Modern Day Singles Wrestler
Chris Hamrick
Chris Hamrick began watching wrestling as a child and received a wrestling ring as a ninth birthday present. He made his professional debut at the age of sixteen in a promotion operated by his father, facing Alvin Melton in Mooresboro, North Carolina. Hamrick wrestled on the independent circuit for several years. In 1992 and 1993, he wrestled several televised matches for the World Wrestling Federation as a jobber. Hamrick went on to wrestle for Smoky Mountain Wrestling before returning to the independent circuit.
Hamrick wrestled a tryout match with Extreme Championship Wrestling on May 25, 2000 in Columbia, South Carolina, and remained with the promotion until it declared bankruptcy in April 2001. In ECW, Hamrick was known as "Confederate Currency" Chris Hammerick and was part of the stable known as Hot Commodity with "EZ Money", Elektra and Julio Dinero.
In 2002, Hamrick made several appearances with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, wrestling under a mask as the luchadore character Crimson Dragon. In 2002 and 2003, he frequently wrestled for Xtreme Pro Wrestling, where he formed a tag team with Tracy Smothers known as Southern Comfort, also having a long running feud for the TV title with Kaos and The Enterprise.
In early 2007, Hamrick was featured on Wrestling Society X's first episode on MTV, getting into an argument with fellow ECW alumni New Jack, then getting eliminated by him in the WSX Rumble later that night. Despite both of them getting eliminated from the bout, Hamrick took an elbow drop from New Jack off of the top of a truckbed through a table. At HCW: Beg 4 Mercy 2007 in April, Hamrick returned to Mooresboro, NC and defeated New Jack in an Extreme Weapons Match. Three months later, Hamrick won the HCW Triple Crown Championship after defeating Axl Knight, Wicked, and Shea Shea McGrady in a Four Way Dance at HCW's Cold Blooded and hardcore event. In March 2008, Hamrick was stripped of the title. On June 14 at Underground Revolution 2008, Hamrick defeated the current champion, Shea Shea McGrady, to reclaim the title.
On the August 20, 2007, episode of WWE Raw, Hamrick made an appearance as a fake version of Triple H, in which he placed a crown on King Booker's head during a royal ceremony, leading up to Booker's match with Triple H at SummerSlam.
Hamrick is one of the most underrated wrestlers the sport has ever seen. Just take a look at his list of titles, which is more than impressive:
APW Heavyweight Championship
ACW Heavyweight Championship
ACW Light Heavyweight Championship
ACW Tag Team Championship
BTW Heavyweight Championship
CAPW North American Tag Team Championship
CAPW Unified Heavyweight Championship
FWA All England Championship
HCW Triple Crown Championship
HWA Tri-States Championship
IWA Mid-South Tag Team Championship
IWC Tag Team Champion
NWA Ohio Tag Team Championship
NEPW Heavyweight Championship
PWF Universal Championship
PWF Light Heavyweight Championship
PWF Tag Team Championship
UIPW Heavyweight Championship
USWF Heavyweight Championship
CCW Tag Team Championship
DCW Heavyweight Championship
EPW Tag Team Championship
EWF Tag Team Championship
RPW Tag Team Championship
SCW Tag Team Championship
SWA Tag Team Championship
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(compiled by Brett Schwan with some help from Wikipedia)
