Scott Wright (wrestler)
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Scott Wright is an American
professional wrestler
and bodybuilder
, better known by his ring name
Scotty Charisma. He currently performs on the independent circuit
under his real name or as Mr. Scott Wright.
and the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America
as well as a certification as nutritional specialist for Apex Fitness. Coinciding with his wrestling career, Wright has been a seventh and eighth grade history teacher at Suffern Middle School in New York. He also began competing as a bodybuilder in 1998 and continues to do so while maintaining his career as a wrestler.
, Wright made his wrestling debut under the ring name Scotty Charisma in 2001. Charisma soon debuted for Assault Championship Wrestling
, where gained much success as he won the promotion's Junior Heavyweight Championship once, Tag Team Championship once with Matt Striker
and became the promotion's first and only Television Champion. After ACW folded in 2004, Charisma returned to the independent circuit
before he made his East Coast Wrestling Association
debut on September 18, 2004. Soon after debuting, he won the promotion's Heavyweight Championship
after defeating then-champion "Hurricane" John Walters
, Mike Kruel
, Andrew Ryker and Xavier
in a five-way elimination match on February 12, 2005. Charisma later lost the title to Fred Sampson
on November 5. On March 1, 2008, Charisma, now renamed to Mr. Scott Wright, won the ECWA Title for the second time on March 1, 2008 after defeating Aden Chambers. Wright would go on to hold the title for just over a month before losing it to Glen Osbourne
on April 5.
, where he teamed with his ECWA rival Arch Kincaid in a losing effort against Paul London and Brian Kendrick
. A few weeks later on January 2, 2006, Wright wrestled with Fred Sampson
in a losing effort to The Heart Throbs
in a tag team match taped for Heat
. The next night, both Charisma and Sampson took part in another tag team match, which they lost to The Dicks (James
and Chad
) on Velocity. Wright's first singles match in WWE occurred on the June 13, 2006 tapings of SmackDown!, which he lost to Vito
.
Wright would also appear on the November 27, 2006 episode of Raw
, playing the role of a UPS delivery man in a backstage segment where Triple H
and Shawn Michaels
trapped the Spirit Squad
in a crate to be shipped to "OVW" (Ohio Valley Wrestling
). On the May 11, 2007 episode of Heat
, Wright and Xavier lost to Eugene
and "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan
.
in justice and law administration and later received his master's degree
in history, both from Western Connecticut State University
. He was a walk-on basketball player for three years at Western Connecticut and finally earned his varsity letter during his junior year. A broken tailbone sidelined him during the preseason of his senior year, and Wright was offered a position as a student coach by legendary head coach Bob Campbell. He was immediately put in charge of strength and conditioning and was also given recruiting duties as well. Wright would remain an assistant basketball coach for Western Connecticut State University for four more seasons before leaving the college in March 1998.
In July 2004, Wright was introduced to fitness model and personal trainer Kathleen Schreeck. On July 14, 2006, the couple were married at Sacred Heart Church in Suffern, New York and the service was attended by many wrestlers from the wrestling community. On March 15, 2009, the Wrights gave birth to their first child, Sophia. On May 3, 2010, the Wrights gave birth to their second daughter, Isabelle.
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professional wrestler
Professional wrestling
Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...
and bodybuilder
Bodybuilding
Bodybuilding is a form of body modification involving intensive muscle hypertrophy. An individual who engages in this activity is referred to as a bodybuilder. In competitive and professional bodybuilding, bodybuilders display their physiques to a panel of judges, who assign points based on their...
, better known by his ring name
Ring name
A ring name is a stage name used by a professional wrestler, martial artist, or boxer. While some ring names may have a fictitious first name and surname, others may simply be a nickname, such as The Undertaker.-Wrestling:...
Scotty Charisma. He currently performs on the independent circuit
Independent circuit
In professional wrestling, the independent circuit or indy circuit refers to the many independent promotions which are much smaller than major televised promotions. They are roughly analagous to a minor league for pro wrestling, or community or regional theatre.Specific promotions on the...
under his real name or as Mr. Scott Wright.
