Lance Timothy Evers, known professionally by his ring name Lance Storm, is a Canadian retired professional wrestler.
62 Facts About Lance Storm
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Lance Storm is best known for his work in World Wrestling Entertainment, Extreme Championship Wrestling, and World Championship Wrestling, where he held a combined 13 total championships.
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In 1997, Lance Storm joined ECW, where he worked with Justin Credible as The Impact Players.
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Lance Storm stayed with ECW until 2000, then signed with World Championship Wrestling.
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Lance Storm kept wrestling with WWF until 2005, when he left.
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Since then, Lance Storm focused on the independent circuit as well as his training school, the Lance Storm Wrestling Academy, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Lance Storm Timothy Evers was born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada on April 3,1969.
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Lance Storm was trained by Ed Langley and Brad Young of the Hart Brothers Wrestling Camp at the Silver Dollar Action Centre in Calgary, where he became friends with fellow student Chris Jericho.
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Lance Storm then left SMW and moved on to a Winnipeg-based West Four Wrestling Alliance, where he teamed with Jericho.
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Lance Storm formed a tag team with Yuji Yasuraoka, as well as forming a trio with Nobutaka Araya and Koki Kitahara, with whom he held the WAR World Six-Man Tag Team Championship.
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In 1997, Lance Storm joined Extreme Championship Wrestling, making his debut at Crossing the Line Again against Balls Mahoney.
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At Heat Wave, Lance Storm faced Taz for the ECW World Television Championship but failed to win the title.
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At Hardcore Heaven, Lance Storm challenged his former tag team partner Justin Credible for the ECW World Heavyweight Championship but failed to win the title.
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Lance Storm left ECW in 2000 to join WCW, where he became a singles wrestler.
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Lance Storm made his first appearance on the June 19,2000 episode of Nitro and quickly became one of WCW's most prominent stars, winning the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship, the Cruiserweight Championship, and the WCW Hardcore Championship in rapid succession, resulting in Storm becoming the first and only wrestler in WCW history to hold three titles simultaneously.
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Lance Storm attempted to win the World Heavyweight Championship, but was defeated by champion Booker T on each occasion.
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Lance Storm eventually awarded the Cruiserweight and Hardcore titles by presenting them to his Team Canada stablemates Elix Skipper and Carl Ouellet, respectively.
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At SuperBrawl Revenge, Lance Storm faced The Cat where he lost and The Cat became the new Commissioner of WCW.
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When WCW was purchased by the World Wrestling Federation in 2001, Lance Storm's contract was kept and he became a WWF employee.
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Lance Storm, portrayed as a serious, humourless heel, was in The Alliance and was the first WCW superstar to ever invade a WWF program, where he debuted on the May 28,2001 episode of Raw.
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Lance Storm lost the title a month later to Edge at SummerSlam, Storm formed a tag team with The Hurricane and feuded with the Hardy Boyz over the WWF and WCW Tag Team Titles for the next few months; at Unforgiven, Storm and The Hurricane competed in a Fatal Four-Way Elimination match for the WWF Tag Team Championship but failed to win, this later included a match for the WCW Tag Team Championship against the Hardy Boyz at No Mercy, which Storm and Hurricane lost.
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At Survivor Series, Lance Storm competed in an Immunity Battle Royal that was won by Test, where the winner could not be fired for a year.
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However, Team Alliance lost in the main event and Lance Storm was fired along with the rest of the Alliance roster by Vince McMahon.
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At the Royal Rumble, Lance Storm competed in the Royal Rumble match where he was eliminated by Al Snow.
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Lance Storm continued teaming with Regal as a regular tag team with the same anti-American gimmick; Lance Storm would represent Canada and Regal represented England.
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Lance Storm immediately named himself and Lance Storm the new World Tag Team Champions starting Storm's fourth tag team title reign.
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At Judgment Day, Lance Storm competed in a Battle Royal for the vacant WWE Intercontinental Championship which was won by Christian.
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Lance Storm soon rejoined Morley, who had become a face and reverted to his Val Venis character.
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From December 2003 to March 2004, Lance Storm mainly competed on Sunday Night Heat.
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Lance Storm eventually turned heel by betraying the fans.
