Lash LeRoux is best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling from the late-1990s to early-2000s.
19 Facts About Lash LeRoux
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Lash LeRoux attended Oxford High School, where he was a junior high state finalist in amateur wrestling in two successive years.
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Lash LeRoux later decided to take a year out in order to focus on his burgeoning career as a cartoonist.
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In 1997 Lash LeRoux saw an advertisement for the WCW Power Plant on an episode of WCW Monday Nitro.
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Lash LeRoux was promoted to the main roster in July 1998, and wrestled on WCW Saturday Night, WCW WorldWide and WCW Thunder as "Mark LeRoux" for several months, often losing squash matches.
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LeRoux debuted on Nitro on February 1,1999, as "Lash LeRoux", a take off of Cajun western movie star Lash LaRue, losing to then-Cruiserweight Champion Billy Kidman.
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Lash LeRoux feuded with Disco Inferno over the Cruiserweight Championship, and lost to Disco in a title match at Halloween Havoc 1999.
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Lash LeRoux appeared sporadically on television, teaming with Midnight and pursuing the Cruiserweight Championship once more.
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Lash LeRoux was fired in storyline by WCW President Eric Bischoff in April 2000 for not helping to protect him from Diamond Dallas Page, whose wife Kimberly had betrayed him in order to align herself with Bischoff.
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All of the Misfits were given ranks, with Lash LeRoux known as "Corporal Cajun".
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Lash LeRoux was released in December 2001, later stating he preferred to pursue other options after it became apparent the WWF had no plans for him in the immediate future.
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Lash LeRoux appeared on the inaugural Total Nonstop Action Wrestling pay-per-view on June 19,2002, competing in the Gauntlet for the Gold where he was eliminated by Jeff Jarrett.
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Lash LeRoux consulted a second doctor and underwent seven months of physical rehabilitation without surgery until his neck healed.
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From April to July 2004, Lash LeRoux travelled south to Orlando, Florida and appeared occasionally on TNA's secondary television show Xplosion.
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Lash LeRoux competed for a number of independent promotions, including Georgia Championship Wrestling and NWA Wrestle Birmingham and made a number of appearances in Deep South Wrestling.
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Lash LeRoux has worked as a cartoonist, and his work has been featured in multiple publications and websites including Pro Wrestling Illustrated and The Wrestler.
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Lash LeRoux has two brothers, older brother Joseph and younger brother James, and younger twin sisters, Terri and Sherri Creswell.
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Lash LeRoux married his high school sweetheart, Elizabeth, on December 22,1997.
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Lash LeRoux is close friends with fellow WCW alumni and Misfits In Action stablemates Bill DeMott and Chavo Guerrero Jr.