Rad Hazard
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| Ring name | Rad Hazard |
| Height | N/A |
| Weight | N/A |
| Born | April 26, 1988 (age 21) |
| Resides | Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Debut | 2008 |
Daniel Baldwin better known as Rad Hazard, is a backyard wrestling personality, wrestler and Chairman/founder of The Global Backyard Wrestling Nation and previously Battle Born Wrestling (BBW) as well as the former BBW United States Heavyweight Champion.
Originally a fan of backyard wrestling and having some experience in it, he created community Backyard Wrestling World (BWW), and internet webcast Backyard Wrestling Weekly (BWW) to limited success and later the territorial alliance known as BBW which merged into Global Backyard Wrestling News to create the entity Global Backyard Wrestling Nation, a nation alliance separate from the forums.
As the owner of the nation, Hazard has editorial work related to all organizations involved and featuring their videos on his YouTube channel. In the prime area of BBW, he served as an independent wrestler as well as interviewer and voice-over commentator known as David Weisner. He now hosts as well as wrestles part time at GBYWN supershows.
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Backyard wrestling tenure
Backyard Wrestling Weekly/World
- Main article: Backyard Wrestling Weekly
Originally going under his real name Daniel Baldwin, a Las Vegas resident, Baldwin had express fandom in backyard wrestling already having some prior experience in it. In September 2008, he began promoting online his backyard wrestling community, Backyard Wrestling World and released advertisements on Youtube regarding his new weekly webcast program Backyard Wrestling Weekly (BWW) over two weeks leading to its premiere in October 2008.
Baldwin worried for the insufficient interest he felt the show gained from online advertisements as well as for his obscure identity to the backyard wrestling community. However, the first show attracted attention to a mixed reception, arguably due to his critical views and a partial misrepresentation of modern day backyard wrestling when he showcased wrestling clips on a background monitor of its reckless and denigrated form in retrospect. Baldwin countered with the next episode, adopting a backyard wrestling name becoming "Rad Hazard", introducing rather contemporary content with special feature segments, and began familiarizing himself as the regular face sharing backyard wrestling media.
In November 2008, as shows saw late uploading online and a switch from the airdate of sunday to wednesday, concern grew for the state of BWW. There was ongoing discussion on his show about a new Vegas backyard wrestling alliance he was uniting in his neighboorhood which he called Battle Born Wrestling.
Battle Born Wrestling (2008-present)
On December 7, 2008, came the premiere of Battle Born Wrestling, initially a local alliance of Lost Souls Division, Loco Lucha Council, Generation X Wrestling, and Top Dawg Championship Wrestling based in its primary area of Las Vegas, Nevada. In storyline, although realistically owner of the organization, Hazard, a likable arrogant and sort of comedic heel type usually within BBW airtime, claimed he was contacted by the BBW "Board of Directors" to join aboard for a partnership which would convert the audience of his show in a share with BBW and that would see him become a BBW independent wrestler. On the premiere episode, Hazard was involved in a 20 Minute Time Limit 6-Man Tag Team Open Invitational with GXW Next Gen Champion Brainstew, TDCW Champion Mike Del Lite, El Parko, El Parkay and Brian Rouge concluding with a pinfall victory over El Parko. This, led to a Grudge match at the next show between the two that ended with the same result.
Aside from wrestling, Hazard played other separate roles in BBW including being part-time referee (primary area), voice-over commentator for events, and a dorky-looking interviewer known as David Weisner (primary area). Thereafter BBW 3: Unification, Hazard became increasingly set out to expand his alliance with additions of more federations to the lot such as Next Generation Wrestling, 2 Xtreme Wrestling (now 2 Xtreme Wrestling Syndicate), and Ultimate British Wrestling as in turn, making BBW territorially international featuring many federations from different parts of the world in a multi-cast which amounted to an original concept in regards to backyard wrestling.
Hazard vacated time off producing the next few shows in order to restart a queued Backyard Wrestling Weekly. He also slightly aided former real-life girlfriend Ria Calaway in some form of practicing to do some wrestling of her own. At BBW 5: Centennial on March 1, 2009, he defeated LLC member, Notch-O-Libre, with the assist of Sin City Wrestling wrestler Mike Da Lite and the distraction of the referee, after which they announced their new tag team known as "Better Than You" that went short-lived. At BBW 6: Continental on March 22, 2009, Hazard entered as the first challenger for debutant Ria Calaway (then real-life girlfriend) and her "Sin City Kitty 5 Minute Challenge" match, named as such for her promiscuous nickname "Sin City Kitty". Hazard and Calaway would go on the wrestle 5 minutes to a draw with Hazard left on the floor after a slap from Calaway.
War on Backyard Wrestling Storyline
Due to a real-life split between his relationship with Terra Calaway (Ria Calaway), Hazard took his genuine heartfelt feelings in-storyline to a video on YouTube on June 26, 2009, stating his objective to destroy backyard wrestling due to it being a "curse", "a greed for glory" and "self-respect", despite his admiration for it and benefit to his reputation that however caused him to prioritize it over Calaway.
