Stephen Paul Keirn (born September 10, 1951) is an American retired
professional wrestler
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. He is best known for his appearances in multiple
National Wrestling Alliance
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Founded in 1948, the NWA ...
territories
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as Steve Keirn as one-half of the
tag team
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The Fabulous Ones
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, as well as his appearances with the
World Wrestling Federation
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under the
ring name
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Skinner.
Early life
Keirn graduated from
Robinson High School in
Port Tampa
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. His father, Richard Keirn, was a
B-17
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pilot who was shot down over Germany in September 1944 and became a
POW
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Belligerents hold prisoners of war ...
. In July 1965, when Stephen was 13, Richard was shot down over Vietnam and again taken prisoner. He was held in the
Hanoi Hilton
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for seven and half years. While his father was imprisoned he hung out with his school friend
Mike Graham whose father
Eddie Graham
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...
is in the
WWE Hall of Fame
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.
Professional wrestling career
Championship Wrestling from Florida (1972–1982)
Much of Keirn's early career was spent wrestling as part of a
tag team
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. While wrestling in
Championship Wrestling from Florida
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(CWF), he held the
NWA Florida Tag Team Championship
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Championship Wrestling from Florida (CWF) was ...
twelve times; once each with
Bob Backlund
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,
Jimmy Garvin
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, and
Brian Blair
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, and nine times with
Mike Graham.
[ In addition, the team of Keirn and Graham won the ]NWA Florida United States Tag Team Championship
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three times.[
In 1980 and 1981, Keirn focused on his career as a singles wrestler. He won many titles in Florida and Georgia, including the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title by defeating ]Chavo Guerrero Sr.
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This title reign was recognized by New Japan Pro-Wrestling
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, as well as the Los Angeles and Florida NWA territories, but not by the NWA as a whole, which considered the title vacant and held a tournament to crown a new champion. The title Keirn held was later renamed the NWA International Junior Heavyweight Title.[ Keirn also won the ]NWA National Television Championship
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twice, defeating Terry Funk
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and Kevin Sullivan.[
]
Various Promotions (1981–1991)
In 1981, Keirn began wrestling with the Tennessee
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-based Continental Wrestling Association
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(CWA). He was successful as a singles wrestler, winning a tournament to claim the AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship. He also held the NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship
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on two occasions.[ As in CWF, Keirn found his greatest success in the tag team division. He held the ]AWA Southern Tag Team Championship
The AWA Southern Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team title in the Tennessee area from the 1940s through the late 1980s. It was originally named the NWA Southern Tag Team Championship ''(Mid-America version)'' from its ince ...
17 times, including 14 reigns as one half of The Fabulous Ones
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with Stan Lane
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. Keirn and Lane also teamed to win the CWA World Tag Team Championship
The CWA World Tag Team Championship was a major professional wrestling tag team title defended in the Continental Wrestling Association. It lasted from 1980 through 1983.
Title history
Footnotes
References
See also
*Continental Wrestling ...
twice.[
The Fabulous Ones competed in various promotions over the next decade. In 1984, the team won the Southwest Championship Wrestling World Tag Team Championship while wrestling in Australia.][ In the United States, they won the NWA Florida United States Tag Team Championship twice.][ In 1991, the pair wrestled in the ]United States Wrestling Association
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, defeating Tony Anthony
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and Doug Gilbert
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to win the USWA Tag Team Championship
The USWA World Tag Team Championship was the primary professional wrestling tag team championship promoted by the Memphis, Tennessee-based United States Wrestling Association (USWA). The Continental Wrestling Association and World Class Wrestling ...
.[
]
World Wrestling Federation (1991–1993)
In the summer of 1991, Keirn debuted in the WWF as Skinner, an alligator
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hunter
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from the Florida Everglades
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. He was portrayed as a generally nasty individual, always chewing on tobacco
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and sometimes spitting it on his opponent. He carried an alligator claw to the ring with him, which he would often use as a weapon against his opponents. He competed in the 1991 King of the Ring tournament, defeating Virgil
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in the first round but losing to Bret Hart
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in the second round. While still being billed as undefeated, he challenged Hart for the WWF Intercontinental Championship
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at This Tuesday in Texas
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on December 3, 1991, but lost by submission
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. Skinner competed in the 1992 Royal Rumble
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, lasting 2:13 before being eliminated by Rick Martel
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. At WrestleMania VIII
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, he was defeated in one minute and eleven seconds by Owen Hart
Owen James Hart (May 7, 1965 – May 23, 1999) was a Canadian-American professional wrestler who worked for several promotions including Stampede Wrestling, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and the World Wres ...
.
