Logan McManus

Logan McManus (born on July 6, 1980) is an Irish-American professional wrestler currently taking bookings for independant shows. He is best known for his work in organizations such as All Japan ProWrestling, Big Japan Pro Wrestling, Insane Entertainment Online, All Star Wrestling, Chaotic Extreme Wrestling, Reckless Hardcore Wrestling, and Ultimate Championship Wrestling.

Childhood
Born on July 6th, 1980 to William and Claire McManus in Boston, Massachusettes after a seven hour labor. Logan is the oldest of the McManus children having two sisters, Caitlin, born on March 26th, 1982 and the youngest of the McManus clan, his sister Rori born on January 5th, 1985. Logan's parents divorced on November 22nd, 1988 with his mother taking sole custody of the children and his father William disappearing from their lives.

High School & Beyond
Logan was a star athlete in junior high and high school, routinely excelling at any sport he chose. From track and field, football, baseball, basketball and hockey. Logan was easily his schools top athlete as well as one of the smartest in his class. While finishing high school, Logan worked in a meat packing plant on the late night shift to help his mother support him and his two sisters. During Logan's senior year, he began to get involved in his school's wrestling team, excelling in his weight class while on the weekends, Logan began to fall in with several more unsavory characters from South Boston, eventually winding up in a small time illegal fight club. Using the money he made there, Logan made sure his mother could provide for Rori and Caitlin till they were both eighteen and Logan graduated near the top of his class on June 6th, 1998. Immediately, Logan traveled to Calgary, Alberta, Canada to train at Stu Hart's legendary wrestling school known as the Dungeon.

After spending a year training at the Dungeon, Logan found himself returning home to bail his youngest sister out of some trouble she had gotten into. During the course of this, Logan found himself joining the United States Army on July 1st, 1999 and was shipped to Fort Bragg. There he went through basic training and followed his basic training with applying to and excelling in Special Forces training where Logan eventually became a member of the elite Green Berets. By the time Logan was 22, he had been involved in various operations in Africa, Afganistan, Iraq, Iran, as well as having traveled to Russia, England and Mexico. Logan eventually found himself stationed on a small island just south of Japan for two years and after various stints with black bag operations with which he is unwilling to talk about, Logan found his childhood desire to be a professional wrestler rekindled after attending several All Japan Pro Wrestling matches.

Big Break
After receiving his honorable discharge, Logan traveled back to Japan where he began training at the All Japan Dojo. During his time there, he met and befriended Italian-American wrestler Alexis Morningstar and also became friends with Kenta Kobayashi, the three training together often.

On April 4th, 2003, Logan debuted as a masked wrestler for All Japan ProWrestling, becoming a perrenial jobber to put over many of the top stars in that promotion. Slowly, he moved up the ranks through a lot of hard work and dedication, eventually losing the masked gimmick and competing under his own name. He joined Big Japan Pro Wrestling shortly after leaving All Japan and won his first and only title in the Japanese scene of professional wrestling.

All Japan ProWrestling
Logan debuted as The Crimson Mask, jobbing to the likes of KENTA and more. Being a gaijin or foriegner in Japan was hard on the Boston native at first as he fought harder and trained harder to prove he belonged in the wrestling scene. After jobbing out for most of the top stars in AJPW. Logan was given his released when he asked for it as he had been offered a much bigger contract with Big Japan ProWrestling.

Big Japan ProWrestling
Debuting with BJW, Logan tore through the ranks of stars there, competing against several big names. It was during his stint there that Logan's reputation for making his opponents submit began to take shape as he routinely made all of his opponents tap out to his various finishers. Winning the BJW 8-Man Scramble Championship was the highlight of Logan's Japanese wrestling career. It was also during his stint with BJW that he was approached and jumped to Chaotic Extreme Wrestling when they offered him a much larger contract and BJW could not match their offer. A bonus was that Logan was soon to be making his professional wrestling debut on American soil once more and in his hometown of Boston, Massachusettes.

Chaotic Extreme Wrestling
On January 3rd, 2004, Logan debuted for Chaotic Extreme Wrestling. He quickly became one of their most promising young stars, defeating nearly all the challengers set before him. While there he amassed quite the collection of accolades, such as a pinfall victory over "Dangerous" Jack Tulley in :38 seconds. He would go on to win the CEW North American Championship from Tulley that night and held the belt twice. Losing in a street fight match to Jack "Flash" Stevens then defeating Stevens the very next week to reclaim his title. Eventually, he became the CEW Heavyweight Champion while holding the CEW North American Championship belt at the same time before losing the CEW Heavyweight Championship belt in a steel cage eight man scramble match when one of his opponents escaped the cage at the CEW Hellions Unleashed supershow. Logan then went on to team with Mad Maxwell for a short lived tag team called the Mad Factory. The team held some promise, though this was mainly due to Logan's talent and skill as Maxwell couldn't overcome his personal demons and let them get the best of him. This lead to Max being fired from the company the very night that Logan and Maxwell won the CEW Tag Team Championships. CEW folded shortly there after leaving Logan jobless in May of 2004. Moving back to the Boston area, Logan took odd jobs before making small appearances for local independant federations in the greater Boston area.

