Damien Kane

Dorian Hill
Ring name(s)	Damien Kane[1][2]
Billed height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[1]
Billed weight	250 lb (110 kg)[1]
Born	April 16, 1960 (1960-04-16) (age 51)[1] Reading, Pennsylvania[2]
Resides	Texas
Trained by	Killer Kowalski[1][2]
Debut	1980[1][2]
Retired	1996[2][3]
Website	Damien Kane

Damien Kane (born April 16, 1960) is an American former professional wrestler and manager. He is perhaps best known for his stint in Extreme Championship Wrestling.

Professional wrestling career

Early years

After being trained in Killer Kowalski's Malden, Massachusetts-based school, Kane debuted in the International Wrestling Federation in 1980.^[3] While in the IWF, Kane wrestled against prominent wrestlers such as Dominic DeNucci, Larry Zbyszko and The Valiant Brothers.^[3]

Independent circuit

After his stint in the IWF, Kane began to work throughout the independent circuit.^[3] After joining the Continental Wrestling Alliance and winning the promotion's World Tag Team Championship with Sweet Daddy White, Kane met future tag team partner DC Drake.^[3] After both worked for the CWA, Kane and Drake moved on to the National Wrestling Federation, where Kane performed booking, television production and wrestling for the promotion.^[3] During his time in the NWF, Kane met a young Paul Heyman, who was working for the promotion as a photographer and commentator, and helped establish Heyman as a manager under the name Paul E. Dangerously name.^[3]

Extreme Championship Wrestling

Damien cutting a promo in ECW.

Due to his relationship with Heyman, Kane later ended up working for him in Extreme Championship Wrestling, where he was best known for managing The Headhunters as well forming a tag team with Devon Storm. Together, Kane and Storm successfully defeated the Dudley Boyz (Buh Buh Ray and D-Von) by disqualification (a rare occurrence in ECW) at A Matter of Respect^[4] and later feuded with the Bad Crew, a tag team he had formerly managed.^[5]

In late 1996, Kane and his wife Lady Alexandra left ECW after making "inappropriate remarks" towards the then recently fired Missy Hyatt.^[6] The pair made their last appearance at Natural Born Killaz on August 24 when, following Devon Storm's loss to Louie Spicolli, Kane was attacked by Spicolli.

Retirement

Relocating to Florida shortly thereafter, Kane and Alexandra later moved with their son Damien, Jr. to Texas to pursue an acting career in early 2007.^[3][7]

In wrestling

Damien often teamed with various partners, but his valet Lady Alexandra was always by his side whether he was managing or wrestling.

• Finishing moves
  • Damien DDT (Falling inverted DDT)^[1][2]

• Signature moves
  • Superplex

• Managers
  • Paul E. Dangerously^[3]
  • Luna Vachon
  • Lady Alexandra^[3]
  • Destiny

• Wrestlers managed
  • The Executioners^[8]
  • David Schults
  • The Wild Samoans
  • Bad Crew
  • Abdullah the Butcher
  • Kevin Sullivan
  • DC Drake^[3]
  • Devon Storm
  • The Headhunters
  • Rockin' Rebel and Glen Osbourne

• Nicknames
  • "The Godfather" Damien Kane^[1]
  • "The Godfather of Extreme"^[1][2]

Championships and accomplishments

• East Coast Wrestling Federation

• ECWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Sweet Daddy White^[8]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} "OWW profile". http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/d/damien-kane.html. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} "Cagematch profile". http://www.cagematch.de/?id=2&nr=2358. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} "Official MySpace". http://www.myspace.com/therealdamienkane. 
4. ^ Nelson, Phil; Peter Karlsson (2005-08-23). "Extreme Championship Wrestling: A Matter of Respect 1996". American Wrestling Trivia. http://www.softwolves.pp.se/wrestling/ecw/1996#respect96. Retrieved 2007-06-20. 
5. ^ Nelson, Phil; Peter Karlsson (2005-08-23). "Extreme Championship Wrestling: April–June 1996". American Wrestling Trivia. http://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/ecw/results/1996b.html. Retrieved 2007-06-20. 
6. ^ Lyon, Stephen (2006-08-26). "10 Years Ago This Week... In the Wrestling Observer Newsletter". Wrestling Observer. http://www.wrestlingobserver.com/wo/news/headlines/default.asp?aID=17208. Retrieved 2007-06-20. 
7. ^ Kane, Damien (2007-03-16). "The Dallas Film Industry Meetup Group: Damien Kane". Filmind.meetup.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. http://web.archive.org/web/20070927003529/http://filmind.meetup.com/285/members/3898679/. Retrieved 2007-06-20. 
8. ^ ^{a b} Royal Duncan & Gary Will (4th Edition 2000). Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4. 

Further reading

• "Meet Damien Kane". Gettysburg Times. 26 March 1987

External links

Professional wrestling portal

• Damien Kane at MySpace
• Ten Questions With ... Damien Kane
• Profile at Online World of Wrestling

Persondata
Name	Kane, Damien
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1960-04-16
Place of birth	Reading, Pennsylvania
Date of death
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