Seth Copeland

Seth Copeland

First Appearance

Latest Appearance

IWF

WWA

Federations

International Wrestling Federation
eXtreme Wrestling Association
Asia-Pacific Championship Wrestling
Universal Wrestling Alliance
World Wrestling Alliance

Age

31

Birthplace

St. Paul, Minnesota

Finisher

The Endgame

Wrestling Style

Power/Technical

Championships

WWA Television Champion

Handler

Brad Copeland

Seth Copeland (born May 18th, 1977) is an American professional wrestler best known for his time in the International Wrestling Federation, eXtreme Wrestling Association and Universal Wrestling Alliance. He currently wrestles for the World Wrestling Alliance, a former member of the Primetime Central circuit.

Aggressive, intellagent, and extremly violent. Seth is an incredibly gifted individual, he is a former 9 time World Heavyweight Champion throughout his career. He is a well rounded wrestler in every aspect, but his greatest strength comes from his amazing power, his technical ability and his martial arts background. He is incredibly cerebral, he analyzes everything before and during a match and his strategy is too inflict as much pain on his opponents as possible.

Over the years Seth has become one of the most feared men in all of prossesional wrestling and is famous for forming the now legendary stable known as Lethal Aggression; along with Chris Shea, TJ Codair, Sabre and "The Daredevil" Scott Maverick.

Seth Copeland is an accomplished singles and tag team wrestler with over 13 years experience inside the squared circle, he has concentrated on his singles career in recent years and since joining the World Wrestling Alliance has stated his intention to become WWA World Heavyweight Champion on more than one occasion.

Early Life

Seth Copeland was born on the 5/18/77 in St. Paul, Minnesota to Jack and Catherine Copeland, he is the youngest of three children, at the age of two the family moved to New Orleans where his father was excepted to work as a Prosecuting Attorney, his mother took a job at one of the local hospitals as an E.R. doctor. He attended school there until the age of eight when the family again moved, this time to Los Angeles, California. They settled in Huntington Beach and later Newport Beach in Orange County.

Seth had quite a privileged upbringing, at the age of five he started his first martial art; Brazilian Jujitsu, finishing with a black belt at the age of eight, shortly after he began training in Muay Thai and Thai Kwon Do at the same time, finishing both with a black belt at the age of twelve, not long after that he was arrested for assault on two sixteen year old teenagers for stealing his bike, Copeland was always a big child and at the age of twelve was 6'0” and weighed 210lbs due to his natural size and weight lifting starting after his eleventh birthday. He was charged but escaped detention and his parents decided to send him to the Army and Navy Academy in Carlsberg, California.

There Seth excelled in sports becoming a running back in his first two years of playing football for the Warriors and later he became an All-American middle linebacker, holding the academy sack record with nine against San Pasqual Academy, equaling the all time conference record, at the same time he was playing football he took up wrestling training with Sgt. Mike Constantine; a former champion professional and amateur freestyle wrestler. He started training at the age of fifteen and at the age of seventeen made his wrestling debut for an Indy federation linked to the International Wrestling Federation, he was still in high school. Seth originally wanted to play in the NFL and would have done so, but after the death of his grandmother, whom he thought was the only person who connected with him, he dropped out of university in his second semester and he fell into wrestling fulltime.

Career

Seth Copeland made his official Professional wrestling debut at the age of eighteen in the IWF, winning by pinfall to 'Sugar' Shane Davidson a man he would meet and beat again 5 months later in an epic ladder match to win his first ever title; the IWF Intercontinental Championship. Seth went on to lose and retain the IC title 6 times as well as the IWF Tag Team Championship 4 times and becoming the youngest ever 2 time IWF World Champion in history, just days after his twentieth birthday.

Seth left the IWF and joined XWA where he had arguably his most successful run, he had a big change of attitude and regardless of what the fans thought he was uncompromising and became a heel winning his first title just weeks after his debut, he became XWA’s first triple crown champion eight months later holding the United States, World Tag Team and World Heavyweight Championships at the same time and eventually the first ever grand slam champion (2 Time Extreme Champion, 5 time United States Champion, 4 Time World Tag Team Champion and 4 time XWA World Heavyweight Champion), After a year in the company the fans took to his new attitude and started to cheer for him, dubbing him the "American Psycho". He also met his former valet and future wife Siren (real name Brooke King) in the company aswell.

After four years in the XWA he took an eight month hiatus and joined Japanese based company Asia-Pacific Championship Wrestling winning the companies highest title twice, the Asia-Pacific Heavyweight Championship as well as the Asia-Pacific Tag Team Championship.

After twelve months in the company he signed a multi million dollar contract with the Universal Wrestling Alliance; he immediately got involved in a dangerous and almost deadly feud with UWA World Heavyweight Champion Hunter Harley, culminating in a brutal Hell In A Cell match for the UWA Championship in which Copeland ended Harley’s career. In the midst of the feud, Seth met friend Chris Shea and formed the now legendary stable, Lethal Aggression; recruiting fellow wrestlers TJ Codair, Damian "Sabre" Jones and "The Daredevil" Scott Maverick. Together they dominated the UWA, Copeland even won a high stakes match to become UWA President and held the mantle for over a year until a UWA powerbroker stripped him of the presidency and fired him on the spot. Copeland gave him a parting gift, The Endgame on a steel chair placed on the mat by Shea.

