Killian Dain

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Data
Surname Damian Mackle
Ring name Big Damo
Damian O'Connor
Damo
Damo O'Connor
Killian Dain
Additions to names The Beast Of Belfast
height 196 cm
Fighting weight 146 kg
birth February 20, 1985 (age 35)
Belfast , Northern Ireland , UK
Trained by Robbie Brookside
Fergal Devitt
Paul Tracy
WWE Performance Center
debut October 1, 2005

Damian Mackle (born February 20, 1985 in Belfast , Northern Ireland , UK ), better known by his ring name Killian Dain , is a Northern Irish wrestler who is under contract with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and regularly appears on the weekly NXT show . In the independent scene, he was previously known as Big Damo .

His greatest achievement to date has been receiving the NXT Tag Team Championship as part of SAnitY .

Wrestling career

Beginnings and international independent scene

Mackle began his wrestling career in Scotland . There he trained with Robbie Brookside in the NWA Scotland . He then made his debut in 2005 under the ring name Damian O'Connor at the age of 20 with the Scottish Wrestling Alliance . With Scott Renwick he formed the tag team Britain's Most Wanted , which won numerous titles in various smaller wrestling leagues. Although they never officially split, the two went their separate ways starting in 2009 to focus on their careers as individual wrestlers. Numerous appearances in Ireland, Great Britain, Europe and the USA followed.

His most successful time in Europe was with the Scottish wrestling league Insane Championship Wrestling , where he won the ICW World Heavyweight Championship as Big Damo on February 27, 2016 from Chris Renfrew . In January 2016 he made a few appearances for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). There he competed twice against Eric Young for the TNA King of the Mountain Championship .

In Great Britain, in addition to assignments for Insane Championship Wrestling and Scottish Wrestling Alliance, he also appeared in other wrestling leagues located there, such as Progress Wrestling , Revolution Pro Wrestling , WhatCulture Pro Wrestling , Premier British Wrestling and IPW: UK . He also competed in the German league Westside Xtreme Wrestling and for various US wrestling leagues such as Evolve , Beyond Wrestling or Absolute Intense Wrestling .

He played his last match in the independent scene on October 8, 2016 with the English wrestling league WhatCulture Pro Wrestling , when he lost to Martin Kirby at their WCPW True Legacy event .

WWE

On October 19, World Wrestling Entertainment announced that Mackle had signed a contract. There he was initially part of NXT , the WWE development league. In WWE house shows ran as Damian O'Connor or Damo.

SAnitY at an NXT house show: Killian Dain (center), Alexander Wolfe (left next to Dain), Nikki Cross (left next to Wolfe) and Eric Young (right next to the referee)

He made his television debut on NXT December 7, 2016, when he intervened in the match between SAnitY and No Way Jose & Rich Swann by attacking No Way Jose and helping SAnitY to victory. On January 18, 2017, he officially joined the SAnitY stable (consisting of Eric Young, Alexander Wolfe, Sawyer Fulton, Nikki Cross) after previously attacking Tye Dillinger . He replaced Sawyer Fulton as a member of the group, as he had been thrown from the stable a few weeks earlier within the storyline by Eric Young , the leader of SAnitY . After joining SAnitY , Mackle got the new ring name Killian Dain.

At WWE WrestleMania 33 he played his first match in the main rustler as a participant in the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal . There he was one of the last three wrestlers in the ring. He was eliminated by eventual winner Mojo Rawley .

On August 19, 2017 at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn III , his stable colleagues Eric Young and Alexander Wolfe from the Authors of Pain won the NXT Tag Team Championship . With the Freebird Rule he also became a champion. On November 18, 2017, he played the first WWE War Games match in 17 years with Eric Young and Alexander Wolfe , against The Undisputed Era and The Authors of Pain , who competed with Roderick Strong . The NXT Tag Team -Titel he lost and Eric Young in the NXT edition of 20 December 2017 The Undisputed Era (Bobby Fish & Kyle O'Reilly ).

On April 7, 2018 Dain was with NXT Takeover: New Orleans of the Sub- Six-Man Ladder matches to the newly introduced NXT North American Championship , where he but was unsuccessful.

At the WWE Superstar Shake-up , which took place on April 16 and 17, 2018, with the exception of Nikki Cross, all SAnitY stable members were transferred to the main WWE on April 17. Since then, Dain, Eric Young and Alexander Wolfe have been part of the SmackDown rooster . However, the group was rarely used and dissolved with the next Superstar Shake Up on April 15, 2019. Dain returned to NXT at the same time . There he played a Triple Threat Match against Pete Dunne and Damien Priest on November 23, 2019 to determine the next challenger for the NXT Championship . However, he lost this match.

