Kevin Steen

Infobox Wrestler
name=Kevin Steen


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Super Dragon II
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birth_place=Marieville, Quebec
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trainer= Jacques Rougeau
Pierre Carl Ouellet
debut=1999
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Kevin Steen is a Canadian professional wrestler. He was trained by Pierre Carl Ouellet and Jacques Rougeau in Canada, and is currently more well known in the United States for his appearances in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, Ring of Honor where he currently holds the ROH World Tag Team Championship with El Generico, and formerly in Combat Zone Wrestling.

Career

Combat Zone Wrestling (2004–2006, 2008)

Kevin Steen made his Combat Zone Wrestling debut on September 11th, 2004 at an event called High Stakes. He lost in a fatal four way match featuring El Generico, Excess, and SeXXXy Eddy, the latter of which was victorious in that match. He continued to make appearances with CZW and soon began teaming with El Generico against Super Dragon and Excalibur.

On May 14th, 2005, Steen took part in the "CZW Best of the Best tournament" and he advanced to the finals after defeating Kenny The Bastard in the first round and Chris Hero in the second round. However, he was unable to clench the trophy as he lost in the finals, which was a fatal four way match involving B-Boy, Super Dragon, and Mike Quackenbush. Quackenbush won the match.

A few months later in August, Steen won his first (and thus far only) championship in CZW. He pinned Franky The Mobster to win the CZW Iron Man Championship. He went on to defend the championship in individual matches against Nate Webb, El Generico, Chris Sabin, and Super Dragon. He also defended it in a match involving Necro Butcher, D.J. Hyde, B.J. Whitmer, and The Messiah.

In a cage match held at "CZW Trapped" involving The Canadians, The Blackout, The Forefathers of CZW, and Eddie Kingston, Steen lost his Ironman Title to fellow Canadian wrestler LuFisto. He lost the championship one day shy of having a year long reign. He then departed for a tour with Dragon Gate, and didn't return to CZW until February 2008 when he one–time appearance and fought Vordell Walker to a no–contest.

Pro Wrestling Guerilla (2005–Current)

While wrestling in CZW, Steen also began competing for Pro Wrestling Guerilla. On August 6, 2005, Steen won the PWG Championship after defeating A.J. Styles at "Zombies Shouldn't Run". Steen would hold the title for nearly four months before losing the championship to Joey Ryan at "Chanukah Chaos (The C's are Silent)". After the title loss, Steen became the last person to become PWG Champion after Ryan defended the title overseas at PWG's "European Vacation" tour of England and Germany in February 2006, thus renaming the title the PWG World Championship.

In 2006, Steen began teaming with El Generico and they began to pursue the PWG World Tag Team Championships. On July 29, 2007, at "Giant Size Annual #4", Steen and Generico defeated then–reigning champions PAC and Roderick Strong to become the PWG World Tag Team Champions. They would successfully defend the belts for almost three months before ultimately losing them to the team of Davey Richards and Super Dragon on October 27 in England as part of PWG's "European Vacation II" tour. The next night, Steen teamed with PAC in an attempt to regain the belts from Dragon and Richards, announcing before the match that if he lost, he'd leave the company indefinitely. Steen and PAC lost, leading to Steen leaving PWG.

However, Steen returned to PWG and, along with El Generico, won the titles for a second time, this time from The Dynasty (Joey Ryan and Scott Lost) on March 21, 2008 in an impromptu match. Stenn and Generico became the first team in PWG history to be a part of the annual "Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament" to defend the belts in each match they had. In the tournament finals, they lost the titles to Jack Evans and Roderick Strong, thus ending their second reign.

Ring of Honor (2007–Current)

