Chris Hero (AEW)
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| Chris Hero | |
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| Ring name(s) | Chris Hero Chris Hyde Kassius Ohno Wife Beater |
| Billed height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Billed weight | 230 lb (100 kg) |
| Born | December 24, 1979 (age 32) Dayton, Ohio |
| Billed from | Metropolis Dayton, Ohio |
| Trained by | Dory Funk, Jr. Ian Rotten Les Thatcher Tracy Smothers Dave Taylor Fit Finlay William Regal Skayde Johnny Saint Pro Wrestling Noah dojo Marshall Kauffman (boxing) |
| Debut | September 12, 1998 |
Chris Spradlin (born December 24, 1979) is an American efed professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Chris Hero. He is signed to Attitude Era Wrestling.
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[edit] Efed wrestling career
[edit] Attitude Era Wrestling
[edit] Debut and Television Champion (2012)
[edit] Pursuit of the World Champion (2012-2013)
[edit] Television Champion and injury (2014-2015)
[edit] Return (2015-present)
[edit] In wrestling
- Finishing moves
- Cyclone Kill (Discus big boot)
- Hangman's Clutch (Stepover toehold inverted cravate)
- Hangman's Clutch II (Arm trap inverted cravate)
- Hangman's Clutch III (Inverted cravate / Standing leg grapevine combination)
- Hangman's Clutch Facebuster (Cravate twisted into a sitout facebuster)
- Hero's Welcome Championship Edition (Wrist-lock scoop lift dropped into a sitout scoop slam piledriver)
- Multiple cutter variations
- Death is Welcome (Lifting inverted swinging)
- Hero's Welcome (Inverted swinging, sometimes while applying a hammerlock)
- Super Hero's Welcome (Jumping inverted swinging)
- Multiple elbow smash variations
- Cerebral Cortex Rolling Elbow / Death Blow / Hangman's Elbow (Discus to the back of the head)
- Discus, sometimes with a loaded elbow pad
- Rip Cord Rolling Elbow (Wrist-lock transitioned into a discus)
- Rivera cloverleaf – Innovated; named in tribute to his trainer Jorge "Skayde" Rivera
- Rubik's Cube (Electric chair driver)
- Stretch Plum Alpha (Stretch plum)
- Signature moves
- Backward roll into a standing corkscrew senton
- Cravate
- Cravate Buster (Three-quarter facelock neckbreaker)
- Cravate Countdown (Three-quarter facelock drop)
- Cravate Cutter (Diving somersault stunner)
- Cravate-O-Clasm (Three-quarter facelock iconoclasm)
- Double foot stomp, sometimes followed by a senton
- Double leg slam
- Elbow smash
- Hero DDT (Spinning lifting DDT)
- Hero Sandwich (Swinging side slam backbreaker, sometimes while applying a hammerlock)
- Hero Sidekick (Running arched big boot to a cornered opponent)
- Hero Stomp (Diving double foot stomp, sometimes while springboarding)
- Indian deathlock piledriver
- Johnny Saint special
- Jumping senton, sometimes preceded by doing a somersault
- Moonsault, sometimes while standing
- Multiple forearm smashes
- Multiple suplex variations
- Crash Landing (Rolling release)
- Cravate – Innovated
- German
- Trapping
- Russ Abbot (Performs a leapfrog, crawls between opponent's legs, rolls over the opponent and performs a roll-up)
- Tracy Smothers (Rapid double palm strikes to a cornered opponent's chest)
- Topé con Hero (Somersault topé through the second and top ropes)
- Nicknames
- "The Mack Daddy of the Cravate"
- "That Young Knockout Kid"[1]
- Managers
- Larry Sweeney
- Entrance themes
- "Chris is Awesome!" by Viro the Virus
