BloodAngel
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Lonestar State Wrestling Heavyweight Champion,
Phoenix Underground Wrestling Heavyweight Champion,
National Wrestling Council (Central) Heavyweight Champion,
Degenerate World Order Hardcore Champion,
Hawaiian Island Wrestling Tag Team Champions (w/ Hiro Saotome),
Seattle Wrestling Federation Hardcore Champion,
New England Wrestling Syndicate Crimson Riot Champion,
Global Wrestling Heavyweight Champion (2),
Global Wrestling Platinum Championship,
Global Wrestling Intercontinental Champion.
Edward Carter Lambert, better known perhaps by his ring name of BloodAngel, is a professional wrestler known for his incessant smoking, brusque personality, violent temper, and repeated battles with alcoholism. Currently he wrestles for the Sin City Championship Wrestling. Formerly a member of Global and the National Wrestling Council. Edward is arguably one of the most successful Hardcore wrestlers that still grace the industry. He isn't so much a garbage wrestler as he is an "anything goes" wrestler and is known for frequntly harming both himself and various opponents during violent and bloody matches.
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Early Life
Amateur Career
Edward began his career as a professional wrestler in Canada during the early nineties. Dave Rorabeck owned and ran an organization called the "Degenerate World Order" based out of Toronto. He saw something of talent in the largely untrained Edward and hired him to a temporary contract. Edwards had two years of semi-professional experience he earned while wrestling in college, however when he moved to Toronto and began working with the man wrestlers called Scribe he finally began coming into his own.
Edward entered the company as many new wrestlers had done before him; with no fan base, little training, and limited knowledge of what he was doing inside the ring. During his two year stint with the DWO he slowly earned a reputation for having a "never say die" attitude and raw talent. Despite the talent that was obvious to promoters and compeditors, Edward failed to live up to any expectations, and when the DWO began to downsize, Edward was amongst the first wrestlers to lose their jobs.
With the experience that his time in Canada had taught him, and a utterly lacking in both the fanbase and much training, Edward discovered that the height of wrestlings popularity may have been an easy time to get a job, but it took hard work and dedication to keep it. He bounced around for a year wrestling at small independant federations while honing his craft. Eventually Edward came under the tutelage of veteran grapplers Alan Frost and "Smiling" Jack Atkins while working in Hawaii. With the two mentors helping him hone his craft and in turn beating the hell out of him when he failed to live up to their rigerous teachings, Edward adopted the name BloodAngel and began earning serious attention.
Professional Circuits
Daniel Brown owned a regional federation in Nevada that he gave the unlikely name of "Ultimate Wrestling Federation". While far from ultimate, during their heyday the UWF was a respected name in the sport. Dan brought the newly renamed BloodAngel into his federation and began Edward on his path of barbed wire and chairs. Dan was seeking someone large enough to be a visible threat to his at the time hardcore talent and upon Edwards arrival he found himself constantly facing a barrage of bottles, chairs, barbed wire, and trash cans. While his year of working with Alan and Jack had taught him his strengths, his time in the UWF showed him his true caling. Edward began a systematic rework of his career, previously unknown he crafted his persona around violence and taking steps that most would flinch at. At their larges annual Pay Per View "Gold Rush" Edward sent himself and a man named Dub through a second story plate glass window. The first of many scars on his body appeared shortly afterwards as he continued each week to bring new levels of violence to the ring. After five months of this, and faced with a mass walkout of his talent, Dan Brown released Edward from his contract over his antics both in the ring, and his alcoholism.
Now having found his niche, Edward turned his gaze back to Canada and the few friends he had made working for the DWO. After a year and a half, he returned a much changed person. Once again recapturing old friendships and establishing himself as a rising star in the wrestling industry, Edward was shocked when the DWO was closed due to financial concerns and allegations of embezzlement.
Luckily for Edward, the biggest opportunity of his life was just around the corner.
National Wrestling Council
Edward entered the National Wrestling Council in company with a few of his friends from the DWO. These five men called themselves the Crimson Riot, and while they were some of the more talented independant talent to enter the NWC in quite some time, nobody gave them much credit due to their names. Wrestling at the time was leaving the more gimmicky names behind and pushing into edgier territory, and the five men who made up the Crimson Riot were viewed as something of a throwback. Despite talent and drive, the entrance of these five men was viewed as a joke. Time and again Edward and his friends wrestled in gimmicky matches in the New England Wrestling Syndicate, a territory of the NWC known for it's gimmicky matches and various inane actions. Following NEWS's final PPV, "Outside In" the five men who made up the Crimson Riot went their seperate ways. Four of the five men left the NWC, leaving only Edward remaining.
