Ron Hutchinson

Infobox Wrestler
name=Ron Hutchinson

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names="Wonderboy" Ron Hutchinson
Pretty Boy Hutchison
Masked Thunderbolt
height=5 ft. 10 in. (178 cm)
weight=235 lb. (107 kg)
birth_date=birth date and age|1964|2|7
death_date=
birth_place=Toronto, Ontario, Canada
death_place=
resides=Toronto, Ontario
billed=
trainer=Sweet Daddy Siki
Johnny Powers
debut=June 5 1983
(w/ Danny Little Wolf) vs. Teddy Marshall & Joey War Eagle
retired=1990
website= [http://angelfire.com/biz/wrestlingschool/ Sully's Gym] (official website) |

Ron Hutchinson is a retired Canadian professional wrestler, trainer and promoter who competed for Canadian independent promotions such as Grand Prix Wrestling and Maple Leaf Wrestling as well as a brief stint in the World Wrestling Federation during the mid-1980s. He is also the promoter of the Toronto-based Apocalypse Wrestling Federation [ cite web |url=http://web.archive.org/web/20040413234705/http://www.awf.ca/contact.html |title=Contact the AWF |accessdate= |date=2005-12-25 |publisher=AWF.ca |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20040413234705/http://www.awf.ca/contact.html |archivedate=2004-04-13 ] and the head trainer of Carmen Electra's Naked Women's Wrestling League. [ cite web |url=http://www.josiannethepussycat.com/magazinesAFart2.htm |title=Naked Wrestlers Baring Secrets |accessdate=2007-09-16 |author=Giron, Sephera|date=2006-09-02|publisher=JosianneThePussycat.com ]

The owner of the Ron Hutchinson Wrestling Academy at Sully's Gym [Race, Harley, Ricky Steamboat and Les Thatcher. "The Professional Wrestlers' Workout & Instructional Guide". Champaigne, Illinois: Sports Publishing LLC, 2005. (pg. 6) ISBN 1-58261-947-6] and co-owner of Sweet Daddy Siki and Ron Hutchinson's School of Wrestling, he is also credited as one of the leading trainers of professional wrestlers in Canada whose students include Edge, [ Adam Copeland. "Adam Copeland On Edge". New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. ISBN 1416505237 ] Christian Cage, Trish Stratus, Gail Kim, [ cite web |url=http://mvn.com/wrestling/2007/04/12/the-alternatives-to-wwe/ |title=The Alternatives to WWE |accessdate=2007-09-16 |author=Whittle, Zip |date=2007-04-12 |publisher=Inside Wrestling Weekly ] Traci Brooks, Tiger Ali Singh, Johnny Swinger, Mad Dog Rex, Joe E. Legend, cite web |url=http://slam.canoe.ca/SlamWrestlingBios/hutchison.html |title=SLAM! Wrestling Canadian Hall of Fame: Ron Hutchinson |accessdate=|date=2005-12-25 |publisher=SLAM! Wrestling ] The Original Sinn [ cite web |url=http://www.theoriginalsinn.com/sinn.html |title=Biography - Nick Cvjetkovich: The Original Sinn |accessdate=2007-09-16 |author=Sinnful, Nick |date=2003-09-03 |publisher=theorginalsinn.com ] and Asylum. [ cite web |url=http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2003/09/04/176157.html |title=Asylum: Ready to rumble |accessdate=2007-09-16 |author=Altamura, Mike |date=2003-09-03 |publisher=SLAM! Wrestling ]

Career

Early life and career

Born in Toronto, Hutchinson became interested in professional wrestling at a young age watching The Shiek and Dewey Robertson. In 1981, while still attending Northern Secondary high school, the 17-year-old Hutchinson began training with Sweet Daddy Siki and Johnny Powers at Sully's Gym.

Training part-time for two years, he would wrestle his first professional match with Danny Little Wolf defeating Teddy Marshall & Joey War Eagle at Scarboro Arena Gardens on June 5, 1983 and began wrestling for promoter "Bearman" Dave McKigney soon after his debut.

He would also wrestle for the WWF around Southern Ontario during the mid 1980s appearing in a televised match against the Iron Sheik on the WWF's Black Saturday cards and regularly appeared on televised matches for Maple Leaf Wrestling in Brantford, Ontario. He would later face Jake "The Snake" Roberts on April 26 and Dory Funk, Jr. on May 10 while the WWF toured Ontario in 1986.

Grand Prix Wrestling

During the summer season, he also toured with Maritime-based Grand Prix Wrestling as well as National Wrestling Alliance-affiliated territories in the Montreal and southern Ontario-area with Pro Wrestling Canada. For over three years, he would face wrestlers including Masahiro Chono, Mr. Pogo, "Killer" Karl Krupp, Jos Leduc, Frenchy Martin and Leo Burke during his time in the Maritime provinces. He would also wrestle midget star Sky Low Low and "Monster Ripper" Rhonda Singh in mixed tag team matches as well.

After touring Quebec with Leo Burke's International Wrestling promotion during 1986 and 1987, he returned to Grand Prix Wrestling as the masked wrestler The Intelligent and the Sensational Masked Thunderbolt as a member of "Bulldog" Bob Brown stable Bulldog's Army feuding with Leo Burke, "Rotten" Ron Starr, The Great Malumba, Stephen Petitpas, Vinnie Valentino, Cuban Assassin, Sunny War Cloud and Buddy Lane for over two years.

