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10-0 is the nickname for the game played between Beşiktaş JK and Adana Demirspor on October 15, 1989. Beşiktaş won the game 10-0, setting a new record margin of victory for a match in the Turkish First League.^[1]

The game[link]

Beşiktaş had a bad start to the 1989–90 Turkish First League season, losing twice and drawing once in their first five games. Manager Gordon Milne decided to only field Turkish players in the next game,^[2] a decision which was widely criticised at the time. The game was played on a chilly but sunny day in Ali Sami Yen Stadium. The first goal came early, in the second minute, when Ali Gültiken scored a header. Beşiktaş scored ten goals in the match, with Gültiken scoring four of the goals, and Feyyaz Uçar and Metin Tekin each scoring a hat-trick. After the game, Beşiktaş' form improved and the team went on to become the league champions at the end of the season.

Match Detail (3)[link]

• Date: 15 October 1989
• Venue: Ali Sami Yen Stadium, Istanbul
• Attaendance: 15 227
• Referee: Engin Kurt
• Assistant Referees: Atilla Olkun and Yolcu Yılmaz
• Goals: 2’, 55’, 60’ and 84’ Ali Gültiken, 11’, 65’ and 86’ Feyyaz Uçar, 25’, 44’ and 77’ Metin Tekin
• Beşiktaş: (4-3-3) Engin İpekoğlu ( Metin Akçevre 62’); Recep Çetin, Gökhan Keskin, Ulvi Güveneroğlu, Kadir Akbulut; Rıza Çalımbay, Zeki Önatlı, Şenol Fidan; Metin Tekin, Ali Gültiken, Feyyaz Uçar.
• Technical Director: Gordon Milne (Eng)
• Adana Demirspor: (4-4-2) Fatih Yılmaz (Haluk Uğurludoğan 64’); Cengizhan Köksal, Murat Sönmez, Muammer Birdal, Erol Demirhan; Sedat Varak (Çetin Kahraman 46’), Mehmet Demirtaş, İbrahim Uzunca, Ümit Özkalp; İsmail Akbaşlı, İbrahim Çolak.
• Technical Director: Ali Hoşfikirer
• Caution: Murat Sönmez 66’
• Sent off: None

References[link]

(3) http://www.mackolik.com/Mac/64607/Besiktas-Adana-Demirspor

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10 Years is an American alternative metal band, formed in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1999.

History[link]

[edit] Early Years, Into the Half Moon (1999–2001)

10 Years was initially formed in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1999 with singer Mike Underdown, drummer Brian Vodinh, bassist Lewis Cosby, and guitarists Ryan "Tater" Johnson (also of The American Plague) and Matt Wantland. In 2001, Cosby left and the band recruited Andy Parks on bass. They independently recorded Into the Half Moon the same year.

[edit] Killing All That Holds You, The Autumn Effect (2002–2006)

Lead vocalist Mike Underdown left the band to pursue a career in acting and start up a new band 'Courage, You Bastards' in Los Angeles, Ca. 10 Years soon recruited current vocalist Jesse Hasek from another local band. In 2002, Parks decided to leave the band and Cosby returned. The band then released their independent album Killing All That Holds You in 2004.

10 Years was then signed to Universal Records in 2005 and released their major label debut, The Autumn Effect on August 16, 2005 with the songs "Wasteland" and "Through the Iris" picking up regional radio play. Their first single, "Wasteland" spent over 12 months on the rock charts, finally reaching #1 at active rock radio in December 2005.

That same summer, the band toured with Disturbed and Ill Niño. In the fall of 2005, they toured with Breaking Benjamin and Smile Empty Soul, then followed up with the Masters of Horror tour with Mudvayne and Sevendust. They opened for Korn and Mudvayne on Korn's See You on the Other Side tour. They also toured with Korn and Deftones on the Family Values Tour, which started in late July 2006.

In mid February 2006, "Wasteland" reached #1 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart. "Wasteland" has been certified Gold by the RIAA.

