Lance Storm

Lance Timothy Evers (born April 3, 1969), known professionally by his ring name Lance Storm, is a Canadian retired professional wrestler.

He is currently signed to TNA Wrestling where he works as a producer.

He is best known for his work in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and the World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment (WWF/WWE), where he held a combined 13 total championships (including holding three titles simultaneously in WCW).

Lance Timothy Evers was born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, on April 3, 1969.

Evers graduated from West Ferris Secondary School in North Bay, Ontario, and attended Wilfrid Laurier University School of Business and Economics in Waterloo, playing volleyball throughout.

Lance Storm was trained by Ed Langley and Brad Young of the Hart Brothers Wrestling Camp at the Silver Dollar Action Centre in Calgary, where he became friends with fellow student Chris Jericho.

Jericho has stated that despite the name of the school, the only involvement any of the Hart brothers had in their training was a "thirty-minute cameo" by Keith Hart to collect the student's fees.

Storm began his career in 1990, training with Chris Jericho.

They worked together in Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW), forming a tag team known as The Thrillseekers.

Lance would later debut against Jericho in 1990 as "Lance T. Storm".

Early on, he mainly wrestled in Calgary but also spent time in Japan in Wrestling Association "R".

Along with Jericho, Storm debuted in Smoky Mountain Wrestling in 1994, forming a tag team known as The Thrillseekers.

After Jericho was injured, Storm continued to compete in singles competition for a few months, even winning the "Beat the Champ" TV Title.

He then left SMW and moved on to a Winnipeg-based West Four Wrestling Alliance, where he teamed once again with Jericho.

In 1995, he began wrestling in Japan for WAR.

He formed a tag team with Yuji Yasuraoka (with whom he held the WAR International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship numerous times), as well as forming a trio with Nobutaka Araya and Koki Kitahara, with whom he held the WAR World Six-Man Tag Team Championship.

In 1997, Storm joined ECW, where he worked with Justin Credible as the Impact Players.

In 1997, Storm joined Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), making his debut at Crossing the Line Again against Balls Mahoney.

Early in his ECW career, he took part in a match against Rob Van Dam at Barely Legal where he was booed by the crowd for two visibly "weak" chair shots to Van Dam.

At Heat Wave, Storm faced Taz for the ECW World Television Championship but failed to win the title.

At November to Remember in November 1997, Storm and Chris Candido defeated Tommy Rogers and Jerry Lynn.

The following month, at Better Than Ever, Storm and Candido won the ECW World Tag Team Championship from the Can-Am Express.

Despite being the champions, the duo retained a rivalry and at CyberSlam in February 1998, Storm defeated Candido.

At Living Dangerously in March 1998, Storm and Al Snow defeated Shane Douglas and Candido.

At Wrestlepalooza in May 1998, Storm and Candido defeated the Hardcore Chair Swingin' Freaks (Balls Mahoney and Axl Rotten) to retain the ECW World Tag Team Championship.

In June 1998, Storm and Candido lost the ECW World Tag Team Championship to Sabu and Rob Van Dam.

On the July 22, 1998 episode of ECW Hardcore TV, Storm walked out on Candido during a title match against Sabu and Van Dam, thus ending their team and beginning a feud between the two men.

On the September 5, 1998 episode of Hardcore TV, Storm introduced his valet Tammy Lynn Bytch, a parody of Candido's real life girlfriend Tammy Lynn Sytch, who appeared in ECW to side with Candido and feuded with Bytch.

Storm and Candido feuded until late 1998.

At November to Remember, Storm defeated Jerry Lynn with Mikey Whipwreck as special guest referee.

Following his feud with Candido, Storm joined forces with his trainee Justin Credible in February 1999 at Crossing the Line '99.

The duo formed a tag team named The Impact Players.

At Living Dangerously, The Impact Players faced Tommy Dreamer and Shane Douglas in a losing effort.

The stable joined Storm and his valet (now renamed Dawn Marie) with Credible and his manager Jason.

They first feuded with Jerry Lynn and Sabu in singles matches and by late 1999, they had begun a violent feud with Tommy Dreamer and The Sandman.

He stayed with ECW until 2000, then signed with World Championship Wrestling.

In WCW, Storm won the United States, Cruiserweight and Hardcore Championships at the same time, renaming them as Canadian, 100 kg and Under Championship, and Saskatchewan Hardcore International Title.

When WCW closed, his contract was bought by World Wrestling Federation (WWF), being involved in The Invasion storyline.

He kept wrestling with WWF (later WWE) until 2005, when he left.

Since then, Storm focused on the independent circuit as well as his training school, the Storm Wrestling Academy, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.