Frank Huguelet (born June 5, 1969) is an American retired

professional wrestler Professional wrestling is a form of theater that revolves around staged wrestling matches. The mock combat is performed in a ring similar to the kind used in boxing, and the dramatic aspects of pro wrestling may be performed both in the ring or ...

, better known by his

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, "Heavy Metal" Ric Savage. He is the host of '' Savage Family Diggers'', a

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treasure hunting show airing on

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. He also conducts haunted " ghost tours" in

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. Huguelet wrestled across the eastern seaboard of the U.S. from 1990 until 1997. While spending much of his career in the independent circuits, he also wrestled for the

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, Extreme Championship Wrestling,

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and

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Professional wrestling career

Early career

Huguelet broke into the wrestling business in the independent circuit in

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. He was trained initially in a garage in

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by Chuck Justice, a high school friend. Savage then wrestled every independent show he could before getting his first television break with

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in 1991 in a televised match against Chief

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. Savage then trained briefly under the "Russian Bear"

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at his school in Indian Trails, North Carolina.

Professional Wrestling Federation

Huguelet went to work for the

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owned by

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(The Italian Stallion) and

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. Savage would compete against Nelson Knight and

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before the pair went to the

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. He also wrestled "Mean" Mark Canterbury.

World Championship Wrestling

Sabaugh booked Huguelet with

where he would perform at several television tapings in 1992, but was used as a jobber. Huguelet left WCW at the advice of friend and mentor Jimmy Valiant, to wrestle for

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United States Wrestling Alliance

Huguelet would only work for USWA for a week due to a desire at that point to leave professional wrestling and begin preparing for a career in law. While working for Lawler, Huguelet feuded with Skull Von Krush. He would also wrestle Tommy Rich, Eddie Gilbert, and

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. Huguelet had the opportunity to work with The Rock 'n' Roll Express, where he would build a friendship with Ricky Morton. After Huguelet left the USWA, he began to focus more on college and wrestled on the independent circuit to pay his bills. He toured with Jimmy Valiant for several months. Huguelet also tried a brief, unofficial cross-promotion with 1980s glam metal band Quiet Riot, but the venture was not a success.

National Wrestling Alliance

Huguelet wrestled for the

, where he was booked by former Four Horsemen member Tully Blanchard, and was managed by former

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. Huguelet had formed a tag-team with a biker gimmick called the Hard Riders with Frankee Lawless (Mark Cavnar) and the pair became the leading "heel" tag-team in the new NWA wrestling federation based out of the Sportatorium in

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and run by pioneer professional wrestling promoter

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The Hard Riders feuded with brothers Chris and Mark Youngblood. The Hard Riders also competed against Ahmed Johnson,

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, Chris Adams,

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and the Junkyard Dog. Huguelet and Lawless met an obscure brother duo at this time that would influence Huguelet's later career. The team was Matt and Jeff Hardy. Huguelet would work closely with the Hardy's for the remainder of his time in wrestling. The Hard Riders drifted apart after Crockett folded in 1996.

Extreme Championship Wrestling

In 1996, after getting his

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from Western Carolina University, Huguelet and travelling partner Kid Kash rode to

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to get work with Extreme Championship Wrestling at the suggestion of Savage's friends New Jack and Rob Van Dam. Huguelet wrestled several house shows as Shane Douglas' Bounty Hunter in an ongoing feud with

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. Paul Heyman had Huguelet change his name to Ric Rage to avoid any conflicts with

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over "Macho Man" Randy Savage. Huguelet left ECW after a few months, but Kash stayed on. After ECW, Huguelet went back to the independent circuit. During this time he made a regional television promo with Rickey Medlocke of

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, now the lead guitarist of

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. The promo was aimed at curbing

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against women in

but never aired. Huguelet also made some regional talkshow appearances as well.

Independent circuit

Huguelet and Cavnar reunited The Hard Riders when

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offered the team a shot to try out for WCW where they had a dark match the following week at Center Stage in

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. The gimmick did not go over with WCW fans and was dropped. Huguelet then went back to the independent circuit as a single's wrestler and changed his look to a

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rocker. His old friend from the NWA Ahmed Johnson introduced him to

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at a WWF show. Strongbow scheduled a dark match for Savage in

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. But Strongbow suffered a massive heart attack and was released from the WWF before he could return. Huguelet's dark match fell through the cracks.

National Championship Wrestling

Huguelet teamed for a while with Bull Buchanan in a team called "Body Count" in

which was a promotion owned by Huguelet's longtime manager and friend Steve Martin. But Buchanan was first signed by Jim Cornette's

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and later by the

causing him to leave Body Count. Huguelet then teamed in Body Count with David Young and Rusty Riddle. Riddle turned on Huguelet and joined Kid Kash and feuded with Huguelet and Young for the NCW world tag titles. It was in 1996 that Huguelet partnered with Martin in National Championship Wrestling, and Huguelet began to help create the wrestler's characters, storylines, and do interview coaching. NCW did monthly television tapings from Huguelet's hometown of

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. Notable wrestlers that worked for NCW during that time are Matt and Jeff Hardy, Brad Cain (Lodi), Shannon Moore, Ricky Morton of the

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, Bull Buchanan, Kid Kash, Jason Arhndt (Joey Abs of the Mean Street Posse),

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, and Chris Hamrick. NCW later became

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and was briefly syndicated after Huguelet left the promotion.

