Martin Scurll was born on 26 July 1988 and is an English professional wrestler.
57 Facts About Marty Scurll
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Marty Scurll is best known for his work in Ring of Honor as the leader of the stable Villain Enterprises, where he was a one-time ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship and a one-time ROH World Television Champion, as well as being a former member of the Bullet Club stable.
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Marty Scurll worked for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he is a former IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion and NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion.
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Marty Scurll has wrestled for numerous promotions around the world - such as the US based Impact Wrestling and ROH partner Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, the UK's Progress Wrestling and Revolution Pro Wrestling, Germany's Westside Xtreme Wrestling, and the Australia based World Series Wrestling.
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Marty Scurll started training at Frank Rimer's Dropkixx training school which would produce wrestlers like Martin Stone, The Kartel and Paul Robinson.
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Marty Scurll made his debut for Dropkixx at the Fondu Club in Purfleet, defeating Jimmy Starr by two falls to one.
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Once under the tutorship of Jon Ritchie, who by this time was in charge at Dropkixx, Marty Scurll took part in Dropkixx's Shoot Fighting Tournament.
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Marty Scurll would go on to win the middleweight tournament, in the process becoming Dropkixx's first middleweight champion.
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Marty Scurll competed regularly for Summit Promotions, and at the end of the year formed a tag team with Paul Robinson as 'The Party Boys'.
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Marty Scurll would go on to appear for Premier Promotions and this would be the place where he would meet Phil Powers, who he ended up wrestling many times in the summer season on the holiday camps circuit.
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On 5 June 2007, Marty Scurll made his debut for All Star Wrestling by defeating Jimmy Starr at Gravesend.
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Marty Scurll competed regularly for All Star, including main eventing Fairfield Halls, Croydon against Pro Wrestling NOAH's Shuhei Taniguchi and Tsutomu Hirayanagi.
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Marty Scurll wrestled and lost to Doug Williams in IPW:UK's British National Championship Tournament.
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On 28 April 2012, Marty Scurll defeated Sami Callihan in the final of an eight-man tournament to determine the new IPW:UK British Cruiserweight Champion.
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On 15 March 2014, Marty Scurll defeated Colt Cabana in a 30 Minute Iron Fist match to become Revolution Pro Wrestling Undisputed British Heavyweight Champion.
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Marty Scurll would go on to successfully defend the championship against the likes of Ricochet, Kevin Steen, Martin Stone, Davey Richards, Doug Williams, Shelton Benjamin, Rocky Romero and others, before losing the title to New Japan Pro-Wrestling wrestler AJ Styles at the 2015 Summer Sizzler event on 14 June 2015.
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Marty Scurll debuted for Scotland's Insane Championship Wrestling promotion in late 2014, unsuccessfully challenging Kenny Williams for the ICW Zero-G Championship before continuing to appear for the promotion in 2015, culminating in a main-event non-title loss to reigning ICW World Heavyweight Champion Drew Galloway.
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Marty Scurll scored his first win in ICW in a four-way match against Noam Dar, Jack Gallagher and Dan Moloney.
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On 4 April 2015, at a sold-out British Championship Wrestling event in Scotland, Marty Scurll challenged Galloway in a Double Title match for both the Evolve World Championship and the Dragon Gate USA Open the Freedom Gate Championship, but was defeated.
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In October 2015, Marty Scurll debuted for Global Force Wrestling on their "UK Invasion", losing to GFW Global Champion Nick Aldis in a singles match and teaming with Rampage Brown in a losing effort against Doug Williams and Aldis.
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Marty Scurll returned to the company in March 2016, unsuccessfully challenging Sonjay Dutt for the GFW NEX*GEN Championship.
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In early October 2017 at What Culture Pro Wrestling's event Refuse to Lose, Marty Scurll won a triple threat match between Joe Hendry and Will Ospreay and himself to become the sixth and final WCPW champion, before the company rebranded as Defiant Wrestling.
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In late 2012, Marty Scurll began competing in TNA's newest program TNA Wrestling: British Boot Camp that began airing on 1 January 2013 on Challenge.
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Marty Scurll was part of the very first Progress Wrestling show, Chapter One, in a tournament to determine the first ever Progress Champion.
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Marty Scurll beat Zack Sabre Jr in an acclaimed semi-final match before competing in a four-way match for the title against Mike Mason, El Ligero and winner Nathan Cruz.
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Marty Scurll went on to challenge Cruz for the title in a Two Out of Three Falls match at Chapter Two, failing to capture the title.
