Alex Wright

Alexander Wright (born May 17, 1975) is a German former professional wrestler and professional wrestling promoter.

He wrestled his first match in 1991 in Germany when he was sixteen years old.

He wrestled in his hometown during his early career and also worked in Japan.

He wrestled professionally in Germany and Japan before signing with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1994.

He remained a prominent mid-card performer during his seven-year tenure with WCW, including reigns as a one time Cruiserweight Champion, a one time World Television Champion and a one time World Tag Team Champion (with Disco Inferno).

He was the owner, founder and CEO of New Sport Entertainment GmbH which is the company that owns New European Championship Wrestling.

Alex was trained by his father Steve Wright, a British professional wrestler.

Wright was discovered by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in mid-1994 when WCW toured through Germany.

He signed a contract with Time Warner, the parent company of WCW, and went through more training at the WCW Power Plant.

Wright made his WCW debut, defeating Brady Boone on the September 3rd edition of Saturday Night.

He originally wrestled as a Babyface and was known as "Das Wunderkind" Alex Wright.

His entrance music ("Warped Mind" by Dominic Glynn), was of the techno genre, which was popular in some American and German dance clubs at the time, and he often danced as he walked to the ring or once he got in the ring.

His first feud was with Jean-Paul Levesque, whom he defeated at Starrcade in December in both men's pay-per-view debut.

In his early career, Wright went undefeated in matches against several WCW superstars including Bobby Eaton in January 1995 at Clash of the Champions XXX and Paul Roma at SuperBrawl V in February '95.

However, the latter saw Roma's contract later terminated by WCW because of his stiff performance and his disregard of instructions to put Wright over during the match.

WCW had Wright feud on and off with Disco Inferno, another wrestler who danced in or on his way to the ring, with Wright representing modern dancing and music, and Disco representing older styles.

Wright would win all of the matches in this feud.

Wright wrestled Arn Anderson for the WCW World Television Championship on an episode of WCW Saturday Night and beat Anderson by DQ.

A rematch was scheduled for the next pay-per-view, Slamboree, where Wright suffered his first loss.

Due to WCW's partnership with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), Wright participated in NJPW's Best of the Super Juniors and finished third in the tournament.

He started wrestling against fellow cruiserweight and Babyface Brian Pillman, whom he defeated in the opening match at The Great American Bash.

On the July 16 edition of Main Event before Bash at the Beach, Wright teamed with Marcus Bagwell to face Dick Slater and Bunkhouse Buck in a losing effort.

He had encounters with other up and coming WCW stars such as Diamond Dallas Page in August at Clash of the Champions XXXI.

In September 1995 on Nitro, Wright wrestled Sabu.

Sabu won the match but continued to attack Wright, even putting him through a table.

Referee Nick Patrick thus reversed his decision, disqualifying Sabu for his violence and giving the win to Wright.

Wright had several matches against Eddie Guerrero, with a very notable match taking place on The Main Event before Fall Brawl 1995: War Games, which resulted in a draw.

Wright also had several matches in '95 and '96 against Dean Malenko.

In January 1996, at Clash of the Champions XXXII, Malenko defeated Wright by pinfall.

At World War 3, Wright took part in the first-ever three-ring 60-man battle royal for the vacant World Heavyweight Championship, which was won by Randy Savage.

At Starrcade, WCW wrestlers faced NJPW wrestlers in a World Cup of Wrestling.

Wright represented WCW against NJPW's Koji Kanemoto (for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship even though WCW never announced it as such) but ended up losing the bout to Kanemoto.

Wright then began a feud with Dick Slater, to whom he lost at Uncensored in a singles dark match.

At Slamboree, Wright was forced by WCW to be teamed with his wrestling and dancing nemesis Disco Inferno in a tag team match against Slater and Eaton.

Wright and Disco lost when Disco was pinned.

In June of '96, famed Japanese wrestler Antonio Inoki helped put together the World Wrestling Peace Festival, which was held in Los Angeles.

Wright wrestled and lost to Chris Benoit on that card.

On the August 10 edition of Saturday Night that aired immediately before Hog Wild, Wright defeated Bobby Eaton in a rematch.

At World War 3, Wright again participated in a three-ring, 60-man battle royal, with the winner getting a shot at the World Heavyweight Championship.

The battle royal was won by The Giant.