Samuel Steele

Samuel Steele
Steele as WOW World and WOW World Tag Team Champion.
Birth name	Samuel Damien Steele
Resides	Old Bridge, New Jersey
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Samuel Steele Sam Steele
Billed height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Billed weight	210 lb (95 kg)
Billed from	St. Louis, Missouri (WOW) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (PWE & EHWF)
Trained by	Kevin Hunter Simon Sparx
Debut	2010

Samuel Damien Steele (born March 1, 1987) is a American professional wrestler, currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the NXT brand. He is also signed to Union Grand Prix under the Middleweight division. He has previously worked for Extreme Championship Wrestling Federation, EAW, World of Wrestling and competes for several independent promotions, most notably Chaotic Pro Wrestling.

Steele is a former two-time WOW World Champion, as well as five-time WOW World Tag Team Champion alongside Michael Shaw as The Dragon Slayers, in CPW he is a former three-time CPW Unified Champion as well as one-time CPW Unified Tag Team Champion with Michael Shaw as the Dragon Slayers. While in Pro Wrestling Entertainment he is a four-time PWE Tag Team Champion, three of those reigns have been with Michael Shaw.

Professional wrestling career

World of Wrestling (2012-2019; 2022-present)

On January 10, 2016 at Christmas Havoc, Steele won the WOW World Championship in a Scramble match while still holding the WOW World Tag Team Championship along with Michael Shaw, becoming only the second man and youngest to hold the WOW World Tag Team Championship and the WOW World Championship, simultaneously.

Elite Answers Wrestling

Debut and Dynasty (2018)

Steele signed with Elite Answers Wrestling in December 2017 along with Michael Shaw, and is rumored to begin competing for EAW in 2018. On January 8, 2018 it was revealed they would be comping on the Dynasty brand. They have since set their sights on the EAW Unified Tag Team Championships, sending messages to the current champions, The High Rollerz. However at Reasonable Doubt X, Di Consentes (Openweight Champion Cameron Ella Ava & EAW Champion Heart Break Gal) defeated The High Rollerz (Jack Ripley & David Davidson) to win the EAW Unified Tag Team Championships. Shaw and Steele would set their sights on new champions, Di Consentes. It was later announced by EAW that Shaw and Steele would receive a shot at EAW Unified Tag Team Championship at Reckless Wiring X, but they failed to win the titles. At Culture Crisis, Shaw & Steele defeated Shaker Jones & Woogieman to win a shot at the EAW Unified Tag Team Championship. It was later revealed that they would receive their Unified Tag Team Championship match against defending champions Mr. DEDEDE & Cameron Ella Ava at Pain for Pride XI, while it was also revealed that Charlie Marr and Daryl Kinkade would also be in the title match, DDD and Ella Ava retained the championships.

WWE: Damage, Inc.

NXT (2022-present)

In February 2022, it was announced that Shaw and Steele had signed contracts with NXT and was set to visit the Performance Center as soon as possible.

Union Grand Prix

Middleweight division

On July 26, 2024 it was announced via Union Grand Prix at Steele had signed a contract with them to compete in the Middleweight division.

Other media

In 2018, Steele made his first appearance in a EAW videogame, being a playable character in EAW 2K19.

Filmography

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2018	EAW 2K19	Himself	Playable character

EAW Network

Year	Title	Role	Notes

In wrestling

• Steele's finishing moves
  • Dragon's Knee (Running single leg high knee)
  • Dangerous Lock' (Chickenwing over the shoulder Crossface)
  • Frog splash
  • Ankle lock
  • Dragon's Flares (Scissors stomp to a kneeling or bent-over opponent's head followed by an elbow smash)

• Signature moves
  • Ax and Smash (Scissors stomp to a kneeling or bent-over opponent's head followed by an elbow smash)
  • Front missile dropkick from the ring apron to the outside of the ring
  • Triple rolling double underhook suplexes
  • Hard Knox Kiss (Glasgow Kiss)
  • Sling Blade
  • Somersault plancha
  • Suicide dive
  • Multiple kick variations
    • Corner drop
    • Front missile drop
    • Roundhouse
  • Multiple suplex variations
    • Belly-to-back, sometimes from the top rope
    • Belly-to-belly
    • Butterfly floated over into a cross armbreaker
    • Cravate
    • German
    • Northern Lights
    • Snap underhook
    • Super
    • Tiger
  • Belly-to-back suplex spun out into a reverse STO
  • Diving splash
  • Paroxysm (Swinging lifting inverted DDT)
  • Running leg lariat
  • Surfboard, sometimes while applying a dragon sleeper
  • Superplex followed by a sitout suplex slam
  • Turnbuckle powerbomb

• Managers
  • Samantha Shaw
  • Alexis Blaze

• Entrance themes
  • "One Finger and a Fist" by Drowning Pool (2017 – present)
  • "Warriors" by Imagine Dragons (2017 – present; used while a part of The Dragon Slayers)
  • "ed Light" by Outrun the Fall (Union Grand Prix)

Championships and accomplishments

• Chaotic Wrestling
  • CPW Unifed World Championship (3 times)
  • CPW Unified Tag Team Championship (1 time)

• Extreme Championship Wrestling Federation
  • ECWF World Tag Team Championships (2 times) - with Michael Shaw
  • ECWF World Six-Man Tag Team Championships (1 time) - with Michael Shaw and Daniel Keegan (1)
  • ECWF Hall of Fame (Class of 2019) - with Michael Shaw

• Pro Wrestling Entertainment
  • PWE Tag Team Championship (3 times)

• World of Wrestling
  • WOW World Championship (3 times, current)
  • WOW World Tag Team Champions (5 times)

• WWE
  • NXT Tag Team Championship (1 time, current) – with Michael Shaw