Sean O'Haire

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Sean Christopher Hairecite web|url=http://dwb.islandpacket.com/news/local/story/6453768p-5749330c.html|title=Ex-wrestler charged in the past|date=2007-04-07|last=Crites|first=Ben|accessdate=2008-09-22|publisher=islandpacket.com] (born February 25 1971) is an American mixed martial artist and former professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Sean O'Haire.

Wrestling career

World Championship Wrestling

O'Haire began his career in WCW in June 2000, in Des Moines, Iowa (during the Vince Russo era), where he formed a tag team with fellow WCW Power Plant graduate Mark Jindrak. In August, O'Haire and Jindrak helped form the Natural Born Thrillers with Mike Sanders, Shawn Stasiak, Chuck Palumbo, Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli, and Reno.cite web|url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/n/natural-born-thrillers.html|title=The Natural Born Thrillers Profile|accessdate=2008-09-22|publisher=Online World Of Wrestling] They were briefly "coached" by Kevin Nash. In September, O'Haire and Jindrak won the WCW World Tag Team Championship for the first time.cite web|url=http://www.solie.org/titlehistories/ttwcw.html|title=WCW World Tag Team Title History|last=Duncan|first=Royal|coauthors=Will, Gary|accessdate=2008-09-22|publisher=Solie's Title Histories]

O'Haire and Jindrak won the title once more before splitting when O'Haire and Jindrak participated in a tag team battle royal with the Natural Born Thrillers teammates Stasiak and Palumbo. [cite web|url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/thunder/2000.html|title=WCW Thunder Year-By-Year - 2000 - December 20|date=2000-12-20|accessdate=2008-04-26|publisher=Online World Of Wrestling] After the conclusion of the match, Sanders declared both teams victorious and said that the teams should trade partners. As a result, O'Haire formed a new tag team with Palumbo, while the second team consisted of Jindrak and Stasiak.cite web|url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/p/palumboohaire.html|title=Palumbo & O'Haire Profile|accessdate=2008-09-23|publisher=Online World Of Wrestling]

Palumbo and O'Haire defeated The Insiders (Diamond Dallas Page and Nash) in January 2001. A short time later, The Natural Born Thrillers broke up when Stasiak and Jindrak became jealous of the new tag team champs. The teams met at SuperBrawl Revenge on February 18, 2001, for the tag team gold. Palumbo and O'Haire retained their titles.

O'Haire and Palumbo next feuded with Totally Buff (Buff Bagwell and Lex Luger) and defeated them at WCW Greed on March 18, 2001 to retain their tag team championship. [cite web|url=http://slam.canoe.ca/SlamWrestlingPPV/mar19_greed-can.html|title=WCW downplays demise at Greed|date=2001-03-18|last=Powell|first=John|accessdate=2008-09-23|publisher=SLAM! Sports] For the next two weeks, O'Haire and Palumbo feuded with Team Canada (Lance Storm and Mike Awesome), defeating them on the final "Nitro" on March 26. [cite web|url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/nitro/2001.html|title=WCW Nitro Year-By-Year - March 26, 2001|date=2001-03-26|accessdate=2008-09-23|publisher=Online World Of Wrestling] WCW was purchased by Vince McMahon, and both O'Haire and Palumbo's contracts were picked up.

World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment

O'Haire and Palumbo made their WWF debuts on the June 28, 2001, episode of "SmackDown!" as part of The Alliance, attacking the Hardy Boyz. O'Haire and Palumbo started feuding with the A.P.A. in the following weeks, which ended at WWF Invasion on July 22, 2001 when the APA defeated them. [cite web|url=http://slam.canoe.ca/SlamWrestlingPPV/jul23_invasion-can.html|title=Austin turns at Invasion|date=2001-07-22|last=Powell|first=John|accessdate=2008-09-24|publisher=SLAM! Sports] Subsequently, O'Haire and Palumbo defeated the Hardy Boyz on the August 2, 2001 edition of "SmackDown!". [cite web|url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/smackdown/010802.html|title=WWE SmackDown! Results - August 2, 2001|date=2001-08-02|accessdate=2008-09-26|publisher=Online World Of Wrestling]

