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Cody Deaner
Born (1981-05-16) May 16, 1981 (age 43)
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Cody Deaner
Cody Steele[1]
Billed height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[1]
Billed weight220 lb (100 kg)[1]
Billed fromOntario
Muscle Shoals, Alabama
Debut2004

Chris Gray (born May 16, 1981) is an American professional wrestler, who is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Cody Deaner.

Career

Debut - January 24, 2000. Cody Deaner was trained by "Dangerboy" Derek Wylde. Cody Deaner made his professional wrestling debut for the now defunct HWF (Hardcore Wrestling Federation) in 2000 under the ring name Cody Steele. He wrestled under the name "Completely" Cody Steele for 5 years and 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 monicker (including an appearance on WWE Smackdown), and was later also given tryout matches with the WWE with his new "trailer-park redneck" gimmick, Cody Deaner.[2]

In February of 2009, Cody Deaner made his first appearance for TNA, winning the "One Night with ODB" contest.

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 Mohammad Hassan.[3] 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 medals.[4]

Independent Wrestling (2000-present)

Cody Deaner 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, Empire State Wrestling, NWA-Upstate, AWA-Ontario, Twins Wrestling Entertainment, Classic Championship Wrestling, WAR Wrestling, and Prime Time Wrestling.

In 2005, Gray 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 Indepedent 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.[14][12] 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.

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2009-present)

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.[16] 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.[17] Two weeks later on Impact!, Abyss defeated Deaner in Deaner's first singles match in TNA.[18]

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 has since been arguing with her over who the champion really is.[19] On August 27 edition of Impact!, it was announced that at No Surrender he will face ODB to determine the true Knockout Champion.

In wrestling

  • Finishing moves

Championships and accomplishments

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Cody Deaner at Online World of Wrestling". Retrieved 2009-09-04.
  2. ^ Corey David Lacroix. "The WWE tryout experience > Wrestlers strive to fulfill a dream with WWE".
  3. ^ "RAW - November 22, 2004 Results". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-09-04.
  4. ^ "SmackDown - November 25, 2004 Results". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-09-04.
  5. ^ "GCW Results - June 26, 2005". Great Canadian Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-09-04.
  6. ^ "Rage in the Cage Results". Great Canadian Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-09-04.
  7. ^ "Stampede Showdown Results". Great Canadian Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-09-04.
  8. ^ a b "GCW Ontario Independent Championship". Great Canadian Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-09-04.
  9. ^ "Ugandan Invasion Results". Great Canadian Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-09-04.
  10. ^ "Veni! Vidi! Vici! Results". Great Canadian Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-09-04.
  11. ^ "Beyond the Limit Results". Great Canadian Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-09-04.
  12. ^ a b c "GCW Tag Team Championship". Great Canadian Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-09-04.
  13. ^ "Genesis 11:25:07 Results". Great Canadian Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-09-04.
  14. ^ "Game Over Results". Great Canadian Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-09-04.
  15. ^ "Random Acts of Violence Results". Great Canadian Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-09-04.
  16. ^ "Destination X 2009 Results". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-09-04.
  17. ^ "Impact - April 16, 2009 Results". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-09-04.
  18. ^ "Impact - April 30, 2009 Results". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-09-04.
  19. ^ "Hard Justice 2009 Results". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-09-04.
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