Dean Malenko

Dean Simon (* August 4, 1960 in Tampa, Florida ) is a former American professional wrestler. However, he is known by his former ring name Dean Malenko.

Currently Simon is active as a Road Agent for the WWE. There he worked among other things on the storylines and plans to match various processes.

Career

In his early years, Dean Simon appeared in smaller independent leagues, where he could win even his first title. He also appeared in other countries, such as Mexico and Japan, where he could develop his own wrestling style.

Extreme Championship Wrestling

In 1994, Simon made ​​his debut for Extreme Championship Wrestling. There he was allowed the ECW World Television Championship win and keep up to March 18, 1995 on 4 November 1994 in Hamburg ( Pennsylvania). Simon Dean was allowed the Television Title then win a second time on 21 July 1995 when he ran against Eddie Guerrero. At this he had to give back the title a little later. With Chris Benoit as a partner he was on 25 February 1995 the ECW World Tag Team Championship win.

World Championship Wrestling

In September 1995, Simon moved on to World Championship Wrestling.

Between 1996 and 1997 Simon was allowed to hold three times the WCW World Cruiserweight Title. In mid-1998 he was involved in a feud with Chris Jericho program, in which Simon for the fourth time was allowed to hold the Cruiserweight Championship.

In September 1998, Dean Simon was part of the Four Horsemen, which consisted at this time of Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, himself and Chris Benoit. They were the main feud opponents of the New World Order. Benoit and he could hold together the World Tag Team Championship titles. In May 1999, was dissolved on the Four Horsemen and Simon was released in 2000 by the WCW.

World Wrestling Entertainment

After his release, Simon signed a contract with the then World Wrestling Federation. In the WWE you closed it with Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero and Perry Saturn to a stable called "The Radicalz " together. There he was allowed in the time to twice the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship win, which he then was allowed to hold almost twelve months. Shortly after the title loss to Dean Simon retired from active wrestling events.

It was the end of his playing career in 2001, announced during a memorial mission of the WWE in honor of Brian Pillman. However, he had henceforth from time to time sporadic appearances on WWE shows, for example, at a SmackDown Tribute output after Eddie Guerrero died. Today Simon works mainly behind the scenes as a road agent.

Achievements

  • Extreme Championship Wrestling
  • World Championship Wrestling
  • 4x WCW Cruiserweight Champion
  • 1x WCW United States Heavyweight Champion
  • 1x WCW World Tag Team Champion ( with Chris Benoit )
  • World Wrestling Federation
  • 2x WWF Light Heavyweight Champion
  • Other titles

Special

Dean Simon was born into a wrestling family, since his father Boris Malenko and his brother Joe, with whom he occasionally also formed a tag team, since had been successfully engaged in this business.

Simon was taken up worldwide as a wrestler and spent much of his career in Mexico and Japan. Due to his technical skills, he then got the nickname "The Man of a Thousand handles " award. In addition Simon was called because of its cool appearance also frequently called " (The) Iceman".

  • Wrestlers
  • Americans
  • Born in 1960
  • Man
1979 Hamburg (Pennsylvania) The Four Horsemen (professional wrestling) The New World Order (professional wrestling)
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