Chris Hamrick

Chris Hamrick
Chris Hamrick
Ring name(s) Chris Hamrick
Crimson Dragon
Hamrick (WSX)
Billed height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Billed weight 210 lb (95 kg)
Born October 21, 1966 (1966-10-21) (age 45)
Mooresboro, North Carolina
Resides Mooresboro, North Carolina
Billed from Bristol, Tennessee
Trained by Self-trained
Ricky Morton
Debut 1982

Chris Hamrick (born October 21, 1966) is an American professional wrestler. He is perhaps best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling throughout the early 2000s. He is now wrestling with a promotion in South Carolina called CWA Pro Wrestling where he is the current Carolinas Champion.

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Career

Hamrick began watching wrestling as a child and received a wrestling ring as a ninth birthday present. He made his professional debut at the age of sixteen in a promotion operated by his father, facing Alvin Melton in Mooresboro, North Carolina.[1] Hamrick wrestled on the independent circuit for several years. In 1992 and 1993, he wrestled several televised matches for the World Wrestling Federation. Although he did not win many matches at the big time level, he did in the independent circuit. Hamrick went to the IWWA, often to team up with Tommy Wildfire Rich and had memorable matches against Rock Parsons and Ivan Koloff. Later he teamed up with Rock to go against Lord Zoltan and Chief Jay Eagle which was a 4 out of five stars and was in the top five independent matches of the year. Hamrick went on to wrestle for Smoky Mountain Wrestling before returning to the independent circuit.

Hamrick wrestled a tryout match with Extreme Championship Wrestling on May 25, 2000 in Columbia, South Carolina, and remained with the promotion until it declared bankruptcy in April 2001.[1] In ECW, Hamrick was known as "Confederate Currency" Chris Hamrick and was part of the stable known as Hot Commodity with EZ Money, Elektra and Julio Dinero.

In 2002, Hamrick made several appearances with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, wrestling under a mask as the luchadore character Crimson Dragon. In 2002 and 2003, he frequently wrestled for Xtreme Pro Wrestling, where he formed a tag team with Tracy Smothers known as Southern Comfort, also having a long-running feud for the TV title with Kaos and The Enterprise.

In early 2007, Hamrick was featured on Wrestling Society X's first episode on MTV, getting into an argument with fellow ECW alumni New Jack, then getting eliminated by him in the WSX Rumble later that night. Despite both of them getting eliminated from the bout, Hamrick took an elbow drop from New Jack off the top of a truckbed through a table. At HCW: Beg 4 Mercy 2007 in April, Hamrick returned to Mooresboro, NC and defeated New Jack in an Extreme Weapons Match. Three months later, Hamrick won the HCW Triple Crown Championship after defeating Axl Knight, Wicked, and Shea Shea McGrady in a Four Way Dance at HCW's Cold Blooded and hardcore event. In March 2008, Hamrick was stripped of the title. On June 14 at Underground Revolution 2008, Hamrick defeated the current champion, Shea Shea McGrady, to reclaim the title.

On the August 20, 2007, episode of WWE Raw, Hamrick made an appearance as a fake version of Triple H, in which he placed a crown on King Booker's head during a royal ceremony, leading up to Booker's match with Triple H at SummerSlam.

Drug overdose

On July 13, 2010, Chris Hamrick posted the following messages on his Facebook page:

"BIG announcement tonight. Stay tuned. Its to die for !"

Several hours later, Hamrick posted the following: "Hey world I just took 25 sleeping pills. Goodnight!" Several friends are under the impression that Hamrick was involved in a relationship with a married woman who was refusing to leave her husband for him, which led to serious depression.[2] Hamrick returned to the ring the week following the suicide attempt.[3]

In wrestling

  • Nicknames
    • Confederate Currency
    • Hi Flying
    • Southern Comfort

Championships and accomplishments

  • All Pro Wrestling
  • APW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[5][6]
  • APW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Dave Jericho[6]
  • All-Star Championship Wrestling
  • ACW Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
  • ACW Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • ACW Tag Team Championship (1 time)
  • ACW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • Big Time Wrestling
  • BTW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • Champions With Attitudes Pro Wrestling
  • CWA Cruiserweight Championship (1 time)
  • CWA Carolinas Championship (1 time)
  • Cleveland All-Pro Wrestling
  • CAPW North American Tag Team Championship (1 time)
  • CAPW Unified Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[7]
  • Frontier Wrestling Alliance
  • FWA All England Championship (1 time)[8]
  • Hardcore Championship Wrestling
  • HCW Triple Crown Championship (2 times)
  • Heritage Wrestling Alliance
  • HWA Tri-States Championship (1 time)
  • International Wrestling Cartel
  • IWC Tag Team Champion (2 time) - with Tracy Smothers
  • MainStream Wrestling Entertainment
  • MSWE Championship (1 time)[9]
  • NWA Mid-Atlantic Hardcore Championship (1 time)
  • NWA Ohio Tag Team Championship (1 time)
  • New Era Pro Wrestling
  • NEPW Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
  • Premier Wrestling Federation
  • PWF Universal Championship (1 time)
  • PWF Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • Pro Wrestling Federation
  • PWF Tag Team Championship (2 times)
  • Union of Independent Pro Wrestlers
  • UIPW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[10]
  • United States Wrestling Federation
  • USWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • Other titles
  • CCW Tag Team Championship (1 time)
  • DCW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • EPW Tag Team Championship (1 time)
  • EWF Tag Team Championship (1 time)
  • RPW Tag Team Championship (1 time)
  • SCW Tag Team Championship (1 time)
  • SWA Tag Team Championship (1 time)

References


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