Mikael Judas

Michael Cole (born July 25, 1974) is an American professional wrestler best known by the ring name Mikael Judas and for his tenure in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Murphy.

Professional wrestling career

Mikael Judas debuted in June 1999 and began working for many independent promotions located in the southeast United States. His younger brother debuted August 1999 as Richard Big D Holmes and then went on to become Maxx Mayhem, with many titles from different promotions. Maxx debuted in NWA Anarchy as Dominous for The Devil Rejects in 2006 to 2008 and held the NWA Anarchy Tag Team belts with Iceberg.

National Wrestling Alliance (2002–2011)

Mikael Judas became a part of NWA Wildside as the 1 Man Mafia Mikal Adryan in May 2002 as part of The Elite Swingers.

In June 2003 that group disbanded and he and Murder 1 became The Dark City Soldiers in June 2003. December 2003 Jeff G. Bailey offered Judas a chance to be a part of the NWA ELITE with Rainman, Azreal and Jason Cross.