Michael Majalahti

Michael Majalahti (born April 24, 1973) is a Canadian-Finnish professional wrestler, singer and artist, better known by the stage name "The Canadian Rebel" StarBuck.

His active bands include Stoner Kings, Angel of Sodom and Crossfyre.

Majalahti was born to Finnish parents in Timmins, Ontario, Canada on April 24, 1973.

Growing up as a fan of professional wrestling, Majalahti moved to Calgary in 1992 to pursue art college, before he started working for local wrestling promotion Rocky Mountain Pro Wrestling as a ring announcer and play-by-play commentator.

Majalahti became friends with future WWE wrestlers Edge, Christian, Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho and Lance Storm.

Storm, after seeing the potential in him, agreed to become his trainer.

Majalahti, adopting the ring name StarBuck, made his professional wrestling debut on January 7, 1994, facing his trainer Lance Storm.

In 1996, Majalahti moved to Finland due to Canada's economic recession and quickly made himself a name on the Nordic professional wrestling scene, working and training talent for the first Finnish professional wrestling promotion, Valhalla Pro Wrestling, which went bankrupt in 2004.

VPW was followed by Pro Wrestling Finlandia, which was in 2006 replaced by FCF Wrestling (FCF).

Throughout his years in the business, Majalahti has wrestled in several countries around the world and won various championships.

Majalahti also worked for six years between 2009 – 2015 as a play-by-play commentator for the Finnish broadcasts of WWE programming on Eurosport.

In 2010, Majalahti became a main eventer in Japanese promotion Smash, leading FCF's invasion of the promotion and feuding with the promotion's public face, Tajiri, for the Finnish Heavyweight Championship.

He also defeated Tajiri in the finals of a tournament to become the first ever Smash Champion.

On May 29, 2010, at Smash.3, he appeared in a video to start an invasion storyline involving wrestlers from FCF.

The storyline led to StarBuck becoming an instant main-eventer in Smash.

After several more videos and a match, where FCF wrestler Valentine lost the Finnish Heavyweight Championship to Tajiri, StarBuck announced that he was going come to Japan in person to reclaim his promotion's title.

StarBuck made his Smash wrestling debut on July 24 at Smash.5, squashing Hajime Ohara, winning the match by pinning him with one finger after a spike piledriver.

Later that same day on Smash.6, StarBuck defeated Tajiri in the main event to regain the Finnish Heavyweight Championship, his fourth time winning the title.

After the match, Hajime Ohara turned on Tajiri and joined StarBuck's group of FCF wrestlers.

After successfully defending the title against Akira on September 24 at Smash.8, StarBuck lost the Finnish Heavyweight Championship back to Tajiri on November 22 at Smash.10, after which he was attacked by the debuting Austrian wrestler Michael Kovac, who announced his intention of taking over Smash.

On January 29, 2011, at Smash.12, Kovac defeated StarBuck in a grudge match and used the momentum to capture the Finnish Heavyweight Championship from Tajiri later that same day on Smash.13.

Meanwhile, StarBuck went on a win streak, scoring pinfall victories over Super Crazy, Tajiri on two more occasions, Takao Omori, Yoshiaki Yago, Leatherface and Shinya Ishikawa.

After Tajiri agreed to let an FCF representative participate in the tournament to determine the first ever Smash Champion, StarBuck won an eight-man tournament in FCF in July to the second round of the Smash Championship tournament.

StarBuck would win the tournament defeating Tajiri in the final to become the first ever Smash Champion.

After the match, both competitors were attacked by the returning Michael Kovac, who had previously in the event revealed former WWE wrestler Dave Finlay as his new associate and now revealed that he was coming to Smash for the Smash Championship, before he was chased out of the ring by Hajime Ohara and Akira.

On November 23, StarBuck represented Smash in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), when he teamed with Tajiri and Akira to defeat BUSHI, Keiji Mutoh and Shuji Kondo in a six-man tag team match, pinning BUSHI for the win.

The following day at Smash.23, StarBuck lost the Smash Championship to Finlay in his third defense (the first two having taken place in Finland and Norway).

On March 14 at Smash.Final, StarBuck competed in Smash's final match, before the promotion closed its doors, where he and Ohara were defeated by Akira and Tajiri.

After Smash closed, in 2012 StarBuck became part of the Smash's follow-up promotion Wrestling New Classic (WNC).

He joined with Akira and Syuri under the name of "Synapse", feuding with Hajime Ohara.

On July 16, StarBuck main evented his first WNC event, defeating Ohara.

Afterwards, StarBuck continued working in Tajiri's new Wrestling New Classic (WNC) promotion, winning the promotion's top title, the WNC Championship, in February 2014.

He has been called a "pioneer of the new generation of European wrestling" and " the most acclaimed professional wrestler arguably in history out of Northern Europe".

Majalahti headed up Fight Club Finland (FCF) up until 2017, and parted ways with the company in 2018.

In the summer of 2018, Majalahti started his own SLAM!

Wrestling Finland company.

Majalahti has trained talent all across the Nordic countries and has won several championships across Europe.

In July 2018, Majalahti started up his own wrestling company called SLAM!

Wrestling Finland.

After Tajiri worked for Fight Club Finland, he asked StarBuck to be part of his new Smash promotion.