Alex Wright

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Ring name Berlyn
Alex Wright
Additions to names wonder child
height 1.93 m
Fighting weight 102 kg
birth May 17, 1975
Nuremberg
Trained by Steve Wright
debut 1991
retirement 2003
Website http://www.prowrestlingschool.de/

Alexander Wright (born May 17, 1975 in Nuremberg ) is a former German wrestler and today's wrestling trainer in his hometown of Nuremberg. He is a second generation wrestler best known by his ring name Alex Wright . His father, the Englishman Steve Wright, and his uncle Bernard Wright were also successful in wrestling.

Career

Sporty background

Alex Wright was trained in wrestling by his father from the age of three and won the Bavarian youth championship in weightlifting at the age of 10 . In addition, he was also an amateur wrestler and competitive swimmer.

Catch Wrestling Association

Alex Wright's father Steve and his brother Bernard were under contract with the European wrestling organization Catch Wrestling Association . But Wright's debut in wrestling was more of a coincidence: In 1991, the Wrights attended a CWA show in Wuppertal . So they had VIP tickets and wanted to go to the event hall an hour before the official start of admission. The organizer, the former German wrestler and wrestler Peter William , found Alex Wright at 16 years old to be too young for the event. But when Steve and Alex Wright put on an improvised wrestling show, William was more than thrilled by Alex Wright's performance. He used Alex Wright as a "surprise guest" on the show and then offered him a contract. This made Alex Wright the youngest professional wrestler in Germany and well-known in the media .

World Championship Wrestling

He was invited to Schreinemakers , where a WCW agent noticed him: In 1994, at the age of 18, he was invited by WCW and trained in the American style in their wrestling school . A little later he had his first appearances in the house shows , where he is now "the prodigy Alex Wright" was announced as and there Levesque Paul could defeat. He remained completely undefeated for almost a year before losing to then TV champion Arn Anderson at Slamboree in May 1995 .

In the further course of his career he was able to secure both the cruiserweight - as well as the TV - and the tag team title . A head injury forced Alex Wright to take a long break in 1998. During this time, his gimmick was completely redesigned. He returned to the ring as "Berlyn". Berlyn was supposed to portray a Gothic character and verbally abused American wrestlers as “weak Americans”, mostly in German . However, it was more popular with the fans than Nazi , especially since the gunmen of Columbine had a similar appearance.

As a result, there was another change of gimmick and he later entered again under his real name.

Independent

When the WCW filed for bankruptcy in 2001 and was bought by the World Wrestling Federation , Wright was not taken over because he had not signed his contract with WCW, but with AOL / Time Warner and WWF owner Vince McMahon only had WCW contracts in his promotion could take over. Wright finally returned to Germany after nine years in the United States. In 2003 he had his last match in Uelzen ; He turned down two requests from World Wrestling Entertainment because he felt burned out.

End of career or change of career

Alex Wright temporarily withdrew from active activities and worked in a fitness chain in Nuremberg. He went into business for himself at the end of 2006 and founded the wrestling school "The Wright Stuff - Pro Wrestling School" in January 2007 in the Nuremberg district of Katzwang , where his main activity is today. At a tournament of the GWP in 2007 Wright appeared for a one-time match to advertise his wrestling school there. In 2011 he moved his wrestling school to the NEW HotSpot in Heßdorf (near Erlangen), which Wright had specially expanded as a wrestling hall. The NEW HotSpot is Germany's only individually equipped wrestling hall. The NEW HotSpot is the home of the wrestling school "The Wright Stuff" and Wright's wrestling league " New European Championship Wrestling (NEW) ".

titles and achievements

New European Championship Wrestling

After his career as an active wrestler, Wright founded another German-speaking European wrestling league with the New European Championship Wrestling (NEW) promotion. Since December 2011 NEW has been organizing an average wrestling event every month with national and international stars. In addition, New European Championship Wrestling, Wright offers students the opportunity to demonstrate their wrestling experience to a public audience and thus gain their first wrestling experience.

On October 3rd, 2009 Wright's NEW promotion had its debut event in Schwabach , which was almost sold out with around 500 spectators.

In December 2011 he opened Germany's first wrestling arena, the NEW HotSpot, in which he produces his own shows.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter William in World of Wrestling - Heros of the Decade , 2000 on Premiere X-Action
  2. ↑ a b Alex Wright Bio. In: Wrestling-History.de. Archived from the original on December 28, 2010 ; Retrieved December 5, 2013 .
  3. ↑ World Championship Wrestling - The Official Monthly Magazine , 8/94, p. 18
  4. ↑ Alex Wright Bio ( Memento November 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on WrestlingFever
  5. ↑ a b website Wrestling.de
  6. ↑ Power Wrestling , Edition 11/2009, p. 54
  7. ↑ Wrestling show: Alex Wright opens hall in Heßdorf - Former star catcher wants to set new standards with “NEW HotSpot”. In: Nordbayern.de. November 29, 2011, accessed December 5, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Wright, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wright, Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH 17th May 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg , Germany