James E. Allen is an American
professional wrestler
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and promoter, best known by his ringname "Big" Paulie Gilmore or Gilmorea, who wrestled on the
New England
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independent circuit for the
Century Wrestling Alliance
The Century Wrestling Alliance, formerly known as NWA Cold Front and NWA New England, is a New England-based American independent wrestling promotion located in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded by Tony Rumble in 1989, a retired wrestler and ...
, the
National Wrestling Alliance, the
Millennium Wrestling Federation and the
World Wrestling Alliance during the 1990s and early 2000s. He is also the owner of New World Wrestling, a small promotion based in
southeastern Massachusetts
Southeastern Massachusetts consists of those portions of Massachusetts located along Buzzards Bay, including the cities of New Bedford and Fall River and their respective suburbs. Despite the location of Cape Cod and the islands to its south, ...
, which was formerly associated with
NWA New England
The Century Wrestling Alliance, formerly known as NWA Cold Front and NWA New England, is a New England-based American independent wrestling promotion located in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded by Tony Rumble in 1989, a retired wrestler an ...
from 2004 to 2005.
He is best remembered as Trooper Gilmore, a popular
super heavyweight "
fan favorite", in both the original Century Wrestling Alliance and NWA New England where he was a main rival of "heel" wrestler
Tony Rumble
Anthony David Magliaro (November 6, 1956 – November 13, 1999) was an American professional wrestler and manager, known by the ring name Boston Bad Boy Tony Rumble. He competed on the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic independent circuit during th ...
. He also won the
NWA New England Tag Team Championship with The Outpatient as Criminally Insane and Corporal Robinson as 5-0. He was an ally of
MWF Tag Team Champions Todd Hanson & Beau Douglas during their feud with
Ox Baker
Douglas Albert Baker Sr. (April 19, 1934 – October 20, 2014) was an American professional wrestler and actor, better known professionally as Ox Baker. He was famous for his distinctive eyebrows and finishing move, the Heart Punch, sometimes c ...
's MWF stable ''Ox's Army'' and, in NWW, twice won the promotion's tag team titles with Jimmy "Jact" Cash and
Brutus "the Barber" Beefcake
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. He has also been a frequent opponent of
King Kong Bundy
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and
Abdullah the Butcher
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when touring the
Northeastern United States.
Career
Century Wrestling Alliance (1996-1998)
James E. Allen made his debut in 1994 and spent a brief time on the local independent circuit prior to joining the
Century Wrestling Alliance
The Century Wrestling Alliance, formerly known as NWA Cold Front and NWA New England, is a New England-based American independent wrestling promotion located in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded by Tony Rumble in 1989, a retired wrestler and ...
in 1996. It was in the CWA that he would become a mainstay as Trooper Gilmore for over a decade.
Appearing on the promotion's
Public-access television
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cable TV show ''Mass Madness'', he lost to Tombstone at the Harry DellaRusso Stadium in
Revere, Massachusetts
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on June 27, 1997. On October 4, he fought twice in one night while at ''The Sports Palace'' in
New Britain, Connecticut losing to both The Outpatient and
King Kong Bundy
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. Two weeks later, Allen fought three matches in two separate events. The first was against Tombstone at the sold-out Good Time Emporium in
Somerville, Massachusetts
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. Later that evening in
Lawrence
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* Lawrence University, a liberal arts university in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States
Preparator ...
, he lost to El Diablo and Erich Sbraccia, the latter one half of the
CWA Tag Team Champions with
Knuckles Nelson
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. This event was also sold out.
NWA New England (1998-2001)
Allen remained with the promotion as it joined the
National Wrestling Alliance as
NWA New England
The Century Wrestling Alliance, formerly known as NWA Cold Front and NWA New England, is a New England-based American independent wrestling promotion located in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded by Tony Rumble in 1989, a retired wrestler an ...
in 1998. He would, however, make appearances for the Universal Wrestling Alliance and Unified Championship Wrestling during the late-1990s.
