Sean O'Haire
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| Sean O'Haire | |
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| File:Sean-Ohaire.jpg | |
| Born | February 25, 1971 Atlanta, Georgia |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Sean O'Haire |
| Billed height | 6 ft 6 in (198 cm) |
| Billed weight | 270 lb (122 kg) |
| Billed from | Hilton Head, South Carolina |
| Trained by | Paul Orndorff |
| Debut | June 2000 |
Sean O'Haire (born February 25, 1971 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American professional wrestler and a mixed martial artist who is best known for the time he spent performing for World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment.
Career
World Championship Wrestling
Sean O'Haire began his career in WCW in June 2000 under the Vince Russo era where he formed a tag team with fellow Power Plant graduate Mark Jindrak. In August, O'Haire and Jindrak helped form the Natural Born Thrillers with Mike Sanders, Shawn Stasiak, Chuck Palumbo, Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli, and Reno. They were briefly "coached" by Kevin Nash. In September, O'Haire and Jindrak won the WCW World Tag Team titles for the first time.
O'Haire and Jindrak won the title once more before splitting when O'Haire and Jindrak participated in a tag team battle royal with Natural Born Thrillers teammates Shawn Stasiak and Chuck Palumbo. After the conclusion of the match, Mike Sanders declared both teams victorious and said that the teams should trade partners. O'Haire formed a new tag team with Palumbo while the second team consisted of Jindrak and Stasiak.
Palumbo and O'Haire defeated The Insiders (Diamond Dallas Page and Kevin Nash) in January 2001. A short time later, The Natural Born Thrillers broke up when Stasiak and Jindrak became jealous of the new tag team champs. The teams met at WCW Superbrawl on February 18, 2001 for the tag team gold, and Palumbo and O'Haire retained their titles.
O'Haire and Palumbo next feuded with Totally Buff (Buff Bagwell and Lex Luger) and defeated them at WCW Greed on March 18th, 2001 to retain their tag team championship. For the next two weeks O'Haire and Palumbo feuded with Lance Storm and Mike Awesome, defeating them on the final Nitro on March 26th, 2001. WCW was purchased by Vince McMahon and both O'Haire and Palumbo's contracts were picked up.
World Wrestling Entertainment
Sean O'Haire and Chuck Palumbo made their WWF debuts on the June 28, 2001 episode of SmackDown! as part of The Alliance attacking the Hardy Boyz. O'Haire and Palumbo started feuding with the A.P.A. in the following weeks which ended at WWF Invasion on July 22nd, 2001 when the APA defeated O'Haire and Plaumbo.
O'Haire and Palumbo held an impressive victory over the Hardy Boyz on the August 2, 2001 edition of SmackDown!.
O'Haire and Palumbo next dropped the WCW Tag Team titles to The Undertaker and Kane on the August 9, 2001 edition of SmackDown! and lost their rematch for the tag-team gold in a steel cage the following week on the August 13, 2001 edition of RAW. O'Haire and Palumbo's last televised match together was on the August 26th edition of HEAT defeating Hardcore Holly and Crash Holly.
In September, 2001 Sean was sent to a developmental territory and Chuck was thrown out of The Alliance in late October, so he joined the WWF in November 2001.
Sean was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) for seasoning where he joined Kenny Bolin's "Bolin Services".
Sean O'Haire returned to WWE with long hair on the June 30th, 2002 edition of Heat defeating Justin Credible and made a few more appearances on WWE Heat, in Dark Matches, and at House Shows throughout the rest of 2002 facing off against and teaming with the likes of Shawn Stasiak, Doug Basham, Damaja, Crash Holly, D'Lo Brown Johnny Stamboli, Shelton Benjamin, Charlie Haas, Christopher Nowinski, Raven, and Justin Credible while still working in OVW as well.
In January of 2003 vignettes started to appear on WWE programming showing O'Haire in his new gimmick - a Devil's Advocate character. He would urge people to commit adultery, break the law, not pay taxes and not go to church, among other things. He ended each vignette with the line "Hey, I'm not telling you anything you don't already know". In 2003, O'Haire returned to the main SmackDown! roster telling various superstars to perform indecent acts which included persuading Spanky to streak through the arena, and Dawn Marie to flash the audience.
Sean O'Haire's dark persona included a long black trench coat he wore to the ring, his obsession with spiders including fairly new tattoos with black flames on each wrist and on his left wrist was a red spiderweb shooting out from the flames and on his right wrist had a blue spider web. Also on the inside of his left forearm held a blue spider and on the inside of his right forearm held a red spider. His titantron video was also inside the body of a spider with a spiderweb in the background.
Sean O'Haire's quickly came under the tutelage of wrestling legend 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper in April 2003. Many fans were disappointed at how quickly O'Haire's promising new persona was abandoned but he held huge victories over Rikishi, Mr. America (Hulk Hogan), Chris Benoit, Funaki, and Eddie Guerrero.
Things got worse for O'Haire when in June 2003, WWE officially released Piper from his contract on June 26th, 2003 right after O'Haire and Piper made their last appearance together on SmackDown!. The reason Piper was released was because of a controversial interview with HBO on June, 24th, 2003 in which Piper discussed the darker side of the wrestling business. O'Haire was left to fend for himself.
Sean O'Haire spent the majority of the rest of 2003 and his career in matches on Velocity, dominating anyone in his path until early December. At that time, O'Haire was involved in a motorcycle accident which required stitches. That kept Sean out of action for the next month or so.
When O'Haire recovered he was sent back to OVW in February, 2004 and despite never being pinned on WWE television, he was released on April 3rd, 2004.
After WWE
Sean O'Haire went to work for New Japan Pro Wrestling in May, 2004. On July, 17th, 2004 O'Haire and Roddy Piper re-united at a Buffalo Brawl show where O'Haire was Roddy Piper's hand picked Wrestler to face Jimmy Hart's wrestler Abyss in which O'Haire defeated Abyss by disqualification.
On April 6, 2007, Sean O'Haire suffered serious injuries in a fight that took place outside a bar in Hilton Head Island. O'Haire suffered a fractured orbital bone (in three places) as well as other fratures to his face and skull. Vision in his left eye is impaired, possibly permanently, and he will require extensive plastic surgery according to a report at IslandPacket.com.
Conflicting versions of what happened were reported with O'Haire claiming he was coming to the aid of a friend and other witnesses saying O'Haire tried to start a fight with his alleged assailant, Juan Brantley.
Several years ago, in an interview on WCW Live!, O'Haire said he enjoyed going to bars and starting fights. He said it toughened him up and that beating people up was a thrill for him.
Wrestling facts
- Finishing and signature moves
- Widow Maker / Prophecy / Cruel Intentions (Reverse thrown Death Valley driver)
- Seanton Bomb (High angle senton bomb) - WCW
- Apocalypse (Crucifix powerbomb)
- Superkick
- Fireman's carry DDT
- Jumping corkscrew roundhouse kick
- Rolling fireman's carry slam
- Repeated knee lifts
- Managers
MMA Record
Championships and accomplishments
- WCW World Tag Team Championship (3 times) - with Mark Jindrak (2) and Chuck Palumbo (1)
- Rookie Of The Year (2000)