Taz (wrestler)

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Peter Senerchia
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Data
Ring name Kid Krush
The Tasmanian Devil
The Tazmaniac
Taz
Tazz
Additions to names The Human Suplex Machine
height 175 cm
Fighting weight 110 kg
birth October 11, 1967
Red Hook , New York , USA
Trained by Johnny Rodz
debut 1987
retirement 2002

Peter Senerchia (born October 11, 1967 in Red Hook , New York ), better known by his ring name Taz , is a former American judoka and wrestler who was a color commentator for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling .

Career

Beginnings

Peter Senerchia made his wrestling debut in 1987 in Puerto Rico , where he was trained by Johnny Rodz. There he appeared as Kid Krush , but soon changed his name to (The) Tasmaniac . In the early 1990s, Senerchia switched to the then Promotion International World Class Championship Wrestling and was allowed to hold the title of Light Heavyweight Champion there for a period of six months in 1991.

Extreme Championship Wrestling

In October 1993 Senerchia made his debut in the then NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling when he got the gimmick of a Neanderthal man . He has merged with Jack Chetti to form The Tazmaniacs Tag Team . After they broke up, Senerchia formed a tag team with Kevin Sullivan , with whom he was allowed to win the NWA / ECW Tag Team title twice. At the same time he was allowed to hold the ECW Television title for the first time . Furthermore, Senerchia was now responsible for the design of the T-shirts and the logos in the ECW.

As a Tazmaniac , Senerchia was once again able to win the Tag Team title when he formed a - problematic - team with Sabu : neither of them could stand each other in real life. This tag team was disbanded when Sabu stayed away from an ECW event and instead competed at the FMW in Japan. Paul Heyman appeared disappointed in front of the audience and announced that Sabu had stayed away from the event in breach of contract and had therefore been dismissed from the ECW with immediate effect.

Sencheria competed alone in the scheduled tag team match and suffered a serious neck injury. This meant that he was out for most of 1995. Senerchia was afraid of being fired by Paul Heyman during his long injury break. Both had only signed a handshake and no written contract. Heyman, however, stuck to this agreement and paid Senerchia regularly during his injury break.

After his recovery, Peter Senerchia returned to the ECW in the gimmick of the shootfighter Taz . He then began an 18-month feud with his former tag team partner Sabu, which he was able to win in the first pay-per-view of the ECW (Barely Legal 1997). Since his return to wrestling, the colors orange and black have been the hallmark of Team Taz . After this meeting Senerchia was allowed to win the ECW Television title from Shane Douglas and defended it several times against Bam Bam Bigelow ; but in the end he had to cede this title to the latter.

After losing the Television title, Senerchia began challenging reigning World Champion Shane Douglas for a title match. Since he had to pause due to a serious injury, Senerchia created his own FTW Heavyweight Championship in 1998 . He defended this in 1999 at Bam Bam Bigelow, among others. For a short time he had to cede this title to Sabu, but was able to secure it again and after winning the title he combined the FTW and the ECW title: Senerchia broke Shane Douglas's arm in the title match, but allowed him a rematch a week later.

World Wrestling Entertainment

Taz

Peter Senerchia was ECW World Heavyweight Champion for 9 months and signed a contract with the then WWF in 2000 . For this he gave the ECW title to Mike Awesome in a 3 Way Dance at "Anarchy rules 2000". Senerchia made her debut in the WWF at the Royal Rumble 2000 . There he inflicted the first defeat in Kurt Angle's wrestling career. After that, Peter Senerchia was converted from WWF leadership to Tazz and Midcarder. He now competed for the WWF Hardcore title . In April 2000 he was loaned to the ECW again so that he could secure the ECW Champion title from Mike Awesome. (Awesome had since signed with the WCW and could therefore not keep the title.) After winning the title, he gave it back to Tommy Dreamer after "ECW Cyber ​​Slam 2000" .

At SummerSlam , the WWF had Senerchia against Jerry Lawler losing and could the rematch with "Unforgiven" with the help Ravens decide for themselves.

In March 2002, Senerchia ended his wrestling career due to an injury and now took over the post of color commentator at SmackDown. Tazz played his last match at ECW One Night Stand 2006 against Jerry "The King" Lawler, whom he defeated within a few seconds. Since then, Peter Senerchia has mainly worked alongside Joey Styles as a commentator on the ECW shows. After a line-up change (so-called "draft") he was back as a commentator in the Smackdown! -Roster active.

Peter Senerchia's WWE contract expired on April 3, 2009 and was not renewed by either side.

Total non-stop action wrestling

Taz together with Mike Tenay at TNA

On July 19, 2009, Peter Senerchia made his debut at the TNA Wrestling- produced large event Victory Road under his old ECW ring name Taz as a mentor of Samoa Joe . Since August 20, 2009, he has been working alongside Mike Tenay, as before at WWE, as a commentator.

successes

  • Century Wrestling Alliance
  • 1 × CWA Light Heavyweight Champion

useful information

  • Peter Senerchia was a seemingly clumsy wrestler in appearance. But he was known for being able to throw his opponents through the ring with lightning speed with various and seamless suplesses . That is why it was also called " The human suplex machine ".
  • Senerchia also ran the ECW Wrestling School ECW House of Extreme - Pro Wrestling School , where he himself trained future wrestlers at Dojo Taz . His deputy and head coach of this wrestling school was Big Dick Dudley .
  • Peter Senerchia is married to Theresa Smith and they have a son named Tylor.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Peter Senerchia in The Rise + Fall of ECW , 2004
  2. ↑ Silver Version: ECW - The most Extreme matches , 2006

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personal data
SURNAME Taz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Senerchia, Peter; Senerca, Pete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American judoka and wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Red Hook, Brooklyn , New York City