Victor Hersey Blood (born April 18, 1960) is an American retired

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, 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

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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

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(WCWA) as a low level wrestler. On September 7, 1987 he was part of the 1987 Labor Day Star Wars major show, losing to Vince Apollo in the second match of the night. A few months later he was part of WCWA's Thanksgiving Star Wars, losing to

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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

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(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" (

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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

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). 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 (Dennis Condrey 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 IWCCW Heavyweight Championship, 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

(CWA), later known as

Cold Front and finally NWA New England. While working for the CWA and subsequent promotions Steamboat held the CWA Heavyweight Championship (New England), CWA Heavyweight Championship twice, the NWA New England Television Championship, CWA Television Championship twice, the CWA Tag Team Championship with Ray Odyssey as well as the NWA Cold Front Heavyweight Championship twice and the NWA New England Television Championship once.

World Wrestling Federation (1991)

On July 29, 1991 Vic Steamboat wrestled as Jesse Bolt for the WWE, World Wrestling Federation on a ''WWF Superstars of Wrestling, Superstars'' taping in Worcester, MA by defeating Steve Lombardi, The Brooklyn Brawler. The following day at the ''WWF Wrestling Challenge, Wrestling Challenge'' taping in Portland, ME, Steamboat would again defeat the Brawler.

World Championship Wrestling (1996)

On October 1, 1996 Steamboat wrestled for World Championship Wrestling 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, Cold Front/ NWA New England :*CWA Heavyweight Championship (New England), CWA Heavyweight Championship (2 times) :*NWA New England Television Championship, CWA Television Championship (NWA New England Television Championship#Title history, 2 times) :*CWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ray Odyssey :*NWA Cold Front Heavyweight Championship (2 times) :*NWA New England Television Championship (1 time) * International Championship Wrestling / International World Class Championship Wrestling :*IWCCW Heavyweight Championship (IWCCW Heavyweight Championship#Title history, 1 time) :*

(IWCCW Tag Team Championship#Title history, 2 times) - with Joe Savoldi *Pro Wrestling Illustrated :*PWI ranked him # 106 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI 500 in 1993

References

External links

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