Sean Royal
| Sean Royal | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 1, 1961 Tampa, Florida |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Billed from | "the Future" |
| Trained by | Hiro Matsuda |
| Debut | 1984 |
| Retired | 2002 |
Sean Royal (born Sean Vellenga on February 1, 1961) is a retired American professional wrestler from Tampa, Florida. Initially Royal teamed up with Chris Champion to form a tag team known as The New Breed, their concept being that they had traveled back to 1986 from the year 2002. The duo wore bright neon outfits, had "futuristic" haircuts, talked about future events and at one point had a robot as their manager.
The New Breed competed both in Florida Championship Wrestling and Jim Crockett Promotions. The duo won the NWA Florida Tag Team Championship in 1986 and worked story lines with both the Rock 'n' Roll Express and Midnight Express
Royal retired from wrestling in 1988 and worked in construction for a number of years. He worked in Japan in 1993. He returned to regular competition in 2001 and 2002.
In 2002 a different wrestler began using the name Sean Royal, but he was unrelated to the original Sean Royal.
Sean Royal made his professional wrestling debut in 1984 after training under Hiro Matsuda, opting to use his birth name as his ring name. He initially worked for Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
In 1986 he began working for Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW). Initially he worked as a singles wrestler, but it was not long into his tenure in Florida that the promoter and match makers decided to team Royal up with another young wrestler, Chris Champion; and together the two became a regular tag team called The New Breed. The New Breed tag team was given an elaborate back story and "science fiction" flavor as they were marketed as wrestlers sent back in time from 2002 to 1986. The duo was presented as having "futuristic technology", bright neon colored ring gear and unusual haircuts that were supposed to be the fashion of the future. The team made various references to future events such as referring to wrestler Dusty Rhodes as "President Rhodes", indicating that Rhodes would win the 2000 presidential election. The team would come to the ring to the sound of the Beastie Boys' song "Fight For Your Right to Party". The team made a special appearance in Memphis, working for the Continental Wrestling Association (CWA) where they lost to the MOD Squad on a show in the Mid-South Coliseum on September 1, 1986.
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