Early career
Prior to wrestling, Wright worked in the fitness industry for New York Sports Clubs in Danbury, Connecticut and Nanuet, New York. He has held personal training certifications through both the National Academy of Sports MedicineNational Academy of Sports Medicine
The National Academy of Sports Medicine sells study courses and examinations for personal trainer certification and funds fitness research and education. NASM was founded in Chicago, Illinois, USA in 1987. NASM develops continuing education in the form of study courses for professional athletic...
and the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America
Aerobics and Fitness Association of America
The Aerobics and Fitness Association of America is a fitness education company that was established in 1983, and operates out of Sherman Oaks, California. AFAA offers education workshops and certifications internationally but mainly operates in the United States...
as well as a certification as nutritional specialist for Apex Fitness. Coinciding with his wrestling career, Wright has been a seventh and eighth grade history teacher at Suffern Middle School in New York. He also began competing as a bodybuilder in 1998 and continues to do so while maintaining his career as a wrestler.
Professional wrestling career
After training in East Coast Professional Wrestling's school at Lake Hiawatha, New JerseyLake Hiawatha, New Jersey
Lake Hiawatha is an unincorporated area within Parsippany-Troy Hills in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. The area is served as United States Postal Service ZIP code 07034...
, Wright made his wrestling debut under the ring name Scotty Charisma in 2001. Charisma soon debuted for Assault Championship Wrestling
Assault Championship Wrestling
Assault Championship Wrestling was an American independent wrestling promotion based in Connecticut and promoted by Jason Knight, a retired wrestler and manager, during the early 2000s...
, where gained much success as he won the promotion's Junior Heavyweight Championship once, Tag Team Championship once with Matt Striker
Matthew Kaye
Matthew Kaye is an American actor, wrestling commentator and semi-retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Matt Striker. He is signed to WWE, where he serves as the host of WWE NXT....
and became the promotion's first and only Television Champion. After ACW folded in 2004, Charisma returned to the independent circuit
Independent circuit
In professional wrestling, the independent circuit or indy circuit refers to the many independent promotions which are much smaller than major televised promotions. They are roughly analagous to a minor league for pro wrestling, or community or regional theatre.Specific promotions on the...
before he made his East Coast Wrestling Association
East Coast Wrestling Association
East Coast Wrestling Association is an American professional wrestling promotion, founded by promoter Jim Kettner in 1967. It is home to the annual Super 8 Tournament, one of the longest-running independent wrestling tournaments in the country...
debut on September 18, 2004. Soon after debuting, he won the promotion's Heavyweight Championship
ECWA Heavyweight Championship
ECWA Heavyweight Championship is the top title contested in the independent professional wrestling promotion East Coast Wrestling Association.-References:...
after defeating then-champion "Hurricane" John Walters
John Stagikas
John Stagikas is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, "Hurricane" John Walters and in Lucha Libre USA as RJ Brewer, the kayfabe son of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer...
, Mike Kruel
Mike Kruel
Michael "Mike" Mayo, Jr. is an American professional wrestler, better known under his ring name Mike Kruel. He began his career in the independent circuit, wrestling in Pro-Pain Pro Wrestling, Ring of Honor, East Coast Wrestling Association and USA Pro Wrestling, while occasionally making...
, Andrew Ryker and Xavier
John Jirus
John Jirus is an American professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with Ring of Honor between 2002 and 2004 as Xavier. He is a former ROH Champion.-Professional wrestling career:Jirus trained under Tony DeVito before debuting in 1997...
in a five-way elimination match on February 12, 2005. Charisma later lost the title to Fred Sampson
Fred Sampson
Frederick "Fred" Rosser is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he is appearing on the fifth season of WWE NXT under the ring name Darren Young...
on November 5. On March 1, 2008, Charisma, now renamed to Mr. Scott Wright, won the ECWA Title for the second time on March 1, 2008 after defeating Aden Chambers. Wright would go on to hold the title for just over a month before losing it to Glen Osbourne
Glen Osbourne
Glen Osbourne is an American professional wrestler, perhaps best known for his appearances with Eastern Championship Wrestling in the early 1990s, where he was the youngest holder of the ECW World Television Championship...
on April 5.
