promotion was renamed to Steel Domain Wrestling.[5] During this time, Steel held the promotion's Television Championship, and became the last man to hold it under the SPCW banner and the first under the SDW banner.

Steel worked for Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South. On February 8, 2002, he defeated Kurt Krueger for the promotion's Light Heavyweight Championship. Steel held the title until March 8, when he lost it to Vic Capri. Steel would eventually reclaim the title on May 3 after defeating Capri in a thirty-minute Iron Man match, but was stripped of the title in June when he failed to defend it within the thirty-day limit.

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2002–2003)

Steel was signed by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling soon after the promotion opened in May 2002. He wrestled a tag team match with his former student, CM Punk, as the Hatebreed and received a small push as part of the X Division, but was used irregularly, working a handful of dates before his contract expired in October 2003, after this he had a very brief stint in the indy's where he played a delusional McDonald's worker that was conflicted by whether or not "The Lord of The Flies" was a brilliant book, or a complete mockery of human relations.

Ring of Honor (2003)

In early 2003, Steel joined Ring of Honor and reformed the Hatebreed with CM Punk. On March 22, Punk and Steel faced Punk's enemy Raven and another student of Steel's, Colt Cabana, in a tag match. Cabana appeared to badly injure himself after botching a moonsault to the outside of the ring, forcing Raven to wrestle the majority of the match single-handedly. Raven eventually managed to defeat Steel following an Even Flow DDT, but after the match, Cabana turned on him and aligned himself with Steel and Punk. Punk, Cabana and Steel named themselves the Second City Saints, in reference to all three stable members being from the second city of Chicago.

The Second City Saints started a feud with The Prophecy, mostly B.J. Whitmer and Dan Maff. The rivalry led to a Chicago Street Fight. The match had many dangerous spots including a Spear through a barbed wire board, a splash from inside the ring to the outside onto Maff on a ladder supported by the guardrails, and a kneeling reverse piledriver off the top rope through a table.[6]

World League Wrestling (2003–2005)

Steel joined Harley Race's World League Wrestling promotion in 2003, and in November and December 2003 he represented WLW on a tour with Pro Wrestling Noah in Japan. Steel enjoyed working in Japan and began appearing regularly with Noah. The Gold Exchange (Matt Murphy and Superstar Steve) were the reigning Tag Team Champions, and, when Superstar Steve was injured, Steel took his place as Murphy's partner and helped defend the Tag Team Titles until Steve returned and reclaimed his half of the championships. After Murphy left the promotion, Steel became Steve's partner, and on May 7, 2005 in Ozark, Missouri Steel and Steve defeated Wade Chism and Dakota for the Tag Team Championship.

World Wrestling Entertainment (2004–2007)

Steel appeared with World Wrestling Entertainment on the September 27, 2004 episode of Raw and had his hair cut by Eugene, who would face Eric Bischoff in a hair versus hair match at the upcoming Taboo Tuesday pay-per-view.[2] Steel used the name "Scott Colton" (the real name of Colt Cabana) as an inside joke.[2] After Eugene inexpertly cut his hair, Bischoff ambushed Eugene and Steel, knocking them out with thrust kicks. Cabana returned the favor on the April 10, 2006 episode of Raw when he wrestled under the name Chris Guy, Steel's real name.[2]

Steel also made an appearance on Velocity on April 1, 2006 against Orlando Jordan, as well as various dark matches and TV appearances from July 2000.[7]

On the January 8, 2007 episode of Raw, Steel portrayed Donald Trump, in an intergender match with Kiley McLean, dubbed "The Donald vs. Rosie". "Trump" received the win after throwing Fudgie the Whale at Rosie's face and pinning her after a second turnbuckle "hairbutt".[8] It was reported on January 18, 2007, in the midst of 11 releases on that day, that he officially signed a WWE developmental contract.[9] Steel debuted in Deep South Wrestling in February. When Deep South Wrestling shut down on April 19, 2007 Steel was moved to Ohio Valley Wrestling where he was added to the roster.[4] He debuted in September 2007.

Steel wrestled on the October 5, 2007 edition of SmackDown!, quickly losing to Chuck Palumbo.[10] Ace was later released from his WWE developmental contract on February 4, 2008 along with five other developmental wrestlers.

Return to ROH (2008–2009)

On December 5, 2008, Steel returned to Ring of Honor at their Wrestling at the Gateway event. He teamed with Necro Butcher to defeat the team of Jimmy Jacobs and Delirious. His next match was a 10-man cage match at ROH's Caged Collision event on January 31, 2009. He also appeared at Take No Prisoners, losing to Colt Cabana.

In wrestling

Steel superplexing Amazing Red in NWA Midwest.

Wrestlers trained

Championships and accomplishments

1Steel defended the championship with either Murphy or Steel under the Freebird Rule.

References

  1. 1 2 CM Punk. "Congratulations to Ace". WWE. Archived from the original on 2007-03-03. Retrieved 2007-01-23.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Kamchen, Richard. "Trump card wins Ace Steel WWE deal". SLAM! Wrestling. Canadian Online Explorer. Retrieved 2009-05-13.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Ace Steel profile". Online World of Wrestling. Archived from the original on 9 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-13.
  4. 1 2 "Ace Steel's OVW Profile". OVWrestling.com. Archived from the original on 2007-06-29.
  5. ↑ "SDW's history page".
  6. 1 2 "Official Ring of Honor event results". Ring of Honor. Archived from the original on 2 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-09.
  7. ↑ tv.com - Orlando Jordan defeated Ace Steel, April 1, 2006.
  8. ↑ TV.com Revolution Aftermath - January 8, 2007
  9. ↑ warned.net Archived July 8, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. - By Errol Leigh Farrell, January 19, 2007
  10. ↑ Louie Dee. "Locked in". WWE.com. Archived from the original on 5 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-05.
  11. 1 2 "Tape Review: ROH, "Redemption," Aug. 12, 2005, with Punk vs. Daniels vs. Gibson vs. Samoa Joe".
  12. 1 2 "The Wrestling Bazaar: NWA/TNA Weekly PPV #16 posted by Nick Bazar on 05.27.2011".
  13. ↑ "NWA: TNA Xplosion Report 01.04.03 posted by Ashish on 01.04.2003".
  14. 1 2 "RADICAN'S 1/16 ROH "RISING ABOVE" PPV REPORT - Early review of Nigel vs. Danielson, Aries vs. Jacobs".
  15. 1 2 Lagattolla, Al. "Ace Steel". Chicago Wrestling. Archived from the original on 2005-05-14. Retrieved 2009-05-13.
  16. 1 2 3 "Entrance themes".
  17. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Wrestlers trained".
  18. 1 2 3 4 "Ace Steel profile". Bodyslamming.com. Retrieved 2009-05-13.
  19. ↑ "Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South Light Heavyweight Championship history". Wrestling-titles.com. Retrieved 2009-05-13.
  20. ↑ http://www.cagematch.net/?id=5&nr=1527
  21. ↑ "MPW Kansas Heavyweight Championship". Cagematch.net. Retrieved 2016-06-13.
  22. ↑ "SDW Television Championship history".
  23. ↑ "WLW Tag Team Championship history".
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