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 left SEO in March 2010. He quit because he found the federation "corrupted" and "tasteless". In a few of the many interviews Crash has given, he explained that SEO had become "a federation that doesn't care about entertainment" and that he hasn't had any regret in quitting their federation.

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.

With a lot of experience in the business, Crash carries on training in a private group of wrestlers. This time, in 2007, he gets full allowance to perform in front of hundreds of fans. At that moment, he was known as The X.

His most impressive match was against Kevin Moens, known as Spyro. When Moens did his finisher, The Dragon Bomb (Full Nelson Bomb), Crash countered with his finisher, The X-Buster (Standing Facelock Bulldog/Standing Cutter).

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 final match for the small company was a Last Man Standing match in which he was forced to fight Crusher Chris, his Tag-Team partner back then. Neither superstar wanted to beat their friend down with a knock-out, so a lot of protest came from Chris' side. 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 mean the end of the story of one magnificent superstar, it also meant the end for the Punishment Outlaws back 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 Crash and Chris' disadvantage. If Crash would have won, he would be allowed to wrestle two more weeks, until his contract expired and then, he wouldn't get a new one presented to him anymore, while Chris would lose even more ratings due to his monotone gimmick. Now, Chris gained a title shot, but he went for a title that was way out of his reach, causing him to lose the shot and being put back at the bottom of the ladder for the championship again, while he lost his Tag-Team partners Mash and Crash. Crusher 'CJ' Chris was great when in a team. That was basically all he got ratings from. Now that he caused his Tag-Team partner to leave, he gave himself the death-stab as he disbanded his own team and therefore ending his own career.

Chris got released two weeks 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, Kevin Crash requested a release after one month. Along with some other people.

It was here that Crash changed his in-ring name from The 'X' to 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 happy having his own promotion. Unfortunately, due to unexpected circumstances, he was forced to give up on EWS and join a different promotion instead.

It was then that he was hired as a General Manager for the XOW brand called Aggression.

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.

Entertainment Wrestling Society
In 2010, right after quitting XoW, Kevin Crash returned to his very own federation, Extreme Wrestling Society. But this year, EWS was going to blow the roof off the building. 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 all of them were a great success.

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

Crash formed a second Tag-Team together with King Mod called The Brothers of Demise. The team did 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. Due to illness, Cedric was unable to continue his in-ring career.

Kevin Crash also formed an alliance with Tom W. They weren’t known that well and they disbanded the team for that very reason after 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 with only Crash and Mod being in it. 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 didn't even see a future for this team anymore 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 one: Crusher Chris! As stated in the first paragraph of this page, the departure of Crash meant the end for Chris' career. 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 that belt down. As soon as both men reached half of the ladder, Crash stood up and realized he had to do something... he had to make a choice!

What he did at that moment 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 go and grab the title... which he did with great success!

No one understood why Crash had done this... costing his own Tag-Team partner the title. The question word "why" got thrown towards Crash time after time during any interview he was in. At first, he didn't want to comment on it, but afterwards, he stated the following lines in one of his interviews "King Mod is way too cocky! He thinks that every title will eventually end up being in his pocket and that he dominates the entire roster. Simply put, the gold around his waist won't do him any good. That's why I prevented his ego from groing even more!"

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, the legendary Danny Pyro. That announcement was something no one had ever expected. The second shock came when Crash explained that Danny Pyro is his twin brother... who is older by only a few minutes. Though they are not identical in looks, this created quite some commotion and disbelief. But the "haters" had to accept the truth that 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
 * Crash Cutter (Elevated Three-quarter Facelock Bulldog)
 * Scorpion Superkick/The Jawbuster-kick (Superkick)(example)
 * Signature moves
 * Facebuster
 * Reverse DDT
 * Regular moves
 * Throat Thrust
 * Leg Drop
 * DDT variations
 * Flowing DDT
 * Turnbuckle Tornado DDT
 * Throwback DDT
 * Suplex variations
 * Snap Suplex (example)
 * Teardrop Suplex (example)
 * Hurricanrana
 * 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 childhood westling idols were Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker?


 * 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 Kevin Crash prefers using chairs, ladders and tables in matches?