In mid-2006, the band toured Australia in a lineup which included Hatebreed, Disturbed and Korn.

Their first music video, "Wasteland", addresses the social problem of human rights as well as addiction around the world. The video received a nomination for Best Direction and Best Art Direction at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards, but did not win either.

On March 27, 2006, an EP was released on iTunes containing acoustic versions of "Wasteland" and other tracks from The Autumn Effect.

[edit] Division (2006–2008)

On November 19, 2006, 10 Years unveiled and confirmed the title Division for their second album.^[1] The band would begin recording Division in late June 2007 after spending the better part of a year writing.

Lewis told in an interview that the album is "so different from the first one [The Autumn Effect], but it's still 10 Years," and, "It just sounds like [the songs] would be from a totally different album, which was, you know, the goal."^[2] It was also revealed that the track titled "Focus" was co-written with Stone Temple Pilots and former Army of Anyone guitarist Dean DeLeo.^[1]

On May 21, 2007 a demo song titled "All Your Lies" from Division was released onto their MySpace along with a post stating the band had chosen producer Rick Parasher to produce the new album.^[3] On September 7, the band announced on their MySpace that the album was finished and would be released in 2008, following a tour with Dir En Grey, Sevendust, Operator, Thousand Foot Krutch and Chevelle.

On January 29, 2008, "Beautiful," the new single from Division, was released to iTunes and a snippet was also posted on the band's MySpace page. Division was released on May 13, 2008 after being pushed back due to finalization of the album's artwork.^[4]

10 Years was featured on the Revolution Stage of Linkin Park's Summer Projekt Revolution 2008 tour with Atreyu, Hawthorne Heights and Armor For Sleep.

They went on tour with Mudvayne until mid December 2008.

[edit] Feeding the Wolves (2009–2011)

10 Years announced that their upcoming third major label album would be entitled Feeding the Wolves. The album was produced by Grammy-nominated producer Howard Benson and mixed by Chris "Lord" Alge. The band has mentioned the album is of their heaviest material to date and "very similar to some of their early songs."

Throughout the first half of 2010, the band went back and forth between putting on live shows and working in the studio. Before the album was released, the band debuted new songs at live performances such as "Dead in the Water", "Now is the Time", and the new album's first single ""Shoot It Out" ". ^[5][6]

On June 12, 2010, ""Shoot It Out" " was featured on Sirius/XM Radio. The track was released to radio later that month,^[7] and was made available for download on iTunes July 6.^[8] Feeding the Wolves was released on August 31, 2010.

To promote the album's release, the band opened Shinedown's 2010 Carnival of Madness summer tour alongside Chevelle, Puddle of Mudd, and Sevendust.^[9] In the fall they joined Sevendust again on the Hard Drive Live tour with support from Since October and Anew Revolution.

In December, the band went on a mini-headline tour,^[10] where they played some older songs that they had not played in some time. February 2011, their new single "Fix Me" releases to radio while they headline a spring tour with Hollywood Undead.

On June 17 and 18 the band shot a music video for "Fix Me" in Columbus, Ohio with production company Thunder Down Country.^[11] The video was released via YouTube on August 9, 2011.^[12]

[edit] Minus The Machine Palehorse Records (2012-present)

On twitter the band has shown pictures of Brian Vodinh's home basement turned studio for future workings on their next album.

On April 2nd, 2012, the band announced on Facebook that their upcoming record, Minus The Machine, is to be released on July 30th on their own independent label, Palehorse Records, which the band stated is a part of Warner Music Group's Independent Label Group. They also announced a 4-week headlining tour to support the record, which begins on June 27th in New Orleans.

On May 11th, the band unveiled the cover art of the album and it was announced that the album's release has been pushed back to July 31st.^{[citation needed]} 10 Years will release their first single "Backlash" on radio and iTunes on June 21st.

