Rockett in 2008
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Born |
Normal, Illinois, U.S. |
January 5, 1985
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Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Marshe Rockett |
Billed height | 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) |
Billed weight | 211 lb (96 kg) |
Billed from |
Chicago, Illinois The Soul of America |
Trained by | Steve Boz |
Debut | 2005 |
Marshe Rockett (born January 5, 1985) is an American professional wrestler currently signed with Impact Wrestling formerly known as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
Rockett made his professional wrestling debut in 2005 at a Windy City Pro Wrestling event, winning the WCPW Lightweight Championship from Justin Adams. On June 24, 2006 at a Windy City Pro Wrestling event Rockett would lose a three-way match against Abaddon and Acid Jaz for the WCPW League Title. In 2007 Rocket would go on to form the tag team Da Soul Touchaz with Willie Richardson and C. Red. As a singles wrestler and member of Da Soul Touchaz, Rockett would wrestle throughout the independent circuit, most notably for CHIKARA, IWA Mid-South, DREAMWAVE Wrestling and Resistance Pro Wrestling.
On December 1, 2012, Rockett would go on to win the DREAMWAVE Alternative Championship from Ace Martino. Rockett would hold on to the belt for 371 days before losing it to Reed Bentley on December 7, 2013.
On November 9, 2014 Rockett became RPW Heavyweight Championship, defeating Josephus and becoming RPW's fourth Heavyweight Champion.
On March 24, 2016, it was announced that Marshe Rockett was one of five new signees to the Impact roster. On August 8, Rockett made his debut at TNA's One Night Only: X-Travaganza 2016, defeating Mandrews to qualify for a number one contenders 7-man ladder match at the end of the night, losing to Braxton Sutter.
Rockett made his Impact Wrestling debut on the October 6 episode, teaming with The Helms Dynasty in a Team X Gold match against DJZ, Mandrews and Braxton Sutter. On the edition of October 13 of Impact Wrestling, Rockett received a TNA X Division Championship match, losing against DJZ. On the November 24 episode of Impact Wrestling, Rockett and The Helms Dynasty would team up once more in a losing effort in a Team X Gold triple threat elimination match, going up against Team Go for Broke (DJZ, Mandrews and Braxton Sutter) and Decay and Rockstar Spud, where the winning team would receive number one contendership for the X Division Championship.