Received as a shoot monologue, many submitted their responses in its regards as Calaway was somewhat blamed on account for Hazard's emotional state getting mean messages on her Myspace account. This all brewed speculation that Hazard was renouncing his creations. After clearing the air in a non-kayfabe production to explain everything was a work, in a storyline video, it became known that the BBW "Board of Directors" allegedly solded BWW for an undisclosed price over to CJ Lennon and his independent Lennon Productions company for going "A-wall" despite the presence of Hazard being the Chairman of the Board of Directors. Hazard agreed to keep operating BBW.
Radical Movement
- Main article: Radical Movement
The next phase in the storyline came with Hazard's plan to form an outstretched resistance group against backyard wrestling known as Radical Movement, a cause aimed at taking by storm and terminating the practice. Hazard looked towards financing anyone in a federation who would vacate or cause others to vacate their championship and continuously created videos updating the status of the Movement. Getting declines and approvals for membership, a few such as Zaq Cass, Mike Creston, Primetime Tim Sanders, Grizzly Greif and more followed his voice of reason. Calaway, although the material of the situation, was also later offscreen convinced by Hazard into joining the Movement as co-leader. With this moving forward, FX stepped up to shut down Rad Hazard for supposedly claiming he could defeat him, both exchanging words online leading to a match at West Fest.
Before West Fest (Day 2), Rad Hazard, Brian Rouge and King Murder were involved in a legitimate vehicle rollover on the way to the event. Out of honor, Hazard nicknamed himself "Warstorm" the name given to his now written off truck after surviving the accident. Despite the accident, Hazard pressed on to surprisingly accomplish defeating NGW members Rich Cross, Randy Cranmer and the current LWF World Heavyweight and GBYWN Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Champion Nails in a Fatal Four Way match to be crowned the inaugural BBW United States Heavyweight Champion and after signing wavers, went to a 3-3 draw with GBYWN World Heavyweight Champion FX in a title for title 15 Minute Ironman bout (originally to be 30 minutes) due to receiving multiple traumatic drops on his neck forcing the referee to call off the match in concern. After the match, Hazard encountered betrayal by Calaway, who turned and attacked him with her GBYWN World Women's Championship to join Darkstar, and was also betrayed by JLV after a heat seeker (Stunner).
Following three weeks on the sidelines, Hazard's confidence was boosted from capturing the BBW US Title, praising his intellect and respecting himself for holding up against FX. He also enlightened with a sense of progress on allegations that BWE and AWS had closed. Launching phase two with some hesitation towards his mission of trying to destroy backyard wrestling, Hazard targetted then-upcoming ICW supershow Midwest Extravaganza to make an impact claiming that Movement members were already there. On day 1 of the event, new members were revealed in Bonecrusher and Johnny Light, both of whom were seen as leaders of their own in the view of Hazard and had not followed the likes of The Pen Name and Devin Bliss. Furthermore, Focalin originally against the Movement had also entered the association. In the aftermath of Darkstar member Calaway and her match with Matt Kuhstoss, Hazard saved his ex from an assault from TPN to much depreciation.
Playing a role in abedding Focalin against TPN in their high profile match including hitting TPN with a chair, Hazard thereafter revealed a swerve when he turned on Focalin eliminating him from the Movement for initially declining him to join. But ultimately Hazard himself was discharged from the Movement for assisting a Darkstar member and permitting personal issues to interfere with him and Focalin leading to Bonecrusher and Light renaming their group takeover, "Dangerous Movement" but furthermore just distance themselves by becoming Imminent Danger.
BWW Return and Debut of Global Backyard Wrestling Nation
Two weeks removed from being evicted from the Radical Movement ad lossing his championship, Hazard addressed the backyard wrestling world hoping to redeem himself by going a different path from that of the past few months and hyping a "huge event" which would "change the face of backyard wrestling forever". It soon became apparent with the first of three vignettes that an anticipated return of Backyard Wrestling Weekly was in the works in spite of it being "sold" to Lennon Productions. On November 25, 2009, the very first episode of the revived Backyard Wrestling Weekly debuted, announcing the merger between Battle Born Wrestling and Global Backyard Wrestling News to form the Global Backyard Wrestling Nation, with Hazard himself as the new chairman of the board of directors for the alliance.
Life Behind Character
Hazard lives a very interactive social life.
He was also the real-life boyfriend of Terra Calaway before they broke up in June 2009.
Hazard has began producing a series that takes a look into his life entitled Hazardous Material.
In wrestling
- Finishing and signature moves
- Biohazard (Double A Spinebuster)
- Straightshooter (Sharpshooter)
Championships and accomplishments
- Battle Born Wrestling
- Founder/Chairman of Battle Born Wrestling
- Co-Founder/Chairman of Global Backyard Wrestling Nation
- GBYWN United States Heavyweight Championship (Originally BBW) (1 time, first ever) (64 Days / 3 Defenses)
- Global Backyard Wrestling News
- GBYWN Promo Challenge (2009)
- GBYWN Peep of the Year (2009)
- GBYWN Best Promo Cutter of the Year (2009)
- Operates Global Backyard Wrestling Nation