Band members[link]

Current

• Jesse Hasek – Vocals (2002–present)
• Ryan "Tater" Johnson – Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals (1999–present)
• Lewis "Big Lew" Cosby – Bass (1999–2001, 2002-present)
• Brian Vodinh – Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vocals (2009–present) Drums (1999–present)

Live

• Matt Brown – Drums (2010-present)
• Sam Anderson – Drums (2010)
• Kyle Mayer – Drums (2010)
• Brandon Estelle - Drums (2010-2011) and select dates.

Former

• Mike Underdown – Vocals (1999–2001)
• Andy Parks - Bass (2001–2002)
• Matt Wantland – Guitar (1999–2009)

Timeline[link]

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bar:matt text:"Matt Brown"

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bar:matt from:01/08/2010 till:end color:Drums

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

Extended plays[link]

• 2006: Acoustic EP

Singles[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Site
• 10 Years on Myspace

Diego Portales
Born	(1793-06-16)June 16, 1793 Santiago, Chile
Died	June 6, 1837(1837-06-06) (aged 43) Valparaíso, Chile

Diego José Pedro Víctor Portales y Palazuelos (June 16, 1793 - June 6, 1837) was a Chilean statesman and entrepreneur. As a minister of president José Joaquín Prieto Diego Portales played a pivotal role in shaping the state and government politics in the 19th century, delivering with the Constitution of 1833 the framework of the Chilean state for almost a century. Portales influential political stance included unitarianism, presidentialism and conservatism which led to consolidate Chile as a constitutional authoritarian republic with democracy restricted to include only the upper class.

While deeply unpopular during his lifetime the murder of Portales in 1837 during a mutiny has been judged a decisive factor during the War of the Confederation by switching Chilean public opinion to support the war against the Peru–Bolivian Confederation.

Early life[link]

Escudo de la Familia Portales

Diego Portales was born in Santiago, the son of María Encarnación Fernández de Palazuelos y Martínez de Aldunate and José Santiago Portales y Larraín, a superintendent of the royal mint. He did his primary studies at the Colegio de Santiago, and in 1813, attended law classes at the National Institute. As the men of his family had all become successful merchants, Portales also eventually assumed the position of a merchant, taking part in his prosperous and distinguished family’s occupation.^[1]

On August 15, 1819 he married his cousin, Josefa Portales y Larraín. He had two daughters with her, both of whom died within days of their birth. His wife died also very soon in 1821. He never remarried after that, but took Constanza Nordenflicht as his mistress, with whom he had three children.

In July 1821, he resigned his job at the Mint and went into business. He opened a trading house, Portales, Cea and Co., based in Valparaiso with a branch in Lima, Peru. He bid and obtained the management of the government monopoly on tobacco, tea, and liquor (known in Spanish as estanco). In exchange for the monopoly, he offered to service the full amount of the Chilean foreign debt. Nonetheless, in the anarchy that was regnant in Chile at the time, there was no means of enforcing a monopoly because the government could not regulate sales of tobacco, tea, and liquor, and the company eventually went bankrupt. So his contract with the government was voided and the Chilean government was found to owe Portales 87,000 pesos. Out of this unsuccessful business venture, the only remnant was the name eventually applied to his political followers, who in time came to be known as the estanqueros (monopolists.)

Political career[link]

Soon after, he aligned with the conservatives in the political fights that were wracking Chile at the time. As aforementioned, in 1824, Portales’ business firm acquired control over the government’s monopoly of tobacco, tea, and liquor; however, the country's troubled conditions soon thwarted his profitable business. For these reasons, Portales finally entered into the political sphere, and very soon he would become the intellectual leader of the conservative side. He helped to reorganize the conservative party, and, in 1827, founded El Hambriento (or The Starveling), a journal attacking liberal idealists known as the pipiolos (“white beaks”) from Portales’ party’s (a.k.a. the pelucones or “old wigs”) perspective. Portales was an effective satirist, contributing several popular articles to The Starveling. Portales' articles placed him in the limelight and paved the way for his political career.^[2][3]

