Roadkill (wrestler)

Roadkill
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Amish Roadkill Roadkill Braddock
Billed height	6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Billed weight	303 lb (137 kg)
Billed from	Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Trained by	Perry Saturn, Tazz, Mikey Whipwreck
Debut	October 18, 1996

Michael Depoli is a professional wrestler who started with Extreme Championship Wrestling. He now works for World Wrestling Entertainment in its Ohio Valley Wrestling developmental territory as Braddock. He is best known as Roadkill, where his wrestling gear was traditional Amish dress and he was billed as being from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, an area of large Amish population.

Career

Roadkill was trained by Taz and Mikey Whipwreck at the ECW House of Hardcore in 1996. Once his training was complete, he joined the ECW roster, and had his first professional match on October 18, 1996 in LuLu Temple in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania against Taz.

In December 1997, Roadkill formed an unlikely tag team with his fellow House of Hardcore graduate, Danny Doring. They were managed by Miss Congeniality until she left ECW in 1999 to join the World Wrestling Federation, and then by Elektra until she turned on them in 2000.

Doring and Roadkill quickly embarked on a two year long feud with Nova and Chris Chetti. This was followed by a series of feuds with the Impact Players (Lance Storm and Justin Credible), Simon Diamond and Johnny Swinger, Joey Matthews and Christian York and then Tommy Dreamer and Raven. The team won the ECW World Tag Team Championships on December 3, 2000, at the Massacre on 34^th Street pay-per-view, defeating Tony Mamaluke and Little Guido. They held the titles until ECW declared bankruptcy in March 2001.

After leaving ECW, Doring and Roadkill made appearances with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, and wrestled dark matches for World Wrestling Entertainment.

Roadkill appeared at the WWE promoted ECW reunion show, ECW One Night Stand 2005 on June 12, 2005. He signed a contract with WWE and was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling facing (and defeating) Johnny Jeter of the Spirit Squad. After the match, Roadkill was assaulted by the rest of the Spirit Squad. Roadkill would continue his work with OVW, even winning the promotion's tag titles with Kasey James.

On the June 13 edition of ECW, Roadkill took part in the first ever hardcore battle royal, being eliminated by Big Show. Two weeks later, he faced Sabu in an Extreme Rules Match in which he lost by tapping out to the Camel clutch.

In wrestling

• Finishing and signature moves

• Amish Bomb (Powerbomb)
• Amish Splash (Top rope splash)
• Dirt Road Slam (Spinning sidewalk slam)
• Barn Burner (Fireman's carry into cutter)
• Diving elbow drop

• With Danny Doring

• Buggy Bang (Wheelbarrow hold / top rope leg drop combination)
• Lancaster Lariat of Lust (Bearhug / lariat combination)

• Managers

• Miss Congenality
• Elektra
• Michelle McCool

Championships and accomplishments

• Extreme Championship Wrestling

• ECW Tag-Team Championship (1 time) - with Danny Doring

• Ohio Valley Wrestling

• OVW Southern Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Kasey James

• Other Titles

• 3PW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

References

• AmishRoadkill.com - Official website.