World Wrestling Entertainment
Wright, as Scotty Charisma, made his World Wrestling Entertainment debut on the December 13, 2005 episode of VelocityWWE Velocity
WWE Velocity was a professional wrestling television program produced by World Wrestling Entertainment . It replaced two syndicated WWE shows, Jakked/Metal. Once a weekly Saturday night show on Spike TV and on Sky Sports 2 in the UK on Sunday mornings, Velocity became a webcast from 2005 to 2006...
, where he teamed with his ECWA rival Arch Kincaid in a losing effort against Paul London and Brian Kendrick
Paul London and Brian Kendrick
Paul London and Brian Kendrick are a professional wrestling tag team best known for their time together in World Wrestling Entertainment . The team never had an official team name, but were just referred to as "the tag team of London and Kendrick." In 2006 London and Kendrick put the tag team name...
. A few weeks later on January 2, 2006, Wright wrestled with Fred Sampson
Fred Sampson
Frederick "Fred" Rosser is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he is appearing on the fifth season of WWE NXT under the ring name Darren Young...
in a losing effort to The Heart Throbs
The Heart Throbs
The Heart Throbs is the name of a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Antonio Thomas and Romeo Roselli, currently wrestling on the independent circuit. Thomas and Roselli are billed as being popular "with the ladies", and typically approach the ring while performing pelvic thrusts to the...
in a tag team match taped for Heat
WWE HEAT
WWE Heat was a professional wrestling television program produced by World Wrestling Entertainment...
. The next night, both Charisma and Sampson took part in another tag team match, which they lost to The Dicks (James
John Toland (wrestler)
John Michael Toland is an American professional wrestler best known for his work in independent promotion Ring of Honor, under the name Tank Toland...
and Chad
Chad Wicks
Charles "Chad" Wicks is an American professional wrestler best known for his time with the World Wrestling Entertainment...
) on Velocity. Wright's first singles match in WWE occurred on the June 13, 2006 tapings of SmackDown!, which he lost to Vito
Vito LoGrasso
Vito Joseph LoGrasso is an American professional wrestler, of Italian origin, best known for his work in World Championship Wrestling as Big Vito and more recently World Wrestling Entertainment and working for their "developmental territories" Ohio Valley Wrestling and Deep South Wrestling as...
.
Wright would also appear on the November 27, 2006 episode of Raw
WWE RAW
WWE Raw ) is a sports entertainment television program for WWE that currently airs on the USA Network in the United States...
, playing the role of a UPS delivery man in a backstage segment where Triple H
Triple H
Paul Michael Levesque is an American professional wrestler, professional wrestling authority figure, WWE Executive Vice President of Talent and actor, better known by his ring name Triple H, an abbreviation of the ring name, Hunter Hearst Helmsley...
and Shawn Michaels
Shawn Michaels
Michael Shawn Hickenbottom , better known by his ring name Shawn Michaels, is an American television host and retired professional wrestler. He presents the Outdoor Channel show MacMillan River Adventures, and is currently signed to WWE, where he has served in an ambassadorial role since December...
trapped the Spirit Squad
Spirit Squad
The Spirit Squad was a professional wrestling stable in World Wrestling Entertainment and Ohio Valley Wrestling that consisted of Kenny, Johnny, Mitch, Nicky, and Mikey. The team's ring personas were those of an all-male cheerleading squad....
in a crate to be shipped to "OVW" (Ohio Valley Wrestling
Ohio Valley Wrestling
Ohio Valley Wrestling is an American independent professional wrestling promotion based in Louisville, Kentucky. OVW is run by owner Danny Davis and was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance from 1997 until 2000...
). On the May 11, 2007 episode of Heat
WWE HEAT
WWE Heat was a professional wrestling television program produced by World Wrestling Entertainment...
, Wright and Xavier lost to Eugene
Nick Dinsmore
Nicholas "Nick" Dinsmore , better known by his ring names Eugene and U-Gene, is an American professional wrestler...
and "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan
Jim Duggan
James Edward Duggan , better known by his ring name "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his time with World Wrestling Entertainment in the 1980s, when it was known as World Wrestling Federation , and World Championship Wrestling...
.
