Sean Allen Morley was born on March 6,1971, and better known by the ring name Val Venis, is a Canadian retired professional wrestler.
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Sean Allen Morley was born on March 6,1971, and better known by the ring name Val Venis, is a Canadian retired professional wrestler.
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Sean Morley has worked for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.
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Sean Morley debuted on the May 18,1998 episode of Raw, defeating Scorpio.
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Sean Morley then challenged the four Japanese wrestlers to a match, which they accepted under the conditions that it must be a gauntlet match, meaning that Venis would have to fight all four of them individually in one match.
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Sean Morley started a feud with Steve Blackman and defeated him at Unforgiven.
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Sean Morley engaged in feuds with several main eventers including The Rock, Mankind, and Steve Austin.
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Sean Morley became a censorship-based character, directly contrasting with his previously provocative on-screen character.
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Sean Morley has gone on record saying, the Right To Censor character was his least favorite character, since he lost the core of his previous character and it was hard to wrestle wearing a tie and t-shirt.
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Sean Morley defeated Christian in the first round, then lost to Chris Jericho in the quarterfinals.
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Sean Morley was appointed Raw "Chief of Staff" by Raw General Manager, Eric Bischoff, turning heel by acting as Bischoff's assistant and going by Chief Morley.
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Storm and Sean Morley successfully defended the World Tag Team Championship on the episode of Heat prior to WrestleMania XIX at Safeco Field against Rob Van Dam and Kane with help from the Dudley Boyz, only to lose them to Kane and Van Dam the next night.
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Sean Morley was "fired" from his assistant job by Bischoff after he lost a match to Jerry "The King" Lawler in which Jim Ross' job was on the line.
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Sean Morley was quickly "rehired" by co-General Manager, Stone Cold Steve Austin.
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Sean Morley reformed his previous tag team with Lance Storm as faces, but the partnership faded and Venis became utilized mainly as a "jobber to the stars".
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Sean Morley spent the rest of 2008 out of action due to an injury.
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Sean Morley worked with Elite Xtreme Wrestling now known as Future Stars of Wrestling as Val Venis where he was a former EXW Tag Team Champion with Dexter Verity.
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In late 2011, Sean Morley returned to Canada wrestling for Championship Wrestling International, Venis defeated former World Tag Team Champion Sylvain Grenier in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada.
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On June 1,2012, Sean Morley lost to former WWE wrestler and tag partner Big Daddy V in New York City for ECPW Five Boros.
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In 2013 Sean Morley returned to Canada working in Manitoba's Canadian Wrestling's Elite and 2014 in British Columbia's Elite Canadian Championship Wrestling and Invasion Championship Wrestling where he reunited with his former WWE tag partner The Godfather.
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Sean Morley toured in England for House of Pain: Evolution where defeated Marty Scurll in Derby, England on June 19,2015.
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At the pay-per-view Sean Morley defeated Daniels in his first match for the company with his patented Money Shot.
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Sean Morley speaks social Spanish, which he learned during the time he spent in Mexican lucha libre promotions.
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Sean Morley is an advocate for the legalisation of cannabis, and now works as a budtender at "Health for Life" marijuana dispensary in Mesa, Arizona.
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In February 2020, Sean Morley came under fire from many wrestlers and wrestling fans after making several comments criticizing All Elite Wrestling's decision to put their women's championship on a transgender wrestler, Nyla Rose.
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Sean Morley has been known to express libertarian political beliefs and to be a believer in QAnon conspiracy theories.
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