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Marty Scurll reached the quarter-finals of the first Super Strong Style 16 tournament in 2015, beating Eddie Dennis on Day One and Dave Mastiff in the quarter-finals before losing to Zack Sabre Jr on Day Two, and was runner-up to Mark Haskins in the 2015 Thunderbastard match at Chapter Twenty.
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Marty Scurll lost to Kris Travis at Chapter Twenty-One, Travis' final match before his retirement from wrestling and death from stomach cancer.
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Marty Scurll turned firmly villainous following this match; gaining a demented mean streak that saw him win the Progress Championship for the first time in a No Disqualification match against Will Ospreay at Chapter Twenty-Five.
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Marty Scurll went on to successfully defend the title against Mark Haskins, Chris Hero, and Tommy End in singles competition and against seven opponents in the 2016 Thunderbastard match which he won.
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Marty Scurll lost the title to Pastor William Eaver at Chapter Thirty-Two and regained it a month later at Chapter Thirty-Three, making him the first person to ever win the Progress Championship more than once.
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At Chapter 38, Marty Scurll failed to regain the Progress Championship in a match that included Jimmy Havoc.
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In 2017 Marty Scurll returned to Progress on Chapter 55 being defeated by Zack Sabre Jr.
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Marty Scurll made his PWG debut at the 2015 Battle of Los Angeles, where he beat Rich Swann in round one, Trevor Lee in the quarter-finals and lost to Zack Sabre Jr.
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Marty Scurll then suffered a string of singles losses; losing to Ricochet at All Star Weekend 11 Night One and to Timothy Thatcher on Night Two, to Kyle O'Reilly on All Star Weekend 12 Night One and to Chuck Taylor on Night Two.
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In September, Marty Scurll participated the 2016 Battle of Los Angeles, defeating Pentagon Jr.
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On 22 August 2016, the American Ring of Honor promotion announced Marty Scurll's upcoming debut for the promotion.
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Pro Wrestling Torch reported that Marty Scurll had signed with the company after giving his notice to Evolve the previous month.
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Marty Scurll successfully defended his newly won title against previous champion Ospreay and Dragon Lee in a triple threat match at ROH's biggest pay-per-view, Final Battle 2016.
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The beginning of 2017 saw Marty Scurll make many successful defences of his title against Juice Robinson, Donovan Dijak, Sonjay Dutt, Lio Rush and Adam Cole.
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On 29 April 2017 at ROH Masters of the Craft Marty Scurll successful retained the ROH World Television Championship against Ken Anderson.
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On 12 May 2017, during the third night of the NJPW and ROH co-produced War of the Worlds tour, Marty Scurll was revealed as the newest member of Bullet Club, replacing Adam Cole.
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Two days later, on the final night of the tour, Marty Scurll lost the ROH World Television Championship to Kushida, following a distraction from Cole.
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The Elite, minus Marty Scurll, left ROH after 14 December 2018's Final Battle pay-per-view.
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At the ROH 17th Anniversary Show, Marty Scurll defeated Kenny King, and the following night during the Ring of Honor Wrestling tapings, Marty Scurll, King, and PCO defeated the Kingdom to win the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship for the first time.
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In January 2020, Marty Scurll signed a multi-year contract with ROH, becoming the head booker of the promotion in the process.
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Marty Scurll released two statements in which he did not deny the allegations, but claimed the encounter was consensual.
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In January 2021, ROH announced that Marty Scurll was no longer under contract after the two parties mutually agreed to part ways.
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Marty Scurll finished the tournament with a record of four wins and three losses, failing to advance to the finals.
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On 4 January 2018, Marty Scurll lost the title to back to Ospreay at Wrestle Kingdom 12 in Tokyo Dome in a four-way match, involving Hiromu Takahashi and Kushida.
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Marty Scurll returned to NJPW for the first time since Wrestle Kingdom on the New Beginning in USA event on 30 January 2019.
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Marty Scurll participated in the Best of the Super Junior XXVI tournament, ending with 10 points.
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On 14 December 2019, Marty Scurll made a surprise appearance on NWA's Into the Fire following a NWA Championship match between Nick Aldis and James Storm.
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Marty Scurll was scheduled to face Aldis for the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship at the Crockett Cup on April 19,2020, but was forced to cancel the event because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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On September 22,2021, Puerto Rican promotion CWA announced Marty Scurll would take part in their Halloween Fan Fest event on October 23.
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Marty Scurll made appearances at Polish promotion Prime Time Wrestling on February and November 2022.
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In 2012, Marty Scurll appeared on UK dating game show, Take Me Out in which he attempted to find a woman to take on a date with him.