Benjamin Jameson

Benjamin Joseph Blade-Jameson (born October 26, 1980), better known by his ring name Benjamin Jameson, is an American-born professional wrestler currently a free agent. Jameson was best known for his appearances with Total Non-Stop Action Wrestling on it's iMPACT! brand, where he was most successful to date. He also is known for being in 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. Not only that, Jameson has also made appearances throughout other promotions such as Extreme Fanatic Wrestling, Enforced Wrestling Alliance, and Ring of Honor.

Also, Jameson is part of the famous Blade family as his estranged father is John Blade, the infamous wrestling star from the 1970's, who is also the bloodline father of his younger half-siblings Josh, Joanne, Ashley, and Mike; all of whom are in the wrestling business as well.

Family
Jameson was born on October 26, 1980 in Des Moines, Iowa. His father, John Blade, was a wrestler during the 70's while his mother, Rachel Jameson, was an assistant manager for a supermarket. At the time, his father had been on the road and had an affair with Rachel, the reasoning as to how they gave birth to him. However, John had gone back out onto the wrestling gig and went back to his wife, who had bore four children that are now the half-siblings of Jameson. Those half-siblings from his father, Josh, Joanne, Ashley, and Mike, are also in the wrestling business as of this day. Even so, his mother had decided on not giving birth to more children, leaving Jameson as an only child.

Before Wrestling
Jameson only lived in Iowa until the age of six. With his mother, they had moved to southern California in Los Angeles. From then on, Jameson would live in L.A. 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, Jameson was signed up in the Walnut Valley Unified School District and attended Walnut Elementary. Unlike his siblings, Jameson had a gift in athletics. During his middle school and high school years, Jameson had garnered enough attention in Football and Basketball where top notch schools in California offered him scholarships to University of California, Berkley and to the University of Southern California. Even schools that were located hundreds and thousands of miles away such as states like Florida, Georgia, Michigan, and Texas wanted him to attend their state universities. However, during the summer of 1998, Jameson had 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. During the same time, Jameson had learned that his father had passed away. And in the ensuing months, his half-sister Joanne had hitched her way to the west coast and lived with her older half-sibling until she had graduated from high school.

In early 2003, after four roller coaster years in his academics and in athletics, Jameson finally graduated out of college. However, during the middle of football practice in his junior year, Jameson had tore three of his major ligaments in his right knee. Because of the injury, Jameson could no longer participate in athletics during his senior year. Deciding to sway away from a medical redshirt, Jameson decided to rehab and work his way back onto the football field. After graduating from USC, Jameson had been on the practice squads for the Arizona Cardinals, the Denver Broncos, and the San Diego Chargers. After a lifetime worth of giving precious time on the gridiron, Jameson decided to go out on a limb and try out for professional wrestling. Then in the fall of 2005, Jameson drove down to Arizona and signed up for Frank Richards' Hard Knocks of Wrestling School, where he would train for 6 months to try and find his niche in professional wrestling.

Extreme Wrestling Corporation & Total Non-Stop Action (first 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 (first stint) & Total Non-Stop Action (second 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
Around mid-August, Jameson made his career debut in a 5-on-1 Handicap match for Extreme Fanatic Wrestling (EFW). After the event, he decided to for-go a start in EFW and he had decided to leave. At the same time, he was called up by the consultant of Ring of Honor, Babydoll. He agreed to make several appearances as her bodyguard as well as being named ROH's "General Manager". After several weeks of being part of ROH's roster, it was time that Jameson sought for bigger and better options. With the luck of a draw, Jameson was contacted by Steve Borden (aka Sting), whom he had met at a gym in Los Angeles and was working for Total Non-Stop Action Wrestling at the time. After days had went by, Jameson and TNA had come to an agreement and plans were quickly made for Jameson to enter the organization.

Total Non-Stop Action Wrestling (third stint)
After making his first few appearances, Jameson had beens involved in an automobile accident. Although he sustained minor injuries, they were countless. Because of the injuries he had sustained, Jameson was forced to be declared out-of-action until the new year had started. However, he had made his words 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 as he had worked backstage as an assistant for then-General Manager, Stormy Borden. During that same time around early November, Jameson had officially joined the stable Evolution along with his on-screen gal pal Stormy: who also consisted of its leader the Game, his wife Jackie, David Arnold, and his girlfriend Candi Blade. Finally after nursing his injuries, Jameson had fully recovered and was able to return to competition. His first match back was against the Insane in a title match for his Iron Man Championship. On that night, Jameson won his first championship in his early career. Then the night after, he had more input in his matches as he had ideas that would influence his future. However, another automobile accident put things on hold as Jameson sustained a sprained arm and would be out of action for almost two months.

