Victor Hersey Blood (born April 18, 1960) 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 ...

, best known by his

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, Vic Steamboat. He is the younger brother of professional wrestler

Ricky Steamboat Richard Henry Blood Sr. (born February 28, 1953), better known by his ring name Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat, is an American retired professional wrestler best known for his work with the American Wrestling Association (AWA), Jim Crockett Promot ...

, whom he took his ring name after. The majority of Steamboat's wrestling career was spent in the North Eastern United States working for promotions such as International Championship Wrestling / International World Class Championship Wrestling and Century Wrestling Alliance / NWA Cold Front / NWA New England, holding championships on several occasions.

Professional wrestling career

World Class Wrestling Association (1986–1988)

Victor Blood made his professional wrestling debut on December 7, 1986, adopting the ring name Vic Steamboat from his first match on. In mid-1987 he worked for the

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-based World Class Wrestling Association (WCWA) as a low level wrestler. On September 7, 1987 he was part of the 1987 Labor Day Star Wars major show, losing to

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in the second match of the night. A few months later he was part of WCWA's Thanksgiving Star Wars, losing to Killer Tim Brooks in the first match of the show.

International Championship Wrestling / International World Class Championship Wrestling (1988–1991)

After spending some time wrestling in Texas Blood moved to the North Eastern united states, making his debut as Vic Steamboat for the Boston, Massachusetts based International Championship Wrestling (ICW) promotion. In ICW he formed a regular

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with

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, known as "The S & S Express". In September 1988 the S & S Express defeated

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and The Dungeon Master to win the

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. Their first run with the titles ended on March 5, 1989 where the S & S Express was defeated by a team known as "the Dynamic Duo" ( Phil Apollo and Eric Sbraccia). The S & S Express regained the championship on July 1, 1989 and held them until December 11 of that year where they lost to "The Undertakers" (

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and Punisher). When then champion Eric Sbraccia did not show up for a scheduled title match Steamboat teamed with Phil Apolo, only to lose the championship to The Lethal Weapons (

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and Doug Gilbert). Later on ICW was renamed International World Class Championship Wrestling (IWCCW). On July 24, 1990 Vic Steamboat won his first singles title, as he defeated Tony Atlas to win the

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, becoming the top wrestler in the federation. His run at the top lasted until April 19, 1991 where Atlas regained the championship.

Century Wrestling Alliance (1991–1998)

A while later Steamboat and a number of other IWCCW wrestlers left the promotion to form Century Wrestling Alliance (CWA), later known as NWA Cold Front and finally NWA New England. While working for the CWA and subsequent promotions Steamboat held the

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twice, the

CWA Television Championship The Century Wrestling Alliance Television Championship is a secondary wrestling title in the Century Wrestling Alliance. It was first known by that name when the title was first established in 1994, and was renamed as the NWA New England Televisi ...

twice, the

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with

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as well as the NWA Cold Front Heavyweight Championship twice and the

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once.

World Wrestling Federation (1991)

On July 29, 1991 Vic Steamboat wrestled as Jesse Bolt for the

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on a ''

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'' taping in Worcester, MA by defeating

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. The following day at the ''

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'' taping in Portland, ME, Steamboat would again defeat the Brawler.

World Championship Wrestling (1996)

On October 1, 1996 Steamboat wrestled for

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on their weekly show, '' WCW Saturday Night'' against Arn Anderson in a match airing from Canton, OH.

Championships and accomplishments

*Can-Am Wrestling :*Can-Am Heavyweight Championship (1 time) * Century Wrestling Alliance / NWA Cold Front/ NWA New England :*

(2 times) :*

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) :*

(1 time) - with

:*NWA Cold Front Heavyweight Championship (2 times) :*

(1 time) * International Championship Wrestling / International World Class Championship Wrestling :*

( 1 time) :*

(

) - with

* Pro Wrestling Illustrated :*PWI ranked him # 106 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI 500 in 1993

References

External links

Online World of Wrestling profileVic Steamboat
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