Alex Wright

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Alex Wright
Wright in 1995
Birth nameAlexander Wright
Born (1975-05-17) May 17, 1975 (age 48)[1]
Nuremberg, West Germany[1]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Alex Wright[1]
Berlyn[1]
Billed height6 ft 4 in (193 cm)[2]
Billed weight225 lb (102 kg)[2]
Billed fromNuremberg, Germany
Berlin, Germany
Trained bySteve Wright[1]
Debut1991[1]
RetiredMay 31, 2003

Alexander Wright

one time Cruiserweight Champion,[4] a one time World Television Champion[5] and a one time World Tag Team Champion (with Disco Inferno
).

He was the owner, founder and CEO of New Sport Entertainment GmbH[6] which is the company that owns New European Championship Wrestling.

Professional wrestling career

Early career (1991–1994)

Alex was trained by his father Steve Wright, a British professional wrestler.[1] He wrestled his first match in 1991 in Germany when he was sixteen years old.[1] He wrestled in his hometown during his early career and also worked in Japan.[7]

World Championship Wrestling (1994–2001)

Das Wunderkind (1994–1996)

Wright was discovered by

stiff performance and his disregard of instructions to put Wright over during the match.[10] WCW had Wright feud on and off with Disco Inferno
, another wrestler who danced in or on his way to the ring, with Wright representing modern dancing and music, and Disco representing older styles. Wright would win all of the matches in this feud.

Wright wrestled Arn Anderson for the WCW World Television Championship on an episode of WCW Saturday Night and beat Anderson by DQ. A rematch was scheduled for the next pay-per-view, Slamboree, where Wright suffered his first loss.[1][11]

Due to WCW's partnership with

Clash of the Champions XXXII, Malenko defeated Wright by pinfall.[16]

At

Hog Wild, Wright defeated Bobby Eaton in a rematch.[21]

At

Clash of the Champions XXXIV, Wright lost to Masa Chono, who had recently come to the U.S. and joined the nWo.[23]

Championship reigns (1997)

WCW had Wright wrestle in several tag team matches with fellow midcarders, mostly on the losing side. On the May 12, 1997, edition of Nitro, Wright partnered with

Clash of the Champions XXXV to win the World Television Championship.[24][5]
Wright was able to successfully defend the TV title against Lord Steven Regal on an episode on Nitro.

At

World War 3, McMichael took out Goldberg prior to their match and Wright was literally dragged to the ring by Debra to wrestle McMichael again, and this time suffered a defeat.[28]

Wright would go on to be managed by Debra for a little while longer. Debra would often try to illegally interfere in matches to help him win, but the plan would usually backfire, causing Wright to lose. He then cut ties with Debra after a string of losses that Wright claimed was her fault.

The Dancing Fools (1998)

Wright would then begin to patch things up with former rival Disco Inferno as they began teaming in 1998 to form a moderately successful tag team called the

Fall Brawl, where the Dancing Fools lost to Bulldog and Neidhart.[30]
After suffering losses, Wright and Inferno split and began singles careers again.

Wright feuded with another fellow European wrestler,

Halloween Havoc.[24][31]

Wright again competed in the 60-man battle royal at the '98 edition of World War III, with that year's battle royal being won by Kevin Nash.

Berlyn (1999–2000)

At the beginning of 1999, Wright was kept off WCW television for an extended length of time until May, when Wright came up with his own idea for a gimmick.[32] Promotional spots began appearing on WCW television featuring Wright as a surprising new Rivethead-style character named Berlyn (an intentional misspelling of the city Berlin, the capital of Wright's home country Germany), with a black Mohawk and goatee replacing his blond hair. He was clad entirely in black with a long trench coat and arrogantly refused to speak English. He spoke through an interpreter—Uta Ludendorff—and was accompanied to the ring by a large wrestler known as The Wall. The promos coincided with the aftermath of the Columbine school massacre, which threw a hitch in WCW's plans.[citation needed] Sensing the unintentional similarities in dress between Berlyn and the teenage killers, WCW delayed the debut of Berlyn for several months.[citation needed] During his debut on August 30 on Nitro, he quickly insulted Americans, debuting the character as a heel.[33]

Wright was

push, leaving Wright to flounder in the mid-card.[24]

On the October 25 edition of Nitro, it was announced that a tournament would be held for the vacant World Heavyweight Championship and the finals would occur at

turned on Berlyn.[24][36]
Berlyn then feuded with the Wall before again disappearing from WCW television again.

Boogie Knights (2000–2001)

After several months off from wrestling, Wright returned under his real name on the September 27, 2000, edition of

Halloween Havoc, the three teams participated in a triangle match but O'Haire and Jindrak won the match.[24][37] Disqo and Wright would then go on to win the World Tag Team Championship from O'Haire and Jindrak at Millennium Germany on November 16.[38][24] However, four days later on Nitro, due to Disqo being out with an injury, Wright and substitute Elix Skipper lost the titles to Chuck Palumbo and Shawn Stasiak, two other members of the Natural Born Thrillers.[24]

Wright then started an angle where he kept

AOL Time Warner
, as his contract was not bought out by the WWF.

Retirement

Wright fell out of the spotlight after the folding of WCW and has not appeared on American television since then. Wright stated in an interview that WWE could not sign him as he was one of the few who was under contract with

AOL Time Warner at the time.[40] He also stated that he took a break from wrestling as he was not happy with the backstage politics in WCW that were happening at the time.[40]
In the years following, Wright has stayed away from regular active competition, only wrestling on rare occasions for German wrestling promotions NAWA and GWP.

He wrestled his last match on May 31, 2003 defeating

Chris the Bambi Killer
for NAWA in Uelzen, Germany.

After working as a banker and fitness instructor, he opened a pro-wrestling school called "The Wright Stuff" in Nuremberg, Germany. Notable students include current WWE wrestler Giovanni Vinci.[41][42] In 2009, he started his own wrestling promotion called New European Championship Wrestling (NEW).

Championships and accomplishments

Other media

Wright appears in the wrestling themed episode of Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends. In this episode, Wright mentions that he was to debut his new gimmick (Alexander Wright) that night in WCW. He later renamed the gimmick "Berlyn".

References

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  41. ^ "Fabian Aichner aka Adrian Severe at facebook".
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