7ft Thunder The Heavy Weight Champion

This wrestling match vs Marc Mercedes the then current IWA Heavy Weight Champion and myself, 7ft Thunder was for the title in a serious way.

Due to previous tricks by Mercedes, such as getting disqualifies on purpose to stop the match had allowed him to keep his title for years. Now the IWA President placed him in a match with me in a no disqualification match (no DQ).

This meant that no matter what happened in or out of the wrestling ring there was only going to be one winner that took the belt, no tricks, no disqualifications, no excuses... 

Title Match vs Club Mercedes

Marc Mercedes was expanding his 'popularity' by enlisting others into his exclusive Club Mercedes, in this match Curtis "Manager Of The Year" Hughes and Percy "The Nerd" Sludge help Mercedes in his match.

This was one of the smallest audiences I think we ever wrestled in front of, as you can see mid match Mercedes goes and sits with some people in the 'front row' while his minders look after him.

This match is the preview to the next match - to be seen next week where Thunder challenges Mercedes to a no holds barred, no disqualification match - meaning that no matter what happens the Heavy Weight Title is on the line, no more tricks from Mercedes... 

7ft Thunder Wrestling Gothic Knight

Gothic Knight was a wrestler from Canada who came over for the tour that I put off my trip to the US to knock on the WCW door (again). Anyone who is an avid reader of my site will recognise this as the last wrestling tour I did before I got nerve damage which effectively ended my wrestling career.

Gothic Knight was the biggest guy that I had ever wrestled to that point and it was a new experience for me to be thrown around the ring, instead of vice versa.

All in all it was a good match with a huge crowd up in Newcatle and we got a very good reception from the fans. 

Thunder and Vulkan vs Mercedes And Swan

Vulkan and Mercedes are having a match, Vulkan is winning, then Stephen Swan comes out to help the Burger Eating Bully Marc Mercedes by intereferring with the match.

Things aren't going well for the crowd favourite Vulkan and the screams and cries of small children rouses the giant from backstage to take an active role....

Well that's the story, then you'll have to watch the rest of the video to see the outcome... 

7ft Thunder Wrestles Stephen Swan

A match that went way over time when Mr Swan would not follow the rules of wrestling, the match was too long and was not getting a good response from the audience.

Also using the exact same 'cut off' move 3 times in a row in the one match was a bit much. Towards the end you can see that i am not having a good match with Swan and it gets a little nasty.

Swan and I never wrestled together again, and I do not think we ever talked again, though I believe he talked a lot about me afterwards, who cares. He even tried to get my finishing move banned as he sustained massive bruising around the neck and sever pain.

Watch the end of the match, esp the boot to the stomach as the set up and the "Thunder Bomb" where Swan drops all his weight like a sack of potatoes in an attempt to twart the finish. I was surprised he did not believe me when I said to him "I'll take you up anyway"... 

7ft Thunder Wrestling Phil Picaso

Wrestling "The Italian Bodyguard" Big Phil Picaso. Whereas Phil was a big guy compared to normal people, he does not look so big as compared to Thunder - as is impressively displayed in this 'pose off' followed by a 'test of strength' pro-wrestling style.

I believe this was only Phils 2nd or 3rd individual match so you can see the match is a bit messy - or as Phil calls it a "Good 'ole bit of Aussie biffo!"

On a side note Phil was a bit of a tough bugger, shortly after this match he was hit by a car travelling at 60 kph (37 mph) bounced off, was thrown quiet a ways down the road where he took a bump, rolled with it got up then wrestled 4 days later. Those who knew him tended to call him Mad Phil Picaso.

Phils random brawling style became a huge hit with the fans and mainly the kids, which surprised many critics, promoters and even us wrestlers... 

7ft Thunder Wrestling Gregory Von Stekker (again)

Again wrestling Stekker. This video is one of the best I have available as we were wrestling under full house lights in an indoor sporting arena, not the best for wrestling conditions but good for clear video tapings.

I was at my muscular biggest at this point with peroxide blonde hair and still wrestling as the good guy ('babyface') 7ft Thunder, though this match was the start of the turning point to my switch to a 'heel' (bad guy).

These days there does not seem to be the classical good vs bad guy matches like there used to be, but I suppose that was all part of hte cold war era thinking of us vs them.

Enjoy the match, this is one of hte best wrestling videos I have... 

7 vs Mark Hilton Wrestling

This was my last wrestling match in Australia before I left on my trip to Europe. Upon my return I did not get back into wrestling and retired from it.... until.... my Oct 2007 return to Australia when I did 2 more shows with AWF Wrestling to get some new footage for future self promotions and my showreel.

This wrestling match vs Mark Hilton is unfortunately from a fair distance and with the .flv (flash video) codec it makes it hard to follow, as does the goose of a camera operator going out of focus every 2 minutes.

This one will be for die hard '7' fans only 

Videos Subscriptions Playing Up

There has been an update to the video subscription software and it is misbehaving badly (actually it has always been misbehaving) - I will get a few days free next week when I will fix this and add a ton of videos.

I will email everyone affected personally. Apologies for the inconvenience.