Benjamin Jameson

Benjamin Jameson (born Benjamin Joseph Aiden Jameson on October 26, 1980), also known as Triple X, is an American-born professional wrestler better known for working in Total Non-Stop Action Wrestling on it's iMPACT! brand.

Also, he was known for performing for the World Wrestling Entertainment developmental territories, All Magnitude X Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling and in Extreme Championship Wrestling, where he held four World Championship reigns between the three organizations.

Family
Benjamin was born on October 26, 1985 in Des Moines, Iowa. His biological father had passed away in an automobile accident months before Benjamin had been born. His mother, Rachel Jameson, only gave birth to one child as she was an assistant manager for Hy-Vee, a supermarket-chain located in the mid-west. Benjamin's step-father, John Blade, is the legendary wrestler from the late 70's to the early 90's. Benjamin also is related to the Blade wrestling family. Jameson is the step-brother to Josh, Ashley, and Mike, while being the half-brother of Joanne.

Before Wrestling
Benjamin only lived in Iowa until the age of two as his mother and step-father decided on a divorce. Benjamin was taken by her mother and moved to Los Angeles while his step-siblings had moved with their father to Chicago. From then on, Benjamin would live in Los Angeles until he was old enough to earn his way out of California. While at the age of four, his mother couldn't handle the pressure of living in the urban life so the two packed their bags and settled to Diamond Bar, a suburb of Los Angeles. The following year, Benjamin was signed up in the Walnut Valley Unified School District and attended Walnut Elementary. Unlike his sister, Benjamin was living life to the fullest at a young age as he impressed people with his athleticism. During his middle school and high school years, Benjamin amassed enough attention in Football and Basketball that top notch schools in California offered him scholarships to California and USC. Even schools hundreds and thousands of miles away such as states like Florida, Georgia, Michigan, and even Texas wanted him to attend those universities. However, during the summer of 1998 he opted to be near by his mother as he signed a letter of intend to the University of Southern California where he had an option of lettering in Football and/or Basketball.

In early 2003, after four roller coaster years in his academics and in athletics, Benjamin finally graduated out of college. During the summer in July, Benjamin had mutually made an agreement with the San Diego Chargers as he joined their practice squad. After a years worth of now improving, Benjamin decided to go out on a limb and try out for wrestling. Then in the summer of 2004, Benjamin drove down to Arizona and signed up for Frank Richards' Hard Knocks of Wrestling School.

Extreme Wrestling Corporation & Total Non-Stop Action (1st stint)
After two years and two months, Benjamin had made an agreement with EWC and he appeared in two house matches as Triple X but decided to move onto bigger things quickly as Frank Richards' introduced him to Stormy Borden, the head director of talent relations in TNA. In mid-April after two matches on Xplosion, TNA decided to expand its talent by developing a second television show, iMPACT!. Jameson volunteered to be apart of the new show along with The Enforcer, The Game, Undertaker, Kane, Mike Dimter, and other bright young superstars that was in TNA. After a few weeks, iMPACT! decided to put its three biggest stars at the time including Jameson in a Triple Threat Match for the new TNA World Championship. After the controversial finish, Jameson was furious because of the way the match went and he decided to leave TNA.

All Magnitude X (1st stint) & Total Non-Stop Action (2nd stint)
After the decision to quit TNA, Jameson was contacted by Vince McMahon, who was running a developmental territory in Montville, Connecticut at the Mohegan Sun Arena where it is less than an hour drive from the WWE Headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, to join AMX, All Magnitude-X wrestling. But after a month of operations, the territory had opened in late April and decided to close its door. During the time when AMX was operating, Jameson was probably the most dedicated wrestler on the roster and it was proved when he won the AMX Championship and the AMX Internet X-Core Championship on the same night. Being put so high on the pedestal by Vince McMahon, Jameson did not lose his titles and when they had closed the doors he still had held the two championships. In early June, Jameson had no job and was called up by TNA for an appearance as he faced off against real-life friend, Sting. He then was taken off television to work for TNA behind the scenes as a trainer. While working at AMX, Jameson was the highest paid developmental wrestler in the WWE (which was the same amount as a jobber on RAW or SmackDown). However, not being pleasant about the work schedule (one shows per week) that AMX allowed, Jameson was asked to work on Vince McMahon's new project: WCW and its return.

