| Mike Quackenbush | |
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 Quackenbush at a Chikara show in June 2008. |
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| Ring name(s) | M. Quackenbush[1] Mike Quackenbush[1] Spyrazul[2] |
| Billed height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[3] |
| Billed weight | 191 lb (87 kg)[3] |
| Born | March 18, 1976 [3] West Lawn, Pennsylvania[3] |
| Billed from | West Lawn, Pennsylvania |
| Trained by | Ace Darling[2] Jorge "Skayde" Rivera[2] Reckless Youth[2] |
| Debut | November 1991[2] |
Michael Spillane[1] (born March 18, 1976),[3] better known by his ring name Mike Quackenbush, is an American professional wrestler, trainer, author and the founder of both The Wrestle Factory and Chikara.[2] Quackenbush is best known as the patriarch of the Chikara family and his work on the independent circuit, the latter of which has spanned for over 15 years. He has written five books: Fantastic Finishers (1998), Headquarters (2001), Secret Identity (2004), Chikara Yearbook (2002 and 2004). Additionally, he pens a regular column for The Wrestler magazine entitled 'From Bell To Bell' and 'International Report' in Pro Wrestling Illustrated. He is also the host of the weekly video podcast entitled "Chikara Podcast–A–Go–Go".[4] Quackenbush also hosts a non-wrestling related podcast called "The Grizzly Bear Egg Café" with his long-time friend, Fox News host Clayton Morris. In wrestling, Quackenbush is the reigning NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion.[2]
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Career
Quackenbush has toured Canada, Mexico and several European countries during his career. In 2004, he briefly united six championships from three different countries (USA, Mexico and Germany) into the "I-Crown".[5] During his 2000 hiatus from wrestling, Quackenbush wrote his novel Headquarters, produced a direct–to–video project called Crusaders and hosted an improv comedy show and jousting tournament.[6] He returned to the ring in April 2000, after just two full months off.
Chikara (2002-present)
Quackenbush founded The Wrestle Factory in January 2002.[6] He opened the promotion Chikara in May of the same year. At the premiere show on May 25, 2002, Quackenbush teamed with fellow founder Reckless Youth and Don Montoya in a match, where they defeated the Gold Bond Mafia (CM Punk, Colt Cabana and Chris Hero).[7] On the last show of 2002 Quackenbush finished his first feud in Chikara, by pinning Mitch Ryder.[2] The following year Quackenbush formed the SuperFriends tag team with Chris Hero and went the whole year undefeated.[2] In 2004 Quackenbush teamed up with Team F.I.S.T. (Icarus and Gran Akuma) and started a feud with the Toxic Trio (Eddie Kingston, BlackJack Marciano and Jigsaw). The two teams faced each other on May 22, 2004, at Aniversario 3: Dodging the Sophomore Jinx, where Quackenbush and F.I.S.T. were victorious and as per stipulation of the match, Kingston and Marciano were shaved bald.[8] In the spring of 2004 Quackenbush started disappearing from Chikara shows, just as Larry Sweeney's Sweet 'n' Sour International rose to prominence.[2] He returned on October 30 during the first annual torneo cibernetico match at The Cibernetico Cometh under a mask and the ringname Spyrazul as a member of the Sweet 'n' Sour International. However, at the end of the match Spyrazul attacked his own team mates, removed his mask and walked out on Sweeney, who ended up being pinned by Jigsaw to end the match.[9]
In March 2005 the Chikara Wrestle Factory assumed control of the Combat Zone Wrestling wrestling school. Quackenbush served as head trainer of the joint facility for the two year duration, until the schools separated in March 2007. Quackenbush re-formed his SuperFriends tag team with Chris Hero and together the two of them entered the 2005 Tag World Grand Prix. They would make it to the finals of the tournament, where they were defeated by AC/DC (Claudio Castagnoli and Arik Cannon), after Hero turned on Quackenbush.[2] Together Hero, Castagnoli and Cannon would form the highly successful stable and later tag team Kings of Wrestling, with whom Quackenbush, Reckless Youth and Jigsaw would feud with the rest of the year.[2]
In late 2005 Quackenbush suffered a career-threathening back injury.[2] He would make his in-ring return on March 18, 2006, at a westside Xtreme wrestling event, where he defeated Ares for the wXw World Heavyweight Championship.[5][2] In his Chikara return on March 31, he would drop the title back to Ares.[2] He then recruited Jigsaw and Shane Storm to help him battle the Kings of Wrestling, who had replaced Arik Cannon with Quackenbush's former partners Team F.I.S.T.[2] Quackenbush set his sights on Chris Hero and defeated Gran Akuma and Icarus with his new finishing maneuver Quackendriver III.[2] At the conclusion of the year Quackenbush, Storm and Jigsaw saved Claudio Castagnoli from a beatdown at the hands of his Kings of Wrestling partners.[2]
2007 started with Quackenbush, Jigsaw and Storm defeating Team Canada (Jagged, Shane Matthews and Max Boyer), Team TNA (Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin and Sonjay Dutt), Team Mucha Lucha (Lince Dorado, El Pantera and Sicodelico, Jr.) and finally MIYAWAKI, Yoshiaki Yago and KUDO to win the inaugural King of Trios tournament.[10][11] The following month on March 25 Claudio Castagnoli defeated Quackenbush to win the right to represent Chikara in the first ever King of Europe Cup.[2] That same month Chikara Podcast–A–Go–Go was launched.[4] The weekly video podcast debuts a new episode every Monday night and is available through iTunes, YouTube and other online outlets.
