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'''[[Lance Storm]]''' (real name Lance Evers) is a professional wrestler best known for his time in [[ECW]], [[WCW]], and [[WWE]]. He started training alongside fellow Canadian wrestler [[Chris Jericho]], with whom he would team with and occasionally feud with off an on around the world. After a brief tenure in [[Jim Cornette|Smokey Mountain Wrestling]] they went their separate ways (though both ended up in the same promotions, it was never at the same time till 2002). |
'''[[Lance Storm]]''' (real name Lance Evers) is a professional wrestler best known for his time in [[ECW]], [[WCW]], and [[WWE]]. He started training alongside fellow Canadian wrestler [[Chris Jericho]], with whom he would team with and occasionally feud with off an on around the world. After a brief tenure in [[Jim Cornette|Smokey Mountain Wrestling]] they went their separate ways (though both ended up in the same promotions, it was never at the same time till 2002). |
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Lance later started working for the [[WWE]] when they purchased WCW in 2001, being the first WCW wrestler to win a WWE Title. He was fairly successful in the WWE, winning several mid-card titles and forming a successful [[Foreign Wrestling Heel]] Tag Team with [[Christian]], who won the Tag Team Championship from [[Edge]] and [[Hulk Hogan]], of all people. He also had a similar run with [[William Regal]] as his partner. Eventually he retired from full time in-ring action to become a trainer, first for the WWE's developmental program before creating his own school, the Storm Wrestling Academy, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is also a regular guest on [[The Wrestling Observer Newsletter|Figure Four Daily]] with Bryan Alvarez. |
Lance later started working for the [[WWE]] when they purchased WCW in 2001, being the first WCW wrestler to win a WWE Title. He was fairly successful in the WWE, winning several mid-card titles and forming a successful [[Foreign Wrestling Heel]] Tag Team with [[Christian]], who won the Tag Team Championship from [[Edge]] and [[Hulk Hogan]], of all people. He also had a similar run with [[William Regal]] as his partner. Eventually he retired from full time in-ring action to become a trainer, first for the WWE's developmental program before creating his own school, the Storm Wrestling Academy, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is also a regular guest on [[The Wrestling Observer Newsletter|Figure Four Daily]] with Bryan Alvarez. |
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=== '''Tropes associated with Lance Storm include:''' === |
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* [[Book Ends]]: His first and last match of his full-time career were both against [[Chris Jericho]]. |
* [[Book Ends]]: His first and last match of his full-time career were both against [[Chris Jericho]]. |
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* [[Breakup Breakout]]: The Marty Janetty to [[Chris Jericho]], arguably the [[Shawn Michaels]] to Justin Credible, whose main event ECW run is overshadowed by Lance's mid-card WCW run. |
* [[Breakup Breakout]]: The Marty Janetty to [[Chris Jericho]], arguably the [[Shawn Michaels]] to Justin Credible, whose main event ECW run is overshadowed by Lance's mid-card WCW run. |