World Championship Wrestling & Extreme Championship Wrestling
In mid-June, it was official on WWE.com as it was announced that WCW would return but with a new look, new feel, and new wrestlers. However, one problem was the contract that Jameson had signed for WCW, which was that he was still connected to TNA. Therefore, Jameson had to cut ties with TNA once more. Things were to get better because two weeks after WCW had debuted, Jameson won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship as he defeated Death. It was noted by plenty of wrestling communities such as PWN Magazine that Jameson's title win was the first since 2001 when Chris Jericho won the 4-man unification tournament for the then-WWF and WCW World titles. Then in a span of two weeks, Jameson went on to win the United States Championship, the Hardcore Championship, and the Television Championship. He was the first wrestler since Booker T to complete the WCW Grand Slam Championship. During late June, there were talks about bringing ECW back while WCW is still active. Days after the proposition, ECW was officially back and WCW had became a separate entity as Vince McMahon had now owned three of the biggest wrestling organizations from the 90's. While holding four championship belts at the same time, Jameson was invited to ECW as he would face Rob Van Dam in a Ladder Match for the ECW World Championship. Jameson would go on and win the title as he became the second wrestler to have won both the ECW World Championship and the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Then in mid-August, barely three weeks after ECW had opened, Vince McMahon decided to shut down both ECW and WCW as ratings were never stable throughout the time both organizations had been running. Like AMX, Jameson walked out of ECW and WCW holding a massive total of five championships (1 from ECW and 4 from WCW).

Extreme Fanatic Wrestling & Ring of Honor
Then around mid-August, Jameson agreed to sign on with EFW as he appeared for one televised show in a 5-on-1 Handicap Match. After the event, he decided to for-go his start in EFW and he decides to leave. At the same time, he was called up by Babydoll and continued his backstage duties as he was named ROH's "General Manager". Then a week after his only match for EFW, Jameson decides to "be more serious" (on PWN.com) with his career and tries to find a permanent home in wrestling. For a vacation, he heads down to Florida and is sent an invitation to go backstage of the TNA Imapct Zone by Steve Borden (aka Sting). Soon after, rumors start to surface that Jameson will sign on TNA for the third time. Jameson proves rumors to be true as he walked into TNA headquarters and held a meeting with Stormy Borden about the possibilities of him joining TNA.

Total Non-Stop Action (3rd stint)
Then around mid-August, Jameson agreed to sign on with EFW as he appeared for one televised show in a 5-on-1 Handicap Match. After the event, he decided to for-go his start in EFW and he decides to leave. At the same time, he was called up by Babydoll and continued his backstage duties as he was named ROH's "General Manager". Then a week after his only match for EFW, Jameson decides to "be more serious" (on PWN.com) with his career and tries to find a permanent home in wrestling. For a vacation, he heads down to Florida and is sent an invitation to go backstage of the TNA Imapct Zone by Steve Borden (aka Sting). Soon after, rumors start to surface that Jameson will sign on TNA for the third time. Jameson proves rumors to be true as he walked into TNA headquarters and held a meeting with Stormy Borden about the possibilities of him joining TNA.

A press release was sent out and stated that Jameson is back as he signed a deal worth $450,000 for 1 year as the contract is filled with deals that only a man of his stature can find. The deal made Jameson one of the highest paid contracted employees in TNA history. Now entering TNA as his real name, Jameson worked a couple matches when he was involved in an automobile accident. Although he sustained minor injuries, they were countless. Because of that, he was declared to be out until the new year had started. He made his mark clear while being on the injured list because throughout the entire fall and winter of 2006, his decisions and ideas helped TNA more than before. During early-November, Jameson was officially part of the stable Evolution. However, after nursing his injuries Jameson recovered and was able to be in competition. His first match back was against The Insane and the Iron Man Championship. On that night, Jameson won his first championship since last August. Because of that, Benjamin was put on the board of ideas as he'd became one of the experiments of Stormy. However, another automobile accident put things on hold as Benjamin sustained a sprained arm and would be out of action for almost two months.

