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Rick O'Shea

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Rick O'Shea is an American professional wrestler currently working for the Universal Wrestling Federation as a heel, where he is the current Heritage Champion.  He is also known for is work with the Impact Wrestling Federation, the World Wrestling eFederation, and the United Federations Alliance.  He is most known for his work as a face as part of the MRC faction in WWeF/UFA, where he won 3 tag team championships.  He is a former kickboxer and MMA fighter.  Aside from being trained by his good friend Doug Johnston, O'Shea also learned a few tricks from Matt Hardy and 'The Iceman' Dean James.

Rick O'Shea
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Real name Rick O'Shea
Ring Names Rick O'Shea
Rick O. Shea
"Ruthless" Rick O'Shea
"The Spotlight Stealer" Rick O'Shea
Height 6'1"
Weight 250 lbs.
Date of birth {{{birth_date}}}
Place of birth Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Date of death {{{death_date}}}
Place of death {{{death_place}}}
Resides Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Billed from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (IWF/UWF)
Secaucus, New Jersey (WWeF/UFA)
Trainer Doug Johnston
Matt Hardy
Dean James
Current
federation(s) 		Universal Wrestling Federation
Previous
federation(s) 		Impact Wrestling Federation
World Wrestling eFederation
United Federations Alliance
Handled by DW
Win/Loss Record 2-6-0 (UWF)
1-0-0 (EWC)
Debut {{{debut}}}
Retired {{{retired}}}

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[edit] Background

Rick O'Shea was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvainia, but was raised in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.  O’Shea played college football for Pittsburgh as an inside linebacker. His brothers are featured in the film Little Giants. He was a kickboxer before becoming a professional wrestler. He left pro wrestling abruptly in September 2008 for MMA, but he was injured in his first fight. He has fully recovered and is back in pro wrestling.

[edit] Impact Wrestling Federation (2007-2008)

Rick O'Shea joined his first major wrestling company, the Impact Wrestling Federation, in July 2007.  This was towards the end of season two, so O'Shea got very limited exposure as a heel.  Between seasons two and three, O'Shea experimented with turning face and adding "Ruthless" to his name, and the latter of the two was dropped as season three started.  O'Shea got his big break in the IWF  Undisputed Championship tournament, where he made it to the semifinals and solidified his roster spot.  After feuds with Colin White and Safaja, O'Shea got a spot in a feud for the IWF Intercontinental Championship with CMS.  O'Shea went through many challenges to which he had to trust CMS, but the feud ended up in a double turn when O'Shea revealed he had attacked CMS months earlier.  O'Shea ended up losing the title match.  It was around this time that O'Shea started going by "The Spotlight Stealer" and named his finishing move "The Stolen Spotlight."  He was soon entered into a feud with the returning Mike Miller, who made some insulting remarks regarding O'Shea's recent change of heart.  This feud featured O'Shea completely degrading IWF interviewer Carl Long and using his trainer Doug Johnston in interviews at "O'Shea Studios" (which was really Doug's gym).  Eventually, O'Shea left pro wrestling altogether to pursue a career in mixed martial arts.

[edit] World Wrestling eFederation (2007-2008)

[edit] First Tag Championship Reign

Rick O'Shea entered WWeF on interesting circumstances.  When WWeF started, one of its primary factions was "The Unlikely Trio" of Edge, Matt Hardy, and Christy Hemme.  Edge and Matt Hardy became the first WWeF World Tag Team Champions on the second edition of Evolution.  After a while, Edge had missed numerous shows and was deemed inactive.  Matt Hardy sought Rick O'Shea as his new tag team partner, as IWF was between seasons.  The day O'Shea was signed he was deemed a tag champion.  Soon after, Edge returned and instead of rejoining Hardy and Hemme, he joined with Chris Jericho to form "Rated Y2J".  A four-way match was scheduled for the next Evolution where Matt Hardy defended the tag titles against JD Nitro of the NU Wave, Chris Sabin of the Motor City Machine Guns, and Edge of Rated Y2J.  JD Nitro won the match and the NU Wave were Tag Champions.  Note that this all happened before Rick O'Shea could step foot into a WWeF ring.

[edit] MRC

After that, it was shown that Rick O'Shea would stick with Matt Hardy and Christy Hemme and form a faction known as MRC (Matt, Rick, Christy).  MRC worked their way up the ranks, battling through teams like the NU Wave (JD Nitro and Dean James), the Evolved Horsemen (Ric Flair, Triple H, CW Anderson, and Dean Malenko), Christian and Chris Jericho, and Tommy Dreamer and The Sandman.  Eventually, MRC would win an 8-team turmoil match and win their second WWeF World Tag Team Championship (Hardy's third).  It was around this time where a relationship was hinted at between Rick and Christy, but nothing seemed to come of that. MRC was on the Evolution side of the WWeF brand war against Shotgun.  This war eventually led to the shows merging to create Underground and the company changing its name to "United Federations Alliance".

