Eddie Van Dorn

Very stringy, shoulder-length black hair that's almost always over his extremely piercing gray eyes (think Rhyno for the hair). Eddie is very thin, even with the strength training he did while in Japan. He also has numerous scars on his body from his training in hardcore wrestling. As telling as these physical features are, the most notorious feature Eddie has is that grin... that toothy smile of pure sadism that you see during his entrance and at the end of most of his interviews.

Denim long shorts, black sneakers, very worn-looking t-shirt. Essentially whichever shirt he pulled out of his duffel bag that evening.

Eddie still refuses to wear elbow pads, as he views them as tools of the weak, only used by those that can't handle the business they got into as it should be experienced. However, he has realized through watching other wrestlers that protecting the knee is very important to career longevity, so has taken to wearing simple black kneepads that are usually hidden under his long shorts.

Fan favorite. At this point in his career, Eddie is your typical dirty face... he gets cheered, but that doesn't mean that he's the nicest guy you'll run across. He can be, and usually is, a downright sadistic bastard. However, he has kind of turned over a new leaf insofar in that he has learned to at least respect many of his opponents.

Personal Background: Eddie van Dorn was born to a pair of upper-middle class parents in Albuquerque, New Mexico. From an early age, it was clear that he was highly intelligent. Unfortunately, while his home life was nearly perfect, this led to him being a social outcast in school. But we've all heard that every dark cloud has a silver lining, yes? And what a silver lining this dark cloud had. One day early in his senior year of high school, a group of jocks were insulting him as usual, and Eddie could take no more. He lashed out at the largest boy and ended up breaking his nose. While standing over the beaten jock, he felt such an adrenaline rush that he knew this is what he wanted to do with his life. He looked over at the loser's two friends, who promptly beat a hasty retreat. Eddie ended up being suspended from school for this incident and when he came back, he had an entirely new outlook on life... an "I don't give a f*ck" attitude. It was during his suspension that he began watching professional wrestling just to get an idea of how "real" it actually is...

Wrestling Background: Having become a fan of the fight, Eddie was looking forward to getting involved in them as a career somehow. While he was too small to enter the world of shootfighting, he had seen people even smaller than he become a great success in wrestling... Rey Misterio, Jr., for example. Well that was that. He dropped out of high school just three months before graduation and enrolled in a backyard fed in Truth or Consequences that was just started up by none other than Buck "The Hustler" Floyd, an icon of the wrestling world in several circles. Eddie wound up being one out of only two enrollees to make it through the "Trial by Fire" week and "graduate" from this training program. He was also the ONLY one to return to Floyd's home the day after "graduation," asking for more. Buck pulled a few strings and got the then-seventeen-year-old Eddie into an obscure independent promotion where he quickly rose to the top and captured that promotion's World Title, beating The Rock (I wish I was kidding) for it. To hear Eddie himself tell it, he can't even remember the name of that promotion, and to the best of his recollection it was called the GWA. To simplify things, that's what we'll call it.

The GWA soon closed with Eddie as the only champion the promotion had. It reopened under a new name, but again closed quickly right after the president handed the reigns to some jackass who made himself the World Champion then posted a message basically saying, "I'm the president, so f*ck you all. The HCW (Hardcore Championship Wrestling) is now closed." Needless to say, Eddie was pissed off beyond all measure. He needed an outlet, but it took him a good while to find it. He and Buck had signed up for a re-opening promotion called the FWW (Fresh Wrestling World), but this didn't get off the ground. Then came a ray of hope... the FFWA, the promotion that The Hustler had gained notoriety in, was reopening and he got his young protege in as well. Unfortunately for Eddie, he was dramatically overshadowed by his mentor. This led to an apparent split when Eddie joined a faction known as the PHW and began a verbal feud with Buck. However, this was all a trick to discover the inner workings of that group and make it easier to bring it down. Sad to say, but this was Eddie's biggest claim to fame in the FFWA/FWA.

Since then, Eddie has found his way to the WWA, making a shocking debut at the first invitational Bourbon Street Brawl. He has been able to make a name for himself, free of the shadow of Buck. He has won many titles, and amassed an impressive record against the other competitors of the WWA and, more recently, has turned face and formed a stable known as "Youth United" with Grunge and Rick Venom. There is a fourth member, but none of these three will say who until the time is right...

After losing a match to The Chuckster, of all people, Eddie took it upon himself to leave the WWA for an unspecified amount of time in order to train in Japan. While there, he focused on improving his mat game, learning more leverage-based attacks and honing his submission holds. He also put on a few (very few) pounds of muscle in order to increase the pressure he is able to apply while using those holds. This seemed to work very well, as upon his return to the WWA in 2007, he quickly acquired the Television title, followed by another run with the Extreme title, the World title, and most recently the United States title.

After a lengthy feud with both Tarin and Ry Ballard, Eddie was put out of comission by Copeland at the 2008/9 Birthday Bash. Soon after, the WWA itself went on an extended hiatus.

Eddie had a brief run as Nicholas Adams's manager and a ring announcer upon the WWA's reopening, during which time he pretended to still be injured. This is what allowed him to get the jump on, and renew his rivalry with, Copeland.

WWA Rookie Ring
WWA Cruiserweight Title
WWA Extreme Title (x2)
WWA Television Title
WWA World Heavyweight Title
WWA United States Title

Self-proclaimed winner of the first invitational Bourbon Street Brawl
Finalist in the Halloween Hell hardcore tournament
Co-founder of Youth United
Winner of the 2007 Halloween House of Pain
Winner of the Mile High victory at Birthday Bash 2007

WWAmmies

2007 Face of the Year
2007 Comeback of the Year
2002 Extreme Wrestler of the Year

TrademarkDetention - Submission. Eddie jumps on his opponent's back, wraps his legs around their midsection, and locks in a reverse facelock from this position. Basically a Dragon Sleeper with a bodyscissors
TrademarkDouble-arm DDT
TrademarkOpen palm strikes to chest and abdomen
Hotshot
Hurricanrana
Elevated Crab
Swanton bomb
Enziguiri
Tightrope walk into dropkick
Inverted STF
Rolling Boston Crab
Missile Dropkick
Dragonscrew legwhip

Eddie first ties his opponent in the Tree of Woe. Then he backs up into the opposite corner and charges in with a vicious spear.