O'Haire and Palumbo next dropped the WCW Tag Team titles to the Brothers of Destruction (The Undertaker and Kane) on the August 9, 2001 edition of "SmackDown!" and lost their rematch for the tag-team gold in a steel cage match the following week on "Raw". [cite web|url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/smackdown/010809.html|title=WWE SmackDown! Results - August 9, 2001|date=2001-08-09|accessdate=2008-09-26|publisher=Online World Of Wrestling] [cite web|url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/raw/010813.html|title=WWE Raw Results - August 13, 2001|date=2001-08-13|accessdate=2008-09-26|publisher=Online World Of Wrestling] O'Haire and Palumbo's last televised match together was on the August 26 edition of "Heat" defeating Hardcore Holly and Crash Holly.

Palumbo was thrown out of The Alliance in late October and joined the WWF in November 2001. Also in September, O'Haire was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) for seasoning where he joined Kenny Bolin's "Bolin Services". O'Haire returned to WWE on the June 30, 2002 edition of "Heat", defeating Justin Credible. He made a few more appearances on "Heat", in dark matches and at house shows throughout the rest of 2002, facing off against and teaming with the likes of Shawn Stasiak, Doug Basham, Damaja, Crash Holly, D'Lo Brown, Johnny Stamboli, Shelton Benjamin, Charlie Haas, Christopher Nowinski, Raven, and Credible. During this time, he still worked in OVW, as well.

In January 2003 vignettes started to appear on WWE programming showing O'Haire in his new gimmick - a Devil's advocate character.cite web|url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/columns/misc/seanohwhere.html|title=Sean O'Haire (or Sean Oh'where")|date=2004-02-09|accessdate=2008-09-23|Publisher=Online World Of Wrestling] He urged people to commit adultery, break the law, not pay taxes, and not go to church, among other things. He ended each vignette with the line "I'm not telling you anything you don't already know". In 2003, O'Haire returned to the main "SmackDown!" roster, telling various superstars to perform indecent acts which included persuading Spanky to streak through the arena and Dawn Marie to flash the audience. [cite web|url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/smackdown/030206.html|title=WWE SmackDown! Results - February 6, 2003|date=2003-02-06|accessdate=2008-09-26|publisher=Online World Of Wrestling] O'Haire's dark persona included a long black trench coat he wore to the ring and his obsession with spiders, including fairly new tattoos with black flames on each wrist and on his left wrist was a red spiderweb shooting out from the flames and on his right wrist had a blue spider web. Also on the inside of his left forearm held a blue spider and on the inside of his right forearm held a red spider. His titantron video was also inside the body of a spider with a spiderweb in the background.

O'Haire quickly came under the tutelage of wrestling legend, 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper in April 2003. O'Haire's promising new persona was abandoned but he held victories over Rikishi, Mr. America (Hulk Hogan), Chris Benoit, Funaki, and Eddie Guerrero. WWE officially released Piper from his contract on June 26, 2003, right after O'Haire and Piper made their last appearance together on "SmackDown!". [cite web|url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/smackdown/030626.html|title=WWE SmackDown! Results - June 26, 2003|date=2003-06-23|accessdate=2008-09-26|publisher=Online World Of Wrestling] O'Haire was left to fend for himself and spent the majority of the rest of 2003 in matches on "Velocity", dominating anyone in his path until early December.

At that time, O'Haire was involved in a motorcycle accident which required stitches and kept him out of action for the next month or so. When he recovered in February 2004, he was sent back to OVW and despite never being pinned on WWE television, he was released on April 3, 2004.

Independent circuit

O'Haire went to work for New Japan Pro Wrestling in May 2004. On July 17, 2004, O'Haire and Piper re-united at a Buffalo Brawl show where O'Haire was Piper's hand picked wrestler to face Jimmy Hart's wrestler Abyss. O'Haire defeated Abyss by disqualification.

