| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Kory Chavis[1] Rainman[1] [2] |
| Billed height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)[1] |
| Billed weight | 224 lb (102 kg)[3] |
| Billed from | The Dark City[3] |
| Trained by | New Jack[4] Murder One[4] |
| Debut | March 1, 1998[3] |
Kory Chavis is an Americanprofessional wrestler, also known by thering nameRainman. He works for severalindependentpromotions, includingDragon Gate USA,Full Impact Pro, andEvolve. Chavis wrestled with tag team partnerJon Davis asThe Dark City Fight Club, and with Davis is a former co-holder of both theNWA Florida Tag Team Championship and theNWA World Tag Team Championship.
Inhigh school, Chavis playedfootball for one year, and playedbasketball and participated inwrestling for three years.[4]
After being trained byNew Jack andMurder One inAtlanta,Georgia, Chavis made his professional wrestling debut on March 1, 1998.[4]
Chavis quickly began using the name Rainman, and began competing forNWA Wildside. He began teaming with Murder One (Then known as Homicide) as Blackout, and the pair won theNWA Wildside Tag Team Championship by defeatingTony Stradlin andTodd Sexton on August 10, 2001. They won the championship for the second time on November 17, 2001, when they won afour-way match for the championship. Rainman then moved into singles competition in NWA Wildside, and won theNWA Wildside Television Championship on December 28, 2002, by defeatingTony Mamaluke in a tournament. He was the awarded the championship on September 6, 2003, afterJeremy V was stripped of it, to begin his second reign.[1] On March 26, 2005, he won theNWA Wildside Heavyweight Championship for the first time by defeatingRay Gordy andOnyx in athree-way match.[1]
Rainman began competing in Full Impact Pro (FIP) in 2004. On September 24 and 25, he participated in a tournament for theFIP World Heavyweight Championship, defeatingJason Cross andKahagas before losing toCM Punk in the semi-finals.[5][6] He continued to compete for FIP throughout the rest of 2004 and 2005, competing against wrestlers includingDan Maff, Azrieal,Sal Rinauro,Samoa Joe,Antonio Banks.[7][8][9]
In 2006, Rainman began competing inCombat Zone Wrestling (CZW), and on December 12, atCage of Death 8, he andOnyx won theCZW World Tag Team Championship by defeatingBLK-OUT (Sabian andRobbie Mireno).[10][11] They held the championship for a month, before losing it back to a different combination of BLK-OUT members,Ruckus and Sabian, atNew Year, New Opportunities on January 13, 2007.[12]
At the end of 2005, Rainman changed his ring name to Kory Chavis in FIP, and became the bodyguard ofSoCal Val.[1] He gained thenickname "The Soul Assassin" in early 2006, and continued to wrestle in FIP.[1] He also competed for NWA Anarchy and!Bang! during this time.[1]
In 2008, Chavis made three appearances onTotal Nonstop Action Wrestling'sImpact! television program, losing toJudas Mesias,Kurt Angle andMatt Morgan.[1][2][13]
In March 2008, Chavis teamed with upJon Davis asThe Dark City Fight Club (DCFC) in FIP.[1] They were revealed as a team on March 22, when they defeated Shayne Swift and Myles Long, and were revealed to have been themasked team that had attacked the Black Market tag team.[14] The following month DCFC faced Black Market in a match that ended in ano contest when DCFC pouredgasoline onto Black Market memberJoey Machete and threatened to set him on fire.[15] In anAnything Goes match in May, DCFC defeated Black Market, which was followed by Black Market's Shawn Murphy defeating Davis viadisqualification and Machete defeating Chavis in aNo Disqualification match on July 19.[16][17] The following month atHeatstroke '08, DCFC defeated Black Market in a weapons match to end the feud.[18] Throughout 2009, DCFC competed sporadically for FIP. On March 28, they defeated Bumz R' Us in a street fight.[19] At the first night of theJeff Peterson Memorial Cup on November 20, they competed in a 'tag team rumble', which was won by Bumz R' Us.[20] In 2010 DCFC moved intoFIP Tag Team Championship contention. They faced the champions, The British Lions andThe Irish Airborne in athree-way match for the championship on June 26, but were unsuccessful.[21] On July 31, 2010, DCFC won the FIP Tag Team Championship inCrystal River, Florida by defeating The British Lions.[22][23]
