| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | Timothy Frank Fischer (1967-11-07)November 7, 1967 (age 58)[1] Riverside, California, United States |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Damien Steele Tim Fisher Buddy West Nick Beat |
| Billed height | 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)[1] |
| Billed weight | 235 lb (107 kg)[1] |
| Billed from | Hollywood, California[2] Berkeley, California[1] |
| Trained by | Darren McMillan[3] |
| Debut | August 1995[1] |
| Retired | 2011 |
Timothy Frank Fischer (born November 7, 1967) is an American musician, comedian, writer andprofessional wrestler, known by his ring name"The Real Deal" Damien Steele. Fisher competed inWWE,WCW,XPW,WWC andUPW between 1995 and 2007. Fischer held theXPW World Heavyweight Championship on two occasions.
Fisher debuted in August 1995 and spent much of his early career wrestling on the local independent circuit insouthern California under the name Nick Beat. He became a regular for the United Independent Wrestling Alliance and Southern California Championship Wrestling as well as toured theEastern United States with theWorld Wrestling Association andWorld Xtreme Wrestling during the late 1990s.[4]
While wrestling for Verne Langdon's Slammer's Wrestling Gym as Buddy West, he became part of Dynamite D's Dynamite World Order. Initially a parody of theNew World Order, it was the last major storyline before the promotion closed.[5]
On July 31, 1999, Fisher was attacked byBig Dick Dudley in his XPW debut which led to a feud during the summer. Teaming withKristi Myst andNicole Bass, Steele would eventually defeat Dudley in asteel cage match. During the match, Dudley's managerJasmine St. Claire turned on him allowing Steele to defeat Dudley while Steele abandoned Myst for St. Claire. As"The Real Deal" Damien Steele, Fischer and St. Claire would continue feuding with Dudley and Myst facing Dudley in a series of three-way dance matches with Johnny Webb during September. On November 26, Steele became the firstXPW World Heavyweight Champion when he won abattle royal eliminatingJohn Kronus to claim the title at the promotion's first supercardHalloween In Hell inReseda, California. He would lose the XPW Heavyweight title to Dudley at the next XPW supercardMerry X-Mas at the Hollywood's Vogue Theatre on December 18, 1999.
After Dudley was stripped of the title at XPW'sAbuse Of Power on January 29, 2000, Steele interfered in a match between Jake Lawless andMike Modest for the vacant title. After Steele hit Mike Modest with a steel chair, Lawless became the new champion but sold the title to Steele, making Steele the only two-time champion in the history of XPW. Steele later lost the title toChris Candido in aFalls Count Anywhere match atMy Bloody Valentine on February 26. His matches with both Dudley and Candido were later featured in severaldvds released by the promotion, most notably,XPW: Baptized in Blood[6][7] andAfter the Fall.[8]
Fisher accepted the head coach position at WWE's developmental territory UPW in 2000–2001. As head trainer, Fisher trained several promising wrestlers including future WWE ChampionJohn Cena, who wrestled his first dark match against Fisher at the Arco Arena in Sacramento, California. Fisher also trained several Pro Football Players, MMA fighters and Bodybuilders under developmental contract with WWE. Steele also wrestled for UPW, and was crowned the first UPW Internet Champion, which he voluntarily vacated six months later to challenge Christopher Daniels for the UPW Heavyweight Championship. After losing a hard-fought title match, Steele left for Puerto Rico in January 2001 for theWorld Wrestling Council.
While in WWC, Steele won the vacantWWC World Junior Heavyweight Championship in a 5-way tornado match withEddie Colón, Richie Santiago, Black Boy, and Rockero inPonce, Puerto Rico on January 5, 2001. Steele lost the title to Colon inCarolina one month later, the two feuded over the title during the next few months. Steele won the title back from Colon defeating him inManati on February 17 and re-lost the title to him inMorovis, Puerto Rico some months later. As a member of "La Familia Nuevo Millennium", Fisher was known as a comic heel, and rarely had the opportunity to work as a fan favorite. During his tenure, Steele took an unexpected two story fall onto concrete pavement, resulting in 18 cranial and facial fractures, 3 tibial fractures, optic nerve cupping, torn meniscus and LCL, multiple contusions and lacerations on the face chest shoulders and arms. Other notable feuds included Chris Candido, Big Dick Dudley John Kronus and limited programs with Sabu, John Cena, "The Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels, Vampiro, Konnan and Kid Kash.
At an inter-promotional show between XWF and WWC, Steele appeared at the WWC's29th Anniversary Show where he facedTommy Diablo,Frankie Capone andKid Romeo in a "four corners" match at theJuan Ramón Loubriel Stadium inBayamon, Puerto Rico on September 14, 2002.[9] He also toured withCarlos Colón'sWWC inPuerto Rico before returning to UPW in early-2002 where he became a part-time instructor at the promotion's Ultimate University wrestling school while head instructorTom Howard toured Japan.[2]
Tim Fisher was the lead singer of SFD, a Ska band formed in Orange County, California in 1990. SFD released one CDIt Came from Six Feet Deep and disbanded in 1999 before releasing 8 unrecorded tracks. SFD played a ten-year reunion show in 2008 at The Orange County International Street fair, and further reunion shows and recordings are planned for 2012. Several songs fromIt Came From Six Feet Deep are being featured in the upcoming low budget indie dramaRudeboy set in the 1980s Orange County Ska, Rudeboy and Scooterboy Subculture, written and produced by former SFD trumpet player and vocalist Oliver Zavala.
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