Colt Cabana

Scott Colton (born May 6, 1980), better known by the ring name Colt Cabana, is an American professional wrestler, color commentator, and podcaster.

He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) as a wrestler and as a coach, and he performs the same duties for AEW's sister promotion, Ring of Honor (ROH).

He is a two-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, two-time NWA National Champion, one-time RevPro British Heavyweight Champion, and one-time JCW World Heavyweight Champion.

He worked in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as Scotty Goldman and wrestled as old-school masked wrestler Matt Classic in Wrestling Society X and Chikara.

Scott Colton was born into a Jewish family in Deerfield, Illinois, on May 6, 1980.

Cabana began competing routinely for Steel Domain Wrestling throughout 2000 and 2001 in St. Paul, Minnesota, often teaming with or facing rival and later friend CM Punk.

He made a name for himself when he joined ROH, where he was placed in a rivalry with Punk before uniting with Punk and Ace Steel to form the Second City Saints.

He later formed a tag team with Punk, which led to him becoming a two-time ROH World Tag Team Champion.

He also had rivalries with Homicide and then-World Champion Bryan Danielson.

He attended Western Michigan University and played on their football team until graduating in 2002 with a degree in Business marketing.

Scott Colton was trained by Ace Steel, Danny Dominion, and Kevin Quinn alongside Phil Brooks (CM Punk).

He broke into Ring of Honor with the name Colt Cabana as CM Punk's rival before joining with Steel and Punk as the Second City Saints.

Cabana and Punk later became two–time ROH Tag Team Champions.

With Punk becoming a singles star, Cabana feuded with Austin Aries and Nigel McGuinness.

In 2004 and 2005, Colton went on extensive tours of Europe, competing in Scotland, Germany and France, but mainly England.

He received the 2004 Match of the Year in a European rounds style bout with World of Sport journeyman, Johnny Kidd.

On August 13, 2005, Cabana defeated Punk in a two out of three falls match in their hometown of Chicago in what was supposed to be Punk's last ROH match before going to World Wrestling Entertainment.

Between August 2005 and April 2006, Cabana was involved in a feud with Homicide, which featured Cabana being strangled with a metal coat hanger, bleeding from numerous chair shots, having Drāno poured down his throat, being piledriven off the ring apron through a table, and getting his head crushed between a ladder.

Cabana also did a short tour of Puerto Rico for IWA PR in early 2005.

Cabana was a part of the short-lived Wrestling Society X on MTV in late 2006, where he portrayed his old-school wrestling persona, the masked "Matt Classic".

On April 1, 2006, in Chicago, Cabana finally got his revenge and earned the respect of Homicide after a Chicago Street Fight, which saw the feud settled with a handshake and an embrace.

After his decisive victory against Homicide, Colt Cabana challenged the ROH World Champion Bryan Danielson for the World Championship at Ring of Honor's 100th show on April 22, 2006, in Philadelphia.

Danielson defeated him in less than five minutes.

Feeling he lost the match because he had spent the past eight months "brawling" as opposed to wrestling, Cabana rededicated himself.

He eventually earned a rematch against Danielson at Chi-Town Struggle on June 24, though he once again lost.

Cabana received one last shot against Danielson for the ROH World Championship on August 26.

The two fought to a 60-minute time limit draw in a two out of three falls match, with each wrestler earning one fall.

In October 2006, Cabana was involved in an auto accident with fellow Ring of Honor stars Adam Pearce and Dave Prazak.

Cabana was driving from a Ring of Honor event in Dayton, Ohio when he lost control of their car due to the weather conditions.

The car was totaled but everyone was wearing seat belts, which saved their lives.

It was initially reported that Cabana had to have a toe amputated, though he had only bruised it.

Despite the injury, Cabana wrestled the next night in Chicago Ridge, Illinois.

Pearce and Prazak also walked away with only bruises.

During 2006, Cabana became a popular wrestler in the British promotion 1 Pro Wrestling (1PW), often tag teaming with Darren Burridge as Team SHAG (Street Hooligans Adventure Gang).

During 1PW's first anniversary show Team SHAG won the 1PW Tag Team Championship during a three-way ladder match against the defending champions Jonny Storm and Jody Fleisch, and the Southern Comfort team of Tracey Smothers and Chris Hamrick.

Cabana also made his Japanese debut for Zero 1 Max in 2006.

In 2007, he left ROH to wrestle in Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), WWE's developmental territory, where he became a one-time Television Champion and a two-time Southern Tag Team Championship.

On April 3, 2007, it was revealed by the Ring of Honor website that Colton had signed a WWE developmental contract and was to begin working for their developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling.

At Good Times, Great Memories (named in his honor), held on April 28 in Chicago, Cabana defeated long-time friend and fellow Chicago wrestler Adam Pearce.

He made several appearances as Scotty Goldman with WWE on its SmackDown brand before being released from his contract in 2009.