Sean O'Haire

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Sean O'Haire (born January 25, 1972 in Hilton Head, South Carolina) is an American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist competitor who is best known for the time he spent performing for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW).

1 Career
2 Finishing and signature moves
3 Championships and accomplishments
4 External links

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Career

Sean O'Haire began his career in WCW in June 2000 under the Vince Russo era where he formed a tag team with fellow 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. They were briefly "coached" by Kevin Nash In September, O'Haire and Jindrak won the WCW World Tag Team titles for the first time.

O'Haire and Jindrak won the title once more before splitting when O'Haire and Jindrak participated in a tag team battle royal with Natural Born Thrillers teammates Shawn Stasiak and Chuck Palumbo. After the conclusion of the match, Mike Sanders declared both teams victorious and said that the teams should trade partners. O'Haire formed a new tag team with Palumbo while the second team consisted of Jindrak and Stasiak.

Palumbo and O'Haire defeated The Insiders (Diamond Dallas Page and Kevin 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 WCW Superbrawl on February 18, 2001 for the tag team gold, and Palumbo and O'Haire retained their titles.

After WWF purchased WCW, Sean O'Haire and Chuck Palumbo came into the WWF (now the WWE) in late June 2001 as part of The Alliance, Chuck and Sean dropped the WCW Tag Team titles to The Undertaker and Kane in mid- August 2001.

Later on Sean was sent to developmental territory in early September 2001 and Chuck was thrown out of The Alliance in late October, 2001 and so he joined the WWF in November 2001.

Sean was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) for seasoning where he joined Kenny Bolin's "Bolin Services".

Sean O'Haire returned to WWE with long hair on the June 30th, 2002 edition of HEAT defeating Justin Credible made a few more appearances on WWE HEAT throughout the rest of 2002 while still working in OVW.

In January of 2003 vignettes started to appear on WWE programming showing O'Haire in his new gimmick - a Devil's Advocate character. He would urge 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 "Hey, 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.

Sean O'Haire quickly came under the tutelage of wrestling legend 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper in April 2003. Many fans were disappointed at how quickly O'Haire's promising new persona was abandoned but he held huge victories over Rikishi, Mr. America (Hulk Hogan), Chris Benoit, Funaki, and Eddie Guerrero.

Things got worse for O'Haire when in June 2003, WWE officially released Piper from his contract, after a controversial interview with HBO in which Piper discussed the darker side of the wrestling business. O'Haire was left to fend for himself.

Sean O'Haire spent the majority of the rest of 2003 and his career in matches on Velocity, and despite never being pinned on WWE television, he was released in April 2004 and went to work for New Japan Pro Wrestling.

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Sean O'Haire after his arrest for assault

Prior to his release from World Wrestling Entertainment, O'Haire was involved in an altercation with a female and charged with assault. This incident has long been discussed as part of the reason behind his release.

In 2005 Sean took a temporary leave from wrestling, competing and appearing in many mixed martial arts events; including the K-1 World Grand Prix 2005.

On March 27, 2006 and on March 28, 2006, it was announced by Dave Meltzer that Sean O'Haire was backstage at the WWE RAW and SmackDown! shows. He wrestled Dark Matches: On RAW he lost in a match to Trevor Murdoch and on SmackDown! he was defeated by Scotty 2 Hotty. However, O'Haire returned to the MMA circuit in May 2006.