Early print (1854)

After the triumph of the conservatives in the Revolution of 1829, President José Tomás Ovalle named him Minister of the Interior and Foreign Affairs on April 6, 1830 remaining until May 1831. He was named again to that position by President Fernando Errázuriz on July 9, 1831 and remained until August 31, 1831 and named once again by President José Joaquín Prieto from November 9, 1835 to January 1837. Something similar happened with his nomination as minister of war and navy from April 6, 1830 until May 1831; then from July 9, 1831 until December 1832 and from September 21, 1835 to September 1836.

Though Portales was never president officially (and in fact avoided this position for fear of being tied up by factional promises), he became a dictator and with this powerful position, he quelled anarchy. Portales set up a civil militia (which ended one of the worst stages of militarism in Chile's history); supported an oligarchic control for landowners, miners, and merchants; and made Catholicism the state religion. As a result of his campaign for peace, order, and thus progress, business also improved.^[4]

Political Philosophy[link]

In 1822, before his rise to power Portales wrote to a friend:

Politics doesn’t interest me, but as a good citizen I feel free to express my opinions and to censure the government. Democracy, which is so loudly proclaimed by the deluded is an absurdity in our countries, flooded as they are with vices and with their citizens lacking all sense of civic virtue, the prerequisite to establishing a real Republic. But monarchy is not the American ideal either; if we get out of one terrible government just to jump headlong into another, what will we have gained? The Republican system is the one which we must adopt, but do you know how I interpret it for our countries? A strong central government whose representatives will be men of true virtue and patriotism, and who thus can direct the citizens along the path of order and progress. ^[2]

These words are demonstrative of the skepticism in pure democracies that the recently failed French revolution impressed upon many. Portales believed that to avoid disaster it was most important to create a stable and functioning government, rather than one ruled by lofty but ultimately impractical ideals. He believed in a peaceful but strong central government, and that in order to successfully run a state or country, citizens must be virtuous and patriotic and must consider the law as higher than any leader. Beyond these beliefs, Portales had no static political beliefs. Instead he tried to govern on a case by case basis, legislating what he deemed right for each particular instance.

Assassination[link]

The Chilean government, in order to bolster its standing, immediately imposed martial law and asked for (and obtained) extraordinary legislative powers from Congress. Early in 1837 a Court Martial Law was approved and given jurisdiction over all citizens for the duration of the war. The opposition to the Prieto administration immediately accused Portales of tyranny, and started a heated press campaign against him personally and the unpopular war in general.

Political and public opposition to war immediately affected the army, fresh from the purges of the civil war of 1830. On June 3, 1837, Colonel José Antonio Vidaurre, commander of the Maipo regiment, captured and imprisoned Portales while he was reviewing troops at the army barracks in Quillota. Vidaurre immediately proceeded to attack Valparaíso on the mistaken belief that public opinion opposed to the war would support him and topple the government. Rear Admiral Manuel Blanco Encalada, in charge of the defense, defeated him right outside the port at the Battle of Barón. Captain Santiago Florín, who was in charge of Portales, had him shot when he heard of the news, on June 6, 1837. Most of the conspirators were subsequently captured and executed.

This murder turned the tide of Chilean public opinion. The government derogated Martial law and the country rallied behind the government. The war became a holy cause, and Portales a martyr.

