Ulf Herman

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Ulf Herman
Birth nameUlf Nadrowski
Born (1966-04-04) April 4, 1966 (age 58)
Hannover, Germany[1]
Trained byCatch Wrestling Association
Debut1989[1]
Retired2012[2]

Ulf Nadrowski (born April 4, 1966) is a

1 Pro Wrestling
and Real Quality Wrestling (where he is currently RQW Heavyweight Champion).

Professional wrestling career

Early career (1989-1997)

Born in

Hildesheim, Germany, Ulf Nadrowski was a local swimming champion in his native country and also did some Judo before he decided to get into wrestling.[1] Herman travelled to Dortmund, Linz, Graz and Vienna, in order to train there. In Vienna he began performing for a small promotion, and he wrestled his first match on August 27, 1989, under the name Ulf Ranger, which he won. In January 1990 he wrestled in South Africa for eight weeks. On 23 January 1992, he was defeated by South African rival Shaun Koen at the Good Hope Centre.[4]

He returned to Germany, working for small promotions, but earned a tryout in the

Sting
impersonator gimmick.

In the last tournament of the year in 1993 in Bremen he was selected as 'Rookie Of The Year' and wrestled but lost a match against

Bremen, Germany.[6]

In 1995 he wrestled The Ultimate Warrior who made a guest-appearance in the CWA for one match. Herman lost the match. On August 16, 1997, Herman was defeated by Marshall Duke in Vienna for the then vacant CWA World Heavyweight Championship. The title was later vacated.[7]

Extreme Championship Wrestling (1998–1999)

See also:
The Full Blooded Italians

In 1998, Herman travelled to the United States where he competed for

The Blue World Order (Super Nova and The Blue Meanie) at UltraClash.[8]

Later that year, Herman briefly joined the ECW stable called

The Full Blooded Italians. The stable gained a cult following in ECW. While Herman slowly faded away from ECW in the coming months, he still earned various title shots against Rob Van Dam and Sabu, but the matches did not garner any real interest. Nevertheless, Herman would participate in the ECW pay-per-view November to Remember.[9] Herman didn't appear again until January 16, 1999, where, at ECW's House Party, he was defeated again by Kronus.[10] He was among the dozens of challengers who faced Rob Van Dam during his two-year run as ECW World Television Champion.[11][12] To this day he states that his favourite match was against Van Dam in Detroit, Michigan. Ulf's last match in ECW was against his friend Sabu on January 30, 1999.[10]

Return to Europe

After his stint in ECW, Ulf returned to Europe where he captured

1 Pro Wrestling. On February 9, 2002, Herman took part in one of the FWA's biggest shows, 'Revival', which featured a "European vs. United States" storyline, where he defeated Brian Christopher at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre. In May 2003 at the Frontiers of Honour show, co-hosted with the American promotion Ring of Honor, Herman teamed with Alex Shane and Nikita to take on The Family (Travell, Brandon Thomas, and Scott Parker) in a mixed hardcore six-man tag team match.[14]

1 Pro Wrestling

On January 6, 2006, Herman made his debut in 1PW, replacing D'Lo Brown who had withdrawn from the event. Herman lost his first match to Sterling James Keenan, but appeared at the end of the show to help Sabu stave off an attack from Keenan and Abyss. The next night, Herman and Sabu teamed to lose to Keenan and Abyss,[1] with Herman being pinned.

Herman was signed up for 1PW's next double-header show 'All or Nothing', winning a dark match on Night One. Prior to the 1PW Heavyweight Title Tournament Final, Herman came out and cut a promo stating that, since he believed

thumbtacks
.

Herman was granted a Falls Count Anywhere rematch at Know Your Enemy Night One. Abyss once again defeated Herman, causing Herman to publicly question his career on Night Two. As he seemed poised to announce his retirement, Iceman interrupted him and attacked, intending to see Herman off into retirement for good. This did not happen, but Herman was defeated by Iceman in a No-DQ match at The Devil's Due.[1]

Herman was unavailable for Invincible due to a personal commitment, but he returned to face both Iceman and

Jodie Fleisch
, who came from another arena entrance to blindside Herman.

After 1PW put out a notice of liquidation, northern wrestling promotion 3 Count Wrestling took over 1PW's January 13 booking at the Doncaster Dome to put on the ...Will Not Die show, as a tribute to the fallen promotion, announcing that Iceman and Herman would face off once more in a Survival of the Sickest main event. Following events which led to Abyss being stripped of his second 1PW World Championship, Herman and Iceman battled it out to determine the 'final' 1PW World Heavyweight Champion. After a heated hardcore match, Herman hit a brainbuster/suplex through a flaming table on Iceman to gain the pinfall and become the 1PW World Heavyweight Champion.[15]

Herman managed to retain the belt at 1PW's comeback show Resurrection where he beat Iceman in an

"I Quit" match. He also managed to retain over two nights at the Know Your Enemy weekend, on Night 1 in a four-way against Abyss, Sterling James Keenan and Doug Williams and on Night 2 against Sterling James Keenan. Herman managed to again defend his title at the 1PW show Invincible against Sterling James Keenan after the proposed three-way was cancelled due to Abyss not making the show. It was later announced that he would defend his title for the last time against Sterling James Keenan in a steel cage match at the 2nd Anniversary Show on October 13, 2007.[1]

Herman lost the title to Keenan in the cage at 2nd Anniversary Show. Afterwards, Keenan accepted Herman's gesture in handing him the belt, but declared that he would now pillage 1PW for all he could and that he didn't care about the fans or his fellow wrestlers.

