Mike Rotunda
Mike Rotunda, origin. Lawrence Michael Rotunda ( born March 30, 1958 in St. Petersburg, Florida ) is a former American professional wrestler, R. primarily as a tag team wrestler by his ring name Irwin Schyster or abbreviated IRS is known. Rotunda held alongside other wrestling titles five times the World Tag Team titles to the World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment).
Career
1981-1987
After graduating from Syracuse University Rotunda in 1981 began his career at Florida Championship Wrestling. There he formed with his brother Barry Windham a tag team. In 1984 she switched to the World Wrestling Federation and were there as U.S. Express. After defeating Dick Murdoch and Adrian Adonis Rotunda and Windham WWF World Tag Team title for the first time were able to secure. Then a feud with The Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff, which ended with the title of the U.S. Express at Wrestlemania I began. In June 1985 she won against Brutus Beefcake and Greg Valentine for the second time WWF World Tag Team title. After Windham left the WWF, made Mike Rotunda without much success a tag team with Dan Spivey.
1987-1991
1987 Rotunda left the WWF and returned to Florida Championship Wrestling, where he won the title NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship. The next year he moved within the National Wrestling Alliance Jerry Crockett Promotions. There he made with Kevin Sullivan and Rick Steiner the Varsity Club, a stable with a wrestler background. Later, Dan Spivey and Steve Williams were joined. With the latter Rotunda won the NWA World Tag Team title. In 1988, he won as an individual wrestler the NWA World Television Title, which he had just a year later pass on to Sting.
1991-1995
1991 Rotunda returned to the WWF, where he received a new gimmick that clearly defined him as a Heel: Irwin R. Schyster, whose initials IRS are the abbreviation of the U.S. tax investigation, according to the fictional biography of a former tax collector of the Internal Revenue Service was and scolded opponents and audiences as " Taxcheaters " ( tax cheat ). This unsympathetic figure formed with her tag team partner, the equally polarizing "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase, the tag team Money Inc., which received three times the WWF Tag Team titles in total. After injury-related retirement of Mike Rotunda DiBiase appeared as a single wrestler. During this time he had feuds with Razor Ramon, whose gold chain jewelry he wanted taxed according to storyline, Tatanka, of which he demanded gift for a Wahoo McDaniel and Chief Jay Strongbow presented Häuptingskopfschmuck, and The Undertaker, know the contents of the urn in which Schyster and wanted tax. After a real back injury in a match against Lex Luger Rotunda left the WWF.
From 1995 to 2000 Rotunda was under contract with World Championship Wrestling, but was unable to repeat his earlier successes as Irwin R. Schyster. After that, he was active in Japan, where he was allowed to win first on the side of Steve Williams, the Real World Tag League of All Japan Pro Wrestling, and then his career could end with IWA Japan, where he announced his resignation in 2004 to his wife lead to a security company.
Since 2006 Rotunda has returned to World Wrestling Entertainment under contract, mostly behind the scenes. The anniversary show for fifteen years of the WWE main telecast Raw on 10 December 2007, he took over as Irwin R. Schyster at a Battle Royal in part, at the Schyster the victory finally let buy from his former tag team partner Ted DiBiase, a allusion to its purchase of the WWF World Heavyweight title from Andre the Giant nearly twenty years earlier.