UWA lost all five Lethal Aggression members including the UWA Championship, which Copeland took with, Omega Championship Wrestling; where Copeland, Shea, Sabre and Codair each held the UWA/OCW Championship. Shea was the first to win the title after Copeland vacated it due to injury, losing it to Luther Van Holt, Copeland with the help of Sabre and Codair later won back the title he never lost, the UWA/OCW Championship from Van Holt after Shea and Maverick were fired from the company but returned weeks later to rejoin LA. Copeland held the title for a record setting six month reign, losing to Sabre in a fatal four way match against his fellow Lethal Aggression stable mates; Sabre, Shea and Maverick. Sabre turned on LA and months later lost the title and his job in a title vs. career match to T.J. Codair, the new Lethal Aggression ruled UWA/OCW for months before Luther Van Holt won the title from Codair, later in the night, a bruised and battered Chris Shea became a two time UWA/OCW Champion by defeating the newly crowned Van Holt with the help of Copeland and Codair. Months later Shea relinquished the Championship due to a career ending neck injury and T.J. Codair won a twenty man battle royal to win the title for a second time.

Seth Copeland along with Chris Shea left the company looking for a new challenge but Copeland faded into obscurity in early 2006 after some personal issues; however, he started training and wrestling in special events, which reignited his desire to be the best yet again and he signed a multi million dollar contract with the World Wrestling Alliance in August 2007.

Upon his arrival in the WWA, Seth won his debut match thus gaining the number one contendership to the WWA Television Championship, a few weeks later he competed in the Halloween House of Pain match for the WWA Extreme Championship and defeated then Television Champion, Eddie Van Dorn, for the TV title one week later. He successfully defended the Television title in the Birthday Brawl and main evented Rage in the Cage XI.....all this success in his first year with the company had his fans and peers calling him "The Next Big Thing" in the WWA.....now who can argue with that?

Within Wrestling

Tale of the Tape

• Height: 6'4"
• Weight: 280lbs
• Date Of Birth: May 18th 1977
• Originally From: St. Paul, Minnesota
• Now Resides: Los Angeles, California

Nicknames

• The War Machine
• The Beast
• The American Psycho

Theme Music

• "The Poison" by Bullet For My Valentine (original WWA theme)
• "Psychosocial" by Slipknot

Finishing & Signature Moves

• The Endgame (Butterfly Faceplant/The Pedigree)
  • The Ten Point Five (Vicious Sitdown Powerbomb)
  • The Sky Elbow (High Leaping 'Macho Man' Elbow Drop from top turnbuckle)
  • High Impact Chokeslam (Lifting opponent up and then quickly down hard to the mat, going to his knee to add to the impact)
    • Lethal Spear (Executed Goldberg style)
    • Lethal Strikes (Muay Thai clinch followed by four hard knee strikes to the face)
    • Lethal Spinebuster (Vicious Arn Anderson style Spinebuster)
    • Lethal Clothesline (When opponent is clotheslined they fold up on the mat like an accordion due to the ferociousness of the impact)
    • Springboard Lethal Clothesline (Performed from the ring apron into the ring)
    • The Exploder (T-Bone Powerslam)
    • The Deepest Sleep (Modified Inverted Spinning Neckbreaker)
    • GTS (Go To Sleep)
    • Gorilla Press Powerslam (opponent dropped down onto shoulder and then into a powerslam)
    • Running Powerslam (Similar to British Bulldog version)
    • Single Shoulder Backbreaker (Lifts opponent across his shoulder and then drops to his knees delivering a modified powerhouse backbreaker)
    • Triple Vertical Suplex (Eddie Guerrero Triple)
    • Stalling Vertical Suplex (British Bulldog style)
    • Triple German Suplexes (On occasion Triple Aztec Suplexes, where opponents arms are crossed in a straight jacket position and arms held for leverage to aid in lifting)
    • MMA Strikes; Standing and Mounted (Elbows, Forearms, Punches, Chops, Shins, Knees, Kicks)
    • Various Submission holds; Anaconda Vice, Elevated Boston Crab, Sharpshooter, Texas Cloverleaf, Crippler Crossface, Gogoplata, BJJ Triangle Choke, BJJ Armbar, Dragon Sleeper, Single Shoulder Backbreaker, Torture Rack

Championships & Accomplishments

• International Wrestling Federation
  • IWF World Champion (x2)
  • IWF Intercontinental Champion (x6)
  • IWF World tag Team Champion (x4)

• eXtreme Wrestling Association
  • XWA World Heavyweight Champion (x4)
  • XWA United States Heavyweight Champion (x6)
  • XWA World Tag Team Champion (x4)
  • XWA Extreme Champion (x2)

• Asia Pacific Championship Wrestling
  • Asia Pacific Heavyweight Champion (x2)
  • Asia Pacific Tag Team Champion (x2)

• Universal Wrestling Alliance
  • UWA/OCW World Heavyweight Champion (x1)
  • UWA/OCW North American Heavyweight Champion (x2)

• World Wrestling Alliance
  • WWA Television Champion (x1)