49 Facts About Necro Butcher

Necro Butcher is known for his willingness to participate in a dangerous mix of deathmatch wrestling styles, as well as his appearance in the 2008 film The Wrestler.

On March 16,1999, as Necro Butcher, he won his first professional wrestling championship, after defeating Damon Richards to become IHW Hardcore champion.

Necro Butcher lost the Hardcore title to Hellhammer before leaving the company.

Necro Butcher continued to build up his reputation as the most violent Death Match wrestler in Texas.

On October 10,1999, Necro Butcher faced Mad Man Pondo for the first time.

In 2005 and 2006, Necro Butcher had two high-profile matches against both Samoa Joe and Low Ki.

Necro Butcher lost to Joe in their first match, the main event of IWA's debut in the ECW Arena.

Necro Butcher then went on to lose in January 2006 again to Joe.

Necro Butcher eventually won his first IWA gold, the Death Match title, on September 9,2007, in Sellersburg, Indiana in a three-way dance against Corporal Robinson and Tank.

For Combat Zone Wrestling, Necro Butcher worked a program with Wifebeater, losing to him in the first Tournament of Death in 2002.

Necro Butcher returned the following year and was eliminated in round two by Ian Rotten.

Necro Butcher reached the final at the 3rd annual Tournament of Death before finally winning Tournament of Death 4 by defeating John Zandig and Nick Gage.

Necro Butcher got back up and returned to the ring only to have a real conflict, known as legit heat, with Pain.

Necro Butcher began throwing punches and kicks landing multiple shots to the shock of officials who were watching and taking care of the other wrestlers in the cage.

Necro Butcher returned to CZW at Cage of Death XI on December 12,2009.

Necro Butcher competed in the 10th Annual Tournament of Death in 2011 but was defeated by "Bulldozer" Matt Tremont in the first round.

Necro Butcher returned to CZW at Cerebral on October 13,2012, in a losing effort against reigning CZW World Heavyweight Champion Masada.

Necro Butcher made his debut for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla on April 9,2006, the second night of All Star Weekend 3: Crazymania, as the surprise opponent to challenge Joey Ryan for the PWG World Heavyweight Championship in a No Disqualification, Falls Count Anywhere Match.

Necro Butcher returned at the 2006 Battle of Los Angeles, competing in the tournament against Super Dragon in a No Count-Out, No Disqualification Match that was the main event of the second night on September 2.

Necro Butcher then wrestled in the special attraction eight-man tag team match the next night teaming with Rocky Romero and the Kings of Wrestling against Colt Cabana, M-Dogg 20, Quicksilver, and Delirious.

Necro Butcher was scheduled to compete against Kevin Steen in a Street Fight, but the no-show of the Briscoe Brothers resulted in a number of matches being changed.

Necro Butcher became a regular member of the PWG roster through the majority of 2008, teaming with Chris Hero to defend the honor of Candice LeRae against the Human Tornado and his allies in Claudio Castagnoli and Eddie Kingston.

The next night, Necro Butcher saved Candice from humiliation at the hands of Tornado before engaging in a Necro Butcher Rules Match against Claudio.

Necro Butcher would take a break before returning on the second night of the 2008 DDT4 on May 18.

Necro Butcher was scheduled to face The Human Tornado in a non-title Necro Rules Match, but Tornado suffered a serious quad injury the week prior.

Low Ki had Necro Butcher locked in a Dragon Sleeper submission hold, but he refused to give up, which allowed Hero to successfully pin Kingston to retain the title.

The next night, Necro Butcher formed an unusual alliance with El Generico and Nick Jackson in a special attraction Nine-Man Three-Way Tag Team Match against the team of Joey Ryan, Chuck Taylor, and Kenny Omega as well as the team of Austin Aries, Davey Richards, and Roderick Strong.

When Generico and Nick Jackson could not reason with the referee, Necro Butcher smashed a chair over his head in retaliation.

Necro Butcher first wrestled in the Ring of Honor promotion in 2006.

Necro Butcher came in as part of Chris Hero's invasion of the company, representing CZW.

Necro Butcher had several big matches, including being part of Team CZW in the Cage of Death match at Death before Dishonor IV.

Necro Butcher returned to ROH a year later in August 2007 at ROH's third pay-per-view Man Up, as part of debuting stable The Age of the Fall with Jimmy Jacobs, Tyler Black and Lacey.

In early October 2007, as a result of the incident at Man Up, Necro Butcher won two back-to-back Anything Goes Matches against Jay Briscoe.

Since then Necro Butcher has been featured in a number of high-profile 'brawling' and hardcore-style matches, including a loss to Bryan Danielson in a 'Relaxed Rules' match, losing to Jack Evans in a No Disqualification Match, losing to Kevin Steen in a Street Fight, and a loss in a 3-Way No Disqualification Match to Roderick Strong for the FIP World Heavyweight Championship.

On October 25,2008, Necro Butcher fought Go Shiozaki for the FIP World Heavyweight Championship, but lost when he and Shiozaki fought to a double count-out.

Necro Butcher feuded with Prince Nana's heel stable The Embassy, before turning heel himself and joining the stable in their battle against Rasche Brown on May 21,2010.

At the October 2,2010, tapings of Ring of Honor Wrestling, Necro was defeated by Homicide in a Butcher's Rules match in his final ROH appearance before being let go by the promotion.

Outside of the lighttubes and barbed wire which gave him his fame, Necro Butcher has gained critical acclaim for his wild brawls and very physical "slugfests".

Necro Butcher competed in the Chikara Tag World Grand Prix 2005 along with Mad Man Pondo and has wrestled a European catch wrestling match with Chris Hero.

Necro Butcher was partnered by 'Colt Ca-Bunny' who was actually Joker.

Necro Butcher wrestled regularly for Full Impact Pro, where he first gained notoriety as both a brawler and as half of a hardcore tag-team with the "Mad Man" Pondo especially in their feud for the FIP Tag-Team Championship against The Briscoe Brothers.

Necro Butcher participated in the first Dragon Gate show in the United States on September 5,2008, in Bell Gardens, California.

Necro Butcher was the Commissioner of the NJ Based Pro Wrestling Syndicate promotion.

Necro Butcher faced New Jack in Jack's retirement match night two of PWS Supercard in April 2013.

Necro Butcher teamed with Grim Reefer and Smokey C in a losing effort against Sabu, Rhino, and Devon Moore.

In December 2018, it was announced that Necro Butcher would be coming out of retirement to wrestle at Game Changer Wrestling's Joey Janela's Spring Break 3 event on April 5,2019.

Since this, Necro Butcher has had several more matches including two death match losses in Japan.

Necro Butcher had his final match on January 4,2020 at ICW No Holds Barred vol.

Necro Butcher symbolically passed the torch and physically passed his "Choose Death" shirt to SHLAK after the match.