Chris Raaber

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Chris Raaber
Data
Ring name Chris Raaber
Bambikiller
Chris The Bambikiller
Christoph Herzog
height 192 cm
Fighting weight 115 kg
birth September 6, 1981
Leoben , Austria
Trained by Michael Kovac
Ian Rotten
Dory Funk, Jr.
debut May 9, 1998

Chris Raaber (born September 6, 1981 in Leoben , Austria ) is an Austrian wrestler . Currently he also competes under the ring name Bambikiller .

Because of his training in the most important wrestling styles, Raaber is known as an "all-rounder".

Private

Raaber has been married since the late summer of 2011 and is the father of a daughter and a son. Since November 2008 he has owned a fitness studio with an attached wrestling school in his hometown of Leoben.

One of Chris Raaber's great role models is “Big Otto” Wanz .

Career

In 1997, when he was 15 at the time, Chris Raaber was trained by Michael Kovac in European, ie English, wrestling style and made his wrestling debut on May 9, 1998, when he took part in a tournament in Hanover at the age of 16 . Raaber was under contract with various wrestling leagues, which also took him abroad. He competed several times in Japan and the USA . But it was also used in matches in Arabic-speaking countries , for example in Kuwait .

At the beginning of his wrestling career, Chris Raaber was initially committed to IWA Mid-South Wrestling in 1998, where Ian Rotten trained in hardcore style .

Between 2000 and 2001 he and his mentor Michael Kovac participated six times in the "Fight Camp" hosted by Dory Funk, Jr.'s The Funking Conservatory - Pro-Wrestling School in Florida . Chris Raaber was trained in American wrestling by Dory Funk, Jr. and Japanese by Osamu Nishimura and Mr. Hatori.

Following this, Raaber made a few appearances in the WCW , where he was part of a stable. There Raaber was briefly involved in a feud program .

WWE talent scouts , who also visited German wrestling leagues as part of a UK tour in November 2005, took Chris Raaber under closer observation and in 2006 Raaber was trained in the technical Lucha Libre style in Colombia, South America . In January he had already signed a sponsorship agreement with the WWE in a farm league, but it was not honored.

In 2007 Chris Raaber had a few try-out matches on a WWE England tour, where he got into the RAW and Smackdown! started. One of his opponents at the time was Kurt Angle .

In March 2009 Chris Raaber was promised a multi-year commitment by the wrestling market leader World Wrestling Entertainment and at the end of the same month Raaber signed a standard WWE contract with a term of three years.

Raaber joined the WWE Development League Florida Championship Wrestling in Florida from May 2009 under the ring name Christoph Herzog . In January 2010 reports were published in which it was spread that Raaber had been released from his current contract. Immediately after these reports became known, Raaber denied the dismissal on his own MySpace page. But since he had his last appearance at Florida Championship Wrestling on September 10, 2009 and he has been back in the international independent scene since January 16, 2010, it can be assumed that World Wrestling Entertainment has terminated his contract.

successes

  • European Wrestling Association
  • 4 × EWA World Heavyweight Champion
  • Athletics Club Wrestling
  • 2 × ACW International Champion
  • Italian Championship Wrestling
  • ICW Italian Wrestling Champion
  • Funkin 'Conservatory
  • FC International Champion
  • Other
  • WFU Rookie Trophy Champion
  • Power Wrestling Federation
  • 1 × PWF Heavyweight Champion

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US magazine Rampage - The official Magazine Of Wrestling's New Generation , Winter 2002 issue, p. 2
  2. ↑ a b c http://www.wwf4ever.de/WWE-14480-news.php
  3. ↑ http://www.myspace.com/chrisraaber
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from November 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Germany's big wrestling magazine. Retrieved on May 14, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from April 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Power Wrestling , June 2009 edition, p. 10.
  8. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.power-wrestling.de  
  9. ↑ I was NOT released from the WWE! I was not released by WWE! ( Memento of February 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 11, 2010
  10. ↑ http://www.cagematch.de/?id=2&nr=180&view=matches#matches

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personal data
SURNAME Raaber, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bambikiller
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Leoben , Austria