Scottish professional wrestler
Stephen Kerr better known by his ring namesStevie Boy andStevie Xavier is a Scottishprofessional wrestler . He is most well known for his work inInsane Championship Wrestling where he is a former two-timeICW World Heavyweight Champion , a one-timeICW Zero-G Champion , two-timeICW Tag Team Champion and winner of both the 2017King of Insanity and 2018Square Go! matches.[ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5]
He also appeared forBritish Championship Wrestling ,Preston City Wrestling ,Defiant Wrestling ,Southside Wrestling Entertainment , Discovery Wrestling, WrestleZone,Pro Wrestling Elite andWorld of Sport among others.[ 4] [ 6]
Stevie Boy is also a pro wrestling trainer, having coached for ICW's Glasgow Pro Wrestling Asylum[ 7] and atWolfgang's Iron Girders Pro Wrestling .[ 8]
Professional wrestling career [ edit ] Independent circuit (2007–2021)[ edit ] Stephen Kerr began his career in 2007, training at Premier British Wrestling inGlasgow, Scotland [ 9] and wrestling forScottish Wrestling Alliance .[ 10] [ 11]
He would win several titles in PBW,British Championship Wrestling , Southside Wrestling Entertainment[ 12] and Rock N Wrestle which he defended against the likes ofLeyton Buzzard ,Ricky Knight Jr. ,The Addiction (Christopher Daniels andFrankie Kazarian ),The Coffey Brothers (Joe Coffey andMark Coffey ),Team Zero1 (Ryouji Sai andYusaku Obata ),Jody Fleisch &Jonny Storm , Hubba Bubba Lucha (Bubblegum &El Ligero ),Kris Travis , Andy Wild,Rampage Brown andBram .[ 4] [ 13] [ 14] [ 15] [ 6] [ 16]
Stevie Boy also competed forWorld of Sport Wrestling onITV .[ 17] He and BT Gunn reached the semi-finals of a tournament for theWOS Tag Team Championships before losing to Alpha Bad (Iestyn Rees andKip Sabian ). His last appearance for WOS was a losing effort in a tag team match withKay Lee Ray vs.Will Ospreay andBea Priestley .[ 18] [ 19]
Insane Championship Wrestling (2010–2021)[ edit ] Stevie Xavier began working security for ICW before debuting inInsane Championship Wrestling for a squash loss in 2010.[ 20]
He was then repackaged with aNed gimmick as part of The Bucky Boys (named afterBuckfast tag team).[ 21] The pairing and their managerThe Wee Man [ 22] were featured in theVICE documentaryThe British Wrestler .[ 23] [ 21] The duo became theICW Tag Team Champions in 2013 by defeating Dickie Divers and William Grange in aladder match atICW: Get To Da Choppa and again in 2014 by defeating The Sumerian Death Squad (Michael Dante andTommy End ) and The New Age Kliq (Chris Renfrew andBT Gunn ) atICW: A Show in London . During their two reigns, they would defend the titles against The Coffey Brothers (Mark Coffey and Joe Coffey) and The Big Hangovers (Jordan Devlin and Shawn Maxer).,[ 24] [ 25] [ 26] [ 27] Greg Burridge subbed for Davey Boy to team with Stevie in defence against The London Riots (Rob Lynch and James Davis).[ 28]
Stevie Boy won theICW Zero-G Championship [ 29] [ 2] [ 30] in 2015 before turning heel to join the New Age Kliq.[ 31] He successfully defended the title againstKenny Williams ,Wolfgang ,Mikey Whiplash ,Noam Dar ,Joe Hendry andLionheart before losing it to his former partner Davey Boy.[ 32] As a heel, he then joinedDrew Galloway , Red Lightning andJack Jester in The Black Label stable, before becoming the leader of The Filthy Generation.[ 4]
On 19 November 2017, Stevie Boy defeatedMikey Whiplash , Chris Renfrew andJimmy Havoc to become the inauguralKing of Insanity .[ 30] [ 10] [ 33] This match earned him the Scottish Wrestling NetworkMatch of the Year award.[ 34]
On 11 February 2018, Stevie Boy won theSquare Go! rumble match to earn a shot at theICW World Heavyweight Championship .[ 35] [ 36]
AtICW: BarraMania 4 , Stevie Boy defeated Kenny Williams to retain hisSquare Go! briefcase before interrupting a match between BT Gunn and Mikey Whiplash in order to cash-in his contract and become the ICW World Heavyweight Champion for the first time.[ 5] [ 37] This victory also earned him his status as both the secondICW Triple Crown Champion and ICW Grand Slam Champion.[ 38] [ 5] [ 37] [ 39] He held the title until July when he lost it to DCT.[ 6] [ 40]
After the death of the reigning championLionheart ,[ 41] [ 42] Stevie regained the vacant ICW World Heavyweight Championship by defeatingWWE NXT UK's Wolfgang atICW: Shug's Hoose Party 6 .[ 43] While champion, Stevie won a non-title match with Andy Wild[ 44] [ 45] and retained the title on two occasions, against former champions Rudo Lightning[ 46] and Joe Coffey[ 47] before he was defeated by theWWE contracted[ 48] Noam Dar at ‘’ICW: 9th Annual Square Go!’’.[ 49] [ 50] [ 51]
Stevie Boy entered theLionheart League on theWWE Network in which he was defeated bySha Samuels in the finals.[ 52] [ 53] [ 54]
After his title loss and Lionheart League defeat, Stevie faced Jack Jester,Kez Evans ,Big Damo , Andy Wild and others before putting hisKing of Insanity crown on the line atFear & Loathing XIII where he was defeated by BT Gunn.[ 33] For this match, he was again awarded the Scottish Wrestling NetworkMatch of the Year honour.[ 55]
Kerr's mother died when he was young.[ 11] Outside of professional wrestling, he has worked as a befriending carer.[ 56]
Kerr had been in a long-term relationship with fellow professional wrestlerKayleigh Rae , who currently wrestles inWWE under the ring name Alba Fyre.[ 57] The couple married in July 2021.[ 58]
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