Herman defeated Bad Bones, Iceman and

Fatal 4-Way match on April 18, 2009, at The Doncaster Dome.[16]

Real Quality Wrestling

On February 9, 2008, at ACW's Riptide II event, Herman became the Real Quality Wrestling Heavyweight champion in a title vs title match, putting his ACW Title belt on the line against with the then current RQW champion

Martin Stone.[17]
He won after a referee mix up spot and rolled his opponent up for the 3 count. Herman made his first RQW title defence on the March 9 RQW TV taping show, where he defeated Johnny Moss.

In 2012, Herman returned to Germany's Professional Wrestling Alliance, where he challenged for the promotion's top title.[18] Herman retired in 2012 and was inducted into Athletik Club Wrestling's Hall of Fame that year.[2] In February 2017 he wrestled a match on the German TV show "Die Beste Show der Welt".[19]

Personal life

Nadrowski has a child. In past times he worked as a lifeguard. Aside from his wrestling career, Nadrowski worked as a bodyguard on tour with bands such as 3 Doors Down, System of a Down, Slipknot and Rammstein. Nadrowski also used to own a fitness club. In 2002, Nadrowski appeared in the television movie Revival: The Search for the King of England.[20] Nadrowski also worked 8 years for Gibson Brands as ER Pro and was the main guy in the development process for various Signature guitars due his enormous network he got. Those artist where for example: Richie Faulkner, Matt Heafy, Björn Gelotte, Robb Flynn, Tony Iommi, Lee Malia and more. As well he established Gibson Brands at various Festivals through Europe.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2003 Richterin Barbara Salesch Himself [21]
2014 Privatdedektive im Einsatz - Carsten Stahl Einsatz in Los Angeles Investigator [21]

Championships and accomplishments

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Ulf Herman Profile". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2015-08-14.
  2. ^ a b "ACW Wild X-Mas: Ulf Herman beendet Karriere, wird "Hall of Famer" und bestreitet sein letztes Match beim ACW" (in German). Athletik Club Wrestling. 2012-10-29. Retrieved 2015-09-10.
  3. ^ Molinaro, John F. (1999-08-24). "International Partnerships Bolster ECW". Slam! Wrestling. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
  4. ^ "Duitse stoeikampioen pak Koen in Kaapstad". Die Beeld. Die Beeld.
  5. ^ Cawthon, Graham. "Ring Results: 1992". The History of WWE. Retrieved 2015-09-10.
  6. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4
    .
  7. ^ "The CWA World Heavyweight Championship at Solie.org". Retrieved April 12, 2007.
  8. ^ a b c Cawthon, Graham. "ECW Ring Results: 1998". The History of WWE. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
  9. ^ Keith, Scott (July 31, 2003). "The SmarK Retro Repost – November To Remember 1998". 411mania.com. Retrieved 2015-08-14.
  10. ^ a b Cawthon, Graham. "ECW Ring Results: 1999". The History of WWE. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
  11. ISBN 144067339X
    .
  12. ^ Extreme Championship Wrestling (Producers) (1999). Rob Van Dam: The Complete ECW TV Title Reign (DVD). United States: RF Video.
  13. ^ "Cagematch match listings".
  14. ^ "FWA results 2003". Frontier Wrestling Alliance. Archived from the original on 16 September 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2009.
  15. Wrestling Observer/Figure Four Weekly
    .
  16. ^ "Sandman Profile". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2015-08-14.
  17. ^ a b c "ACW Riptide II" (in German). Athletik Club Wrestling. Retrieved 2015-08-14.
  18. ^ "Eurpoameisterschaft in Kutenholz!" (in German). Professional Wrestling Alliance. Retrieved 2015-09-10.
  19. ^ Die Beste Show der Welt Episode 3 on ProSieben.de (German)
  20. ^ "Ulf Herman". IMDb. Retrieved 2015-09-10.
  21. ^ a b "Vom Profi-Catcher zum TV-Detektiv" [From professional-wrestler to TV-detective] (in German). Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung. February 8, 2014. Retrieved September 12, 2014.
  22. ^ "1-Pro Wrestling 2007 Results". 1pwonline.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2008-10-09. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
  23. ^ "Athletik Club Wrestling Title Histories". titlehistories.com. Retrieved 2008-07-11.
  24. ^ "catch Wrestling Association Title Histories". titlehistories.com. Retrieved 2008-07-11.
  25. ^ "Freestyle Championship Wrestling Title Histories". titlehistories.com. Retrieved 2008-07-11.
  26. ^ "Independent Wrestling Results - February 2002". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2008-07-05.
  27. ^ "Independent Wrestling Results - October 2002". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2008-07-06.
  28. ^ "German Wrestling Federation Title Histories". titlehistories.com. Retrieved 2008-07-11.
  29. ^ "Independent Wrestling Results - April 2003". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2008-07-05.
  30. ^ "Professional Wrestling Alliance". titlehistories.com. Retrieved 2008-07-11.
  31. ^ "1-Pro Wrestling 2006 Results". 1pwonline.co.uk. Archived from the original on September 24, 2008. Retrieved July 8, 2008.
  32. ^ "Pro Wrestling Illustrated 500 – 2002: 326 Ulf Herman". Pro Wrestling Illustrated. Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, United States: Sports and Entertainment publications LLC. December 2002.
  33. ^ "Real Quality Wrestling Title Histories". titlehistories.com. Retrieved 2008-07-11.

External links

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ulf_Herman&oldid=1214877253"