Paul Burchill
| Paul Burchill | |
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Burchill at a signing in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2009.
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| Birth name | Paulcliff Ronald Birchall |
| Born |
8 October 1979 Guildford, England, United Kingdom |
| Residence | Jeffersontown, Kentucky |
| Children | 2 |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Burchill Paul Burchill The Ripper |
| Billed height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Billed weight | 247 lb (112 kg) |
| Billed from |
Chelsea, England London, England Guildford, Surrey Saint Thomas, US Virgin Islands |
| Trained by |
Frontier Wrestling Alliance Mark Sloan |
| Debut | 2002 |
| Retired | 2014 |
Paulcliff Ronald "'Paul"' Birchall (born 8 October 1979), better known by his ring name Paul Burchill, is a retired English professional wrestler. He is best known for his time with WWE, where he signed after training and debuting for the Frontier Wrestling Alliance in his home country.
Birchall is a former primary school teacher from Surrey, but got into professional wrestling in 2001 after walking into the Frontier Wrestling Alliance's (FWA) Academy and quickly impressing the man running the camp, Mark Sloan.
While training at the Academy under Sloan's guidance, Birchall made his debut in August 2002 using the slightly modified spelling of his name Paul Burchill. In mid-2002, Burchill began to appear in the FWA by interfering in matches or before them, making unscheduled appearances and beating other wrestlers leading to October at Uprising when he took out both members of The New Breed (Ashe and Curve) singlehandedly before their match. He went on interfering in matches, even taking out all four competitors in a four-way match until May when he made his first scheduled appearance at Frontiers of Honour, jointly held between FWA and Ring of Honor (ROH). Debuting with manager 'Twisted Genius' Dean Ayass he defeated the tag team of Double Dragon (Raj Jordon and Ross Jordan), in his first sanctioned match by double knockout. Burchill went on an undefeated streak in handicap matches against tag teams for the rest of the year, often running into the Duke of Danger (who he'd taken out in the four way) and Andy Simmons, part of the themed group Hampton Court. He cemented this winning streak in a moment voted thirteenth on the FWA's Top 20 Moments when he interrupted the Duke's thrashing of peasants (squashing jobbers) at Hotwired in September and performed a double rolling fireman's carry slam before debuting his C-4 finishing move. By the end of 2003 he was voted Rookie of the Year by both Total Wrestling and 1 Stop Wrestling.
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