Mixed Martial Arts career

On October 21, 2006, O'Haire fought Eric "Butterbean" Esch at PRIDE 32 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Esch was originally announced to be fighting Mark Hunt, but the NSAC would not allow Hunt to fight Esch arguing that Hunt had an unfair mat advantage. PRIDE had stated that "visa issues" were preventing Hunt from competing in the bout, but it was later confirmed that Hunt could not compete due to the NSAC's ruling. The fight was stopped 29 seconds into the first round after Esch landed 4-5 straight punches to O'Haire's head to bring him to the ground.

On August 17, 2007, O'Haire was scheduled to fight Mark Kerr at the Mohegan Sun Arena for the Global Fighting Championships promotion but the entire card was canceled Friday night after four of the eight scheduled bouts fell through. There were hundreds of disappointed fans yet no explanation was given at that time, only a guarantee of a full refund. It was revealed by GFC representative Joel Parker that half of the night's fights were called off, prompting the decision to nix the card rather than put on a lackluster event. Parker did reveal that a few fighters were disqualified for either failing to meet their contracted weight or for medical reasons. Mixed martial arts agent Ken Pavia confirmed on Friday that Kerr and Edwin Dewees both represented by Pavia, were pulled from the card by the overseeing athletic commission. According to commission doctors, said Pavia, Kerr registered an unhealthy blood pressure reading on Thursday.cite web|url=http://www.sherdog.com/news/news/butterbean-smith-now-headlining-yamma-12133|title='Butterbean'-Smith Now Headlining Yamma|date=2008-04-03|accessdate=2008-09-23|publisher=Sherdog] Kerr was set to fight O'Haire.

O'Haire is still active in MMA. As of October 2007, he fights in "Champions Quest Fighting Challenge". He was successful in his first fight on September 29, against Darrell Wood, and beat Frankie Parkman on December 7.cite web|url=http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/sean-ohaire-11706|title=Sherdog Fightfinder - Sean O'Haire|accessdate=2008-09-23|publisher=Sherdog]

Personal life

According to fansite [http://www.seansational.com SEANsational.com] ,O'Haire got married to Joy Elizabeth in Maui, Hawaii on May 15, 2005. [ [http://www.SEANsational.com *SEANsational*] ] Approximately a year and a half later he announced their divorce during a radio interview with SquaredCircleRadio. [ [http://www.squaredcircleradio.com SquaredCircleRadio.com] ]

In 1992, O'Haire was arrested for assault, and in 2006, O'Haire was found guilty of assaulting a woman at "Club Hypnotic" in June 2004. He was also involved in a fight in Hilton Head on March 30, 2007, where his orbital bone was fractured, as well sustaining other fractures to his face and skull. Vision in his left eye was also impaired, as a result of the fight. O'Haire claimed that he was going to the aid of a friend, but other witnesses claimed that O'Haire tried to start a fight with his alleged assailant, Juan Brantley. On March 17, Brantley had filed a complaint with the police, stating that O'Haire had attempted to start a fight with him at another bar.

In wrestling

*Finishing and signature moves
**"Widow Maker" (Reverse thrown Death Valley driver)
**"Seanton Bomb" (High-angle senton bomb)
**Crucifix powerbomb
**Fireman's carry DDT
**Knee lift
**Rolling fireman's carry slam
**Roundhouse kick
**Superkick
**Clothesline

*Managers
**Kenny Bolin
**Roddy Piper

*Entrance themes
**"Free Hombre" (partnered with Chuck Palumbo) (WWE)
**"Come On" by Waterproof Blonde (WWE)

MMA Record

Championships and accomplishments

*World Championship Wrestling
**WCW World Tag Team Championship (3 times) - with Mark Jindrak (2) and Chuck Palumbo (1)
*Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
**Rookie of the Year (2000)

References

External links

* [http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/sean-ohaire-11706 SherDog profile]
* [http://championsquestfc.com *Champions Quest Fighting Challenge*]