Larry Sweeney

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Larry Sweeney


Statistics
Ring name(s)	Larry Sweeney
Billed height	5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Billed weight	185 lb (83 kg)
Born	February 18, 1981 (1981-02-18) (age 27) Redondo Beach, California
Trained by	Mike Quackenbush Chris Hero Buddy Rose Colonel DeBeers Skayde
Debut	May 1, 2004

Larry Sweeney (born Alex Whybrow or Lawrence Swencil, February 18, 1981 in Redondo Beach, California) is an American professional wrestler who has appeared all over the continental US as well as in Canada, Mexico and Europe. He performs primarily on the American independent circuit in promotions such as CHIKARA, Full Impact Pro, IWA Deep South, Ring of Honor and International Wrestling Cartel.

1 Career
- 1.1 Ring of Honor
2 In wrestling
3 Wrestlers managed
4 Championships and accomplishments
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Career

Sweeney decided to train in professional wrestling while living in India and training in amateur wrestling at the Sri Satpal Pehlewan Akhara at the Chattrasol Stadium in Model Town, Delhi, India, in 2002. After returning to the states and completing his studies at Oberlin College, he enrolled in the Chikara Wrestle Factory in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in September 2003, under head trainer Mike Quackenbush and co-instructors Chris Hero and Skayde. Sweeney also received training from Buddy Rose and Colonel DeBeers in Portland, Oregon before debuting on May 1, 2004 in Ludlow, Massachusetts. Since then, Sweeney has been a mainstay in many promotions on the American independent circuit. He won the CHIKARA Young Lions Cup in his seventh professional match, and has gone on to hold numerous independent professional wrestling championships.

Sweeney formed a team with The Sharecropper and gained entry into the 2005 CHIKARA Tag World Grand Prix, but the two lost in the first round. On June 16, 2005, he defeated veteran wrestler Glen Osbourne for the PWE Heavyweight Championship in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. He went on to hold the title for 11 months before losing it to Mike Quackenbush in May of 2006; in the meantime he had become a regular for many of the larger independent wrestling companies in the US.

Formerly partners and good friends, Sweeney has been embroiled in an ongoing feud in various promotions across North America with Eddie Kingston, most vehemently in CHIKARA, where he ran over Kingston with a vehicle following an ICW/ICWA Tex-Arkana TV Championship match. The two engaged in several vicious strap matches in late 2006, but there was no decisive winner in the overall feud.

On July 31, 2006, Sweeney made an appearance on RAW, broadcast live from the Meadowlands Arena in New Jersey, where he played an imposter Nick Hogan in a segment titled "Orton Knows Best." Later that year, he was the subject of the 'Introducing' feature article in the national magazine The Wrestler.

2007 has seen him go on to a feud with Bryan Alvarez, author of the Figure 4 newsletter, over the ICW/ICWA Texarkana Television Championship. On May 11, 2007 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, he won the IWC Super Indy Title after defeating "Black Machismo" Jay Lethal, Azrael, and Shima Xion in a one-night tournament. He has since gone on to feud for the title with "Fabulous" John McChesney, who defeated him for the title on July 7. After chasing McChesney for over six months, Sweeney regained the title on January 19, 2008 after winning a gruesome Texarkana Death Match. On July 20, Sweeney was crowned the first CWE Undisputed Champion after defeating Eddie Kingston and Chris Hero in separate matches in Youngstown, Ohio.

After competing in a War Games match for the NWA Upstate promotion in Rochester, New York, in April, 2007, Sweeney passed out due to blood loss. Sweeney competed in this bloody cage match after successfully defending the ICW/ICWA title against Eddie Kingston in a strap match the night before at Colgate University. Sweeney is noted for having competed against a good number of professional wrestling legends in his relatively short career, including Brad Armstrong, Tracy Smothers, Bob Armstrong, Bill Dundee, Sonny Rogers, X-Pac, Steve 'Dr. Death' Williams, One Man Gang, Axe and Smash of Demolition, and Kamala. He also arm-wrestled the Iron Sheik in July, 2006 for Totally Tool Wrestling, and has competed against one of his wrestling mentors, Steve Corino, on several occasions.

Sweeney is going to be participating in a Boxer vs Wrestler match against Larry Barnes (44-3-0, 17 KO's) on April 5, 2008 in New Rochelle, NY at New Rochelle High School for the New York State Wrestling Federation.

[edit] Ring of Honor

On December 22, 2006, Sweeney made his debut in Ring of Honor, interfering on behalf of the Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero & Claudio Castagnoli) in their win against the Briscoe Brothers (Jay & Mark Briscoe). The following night, Hero announced that Sweeney was in ROH as his new agent. Since then, Sweeney has gone on to form Sweet 'n' Sour Inc., an agency consisting of Sweeney's "clients" Chris Hero, Sara Del Rey, personal trainer Tank Toland, and Bobby Dempsey. In February 2008 he declared a hostile takeover attempt of Ring of Honor, and has signed Adam Pearce, Brent Albright and Shane Hagadorn in the wake of this declaration. On April 11, 2008, he signed Eddie Edwards into the group as well. Matt Sydal was briefly apart of Sweet & Sour Inc., but left when Sweeney signed him to a developmental contract with World Wrestling Entertainment. Former WWE Tough Enough winner Daniel Puder was also briefly part of the stable but quietly departed Ring of Honor when they could not afford to use him at every show. The storyline being that Sweeney is holding him out of action until he is paid more money. On May 10, 2008 Brent Albright quit the group following a loss where he and Chris Hero dropped a Scramble Match to Delirious and Pelle Primeau (also included were Jack Evans and Ruckus). Sweeney ordered him to beat down Bobby Dempsey with the rest of the group but instead he delivered suplexes to every member aside from Sweeney who escaped from the ring.

On June 6, 2008 Sweeney made an offer to No Remorse Corps leader Roderick Strong to join him in his stable. Strong declined as he had done in the past only to find himself attacked and beaten down by his NRC stable mate Davey Richards. Richards proceded to tear away his NRC tee shirt to reveal he was wearing a Sweet N'Sour Inc. shirt underneath.

To date, Sweeney has wrestled only one match in ROH, defeating Claudio Castagnoli at Final Battle 2007. His largely non-wrestling role in ROH earned him the 2007 Wrestling Observer Newsletter Award for Best Non-Wrestler of the year.