Following the closure of the NEWS, Edward entered a contract with the Seattle Wrestling Federation, another of the many territories that worked together under the umbrella of the National Wrestling Council. For a time in the SWF Edward floundered, before again beginning to turn heads with his penchant for violence, his bad temper, and his seemingly incessant alcoholism. When finally the SWF closed it's doors, Edward was a well known talent in the NWC and rode a mild wave of popularity into a contract with Minnesota State Wrestling.
NWC: MSW
Edward entered the MSW on a wave of speculation. Rather than eschewing his popularity as he had previously, Edward began to cater to his fans and his popularity rose to levels he had never dreamed of before. Rather than being mired in the midcard with stereotypical hardcore wrestlers, Edward's star was on the rise. Following a three match series with one of the most respected grapplers in the NWC, Edward found himself challenging for the MSW's Heavyweight Title. Following a brutal match with The Hunter, Edward had achieved his first heavyweight title. It was followed shortly afterwards by his challenging the NWC's World Heavyweight Champion: Lance Marshall.
Unfortunatly, during his preperations to face Marshall for the NWC World Title, Edward had a public blackout that the NWC offices attributed to mild brain damage from his years of abuse in various hardcore matches. In reality the truth was his alcoholism had reared it's ugly head. Desperate to not have one of their more popular stars look like a violent drunk, the NWC and MSW forced Edward to stick to the brain damage story for the remainder of his NWC career, a very unpopular move as it was fairly obvious that no such damage had occured. Despite the idiotic story he had been forced into, Edward faced Lance Marshall, and in one of two five star matches that occured in the NWC that year, Edward captured the NWC World Heavyweight Championship for the first time in his career and less than a year after joining the NWC.
His reign however was short lived, as three weeks later, at NWC: EPIC Edward lost the title to J.W. Oswald in the second of two five star matchs held in the NWC that year. Upon returning to the MSW following his short title reign, Edward found his reigional star was somewhat diminished, while his brain damage was publically accepted, in the backstage it was known to be both a lie, and a cover for his raging alcoholism. Shortly afterwards, the MSW was folded silently and reopened in Texas. Edward followed the transition shortly before disagreements with the new management forced him to seek his release.
NWC: Regional Transition
NWC: Central
Post NWC
Global
Sin City Championship Wrestling
Championships and Accomplishments
Personal Life
Alcoholism
Edward has battled for years with alcoholism. During the beginning of his career his alcoholism was overlooked, as substance abuse during the early nineties was a common occurance. Despite various collegues and friends taking performance enhancing and mind altering substances, Edward stuck with the bottle. Eventually, following his stint with the UWF, Edward spent sixty days in a county jail for a drunk driving violation, and upon release he entered a rehabilitation program to help his alcoholism.
This first attempt at sobriety failed less than four hours following his release from rehab, and Edward was drinking again. During his time in the DWO and the early years of his time in the NWC Edward became known as a constant drinker. He claimed that his drinking helped remove the various pains that accompanied his life, but in truth he was simply an alcoholic. His first public bout of alcoholism was hushed over by the NWC corporate offices but it would come back to plague him less than a year later. Following the NWC restructuring Edward wrestled intoxicated at the NWC event "Devils Due" and was terminated on the spot. Edward was forced into rehab a second time by his family and after emerging two months later he returned to wrestling a sober man.
This sobriety would last most of a year, before once again, Edward turned again to the bottle. Following the closure of the NWC Edward dealt with his addiction in private, before once again returning to wrestling. He managed to keep a handle on his drinking through his year long stint with Global, and thus far in his employment with SCCW. However given his history of alcoholism odds are good trouble will occur again.
Smoking and Lung Cancer
Edward began smoking at the tender age of fifteen. He has stated repeatedly that the first time he inhaled from a cigarette he fell in love with smoking. Edward smokes Lucky Strikes, and has now for fifteen years. Because of the harshness of these cigarettes his voice has become raspy over the years.
In early 2007 after coughing blood up following a mild workout, Edward underwent medical examination and was diagnosed with early stage three lung cancer. Edward was proscribed a medical regimen, was ordered to stop physically strenuous activities and to cease smoking. While he has followed the medical regimen perfectly, he has neither stopped wrestling nor smoking.
In February 2008 Edward was given less than a year to live.
