Kevin Crash

Kevin Shawn Crash (born as Kevin Coomans on the 17th of October 1989 in Belgium, Louvain (Flanders) and formerely known as Kevin Shawn Caine), is a professional wrestler. Crash is currently wrestling for Entertainment Wrestling Society (EWS), which is his own production.

Crash used to be a SEO superstar, but left the company in March 2010. The reason for his departure is listed in the interview summary, which is located further down this page.

Wrestling debut
Kevin Crash started training in a private wrestling school in his hometown when he was 12 years old.

At the age of 17, he moved over to Dallas, Texas in the United States of America with his parents, his sister and his brother, former XoW superstar Danny Pyro. Liam (Danny's real name) still wrestles, but has chosen to use the name of his and Kevin's uncle, Chris, for participation instead of the name "Danny Pyro".

With a lot of experience and a reputation at hand, Crash carries on training in a private group of wrestlers. This time, however, in 2007, he gets to perform in front of an audience. During that era, he wresteled under the ring name of The X.

Crash's most impressive match was against Kevin Moens, formerly known as Spyro. When Moens did his finisher, called The Dragon Bomb (Full Nelson Bomb) back in the day, Crash countered with his finisher, The X-Buster (Standing Facelock Bulldog/Standing Cutter), turning his standard finisher into a more powerful, elevated version. This move made it to the Top 10 of best counters in the federation.

Because of the high level of popularity Crash had achieved after winning this match, he formed his first Tag-Team called The Punishment Outlaws. The members included Crash himself, Crusher ‘CJ’ Chris and former rival Spyro. They were a divine combination of speed, agility, strength, endurance and charisma as they dominated the roster.

Crash's final match for the small company was in november 2007 and was scheduled as a Last Man Standing match. A match in which he was forced to fight Crusher Chris, his then Tag-Team partner. Neither superstar wanted to beat their friend up, which lead to commotion with both superstars. Most of protest came from Chris' side as he wasn't keen on beating up one of his best friends. It was then that the stakes were brought in. The manager said "If you win, you'll get a title shot... but if Crash wins, he'll get to stay in the federation". This motivated both superstars to put their friendship aside and think about themselves for a second. In the end, Chris won that match and Crash left the federation. Not only did this end the career of a magnificent superstar in the company, it also meant the end for the Punishment Outlaws as Mash (formerly known as Spyro) and Chris couldn't get along anymore.

Eventually, this agreement appeared to be nothing but a poisonous gift, handed out by the manager as the outcome would always have been in both Crash's and Chris' disadvantage. If Crash would have won, he would have received a contract to wrestle (on exceptional terms) for only two more weeks, until his contract expired and then, he wouldn't get a new one presented to him. Chris would have lost a lot of ratings, placing him even lower in the rankings due to his monotone gimmick. Now, Chris gained a title shot, but he went for a title which was way out of reach, causing him to lose the shot and being put back at the bottom of the ladder for the championship, while he lost both his Tag-Team partners Mash and Crash. Crusher 'CJ' Chris was great when in a team, but that was basically all. That's where he got his ratings from. Now that he caused his Tag-Team partner to leave, he gave himself a major stab in the back as he disbanded his own team and therefore killed his own career.

In the end, Chris got released two weeks, give and take a few, after Crash.

The K.O. Masters
In 2007, right after his release from his former federation, Crash joined the wrestling promotion called TKM. This was his first big-company debut in the wrestling world.

However, due to the lack of excitement, Crash requested a release after less than one month. Along with some other people.

It was here that Crash changed his in-ring name from The 'X' into Kevin Crash.

Extreme Wrestling Society
After the release he requested in TKM, Crash decided to start his own wrestling promotion called EWS or Extreme Wrestling Society.

Being both chairman and active superstar in EWS, Crash was happily running his own promotion. Unfortunately, due to unexpected circumstances, he was forced to give up on EWS and joined a different promotion instead.

It was then that he was hired as the General Manager for the XOW brand called Aggression. This was a brand of the big company called SEO.

EWS was revived later on and is still running as an active wrestling promotion. Kevin Crash did take precautions to prevent a second failure, which might be the secret of the current success of the promotion.

SEO-XOW
In 2008, Crash started working as a General Manager for the XOW brand called Aggression. Unfortunately, he was forced to give up on that position. He became an in-ring competitor instead.

Kevin Crash forced his release from the roster on XoW in March 2010. More information on his departure can be found at the bottom of this page where a link will direct you to the most recent interview, taken from Kevin Crash.