Then in March, after healing his injury, Jameson 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 title defenses, Jameson grew into his "Beast" gimmick, a renegade babyface who Jameson would pick on those that would bully the undersized as well as the respected. During the same time, Jameson was also announced as iMPACT!'s new assistant General Manager. One of his first actions took place on the April 12th edition of iMPACT!, where Jameson came out to Alex Slash's resignation speech and took his Hardcore Championship (coining himself the new champion), 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 the pay-per-view event, Xtreme Payback. After pinning Marcus Jones, Jameson became the first wrestler on iMPACT! to win three titles while being the first 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 challenged Jameson after he went up against Chase Williams. Stormy, whom he was having a distant relationship with during his rise to the top, then issued a match and had declared Jameson of putting his Hardcore Championship on the line. After losing the match and his title, Jameson performed a spot where the Demon would slam him into the announcers table. The table had a mishap and Jameson (legitimately) injured his latissimus dorsi and said he was going to be out for sometime. Only after a month, Jameson came out and addressed the crowd with former Diva's Champion, Charisma. It was then said that he and Charisma were going to be paired up but no one knew when the program was going to be started. During the same show, Jameson came out and issued four matches for an upcoming show of iMPACT!. It was after the main event that same night where Jameson addressed the crowd that he'll return to in-ring action at the Slammiversary pay-per-view event. During those weeks, Jameson had developed a legit feud with TNA Superstar, Mr. Kennedy. The two had finally met during Slammiversary as he would go on to defeat Mr. Kennedy 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 had continued his feud with Mr. Kennedy for Jameson's newly unified 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 had retrieved the title as he was announced as the winner and the new champion. However, Jameson turned things around and opposed his decision and named him the number one contender, instead of the champion. Then afterwards, Jameson 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, Jameson had began to dislike some of the backstage personalities, mainly Mr. Kennedy and the Game, who was returning after him being "fired" by Jameson himself. Also, with having to open AMX Wrestling, Jameson was deep in his own work. While working with his own material in AMX, Jameson had pushed his 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 from Dave Meltzer stating that "AMX was his main priority". The speculations turned of Jameson leaving TNA turned into fact as Jameson was granted his early release late July despite his contract being remained intact until the end of September.

All Magnitude X Wrestling (second stint)
Then in early August, Jameson re-opened the doors of AMX Wrestling as they held a show in Los Angeles, California, the home of AMX, at the Staples Center. Days afterwards, there were no given word as to what AMX would do with the company as speculations grew larger with AMX having to be a one-night event. Many have argued over the internet as to what AMX had become after the night of the show. There have had been reports that AMX has closed down. Conversely, word was spreading around that AMX would re-open as soon as they settled down and open up full-time. However, those rumors proved to be false as AMX would shut down for good once again. After leaving AMX, Jameson had decided to hang up his boots and see what the future could hold for him as he worked at a local gym, working as a personal trainer.

Hiatus and a possible return
A couple weeks after an interview with PWNMagazine.com, things had started to swell up as talks about Jameson 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 Jameson 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 (fourth and final 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 Jameson 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 a major feud that would involve him and Sting. However on February 29th, it was official as TNA.com stated that Jameson 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 Enforced Wrestling Alliance (EWA) as Jameson 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 had been almost two months and there was no indications of Jameson joining EWA or any company at the time.

Another hiatus and comeback
After leaving TNA and the wrestling world, Jameson kept himself under the radar until he made a surprise appearance at a wrestling convention during the month of October. During his appearance, he stated that he had been working at home as a personal trainer and had been contemplating a return, citing an "itch" to come back into wrestling. Although it hadn't been confirmed, close sources had been noting that the "itch" he's been having could be a chance for Jameson to return to the wrestling ring. Then rumors had started to float around as few had been heard Jameson having to go into negotiations with Enforced Wrestling Alliance (EWA). Those rumors were proved to be true as he had been spotted at a few independent promotions with some of the EWA performers as well. Then on October 25th, it was announced that Jameson had been officially signed by EWA. The deal he signed was reported to be for six months but the amount was disclosed.

