Steve Bradley
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| Ring name(s) | "MoFo" Steve Bradley |
| Billed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Billed weight | 245 lb (111 kg) |
| Born | December 10, 1975 Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Resides | Manchester, New Hampshire |
| Trained by | Les Thatcher Tom Prichard |
| Debut | 1991 |
Steve Bradley is an American professional wrestler who has competed on North American independent promotions throughout the 1990s including East Coast Wrestling Association, IWA Puerto Rico and the National Wrestling Alliance as well as spending over three years in World Wrestling Entertainment developmental territories including Power Pro Wrestling, Heartland Wrestling Association, Memphis Championship Wrestling and Ohio Valley Wrestling.
He is also the owner and head trainer of the Top Rope Wrestling Academy [1], a leading wrestling school in the New England area whose graduates include Alex Arion, Antonio Thomas, Brandon Locke, Matt Spectro, Scott Reed and Nikki Roxx.
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[edit] Career
[edit] Early career and Power Pro Wrestling
At the age of 15, Bradley made his professional debut in 1991 becoming a mainstay of various East Coast promotions during the 1990s. In 1998, Bradley signed a 3-year developmental contract with the World Wrestling Federation and began training under Tom Prichard at WWF Headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut with Kurt Angle. [2]
Assigned to Memphis-based Power Pro Wrestling, both he and Angle began feuding with each other over the PPW Heavyweight title eventually defeating Angle for the title in early 1999 and becoming the first man to pin Angle in his professional career. Their feud would also be voted "Underrated Feud of the Year" by Pro Wrestling Illustrated that same year.
In March 1999, he won the third annual ECWA Super 8 Tournament defeating Ace Darling, Devon Storm and Christopher Daniels in the finals.
He later feuded with Vic Grimes defeating him for the PPW Young Guns title on July 19, although he lost the PPW Heavyweight title to Grimes on September 18 before regaining it a week later on September 25, 1999.
[edit] World Wrestling Federation
After the WWF ended their developmental agreement with Power Pro Wrestling, Bradley was brought into IWA Puerto Rico where he feuded with Savio Vega and won the IWA Tag Team titles twice with "Lone Wolf" Andy Anderson as Club WWF. [3]
He was eventually assigned to Memphis Championship Wrestling, a new developmental territory, in early 2001 and began wrestling with Essa Rios and Lita on WWF house shows and dark matches on television tapings throughout the United States. [4] He appeared at WrestleMania X-Seven to take part in Wrestlemania Excess.
Spending the next two years in Ohio Valley Wrestling and the Heartland Wrestling Association, Bradley would win the HWA Tag Team titles four times with Val Venis and Lance Cade [5] and eventually became involved in booking for the promotion before he was released from his developmental contract in July 2002. [6]
[edit] Championships and accomplishments
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- ECWA Super 8 Tournament (1999) [7]
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- HWA Tag Team Championship (4 times) - with Sean Morley (1) Lance Cade (3) [8]
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- IWA World Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with "Lone Wolf" Andy Anderson [9]
- Power Pro Wrestling
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- PWI ranked him # 83 of the 500 best singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2002.
[edit] References
- ^ Top Rope Pro Wrestling Academy: Head Trainer Steve Bradley. Archived from the original on 2007-07-24.
- ^ Angle, Kurt. It's True! It's True!. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001. ISBN 0-06-109893-0 (pg. 140-141)
- ^ Oliver, Greg (2001-08-28). The Lone Wolf in the Puerto Rican war, Canada's Andy Anderson succeeding in the IWA. SLAM! Sports.
- ^ Dumas, Amy and Michael Krugman. Lita: A Less Traveled R.O.A.D.--The Reality of Amy Dumas. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. ISBN 0-7434-7399-X (pg. 141)
- ^ Milner, John H. (2005-09-15). Bios: Lance Cade. SLAM! Sports.
- ^ Mooneyham, Mike (2002-07-20). The Wrestling Gospel According to Mike Mooneyham: Vince, Bischoff Form Unlikely Duo. MikeMooneyham.com.
- ^ East Coast Wrestling Association - Super 8. ECWAprowrestling.com (2004).
- ^ Heartland Wrestling Association Tag Team Title. Puroresu Dojo (2003).
- ^ I.W.A. World Tag Team Title. Puroresu Dojo (2003).
- ^ M.C.W. Southern Heavyweight Title. Puroresu Dojo (2003).
- ^ Power Pro Wrestling Heavyweight Title. Puroresu Dojo (2003).
- ^ Power Pro Wrestling Young Guns Title. Puroresu Dojo (2003).