On June 7, 1998, he and Joel Davis lost to
"Big" Val Puccio in a
handicap match
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at the Devine Ice Arena in
Dorchester, Massachusetts. He also wrestled Joe Gulla, one half of the House of Pain with Frank Gulli, later that night. Allen formed a brief tag team with Steve Morabito in his feud with then
NWA New England Tag Team Champions House of Pain but broke up following their loss to them at the ''Taste of the Boss'' supercard in
Boston
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on September 19. This was the team's first title defense since winning the titles from the New York Posse (Curtis Slamdawg & Jay Kobain) the previous day. That same day, he wrestled another two matches at the Everett Rec Center in
Everett, Massachusetts
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Everett was the last city in the Un ...
. The first was against Tre' and the second a tag team match with Joel Davis against the House of Pain.
On February 12, 1999, Allen won his first major title when he defeated Curtis Slamdawg for the
NWA New England Heavyweight Championship
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in
Mansfield, Massachusetts
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, but lost the title to Knuckles Nelson a week later. This match was later aired on its weekly television series, ''Mass Madness''. Allen would eventually become a main rival of
Tony Rumble
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, one of the promotion's top "heels" and leader of The Brotherhood (Dukes Dalton,
Rick Fuller
Richard Fuller (born February 18, 1967) is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling from 1997 to 2000.
Early life
Born in Middleborough, Massachusetts, Fuller graduated fr ...
,
Knuckles Nelson
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& Eric Sbraccia). His match against Rumble at Southbridge High School on March 13 was included when the promotion was featured on
ESPN
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's ''Outside the Lines''. He took six "chair shots" from different members of The Brotherhood before he was pinned by Rumble. On April 3, he again lost to King Kong Bundy in
Milford, Connecticut
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and also Dean Power, one-half of
World Championship Wrestling
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's The Power Company, at the Good Times Emporium on April 22. He also took part in the promotion's first show outside New England three days later, promoted under its original name, teaming with Joel Davis to defeat The Outpatients in
Ogdensburg, New York
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on April 25. On May 29, 1999, he lost to Brotherhood member Dukes Dalton at the Good Times Emporium.
On June 22, 2000, Allen lost to Mike Johnson in a match to determine the first
NWA New England Brass Knuckles Champion in Somerville, but won the title from Johnson in a rematch a month later. Allen held the title for several weeks until losing to
Gino Martino
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in a
five-way match
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with Zach Mason, Jaime Paine and Nemesis on August 24.
At the end of the year, Allen was one of several wrestlers from NWA New England and
Extreme Championship Wrestling
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to appear for Mike Sparta's
World Wrestling Alliance in
Lynn, Massachusetts
Lynn is the eighth-largest municipality in Massachusetts and the largest city in Essex County. Situated on the Atlantic Ocean, north of the Boston city line at Suffolk Downs, Lynn is part of Greater Boston's urban inner core. Settled by E ...
on November 25, 2000.
Jimmy Snuka
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Snuka wrestled for several promotions from the 1970s to 2010 ...
and
The Patriot were also on the card.
In early-2001, Allen was awarded
NWA New England Television Championship by his then manager and former champion Bull Montana on ''NWA New England Spotlight''. He lost the title to Beau Douglas who beat him in a televised match in May 2001. Allen then formed a tag team with former rival The Outpatient, calling themselves Criminally Insane, and defeated Zak Mason & Chris Charisma for the vacant
NWA New England Tag Team Championship at the Knights of Columbus Hall in
Wakefield, Massachusetts
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on July 21, 2001. This was during the promotion's ''Summer Sizzler Tour''. He also appeared at a weekend event at
Killer Kowalski
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Kowalski wrestled for numerous promotions during his career, includin ...
's Institute of Professional Wrestling on August 10. Among those present included
Frankie Kazarian
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,
Jason Rumble, Vinnie Capelli, John Rodeo and The Ark Angels (Damon D'Arcangelo and Phoenix King). He and The Outpatient would hold the titles for over three months before dropping the belts to Trailer Park Trash ("Dirty" Deuce Malone and "The Scrub" Steve Sabo) in
Woburn, Massachusetts
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on October 27, 2001.