Entertainment Wrestling Society
In 2010, right after quitting XoW, Kevin Crash returned to his very own federation, Extreme Wrestling Society. But this year, Crash was determined to blow the roof off the building, making EWS a great success. Determined on making EWS a true entertainment federation, Crash gathered two of his friends who share the same opinion on the value of entertainment in a federation and formed a source of power in EWS with them.

Renaming EWS from Extreme Wrestling Society to Entertainment Wrestling Society was one of the many important steps in the reforming process of EWS.

Tag-Teams and alliances
Kevin Crash had quite some Tag-Team partners over the years and most of them worked well with crash.

The first Tag-Team Crash has been in was called The Punishment Outlaws. The team of Crash, Spyro and Chris dominated the roster for quite some time. The Tag-Team got disbanded after the forced departure of Crash.

Crash formed a second Tag-Team together with King Mod called The Brothers of Demise. The team did extraordinary well until a fight drove them apart, only to be reunited again after so many years in a team called Priceless Royalty.

The third Tag-Team Crash appeared in was called Team C and K. The team of Kevin, Cedric and his younger brother Keven didn’t last very long though. Due to illness, Cedric was unable to continue his in-ring career and therefore, "permanently retired" the team along with him.

Kevin Crash also formed an alliance with Tom Waspe. They weren’t known as a Tag-Team as Tom cost them ratings doing nothing but causing trouble for his own Tag-Team partner during matches. They disbanded the team for that reason after even less than one month.

Crash was wrestling in the team called Royalty. Team members included himself, his former Tag-Team partner and former rival King Mod, J. Lovatt and Raggy. Originally, the team name was Priceless Royalty and was a two-man Tag-Team, containing only Crash and Mod. Later on, J. Lovatt got released from his contract in the team and King Mod joined Team Legacy, leaving only Raggy and Crash in the team. But that was no problem. The two just renamed the Tag-Team name to The Scorpions.

After his departure from SEO's XoW, the team of The Scorpions got disbanded. Kevin Crash had not even seen a future for this team due to the bad terms both members were on. That's why he reverted back to his original Tag-Team: The Punishment Outlaws!

This bringing us to the final and latest Tag-Team The Punishment Outlaws. It's the same team with the same members... except for one old schooler who decided to permanently retire from wrestling and start a football-career... : Crusher Chris! As stated in the first paragraph of this page, the departure of Crash meant the end for Chris' career in more than one way. It prevented Chris from breaking through in the wrestling world, and that caused him to lose all passion for it. Without him around, the PO's decided to renunite as a Two-Man Tag-Team.

Kevin Crash & Danny Pyro
Crash received a first important "title shot" back in 2008. He was one of the four competitors in the "Mini Money In The Bank" match. The other three were his Tag-Team partner King Mod, skirt-wrestler Cash and "The True Snake" Danny Pyro.

After a few minutes in the match, Cash and Crash were grounded while King Mod and Danny Pyro were climbing the ladder to take the belt down. As soon as both men had reached halfway up the ladder, Crash stood up... dazed and concussed... and realized that he had to do something about the situation... urgently.

What he did shocked all viewers! Crash crawled up the turnbuckle and launched a missile dropkick... to knock his own Tag-Team partner down! This gave Danny Pyro the chance to grab the title and win the match!

No one understood why Crash had done this... costing his own Tag-Team partner the title. The question-word "why" got involved time after time during any interview Crash attended. At first, he didn't want to reply to any questions that were connected to the past events, but afterwards, this is what Crash had to say: "King Mod is way too cocky... He always has been! He thinks that every title will eventually end up being eround his waist and that he dominates the entire roster. Simply put, the gold around his waist wouldn't do him any good. That's why I prevented his ego from growing even more... by doing what I did in that match!"

One year later, he made it public that he dropkicked Mod because "'the bond between brothers is stronger than the bond between friends". This made it pretty clear that Crash has a brother... and that he was in that match. It only could have been Cash or Danny Pyro, being Crash's secret brother. A few weeks later, it was revealed that the legendary Danny Pyro is Crash's brother. The announcement came quite unexpected! Shortly after, the second newsflash appeared when Crash explained that Danny Pyro is not just a brother, but his twin brother... who is older by only a few minutes. Because they are not identical in looks, this created quite some commotion and disbelief amongst fans and fellow superstars. But they had to accept the truth...: Crash and Pyro are non-identical twin brothers.

