Homicide

Nelson Erazo (born March 20, 1977) is an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Homicide.

He is currently competing for both National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), where he is a former World Junior Heavyweight Champion, and Ring of Honor (ROH) where he is a member of the faction VLNCE UNLTD.

He is best known for his time in Impact Wrestling, where he is a one-time X Division Champion and three-time World Tag Team Champion, having won the NWA World Tag Team Championship twice and the TNA World Tag Team Championship once with tag team partner Hernandez.

He is also known from his time in Ring of Honor, where he held the World Championship and World Tag Team Championship once each, as well as Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), where he is a one-time World Tag Team Champion and winner of the Tango & Cash Invitational tournament alongside B-Boy, and Jersey All Pro Wrestling (JAPW), where he has held both the Heavyweight Championship and the Tag Team Championship seven times each.

A native of Brooklyn, Erazo was a wrestling fan from the age of five and decided that he wanted to become a wrestler at the age of fifteen.

After amassing a series of athletic qualifications including football and amateur wrestling, he was offered a scholarship to the University of Miami, which he rejected, preferring to pursue "fast money".

Erazo worked on the independent circuit throughout the 1990s.

Erazo trained himself as a wrestler in a bodega, debuting on March 5, 1994.

After wrestling for three years without any formal training, Erazo attended a professional wrestling school in New Jersey operated by Manny Fernandez.

In 1997, Erazo was part of faction called The Wrecking Crew in Bobby Lombardi's Long Island Wrestling Federation (LIWF).

Then while on a year-long hiatus from wrestling, he operated a training school in Cypress Hills New York known as LIWF's "The Doghouse" along with Laithon and Lowlife Louie.

The Doghouse/LIWF produced approximately 22 graduates, including a number of ROH wrestlers, such as Low Ki.

Erazo also formed a tag team called The Natural Born Sinners with Boogalou (which saw Boogalou wear a Leatherface mask and Homicide wear a Michael Myers mask).

Homicide joined Jersey All Pro Wrestling on September 7, 1997, and quickly became a mainstay of the promotion.

He formed a tag team with Kane D known as The Nation of Immigration (N.O.I.), and on March 22, 1998, The N.O.I. defeated The Sickness and The Blood Angels in a three-way tag match for the JAPW Tag Team Championship in Newark, New Jersey.

They lost the title to The Skin Head Express on May 20, but regained them on August 25, defeating Russ and Charlie Haas in a weapons match.

Their second reign lasted until January 29, when they lost to D-Sex.

Homicide would later hold the title twice more, with Don Montoya and with B-Boy.

Homicide won the JAPW Heavyweight Championship for the first time on July 9, 1999, by defeating Don Montoya in Bayonne, New Jersey.

He lost the title to Chino Martinez on August 29.

His second reign began when the champion, Jason, vacated the title on November 18, 2000, by no-showing the event.

Homicide defeated Jay Lover for the vacant title that same night in the ECW Arena in Philadelphia.

He lost the title to one of his students, Low Ki, on July 7, 2001.

Three more Heavyweight Championship reigns followed in 2001 and 2002, with Homicide firmly establishing himself as a dominant player in JAPW.

Homicide's increasing commitments, including tours of Japan with Big Japan Pro Wrestling and ZERO-ONE, led to a decline in his involvement in JAPW after late-2002.

Dan Maff, another student of Homicide's, won the JAPW Heavyweight Championship on December 13, 2003.

He held the title throughout 2004.

In March 2005, however, Homicide and Maff had a legitimate falling-out, with Homicide announcing that Maff had betrayed him, and that he would refuse to work for any promotion which employed Maff.

This effectively led to Maff being blacklisted from the professional wrestling indy circuit.

As a result, the JAPW Heavyweight Championship was vacated.

Jay Lethal had pursued the JAPW Heavyweight Championship for several months and was widely expected to be the next champion.

The title was put on the line in a match between Lethal and an undisclosed opponent on March 26.

The opponent was revealed to be the returning Homicide, who defeated Lethal for an unparalleled sixth JAPW Heavyweight Championship.

His reign lasted until May 21, when Lethal finally won the belt in a four-way match.

The following week, Homicide announced that he was temporarily leaving JAPW, but promised to go on a "murdering spree" and become a seven-time JAPW Heavyweight Champion when he returned.

On October 22, 2005, Homicide teamed with his long-term nemesis Teddy Hart to defeat the Backseat Boyz for the JAPW Tag Team Championship.

Their reign lasted until November 12 of that year, when Kashmere and Acid regained the title.

On June 9, 2007, Homicide and his Latin American Xchange partner Hernandez defeated Jay Lethal and Azrieal to win the JAPW Tag Team titles, which they would hold for over a year before dropping them to The Full Blooded Italians of Little Guido and Tracy Smothers on November 15, 2008.

On October 27, 2007, Homicide made good on his word when he defeated Low Ki to win the JAPW Heavyweight Title for a record–setting seventh time.

He would, however, lose the title back to Low Ki that same night when Teddy Hart attacked him during a tag team match between LAX and BLKOUT, where both the Heavyweight and the Tag Team titles were on the line.