Cody Deaner

Cody Deaner
Deaner in May 2011
Ring name(s)	Cody Steele[1][2] Cody Deaner[1][3]
Billed height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[1][3]
Billed weight	220 lb (100 kg)[1]
Born	May 16, 1981 (1981-05-16) (age 30)
Billed from	"Wherever his trailer takes him"[3] Muscle Shoals, Alabama[1]
Trained by	Derek Wilde[4]
Debut	January 24, 2000[2][4]

Chris Grey^[1] (born May 16, 1981), better known by his ring name Cody Deaner, is a Canadian professional wrestler, who worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

Professional wrestling career

Independent wrestling (2000–present)

Grey was trained by "Dangerboy" Derek Wylde in Niagara Falls, Ontario and subsequently made his professional wrestling debut for the now defunct Hardcore Wrestling Federation in 2000 under the ring name Cody Steele. Upon the HWF's closure, he then wrestled for numerous Canadian and American independent wrestling promotions, winning numerous titles across both countries.

He had a number of WWE tryouts under the Cody Steele moniker, including an appearance on SmackDown!.

As Cody Steele, Grey won numerous independent wrestling titles across the US and Canada. He held gold for a number of promotions including: Fighting Spirit Pro Wrestling, Neo Spirit Pro Wrestling, Canadian International Wrestling Alliance, Great Lakes Championship Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Xtreme, Great Canadian Wrestling, and others. Other independent wrestling promotions he has wrestled for include Border City Wrestling, Ballpark Brawl, Pier 6 Wrestling, Empire State Wrestling, International Wrestling Federation, NWA-Empire, NWA-Upstate, AWA-Ontario, Twins Wrestling Entertainment, Classic Championship Wrestling, WAR Wrestling, and Prime Time Wrestling.

In 2005, Grey began wrestling in the newly founded independent promotion, Great Canadian Wrestling (GCW). He made his GCW debut at a GCW event on June 26 as "Completely" Cody Steele, defeating Derek Wylde.^[5] At Rage of the Cage, he began wrestling as Cody Deaner and lost to Shawn Spears in the main event.^[6] At Stampede Showdown, Deaner was booked to defeat Hayden "The Destroyer" Avery for his newly won GCW Ontario Independent Championship.^[7][8] As a result, Deaner began feuding with Avery for the title. Deaner held the title for three months before losing it back to Avery at Ugandan Invasion.^[9] At Veni! Vidi! Vici, Avery defeated Deaner in a Motorcity Street Fight rematch to retain the title.^[10]

At Beyond the Limit, Deaner and Avery ended their feud as they teamed up to defeat defending champions Derek Wylde & Andrew Davis and Ash & Otis Idol in a triple threat tag team match for the GCW Tag Team Championship.^[11][12] Shortly after the title win, Deaner and Avery began feuding with The Flatliners (Asylum and Matt Burns) for the belts and defeated them in several matches throughout the rest of the year, before losing the tag championships to Flatliners at Genesis 11:25:07.^[13] The feud between the teams continued, until Deaner and Avery regained the titles from Flatliners in a steel cage tag team match at Game Over.^[12][14] They lost the titles to The Houses of Virtue (Andrew Davis and Sebastian Suave) at Random Acts of Violence.^[15] After losing the belts, Deaner and Avery continued to team up and challenged for the titles but failed in winning them, so they broke up their tag team and focused on singles competition.

In the fall of 2008, Deaner was put into a feud with the GCW National Champion Otis Idol over the belt, which culminated in a series of matches but Deaner failed to win it. Their feud ended after Idol lost the title. During this time, Deaner began appearing in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), but he still continues to wrestle for GCW. On July 12, 2009, Deaner defeated "Tenacious" Scotty Turner to win the TWA Heavyweight Championship.^[16] After his release from TNA, Deaner dropped his old redneck gimmick and dubbed himself "The Everyman".^[17] On April 25, 2010, Deaner lost the TWA Heavyweight Championship to former WWE Superstar Robbie MacAllister at TWA Wrestlelusion II.^[16]