Retirement

After suffering from a left

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reconstruction, and three lower back surgeries, Huguelet retired from professional wrestling in 1997. Initially, he moved to

where he performed a live storytelling presentation called ''Haunted Gettysburg'' for author Bob Wasel at the now defunct Conflict Theater. It was in Gettysburg that Huguelet met his wife Rita. They have three children and two recent grandchildren. In 1998, Huguelet moved his family to

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, where they lived until moving to Virginia in 2009. Huguelet is very interested in American history, in particular the

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. He is an avid artifacts collector, and maintains a website that assists collectors in identifying fake Civil War and World War II relics. He enjoys metal detecting across the country for historical artifacts. Since 2007 Huguelet has written a column for '' American Digger'' magazine called ''The Savage Facts'' that provides tips on identifying fraudulent Civil War and other militaria collectibles. He has done lectures for Civil War roundtables, metal detecting clubs, and other historical organizations across the

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on avoiding the pitfalls of buying fake or misrepresented militaria items. It was announced on August 10, 2011, that

bought 13 episodes of the new reality show, ''American Digger'', featuring Huguelet and his team of artifact recovery experts. However, the concept of the show is being protested by a number of archaeological and historical institutions, including the Society for American Archaeology and the American Institute of Archaeology, as promoting illegal looting and destroying shared cultural history. In April 2013, American Digger magazine stated that they would no longer have any association with Rick Savage, saying, "We won’t lie, our dropping his association was in great part because of the controversy his TV show has created, and the confusion that American Digger Magazine had anything more than a passing association with the Spike TV series which shares our name." According to

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, the American Anthropological Association sent Spike TV a letter "urging he networkto withdraw or modify the contents" of "American Digger" because it "wrongly represents archaeology as a treasure-seeking adventure, in which our collective heritage is dug up and sold for monetary gain."

''Savage Family Diggers'' (previously ''American Digger'')

In 2012 '' American Digger'' debuted on Spike TV. The show performed well and drew an average audience of 1.2 million viewers weekly. Huguelet and his crew of artifact recovery experts dug on private property in Tombstone, AZ, Brooklyn, NY, Detroit, MI, Mechanicsville, Jamestown, and Middletown, VA, Chicago, IL, Venice, LA, St. Augustine, FL, Asheville and Sylva, NC, Girdwood, AK, and Aiken, SC. It was announced in August 2012 by Spike TV that another 13 episodes of ''American Digger'' had been ordered and would be filmed in the fall and winter with a planned airtime in spring 2013. ''American Digger'' is produced by Gurney Productions who also produce ''

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'', '' Auction Hunters'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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'' as well as many Shark Week specials. One of the signature points on the show is when Huguelet yells his catch-phrase "boom baby" after a significant discovery. The phrase is popular with show fans and has been made into both T-shirts and ringtones. In December 2012, Spike TV announced that ''American Digger'' would be renamed ''Savage Family Diggers'' for its second season premiering January 30, 2013, saying the name change better reflects the crew which adds Savage's wife Rita and son Nick to the dig team. Highlights from the second season would be a dig with Emmy nominated actor Bill Paxton and his son James, a dig lead to Memphis, Tennessee from

guitarist Rickey Medlocke, a hunt for Blackbeard's treasure, and a tour of one of America's

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havens, loaded with mansions of the early elite.

The Savage~Turner Rock Express Radio Show/Podcast

In November 2013, Ric Savage and

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of '80's powerhouse Band, Warrant (American band), joined forces to create ''The Savage~Turner Rock Express Radio Show''. The show airs Saturday and Sunday nights at 10p EST on the KZOI / KZOY FM stations located in Sioux City, Iowa and Sioux Falls, SD. The show streams worldwide at Sunnyradio.com. The show consists of Savage and Turner interviewing guests from a diversity of fields from rock musicians to professional wrestlers. Guests have included: Rickey Medlocke of

, actor Peter Sherayko,

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, Matt Hardy, and other notable personages from all genres of entertainment. The interviews are punctuated with music from artists from the '80's through today. The show used to contain a weekly fitness tip from

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, star of Spike TV's Worlds Worst Tenants, and also a special segment with Rock legend Carmine Appice, former drummer for Rod Stewart, Ozzy Osbourne, and Vanilla Fudge. He is currently the drummer of The Rascals. The radio show became a podcast in 2016, and it is hosted on

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. Guests have included Nick Searcy,

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, Ambassador Scott Brown and more.

“Born to be Wild” Single and Video

In March 2016 Ric Savage teamed up with

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frontman

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and Trixter guitar wizard Steve Brown to do a heavy metal remake of the iconic Steppenwolf hit, Born to be Wild. They were joined by the legendary Carmine Appice on drums, “The Fretless Monster” Tony Franklin from

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on bass, and

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of Adrenaline Mob on lead guitar. The single was released by Rocker Records, and the video was shot in New Jersey and is available on YouTube. Greg Smith, bass player for

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played the bass track on the video.

Championships and accomplishments

*Great American Wrestling Federation ** GAWF Southern Heavyweight Championship (1 time) * International Wrestling Alliance ** IWA United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time) *

** NCW World Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Rusty Riddle (1) and David Young (1) *Southeastern Wrestling Alliance ** SWA World Heavyweight Championship (2 times) *Western Carolina Wrestling ** WCW Southeastern Regional Six-Man Tag Team Championship – with Chief

and Tommy Gunn (1)

References

Solie's Vintage Wrestling

Wrestling Pro News

Indy Wrestling Database

Yard Barker

Deadline.com

Futon Critic

Variety.com

Seattle PI

Business Insider

Spike TV Press Center

MSN Entertainment

Hollywood Reporter

*wwe.com/wrestling

Notes

External links

ECW Matches

AM 540 WRGC
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