Then in March, after a couple of title defenses and time healing an injury, Benjamin came back as his return match was his first title defense against Rey Myserio. After defeating him, Jameson came out and issued a gut-wrenching challenge to wrestlers backstage for his championship. After couple matches, Jameson grew back into his "Triple Threat" gimmick. A beloved, tactical babyface, Jameson went on to pick on undercards while at the same time gave respect to those that deserved it best. Then on the April 12th edition of iMPACT!, Jameson came out to Alex Slash's resignation speech and took his Hardcore Championship as well as "firing" The Game at the same time. Because of his actions, he was placed in a Triple Threat Match for the vacant X-Division Championship against Kyle Stevenson and Marcus Jones at Xtreme Payback. After pinning Marcus Jones, Jameson became the first wrestler on iMPACT! to win three titles while being the first man in TNA's history to win three championships with none of them being the World Title.

A week and a half later after winning the X-Division Title, The Demon challenges Jameson after Benjamin's match against Chase Williams. Stormy then issues a match and calls it with the Hardcore Championship on the line. After losing the match and his title, Jameson performs a spot where The Demon slams him down into the announcers table. The table had a mishap and Jameson (legitimately) injures his latissimus dorsi and said he was going to be out for sometime. Only after a month he comes out and addresses the crowd with Charisma. It's been said that Charisma and Jameson were going to be paired up but no one knew when the program was going to be started. During the same show, Jameson comes out and issues four matches for an upcoming show of iMPACT!. It has been said by many media outlets that Jameson will return at TNA's Slammiversary pay-per-view event. Those rumors were indeed true as he went on to defeat Mr. Kennedy in a title unification match and unified TNA's Iron Man and X-Division titles. On that same night, Jameson, along with other bevy of current and former TNA Superstars and Knockouts, were inducted into the Hall of Fame as its class of 2007.

As weeks went by after his induction into TNA's Hall of Fame, he entered in a feud against Mr. Kennedy for Benjamin's X-Division title. They battled for a month until an Ultimate X Match for the right to be the number one contender on an episode of iMPACT! was subsequently changed by Jameson himself as the match would turn into a title match. At the end of the brawl, Marcus Jones retrieved the title as he was announced as the winner. However, Jameson turned things around and opposed his decision and named him the number one contender, instead of the champion. Then afterwards, Benjamin would lay out Jones as he began showing signs of a heel turn. Later on the night, Jameson ran in a match consisting of a returning Game. It would however, be his last appearance as he and management began to drift away from each other.

Departure from TNA
In the late month of June, Benjamin had began to dislike some of the backstage personalities, mainly Mr. Kennedy and the return of the Game. Also, with having to open AMX Wrestling, Jameson was deep in his own work. While working with his own material in AMX, Benjamin had decided to focus away from TNA. Then, during an interview with Frank Richards, Jameson had pointed out that "AMX was the only thing in his mind" as well as other reports like from Dave Meltzer stating that "AMX was his main priority". The speculations turned into fact as Jameson was granted his release late July but his contract still remained intact until late September.

All Magnitude X (2nd stint)
A month before in June while with TNA, Benjamin had flown to Stamford, Connecticut at WWE Headquarters as he and Vince McMahon held a meeting. After a short period, both parties had made an agreement in which the WWE will sell the library and other archives of AMX Wrestling to be in the new possession of Benjamin Jameson as the sole owner of all AMX Wrestling copyrights and trademarks.

Then in early August, Benjamin re-opened the doors of AMX Wrestling as they held a show in Los Angeles, California, the home of AMX, at the Staples Center. Weeks afterwards, there has been no given word as to what AMX will do with the company. Many have argued over the internet as to what AMX have become. There have had been reports that AMX has closed down. Conversely, word is spreading around that AMX will re-open as soon as they settle down and open full-time. However, those rumors proved to be false as AMX shut down for good once again and left those, particularly Jameson, without any hindsight as to what the future may bring for him.