World Wrestling Entertainment (2004)

His earliest WWE match to record was on November 22, 2004, where he wrestled for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) under the ring name Cody Steele in a dark match, where he would lose to Muhammad Hassan.^[18] Three days later, on November 25, he made a televised appearance on WWE's program, SmackDown! as a planted hometown hero against Kurt Angle in a match for Angle's Olympic gold medal. Angle defeated Steele to retain his medal.^[19]

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2009)

Deaner was signed to a contract by TNA in 2009. On February 12 edition of Impact!, TNA Knockout ODB cut a promo about letting "one lucky guy spend the night" with her and at Destination X, she chose Deaner as her date.^[20] Since then, Deaner has been serving as ODB's manager. On April 16 edition of Impact!, Deaner wrestled his first TNA match, a mixed tag team match with ODB against Abyss and Daffney. Abyss and Daffney won the match.^[21] Two weeks later on Impact!, Abyss defeated Deaner in Deaner's first singles match in TNA.^[22]

At Hard Justice, ODB and Deaner faced The Beautiful People (Angelina Love and Velvet Sky) in a tag team match where Love's TNA Women's Knockout Championship was on the line. Deaner pinned Sky to apparently make ODB the new champion, but afterwards began arguing with her over who the champion really was.^[23] On August 27 edition of Impact!, it was announced that at No Surrender, he would face ODB to determine the true Knockout Champion. On the September 10 edition of Impact! Deaner defeated Tara in an MMA rules match, after Awesome Kong hit Tara with the Implant Buster while Deaner was inadvertently distracting the referee. At No Surrender, ODB defeated Deaner to win the Knockout Championship.^[24] On November 5, he lost to Desmond Wolfe in just seconds.^[25] On December 20 at Final Resolution Deaner competed in what would turn out to be his last TNA match, a twelve man "Feast or Fired" match, in which he was unsuccessful in capturing any of the four briefcases.^[26] He was released from TNA on December 29, 2009.^[27]

In wrestling

Deaner executing the Giver Drop on an opponent

• Finishing moves
  • Giver Drop (Springboard backflip three-quarter facelock diving reverse DDT)^[28]
  • Mulletbutt (Diving headbutt)^[3][29]
  • Unemployment Line (Clothesline)^[1]

• Nicknames
  • "The (self-proclaimed) King of the Knockouts"^[30]
  • "The Everyman"^[17]
  • "Working Class Warrior"^[17]

• Entrance themes
  • "Pour Some Sugar on Me" by Def Leppard^[4] (Independent circuit)

Championships and accomplishments

• Great Canadian Wrestling
  • GCW Ontario Independent Championship (1 time)^[8][31]
  • GCW Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Hayden Avery^[12][31]

• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • PWI ranked him #168 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2009^[32]

• Pro Wrestling Xtreme
  • PWX Pro Division Championship (1 time, current)^[33]
  • PWX X Division Championship (1 time)^[34]
  • PWX Xtreme Championship (1 time)^[35]

