Evan Karagias was born on November 27,1973 and is an American retired professional wrestler and actor.
21 Facts About Evan Karagias
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Evan Karagias became the spokesmodel for the 1996 Calvin Klein and US Olympic Committee advertising campaigns.
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Since leaving WWF, Evan Karagias returned to acting and his first acting role for seven years was playing a wrestler on the soap opera Passions.
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Evan Karagias was recruited to join World Championship Wrestling, and entered training at the WCW's "Power Plant" facility in Atlanta, Georgia, where he soon reached stunt instructor status.
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In 1997 he began his appearances on WCW's weekly wrestling shows as "The Outrageous Evan Karagias" being used as a jobber, and has the dubious distinction of having more defeats to his record as a solo wrestler in WCW as a proportion of all his matches than anyone else.
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In October 1999, Evan Karagias was seen more and more with female wrestler Madusa.
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Evan Karagias was allowed to compete in the World Title tournament, but quickly allowed Madusa to pin him after a kiss.
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Evan Karagias then became the number one contender to the Cruiserweight Championship, which was held by Disco Inferno.
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Evan Karagias began to have problems with Madusa, since Evan Karagias appeared to have a wandering eye towards the Nitro Girls, specifically Spice.
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In December 1999, Evan Karagias returned to the ring alongside Shane Helms and Shannon Moore to form 3 Count, the boy band of WCW.
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Evan Karagias became more egotistical, taking over the center circle during 3 Count matches.
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Evan Karagias soon joined up with Jamie Knoble, who had been unmasked and kicked out of the Jung Dragons by Leia Meow, their manager.
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Later in the match, Moore surprisingly turned on Helms, attacking him and shortly after Evan Karagias turned on Knoble rejoined Moore, returning to 3 Count.
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When WCW folded in March 2001 and was purchased by the World Wrestling Federation, Evan Karagias's contract was among the 24 immediately purchased by the WWF as well.
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Evan Karagias was sent to the WWF's "farm territory", Heartland Wrestling Association.
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Evan Karagias made his debut for WWF during the Invasion as a member of The Alliance.
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On March 22,2002, Evan Karagias would join AWA Superstars of Wrestling and on that very night challenged the then champion, "The Underwear Model" Eric Priest, to a championship match and won the AWA Superstars of Wrestling World Heavyweight Championship.
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Evan Karagias would hold the title for over one and a half years before being fired in January 2005 by Dale Gagne for misconduct and refusal of defending the title as scheduled.
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At the Ultimate Pro Wrestling 5th Anniversary Show on February 20,2004, Frankie Kazarian defeated Jerry Lynn and Evan Karagias to retain his UPW Lightweight Championship.
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However, on October 28,2006, Evan Karagias returned to wrestling and appeared at a TNT Pro Wrestling show to face off with X-Pac in a charity benefit match.
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In 2009 and 2010, he worked for the New York-based Fight The World wrestling promotion, Evan Karagias was the number 1 contender for the FTW heavyweight title and had a match with the champion Balls Mahoney.