Curtis Thompson

Infobox Wrestler
name=Curtis Thompson


names= Firebreaker Chip
Arcangel
height=5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
weight= 245 lb (111 kg)
birth_date = birth date|1963|1|20|mf=y
death_date =
birth_place =Charlotte, North Carolina
resides=
billed=Charlotte
WCW Special Forces
trainer=
debut=1987
retired=|

Curtis Thompson (born January 20 1963) is an American professional wrestler best known for his time in World Championship Wrestling as Firebreaker Chip.

Career

Curtis Thompson started wrestling in 1987. He wrestled in Stampede Wrestling (as the masked Archangel), South Atlantic Pro Wrestling, Pacific Northwest Wrestling and Puerto Rico's World Wrestling Council. He formed a tag team with Ricky Santana called the "US Males" in PNW.

In late 1990, he joined World Championship Wrestling. He became Firebreaker Chip and teamed with Todd Champion as "The Patriots". They had the gimmick of being two soldiers that had returned from Desert Storm and were billed as being from "WCW Special Forces". They feuded with the Fabulous Freebirds and won the United States Tag Team Titles. They next feuded with Steve Armstrong and Tracy Smothers who beat them for the titles.

Thompson soon left WCW and wrestled in the independent promotions. He turned up in the NWA's Mid-Atlantic promotion in a tag team with Drake Dawson called "Triple X". He also wrestled briefly for Smoky Mountain Wrestling in the mid 1990s.

As of 2005, Thompson is still wrestling in the Mid-Atlantic area independent promotions.

Personal life

Firebreaker Chip is well known for a backstage fight (which was told in Mick Foley's autobiography Have A Nice Day) he got in with Diamond Dallas Page in which Page placed Chip in a front face lock. He is currently attending the Cornell Intensive Wrestling for his second year camp.

In wrestling

*Managers
**Bert Prentice
**Robert Fuller
**Skandor Akbar
**Strawberry Fields

Championships and accomplishments

*International World Class Championship Wrestling:*IWCCW Television Championship (1 time) (Last)

*National Championship Wrestling:*NCW United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time) (First)

*National Wrestling Alliance:*NWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Drake Dawson¹

*NWA Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling²:*NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Drake Dawson:*NWA Northern Continental Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Drake Dawson

*NWA Wildside:*NWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Drake Dawson

*Pacific Northwest Wrestling:*NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship (1 time):*NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Santana

*"'World Championship Wrestling:*WCW United States Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Todd Champion

¹Thompson's and Dawson's second reign with the title began while working a card in Okinawa, Japan. Records don't show as to which NWA affiliated promotion hosted the event.
²This promotion, while operating out of the same area and having began using some of the same championships, is not the same Mid-Atlantic promotion once owned by Jim Crockett, Jr.. That promotion was sold to Ted Turner in November 1988 and was renamed World Championship Wrestling.

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