Personal life
Wright received his bachelor's degreeBachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for three or four years, but can range anywhere from two to six years depending on the region of the world...
in justice and law administration and later received his master's degree
Master's degree
A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
in history, both from Western Connecticut State University
Western Connecticut State University
Western Connecticut State University is a public university in Danbury, Connecticut. Founded in 1903, WestConn has an arts and sciences curriculum, a business school, and several professional programs including elementary and secondary education, nursing, music performance, and social work...
. He was a walk-on basketball player for three years at Western Connecticut and finally earned his varsity letter during his junior year. A broken tailbone sidelined him during the preseason of his senior year, and Wright was offered a position as a student coach by legendary head coach Bob Campbell. He was immediately put in charge of strength and conditioning and was also given recruiting duties as well. Wright would remain an assistant basketball coach for Western Connecticut State University for four more seasons before leaving the college in March 1998.
In July 2004, Wright was introduced to fitness model and personal trainer Kathleen Schreeck. On July 14, 2006, the couple were married at Sacred Heart Church in Suffern, New York and the service was attended by many wrestlers from the wrestling community. On March 15, 2009, the Wrights gave birth to their first child, Sophia. On May 3, 2010, the Wrights gave birth to their second daughter, Isabelle.
In wrestling
- Finishing moves
- Diving crossbody
- Signature moves
- Boston crabBoston crabThe Boston crab is a professional wrestling hold that typically starts with the opponent lying supine on the mat, with the wrestler standing and facing them. It is a type of spinal lock where the wrestler hooks each of the opponent’s legs in one of his arms, and then turns the opponent face-down,...
- Cradle suplex
- Swinging neckbreaker
- Boston crab
Bodybuilding
- 2001 ANBC U.S. Nationals – 8th in the USA (Open Tall Class)
- 2005 NBI Natural Tri-State – 1st (Novice Division)
Professional wrestling
- Assault Championship WrestlingAssault Championship WrestlingAssault Championship Wrestling was an American independent wrestling promotion based in Connecticut and promoted by Jason Knight, a retired wrestler and manager, during the early 2000s...
- ACW Junior Heavyweight ChampionshipACW Junior Heavyweight ChampionshipThe ACW Junior Heavyweight Championship was a secondary professional wrestling championship title in the American independent promotion Assault Championship Wrestling. The first-ever champion was Tiger Mulligan who defeated Jeff Starr, Shockwave, and Frankie Starz in a Four Corners match in...
(1 time) - ACW Television ChampionshipACW Television ChampionshipThe ACW Heavyweight Championship was a secondary professional wrestling championship title in the American independent promotion Assault Championship Wrestling. The first and only champion was Scotty Charisma who won a battle royal in Waterbury, Connecticut on July 19, 2003...
(1 time) - ACW Tag Team ChampionshipACW Tag Team ChampionshipThe ACW Tag Team Championship was the top professional wrestling tag team championship title in the American independent promotion Assault Championship Wrestling. The first champions were Heavy Artillery who defeated Mind and Matter the finals of a championship tournament held in Meriden,...
(1 time) – with Matt StrikerMatthew KayeMatthew Kaye is an American actor, wrestling commentator and semi-retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Matt Striker. He is signed to WWE, where he serves as the host of WWE NXT....
- ACW Junior Heavyweight Championship
- Declaration of Independents
- DOI ranked him #149 of the 250 best singles wrestlers in the DOI Top 250 in 2004
- East Coast Professional Wrestling
- ECPW Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- East Coast Wrestling AssociationEast Coast Wrestling AssociationEast Coast Wrestling Association is an American professional wrestling promotion, founded by promoter Jim Kettner in 1967. It is home to the annual Super 8 Tournament, one of the longest-running independent wrestling tournaments in the country...
- ECWA Heavyweight ChampionshipECWA Heavyweight ChampionshipECWA Heavyweight Championship is the top title contested in the independent professional wrestling promotion East Coast Wrestling Association.-References:...
(2 times)
- ECWA Heavyweight Championship
- Pro Wrestling IllustratedPro Wrestling IllustratedPro Wrestling Illustrated is a professional wrestling magazine. PWI is currently based in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania and published by Kappa Publishing Group.-History:The first issue of Pro Wrestling Illustrated was released in 1979...
- PWI ranked him #341 of the 500 best singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2005