| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | Curtis Thompson (1963-01-20)January 20, 1963 (age 62)[1] |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | White Angel Archangel Curtis Thompson Falcon Firebreaker Chip |
| Billed height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[1] |
| Billed weight | 244 lb (111 kg) |
| Billed from | Charlotte, North Carolina "WCWSpecial Forces"[2] |
| Debut | 1987[1] |
| Retired | 2005 |
Curtis Thompson (born January 20, 1963) is an American retiredprofessional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances withWorld Championship Wrestling from 1991 to 1992 under thering nameFirebreaker Chip.
Curtis Thompson started wrestling in 1987 in NWA. Subsequently, he wrestled in theWorld Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico under a mask as a heel (White Angel) and was betrayed and unmasked by his managerChicky Starr resulting in a feud including a cage match, inStampede Wrestling (as the masked Archangel),South Atlantic Pro Wrestling, and inPacific Northwest Wrestling where he won theNWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship, defeatingScotty the Body. He formed a tag team withRicky Santana called the U.S. Males in PNW and won theNWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship.[3] He also wrestled briefly in 1988 as a jobber in theWorld Wrestling Federation, losing to the likes ofThe Ultimate Warrior andBad News Brown.[4]
In 1990/1991 Thompson would use the "U.S. Male" gimmick where he wore a mailman uniform to the ring in theUnited States Wrestling Association (USWA) and South Atlantic Pro Wrestling (SAPW) in the Carolinas as a member ofRobert Fuller'sStud Stable. Thompson would eventually free himself from the Stud Stable, turning face in the process at the end of 1990 while wrestling in SAPW. In 1990 he went to North Georgia Wrestling and won a match against Fabulous Fabian (akaBuff Bagwell).
In 1991 he joinedWorld Championship Wrestling. He becameFirebreaker Chip and teamed withTodd Champion as The Patriots. He had the gimmick of being a fireman while teaming with Todd Champion who had the gimmick that he'd returned fromDesert Storm and were billed as being from "WCW Special Forces".[2] They feuded with theFabulous Freebirds and won theWCW United States Tag Team Championship. They next feuded withSteve Armstrong andTracy Smothers who beat them for the titles.[5]
Thompson left WCW in early 1993 and wrestled in the independent promotions and took time to participate in several bodybuilding competitions and came in top three in Mr. North Carolina bodybuilding contest. He also wrestled briefly forSmoky Mountain Wrestling from 1993 to 1995. In 1996 he became the first CWA (Texas) Heavyweight Champion defeatingScott Putski. Thompson and Todd Champion reunited as the Patriots in WCW on December 15, 1997, defeatingSamu andSam Fatu in a dark match forMonday Nitro. Later in late 1999, he turned up in theNWA's Mid-Atlantic promotion in a tag team with Drake Dawson called "Triple X". Together they won theNWA World Tag Team Championship and the NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship in 2000. Following the disbandment of the tag team, he wrestled in various independent circuits and won some indy heavyweight titles. He retired in 2005, married and now works forJetBlue.
1This promotion, while operating out of the same area and having begun using some of the same championships, is not the same Mid-Atlantic promotion once owned byJim Crockett, Jr. That promotion was sold toTed Turner in November 1988 and was renamedWorld Championship Wrestling.
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