Hangman Hughes

Born	(1974-11-07) November 7, 1974 Stratford, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Website	KowboyMikeHughes.com
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Hangman Hughes "Kowboy" Mike Hughes
Billed height	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Billed weight
Debut	1999

Mike Hughes is an Canadian professional wrestler who has competed on the North American independent promotions throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s as a mainstay of Real Action Wrestling as part of the heel stable the "Kardinal Sinners" which includes "The Natural" Bobby Rude, Kingman and the Acadian Giant. He is presently wrestling in the International Wrestling Association.

Early career

Born in Stratford, Prince Edward Island, Hughes met Edge, Christian and Glen Kulka at a local gym while touring Canandian independent promotions during the late 1990s. After expressing interest in a professional career, the three encouraged him and Kulka suggested contacting promoter Emile Dupre to begin training.

During 1998, Hughes began training under "Handsome" Hubert Gallant among other wrestlers in Dupre's Grand Prix promotion in Shediac, New Brunswick (he would later befriend fellow student Kingman, both of whom would eventually become charter members of Kardinal Sinners two years later).

Real Action Wrestling

Making his debut in Grand Prix Wrestling in 1999 later touring with Leo Burke and The Beast, he traveled to the United States for a brief stint in EWA before returning to the Maritime territory and establishing Real Action Wrestling with promoter Skot Gallant that same year. Although planning to tour Puerto Rico, he was convinced by Gallant to jump to RAW and help promote the promotion resulting in Grand Prix promoter Emile Dupre blacklisting Hughes from the promotion and the Maritime territory.

After the promotion was sold to Warren Olsen in 2000, Hughes stayed with the promotion and eventually won the promotion's heavyweight championship. During the next two years, he and the heel stable "Kardinal Sinners" including "The Natural" Bobby Rude, Kingman and the Acadian Giant dominated the promotion until its close in 2001.

Recent years

After competing on the independent circuit for a time, he began wrestling semi-regularly for the British promotion All-Star Wrestling in January 2002. He would later be brought into the Puerto Rican-based International Wrestling Association by Luke Williams in early 2004 facing many of the top stars in the promotion including Apollo and Ricky Banderas and eventually won the promotion's Hardcore title.

Championships and accomplishments

• Real Action Wrestling

• RAW Heavyweight Championship (1 times)

• International Wrestling Association

• IWA Hardcore Championship (1 time)

External links

• SLAM! Wrestling: Kowboy Hughes happy on the range by Jeff White
• SLAM! Wrestling: Hangman Hughes terrorizes Puerto Rico by Cory David LaCroix
• Profile at OWW