Bill DeMott

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Bill DeMott : biography

November 10, 1966 –

William Charles "Bill" DeMott II (born November 10, 1966) is an American professional wrestler and road agent, who is currently signed to WWE and works as head trainer for NXT. He is best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as Hugh Morrus and Bill DeMott respectively and as Crash the Terminator in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and Japan.

While wrestling in WCW, he became a two-time United States Champion and one-time World Tag Team Champion. DeMott later became a trainer for WWE Tough Enough, for which he is known for his strict, firm-but-fair style in handling trainees.

Championships and accomplishments

  • Americas Wrestling Federation (Puerto Rico)
    • AWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • Heartland Wrestling Association
    • HWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Raven
  • Pennsylvania Championship Wrestling
    • PCW Championship (1 time)
  • Pro Wrestling Illustrated
    • PWI ranked him #40 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2001
    • PWI ranked him #450 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI Years in 2003.
  • Wrestling International New Generations
    • W*ING Championship (1 time)
    • W*ING Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Mr. Pogo
  • World Championship Wrestling
    • WCW United States Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
    • WCW World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Alex Wright

Professional wrestling career

Overseas (1990–1993)

DeMott was trained by Johnny Rodz in his New York wrestling school beginning in 1988. From there he began working at small independent promotions using the name Big Sweet Williams. In 1992 DeMott began wrestling for the American Wrestling Federation and started using the name Crash The Terminator. Under this name he found some success, first capturing the AWF Heavyweight title from Steve Strong in Puerto Rico, before moving on to the Japanese promotion W*ING and winning their tag team championship with Mr. Pogo. In 1993, while competing in W*ING, Demott won a 16 man tournament to be crowned their heavyweight champion.

Extreme Championship Wrestling (1993–1994)

When DeMott returned to the United States, he wrestled for Extreme Championship Wrestling for a short time, before moving on to Pennsylvania Championship Wrestling where once again he won a heavyweight championship, this time outlasting a number of competitors in a battle royal to get it.

World Championship Wrestling (1995–2001)

The Dungeon of Doom

In 1995, DeMott was signed to a World Championship Wrestling (WCW) contract at the behest of Kevin Sullivan who had been impressed by him. He debuted in dark matches as The Man of Question and The Laughing Man, a strange gimmick that saw him wearing a singlet covered in question marks and laughing frequently. He made his television debut as a member of the Dungeon of Doom as Hugh Morrus (a pun on the word humorous) on the November 18, 1995 episode of WCW Saturday Night in a vignette inside the Dungeon, where "The Taskmaster" Kevin Sullivan told his "father" the Master that he was giving him something he never had- laughter, and that he was giving him "the man from the Isle of Nowhere." The Morrus name would last most of his WCW career. The most prominent thing about Hugh Morrus was his finisher, a moonsault dubbed "No Laughing Matter", which often ended with a headbutt. Seeing the nearly 300 pound man sail through the air impressed a number of people (both in the crowd and backstage).

Upon the dissolution of the Dungeon Of Doom, Morrus was relegated to a lower spot on the card than ever before. As a curtain jerker he made history on September 22, 1997, when he became the first wrestler to lose a televised match to Bill Goldberg.