Masada (wrestler)

Not to be confused with Kazuhiko Masada, who also wrestles under the ring name MASADA.

Masada
Ring name(s)	Masada
Billed height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[1]
Billed weight	216 lb (98 kg)[1]
Born	June 16, 1981(1981-06-16) Waco, Texas
Resides	Beaumont, Texas
Billed from	Waco, Texas[2]
Trained by	Texas Wrestling Academy[1]
Debut	2002[3]

Brigham Paul Doane^[3] (born June 16, 1981), better known by his ring name MASADA, is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances in Ring of Honor, Combat Zone Wrestling, Full Impact Pro, NWA Wildside, and his tours with Big Japan Pro Wrestling. He has also wrestled matches for World Wrestling Entertainment and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

Career

Doane was first trained by Steve Oubre at the IWA training center in Orange, Texas and later by Rudy Roy Gonzalez at the Texas Wrestling Academy. He then began his professional career by debuting in the Coastal States Wrestling Alliance (CSWA) before moving to Ring of Honor as a member of The Carnage Crew with HC Loc, DeVito, and later Justin Credible. Together, they would wrestle a number of tag matches. He also wrestled in six man mayhem matches and proved that despite his size, he could still move quickly and keep up with the smaller competitors. At At Our Best, Masada and the rest of The Carnage Crew (accompanied by Dusty Rhodes) won the second ever Scramble Cage in the main event against Special K, who The Carnage Crew had been feuding with. However, The Carnage Crew's celebration with Rhodes was cut short in the locker room as it was discovered that somebody had defecated in the bags of Loc and DeVito.

Two months later, at Generation Next, it was revealed that Masada and his new partner Danny Daniels were responsible for the transgressions. That night, he and Daniels formed a team called The New and Improved Carnage Crew and defeated the original Carnage Crew. This new team left Loc and DeVito wondering why Masada turned on them, and also wondering what Daniels has against them. The Carnage Crew wanted revenge, but DeVito was injured and told Loc to wait for him to return until taking out his anger. During this time, Masada and Daniels looked impressive as a team, however, when DeVito returned the two teams would meet. At Reborn: Completion, The Carnage Crew defeated The New and Improved Carnage Crew for the rights to use the Carnage Crew name in what turned out to be Masada's last match in ROH.

Masada wrestled in BJW also, fueding with Ryuji Ito.

Along with ROH, Masada wrestled for many other companies. He wrestled alongside Jared Steele and Delirious against 3 Live Kru in a dark match for TNA^[4] as well against Maven on WWE Heat.^[5] Masada also wrestled for IWA Mid-South, Full Impact Pro, and NWA Wildside, where he won the Tag Team titles with Todd Sexton.

On December 25, 2008, Masada had an extremely bloody deathmatch involving razor blades against Jun Kasai in Apache Pro Wrestling. He most recently wrestled in the IWA Mid-South King of the Deathmatches 2009, winning the tournament in a bloody final which also included Necro Butcher, Thumbtack Jack and Dysfunction. He wrestled in the CZW Tournament of Death: Rewind losing to Thumbtack Jack in the finals.

MASADA is scheduled to defend the Anarchy Championship Wrestling World Hardcore Championship against Jerry Lynn on August 22nd 2010 in Austin Texas.

On June 25th, 2011, Masada became only the second wrestler (behind Necro Butcher) to win both IWA-MS' "King of the Deathmatches" and CZW's "Tournament of Death".

On July 9, 2011, Masada defeated Danny Havoc for the CZW Ultraviolent Underground Championship.

In wrestling

Masada bodyslamming Scotty Vortekz onto cinderblocks.

• Finishing moves
  • Skullfucka Buster (Bridging leg hook belly to back suplex)
  • Raining Blood (Wrist clutch fisherman driver)
  • Masadamizer (Death Valley bomb)^[2]

• Signature moves
  • Double leg slam^[2]
  • High-angle belly to back suplex

• Entrance themes
  • "The Optimist" by Skinless^[3]
    
  • "You Can't Kill Integrity by Throwdown (CZW)

Championships and accomplishments

• Anarchy Championship Wrestling

• ACW World Hardcore Championship (1 time, current)

• Combat Zone Wrestling

• Tournament of Death X (2011)
• CZW Ultraviolent Underground Championship (1 time, current)

• Extreme Texas Wrestling

• ETW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)^[6]

• Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South

• IWA Mid-South King of the Deathmatch (2009)

• NWA Wildside

• NWA Wildside Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Todd Sexton^[7]

• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • PWI ranked him #429 of the top 500 wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2011^[8]

• River City Wrestling

• RCW Heavyweight Championship (1 time) ^[9]

• XCW Wrestling

• XCW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)^[10]
• Battle Box 8 (2007)^[10]

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c} Online World of Wrestling : Masada
2. ^ ^{a b c} "Masada Profile". bjwfans.com. http://www.bjwfans.com/bios/masada.html. Retrieved 2008-07-09. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} "Masada Profile". cagematch.de. http://cagematch.de/?id=2&nr=1544&worker=Masada. Retrieved 2008-07-09. 
4. ^ "Konnan Bio". accelerator3359.com. http://www.accelerator3359.com/Wrestling/bios/konnan.html. Retrieved 2008-07-09. 
5. ^ "SNH Report: Maven vs. Masada". mavenhuffman.com. http://mavenhuffman.com/articles/78198809.shtml. Retrieved 2008-07-09. 
6. ^ "ETW HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE HISTORY". solie.org. http://www.solie.org/titlehistories/htetw.html. Retrieved 2008-07-09. 
7. ^ "GEORGIA/WILDSIDE JUNIOR HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE HISTORY". solie.org. http://www.solie.org/titlehistories/gjhtmcw.html. Retrieved 2008-07-09. 
8. ^ ""PWI 500": 401–500". Pro Wrestling Illustrated. 2011-08-03. http://prowrestlingillustrated.blogspot.com/2011/08/pwi-500-401-500.html. Retrieved 2011-08-03. 
9. ^ "Independent Wrestling Results - March 2007". onlineworldofwrestling.com. http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/other/2007-03.html. Retrieved 2008-07-04. 
10. ^ ^{a b} "BATTLE BOX 9 TONIGHT - 04/04/2008". xcwonline.net. http://xcwonline.net/xcw/index.php?news=78. Retrieved 2008-07-09. 

External links

• Official Carnage Crew Site

Persondata
Name	Brigham Paul Doane
Alternative names	MASADA
Short description	American professional wrestler
Date of birth	June 16, 1981
Place of birth	Waco, Texas
Date of death
Place of death