Keirn also unsuccessfully challenged Randy Savage
Randall Mario Poffo (November 15, 1952 – May 20, 2011), better known by his ring name "Macho Man" Randy Savage, was an American professional wrestler best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and World Championship Wrestl ...
for the WWF Championship
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on the June 29, episode of Prime Time Wrestling. He also competed in the 1993 Royal Rumble
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, but was eliminated by Mr. Perfect at the 3:05 mark. While in the WWF, Keirn also portrayed Doink the Clown
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on occasion. At WrestleMania IX
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, Keirn helped the original Doink defeat Crush by attacking Crush dressed as Doink during the match.
World Championship Wrestling (1994)
Along with Bobby Eaton
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, Keirn wrestled in World Championship Wrestling
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(WCW) in 1994 in a tag team known as "Bad Attitude".[ Despite the tag team success both Keirn and Eaton enjoyed in the past (with The Fabulous Ones and the Midnight Express respectively), the team made little impact, losing dark matches to ]Brian
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and Brad Armstrong at Bash at the Beach 1994 and Fall Brawl 1994. While in WCW, Keirn was also involved in an angle
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in which masked men attacked Hulk Hogan
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. Several times in October 1994, Keirn wore a black mask to attack Hogan during and after Hogan's matches.
Retirement and post-career (2001–present)
Since the late 1980s, Keirn has run a school to train wrestlers. Originally located in Tampa, Florida
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, Keirn's "Professional Wrestling School of Hard Knocks" is now located in Brandon, Florida
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.
Keirn helped train many wrestlers, including Mike Awesome
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, Dennis Knight
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, Diamond Dallas Page
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, Dustin Rhodes
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, Tracy Smothers
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, and Roman Reigns
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.[
The school was incorporated into the ]WWE
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's developmental territory, Florida Championship Wrestling
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, which opened on June 26, 2007, and Keirn was named President of the FCW and made regular appearances on FCW television. His last match was on December 10, 2007, at the 15th Anniversary Raw participating in a Battle Royal where he was eliminated from the match by Sgt. Slaughter
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From the late 1970s to the early 198 ...
. On August 14, 2012, FCW was discontinued and the WWE Performance Center
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opened on July 11, 2013.
Championships and accomplishments
*Century Wrestling Alliance
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**CWA Television Championship
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( 1 time)
*Championship Wrestling from Florida
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** NWA Brass Knuckles Championship ''(Florida version)'' ( 1 time)
**NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship
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( 5 times)
**NWA Florida Tag Team Championship
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Championship Wrestling from Florida (CWF) was ...
( 12 times) – with Mike Graham (9), Jimmy Garvin
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(1),[ ]Bob Backlund
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(1),[ and ]Brian Blair
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(1)[
**]NWA Florida Television Championship
The NWA Florida Television Championship was a secondary title in Championship Wrestling from Florida
Championship Wrestling from Florida (CWF) was the corporate and brand name of the Tampa, Florida wrestling office existing from 1961, when ...
( 1 time)
** NWA North America Tag Team Championship ''(Florida version)'' (1 time) – with Mike Graham
** NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship ''(Florida version)'' (2 times
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)
** NWA United States Tag Team Championship ''(Florida version)'' ( 5 times) – with Mike Graham (3) and Stan Lane
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(2)[
*]Georgia Championship Wrestling
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**NWA Georgia Heavyweight Championship
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The title was pick ...
( 1 time)
**NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship
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The title was revived in 1998 by Music City Wrestling ...
( 1 time) – with Mr. Wrestling
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Collegiate wrestling career
Woodin received a degree in agricultural engineering fr ...
**NWA National Television Championship
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(2 times
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)
* Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling
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** NWA United States Tag Team Championship ''(Gulf Coast version)'' (1 time) – with Ricky Gibson
*NWA Hollywood Wrestling
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**NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship
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( 1 time)
* NWA Mid-America / Continental Wrestling Association
** AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship ( 1 time)[
**]AWA Southern Tag Team Championship
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( 17 times) – with Stan Lane (14), Bill Dundee
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(2), and Terry Taylor
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(1)
** CWA International Tag Team Championship ( 1 time) – with Mark Starr
**CWA World Tag Team Championship
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Title history
Footnotes
References
See also
*Continental Wrestling ...
(2 times
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) – with Stan Lane
**NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship
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(2 times
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)
*''Pro Wrestling Illustrated
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''
**PWI ranked him #132 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years
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" in 2003
*Southwest Championship Wrestling
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...
**SCW World Tag Team Championship
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( 1 time) – with Stan Lane
*United States Wrestling Association
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**USWA World Tag Team Championship
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( 1 time) – with Stan Lane
See also
* The Fabulous Ones
The Fabulous Ones were a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Stan Lane and Steve Keirn that was active between 1982 and 1991 with brief reunions during the 1990s. The Fabulous Ones competed primarily in North American territories such as ...
References
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