Enforced Wrestling Alliance
On his 28th birthday, Jameson made his unofficial debut during it's pay-per-view event, House of Horror's, when he ran in to save his older half-sibling Josh Blade, whom he nor the rest of the Blades know who Jameson is, from an 5-on-1 beat down. Then a week after on Aftershock, he had made another save but this time for Josh's little brother, Mike Blade. After the save, Mike had questioned about who Jameson was (who hadn't revealed himself to EWA television yet). It was then announced days later that the man saving the Blade brothers from attacks happened to be Jameson himself. Then in the ensuing weekend, he was placed in a match against Kriz Viper for his official EWA debut, which he had won. Following the match, General Manager Anthony Christan had placed Jameson in a match against Kevin Kronic in which it was for Kronic's then-Intercontinental Championship. However, later on in the same night, Kronic had lost his title to Chris Cavalera. Because of that, the match between Jameson and Kronic was changed to name the number one contender for the same title. However, with the loss Jameson was out of the title picture. He then debuted in his first pay-per-view match against Andrew "Asshole" Taylor. Unfortunately, he was squashed by Taylor by losing to him in a matter of minutes. Then after two weeks of absence, it had been assumed that Jameson abruptly left the organization. Because of that, EWA had terminated his contract, citing no reason for his termination.

2009
After months of hiding away from the wrestling world, Jameson his first appearance since leaving EWA. After a sit down conversation on a local radio show, he stated that "it be hell" if he had returned to the ring because "of all the controversy that surrounds [the ring]". However, he also stated that if he had found the right moment and time for him to join, he'd "do it in a heart beat".

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

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

Family Members/Relations

 * Ashley Pain (née Blade; half-sister) w/ Lucas Pain (brother-in-law)
 * Joanne Johnson (née Blade; half-sister) w/ Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (brother-in-law)
 * Josh Blade (half-brother)
 * Mike Blade (half-brother)
 * Heather Phoenix (née Blade; half-cousin) w/ Drake Phoenix (cousin-in-law)

Managers & Valets

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

Nicknames

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

Theme Music

 * Across the Nation by The Union Underground (used in first stint with AMX, ECW, EFW, EWC, ROH, first stint with TNA, & WCW)
 * Burn in my Light by Mercy Drive (used in second stint with AMX and in last three stints with TNA)
 * 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)
 * I Walk Alone by Saliva (used in EWA)

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)

Total Non-Stop Action

 * Assistant General Manager of iMPACT! (March 2007 - June 2007)
 * Commissioner of iMPACT! (December 2007 - January 2008)
 * 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
Jameson is currently single. His last relationship was with model and actress Vanessa Torres. He was also engaged twice. First to Stormy, then-General Manager of iMPACT!. The couple first had met while Jameson first joined TNA in September of 2006. A year later, they were engaged and were to be married in the summer of 2007. However, the couple had been on and off during that time span and were soon to be split. Prior to being involved with Stormy, Jameson was the boyfriend of Babydoll, a writer for Ring of Honor. However, the relationship had separated more and more as Jameson had focused onto his second stint with 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, his half sisters, Ashley and Joanna, are wrestling in EWA where all four of them have reached perennial success.
 * Jameson had four different stints in TNA. The first two were under the alias Triple X and then he used his real name, Benjamin Jameson, for the latter two.
 * He is the 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 in AMX and WCW history to have won every individual championship. If had won the ECW Television Championship, he would have also won the only two individual championships the promotion had.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Before returning to TNA for the third time, he only made one appearance in the ring as a member of the EFW roster, wrestling in an unfortunate 5-on-1 handicap squash match.
 * While being introduced as the General Manager for ROH on its website, Jameson never made an on-camera appearance.
 * At the time, Jameson was the only wrestler in its history (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 held the TNA World Championship.
 * He was the first wrestler in TNA history to hold three titles simultaneously (Hardcore, Iron Man, & X-Division).
 * Only wrestler to be inducted to the AMX, TNA, & WCW Hall of Fames.
 * After being hyped for several weeks, Jameson wrestled only in one match in which he faced off against Andrew "Asshole" Taylor, where he recorded his only result -- a loss.