Hiatus and a Possible Return
It has been speculated that since mid-August, Jameson had declared AMX a bust once again as he shut down its doors, but not completely. Since then, he has been on some what of a sabbatical from wrestling as he had no appearances in any feds what-so-ever. Rumors then started to grumble around, stating he had retired from the sport or even some said he had died. Both rumors proved false as he appeared on PWN Magazine in a full-fledged, all-access interview in the November issue regarding his career in wrestling and many other subtopics in the wrestling circuit. He stated that he'll "never walk away from the business" as long as he lives but that he'll sometimes "refrain from going near the wrestling road but stay along the sidewalks of it".

Around a couple weeks after the interview, things had started to swell up as talks about Benjamin returning to wrestling grew more intense. A possible return may be imminent but Jameson has stated on Howard Stern's radio show that it'll have to be on his terms and saying, "if I have to return, i'd like to come back 100% because I don't want it to be a one time deal or some kind of part-time gig". He also capped of the mid-December radio interview saying "if and when I do actually come back, things will change. Not everything, but some things yes". The only question in mind is that for which company will he be making his come back. So far, rumors are subjected that Benjamin will either come back to an organization that has already made a name for himself or a company that is up and coming and is lacking veteran leadership.

Total Non-Stop Action (4th stint)
While TNA, mainly iMPACT!, was growing with popularity as the likes of the Demon and Sting returning to the company, as well as the program with the Game and David Arnold, there was no doubt that iMPACT! had kicked off the new year with a bang. However, after a mere two weeks since the return of Sting at St. Valentine's Day Massacre, things started to heat up backstage with Benjamin and TNA. He started to dislike the way the program was going and along with that, the amount of stress poured even more as he was personally directing the feud between him and Sting. Then on February 29th, it was official as TNA.com stated that Benjamin had parted ways with the company. On the following Monday, he gave out a statement on The Opie & Anthony Show saying, "... with the way things have gone backstage in TNA, there was no way I would've continued any further. It was just a complete madhouse". Further more, it was evidenced that the trio of Stormy, Sting, and himself wasn't compatible because "honestly, it was just udder chaos every other day. Disagreements on this and that, damn, it was just awful and that's why I had to get out of that department". The following day, PWNMagazine.com had a column about the rumors swirling around between him and EWA as Benjamin would jump ship and join the new-found company. Even though he denied those reports on camera, he also had a few things to say about EWA as well saying, "Pending on the situation, if they need me, they'll call me. Hell, Steph knows my number and has called me more times than you think so don't take everything I say for sure". However, it has been almost two months and there has been no indications of Benjamin joining EWA or any company at this time.

Finishing and Signature Moves

 * High Impact / X Marks the Spot (Jumping Cutter)
 * Instant Impact / X-Check (Superkick)
 * Arm Drag
 * Belly-to-Belly Suplex
 * Diving Elbow Drop (as a tribute to Randy Savage)
 * Frog Splash (as a tribute to Eddie Guerrero)
 * German Suplex (as a tribute to Chris Benoit)
 * Headlock Takedown
 * Jumping Knee Drop
 * Reverse Atomic Drop
 * Snap DDT
 * Spinning Spinebuster
 * Standing Dropkick
 * Swinging Neckbreaker

Factions/Groups/Stables

 * AMX - 4th Triple Threat (alongside Frank Richards & Viper Blade)
 * TNA - Evolution (alongside David Arnold w/ Candi Blade, Stormy, & The Game w/ Miss Jackie)
 * TNA - nWo Wolfpac (alongside Brock Lesnar, Sting w/ Stormy, & T-Jay)
 * TNA - 1st Triple Threat (alongside Sting w/ Stormy & T-Jay)
 * TNA - 3rd Triple Threat (alongside Frank Richards & Stormy)
 * WCW - 2nd Triple Threat (alongside Rod Moore & Stephanie McMahon-Forcer)

Family Members/Relations

 * Ashley Blade (step-sister)
 * Joanne Blade (half-sister)
 * Josh Blade (step-brother)
 * Mike Blade (step-brother)

Managers & Valets

 * Ashley Blade
 * Babydoll
 * Charisma
 * Frank Richards
 * Sting
 * Stormy
 * T-Jay

