Charlie Haas

Charles Doyle Haas II ( born March 27, 1972 in Edmond, Oklahoma, United States), better known by his ring name Charlie Haas, is an American professional wrestler. Since June 10, 2005 Charlie Haas is married to Jackie Gayda. On 14 December 2006 their daughter, Kayla Jacquelyn Haas, was born. Currently, he appears independent, but mainly for Ring of Honor.

Career

Together with his brother Thomas Russell Haas, he formed the tag team Haas Brothers and was able to get several titles in different leagues. His brother died in December 2001 of heart failure.

WWE

On December 26, 2002, he made ​​his debut for World Wrestling Entertainment. There he formed with Shelton Benjamin Team Angle. Head of this team was Kurt Angle. This was separated from the team and so did Haas and Benjamin as Worlds Greatest Tag Team on. Together they won 2 times the WWE Tag Team Championship. However, Benjamin in 2004 moved to RAW. Haas found in Rico a new partner. With him he could win the Tag Team titles. Rico was made redundant after a while.

Haas made ​​a long time on alone before he and Holly formed a team. However, you fehdeten against MNM ( Joey Mercury, Johnny Nitro and Melina Perez ) to the Tag Team titles, they could not win. In July 2005, Haas was released.

Independent sector

After that, he was briefly active in Jersey All Pro Wrestling. At Ballpark Brawl he could the Natural Heavyweight Championship win. He then worked for the ECWA and then went then to Professional Championship Wrestling.

Return to WWE

On April 17, 2006 Haas returned to WWE. In June, he had a feud with Viscera, but later formed a tag team with him. In December there was a comeback of the Worlds Greatest Tag Team with him and Benjamin. The team had feuds with The Highlanders, Cryme Tyme and the Hardy Boyz. The team was disbanded again when Benjamin moved to the ECW brand.

On 31 August 2007, his name appeared on a list of wrestlers, the doping agents are said to have purchased from Signature Pharmacy and he was subsequently suspended for 30 days.

In early 2008 appeared Haas with a gimmick in which he in the match went in the midst of the ring and got in with a mask again in the match. In his next alter-ego Haas showed increased Luchador similar techniques in a comically distorted version. As an example, he showed a Diving Splash, but did not land, as usual, with his upper body on his opponents, but with the feet first. It often happened that his opponent unmasked him after a short time, which meant that Haas returned again in his usual style. In July 2008, this gimmick was rejected again.

In late August Haas began after a change to a so-called Babyface, so a wrestler, the fans like to imitate other wrestler. This is based on the idea of John Laurinaitis. His first match with this gimmick was against Carlitos real brother Primo Colón just as his brother under the name " Charlito " which lost Haas. This placed the beginning of imitations and parodies from Haas to other wrestlers that took place much like the parodies of Stevie Richards in the original ECW, but also remember points in the career of Big Show and Kurt Angle in WWE. He portrayed among other superstars such as John Cena, John " Bradshaw " Layfield, Mr. Perfect, Jim Ross, The Great Khali ( accompanied whose real manager ), Stone Cold Steve Austin, Bret Hart, Hulk Hogan and Beth Phoenix, for which he won a Slammy Award.

On 15 April 2009 he joined the WWE Draft to Smackdown and resigned his Nachahmungsgimmick. There was for instance a brief reunion with Shelton Benjamin. On February 28, 2010 Haas was fired from the WWE.

Independent

After Haas had been released he met on 20 March 2010 at Jersey All Pro Wrestling and was allowed to win the JAPW New Jersey State Title there. Haas then appeared in several independent leagues in America, Europe and Japan. Since September 11, 2010, he takes for Ring of Honor, where he reactivated the World's Greatest Tag Team with his old tag team partner Shelton Benjamin, which win the ROH World Tag Team Championship from the Kings of Wrestling on 1 April 2011 could. After the title loss to the Briscoe Brothers on 23 September 2011, they won the title from those on 12 May 2012 in Border Wars back. At Best In The World, they lost the titles to The All- Night Express ( Kenny King & Rhett Titus ).

Title

  • Combat Zone Wrestling 1x CZW Tag Team Champion ( with Russ Haas)
  • East Coast Wrestling Association 1x ECWA Tag Team Champion ( with Russ Haas)
  • Heartland Wrestling Association 1x HWA Heavyweight Champion
  • Jersey All Pro Wrestling 2x JAPW Tag Team Champion ( 2x with Russ Haas)
  • 1x JAPW NJ State Champion
  • Memphis Championship Wrestling 3x MCW Tag Team Champion ( 3x with Russ Haas)
  • Ring of Honor 2x ROH World Tag Team Champion ( with Shelton Benjamin)
  • World Wrestling Entertainment 3x WWE Tag Team Champion ( 2x with Shelton Benjamin, 1x with Rico)
  • He was also included in the ECWA Hall of Fame in 2004.
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