Stevie Richards

Michael Manna ( born October 9, 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American professional wrestler.

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Career

Training was manna from Mike Sharpe. He first came into smaller independent promotions, the so-called Independent leagues such as the World Wide Wrestling Alliance, at.

Extreme Championship Wrestling / World Championship Wrestling

On 25 February 1992 he made ​​his debut in ECW. There, he was initially known as Ravens ' nose drilling appendage " and later formed a tag team with this. With Raven he deemed there twice the ECW World Tag Team Championship.

In the old ECW Manna was also responsible for the leagues hotline and telephone ticket sales, for which he worked under another pseudonym.

After his recovery, he wrote in 1997 World Championship Wrestling. There, however, he did not stay long and left the organization in October of the same year again.

Extreme Championship Wrestling / World Wrestling Federation

Manna went back to ECW and began to parody famous wrestler. So he created, for example, a character who was inspired by the wrestling legend Baron Von Raschke and came from Dusseldorf. A little later he founded together with Nova and Da Blue Guy the bWo, a parody of the nWo in WCW. The highlight of his ECW career was the participation at the first ECW PPV Barely Legal 1997., Where he was allowed to compete in a Three Way Dance match against Terry Funk and Sandman. The winner should compete for the ECW Championship title in connection with Raven. But just before this match Manna suffered a protracted neck injury, which led to numerous operations carried out and the breaks again today. So Manna also different from an early stage of this tournament.

Michael Manna was the ECW until mid- August 1999.

On August 15, 1999, he then gave his debut in the then World Wrestling Federation. After a short time he became employed as a manager.

In 2004, he appointed himself general manager (English sth manager) WWE B -show Sunday Night Heat. In February 2005, he was injured in a match against Chris Masters and suffered a broken nose. Manna also had a brief appearance as part of the 2005's bWo WWE pay- per-view ECW One Night Stand

In June 2005, he changed the course of the occupation switching between RAW and SmackDown! from RAW to SmackDown! squad. There, however, he worked most of the time only as a jobber. Due to its neck problems Richards was half a year no longer actively involved. His comeback he celebrated just before Wrestlemania 22

After the WWE pay- per-views, the ECW One Night Stand 2005 and 2006, there was in the summer of 2006, a comeback of Extreme Championship Wrestling, which had now been created as a brand ECW. So Manna Smackdown left in the summer of 2006 and went back to ECW.

Initially manna was used only sporadically and was often only at the house shows in use. After various feud programs (including with CM Punk) Manna Center was incorporated in 2006 to Title Done.

From September 2007, he was again inactive due to its langwiedrigenden neck injury. In February 2008, Stevie Richards made ​​his comeback and was allowed in his first match each time achieve victory. At Wrestlemania 24, he joined the 24 man Battle Royal, the winner the same evening got a title shot at the ECW Championship at. On 15 August 2008 Manna was released by the WWE.

Independent / Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

After his release, he was first appointed to the Independent Organizations Maryland Championship Wrestling and NWA No Limits.

On 12 February 2009 he made his debut as Dr. Stevie TNA Impact, which is organized by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. There he initially the gimmick of a therapist of Abyss and later by the wrestler Daffney. As of July 2010, after a six -month break, this gimmick was dropped and he stepped back under the name Stevie Richards as part of EV 2.0, a group of former ECW wrestlers on. On 11 January 2011 he left TNA.

Achievements

Wrestling

  • World Wrestling Entertainment WWE Hardcore Champion 22 ×
  • Extreme Championship Wrestling 02 × ECW World Tag Team Champion ( with Raven )
  • Heartland Wrestling Association 01 × HWA Heavyweight Champion
  • National Wrestling Alliance 01 × 2000 NWA Heavyweight Champion 01 × NWA National Heavyweight Champion
  • Maryland Championship Wrestling 01 × MCW Tag Team Champion ( with Earl The Pearl )
  • Mid Eastern Wrestling Federation 01 × MEWF Heavyweight Champion

Hall of Fame

  • Maryland Championship Wrestling
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