Others

  • Mackle was a goalkeeper for his college soccer team. He also played rugby union , basketball and judo at university level .
  • The wrestlers Sting and the Ultimate Warrior claimed to have inspired him. Irish wrestler Fit Finlay also had a great influence on his wrestling style and is, according to Mackle, the greatest inspiration for his success.
  • In 2009 he took over the Source Wrestling School and trained aspiring wrestlers. Among his students at the time were the well-known wrestlers Joe Coffey, Joe Hendry and his future stable colleague from NXT, Nikki Cross . He married her on January 17, 2019.

Wrestling successes

World Wrestling Entertainment
3 count wrestling
  • 1 × 3CW Tag Team Championship (with Scott Renwick)
Insane Championship Wrestling
  • 1 × ICW World Heavyweight Championship
Pride wrestling
  • 1 × Pride Wrestling Championship
Reckless intent wrestling
  • 1 × Reckless Intent Hardcore Championship
  • 1 × Reckless Intent Heavyweight Championship
Scottish Wrestling Alliance
  • 1 × SWA Laird of the Ring Championship
  • 6 × SWA Tag Team Championship (4 × each with Scott Renwick, 1 × Pete O'Neil and Micken)
Scottish Wrestling Entertainment
  • 1 × SWE Heavyweight Champion
What Culture Pro Wrestling
  • 1 × WCPW Championship
What Culture Pro Wrestling
  • 1 × WCPW Championship
World Wide Wrestling League
  • 1 × W3L Heavyweight Champion
  • 1 × W3L Tag Team Championship (with Scott Renwick)
X Wrestling Alliance
  • 1 × XWA British Heavyweight Champion

Web links

Commons : Killian Dain  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SWA Ascention. cagematch.de, October 1, 2005, accessed July 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ CW Hey Look! It's That Mad Wrestling Thing Aff The Telly Tour - The Big Elbowski. cagematch.de, February 27, 2016, accessed July 30, 2018 .
  3. ^ WCPW True Legacy. cagematch.de, October 8, 2016, accessed July 30, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Tommy End, Big Damo and “Crazy” Mary Dobson join WWE Performance Center. wwe.com, October 19, 2016, accessed July 30, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Cruncher: WWE NXT # 346 Results + Report from Winter Park, Florida from December 7th, 2016 (including videos). wrestling-infos.de, December 7, 2016, accessed July 30, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Cruncher: WWE NXT # 352 Results + Report from Winter Park, Florida from January 18, 2017 (including videos). wrestling-infos.de, January 18, 2017, accessed July 30, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Cruncher: WWE "WrestleMania 33" results & short report from Orlando, Florida from April 2nd, 2017 (incl. Videos + complete kickoff show). wrestling-infos.de, April 2, 2017, accessed July 31, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Cruncher: WWE "NXT Takeover: Brooklyn III" results + report from Brooklyn, New York, USA from August 19, 2017 (incl. Videos and complete pre-show). wrestling-infos.de, August 20, 2017, accessed on July 31, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Cruncher: WWE "NXT TakeOver: WarGames" results & report from Houston, Texas, USA from November 18, 2017 (incl. Videos + complete pre-show). wrestling-infos.de, November 19, 2017, accessed on July 31, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Cruncher: WWE NXT # 400 Results & Report from Winter Park, Florida from December 20, 2017 (including videos). wrestling-infos.de, December 21, 2017, accessed on July 31, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Nexus 3D: WWE "NXT TakeOver: New Orleans" report + results from New Orleans, Louisiana from April 7th, 2018 (incl. Videos and complete preshow). wrestling-infos.de, April 8, 2017, accessed July 31, 2018 .
  12. ↑ JE_2601: WWE SmackDown Live # 974 results + report from Providence, Rhode Island from April 17th, 2018 (incl. Videos). wrestling-infos.de, April 18, 2018, accessed on July 31, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Jamie Welton, The Beast Unleashed - An Interview With ICW's Big Damo. wrestlingnewsworld.com, November 4, 2015, accessed July 31, 2018 .
  14. ↑ QTPW: Interview: ICW & wXw's Big Damo O'Connor. Retrieved June 28, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Is NXT recruit Nicola Glencross the 'Best in the Galaxy'? The former Nikki Storm speaks out (in English). wwe.com, December 19, 2016, accessed July 31, 2018 .
  16. ↑ WWE Couple Nikki Cross And Killian Dain Are Now Married (Photos). June 21, 2019, accessed June 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Dain, Killian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mackle, Damian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Northern Irish wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Belfast , Northern Ireland , UK