Chris Sabin

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Josh Harter (born February 4, 1982 in Detroit, Michigan), better known by his ring name Chris Sabin, is an American professional wrestler, currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in its X Division and Border City Wrestling.

Contents

1 Career

1.1 Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

2 Wrestling facts
3 Championships and accomplishments

3.1 Championship succession

4 References
5 External links

Career

Harter began training as a wrestler in his home state of Michigan at the NWA Great Lakes Pro Wrestling School. After the school began experiencing difficulties, he travelled to Windsor, Ontario and completed his training under Scott D'Amore and Amazing N8 at the Can-Am Wrestling School. He debuted in 2000 after four months training as Chris Sabin, and began working for D'Amore's Border City Wrestling promotion and for independent promotions in Michigan.

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

Sabin in January 2006.

Sabin joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in 2003 as a face and immediately began competing in the X-Division. On April 30, 2003, he faced Jerry Lynn and defending champion Amazing Red for the TNA X Division Championship when members of Vince Russo's Sports Entertainment Xtreme stable attacked Lynn and Red. After the match, Sabin turned heel by joining the stable. On May 25, he defeated Jerry Lynn to unify his X Division Championship with Lynn's WWA International Cruiserweight Championship. Sabin main evented the June 28 TNA pay-per-view when he unsuccessfully challenged A.J. Styles for the TNA X Division Championship. His reign ended after three months when he lost to Michael Shane in the first ever Ultimate X match on August 20.

On September 3 of that year, Sabin won the 2003 Super X-Cup, thus becoming the number one contender to the X Division Championship. He regained the X-Division Championship on January 7, 2004, defeating Shane, Christopher Daniels and Low-Ki in the second Ultimate X match. He was stripped of the title on March 26, 2004 after a knee injury left him unable to defend it.

After returning from injury, Sabin took part in the World X-Cup in May 2004, forming Team USA with Jerry Lynn, Christopher Daniels and Elix Skipper. On May 26, Team USA defeated Team Mexico, Team Canada and Team Japan in a two hour pay-per-view event which saw the teams fight one another in a variety of matches. The finals saw Sabin wrestle the Canadian Petey Williams and the Mexican Héctor Garza in an Ultimate X match, which Sabin won when he retrieved a large red "X" which had been suspended above the ring on steel cables.

For the remainder of 2004 Sabin contended for the X-Division Championship. He won another Ultimate X on November 9 to win a title shot at Petey Williams. During the leadup, they ran an angle where Sabin was able to reverse Williams' Canadian Destroyer into his own Cradle Shock finishing move. At Turning Point on December 5, however, Williams was able to secure a victory with the help of a pair of brass knuckles. Sabin got another shot at the title at Final Resolution on January 16, 2005, in an Ultimate X match with Williams and A.J. Styles. Styles won the match and the title when he snatched the title from Williams' and Sabin's collective grip while they were still on the X ropes.

Chris Sabin attacks Roderick Strong

Throughout 2005, Sabin feuded with Michael Shane, by now wrestling as Matt Bentley. In September 2005 he began a feud with Shocker that was killed when Shocker was unable to return from Mexico for their scheduled match at Unbreakable on September 11.

So far in 2006, Sabin has mostly teamed up with Sonjay Dutt, to great effect, beating Team Canada in a #1 Contenders Tag Team Tournament on Impact.

However at the Against All Odds PPV event Sabin and Dutt were beaten by Chris Harris and James Storm (America's Most Wanted) in a bout for the NWA World Tag Team Championships.

On March 11, Chris Sabin defeated Alex Shelley and Sonjay Dutt in a 3-way match to represent both the USA in the "International X-Division Showcase" at TNA Destination X 2006 as well as joining Jay Lethal on Team TNA in the upcoming World X-Cup Tournament. Later that month, Sabin was hospitalized with a severe concussion after taking four blows to the head during a show for the Northeast Wrestling (NEW) promotion on March 25th in Bristol, Connecticut. He was released after undergoing a CAT scan.

Sabin acted as the captain of Team USA at World X-Cup 2006, defeating Puma of Team Mexico, earning 3 points, and on May 18, defeating Petey Williams in a sudden death tiebreaker singles match, winning the World X-Cup for Team USA.

On the June 1st edition of Impact!, Sabin rushed to the ring to clear out Alex Shelley and Kevin Nash, who were attacking Jay Lethal in another of Nash's X-division beatdowns. Nash would avoid a physical confrontation with Sabin, only to be challenged to a match by Sabin at Slammiversary 2006 which Nash was able to win.

Wrestling facts

Sabin peforming the Cradle Shock on Petey Williams.

Finishing and signature moves

*Cradle Shock (Cross-legged Samoan driver)

*Future Shock (Fisherman brainbuster)

*Chicken-wing piledriver (Texas piledriver with opponent's arms crossed behind their back)

*Bum Rush (Scoop into swinging neckbreaker)

*Hesitation Dropkick (Stalling low dropkick on an opponent held in the tree of woe position)

*Leap of Faith (No-hands springboard plancha suicida)

*Diving Dynamite (Diving leg drop)

*Over Easy (Canadian backbreaker hold flipped into implant DDT)

*Sabalizer (Ura-nage backbreaker)

*Sabin Edge (Iconoclasm)

*Enzuigiri

*Running crucifix powerbomb, usually into the middle turnbuckle

*Tiger suplex

*Tilt-a-whirl headscissors takedown

*Springboard Tornado DDT

*Spinning sitout powerbomb

*Running Liger bomb

Managers

*A.J. Pierzynski

*Traci

*Trinity

Nicknames

*"The Future"

*"The Super Sabin" (Sabin dyeing his hair blond gives the fans the infliction to refer to Sabin as a Super Saiyan, a homage to the Japanese anime Dragonball)

Quotes

*"All hail Sabin!"

Championships and accomplishments

Blue Water Championship Wrestling

*1-time BWCW Cruiserweight Champion

Border City Wrestling

*2-time BCW Can-Am Television Championship

Great Lakes All-Pro Wrestling

*1-time GLAPW Junior Heavyweight Champion

International Wrestling Cartel

*IWC Super Indy Tournament Winner (2004)

Maryland Championship Wrestling

*1-time MCW Cruiserweight Champion

Maximum Pro Wrestling

*2-time MXPW Cruiserweight Champion

*1-time MXPW Television Champion

'''Michigan Marquee Wrestling Association

*1-time MMAW Marquee Champion

NWA Florida

*2005 Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup winner

NWA Great Lakes

*1-time NWA Great Lakes Heavyweight Champion

*1-time NWA Great Lakes Junior Heavyweight Champion

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

*2-time TNA X-Division Champion

*2003 Super X Cup Winner

*2004 World X Cup Winner (with Jerry Lynn, Christopher Daniels, and Elix Skipper as Team USA)

*2006 World X Cup Winner (with Alex Shelley, Sonjay Dutt, and Jay Lethal as Team USA)

World Wrestling All-Stars

*1-time WWA International Cruiserweight Champion

Xtreme Intense Championship Wrestling

*1-time XICW Tag Team Champion (with Truth Martini)

Other Titles

*1-time FIW American Heavyweight Champion

*1-time OCW Tag Team Champion

Wrestling Observer Newsletter

*2003 Rookie of the Year

Championship succession

References

External links

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