Alex Wright
Alexander Wright ( born May 17, 1975 in Nuremberg, Germany) is a former German wrestler and current wrestling coach in his hometown of Nuremberg. He is a second generation wrestler, who is best known by his ring name Alex Wright. His father, the Englishman Steve Wright, and his uncle Bernard Wright were also successful in the wrestling active.
Career
Background in sports
Alex Wright was trained from the age of three from his father in wrestling and has already won at the age of 10 years, the Bavarian Youth Championship in weightlifting.
Catch Wrestling Association
Alex Wright's father Steve and his brother Bernard stood at the European Wrestling Organization Catch Wrestling Association under contract. But, however, Wright's debut in wrestling came more by chance: 1991 visited the Wrights a show of CWA in Wuppertal. So they had VIP tickets and wanted an hour before the official start of admission into the event hall. The organizer, the former wrestler and German wrestler Peter William, but was Alex Wright with his 16 years too young for the event. But after Steve and Alex Wright showed an impromptu wrestling show, was William of Alex Wright's services more than just enthusiastic. He put Alex Wright as a " surprise guest " active in the show and offered him a contract in connection to. So Alex Wright the youngest professional wrestler in Germany and was widely known media.
World Championship Wrestling
He was also invited to shrines Makers, where a WCW agent was aware of him: In 1994 he was invited as a 18 -year-old from the WCW and trained in their wrestling school in the American style. A little later he had his first appearances in the house shows, where he has now announced as " the prodigy Alex Wright " and defeat there Paul Levesque was allowed. He remained undefeated for nearly a year completely, before he at Slamboree the former TV Champion Arn Anderson defeated in May 1995.
Later in his career he was able to secure both the Cruiserweight and the TV and the tag team title. A head injury forced Alex Wright in 1998 to a longer break. During this time, his gimmick has been completely redesigned. As " Berlyn " he returned to the ring. Berlyn should represent a Gothic character and abused primarily on German American wrestler colleagues as "weak Amis ". However, it came with the fans on more than Nazi, especially as the gunman of Columbine had a similar appearance.
As a result, it came back at a Gimmickwechsel and then he stepped back later under his real name.
Independent
As WCW 2001 bankruptcy filed and was purchased by the World Wrestling Federation, Wright was not accepted because he had his contract closed not with WCW, but with AOL / Time Warner and WWF owner Vince McMahon exclusively WCW contracts in his doctoral took over. Wright eventually returned after nine years in the U.S. to Germany. In 2003 he had his last match in Uelzen; two requests of World Wrestling Entertainment, he refused because he felt burned out.
End of career
Alex Wright drew mainly from the active events and worked in Nuremberg in a fitness chain. He made the end of 2006 his own and founded in January 2007 in the district of Nuremberg Katzwang the wrestling school "The Wright Stuff - Pro Wrestling School " where is his main activity today. In a tournament, the GWP Wright joined in 2007 for a one-off match in order to campaign for his wrestling school.
Achievements
- World Championship Wrestling
- Others
- 3rd in Best of The Super Junior Tournament of New Japan 1995
- Rookie of the Year (1995 )
New European Championship Wrestling
After end of his career as an active wrestler Wright founded with a doctorate New European Championship Wrestling (NEW ) another German -speaking European Wrestling League. You will mitbetrieben among other things, his wrestling school and Wright offers students the opportunity to show off in public without their wrestling experience and so to make first ring experience.
October 3, 2009 Wrights NEW promotion in Schwabach had their debut event, which was nearly sold out with about 500 spectators.
In December 2011 he opened Germany's first wrestling arena in which it produces its own shows.