Evan Karagias
| Evan Karagias | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 27, 1973 Gastonia, North Carolina, USA |
| Residence | North Carolina |
| Alma mater | North Carolina State University |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Evan Courageous Evan Karagias |
| Billed height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
| Billed weight | 221 lb (100 kg) |
| Billed from | Gastonia, North Carolina |
| Trained by | Dewayne Bruce, WCW Powerplant |
| Debut | 1997 |
Evan Karagias (born November 27, 1973) is an American professional wrestler and actor.
Born and raised in Gastonia, North Carolina, Evan Karagias attended Hunter Huss High School. He became active in the school theater program and won a full collegiate wrestling scholarship to North Carolina State University (Raleigh). At NCSU Evan pursued studies in political science and theater arts. On completion of studies, and after having taken the Wolfpack Wrestling Team to the NCAA Finals.
Evan moved to New York City to pursue an acting and modeling career. He also became the spokesmodel for the 1996 Calvin Klein and US Olympic Committee advertising campaigns. In 1995 he was a recurring guest star on the soap opera All My Children called Jason.
WCW and WWF licensed his voice and body scan images to support the Electronic Arts and THQ pro-wrestling videogame series, first appearing in WCW/nWo Thunder and then WCW Mayhem.
Since leaving WWF, Karagias returned to acting and his first acting role for seven years was playing a wrestler on the soap opera Passions. He has made several TV appearances including Joey. More recently he has been in several smaller independent films such as Metal Gear, Crazy Eyes and Shotgun Kiss.
Evan was recruited to join World Championship Wrestling, and entered training at the WCW's "Power Plant" facility in Atlanta, Georgia, where he soon reached stunt instructor status. In 1997 he began his appearances on WCW's weekly wrestling shows as "The Outrageous Karagias" being used as a jobber, and has the dubious distinction of having more defeats to his record as a solo wrestler in WCW as a proportion of all his matches than anyone else. Of almost 50 televised solo matches wrestled with WCW, he won eight. While performing as a jobber, Karagias had a few high points which included his first appearance at a pay-per-view, a battle royal at Slamboree 1998, and several shots at WCW championships such as the WCW Cruiserweight Championship and WCW World Television Championship.
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