Tommy Dreamer (The Innovator of Violence)
Tommy Dreamer is an American professional wrestler, promoter, and actor. He is the founder, owner and wrestler of the independent professional wrestling promotion HOUSE OF HARDCORE. Known as “The Innovator of Violence”, Dreamer is best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling from 1993 to 2001 and with the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment from 2001 to 2010 and 2015, also Total Nonstop Action Wrestling from 2010 to 2011 and 2014 to 2015. Dubbed the “heart and soul” of ECW, Dreamer regularly featured in the company’s major storylines as well as holding a number of back office roles in TNA notably. Championships held by Dreamer over the course of his career include the ECW Championship (which he has held twice, becoming the only man to do so in the ECW organization and WWE’s ECW brand), ECW World Tag Team Championship and WWFE Hardcore Championship.
The Young Bucks
The Young Bucks are members of the Bullet Club stable, as well as two thirds of the Bullet Club sub-group The Elite, along with Kenny Omega. The Team are an American professional wrestling tag team, consisting of real life brothers Matt and Nick Jackson from Southern California (signed to both New Japan Pro Wrestling and Ring of Honor) while also working for various American independent promotions, most notably Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). They are currently in their third reign as the ROH World Tag Team Champions and are known for their free flowing use of “Super kicks” and high-flying offensive moves. Previous accolades include reigns as Chikara Campeones de Parejas, Dragon Gate USA’s Open the United Gate Champions, NJPW’s IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions and NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions and PWG World Tag Team Champions as well as being the only team to win PWG’s annual Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament on three separate occasions (2009, 2011 and 2013). On two occasions, first in 2014 and again in 2016, they held the ROH World, PWG World, and IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships simultaneously.
MVP (Montel Vontavious Porter)
MVP is an American professional wrestler best known for his time with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), and has also worked for New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). MVP was trained by former professional wrestlers Soulman Alex G and Norman Smiley. Following the completion of his training, MVP began wrestling for numerous independent promotions, including a stint in TNA. During his time in these promotions, he won various championships in singles competition. MVP signed with WWE in 2005 and was assigned to Deep South Wrestling (DSW), one of the company’s developmental territories. After being promoted to the “SmackDown!” brand, MVP made his WWE wrestling debut in October 2006. In May 2007, he won the United States Championship, giving him his first title reign with the company. That same year, he captured the WWE Tag Team Championship alongside Matt Hardy. MVP won the United States Championship for a second time on March 17, 2009. Following his tenure in WWE, MVP joined NJPW in February 2011. He spent the next two years with the promotion, becoming the inaugural IWGP Intercontinental Champion in May 2011.
Billy Gunn (D-Generation X)
Billy Gunn is an American professional wrestler, best known for his appearances in the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/E) from 1993 to 2004 and from 2012 to 2015 and being a member of the legendary group D-Generation X (DX). He is also known for his appearances with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) from 2005 to 2009. Primarily a tag team wrestler, Gunn is a total 11-time tag team Champion in WWE with three different partners (with Bart Gunn as The Smoking Gunns, The New Age Outlaws, and with Chuck Palumbo as Billy and Chuck). He is also a one time WWF Intercontinental Champion and a two time WWF Hardcore Champion, giving him 14 total championships in WWE.
Jack Swagger
Jack Swagger is an American professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler best known for his time with WWE where he performed under the ring name Jack Swagger. Swagger attended the University of Oklahoma as a two-sport athlete, participating in both football and wrestling. He switched to wrestling full-time in his sophomore year, and in 2006, set the record for most pins in a season with 30 as an All-American. Following a try-out, Jack signed a WWE contract in mid 2006. During his time with WWE he became a two-time world champion, holding WWE’s World Heavyweight Championship and the ECW Championship once each, and a one-time WWE United States Champion. In 2010, Jack also became the Money in the Bank ladder winner.
Colt Cabana
Colt Cabana is an American professional wrestler and podcaster (with his World Famous podcast “The Art of Wrestling”). He is currently working for Ring of Honor (ROH) and Global Force Wrestling (GFW). Cabana also wrestled as Scotty Goldman in World Wrestling Entertainment and as old school masked wrestler Matt Classic in Wrestling Society X and Chikara. Cabana began his professional wrestling career in the Midwest. He competed routinely in St. Paul, Minnesota, for Steel Domain Wrestling in 2000 and 2001, often teaming or facing rival and friend CM Punk. Cabana and Punk competed extensively from Michigan to Pennsylvania, and notably for IWA-Midsouth across Indiana and Illinois. Cabana made a name for himself when he joined ROH, where he was placed in a rivalry with Punk before uniting with Punk and Ace Steel to form the Second City Saints alliance. He later formed a tag team with Punk to win the World Tag Team Championship twice. He also had rivalries with Homicide and then-World Champion Bryan Danielson. Cabana has also toured in countries outside of the United States, and he was a part of the short lived Wrestling Society X on MTV in late 2006, where he portrayed his “old school” wrestling persona, the masked “Matt Classic”. In 2007, he left ROH to wrestle in Ohio Valley Wrestling, a developmental territory of World Wrestling Entertainment, where he won the Television Championship once and the Southern Tag Team Championship once with Charles Evans and once with Shawn Spears. He made several appearances, as Scotty Goldman, with WWE on its SmackDown brand before being released from his contract in February 2009. Cabana is a former one-time JCW World Heavyweight Champion, and two-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion.
Matt Cross (M-Dogg 20)
Matt Cross is an American professional wrestler. He currently competes for Lucha Underground. Cross has also worked for prominent promotions such as Ring of Honor, Chikara and the short-lived Wrestling Society X. In 2011, Capiccioni joined the cast of the fifth season of WWE Tough Enough.
Bull James
Bull is American professional wrestler currently performing on the independent circuit. He is known for his time in the WWE, where he wrestled for the developmental territory WWE NXT under the ring name Bull Dempsey.
Ryan Nemeth
Brother of WWE Star Dolph Ziggler, Ryan Nemeth is an American professional wrestler, writer, actor, and comedian, best known for his appearances as Briley Pierce in WWE, where he worked in their developmental territory NXT.