Lance Storm | |
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Storm in the ring at an independent wrestling show in December 2013.
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Birth name | Lance Timothy Evers |
Born |
Sarnia, Ontario, Canada |
April 3, 1969
Residence | Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
Spouse(s) | Tina Evers |
Children | 2 |
Website | stormwrestling.com |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | The Ideal Canadian Lance Storm Lance T. Storm The SWA Kid |
Billed height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
Billed weight | 231 lb (105 kg) |
Billed from | Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
Trained by | Ed Langley Stu Hart |
Debut | 1990 |
Lance Timothy Evers (born April 3, 1969), known professionally by his ring name Lance Storm, is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is best known for his work in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). After retiring from full-time wrestling, he began running a professional wrestling school, the Storm Wrestling Academy, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Lance Storm was trained by Ed Langley and Brad Young of the Hart Brothers Wrestling Camp at the Silver Dollar Action Centre in Calgary, where he became friends with fellow student Chris Jericho. Jericho has stated that despite the name of the school, the only involvement any of the Hart brothers had in their training was a "thirty-minute cameo" by Keith Hart to collect the student's fees. Lance would later debut against Jericho in 1990 as Lance T. Storm. Early on, he mainly wrestled in Calgary but also spent time in Japan in Wrestling Association "R". Along with Jericho, Storm debuted in Smoky Mountain Wrestling in 1994, forming a tag team known as the Thrillseekers. After Jericho was injured, Storm continued to compete in singles competition for a few months, even winning the "Beat the Champ" TV Title. He then left SMW and moved on to a Winnipeg-based West Four Wrestling Alliance, where he teamed once again with Jericho. In 1995, he began wrestling in Japan for WAR. He form championship teams with Yuji Yasuraoka (with whom he held the WAR International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship numerous times), as well as forming a trio Nobutaka Araya and Koki Kitahara, with whom he held the WAR World Six-Man Tag Team Championship.