Retirement

The same year he made his wrestling debut, he began attending Ryerson Polytechnical Institute studying journalism and continued wrestling part-time during the semester, and full-time during the summer. When Johnny Powers left Sully's Gym, he was offered a position as an instructor by Siki who was impressed by his knowledge of amateur wrestling. After retiring in 1990, he remained at Sully's Gym after Siki left in 1994. Later opening a wrestling school with Siki, he would train many of Canada's top independent wrestlers throughout the 1990s, many of whom would later compete in the WWF and NWA: TNA.

In September 1997, Hutchinson would appear on a wrestling event promoted by Tiger Jeet Singh in Middlesex, England with over 10,000 in attendance and later aired on PPV in India. During that year, he would also appear with WWF Canada President Carl DeMarco on CBC TV's teen talk show "Jonovision" as well as a second appearance in September 1998 along with two students, Tiger Ali Singh and Jason Sensation.

Apocalypse Wrestling Federation

In August 1998, in association with his wrestling school, Hutchinson established the Apocalypse Wrestling Federation which began holding events in the Toronto-area with its first show on August 30, 1998. During the next year, Missy Hyatt would make her Canadian debut appearing at the supercard "A Valentine to Remember" on February 14 winning the AWF Heavyweight Championship in a mixed tag team match with Miss B. Haven against Sherri Martel and the Squeegee Kid during the event. [ cite web |url=http://www.solie.org/titlehistories/whawfp2.html |title=AWF World Heavyweight History |accessdate=2007-09-16 |author=Westcott, Brian |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year=2003 |month= |format= |work= |publisher=Solie's Ttile Histories |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] This would be the first wrestling event in which a woman would hold a men's wrestling title. [ cite web |url=http://www.canoe.ca/SlamWrestlingBiosH/hyatt_missy_dec01-can.html |title=Book, website, school important to Missy |accessdate= |author=Waldman, Jon |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=2001-12-11 |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=SLAM! Wrestling |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ]

During that same year, he would also promote Terry Funk's Canadian retirement match "One Last Dance" in which Funk would defeat Sabu on June 6, 1999. The following month, he would begin promoting the annual AWF Ironman Tournament in which over 100 matches would be booked in an 18-day period. The tournament, which would be held for the next four years, would feature matches from top Canadian independent wrestlers and, in 2002, the Canadian debuts of Jillian Hall, Beth Phoenix and Japanese female wrestler Sumie Sakai.

Recent years

In early 2003, he and AWF Promotions President Rod Boudreau issued a public statement announcing the purchase of the historical Newsboys boxing gym in Toronto's east end and reopening the training center as the Pro Wrestling Training Gym. [ cite web |url=http://www.wrestlingtraining.com/new_gym.html |title=Ron Hutchinson's Pro Wrestling Gym: Hutchison's Wrestling School Takes Over The Legendary Newsboys Gym and The History Continues! |accessdate=2007-09-16 |author=Boudreau, Rod |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=2006-02-10 |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=WrestlingTraining.com |pages= |language= |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20030306002025/http://www.wrestlingtraining.com/new_gym.html |archivedate=2003-04-06 |quote= ] In April of that year, he traveled to Tokyo, Japan to organize GAEA Japan's 8th Anniversary show at the Yokohama Bunka Gym with promoter Chigusa Nagayo.

He would later co-promote Carmen Electra's female wrestling promotion, the Naked Women's Wrestling League, serving as the promotion's head trainer and consultant in October 2003. As recently as 2005, he began training former reality TV star Mandy Weaver for a career in the promotion. [ cite web |url=http://www.josiannethepussycat.com/magazinesmandy1.htm |title=Interview with Mandy Weaver |accessdate=2007-09-16 |author=Gerweck, Steve |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=2006-02-10 |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=JosianneThePussycat.com |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ]

In October 2007, Hutchinson took part in a three-city tour of India with Tiger Jeet Singh's Universal Wrestling Stars, Incorporated and included American independent wrestlers Sonjay Dutt, Steve Corino, Jerry Lynn, Don Paysan as well as Canadian female wrestlers Kacey Diamond, Josianne the Pussycat and Portia Perez.

While in Ludhiana, Punjab, Hutchinson was involved in an incident in which Russian wrestler Jason the Legend of Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE attempted to assault several Indian reporters during a press conference when the wrestlers were apparently told their tour was to be postponed. Throwing a table across the room, Jason had attempted to assault the reporters before being restrained by several wrestlers present. Although there were no reports of anyone injured, the Senior Superintendent of Police had reported that the wrestler's passports had been seized pending a police investigation. The incident would also be shown on Indian television such as "Day Break" as well as being covered by the Daily India and The Times of India. [ cite web |url=http://www.411mania.com/wrestling/columns/62311 |title=The Custom Made News Report 10.28.07 |accessdate=2007-09-16 |author=Byers, Ryan |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=2007-10-28 |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=411mania.com |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ]

In wrestling

*Finishing and signature moves
**"Double leg grapevine"
**"Olympic roll-up"
**O'Connor Roll
**Crossface chickenwing
**Outside Top wristlock
**"The Kiwi Roll"

Championships and accomplishments

*Big Time Wrestling
**Canadian Heavyweight Championship (1 time) [cite book | author=Royal Duncan & Gary Will | title=Wrestling Title Histories | publisher=Archeus Communications | year=4th Edition 2000 | id=ISBN 0-9698161-5-4 ]
*Wrestling Superstars
**Canadian Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

Further reading

*Oliver, Greg. "The Pro-Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Canadians". Toronto: ECW Press, 2003.

References

External links

* [http://obsessedwithwrestling.com/profiles/r/ron-hutchison.php Profile at Online World of Wrestling]