Corporal Robinson

Stephen Robinson, known by the ring name Corporal Robinson, is an American professional wrestler best known for his hardcore wrestling style, Robinson has wrestled for various wrestling promotions, including Juggalo Championship Wrestling, Combat Zone Wrestling, UPW Pro Wrestling, and Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South.

He is a former four-time JCW Heavyweight Champion.

In his professional wrestling career, Robinson is an eight time Heavyweight champion having won the CCW Heavyweight Championship once, EPW Heavyweight Championship once, IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship once, JCW Heavyweight Championship four times, and MAW Heavyweight Championship once.

In addition to these championships, he has won the IWA Mid-South Deathmatch Championship twice, MAW Tag Team Championship once with Hardcore Craig, and PWU Hardcore Championship twice.

In 1997, Robinson wrestled for Insane Clown Posse at the event ICP's Strangle-Mania Live.

Two years later, he, 2 Tuff Tony, and Mad Man Pondo wrestled at the Dan Curtis Memorial, an independent wrestling booker who had recently worked for Insane Clown Posse.

Several days after the event, Tony, Robinson, and Pondo were booked to wrestle for Insane Clown Posse's first Juggalo Championshit Wrestling show.

Video of the event was later released nationally.

Robinson continued wrestling for Juggalo Championship Wrestling, including matches at the Gathering of the Juggalos festivals.

However, Robinson experienced his first taste of the hardcore style in February 1998 at "No Blood No Guts No Glory '98".

He was originally scheduled to face Shark Boy, while Mad Man Pondo was set to conclude a violent feud with wrestler Trailer Park Trash.

The Pondo-Trash match was booked for Pondo to win, however, Trailer Park Trash refused to take part, so Ian Rotten switched the opponents and Robinson took part in his first hardcore match.

Robinson decided to start wrestling deathmatches to show people that wrestling was not fake.

He said that "people were saying [that] wrestling's fake, wrestling's fake, this and that. But by the time you got done watching one of my matches, you didn't walk out of that building saying that was fake. [You'd say] those two guys just killed each other."

Robinson went on to compete in a wide range of deathmatches in IWA, including 6 King of the Deathmatch tournaments.

He also claimed the IWA-MS Heavyweight Championship on 2 occasions, as well as being a 2 time IWA-MS Deathmatch Champion.

Robinson is only the second wrestler (behind Ian Rotten) to win the King of the Deathmatch tournament multiple times.

Through his work in IWA-MS, Robinson gained national exposure and fully developed his Corporal Robinson character.

Robinson also wrestled in Insane Wrestling Federation, capturing the IWF Tag Team Title during his stint.

The referee for the promotion, A. T. Huck, was also referee and friend of Insane Clown Posse and their promotion Juggalo Championship Wrestling.

During Robinson's feud with Sabu, who was also a friend of the duo, Insane Clown Posse attended several shows.

The group hung out backstage with their friends, and also began talking to and smoking with Robinson, eventually befriending him.

He held the NWA-CCW tag team title along with his brother, Joey "Kidd" Owens as the team of Pain Inc. Robinson is also the 2004 and 2007 IWA Mid-South King of the Deathmatch Tournament winner.

Robinson was attending college on a baseball scholarship, when he was approached by a Marine Corps recruiter and he signed up with an open contract to 2nd Battalion Hotel Company at Parris Island.

Robinson was one of 287 recruits to graduate (from an intake of 299) and was designated 0311, serving time in Bosnia.

Robinson grew up watching the "pure wrestling" style of United States Wrestling Association.

After leaving the Marine Corps, he began wrestling in the local wrestling scene.

At one event, Tracy Smothers was in attendance and saw Robinson wrestle.

Following the match, Smothers told him about a wrestling school he, Jamie Dundee, and Kelly Wolfe were a part of and invited Robinson to train there.

Under their training, Robinson learned the "pure wrestling" style which he had grown up watching.

He soon started his professional career working for Kentuckiana Championship Wrestling.

There, Robinson created his gimmick of an ex-Marine, which he legitimately was, and came to the ring waving an American flag and saluting the crowd.

During this time, Extreme Championship Wrestling had begun to receive national exposure.

After watching an episode of ECW, Robinson fell in love with the Hardcore wrestling style.

Ian Rotten soon approached him about joining his promotion IWA Mid-South, which adapted the same hardcore style of wrestling as ECW.

When Robinson first arrived in IWA-MS, he was still known as a "pure wrestler".

On October 31, 2006, Robinson defeated Mad Man Pondo to become the JCW Heavyweight Champion.

The following year, Robinson went on tour with JCW to film the internet wrestling show SlamTV!, where he defended his championship against multiple opponents until he began feuding with "Holy" Trent Acid.

On March 6, 2007, Corporal Robinson lost the JCW Heavyweight Championship to Trent Acid at West Side Wars.

On March 14, at East Side Wars, Robinson defeated Acid in a steel cage match to regain the JCW Heavyweight Championship.