Legacy[link]

Portales’ reign helped to pick up business and accelerate the growth of the economy. Those who particularly benefited from his conservative rule were the already rich. Additionally, Portales helped Chile maintain a good deal of stability relative to many of the other Latin American nations. This was accomplished by Portales’ improvement and renewal of the administration of the State, his strategic vision of Chile as an independent and sovereign Latin American country, and his influence in the Chilean Constitution of 1833, which is considered the most important milestone of Chilean institutionality during the 19th century. His ideals and principles served as a foundation to the Chilean government of the future. His work was especially influential during the years of political learning of the post-independence turmoil and during the governments of the Conservative Republic (1830–1861) and in a lesser degree the governments of the Liberal Republic (1861–1891)

Remains[link]

Portales' remains, missing since his assassination, were found on March 2005 in Santiago's Metropolitan Cathedral during renovation projects, where build a cript.^[5]

Primary sources[link]

• Crow, John A. The Epic of Latin America. By John A. Crow. 4th ed. New York: University of California P, 1992.
• "Portales, Diego: A Chilean Biography." Charlene Richardson. http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?action=read&artid=425
• "Diego Portales." Encyclopædia Britannica. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/471043/Diego-Portales

References[link]

External links[link]

• Portales, Diego: A Chilean Biography (Spanish)

Elix Skipper
Ring name(s)	Dark Guerrera[1][2] Elix Skipper[1][2] Extreme Blade[1][2] Skip Over[1][2]
Billed height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[1]
Billed weight	225 lb (102 kg)[1]
Born	(1967-12-15) December 15, 1967 (age 44)[1][2]
Resides	Atlanta, Georgia[1]
Billed from	Long Island, New York Atlanta, Georgia
Trained by	Pez Whatley[1] WCW Power Plant[1][2]
Debut	1999[1][2]

Elix Skipper (born December 15, 1967) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling, where he was a one-time Cruiserweight Champion and a one-time Cruiserweight Tag Team Champion, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is a four-time NWA World Tag Team Champion.

Professional wrestling career[link]

Before becoming a wrestler, Skipper participated in kickboxing.^[2] Upon deciding to become a wrestler, he resigned from his job as a BINDRA Shoes supervisor in Model Town, Ambala City and travelled to Atlanta, Georgia to audition at the WCW Power Plant, the professional wrestling school operated by World Championship Wrestling.^[3]

World Championship Wrestling (2000–2001)[link]

Upon being accepted by the Power Plant, Skipper began his training, debuting in 1999 at an independent show. After training for eight months, Skipper made his television debut on an episode of Saturday Night. Seven months later, Skipper began wrestling on Thunder and Nitro under the ring name Skip Over, facing members of the cruiserweight division and fellow Power Plant graduates.

In August 2000, Skipper began performing under his real name while also adopting the nickname "Primetime". After interfering on behalf of Lance Storm in a bout between Storm and Mike Awesome on the August 14, 2000 episode of Nitro, Skipper was inducted into Storm's newly formed Team Canada faction, with Storm awarding him the "100 Kilos and Under Championship". Despite his American nationality and his self-professed lack of knowledge about Canada, Skipper was billed as being a Canadian and a former Canadian Football League player, complete with a Grey Cup ring. Skipper retained the 100 Kilos and Under Championship until October 2, 2000, when Mike Sanders defeated him for the title and subsequently renamed it back to the Cruiserweight Championship. Throughout late 2000, Team Canada feuded with the Misfits In Action and Filthy Animals factions.^[4]

In early 2001, Skipper left Team Canada and began competing principally in the cruiserweight division. Throughout February and March 2001, Skipper teamed with Kid Romeo in an eight-team tournament to determine the first holders of the newly created Cruiserweight Tag Team Championship. Skipper and Romeo won the tournament by defeating Billy Kidman and Rey Mysterio, Jr. in the tournament finals on March 18, 2001 at Greed, the final WCW pay-per-view event. On the March 26, 2001 episode of Nitro, Skipper and Romeo lost the Cruiserweight Tag Team Championship to Kidman and Mysterio.

In late March 2001, World Championship Wrestling was purchased by the World Wrestling Federation, with a number of wrestlers, including Skipper, being signed to developmental contracts.

