- 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 inWorld 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 andPuerto Rico 'sWorld 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 withTodd Champion as "The Patriots". They had the gimmick of being two soldiers that had returned fromDesert Storm and were billed as being from "WCW Special Forces". They feuded with theFabulous Freebirds and won the United States Tag Team Titles. They next feuded withSteve Armstrong andTracy 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 forSmoky 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 FieldsChampionships and accomplishments
*
International World Class Championship Wrestling :*IWCCW Television Championship (1 time) (Last)*National Championship Wrestling:*NCW United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time) (First)
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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) - withTodd 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 byJim Crockett, Jr. . That promotion was sold toTed Turner in November 1988 and was renamedWorld Championship Wrestling .External links
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