• TWA Powerhouse
  • TWA Championship (1 time)^[16]
  • TWA Tag Team Championship (1 time, current) (w/ Derek Wylde)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} "Cody Deaner at Online World of Wrestling". http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/c/cody-deaner.html. Retrieved 2009-09-04. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Cagematch profile". http://cagematch.de/?id=2&nr=4230. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d} "BSE Profile". BSE Pro. http://www.bsepro.com/bio_deaner.html. Retrieved 2009-09-23. ^{[dead link]}
4. ^ ^{a b c} "PWX Profile". http://www.prowrestlingxtreme.com/deaner.html. 
5. ^ "GCW Results - June 26, 2005". Great Canadian Wrestling. http://www.canadianwrestlingexpo.com/events.php?eventno=050626. Retrieved 2009-09-04. 
6. ^ "Rage in the Cage Results". Great Canadian Wrestling. http://www.canadianwrestlingexpo.com/events.php?eventno=060309. Retrieved 2009-09-04. 
7. ^ "Stampede Showdown Results". Great Canadian Wrestling. http://www.canadianwrestlingexpo.com/events.php?eventno=061118. Retrieved 2009-09-04. 
8. ^ ^{a b} "GCW Ontario Independent Championship". Great Canadian Wrestling. http://www.canadianwrestlingexpo.com/roster.php?titleno=indy. Retrieved 2009-09-04. 
9. ^ "Ugandan Invasion Results". Great Canadian Wrestling. http://www.canadianwrestlingexpo.com/events.php?eventno=070323. Retrieved 2009-09-04. 
10. ^ "Veni! Vidi! Vici! Results". Great Canadian Wrestling. http://www.canadianwrestlingexpo.com/events.php?eventno=070413. Retrieved 2009-09-04. 
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14. ^ "Game Over Results". Great Canadian Wrestling. http://www.canadianwrestlingexpo.com/events.php?eventno=080410. Retrieved 2009-09-04. 
15. ^ "Random Acts of Violence Results". Great Canadian Wrestling. http://www.canadianwrestlingexpo.com/events.php?eventno=080613. Retrieved 2009-09-04. 
16. ^ ^{a b c} "TWA Heavyweight Championship Title History". TWA Powerhouse. http://www.twapowerhouse.com/twachampionship.html. Retrieved 2009-11-14. 
17. ^ ^{a b c} Martin, Adam. "Drastic new look for Cody Deaner". WrestleView. http://www.wrestleview.com/news2009/1266692068.php?style=dark. Retrieved 2010-02-20. 
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19. ^ "SmackDown - November 25, 2004 Results". Online World of Wrestling. http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/smackdown/041125.html. Retrieved 2009-09-04. 
20. ^ "Destination X 2009 Results". Online World of Wrestling. http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/tnappv/destinationx09/. Retrieved 2009-09-04. 
21. ^ "Impact - April 16, 2009 Results". Online World of Wrestling. http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/tnaimpact/_090416/. Retrieved 2009-09-04. 
22. ^ "Impact - April 30, 2009 Results". Online World of Wrestling. http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/tnaimpact/_090430/. Retrieved 2009-09-04. 
23. ^ "Hard Justice 2009 Results". Online World of Wrestling. http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/tnappv/hardjustice09/. Retrieved 2009-09-04. 
24. ^ Caldwell, James (2009-09-20). "CALDWELL'S TNA NO SURRENDER PPV REPORT 9/20: Ongoing "virtual time" coverage of Kurt Angle vs. Sting vs. Matt Morgan vs. A.J. Styles". PWTorch. http://pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/PPV_Reports_5/article_35493.shtml. Retrieved 2009-09-20. 
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27. ^ Martin, Adam (2009-12-29). "TNA pulls two wrestler profiles". WrestleView. http://www.wrestleview.com/news2009/1262119134.php?style=dark. Retrieved 2009-12-31. 
28. ^ "Cagematch profile". Cagematch. http://cagematch.de/?id=2&nr=4230. Retrieved 2009-09-10. 
29. ^ "Canadian Results (2008)". http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/canadian/_2008/. Retrieved 2010-01-19. 
30. ^ "KELLER'S TNA IMPACT REPORT 9/10: Homicide turns heel, Joe & Angle face Daniels & Styles, Morgan-Angle blow-up, two Knockout tag matches, Deaner goes MMA, Quotebook". PWTorch. http://www.pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/font_color_770000_KELLER_S_TAKE_font_11/article_35250.shtml. Retrieved 2009-09-23. 
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32. ^ Editors, PWI (August 2009). PWI 500. http://www.pwi-online.com. 
33. ^ "PWX Pro Division Championship history". http://www.prowrestlingxtreme.com/protitlehistory.html. 
34. ^ "PWX X Division Championship history". http://www.prowrestlingxtreme.com/xtitlehistory.html. 
35. ^ "PWX Xtreme Championship history". http://www.prowrestlingxtreme.com/xtremetitlehistory.html. 

External links

• Cody Deaner at Online World of Wrestling

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Name	Deaner, Cody
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Date of birth	May 16, 1981
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