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Nigel McGuinness is the ring name of an English professional wrestler, currently working for Ring of Honor in the United States of America. McGuinness was the longest reigning ROH Pure Champion, holding the title for 350 days.
Career
Nigel McGuinness was a wrestling fan from the age of twelve, particularly enjoying The Hart Foundation and The British Bulldogs, and attended SummerSlam 1992 while wearing Ultimate Warrior face paint. After attending Les University, McGuinness relocated to America in the 1990s in order to attend Kent State University, and graduated in 1997 with a degree in chemistry.
In September 1998 McGuinness began training under Les Thatcher in the Heartland Wrestling Association (HWA) in Cincinnati, Ohio, incurring large debts in the process. After debuting in September 1999, defeating GQ Masters III in a match that was featured on ABC's 20/20, he spent a year wrestling in the mid west. McGuinness returned to England where he worked two full time jobs to earn enough money to be able to return to the U.S. to wrestle, and wrestled for All Star promotions between September and December 2001, where he learned from wrestlers such as Robbie Brookside.
Heartland Wrestling Association
McGuinness developed a heel character which he described as "a punk rock soccer hooligan...Billy Idol meets Johnny Saint."
On July 10, 2001, McGuinness defeated Dean Jablonski in a singles match with the HWA Tag Team Championships on the line (the co-holder of the titles, Chet Jablonski, was indisposed), claiming the titles for himself and his partner, The Human Time Bomb. McGuinness and The Bomb held the titles until August 7, when the Jablonski brothers regained the titles. McGuinness and The Bomb would become champions for a second time on July 23, 2002, defeating the Jablonski brothers once more. They lost the titles to Southern Breeze later that year.
In 2003 McGuinness introduced the HWA European Championship to HWA. He held the title until September 30, 2003, when he lost to Hoss. He regained the title on November 4 and promptly retired it.
McGuinness won the HWA Heavyweight Championship on September 6, 2003 in Batavia, Ohio, defeating Chad Collyer, He held the title until January 3, 2004, when he lost the title to Hoss. McGuinness defeated Hoss to begin a second heavyweight title reign on January 6, and held the title until March 17, 2004, when he lost to El Temor.
Ring of Honor
McGuinness debuted in Ring of Honor (ROH) on August 9, 2003, wrestling Chet Jablonski. He wrestled for ROH throughout 2004 but had limited success. In March 2005, McGuinness and Colt Cabana teamed together to challenge for the ROH Tag Team Championship, but lost to the incumbents, Dan Maff and B.J. Whitmer. Cabana and McGuinness then began fighting one another, with McGuinness defeated Cabana for a shot at the ROH Pure Championship. He challenged the champion, Samoa Joe, on June 12, 2005, but was defeated. He faced Joe once more on August 27, and defeated him to win the Pure Championship. He became the longest reigning Pure Champion in the championship's two year history.
For several months after becoming champion, McGuinness was engaged in a feud with Claudio Castagnoli, instigated by a non-title match on October 14 where Claudio was able to use his knowledge of Nigel's European wrestling style to score a pinfall on the champion. This led to a series of matches for the title, with Nigel using underhanded tactics to avoid losing the belt. On March 25, 2006, Nigel defeated Claudio in a match billed as Claudio's last chance to win the belt as long as Nigel was champion.
Nigel was mostly uninvolved in the war between ROH and CZW, instead developing a new gimmick where he would win his matches by countout by using (often unfair) methods of preventing them from returning to the ring. McGuinness received a shot at the ROH World Championship against Bryan Danielson with his own Pure Championship on the line and contested under Pure Championship rules on April 29. McGuinness again won by countout, meaning that he did not win the title, but the victory was enough to earn a rematch under regular rules on July 29, in which Danielson narrowly managed to retain his title. However, McGuinness lost his Pure Championship in a unification match with Danielson conducted under pure rules in Liverpool on August 12, 2006.
In ROH, McGuinness regularly carries an iron (decorated with the Union Jack) to ringside. When asked, the typical story given is that a group of men once broke into his home to attack him, but he was able to defend himself with the iron. In reality, he began carrying the iron after a girlfriend's mother asked him why some wrestlers carried weapons to ringside, and then enquired as to whether anyone had ever carried an iron before.
Other promotions
While still in ROH, McGuinness continued to compete in various other independent promotions like New Era Pro Wrestling, and Italian Championship Wrestling as well as tour various contries.
McGuinness would also make appearances for some major promotions. On the September 3, 2005, McGuinness competed in Ohio Valley Wrestling (WWE's training territory) on episode of its OVW TV, losing to Elijah Burke. He would go on to wrestled Danny Basham on the September 11, 2005, episode of WWE's Sunday Night HEAT, losing after Basham hit an inverted DDT.