On February 17, 2007, both Steen and Generico debuted in Ring of Honor with Steen being a heel and Generico being a face, losing to the Briscoe Brothers in a highly rated match. Both have since found a great deal of popularity and success. On April 14, Mark Briscoe returned in the middle of a match between Steen and Generico and his brother Jay and Erick Stevens. However, Mark was beaten up by the duo and was pinned by Steen after a Package Piledriver. On May 11, Steen (as a heel) and Generico (as a face) defeated Jason Blade and Eddie Edwards. At "Respect is Earned", Steen and El Generico defeated Irish Airborne (Jake Crist and Dave Crist), Pelle Primeau and Mitch Franklin, and Jimmy Rave and Adam Pearce with Shane Hagadorn in a Tag Team Scramble dark match. That same night, Steen and El Generico brawled with the Briscoe Brothers, ending with Mark Briscoe suffering a mild concussion from a steel chair shot. At "Driven", the Briscoe Brothers defeated Steen and El Generico to retain the ROH World Tag Team Championships. Steen and Generico then suffered three consectutive losses to the Briscoes at "Caged Rage" in a Steel Cage match, "Manhattan Mayhem II" in a two out of three falls match, and "Man Up" in a ladder match. Their only tag team win over the Briscoes would be at "Death Before Dishonor V Night 1" in a non–title Boston Street Fight.

On June 6, 2008, Steen and Generico participated in a one night tournament to crown new ROH World Tag Team Champions. They defeated Go Shiozaki and ROH World Champion Nigel McGuiness in the first round and Chris Hero and Adam Pearce in the second round before losing to Jimmy Jacobs and Tyler Black in the finals.

On June 27 in Dayton, Ohio, Steen and Generico defeated The Age of the Fall's Tyler Black and Joey Matthews when Steen pinned Matthews following the Package Piledriver. The next day in Chicago Ridge, Illinois, Steen and Generico were defeated by AOTF members Black and Necro Butcher when Butcher pinned Steen following a roll up and a chair shot to the face from Black.

On July 25th, Steen faced off against ROH World Champion Nigel McGuinness in a title match for the company's debut show in Toronto, Ontario, Canada but lost the match.

At the PPV taping in Boston on September 19, Steen and Generico beat The Age of the Fall to finally win the tag team titles. This also fulfilled Steen's promise of winning a title in ROH before the 11/21 Dayton show.

In Wrestling

*Finishing and signature moves
**Package piledriver
**Sharpshooter
**"Steenalizer" (Throwing package powerbomb)
**"Go Home Driver" (Scoop lift spun into an over the shoulder belly to back piledriver)
**"Steen Breaker" (Head and arm suplex flipped and dropped into a side slam backbreaker)
**Pumphandle half nelson driver, sometimes onto the knee
**450° splash
**Moonsault
**Split–legged moonsault
**Senton bomb
**Standing somersault leg drop
**Superkick
**Running senton
**Standing double foot stomp
**Slingshot reverse STO
**Somersault plancha
**Death Valley driver
**Frog splash
**Sitout scoop slam piledriver
**Leg hook brainbuster

*Nicknames
**"Mr. Wrestling"

*Entrance themes
**"Tear Away" by Drowning Pool
**"Now You're A Man" from Orgazmo by DVDA

Championships and accomplishments

*Combat Zone Wrestling
**CZW Iron Man Championship (1 time)

*Elite Wrestling Revolution
**EWR Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
**2005 Elite 8 tournament winner

*International Wrestling Syndicate
**IWS Canadian Championship (1 time, current)
**IWS Heavyweight Championship (3 times, current) [cite web|url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/other/2004-06.html | title=Independent Wrestling Results - June 2004 | accessdate=2008-07-05|publisher=onlineworldofwrestling.com]

*Pro Wrestling Guerrilla
**PWG Championship (1 time) [citeweb|url=http://www.solie.org/titlehistories/htpwg.html|accessdate=2008-07-27|last=Westcott|first=Brian|title=PWG - PRO WRESTLING GUERRILLA PWG HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE HISTORY|publisher=Solie]
**PWG World Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with El Generico

*Ring of Honor
**ROH World Tag Team Championship (1 time, current) with El Generico

Personal life

He and his wife, Karina, welcomed their first child, a son named Owen, to their family in early December 2007. Recently, his six month old son recorded his first pro wrestling victory by pinning Excalibur at the end of "DDT 4 Night One". Steen delivered three package piledrivers in a row and then placed his infant son on top of Excalibur and a three count was made.

Notes

External links

* [http://grapplelist.b1.jcink.com./index.php?showtopic=41&st=0&#entry77 Grapple List: Kevin Steen Profile]
* [http://www.beyondthebarn.org/steen/main.php The Website of "Mr. Wrestling" Kevin Steen]
* [http://www.myspace.com/guerrillasteen The MySpace Profile of "Mr. Wrestling" Kevin Steen]
* [http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/k/kevin-steen.html Kevin Steen at OWW.com]
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