Injuries and temporary retirements
Kevin Crash had quite some injuries in his career. Some of these injuries forced him to go on temporary retirement. These are the injuries Crash has had so far:


 * 2 Injured Ribs
 * Received: In an Extreme Rules match.
 * Method: Used a leap from the turnbuckle to execute an Elbow Drop on an opponent who was lying on a ladder. The opponent rolled away, causing Kevin to smash side first into the steel ladder.
 * Consequence: 2 weeks without competition and denied from any ring participation.
 * Result: Temporary retirement
 * Date: 2008/12/10 - 2008/12/24


 * Injured leg
 * Received: In a Triple Threat match.
 * Method: Attempted to kick the opponent who was on the outside of the ring. The opponent dodged the kick, causing Crash to kick the turnbuckle at full force.
 * Consequence: 2 weeks without competition but allowed to attend matches.
 * Result: No retirement, but limited appearance
 * Date: 2009/03/15 - 2009/03/29


 * Severe damage to the skull and a broken arm.
 * Received: In a Hell in a Cell match.
 * Method: Thrown down from the Cell roof and landed head and shoulders first on the announce tables.
 * Consequence: 1-2 months of rest and recovery in the hospital.
 * Result: Temporary retirement
 * Date: 2009/08/19 - 08/10/2009

Championships and Accomplishments
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 * The K.O. Masters


 * Extreme Wrestling Society
 * EWS Champion (season 3 and 4) undefeaten streak!
 * EWS Tag-Team Champions (season 2) with King Mod as Brothers of Demise.


 * SEO-XOW
 * XoW Heavyweight Championship (2 weeks as he left between the two PPV's)

In Wrestling

 * Finishing moves
 * The Crash (Single Armhook Leg Drop Bulldog/K2) sometimes also used as an Inverted Leg Drop Bulldog (not Melina's version!) with a Package Pin.
 * KMD (Kick of Mass Destruction) (Superkick)(example)
 * Crash Cutter (2009 - 2010) (Elevated Three-quarter Facelock Bulldog)
 * Crash Impact (early 2010 - summer 2010) (Reverse DDT)
 * Signature moves
 * Rebound Sleeperslam
 * Gordbuster
 * Facebuster (early 2010 - summer 2010)
 * Regular moves
 * Attacks
 * Throat Thrust
 * Snap Jab Combination
 * Bionic Elbow Combination
 * Running Clothesline
 * Flying Clothesline
 * Flying Shoulder Block
 * Leg Drop variations
 * Running Leg Drop
 * Apron Leg Drop
 * DDT variations
 * Flowing DDT
 * Turnbuckle Tornado DDT
 * Throwback DDT
 * Suplex variations
 * Snap Suplex (example)
 * Teardrop Suplex (example)
 * Hurricanrana
 * Frankensteiner
 * Turnbuckle handstand (used to push himself vertically up the turnbuckle after being struck by an Irish Whip)
 * Turnbuckle handstand to counter the back (Turnbuckle handstand to push himself over a closed in opponent (F. to B.))
 * Turnbuckle handstand to apron jump (Turnbuckle handstand to push himself over the top rope to the apron of the ring)
 * Turnbuckle handstand to immediate strike (Turnbuckle handstand to an immediate launch of a move... eg. Dropkick)
 * Dropkick
 * Jumping Calf Kick
 * Spear
 * Nicknames
 * The Texas Scorpion
 * Wild Lex
 * The Flying Belgian
 * Prince of Extreme
 * Belgian Badass
 * Entrance Themes
 * Lux Aeterna – Clint Mansell (later used as the Tag-Team song for The Punishment Outlaws)
 * Death song - Marilyn Manson (replaced Lux Aeterna when it was being used as theme for The Punishment Outlaws and got used after his gimmick change to Kevin Crash)
 * Disco Lies (Remix) – Moby (stopped using it after his gimmick change to Kevin Crash)
 * Chainsaw Buffet – Lordi
 * It Snows In Hell - Lordi

Did you know...?

 * That Kevin Crash's wrestling idols are Shawn Michaels (retired) and The Undertaker;
 * That Kevin Crash's all time favourite diva is Lita (retired).
 * That Kevin Crash does these things in his free-time:
 * writes stories, articles and storylines for wrestling,
 * mixes and writes songs,
 * owns a promotion called EWS.
 * That the CAW is based on the actual wrester Kevin "Shawn" Crash, as are all of the facts, listed above and most of the information on this Wiki.