Neil Faith

Neil Faith
Neil Faith in 2010
Ring name(s)	Neil Faith Lord Neil Faith The Whitechapel Ripper
Billed height	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Billed weight	268 lb (122 kg)
Born	April 29, 1981(1981-04-29) Colchester, England
Resides	Florida, USA
Billed from	Whitechapel, England
Trained by	Bruce Hart Andre Baker
Debut	1999

Neil Andrew Horsfall (born April 29, 1981), better known as Neil Faith, is an English professional wrestler, trained by Bruce Hart in the Hart dungeon.

Professional wrestling career

Neil Faith was born Neil Andrew Horsfall in Colchester, England on April 29, 1981. He was Raised most of his youth in London and also Burnham-on-Crouch which is a small river town in Essex. He also attended the Thomas Adams High School in Wem, Shropshire.

After playing soccer and rugby at high school and winning most outstanding player by a regional soccer league. He studied kickboxing and was also a standout submission wrestler and competed in numerous shoot wrestling tournaments.Then in April 1999 he started training for professional wrestling in England at the Hammerlock Wrestling Academy.

After leaving the Hammerlock Wrestling Academy he travelled to Florida to wrestle for BANG TV on Fox, Then in January 2002 he moved to Calgary, Alberta, Canada to train with the Hart family.

Neil Faith at an Independent show in 2010

Faith made his Stampede Wrestling debut in 02.22.2002 beating "Highlander" Rob Roy with a spinning tombstone piledriver. He then went on to team with fellow British wrestler Rick Vain to feud with Bruce and Teddy Hart in tag team matches. After departing from Stampede Wrestling in April 2002, he traveled to Japan to train in the New Japan Dojo in Tokyo.

While in Japan Neil performed in front of 57,000 fans at the Tokyo dome.

Faith returned to Europe where he wrestled on independent wrestling shows. In 2002 he wrestled P.N. News in Dublin, Ireland at the national basketball arena. He continued to wrestle all over Europe where he filmed a documentary called Ultimate Warriors on The Bravo Channel and appeared regularly on The Wrestling Channel on SKY TV.

Faith returned to Florida to wrestle for Dory Funk Jr.'s BANG TV show on Fox and Throwdown on The Brighthouse network.

After leaving BANG TV He returned again to Europe where he Worked tours for NWA - UK and made it to the Finals of The NWA-UK 2003 King of the Ring tournament.

From 2003- 2004 Neil wrestled all over Europe, In countries such as Germany, Ireland, Russia, Holland, Scotland, Wales and England. He wrestled his last match in Europe on 05.02.2005 appearing for Revolution British Wrestling in London, England.

In June 2005 Neil permantly moved to the United States where he began working for Southern Championship Wrestling and World Xtreme Wrestling Which is ran and operated by Afa "The Wild Samoan" Anoia.

Adam Windsor and Neil Faith Vintage World Tag Team Champions 2010.

In October 2008, Faith had several WWE Tryouts in Tampa, Florida.

At Vintage Wrestling's first show "Ignition" held on 18.04.2009 in Sanford, Florida, he wrestled in the main event against Jake "The snake" Roberts in a grudge match.

In December 2009 he started a tag team with Adam Windsor called European Union. Quickly after joining WXW they defeated tag team champions Hatchet City All-Stars to become the WXW Tag Team Champions.

As of July 2010 The European Union are regularly listed in the top 5 Tag Teams in the state of Florida in polls ran by wrestling911.com and marcuspitts.com, they are also currently listed in the top 5 tag teams for NWA Florida/NWA Fusion as well.

In 2010 Faith was also ranked #4 In the top 100 Wrestlers in Florida poll ran by www.marcuspitt.com and www.wrestling911.com

On September 11, 2010. The European Union defeated Los Ben Dejo's for the Vintage Wrestling Tag Team titles in a 2 out of 3 falls match.

In wrestling

• Finishing moves
  • Peruvian Necktie
  • Spinning tombstone piledriver

• Signature moves
  • Diving knee drop
  • Double leg slam
  • European uppercut
  • Frog splash
  • Head kick
  • High knee
  • Multiple suplex variations
    • Exploder
    • German
    • Overhead belly to belly
  • Senton bomb

• Managers
  • Rico Moon
  • Candi Lynn
  • Phineas Pipwillow

• Nicknames
  • "Lord" Neil Faith
  • The Whitechapel Ripper

Championships and accomplishments

Neil Faith going for a Frog Splash

• !Bang!
  • BANG TV European Championship (1 time)
  • BANG TV Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Adam Windsor

• World Xtreme Wrestling
  • WXW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Adam Windsor

• Vintage Wrestling
  • Vintage Wrestling Tag Team Championship - with Adam Windsor

• First Class Championship Wrestling
  • FCCW Heavyweight Championship

• Other titles
  • MECW Heavyweight Championship
  • NWA-DCW Heavyweight Championship
  • SWF Tag Team Championship - with Adam Windsor

Wrestling promotions worked for

WWE, New Japan Pro Wrestling (Japan), Stampede Wrestling (Canada), Irish Whip Wrestling, Vintage Wrestling, WXW, Dynamite Championship Wrestling, NWA Wildside, NWA-UK, NWA Florida, AWA Spinebuster, Funking Championship Wrestling, World - 1 Fighting Arts, WXW (Germany), Southern Wrestling Federation, RBW, Southern Championship Wrestling, All- Star Wrestling, CCW, SWF, ACW, ASW.

References

• Florida Independent Wrestling website featuring Neil Faith
• Wrestling News Website with features on Neil Faith
• Interview with Neil Faith
• Vintage Wrestling Official website
• WXW Official website
• Colchester#Notable Colchestrians Notable Colchestrians
• German Website with Match Information on Neil Faith

External links

Professional wrestling portal

• European Union official site
• Official Biography
• Official European Union You Tube Site
• Marketing Company Owned by Neil Faith

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Name	Faith, Neil
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Date of birth	April 29, 1981
Place of birth	Colchester, England
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