Kenny Dykstra

Kenneth George Doane (born March 16, 1986) is an American retired professional wrestler signed to WWE as a producer and as a trainer at the WWE Performance Center.

During his past time in WWE, he was known as Kenny Dykstra and Kenny as a member of The Spirit Squad.

Doane was trained by Killer Kowalski and made his wrestling debut at the age of fifteen in 2001.

He began working for Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), per WWE request.

Doane made his professional wrestling debut in 2001 at the age of fifteen.

He started his professional wrestling career in the New England area under the name "Broadway" Kenn Phoenix.

He was later trained by professional wrestler and trainer Killer Kowalski in Malden, Massachusetts.

After being contacted by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), he was asked to make appearances for their developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW).

In May 2003, Doane made his WWE television debut as "Ken Phoenix".

During his time in OVW, he won the Television Championship once.

After losing the title, Doane became part of The Spirit Squad faction.

Doane made his first national television appearance in WWE at the age of 17 on the May 12, 2003 episode of WWE Raw as Ken Phoenix.

Along with his brother, Mike Phoenix, he was a participant in Rodney Mack's ongoing "5-Minute White Boy Challenge" where Mack defeated Caucasian wrestlers in under five minutes.

Mack defeated the pair in 1:31, forcing them both to submit to his new Blackout finishing hold.

He made another appearance, losing to Lance Storm on an episode of Sunday Night Heat before being officially signed to a developmental deal and to OVW full-time on June 4, 2004.

On June 3, 2005, Doane had his first match, at the promotion, against Kenzo Suzuki, whom Doane defeated.

Three weeks later, on June 25, 2005, he won the Television Championship from Deuce Shade.

He had successful title defenses, but Doane lost the title to CM Punk on November 9, 2005.

After losing the Television Championship, Doane became a part of the Spirit Squad, a faction using the in-ring personas of male cheerleaders, using the name "Kenny".

The team debuted on Raw in January 2006 and won the World Tag Team Championship three months later.

On the January 23, 2006, episode of Raw, the group helped Jonathan Coachman win a Royal Rumble qualifying match against Jerry "The King" Lawler by performing cheers for Coachman and distracting Lawler.

They later became a part of the ongoing scripted feud between WWE chairman Vince McMahon and Shawn Michaels.

The villainous McMahon brought in the Squad to attack Michaels on numerous occasions, including placing them in multiple handicap matches.

They also continued wrestling in the tag team division, and on April 3, on Raw, the Squad won the World Tag Team Championship when Kenny and Mikey, with outside help from the other three Squad members, defeated the team of Big Show and Kane.

After winning the championship, all five members of the team were recognized as the champions, allowing any combination of them to defend the championship.

Following the Spirit Squad's dissolution, he began working as "Kenny Dykstra", before being released from his WWE contract in November 2008.

He later began working on the independent circuit, wrestling for promotions including Dragon Gate USA and Evolve.

Doane would end up working as a WWE producer and would coach on the side in early 2021.

Also, Kenny became the second youngest wrestler to win a title in WWE after Rene Dupree, at the age of 20 years and 18 days; he was surpassed by Tyler Bate in 2017.

Three weeks later, McMahon scheduled another handicap match, with the Spirit Squad facing Michaels.

The match never started, however; instead the Spirit Squad brutally beat down Michaels, ripping apart his ring attire and, as part of the storyline, shattered his knee with a chair.

McMahon then called Triple H to the ring to attack Michaels with a sledgehammer; however, Kenny snatched the sledgehammer away from him, disrespecting Triple H, which led to him attacking the group.

Triple H and Michaels revived their former team, D-Generation X (DX), and began a feud with the Spirit Squad.

DX played various sophomoric pranks on the team and the McMahons (Vince and his son Shane), as well as defeating the Spirit Squad in handicap tag team matches at Vengeance and a clean sweep in an elimination handicap match at Saturday Night's Main Event XXXIII.

At the same time as their feud with DX and their alignment with McMahon, the team also wrestled other teams in Raw ' s tag division over the World Tag Team Championship.

The group successfully defended the tag team championship against the teams of Jim Duggan and Eugene, Charlie Haas and Viscera, and Snitsky and Val Venis.

They then entered a lengthy feud with The Highlanders, whom they eventually defeated to retain the title at Unforgiven.

The Spirit Squad as a whole later began a losing streak with separate members losing singles matches to Ric Flair on consecutive episodes of Raw.

After two consecutive losses to the debuting Cryme Tyme, Kenny attacked Mikey on the October 23 episode of Raw, and announced that he was going to defeat Flair.

Outside of WWE, his most significant appearance in a major promotion was for Major League Wrestling (MLW) in a tag team with Squad member Mike Mondo during 2019.