Chris Hamrick | |
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Birth name | Christopher Hamrick |
Born |
Mooresboro, North Carolina |
October 21, 1966
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Chris Hamrick Crimson Dragon Hamrick Chris Landell |
Billed height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
Billed weight | 210 lb (95 kg) |
Billed from |
Raleigh, North Carolina Cleveland County, North Carolina |
Trained by | Ricky Morton |
Debut | 1983 |
Christopher "Chris" Hamrick (born October 21, 1966) is a semi-retired American professional wrestler. He is best known for his stint in ECW, though he is also known for his appearances in WWE, TNA and throughout the independent circuit.
Hamrick began watching wrestling as a child. He made his professional debut at the age of sixteen in a promotion operated by his father, facing Alvin Melton in Mooresboro, North Carolina. Hamrick wrestled on the independent circuit for several years.
In 1994, Hamrick wrestled several televised matches as a jobber for the World Wrestling Federation, working with the likes of Razor Ramon, Owen Hart, Billy Gunn, Jeff Jarrett and others.
Although he did not win many matches at the big time level, he did in the independent circuit. Hamrick went to the IWWA, often to team up with Tommy "Wildfire" Rich and had memorable matches against Rock Parsons and Ivan Koloff. Later he teamed up with Rock to go against Lord Zoltan and Chief Jay Eagle which was a 4 out of five stars and was in the top five independent matches of the year. Hamrick went on to wrestle for Smoky Mountain Wrestling before returning to the independent circuit.
Hamrick wrestled a tryout match with Extreme Championship Wrestling on May 25, 2000 in Columbia, South Carolina, and remained with the promotion until it declared bankruptcy in April 2001. In ECW, Hamrick was known as "Confederate Currency" Chris Hamrick and was part of the stable known as Hot Commodity with EZ Money, Elektra and Julio Dinero.