World Wrestling Federation (2001)[link]

Elix Skipper made his debut early into the Invasion as a member of the The Alliance. The WWF later assigned Skipper to the Heartland Wrestling Association, a WWF developmental territory. He trained in the HWA for nine months before being released in December 2001.^[4]

All Japan Pro Wrestling (2002)[link]

Upon being released from the WWF, Skipper contacted The Great Muta, a veteran Japanese wrestler who had previously invited Skipper to wrestle in Japan. Skipper subsequently travelled to Japan, wrestling under his real name, as Dark Guerrera and as the masked Extreme Blade for the All Japan Pro Wrestling promotion.^[4]

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2002–2008)[link]

Skipper joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling upon its formation in June 2002, debuting under his real name on the third weekly TNA pay-per-view. Skipper competed in the X Division throughout 2002, at the same time continuing to wrestle in Japan. On the December 18, 2002 TNA pay-per-view, Skipper formed a three-man tag team known as Triple X with Low Ki and Christopher Daniels. On the same evening, Triple X joined Sports Entertainment Xtreme, a large villainous faction headed by Vince Russo.

Throughout the first half of 2003, Triple X feuded with America's Most Wanted (Chris Harris and James Storm), winning the NWA World Tag Team Championship on three occasions. In the course of their reigns, all three members of Triple X were recognised as champions and any two members of the team were eligible to defend the titles, similar to the Fabulous Freebirds. Triple X disbanded in mid-2003 when Low Ki left TNA to wrestle in Japan, and on June 25, 2003, America's Most Wanted defeated Skipper and Daniels in the first TNA steel cage match to conclude their feud.

Skipper left TNA in July 2003 as a result of a pay dispute, and performed in Japan until December 2003, when TNA offered him a new, more lucrative contract. Upon returning to TNA, Skipper took part in the America's X Cup Tournament and the World X Cup Tournament as a member of Team USA. Team USA won the World X Cup, but were defeated in the finals of the America's X Cup by Team Mexico.^[5]

Skipper in 2005

In July 2004, Skipper and Daniels reformed Triple X and began feuding with America's Most Wanted once more. In the course of the feud, Skipper and Chris Harris were paired together against NWA World Tag Team Champions The Naturals after their respective partners became unavailable. Despite struggling to cooperate with one another, Skipper and Harris defeated The Naturals. They held the titles for several weeks before losing them to Christopher Daniels and James Storm. After Daniels and Storm lost the titles to Team Canada, the feud between Triple X and America's Most Wanted resumed. America's Most Wanted went on to defeat Triple X in a last team standing match on November 7, 2004 at Victory Road, with Skipper suffering a concussion in the course of the match. The feud culminated in a steel cage match on December 5, 2004 at Turning Point, with the stipulation that the losing team be forced to disband. America's Most Wanted won the match.^[5] During the course of this match, Skipper delivered his finishing move, the New School (a ropewalk frankensteiner), from the top of the cage to Harris.

After separating, Skipper and Daniels began feuding with one another, with Skipper unsuccessfully challenging Daniels for the TNA X Division Championship at Lockdown on April 24, 2005. Skipper went on to compete in the X Division until joining Simon Diamond's "Diamonds in the Rough" faction in August 2005, forming a tag team with David Young. The Diamonds in the Rough competed in the tag team division throughout 2005. In December 2005, the Diamonds in the Rough exchanged heated words with Major League Baseball catcher A.J. Pierzynski. Pierzynski gained his revenge on the Diamonds in the Rough by costing them a six-man tag team match at Turning Point on December 11, 2005.

The Diamonds in the Rough competed in the TNA tag team division throughout 2006, but received few high profile matches. In February 2007, both Skipper and Young left TNA after requesting their releases.^[6]

On July 15, 2007 at Victory Road, Skipper returned to TNA, competing in an Ultimate X match and reforming Triple X with Daniels and Senshi (the former Low Ki). On the July 19 episode of Impact!, Triple X won its return match against Serotonin. On the following Impact!, Daniels and Senshi won a match against Jay Lethal and Sonjay Dutt with some outside interference from Skipper. Triple X would go on to lose to The Latin American Xchange during Bound For Glory in an Ultimate X Match.

