2 Tuff Tony

Anthony Borcherding (born June 6, 1974), better known by his ring name 2 Tuff Tony, is an American professional wrestler best known for his hardcore wrestling style.

Throughout his professional wrestling career, Tony has wrestled for various wrestling promotions, including Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South, Combat Zone Wrestling, Big Japan Pro Wrestling, and Juggalo Championship Wrestling.

He is currently employed by Juggalo Championship Wrestling.

In his professional wrestling career, Tony is an eight-time Heavyweight champion, having won the BBW Wrestling Heavyweight Championship once, ICW Heavyweight Championship once, IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship twice, JCW Heavyweight Championship three times, and MRW Heavyweight Championship once.

In addition to these championships, he has won the DDT Pro-Wrestling Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship once and IWA Mid-South Hardcore Championship thrice, the latter of which he is the final recognized champion.

He appeared for Extreme Championship Wrestling between 1996 - 2001, he wrestled various opponent's, like, Pablo Marquez, EZ Money, Doug Furnas, Twiggy Ramirez, Steve Corino and Chris Chetti.

Tony's friends Robert and Jerry traveled to Arkansas to train with professional wrestlers The Moondogs and invited him to come along.

After watching several training sessions, Tony was invited into the ring.

He soon began training alongside his friends, free of charge, because Moondog Spot felt that Tony "was a natural for the business."

Tony started wrestling in Indiana in a small bingo hall, where he first met wrestler Corporal Robinson.

He, Robinson, and Mad Man Pondo began traveling throughout the country together.

Video distribution company Smart Mark Video helped the trio gain national exposure.

In 1997, Tony wrestled for Insane Clown Posse at the event ICP's Strangle-Mania Live.

Two years later, he, Robinson, and Mad Man Pondo wrestled at the Dan Curtis Memorial, an independent wrestling booker who had recently worked for Insane Clown Posse.

Several days after the event, Tony, Robinson, and Pondo were booked to wrestle for Insane Clown Posse's first Juggalo Championship Wrestling show.

Video of the event was later released nationally.

Tony continued wrestling for Juggalo Championship Wrestling, including matches at the Gathering of the Juggalos festivals and two other videos released by the company.

Tony began working for Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South (IWA-MS) in 1999.

He wrestled his first match against Rolling Hard, where he was introduced to the hardcore wrestling style of the company.

Seeing that Tony had never wrestled in the hardcore style before, Mad Man Pondo requested to work with him in matches.

The promotion's owner, Ian Rotten, supported the idea and booked the two in a rivalry.

Pondo acquainted him to the proper techniques of hardcore wrestling, and Tony later recalled that Pondo "took good care of me" in their matches.

On April 29, 1999, Tony defeated Pondo for the IWA Mid-South Hardcore Championship.

He lost the championship on May 14 to Pondo, but won it back the following day.

The following February he lost the championship, but won the IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship two weeks later.

On March 4, he defeated Pondo and Delilah Starr to unify the IWA-MS Hardcore and Heavyweight Championships.

Two weeks later, Tony lost the championship.

He won it for a second time the following March 2, before losing it to Mitch Page a month later.

Tony is also the 2006 IWA Mid-South Double Death Tag Team Tournament winner with Mad Man Pondo.

In 2006, Tony and Mad Man Pondo took part in the first Double Death Tag Team Tournament, though they weren't told which team would win the tournament.

They defeated Children of Pain then Dysfunction and Corporal Robinson to make it to the finals.

In the finals, Tony and Pondo defeated Tough Crazy Bastards to be crowned the first Double Death Tag Team Tournament champions.

Tony went on tour with JCW in 2007 to film the internet wrestling show SlamTV!, where he was involved in a rivalry with Tracy Smothers.

Tracy attacked Tony in the sixth episode, causing Tony to be knocked out of action for several weeks.

Per storyline, Smothers was arrested just days before Tony's return on the eighth episode, leaving Tony with no way to seek revenge.

Tony was attacked by Bull Pain at East Side Wars, but later defeated him in a Louisville Slugger match at Bloodymania.

On January 26, 2008, Tony and Violent J won the JCW Tag Team Championship.

However, their victory was declared void, stricken from the record, and the title was vacated.

Tony continued his rivalry with Tracy Smothers into season two of SlamTV!

In the first episode, both men faced off in a match which saw Tracy win after a fast count by the referee, who was later revealed as Tracy's illegitimate daughter, Isabella.