Craig Van Dam

Early Career
CVD began his wrestling career in 1997 at the age of 19 wrestling on the North East of England wrestling scene under his real name Craig Dargue. After a year of crappy pay offs Craig travelled to the USA to find work on the Independant scene there. Sometime in late 1998 while working for a small independant promotion in Calarfornia, the promoter noticing the similar styles between Dargue and ECW Superstar Rob Van Dam renamed him Craig Van Dam, Craig has used that ring name ever since.

For the next few years CVD wrestled in the US and made occasional trips to Japan and Mexico. In 2001 he had a few try outs with the WWF but was not offered a contract. In the summer of 2002 however, CVD's luck would change. KJ was getting ready to re-open TWO Stars and sent his scouts out to find talent to star the promotion. The scouts were impressed by CVD's athletic ability and offered him a spot on the roster.