Insane Entertainment Online
Logan signed with a small independant wrestling company called Insane Entertainment. While the owners were from American and they toured the United States almost exclusively, IEO was packaged towards an Australian market featuring many top named stars from the U.S. Logan quickly made a name for himself in IEO, winning the IEO Fusion (formerly known as Insane) Championship after only his fifth match. Logan was one of the biggest stars in IEO and had what Dave Metzer reported as a five star match when he faced Batista at Anarchy 2 in a Three Stages of Hell Match. The first match, a hardcore match, followed by a steel cage match followed with an I Quit match if needed. Batista defeated Logan in the first match, before losing two straight falls to Logan as Logan was the first to escape from the cage and then nearly choked his opponent out to force him to say 'I Quit.' During this match, Logan suffered a broken forearm and wrestled with a cast for six weeks. After several months and a decent title run, he was fired for several months before making a surprising comeback. During his time with IEO, Logan also took dates with another small traveling promotion called All Star Wrestling. He performed for several of their shows, eventually though, that company folded due to financial strains as well.

All Star Wrestling
While working with IEO, Logan took several bookings with ASW, competing as a superstar and also helping with the booking. ASW was a small touring promotion and Logan fought for and won the ASW Heavyweight Championship before the promotion closed it's doors.

Reckless Hardcore Wrestling
Logan reappeared after IEO and ASW folded for the very short lived Reckless Hardcore Wrestling. Logan dominated and went undefeated in his tenure with the company becoming RHW's headlining star and Hardcore champion in his debut match.

Ultimate Championship Wrestling
After RHW folded, Logan was approached by several friends and backers and with some help founded UCW. UCW is a wonderful independant promotion currently owned and operated by Logan McManus. He routinely tries to bring the most exciting shows to the people of San Diego by importing many top stars from several promotions around the country.

Extreme Inventions
Over the years Logan has developed a style using some of the best techniques throughout the world. His extensive training in Canada, Japan and with the United States military has made Logan one of the most ferocious and feared in ring competitors. A true warrior, Logan is capable of ending a match in seconds if he chose. Throughout his travels though, Logan has developed and created several moves to help him win his matches.

Celtic Knot

 * Exclusive to Logan McManus thanks to fellow superstar and some time Japanese travel companion Alexis Morningstar, this is a brutal submission with seemingly no escape. Starting with his opponent in a prone position, Logan will lock on the Figure Four Neck lock, with the opponent laying on their stomach, he will face their legs and cross one leg at the knee, with his legs locked around their neck and then wrenching back as hard as he can, twisting the opponent into a U-shape with a modified Cloverleaf submission. The move attacks the back, neck and thighs. This move is usually preceded by the Fallen Emerald.

Fallen Emerald

 * Exclusive to Logan McManus, who perfected this move after working with Alexis Morningstar in Japan. Starting with a powerbomb set up, doubling his opponent over into a bent position, Logan will then hoist them atop his shoulders and begin to bring them down into a powerbomb. However, that is where the powerbomb aspect ends as once the opponent is in the air and falling, Logan will jump up, placing his legs around his opponent's head to keep them from landing on their back and instead driving them down more headfirst. This move is almost always followed by immediately applying the Celtic Knot for the win.

Cloverleaf Suplex & Submission

 * Exclusive to Logan McManus, who invented the move. Starts as a Texas Cloverleaf Leg-grapevine, where in, instead of turning the opponent onto his belly to complete the submission. Logan will power the opponent over his body in a German Suplex style manuever, causing them to land on their face and chest. A variation sees Logan holding lighter opponents and after the suplex. Logan will roll through, keeping his hands locked in the grapevined position of his opponents legs to apply the Texas Cloverleaf submission.

Finishing Moves

 * Celtic Knot [Reverse Figure Four Necklock w/ Modified Cloverleaf Submission]

Set Up Finishers

 * Fallen Emerald [Powerbomb Falling Piledriver]
 * Cloverleaf Suplex [Modified Cloverleaf Leg-Grapevine into Modified German Suplex]

Signature Moves

 * Breakdown [Full Nelson Facebuster]
 * Celtic Spike [Stalling Reverse Suplex into DDT]
 * Dragon Bomb [Triple Powerbomb into Pin]
 * Dragonsault [Top-Rope Moonsault]
 * Dragontamer [Scorpion Deathlock]
 * Lucky Charm [Running Springboard Falcon Arrow]

Trademark Moves

 * Belly To Belly Suplex
 * Bulldog
 * Chops
 * Clothesline
 * DDT
 * Fisherman's Buster
 * German Suplex
 * High Kick Flurry
 * Power-bomb
 * Scoop Slam
 * Shoulder Block
 * Snap Suplex
 * Stalling Suplex
 * Super Kick
 * Super Inverted Fisherman Buster
 * Tornado DDT Ring Rope Drop
 * Turnbuckle Powerbomb

Managers

 * Leyla Milani

Nicknames

 * The Celtic Beast
 * The Irish Assassin

Entrance Music

 * Headstrong by Trapt

Career Championship Highlights

 * All Star Wrestling
 * ASW Heavyweight Champion (1 Time)
 * Big Japan ProWrestling
 * BJW 8-Man Scramble Champion (1 Time)
 * Chaotic Extreme Wrestling
 * CEW Heavyweight Champion (1 Time)
 * CEW North American Champion (2 Times)
 * CEW Tag Team Champion (1 Time)
 * Insane Entertainment Online
 * IEO Fusion Champion (Formerly Insane Championship) (1 Time)
 * Reckless Hardcore Wrestling
 * RHW Hardcore Champion (1 Time)

Personal Life
Logan is active in several Boston based charities and on Christmas he is usually visiting several children's organizations, handing out toys for underpriviledged children. Logan has two sisters, Caitlin who has two children as well and his youngest sister, Rori. Logan's sister Rori is a professional wrestler as well. Logan has been involved in training several wrestlers, one most notably being Torrie Wilson.