McGuinnes later appeared in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling debuting on November 13, 2005 at Genesis in a losing effort to Shark Boy before leaving America to tour Japan with Pro Wrestling NOAH in November and December 2005. He wrestled nine matches in total, seven of which he won, and teamed with fellow gaijin Doug Williams, Too Cold Scorpio and Bison Smith. He has also works in Chicago for a federation called the AAW the AAW stands for the American Allstar Wrestling! He faced Tyler Black who was in the wrestling society x and lost to him becouse Tyler cheated he had Michael Machine Pratter and Jim Jesus also Amy Zane out by the ring to so thats why Tyler Cheated! Nigel also faced Marek Brave who was the aaw champions and Marek beat Nigel! Yet those to have a lot of respect for each other! He did beat Marek 1 time!
Finishing and signature moves
Pendulum Lariat / Les Kellet Lariat (A rope flip sequence between the top and middle ropes, into a running lariat; running lariat to an opponent draped on the top rope)
Tower of London (Elevated cutter with opponent draped on ropes)
Thames Barrier (Modified wrist lock)
Divorce Court (Hammerlock armbar takedown)
Guvnor's Crumpet (Hammerlock facebuster)
Artful Dodger (Dodge sequence into roll-up)
Arm drag
European uppercut
Running European uppercut to an opponent in the corner
Various lariats
Cobra clutch
Top rope handstand evasion
Quotes!!!!!
"I'm not in the HWA to play. McGuinness is in it to win it!"
"I am the best PURE wrestler in the world today!"
"I'm the best there is, I am the best there was, and I am.........well, you know the rest of it."
"Name's Nigel McGuinness, I'm in it to win it!"
"Well it's not Cricket is it!"
My favorite quote is this 1 "Kiss the flag you slag"
Championships and accomplishments
Heartland Wrestling Association
HWA European Championship (2 times)
HWA Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
HWA Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with the Human Time Bomb
New Breed Wrestling Association
New Breed Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Ring of Honor
ROH Pure Championship (1 time)
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Stats:
Nigel McGuinness was raised on healthy diet of punk rock and soccer riots on the mean streets of London and is now using the experience to kick Yankee arse all over the US.
His usual style is British technical, but he is quite versatile. He has unique ability on the microphone that can either enrage or win over fans (sometimes both). He can easily slip into the role of a face or heel, which ever suits his needs. But you will always get a good dose of British cheekiness and amazing wrestling skill.
Height: 6'2â€
Weight: 230 lbs
Birthday: January 23
Hometown: London, England
Current Residence: Louisville, KY
Finshers: Tower of London (cutter; with opponent draped on ropes) Guvnor's Crumpet (Hammerlock facebuster)
Other Favorite Moves: Les Kellet Lariat (A rope flip sequence, adding more power while running into a lariat Thames Barrier (Modified wrist lock), Divorce Court (Hammerlock armbar takedown), Artful Dodger (dodge sequence into roll-up), Steamboat arm drag, European uppercut.
Favorites:
Wrestlers (past and present): Fit Finlay, Ricky Steamboat, Bret Hart, Ultimate Warrior, William Regal
Actor: Morgan Freeman
Actress: Meg Ryan
Hobbies: Ironing
About Nigel
Nigel began training in September of 1998 at Heartland Wrestling Association (previously a developmental territory for WWE), in Cincinnati, OH with the legendary Les Thatcher.
His first professional match was featured on an ABC 20/20 Special profiling the life of wrestling students in September, 1999.
He's currently a featured wrestler with Ring of Honor and HWA. Nigel appears on HWA's local TV show regularly and at ROH shows all over the country. He is a former Ring of Honor Pure Title Champion, holding the record for the longest reigning champion. He has appeared on WWE Sunday Night Heat, TNA Wrestling and the WWE's current developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling. and has notably wrestled for the Third Annual Brian Pillman Memorial show in August, 2001.
All American Wrestling (Ill.)
North American Independents:
Ring of Honor (North East United States)
Main Event Pro (Northern Ohio)
New Breed Championship (Northern Indiana)
NWA Wildside (Georgia)
IWA Mid-South (Southern Indiana)
Georgia Championship Wrestling
Pro Wrestling Iron (California)
Heartland Wrestling Association
Ohio Valley Wrestling
International Federations
All Star Promotions, Liverpool, England
-September - December 2001
-January - April, 2002
-February - April, 2003
-January - March 2004
NOAH, Japan
Titles held:
Ring of Honor Pure Title (was ROH's longest reigning Pure Champion, holding the title for 350 days)
H.W.A. Heavyweight Champion
H.W.A. Tag Champion (2)
New Breed Heavyweight Champion
H.W.A. European Champion
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