Oren Hawxhurst

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Oren Hawxhurst : biography

July 8, 1981 –

Oren Hawxhurst (born July 8, 1981) is an American professional wrestler, actor and stuntman. He is best known under the ring name Luke Hawx and is also known for his time in Xtreme Pro Wrestling under the ring name Altar Boy Luke.

Championships and accomplishments

  • Continental Wrestling Federation
    • CWF Championship (1 time, current)
  • Extreme Rising
    • Extreme Breakout Star (2012)
  • Pro Wrestling Illustrated
    • PWI ranked him #477 of the top 500 Wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2009
  • WildKat Pro Wrestling
    • WildKat Heavyweight Championship (1 time, current)
  • Xtreme Pro Wrestling
    • XPW King of the Deathmatch Championship (1 time)

Media

Filmography

  • The Mechanic (2010) stunts
  • Brother’s Keeper (2010) stunts
  • Maskerade (2010) stunts
  • Wrong Side of Town (2010) stunts
  • The Dead Sleep Easy (2007) as Fighter 1

Professional wrestling career

Xtreme Pro Wrestling

After regularly attending independent wrestling shows during his teenage years, he met "Vicious Vic" Grimes. After keeping in contact with him, Hawxhurst eventually received full training from Grimes. In 1999, Hawxhurst made his pro wrestling debut in Pensacola, Florida as Perry Douglas against Lightning Kid Jerry Riner. Soon afterwards, he toured the United States independent circuit before being signed to a contract by Xtreme Pro Wrestling. Upon his XPW debut, Hawxhurst, under the ring name Altar Boy Luke, was placed in a tag team with Altar Boy Matthew to form The Altar Boys. To further emphasize their characters, both Luke and Matthew shaved their heads and wore white preaching robes.

After Matthew left XPW due to family issues, Luke began competing as a singles wrestler, and participated in the final King of the Deathmatch Tournament to determine the new King of the Deathmatch Champion. He won his first round match by beating Vinnie Massaro, but lost to Supreme in the second round. Despite losing the tournament, Luke faced Supreme in a Bed of Light Tubes and Barbed Wire match at the Fallout event on October 5 and defeated him to win the King of the Deathmatch Title. On December 21 at the Merry F’n X-Mas event, Luke lost the title back to Supreme in a House of Horrors Match.

On May 24, 2008 at XPW’s reunion event, Cold Day In Hell, Hawx defeated Jack Evans and Scorpio Sky in a three-way match. On August 22, 2009 at XPW’s 10 Year Anniversary show, Hawx and Sky defeated Matt Cross and Tool in a tag team match.

Independent circuit

When XPW folded in early 2003, Hawxhurst changed his ring name to Luke Hawx and also adopted a more traditional ring attire before resuming work on the independent circuit for various promotions, including Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, Ring of Honor, Combat Zone Wrestling, and NWA Wildside.

On the November 11, 2006 taping of MTV’s Wrestling Society X, Hawx debuted for the show in a losing effort to Human Tornado. At the taping the next day, Hawx teamed with Al Katrazz in a winning effort against Kaos and Aaron Aguilera in a Tables, Ladders and Chairs match. On the November 14 taping, Hawx and Katrazz won again after defeating Keep It Gangsta (Ruckus and Babi Slymm) before losing to The Trailer Park Boys (Nate Webb and Josh Raymond). On the February 13, 2007 episode of WSX, Hawx and Katrazz defeated Kaos and Aguilera in a TLC rematch. WSX folded shortly afterwards.

On August 4, 2012 in Orlando, Florida, Hawxhurst defeated Jesse Neal to win the Continental Wrestling Federation Championship.

Extreme Rising

In early 2012, Shane Douglas announced the foundation of the Extreme Rising promotion, with its inaugural event, Extreme Reunion, to be held on April 28, 2012. At the event, Hawx made his debut for the promotion as a heel by venting his frustrations about Douglas and the reunion show itself before he was escorted from the building by security. He later returned to distract Stevie Richards in the event’s opening match, which ultimately cost the Blue World Order their tag team match against the Full Blooded Italians. On June 29, Hawk was able to defeat Richards in an "Extreme Respect" match following assistance from Sylvester Terkay. The following night, Richards defeated Hawx in a rematch, but was attacked by Hawx after the match. Hawx took the mic and once again called out Douglas before being forced to the back security. Hawx then competed at Extreme Rising’s first iPPV event Remember November, entering the Extreme Rising Championship Tournament. He defeating Perry Saturn by submission in the first round and later interfered in the main event, where he legitimately injured Matt Hardy during Hardy’s match against Shane Douglas.