On April 22, 2007, Quackenbush refereed a match between former partners Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli and counted the pinfall that forced Castagnoli to re-join the Kings of Wrestling.[12] The following month Quackenbush faced Hero in a match two years in the making and defeated him after debuting a new submission maneuver, the Chikara Special.[13]
Following the match, Quackenbush announced that since he knew Hero would never be able to break the Chikara Special, he would teach it and the counter to it to every tecnico wrestler on the Chikara roster. However, to Quackenbush's amazement it didn't take long for Hero to break the hold and apply it himself in a match against Equinox.[14] In order to find out who leaked the move, Quackenbush sent Tim Donst to infiltrate the rudo stable the Order of the Neo-Solar Temple, lead by UltraMantis Black. Meanwhile, Quackenbush and Shane Storm gained three straight victories, which would give them the right to challenge for the Chikara Campeonatos de Parejas (Tag Team Championship), but on June 14, 2008, Donst returned from his assignment and informed Quackenbush that his partner Shane Storm had been the one who leaked the move to UltraMantis Black, who in turn taught it to Hero.[2] Quackenbush attacked Storm, who would find new partners in Vin Gerard and Colin Delaney, while renaming himself STIGMA.[2]
On September 7, 2008, Jigsaw, who had unmasked himself while in Ring of Honor, returned to Chikara and saved Quackenbush and Donst from the UnStable.[2] Quackenbush returned the favor the following month, but refused to re-form the team with Jigsaw until he put his mask back on.[2] On December 14 at the season seven finale Quackenbush and Jigsaw, under a mask, defeated STIGMA and Delaney in a tag team match.[15] In early 2009 Quackenbush and Jigsaw gained three points, but were unable to defeat the Campeones de Parejas The Osirian Portal (Amasis and Ophidian) on April 25. After May's anniversary shows Quackenbush decided to take some time off from in-ring competition in order to heal his injured back.[2]
Combat Zone Wrestling (2005)
On May 14, 2005, he won Combat Zone Wrestling's Best of the Best 5 elimination tournament in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania after defeating Arik Cannon, Claudio Castagnoli, B-Boy, Kevin Steen and Super Dragon.[2] He also held the CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship twice.[2]
National Wrestling Alliance (2007)
Quackenbush defeated Tiger Mask IV at the now defunct Fight Sports Midwest, to capture the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship on May 11, 2007.[2] Throughout the match, Quackenbush unlaced and loosened Tiger Mask's mask, a major sign of disrespect amongst masked wrestlers. Seconds before pinning Tiger Mask, Quackenbush completely pulled off his opponent's mask. After grasping his new belt, he reached down and pulled away Tiger Mask's mask. He then held it up to the crowd. In a promo after the match, Quackenbush explained that he did everything to get the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship and that he was, in no way, proud of it. He said he viewed the belt as his ticket to Japan, as Japanese promotions had not booked him in any events. He has since defended the title in Chikara against the likes of Black Tiger IV and Akira Raijin and holds the title to this day, making him the second longest reigning champion in the title's history.[2]
Ring of Honor (2007, 2008, 2009)
On April 27, 2007, Quackenbush made his debut for Ring of Honor, at The Battle of Saint Paul.[1] Throughout the remainder of the year, he made multiple appearances, several times teaming with Jigsaw. He has competed against the likes of Claudio Castagnoli, Matt Sydal and Bryan Danielson. Quackenbush was supposed to compete more for Ring of Honor in 2007, but a back injury suffered at the 2007 Ted Petty Invitational caused him to leave Ring of Honor. Although he did compete in one six man tag team match at Ring of Honor's Transform show on January 12, 2008, he didn't compete in ROH again till March 2009 when he wrestled, and lost to, Bryan Danielson and Jerry Lynn in singles matches on March 20 and March 21, respectively.
Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South (2007)
In September 2007 Quackenbush won the 2007 Ted Petty Invitational held by Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South by defeating Billy Roc, Joey Ryan and Josh Abercrombie on his way to the finals where he eliminated both Claudio Castagnoli and Chuck Taylor to win the tournament.[2] Quackenbush also captured the IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship.[5] Quackenbush made his debut in Japan for Michinoku Pro, defeating Shibaten in the village of Takazawa.[16] He wrestled for the same company, the next night, defeating Rei. In a four way elimination match against Chris Hero, Eddie Kingston and Chuck Taylor, Quackenbush put his IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship and IWA Mid-South Light Heavyweight Championship on the line. Quackenbush was pinned by Chuck Taylor, thus capturing the IWA Mid-South Light Heavyweight Championship. Eddie Kingston then pinned Quackenbush, capturing the IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship.
Dragon Gate USA (2009-present)
On July 25, 2009, Quackenbush appeared on Dragon Gate USA's first pay-per-view Enter the Dragon in an eight man tag team Chikara showcase match, where Quackenbush, Jigsaw, Fire Ant and Soldier Ant defeated Gran Akuma, Jigsaw, Amasis and Hallowicked. Following the match Quackenbush started a promo, which was interrupted by YAMATO, who low-blowed him. Jigsaw and Gran Akuma ran to make the save, but Akuma turned on his fellow Chikara wrestlers and assisted YAMATO in assaulting Quackenbush and Jigsaw.[17] On September 6 at the second PPV titled Untouchable Quackenbush and Jigsaw defeated YAMATO and Akuma.[18] On November 28 at the third PPV Freedom Fight Quackenbush entered the tournament to crown the first Open the Freedom Gate Champion, but was eliminated in the first round in a four-way match with Jorge Rivera, Super Crazy and the winner of the match, CIMA.[19]
In wrestling
- Finishing moves
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- Chikara Special[2] (Spinning headscissors armbar followed by hooking the opponent's far leg)
- QD – Quackendriver[3] (Reverse crucifix powerbomb)[2] - 1996-2004
- QD II – Quackendriver II[3] (Cross–legged reverse piledriver)[2]
- QD III – Quackendriver III[3] (Spinning fisherman driver)[2]
- QD IV – Quackendriver IV[3] (Gutwrench brainbuster)[2]
- Signature moves
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- Alligator Clutch[3] (Inverted facelock camel clutch)
- Black Tornado Slam[3] (Standing or a spinning inverted Samoan drop)[2]
- Bulldog[3]
- Chain Lightning[3] (Triple jump moonsault)[2]
- Déjà Vu DDT[3] (Spinning headscissors takedown twisted into a DDT)
- Double knee drop[3]
- Inazuma Suplex Special[3] (Vertical suplex followed by a brainbuster)
- Inazuma Suplex Special II[3] (Vertical suplex followed by a double underhook DDT)
- La Quackica (Spinning headscissors takedown twisted into a single arm DDT and from that into a Fujiwara armbar)
- Lightning Lock[3] (Crossface / Over the shoulder cloverleaf combination)[2]
- Lightning Lock β[3] (Inverted cloverleaf)[2]
- Lightning Lock δ[3] (Seated over the shoulder single leg Boston crab)[2]
- Lightning Lock Ω (Over rotated step–over toe–hold sleeper)[2]
- Quacken Around (Tilt–a–whirl springboard arm drag)
- Quacken–Rana (Reverse frankensteiner)
- QuackenSmash[2] (Double springboard corkscrew senton)
- Sitout double underhook powerbomb,[1] sometimes from the top rope[1]
- Tail of the Dragon[3] (Springboard swinging DDT)
- Thrust palm strike[3]
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- "Just A Hero" by Michinoku Pro Wrestling[21]
- "Break It Down Again" by Tears for Fears[21]
- Wrestlers trained
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Championships and accomplishments
- Alianza Universal Lucha Libre
- Allied Powers Wrestling Federation
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- APWF Internet Championship (1 time)[2]
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- King of Trios (2007) – with Shane Storm and Jigsaw[2]
- Eastern Wrestling Federation
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- EWF Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[2]
- Far North Wrestling
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- FNW Freeweight Championship (1 time)[2]