[edit] United Federations Alliance (2008)

MRC entered the UFA as the UFA Undisputed Tag Team Champions as they left WWeF as WWeF World Tag Team Champions.  They lost the titles to the Un-Americanz (Dean James and Xavier Reigns).  After this, little was heard from MRC as they quietly left the UFA.

[edit] Universal Wrestling Federation (2009-Present)

When Rick O'Shea was looking for a reboot to his professional wrestling career, he found trust in his old friend from WWeF/UFA, 'The Iceman' Dean James.  Dean James signed him a month before O'Shea was medically cleared to compete and placed him directly on the premiere show, Underground, as a heel in James' Termination X faction, which also included Tommy Vice.  Soon after, the faction was broken up as James completed a face turn in his feud with Jason Creed, and Vice also turned face, and O'Shea was put in a feud with Shaker Jones.  The feud started with O'Shea's Underground debut, where he stated that he would be a future UWF World Champion, but lost a singles match to Shaker.  The next week it was Shaker Jones and Mike Lindemann defeating Rick O'Shea and Danny Stone in a tag team match where Stone got disqualified.  At Mid-Year Massacre, Rick O'Shea teamed with Adam Militia to defeat Shaker Jones and Def Sevenfold.  Then in a rematch of sorts, Jones and Sevenfold teamed with Militia's rival Bailey Almindo to defeat O'Shea, Militia, and Militia's new tag team partner Nick Hunter.  With Jones and Sevenfold entering the tag team division, and Militia and Hunter fueding with Almindo, O'Shea was out of a storyline until an episode of Tommy Vice's talk show "The Vice Versa" featured on Underground.  O'Shea bashed the show and then challenged Vice to a match at Summer Bash for his newly-won Heritage Championship to which Vice accepted, and then was slammed through his glass table.  However, O'Shea ended up losing a close match.  The next week, O'Shea was again the guest on "The Vice Versa".  This time Vice had the verbal assault where he trashed O'Shea's failed MMA career.  O'Shea then challenged Vice to an MMA match at No Remorse for the Heritage Championship to which Vice accepted.  O'Shea won, and this marked his first singles title victory (when not counting 24/7 championships).  For the next Underground, he is scheduled to team with Sean Mendez to face Tommy Vice and Johnny Sanchez.

[edit] Extreme Wrestling Corporation (2009-Present)

Rick O'Shea has entered the EWC King of the Cage tournament as a representative of the UWF.  He won his first round match against the EWC's John Green.  He is scheduled to face Jordan Post of XPW and PWO in the Sweet Sixteen (round 2) on November 22nd.

[edit] MMA Career

[edit] In Wrestling

  • Finishing Moves
  • Olympic Slam / The Stolen Spotlight (IWF)
  • O'Shea Can You See (Crossface)
  • Signature Moves
  • Running Big Boot
  • Pittsburgh Crab (Boston Crab)
  • Belly-to-Belly Suplex
  • Full Nelson Slam
  • DDT
  • Roundhouse Kick
  • Double Powerbomb
  • Ten Punch (in corner)
  • Air O'Shea (Centon Bomb)
  • Diving Cross Body (while opponent is standing)
  • Running STO
  • Bow-and-Arrow Submission
  • Russian Leg Sweep
  • Managers
    • Matt Hardy
    • Christy Hemme
    • CMS
    • Dean James
  • Wrestlers Managed
    • Matt Hardy
    • Christy Hemme
  • With MRC
    • Finishing moves
      • Twist of Fate by Hardy or Hemme followed by an Air O'Shea by O'Shea
      • Olympic Slam by O'Shea followed by a leg drop by Hardy
  • Catchphrases
  • I was born ready!
  • Your spotlight is about to get stolen!
  • Nicknames
  • "Ruthless" Rick O'Shea (IWF)
  • "The Spotlight Stealer" Rick O'Shea (IWF)
  • Entrance Music
  • "I'm Comin'" - Silkk The Shocker (IWF/WWeF/UFA/UWF)
  • "Live for the Moment" - Monster Magnet (as part of MRC in WWeF/UFA)
  • "Fuel" - Metallica (current)

[edit] Championships and Accomplishments

  • Universal Wrestling Federation
  • UWF Heritage Championship (current)
  • UWF 24/7 X-Treme Championship x2
  • World Wrestling eFederation/United Federations Alliance
  • WWeF World Tag Team Champion x2 (with Matt Hardy)
  • UFA Undisputed Tag Team Champion (with Matt Hardy)
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