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James Storm was an amateur wrestler while in high school, winning a state title. In addition, he was a talented basketball player, and was awarded a scholarship to Austin Peay State University (which he was forced to relinquish after injuring his shoulder).
Storm's professional wrestling career begun when he was trained by Slash, a veteran tag wrestler, in 1995. His training was hampered by a broken shoulder, and Storm eventually dropped out of Slash's training school. He resumed training with Shane Morton after his shoulder had healed.
Storm toured the south-east independent circuit before being signed to a World Championship Wrestling (WCW) developmental deal in 2000. Storm made several appearances for World Championship Wrestling on WCW Worldwide and WCW Saturday Night in 2000 as an enhancement talent, where he assumed the ring name James Storm. Storm returned to the independent circuit after World Championship Wrestling was sold to the WWF in March 2001. Storm wrestled his future tag team partner, Chris Harris, on a "Legends Night" show on June 1, 2002. As a result of the match, both wrestlers were hired by the upstart Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion. The pair expected to wrestle as singles, but were instead placed into a tag team, which Harris claimed they named "America's Most Wanted" because everyone involved in their match had been hired by TNA, even the referee. Storm disagrees, claiming the name was a reference to his "little trouble with the law".
Storm appeared on the inaugural TNA pay-per-view on June 19, 2002, and the team wrestled for the first time on the second ever TNA PPV on June 26, 2002. The team quickly became mainstays of the promotion, and teamed regularly over the next few years. Splits were teased in early 2003 and again in 2004, but nothing came of them. The team remains at the heart of the TNA tag division.
Storm, along with Harris, turned heel in late-2005 by helping Jeff Jarrett defeat Raven for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. They went on to join Jarrett's Army, acquiring the managerial skills of Gail Kim in the process.
Because of their "heel" status, and Storm's penchant for wearing cowboy hats, the team is often jeered as "Brokeback Mountain", a reference to the movie about homosexual cowboys.
The “Cowboy†as he is known, was one half of the most decorated tag team in TNA history, America’s Most Wanted. With his former partner, Chris Harris, the duo was highly successful, capturing the NWA World Tag Team Title on six different occasions.
A tough, physical brawler, Storm is quick to dole out punishment to anyone, at any place, at any time. As a compliment to his brawling technique, Storm does also maintain several X Division type moves in his repertoire.
Having been a part of the greatest tag team in TNA history for over 4 1/2 years, not having the spotlight to himself seemed to have gotten the best of James Storm. After a suspicious loss to LAX in a ‘flag match’ at Turning Point 2006, just a few short days later, James Storm sealed the fate of AMW by attacking his own partner, Harris, by blasting him in the eye with a glass beer bottle.
That action ultimately led to the dissolution of America’s Most Wanted as they fell to the LAX in a ‘titles versus team’ match. Having faced tough competitors in the past in the likes of Team 3D, Team Canada, and the Naturals, Storm’s greatest challenges are likely to be that from his own ex-partner, ‘brother’ Wildcat Chris Harris. While time may heal the wounds that each has suffered, it appears quite evident that the emotional damage between the two former partners may be irreparable.
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