Ulf Herman

Ulf Nadrowski (born April 4, 1966) is a German professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Ulf Herman.

In Vienna he began performing for a small promotion, and he wrestled his first match on August 27, 1989, under the name Ulf Ranger, which he won.

In January 1990 he wrestled in South Africa for eight weeks.

On 23 January 1992, he was defeated by South African rival Shaun Koen at the Good Hope Centre.

He returned to Germany, working for small promotions, but earned a tryout in the World Wrestling Federation as "Herman the German".

He defeated Louie Spiccoli, who later wrestled for the WWF as Rad Radford.

Herman then travelled to the United Kingdom, where he gained experience so he could wrestle for the CWA in Vienna.

He worked for All Star Wrestling during this time, appearing in backstage footage for Robbie Brookside's Video Diary filmed in 1993 for BBC2, as well as making Welsh TV appearances for S4C's Reslo, where he sometimes appeared as the Hollywood Blond, a Sting impersonator gimmick.

In the last tournament of the year in 1993 in Bremen he was selected as 'Rookie Of The Year' and wrestled but lost a match against Papa Shango, which took place at the Euro Catch Festival.

On August 16, 1994, Herman and August Smisl won the CWA Tag Team Championship from Fury and John Hawk (substituting for Rage) in Vienna, Austria.

They held the belts for almost three months before dropping them to John Hawk and Cannonball Grizzly in Bremen, Germany.

In 1995 he wrestled The Ultimate Warrior who made a guest-appearance in the CWA for one match.

Herman lost the match.

On August 16, 1997, Herman was defeated by Marshall Duke in Vienna for the then vacant CWA World Heavyweight Championship.

The title was later vacated.

He is best known in the United States for his appearances in Extreme Championship Wrestling where he was part of The Full Blooded Italians faction from 1998 to 1999.

Herman is also known around the world for his time in the European independent circuit, most notably in the United Kingdom for All Star Wrestling, the BWF (including appearances on S4C's Welsh-language Reslo show), Frontier Wrestling Alliance, and more recently 1 Pro Wrestling and Real Quality Wrestling (where he is currently RQW Heavyweight Champion).

Born in Hildesheim, Germany, Ulf Nadrowski was a local swimming champion in his native country and also did some Judo before he decided to get into wrestling.

Herman travelled to Dortmund, Linz, Graz and Vienna, in order to train there.

In 1998, Herman travelled to the United States where he competed for Extreme Championship Wrestling.

On March 20, 1998, he made his ECW debut in a loss to Doug Furnas.

He quickly aligned himself with manager Lance Wright as part of The Wright Connection, a short-lived heel stable of "unofficial" WWF stars, along with Brakkus, Danny Doring, Mike Lozanski, Roadkill and 2 Cold Scorpio.

At A Matter of Respect, Herman and The Equalizer served as Danny Doring's cornermen in his match against John Kronus.

On June 26, he teamed with Mike Lozansky and Michael Kovac; they lost to the team of Axl Rotten, Balls Mahoney and John Kronus.

He faced Kronus in a series of matches on house shows.

On August 8, Herman picked up his first victory in ECW by defeating Kronus.

On August 28, 1998 Tommy Dreamer, The Blue Meanie and Super Nova beat Jack Victory, Danny Doring and Herman.

He and Danny Doring also lost to The Blue World Order (Super Nova and The Blue Meanie) at UltraClash.

Later that year, Herman briefly joined the ECW stable called The Full Blooded Italians.

The stable gained a cult following in ECW.

While Herman slowly faded away from ECW in the coming months, he still earned various title shots against Rob Van Dam and Sabu, but the matches did not garner any real interest.

Nevertheless, Herman would participate in the ECW pay-per-view November to Remember.

Herman didn't appear again until January 16, 1999, where, at ECW's House Party, he was defeated again by Kronus.

He was among the dozens of challengers who faced Rob Van Dam during his two-year run as ECW World Television Champion.

To this day he states that his favourite match was against Van Dam in Detroit, Michigan.

Ulf's last match in ECW was against his friend Sabu on January 30, 1999.

After his stint in ECW, Ulf returned to Europe where he captured NWA Germany's heavyweight championship.

On September 23, 2000, Hermann defeated visiting American wrestler Bruiser Mastino in Schmedenstedt, Hannover during the ex-WWF star's tour of Germany.

Herman continued on the European independent circuit making a name for himself in the United Kingdom once more, competing in Frontier Wrestling Alliance and later 1 Pro Wrestling.

On February 9, 2002, Herman took part in one of the FWA's biggest shows, 'Revival', which featured a "European vs. United States" storyline, where he defeated Brian Christopher at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre.