Joe Doering | |
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![]() Doering in November 2009
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Birth name | Joseph Doering |
Born |
Chicago, Illinois |
April 16, 1982
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Drake Brewer Hans Von Doering Joe Doering Joseph Doering Vaughn Doering Von Doering |
Billed height | 6 ft 5 in (1.95 m) |
Billed weight | 297 lb (135 kg) |
Trained by |
Scott D'Amore Keiji Mutoh Tyson Dux Kaz Hayashi Steve Keirn Tom Prichard Norman Smiley Dusty Rhodes |
Debut | December 19, 2004 |
Joseph "Joe" Doering (born April 16, 1982) is an American professional wrestler, who works for All Japan Pro Wrestling, where he is a former Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion. In the past he has worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and was also signed to World Wrestling Entertainment under a developmental deal. There he wrestled for Florida Championship Wrestling under the ring name Drake Brewer.
Doering was trained at the Can-Am Wrestling School/Total Nonstop Action Wrestling School in 2004. On December 19, 2004, Doering wrestled his first match for the Border City Wrestling (BCW), where he was defeated by D-Ray 3000.
On December 12, 2005, Joe Doering competed during the free preview show of TNA Turning Point 2005, in a six-man tag-team match. On the December 17, 2005 edition of TNA Impact!, taped December 13, 2005, Doering faced Rhino. On the September 28, 2006, edition of Impact!, which was taped on September 25, Doering, under the ring name Vaughn Doring, made his final TNA appearance in a tag team match, where he and Brandon Thomaselli were defeated by Team 3D.
On April 28, 2006, Doeing made his debut for the Puerto Rican promotion World Wrestling Council (WWC) under the ring name Hans von Doering and defeated Fire Blaze. Doering continued working for WWC until June 10.
Doering debuted for All Japan Pro Wrestling on June 24, 2007. After finishing the studying abroad period, All Japan rewarded Joe Doering with a gaijin contract in September 2007, and Doering became a member of the main roster. His first feud would be with Suwama, whom he pinned on October 18, 2007. Suwama swore revenge on Doering, but was once again pinned by him in the opening match of the 2007 World's Strongest Tag Determination League, where Doering teamed with Japanese legend Keiji Mutoh and Suwama with Satoshi Kojima. The teams would meet again in the finals of the same tournament and this time Mutoh pinned Suwama to win the tournament. On January 3, 2008, Doering and Mutoh defeated Kojima and TARU to win the World Tag Team Championship. However, due to Mutoh's busy schedule the team did not make any defenses, before losing the titles on June 28 to GURENTAI's Taiyō Kea and Minoru Suzuki.