- Future Wrestling Alliance
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- FWA Championship (3 times)[2]
- International Pro Wrestling
- Independent Wrestling Association Deep South
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- IWA Deep South Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[2]
- Independent Wrestling Union
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- IWU Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[2]
- North East Wrestling
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- NEW Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[2]
- Pennsylvania Championship Wrestling
- Pro Wrestling Entertainment
- Steel City Wrestling
- United States Championship Wrestling
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- USCW Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[2]
- westside Xtreme wrestling
Book references
- Mike Quackenbush (2001) Headquarters
- Mike Quackenbush (2002) CHIKARA Yearbook: 2002
- Mike Quackenbush (2004) Secret Identity
- Mike Quackenbush (2004) CHIKARA Yearbook: 2004
References
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- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo "CHIKARA Fans - Mike Quackenbush". Chikara Fans. http://chikarafans.com/?page_id=1056. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Spillane, Michael (2008-10-10). "Profile". QuackenHeadQuarters. http://www.chikarapro.com/QHQ/profile.htm. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
- ^ a b Chikara Podcast-A-Go-Go
- ^ a b c "Chikara Pro Biography Page 3". Chikara Pro. http://www.chikarapro.com/QHQ/bio3.htm.
- ^ a b "Chikara Pro Biography Page 1". Chikara Pro. http://www.chikarapro.com/QHQ/bio.htm.
- ^ "“CHIKARA Live” (debut show) – 5/25/2002". Chikara Fans. http://chikarafans.com/?page_id=548. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
- ^ "“Aniversario 3: Dodging the Sophomore Jinx” – 5/22/2004". Chikara Fans. http://chikarafans.com/?page_id=628. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
- ^ "“The Cibernetico Cometh” – 10/30/2004". Chikara Fans. http://chikarafans.com/?page_id=642. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
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- ^ "“Rey de Voladores” – 4/22/2007". Chikara Fans. http://chikarafans.com/?page_id=835. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
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- ^ "“The Sordid Perils of Everyday Existence” – 11/17/2007". ChikaraFans. http://chikarafans.com/?page_id=866. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
- ^ "“Duel and Duality” – 12/14/2008". ChikaraFans. http://chikarafans.com/?page_id=2056. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
- ^ "Chikara Pro Results". Chikara Pro. http://www.chikarapro.com/QHQ/resultsmain.htm.
- ^ Radican, Sean (2009-08-31). "Radican's DGUSA 9/4 Enter The Dragon PPV Review (Yamato-Hulk, Young Bucks-CIMA & Yokosuka)". PW Torch. http://pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/PPV_Reports_5/article_34910.shtml. Retrieved 2009-10-07.
- ^ Radican, Sean (2009-12-17). "Ongoing DGUSA "Open The Untouchable Gate" PPV Taping Results (Jacobs debuts)". PWTorch. http://pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/Arena_Reports_10/article_35087.shtml. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
- ^ Bryant, Travis (2009-11-29). "11/28 DGUSA "Open The Freedom Gate" results - Yamato vs. Richards, first champion crowned". PWtorch. http://www.pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/Arena_Reports_10/article_37049.shtml. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
- ^ "Chikara Pro Roster - Tecnicos". Chikara Pro. http://www.chikarapro.com/RosterTECNICOS.shtml. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
- ^ a b "Theme Music History". Chikara Fans. http://chikarafans.com/?page_id=303. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
- ^ "Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South Heavyweight Title". wrestling-titles.com. http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ky/iwams/iwams-h.html. Retrieved 2008-06-14.
- ^ "Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South Light Heavyweight Title". Wrestling-titles.com. http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ky/iwams/iwams-lh.html. Retrieved 2009-04-26.
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