Nicknames

 * Impact Player
 * The Beast
 * The Ultimate Impact
 * Triple Threat
 * Triple X

Previous Federations

 * AMX
 * ECW
 * EFW
 * EWA
 * EWC
 * ROH
 * TNA
 * WCW

Theme Music

 * Across the Nation by The Union Underground (used in 1st AMX stint, ECW, EFW, EWC, ROH, 1st TNA stint, & WCW)
 * Burn in my Light by Mercy Drive (used in 2nd AMX stint, EWA, and in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th TNA stint)
 * Dream On by Aerosmith (used in TNA for one episode of iMPACT! to celebrate Hall of Fame induction)
 * Ride of my Life by Neurotica (used in TNA for one episode of iMPACT! to celebrate TNA's Triple Crown Award)

All Magnitude X Wrestling

 * AMX Hall of Fame (Class of 2007)
 * AMX World Heavyweight Championship (1x)
 * AMX Internet X-Core Championship (1x)

Extreme Championship Wrestling

 * ECW World Heavyweight Championship (1x)

Professional Wrestling Newsletter Magazine

 * PWN #25 of PWN 300 in 2006
 * PWN #18 of PWN 300 in 2007
 * PWN Top-25 Contributor of the Year in 2007
 * PWN Top-25 Rookie of the Year in 2006
 * PWN Top-25 Match of the Year Award (TNA - vs. The Enforcer & The Game) in 2006
 * PWN Top-25 Match of the Year Award (TNA - vs. Ken Kennedy) in 2007
 * PWN Top-25 Wrestler of the Year in 2006
 * PWN Top-25 Wrestler of the Year in 2007

Total Non-Stop Action

 * TNA Hall of Fame (Class of 2007)
 * TNA Iron Man Championship (1x)
 * TNA European Championship (1x)
 * TNA X-Division Championship (1x)
 * TNA Hardcore Championship (1x)

World Championship Wrestling

 * WCW Hall of Fame (Class of 2006)
 * WCW World Heavyweight Championship (2x)
 * WCW United States Championship (1x)
 * WCW Televsion Championship (1x)
 * WCW Hardcore Championship (1x)

Personal Life
Benjamin is currently single. He was engaged to the General Manager of iMPACT!, Stormy Jameson. The couple first had met while Benjamin firt joined TNA in April of 2006. A year later, they were engaged and were married in the summer of 2007. However, the couple had been on and off during that time spand but have reconciled. Prior to being involved with Stormy, Benjamin was engaged to Babydoll, a writer for Ring of Honor. However, the relationship had separated more and more as Benjamin had focused on TNA.

Trivia

 * He is related to the famous Blade Family as his step-father is a bloodline Blade Family member. Currently his half-brothers Josh and Mike are in TNA also.
 * Has had three different stints in TNA. The first two were under the alias Triple X and currently he's using his real name, Benjamin Jameson.
 * Joins Sting, Lex Lugar, Diamond Dallas Page, Chris Benoit, Scott Steiner, and Booker T as the seventh wrestler to have won the WCW Grand Slam. Also, Jameson is the only one to achieve this milestone without winning the Tag Team Titles.
 * First wrester in TNA to hold three titles simultaneously (Hardcore, Iron Man, & X-Division).
 * Only wrestler besides David Arnold, Kane, Sting, and the Undertaker to hold two different title reigns simultaneously on iMPACT! (Iron Man & Hardcore). Also, he's the only one out of the five to have not hold the TNA World Championship.
 * First and only AMX wrestler to win the World title and the Internet X-Core Title. If he's able to win the Tag Team Titles, Benjamin can also be the first AMX Triple Crown Champion.
 * Only wrestler to win every male individual championship in AMX and in WCW. If he wins the ECW Television Championship, ECW will be on the list of winning every individual championship in a company.
 * Only wrestler to be inducted to the AMX, TNA, & WCW Hall of Fames.
 * Only wrestler to have won the World titles from AMX, ECW, & WCW. Also, he's won a championship in every company he has been in with the exception of EFW, EWA, EWC, & ROH.
 * Only wrestled in one match in EFW (Extreme Fanatic Wrestling) in a 5-on-1 handicap match.
 * Worked for ROH (Ring of Honor) and EWA (Enforced Wrestling Alliance) during the month of August in 2006 and 2007, respectively. However, he never wrestled in one match for both promotions.