After Christopher Daniels was, in storyline, fired because of his briefcase from the "feast or fired" match containing a pink slip, Skipper started tagging with Senshi. Senshi requested his release in January and was granted it. After that, Skipper appeared very rarely in TNA mostly jobbing in singles matches. He appeared sporadically and wrestled his last televised match in TNA in April, in a losing effort. He was released from his contract in May 2008.

Personal life[link]

Skipper is married with children. He has three children from an ex-wife (two daughters and one son). His 22-year-old son was killed on April 29, 2009 by a gunman who was in his home.^[3][5][7]

In wrestling[link]

• Finishing moves
  • Play of the Day^[1] (WCW / TNA) / Edge of the Blade^[1] (AJPW) (Overdrive)^[8][9]
  • Sudden Death^[10] (Over the shoulder back to belly piledriver)

• Signature moves
  • Arm drag^[11][12]
  • Instant Replay^[1] (Thrust spinebuster)^[13]
  • Matrix evasion^[1][8][14]
  • Multiple kick variations
    • Crescent^[1]
    • Diving spinning heel^[15]
    • Missile^[1][11][12]
    • Spin^[16]
    • Super^[10]
  • Multiple leg drop variations
    • Diving^[16]
    • Head stand corkscrew^[1][17]
    • Springboard^[14]
  • Multiple suplex variations
    • Belly to back^[17][18]
    • Double underhook,^[1][19] sometimes from the second rope^[20]
    • Dragon^[1][19][21]
    • German^[22]
    • Northern Lights^[11]
    • Overhead / Side belly to belly^[19][23][24]
  • New School^[1] (Ropewalk frankensteiner)^[21]
  • Plancha,^[21] sometimes while performing a corkscrew^[23][25]
  • Primetime Submission^[1] (Modified octopus stretch)
  • Springboard hurricanrana^[14]
  • Sunset flip powerbomb^[16]
  • Ura-nage^[12]

• Managers
  • Simon Diamond^[26]
  • Daffney^[27]
  • Major Gunns^[26]
  • Col. Robert Parker^[28]

• Nicknames
  • "Primetime"^[1][2]

Championships and accomplishments[link]

• Elite Championship Wrestling
  • ECW World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)^[29]

• Georgia Championship Wrestling / Great Championship Wrestling
  • GCW National Television Championship (1 time)^[30]
  • GCW Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with John Bogie (1) and David Young (1)^1[31]
  • GCW United States Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)^[32]

• NWA Shockwave
  • NWA Shockwave Cruiser X Championship (1 time)^[33]

• NWA Wildside
  • NWA Wildside Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)^[34]

• NWA Wrestle Birmingham
  • NWA Alabama Tag Team Championship (1 time)¹ – with Sonny Siaki / David Young (1)^[35]

• Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
  • NWA World Tag Team Championship (4 times) – with Low Ki and Christopher Daniels (3)² and "Wildcat" Chris Harris (1)^[36]
  • TNA World Cup X (2004) – with Chris Sabin, Christopher Daniels and Jerry Lynn
  • Match of the Year (2004) with Christopher Daniels vs. Chris Harris and James Storm at Turning Point, December 5, 2004^[37]
  • Memorable Moment of the Year (2004) Primetime walks the Six Sides of Steel at Turning Point^[37]

• USA Xtreme Wrestling
  • UXW X-treme Championship (1 time)^[38]

• World Championship Wrestling
  • WCW Cruiserweight Championship (1 time)^[39]
  • WCW Cruiserweight Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Kid Romeo^[40]

¹ After Siaki signed a contract with World Wrestling Entertainment, Skipper chose Young as a replacement without interrupting the championship reign.
² Skipper defended the title with either Ki or Daniels as Triple X under the Freebird Rule.

Notes[link]

• Elix Skipper at Bodyslamming.com
• Solie's title histories

External links[link]

Professional wrestling portal

• Interview with Insane Wrestling