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Lance Storm then accepted a position backstage with WWE, working as a wrestling trainer in Ohio Valley Wrestling, WWE's main developmental territory.
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On March 23,2005, Lance Storm came out of retirement to participate in a six-man tag team match with Joey Mercury and Johnny Nitro against fellow ECW alumni Tommy Dreamer and the Dudley Boyz.
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Lance Storm resigned from WWE in May 2005 and announced that he intended to open his own training school in his hometown of Calgary, the Lance Storm Wrestling Academy, with the first semester beginning in September 2005.
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Lance Storm returned to WWE for one night on May 30,2005, and faced Maven on Sunday Night Heat.
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Lance Storm wrestled one last time on a WWE-promoted show at ECW One Night Stand on June 12,2005, where he defeated his close friend and former tag team partner Chris Jericho with the help of Justin Credible.
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Since leaving WWE, Lance Storm has made several appearances on the independent circuit.
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At Hardcore Homecoming on November 4,2005, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lance Storm interfered in a steel cage match between Justin Credible and Jerry Lynn, helping Credible defeat Lynn.
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At the December 3,2005 Ring of Honor show Steel Cage Warfare in New York, New York, Lance Storm congratulated World Champion Bryan Danielson following a successful title defense against Rocky Romero.
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The next night, Lance Storm lost to Doug Williams in a singles match.
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On July 3,2009, it was announced that Lance Storm would be coming out of retirement to perform at two Ring of Honor shows on July 24 and 25, Death Before Dishonor VII: Nights 1 and 2 respectively.
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In November 2009, Lance Storm announced he had accepted the position as the head booker of the Prairie Wrestling Alliance, a promotion that operates out of Edmonton.
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PWA and the Lance Storm Wrestling Academy had begun working together very closely.
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Lance Storm was defeated in the match, which he wrestled under a mask as The Ideal Canadian.
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On March 19,2011, Lance Storm made a return to the ring at PWA's 10th anniversary show, teaming with Brother Devon in a tag team match, where they defeated Bully Ray and Dylan Knight.
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Lance Storm returned to ROH again on March 30,2012, for the Showdown in the Sun pay-per-view, losing to Mike Bennett when Maria Kanellis interfered.
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Lance Storm wrestled Bennett again at the following ROH PPV, Border Wars, this time coming out victorious.
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On June 14,2014, Lance Storm faced Mike Bennett in a losing effort at House of Hardcore 6.
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On December 15,2013, Lance Storm was defeated by Chris Hero at a Smash Wrestling event.
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On December 21,2013, Lance Storm defeated Dan Collins at an EWP Wrestling event.
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On October 3,2015, at WWE's Live from MSG special event, Lance Storm was acknowledged in the crowd by Chris Jericho, thus making his first WWE appearance since 2005.
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On March 16,2016, Lance Storm challenged Jay Lethal for the ROH World Championship in a losing effort for the Prairie Wrestling Alliance 15th Anniversary Show.
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In March 2019, Lance Storm revealed he was working with Impact Wrestling as a producer.
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Lance Storm was part of the Rebellion PPV where he was chosen to be the special guest referee for the World Championship match involving Johnny Impact and Brian Cage.
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On November 2,2019, Lance Storm announced that he was returning to WWE to work as a producer.
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Lance Storm was furloughed from the company on April 15,2020, due to COVID-19 cutbacks.
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In February 2022, it was announced that Lance Storm would be returning to Impact Wrestling as a producer.
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Lance Storm writes a monthly column for British wrestling and MMA publication Fighting Spirit magazine.
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In 2011, Lance Storm published an E-book for the Amazon Kindle, titled Lance Storm Warning, which is a collection of columns from his website.
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Lance Storm later released a second volume, titled Storm Front which covers stories from his WWE career from 2001 to 2004.
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Lance Storm has made appearances on the WWE Network original The Edge and Christian Show, first playing the role of representative of WWE's PG department, then appearing briefly on the season finale.
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On October 18,2016, Lance Storm debuted a new podcast with longtime friend Don Callis called Killing the Town with Lance Storm and Cyrus.
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Lance Storm married his wife Tina in 1994, and they have two daughters, Rachel and Rebecca.