Independent circuit and New World Wrestling (2002-2004)
Allen branched out to other parts of the country during the first half of 2002, mostly in other
National Wrestling Alliance-affiliated promotions in the
Eastern United States
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and in
Florida
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.
In February 2002, he entered the Best of the Best Tournament, co-promoted by
NWA East and
NWA Tri-State
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, but was eliminated by Nikita Allanov in the opening rounds in
Titusville, Pennsylvania
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. He also made two appearances at the City Park Pavilion in
Parkersburg, West Virginia wrestling NWA Tri-State's Dash Bennett on February 2 and Mr. Attitude on April 6, the latter match resulting in a double-countout. He also made a one-time appearance for
Jason Knight's
Assault Championship Wrestling facing Jason Rage on September 17 edition of ''Assault TV: The Dot Com Edition''.
In the spring of 2003, he made several appearances for Ultimate Championship Wrestling. On March 2, he was pinned by UCW Television Champion "Nature Boy" Gary Gold in a
triple threat match
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with "Iceberg" Sonny D. at Club Escapades in
Raynham, Massachusetts
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. Three weeks later at a local high school in
Canton, Massachusetts, Allen joined ''La Familia'' members Tony Cianci and Vinny Giuliani in a
6-man tag team match against Paco Rivera, D.C. Dillon and
"Diehard" Eddie Edwards which ended in a double-disqualification. One of his last appearance was at the Family Center in
Braintree, Massachusetts
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in which he and Apocalypse lost to UCW Tag Team Champions Beau Douglas & Todd Hansen. Before leaving the promotion, he lost to UCW Heavyweight Champion Don Vega in a triple threat match with the Outpatient on April 23.
In late-2003, Allen formed his own promotion, New World Wrestling, and appeared at its first show held on December 6, 2003. Shortly afterwards, Allen dropped his former in-ring persona of Trooper Gilmore to return "to his
Italian roots" and began wrestling under the name "Big" Paulie Gilmore (or ''Gilmorea''). He soon formed a tag team with Jimmy "Jact" Cash known as Men of Business
and, on July 25, 2004, lost to The Millennium Killaz (Gino Martino and Ali Mohammed) in a match to crown the first NWW Tag Team Champions.
The titles were vacated later that year when Ali Mohammed suffered a near-career ending injury, a cracked tibiae and torn ligaments, during a match with Allen for Ultimate Championship Wrestling in
Attleboro, Massachusetts
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.
Returning to NWA New England for the ''2004 Tony Rumble Memorial Show'' in
Sanford, Maine
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, he and Mark Moment lost to The Rough Ryders (Nixx and Raines) in a triple threat match with The Elite (Sonny Roselli and Larry Huntley) for the NWA New England Tag Team titles.
The following night in
Bellingham, Massachusetts
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, Allen won the vacant NWW Tag Team Championship in a match against The Widowmaker & “Dangerous” Donny Rotten. Anthony "Spaz" Parziale, an on-air radio personality for
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** Waaf, a member of the service
* WAAF (AM ...
, was the cornerman for Men of Business. They lost the titles to Southern Extreme (Widowmaker and The Texas Outlaw) in Attleboro on August 20, 2005. That same night, Allen became the first NWW SuperCrush Battle Royal Champion and held the title until it was won by
Pierre Vachon
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Vachon was born in Avignon, France. He wrote around thirty string quartets, various chamber works, operas, and orchestral pieces. He studied the violin with Carlo Chiab ...
almost two years later.
Millennium Wrestling Federation and NWA New England (2005-2006)
In 2005, Allen debuted in the
Millennium Wrestling Federation with manager Bull Montana and allied himself with
MWF Tag Team Champions Todd Hanson & Beau Douglas in their feud with
Ox Baker
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's stable ''Ox Baker's Army'' (The Outpatient, Pierre "The Beast" Vachon & The Islanders). He also soon found himself subject to a
kayfabe
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vendetta
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by MWF Commissioner Dr. Von Johnson who would force him to wrestle increasing difficult opponents and stipulations. At the ''Road to the Gold'' supercard, Allen lost to The Outpatient and, the following month at ''Halloween Horror'', had to wrestle The Islanders in handicap match. Allen joined Todd Hanson & Beau Douglas in an 8-man tag team match with
The Sandman to defeat ''Ox Baker's Army'' at the ''Soul Survivor III'' supercard in
Lynn, Massachusetts
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on November 5, 2005. This effectively ended the near 2-year feud between Todd Hanson & Beau Douglas and Ox Baker. Manager
Johnny Fabulous also made his debut in this match and would appear with Todd Hanson & Beau Douglas for the next few months. Allen was later named as a suspect when Dr. Von Johnson was assaulted by an unknown assailant while leaving the Braintree Moose Lodge after an MWF event.
