Travis Killings

Travis Killings is an American professional wrestler. He currently works for Ace Championship Wrestling on the Smash brand. He is a former two time ACW World Champion, four time ACW Tag Team Champion, and he is currently in his second reign as ACW U.S. Champion.

Early Beginnings
Travis Killings made his start in 2000, working with UWA (Universal Wrestling Alliance). He started a feud with Michael Dean after Dean had attacked him shortly after his win in his debut match. The feud lasted about a month until Killings had finally defeated Dean at UWA Blood Bath after a TKO. In April 2000, he began a feud with Reke after Travis Killings had TKO'ed Reke while he was making a promo. He defeated Reke on an episode of UWA after a TKO. Then, he got a shot at the UWA Tag Team title, but lost the match after his partner, Flyin' Ryan missed a moonsault and fell into a rollup position. In June 2000, at UWA SummerBash, he defeated "Big Bad" Bruce after lifting him up for a TKO. After 4 months in UWA, he began an undefeated streak where he was never pinned and didn't submit. His undefeated streak ended in November after Crasher defeated him after hitting him with multiple chair shots. However, Travis Killings got revenge the next night on UWA after defeated Crasher in a first blood match. Shortly thereafter, in December, he challenged Zodiak for the UWA World Heavyweight Championship and won the title after reversing the Power Zodiak into a TKO. This began his first run as champion. In 2001, he continued defending the title successfully until he lost it to Shawn in June 2001 at SummerBash. He then continued wrestling in singles competition until he met Haze.

Rivalry/Friendship with Haze (2001-2002)
In October 2001, Travis Killings and Haze had a tag team match against Hippi and Tyler. The fans easily saw the possibility of achievement with Haze and Killings due to the fact that they have held the UWA World Heavyweight Championship. It was also funny because Haze and Killings were trying to outwrestle the other. They won the match, but Harry Bondavia, the owner of UWA noticed how Haze and Travis Killings as a team got over with the fans. Over the next few weeks, they were seen in funny segments, competing against each other in games like chess, monopoly, basketball, baseball, football, pizza eating contest, and obstacle course races. They had a match for the UWA Tag Team Championship, but lost to the defending champions, Christopher Young and Alan Michaels, after a Young/Michaels Combination (Powerbomb/Top Rope Spear combination) to Haze. They became very popular with the fans. However, the rival show, ACW had Raven-One Connection at the time, however, the team disbanded in December 2001. Travis Killings and Haze challeged for the tag team titles once again, but were unsuccesful. Then, after the match Travis Killings challlenged Haze to a match at Silent Night. Haze accepted the match and defeated Killings after hitting the Shades on Travis Killings. After UWA made an agreeable contract with ACW, many talent from UWA and the developmental territory was traded to ACW in exchange for talent from ACW and the developmental territory. As a result Travis Killings and Haze were traded to ACW with Travis traded to the Rush brand and Haze traded to Smash.

ACW
Travis Killings made his start on ACW, defeating Johnny Jeter, the leader of the Purple World Order. After the match, Jeter, Krymynal, and Double X attacked Killings. Krymynal put Killings in the Ghetto Blaster, Double X landed a diving elbow to his legs, which easily set Killings up for a Sharpshooter by Jeter, who was in his fifth reign as ACW Palace Champion at the time. The next week, Travis Killings challenged Double X to a match at ACW Judgment Day 2002, which he won after a TKO. He was challenged by Krymynal to a match on an edition of Rush which ended in a draw after both men were brawling outside the ring during the referee's countout. The brawl spilled into the locker room and the wrestlers made an attempt to seperate them, but Travis Killings and Krymynal started fighting them off and cotinued attacking each other, making a return to ringside to continue brawling before they were seperated by officials, management, security, and the wrestlers.

Continuation of his feud with Krymynal/P.W.O.
Travis Killings challenged Krymynal to a steel cage match, which at first was declined by Krymynal, but he accepted after ambushing Travis Killings from behind after his match and used his finishing move, the Ghetto Blaster on him. The steel cage match was set for the last edition of Rush before Vengeance, with the winner becoming #1 contender for the ACW Palace Championship against Johnny Jeter. Killings won the steel cage match after hitting a TKO. However, he lost to Johnny Jeter at Vengeance after Krymynal interfered. After the match, Jeter put Killings in the Sharpshooter on the announce table. Killings was kept in the hold for more than two minutes, while Killings screamed in pain. Referees tried to get Jeter off of Killings, but the attempt was thwarted by the rest of the P.W.O. Killings tore his quadriceps while in the move and was said to be out for 5 months. He returned in December 2002, defeating Johnny Jeter at Armageddon 2002 after a TKO, thus ending their rivalry.

Tag Team with Joe Dream
In February 2003, Joe Dream was going to face Garry B. Big and Colossal in a match at No Way Out 2003. Dream had the option of choosing to go it alone in a handicap match or find a tag team partner. He chose to fight alone at first, then after he made the decision, Colossal and Garry came out and attacked him. Then, Killings ran out with a lead pipe to make the save. He grabbed the mic and said, "Hey! Garry and Colossal, I guess we'll see you at No Way Out", stating that he had become Dream's partner for the match. They won the match after Joe Dream hit the Dream Slam. They showed gratitude to each other for working together as a team. (They realized that their teaming would be kind of bizarre due to the fact that they both wear U.S.A. designs on their attire during their matches. They continued teaming together until two weeks before WrestleMania 2003.

Continuation of Dominance, Rise to Stardom
Travis Killings was scheduled to compete in a Money in the Bank ladder match (that used to include only four participants before it was expanded to six partcipants). He came up short, after the eventual winner, Blake Magnificent climbed up the ladder and hit Killings in the face with a chair while he was trying to bring down the briefcase. Killings got his revenge when he fought and beat Blake Magnificent at Backlash 2003. Magnificent, however didn't take the loss lightly and hit Killings with his briefcase after his matches. After Killings' match with the ACW World Heavyweight Champion, The Max Impact, Blake Magnificent cashed in his MITB and made it a triple threat match. Magnificent already had the advantage as Killings and Impact were exhausted. It was later made a no disqualification triple threat match. Killings and Impact were knocked unconscious after Blake Magnificent hit them both in the head repeatedly with his briefcase, causing both men to bleed, as Killings rose to his feet, Magnificent used his finisher, Magnifying DDT on him. As he went for the pinfall, Impact broke it up only to be a victim of the con-chair-to. Magnificent pinned Killings for the victory. As he went up the ramp, a bloody and irate Travis Killings stood up and became enraged, realizing he had been cheated out of a good, clean, and fair match. At Judgement Day 2003, he lost to Blake Magnificent in a match for the ACW World Heavyweight Championship after he was hit in the head with the championship. People began referring to Killings as "The Uncrowned Champion". At ACW Resurrection as a tour that few superstars were chosen to be a part of, Killings won the title from Magnificent after interference from The Max Impact. The evnt took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. However, even though Killings portrayed a face character, he was heavily booed and chants of "The One" started erupting thriugh the arena due to the fact that The One was a Canadian and didn't participate at the event due to flight issues. He lost the title to Hitman at Summerslam 2003.