On January 16, 2010, DCFC made their debut for theEvolve promotion, by defeatingAeroform (Flip Kendrick andLouis Lyndon).[4] They also compete forPro Wrestling Fusion, where they won theNWA Florida Tag Team Championship on August 22, 2009 by defeatingDagon andSinn Bodhi for the vacant championship.[24] They held the championship for 225 days, successfully defending it against The Network, Bumz R' Us, and The Poppers, before losing it toThe New Heavenly Bodies (Chris Nelson andVito DeNucci) on April 4, 2010.[24] They regained the championship from The New Heavenly Bodies on April 16, 2010.[1] On November 20, 2010, the Dark City Fight Club defeated Rasche Brown andKeith Walker to win theNWA World Tag Team Championship for the first time.[25] Chavis and his D.C.F.C. team member Jon Davis made their debut for NWA Rampage in December 2010 where they faced the RPW tag team champions the Usual Suspects. The match ended in a Time Limit Draw. On January 29 at RPW's Reloaded the fight club returned to NWA Rampage where they defeated the Suspects in a rematch after interference from Charlie Cash's group, The Hate Junkies. On April 17 the fight club successfully defended the NWA tag team titles against Caleb Konley andCedric Alexander. They would lose the title to the Usual Suspects (A.J. Steele and Murder One) on May 1, 2011 at Memorial Mayhem 2011.[26] They would regain the title two weeks later on May 15.[27] The team is believed to have broken up in 2012 (there were no NWA tag title defenses with both Chavis & Davis during the last half of 2012 - one would appear with a local substitute). Chavis teamed withLance Hoyt to drop the titles to the Kingz of the Underground inSan Antonio, Texas on December 15, 2012.
On February 6, 2009, Chavis and Davis made theirRing of Honor debut atProving Ground 2009: Night 1.[3] They appeared at theRing of Honor Wrestling television tapings on March 1, where they defeated Grizzly Redwood andAndy Ridge in asquash match.[28] On April 24, Davis dislocated his wrist during a tag team match, which kept him out of action for three months.[29][30] At the November 5 television tapings, DCFC fought theBriscoe Brothers to a no contest.[31]
At the January 8, 2010, tapings ofRing of Honor Wrestling DCFC squashed theBravado Brothers (Harlem and Lance), and at the tapings the following night they defeated the formerROH World Tag Team ChampionsThe American Wolves (Davey Richards andEddie Edwards).[32][33] They challenged the Briscoe Brothers for the ROH World Tag Team Championship at ROH'sEight Anniversary Show inNew York City on February 13, but were unsuccessful.[34] At the March 6, 2010 tapings, they won a squash match, before they lost to the Briscoes. At the tapings themselves, the match was billed as a non-title match, but by the time the match aired on May 10, the Briscoes had lost the Tag Team Championship, and the match was instead billed as a number one contender's match.[35][36][37] On the July 5 episode ofRing of Honor Wrestling, DCFC defeatedThe Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero andClaudio Castagnoli) via disqualification when the Briscoes interfered.[38]
In July 2010, ROH announced the teams that would be participating in theTag Wars tournament, to determine three teams which would challenge the Kings of Wrestling in the finalUltimate Endurance match.[39] Chavis and Davis faced and defeatedThe Embassy team ofShawn Daivari andErnesto Osiris in the first round and defeated the Bravado Brothers in the semi-finals on August 27.[40][41] The following night, on August 28, DCFC faced the Kings of Wrestling, The All Night Express (Kenny King andRhett Titus) and the Briscoe Brothers in the Ultimate Endurance match, but were unsuccessful as the Kings of Wrestling won the match to retain the ROH World Tag Team Championship and win Tag Wars.[42]
On April 3, 2011, atOpen the Ultimate Gate, the Dark City Fight Club was presented asDragon Gate USA's newest tag team. In their first match in the promotion, Chavis and Davis were defeated by the Dirty Ugly Fucks (Arik Cannon andSami Callihan).[43]
Chavis started to wrestled in Ring Warriors in 2012. In 2013, he started a tag team with Frank Stone. On September 28, 2013,New Jack revealed as his manager.