Doug Basham

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Doug Basham


Statistics
Ring name(s)	Doug Basham The Machine
Billed height	6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Billed weight	245 lb (111 kg)
Born	May 12, 1971 Louisville, Kentucky
Resides	Tampa, Florida
Trained by	Danny Davis
Debut	1992

Doug Basham (born on May 12, 1971) is a professional wrestler signed to World Wrestling Entertainment to perform on its ECW brand.

Before being called up to WWE's main roster Basham competed in its developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling. Doug Basham is in fact the nephew of OVW founder Danny Davis.

1 Career
- 1.1 Ohio Valley Wrestling
- 1.2 World Wrestling Entertainment
2 In wrestling
3 Trivia
4 Championships and accomplishments
5 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] Ohio Valley Wrestling

Doug Basham was a top babyface in the company winning the OVW Heavyweight Championship on a number of occasions.

Doug Basham turned heel and was involved in a storyline that saw him grow jealous of his uncle's fondness for another OVW Superstar Nick Dinsmore, now known as Eugene. Doug disappeared in late 2000 and came back as a masked man known as The Machine and attacked Nick Dinsmore. Dinsmore would go on to defeat The Machine in a Retirement vs. Mask Match, and unmask Basham.

Doug "The Machine" Basham went on to create the Revolution stable and feuded with OVW's top stars. Basham signed a WWE development contract in April 2002 and was soon signed to SmackDown! in May 2003.

After disappearing of WWE TV in September 2005, Doug would return to OVW under a new gimmick; "The Superstar of Superstars." At this time, he came out to the ring using the Superman theme before signing a new deal with WWE in April 2006.

[edit] World Wrestling Entertainment

With WWE being impressed with his in-ring ability, Doug received numerous try-out matches in late 2002 and early 2003 against opponents such as Mark Jindrak, Charlie Haas, Lenny Lane, Val Venis, Nathan Jones, Redd Dogg, Nova, Johnny Jeter, Horshu, Shannon Moore, And Billy Kidman. He also teamed with the likes of Damaja, Sean O'Haire, and Bull Buchanan

Doug Basham made his official debut on the May 29, 2003 episode of SmackDown! as one-half of the tag team, The Basham Brothers with his tag partner Danny Basham. The Basham Brothers debuted as a team on May 29, 2003 and defeated the team of Rikishi & Brian Kendrick. The Basham Brothers were later joined by Shaniqua. They were portrayed with a bondage-based S&M gimmick and won their first WWE Tag Team Championship from Los Guerreros on the October 23, 2003 edition of SmackDown!. The team would go on to lose the titles in February, 2004 at WWE No Way Out 2004 to Rikishi and Scotty Too Hotty. The Basham Brothers and Shaniqua faced Scotty 2 Hotty and Rikishi in a handicap match and lost when Shaniqua was pinned by Rikishi. The Basham Brothers would go on to lose their manger Shaniqua when she was sent to OVW for training not long after No Way Out. For the next few months the Basham Brothers were regulars on WWE Velocity despite a few occasions on SmackDown! generally losing in the outcome.

The Basham Brothers would go on to join John Bradshaw Layfield's cabinet stable on the 25 November 2004. Known as JBL's Co-Secretaries of Defense. Their role was often to sacrifice themselves to prevent Layfield from getting harmed after he had provoked an opponent. The Bashams would once again win Tag Team gold defeating four other teams including Rey Mysterio and Rob Van Dam, Luther Reigns and Mark Jindrak, and Eddie Guerrero and Booker T. The Basham Brothers lost the titles to Rey Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero at WWE No Way Out on February 20, 2005 from here on The Bashams would either be Jobbing on SmackDown! or defeating any team that came in their path on Velocity. The Basham Brothers quit Layfield's Cabinet on the June 16, 2005 episode of SmackDown!, claiming that they were tired of being "JBL's crash test dummies" and not getting enough respect.

On June 30, 2005, Danny Basham became one of the last minute trades in the 2005 WWE Draft lottery, which saw him jump from SmackDown! over to WWE RAW. This left both men in singles compitition in WWE on different brands. Doug would return to TV on August 27, 2005 edition of Velocity under "The Bash Man" Doug Basham gimmick. The Bash Man came out to the ring wearing sunglasses, a shiny leather vest, and shiny wool pants. Doug continued to work squash matches under this unexplained gimmick sporadically over several months.

While disappearing off WWE TV, Doug would return to OVW for several stints before signing a new deal with WWE in April 2006. Both Doug and Danny would reunite in WWE's revived ECW brand during July 2006 at several house shows before becoming on-screen unnamed masked enforcers for ECW leader Paul Heyman. However, Danny was later replaced by Derek Neikirk, who continued his role as the second masked enforcer.

[edit] In wrestling

Finishing and signature moves

Last Impression (high jumping leg lariat)
Machine Driver (Piledriver) - in OVW
Basham Lock (Crucifix armbar)
XTornado (Top rope spinning single arm DDT)
Super Rydeen bomb
Top-rope diving leg drop
Single-leg boston crab
Suplex powerslam

Nicknames

"All-American" Doug Basham
"The Machine"
Doug "The Machine" Basham
"Co-Secretary Of Defense"
"The Bash-Man"

Previous managers

[edit] Trivia

Doug Basham and Damaja (Danny Basham) had been embroiled in a bitter feud in Ohio Valley Wrestling just before getting called up by WWE.
Doug was married in 1992 to Robin Wiggington, however they divorced only a year later.
Doug is now engaged to former WWE Diva and current TNA Knockout, Gail Kim.
Performed most of the motion capture used in the video game Smackdown vs. Raw 2007