He also began teaming with Apocalypse, then under the name Corporal Robinson, as 5-0 in NWA New England. On November 25, 2005 at the 6th annual ''Tony Rumble Memorial Show'', he and Robinson won the NWA New England Tag Team Championship from Larry Huntley and Nick Santone, substituting for Sonny Roselli, in a triple threat match with Makua and Eric Egoh at Ringside Entertainment Complex in
Revere, Massachusetts
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.
He and Robinson eventually lost the titles to
Pierre and Damien Vachon in
Fall River, Massachusetts
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Located along the eastern shore of Mount H ...
on May 11, 2006.
New World Wrestling (2007-2009)
After nearly two years, the NWW SuperCrush Battle Royal Championship was won by Pierre Vachon in
Sandwich, Massachusetts
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History
Cape Cod ...
on March 31, 2007. On March 11, 2008, he was interviewed on the
internet radio
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show ''In Your Head'' in which he discussed his career and promoted New World Wrestling's upcoming tour of
Cape Cod
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. On March 29, Allen defeated Brickhouse Baker at the Plymouth Community Intermediate School in
Plymouth, Massachusetts.
On April 5, in
East Sandwich, Massachusetts, Allen and New World Wrestling participated in a benefit show for the
Sandwich High School
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wrestling team ''The Blue Knights''. During the event, Allen accepted an open challenge put out by then NWW Tag Team Champions Moondog Maximus & Professor Sushi. Sushi had substituted for regular tag team partner Tony Kahuko. He later revealed his partner as former
World Wrestling Federation
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superstar
Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake
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and together went on to win the tag team titles that night. Allen and Beefcake were stripped of the titles following the event. Since neither team had a tag team partner "authorized by NWW Board of Directors", according to NWW Commissioner Steve Burgundy, the titles were declared vacant and would be filled at a later date.
On January 17, 2009, Allen wrestled APCW Heavyweight Champion "Bionic" Dan Bidondi in an event for Action Packed Championship Wrestling at the American Legion Hall in
Seekonk, Massachusetts
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. This was Bidondi's first title defense since winning the title from "Nature Boy" Gary Gold who had also been suspended from the promotion with his manager
Johnny Fabulous. On March 11, he made a second appearance on ''In Your Head'' to promote an upcoming New World Wrestling event at Sandwich High School. The event featured former
Extreme Championship Wrestling
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veterans
Justin Credible
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and
Spike Dudley
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. The show was later broadcast live on ''In Your Head'' on March 14.
Championships and accomplishments
*
NWA New England
The Century Wrestling Alliance, formerly known as NWA Cold Front and NWA New England, is a New England-based American independent wrestling promotion located in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded by Tony Rumble in 1989, a retired wrestler an ...
**
NWA New England Heavyweight Championship
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(1 time)
**
NWA New England Television Championship (1 time)
**
NWA New England Brass Knuckles Championship (1 time)
**
NWA New England Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with The Outpatient and Corporal Robinson
*New World Wrestling
**NWW SuperCrush Battle Royal Championship (1 time)
**NWW Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Jimmy "Jact" Cash and
Brutus "the Barber" Beefcake
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*Regional Championship Wrestling
:*RCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Lucifer
*Other titles
**UCW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
*
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
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:*PWI ranked him #381 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI 500 in 2001.
References
External links
Official NWW ProfileProfile at GenickBruch.com
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American male professional wrestlers
Sportspeople from Boston
Professional wrestling promoters