Shannon Moore

Shannon Moore (born July 27, 1979) is an American professional wrestler.

In the late 1990s, Moore began wrestling for the Tennessee-based Music City Wrestling promotion.

He debuted in 1995 and competed for several North Carolina–based promotions, winning several Light Heavyweight Championships.

He also wrestled for the Hardys' promotion, Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts (OMEGA), where he won the OMEGA Light Heavyweight Championship twice and the OMEGA New Frontiers Championship once.

After the Hardy brothers began wrestling professionally, they trained Moore and he debuted on April 8, 1995 against Jeff.

Moore began working on the independent circuit, wrestling for the North Carolina-based Southern Championship Wrestling and National Championship Wrestling promotions as "Kid Dynamo", and won the Light Heavyweight Championship in both.

In addition, he frequently wrestled for Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts (OMEGA), the promotion operated by the Hardys.

In OMEGA, he won the OMEGA New Frontiers Championship once, and the OMEGA Light Heavyweight Championship on two occasions.

During his time in OMEGA, he met Gregory Shane Helms, and the pair later formed the Bad Street Boys with Christian York and Joey Matthews in NWA Worldwide.

He is best known for his work with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) between 1999 and 2001 and with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) for several years in the 2000s.

He has also worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).

He currently wrestles for Atomic Legacy Wrestling (ALW) where he is the current ALW Heavyweight Champion in his 3rd reign.

Moore bestfriended Matt and Jeff Hardy as a child, and they later trained him to wrestle.

In 1999, he signed with WCW, and became part of 3 Count, a boy band parody.

In 1999, Moore was hired by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) by Chris Kanyon, who had been granted the authority to employ twenty-one young cruiserweights for the Atlanta-based promotion.

He was placed in a faction known as "3 Count" by Jimmy Hart.

3 Count, which consisted of Moore, Evan Karagias and Shane Helms, was a trio of young male wrestlers who utilized a boy band gimmick, parodying bands like the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync.

3 Count debuted in WCW in November 1999.

and they began lip synching the song "Can't Get You Out Of My Heart" in the ring before their matches.

The three members of 3 Count jointly won the WCW Hardcore Championship in 2000.

On the February 28, 2000 episode of WCW Monday Nitro in Minneapolis, Minnesota, all three members of 3 Count defeated Brian Knobs to win the WCW Hardcore Championship with all 3 members of the team simultaneously pinning him.

3 Count reigned as "co-champions" until March 19, at Uncensored where Knobs regained the title by pinning all three men consecutively.

3 Count were not involved in the Millionaire's Club versus The New Blood angle that took place in mid-2000 because Helms was legitimately sidelined with a broken nose.

When the team reconvened late in the summer of 2000, they began performing a new song, "Dance With 3 Count".

In storyline, Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial artist Tank Abbott became an avid fan of 3 Count, and he began protecting them during their performances, attacking anyone who disrupted them, eventually acting as their talent manager and occasional inserting himself as a back-up dancer.

3 Count were involved with a long-running feud (scripted rivalry) with The Jung Dragons, with the Dragons attempting to steal 3 Count's fictional recording contract.

This led to a ladder match between the two teams at New Blood Rising, which 3 Count won due to Abbott's interference.

As a result, Abbott claimed that he should be the lead singer of 3 Count, and was kicked out by the other three members, leading to a feud.

In 2001, he briefly held the NWA Wildside Tag Team Championship with Shane Helms.

He later joined the then-WWF in 2001 and was assigned to Heartland Wrestling Association, a developmental territory, where he won the HWA Tag Team Championship with Evan Karagias.

After debuting on the SmackDown brand, he became a follower of 'Mattitude' and appeared regularly as Matt Hardy's sidekick.

Between late 2003 and 2005, Moore was used mainly in WWE's cruiserweight division, until his release in July 2005.

After a stint on the independent circuit, Moore joined TNA in December 2005.

In March 2006, he re-signed with WWE, initially appearing on the ECW brand, before returning to SmackDown in 2007.

He formed a tag team with Jimmy Wang Yang, and the pair challenged unsuccessfully for the WWE Tag Team Championship on several occasions.

Following his release in August 2008, he once again returned to the independent circuit, before rejoining TNA in January 2010.

He soon formed a tag team, known as Ink Inc., with Jesse Neal in April.

Aside from wrestling, Moore is also a tattoo artist and owned a tattoo parlor known as Gas Chamber Ink in Southern Pines, North Carolina.

He is also a musician, having written his own entrance music, and was part of the band Peroxwhy?gen with Jeff Hardy.

Moore befriended Matt and Jeff Hardy as a child and competed in their own backyard wrestling circuit.