Professional wrestling career | |
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Ring name(s) | Mad Dog O'Malley Maddog O'Malley |
Billed height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
Billed weight | 430 lb (200 kg) |
Billed from | "the dog pounds of Dublin, Ireland" Northern Ireland |
Debut | 1993 |
Retired | 2003 |
Mad Dog O'Malley is a retired Irish-American professional wrestler who competed on the East Coast and Mid-Atlantic independent circuit during the 1990s and early 2000s. He was one of the region's most dominant "heels" for much of the decade, billed as a 500 lbs. Irish brawler from Dublin (or Northern Ireland at times), and a top star for the Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation winning both the MEWF Heavyweight Championship and the MEWF Tag Team Championship twice with Joe Thunder.
O'Malley also had success in other promotions, most notably, Cueball Carmichael's Independent Professional Wrestling Alliance and Maryland Championship Wrestling. He and Carmichael appeared at MCW's inaugural Shane Shamrock Memorial Cup in 1998.
Making his debut in 1993, Mad Dog O'Malley quickly made a name for himself on the East Coast and Mid-Atlantic independent circuit as a 400 lbs. Irish brawler "from the dog pounds of Dublin, Ireland". O'Malley, similar to superheavyweights such as Bam Bam Bigelow, gained attention for his surprising agility given his size. Within a year, he began wrestling for Dennis Wippercht and Tim "Lucifer" Burke's Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation in Essex, Maryland. On 26 February 1995, he pinned Morgus the Maniac to win the promotion's heavyweight championship though O'Malley lost the belt to Corporal Punishment a month later.