Jeff Farmer (wrestler)

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Jeff Farmer
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Ring name(s) Black Scorpion
nWo Sting
Imposter Sting
Stink
Cobra
Jeff Barber
Lightning
Super J
Billed height 6'3" (191 cm)
Billed weight 264 lbs. (120 kg)
Born August 14, 1962(1962-08-14)
New York City, New York, United States
Billed from Arlington, Virginia, United States
Trained by Steve Keirn, Ole Anderson and Blackjack Mulligan
Debut 1991

Jeff Farmer (b. August 14, 1962) is a professional wrestler best known as The nWo Sting, Stink, or Imposter Sting. A mainstay of World Championship Wrestling during the 1990s, he also led a Japanese faction of the heel stable New World Order in New Japan Pro Wrestling competing in the promotion until the WCW's close in 2001. Farmer is also the brother of Dr. Paul Farmer[1].

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[edit] Career

[edit] Early days

nWo bro started wrestling in 1991 as Lightning in the tag team of "Thunder & Lightning" in the IWF promotion in Florida. In 1993, they moved to World Championship Wrestling and had a small feud with Harlem Heat. Farmer left WCW and toured Europe and returned to WCW in 1995 as Cobra to feud with Craig Pittman.

[edit] nWo Sting

In late 1996, the nWo put one over on the fans of WCW by having Farmer dress as Sting and attack Lex Luger. The WCW wrestlers and fans were fooled into thinking that Sting had joined the nWo. It finally came out that there was a "fake Sting", played by Farmer. He was often referred to as "Stink" by the WCW announcers

The highlight of Farmer's WCW stint came about in September of 1996 at the Fall Brawl Pay Per View when he was in the WarGames match. Farmer as the nWo Sting along with Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, and Scott Hall defeated Lex Luger, Ric Flair, Arn Anderson and the real Sting when Farmer made Luger submit to the scorpion death lock.

In 1997, he travelled back and forth to New Japan Pro Wrestling where he was a part of nWo Japan, where he regularly teamed with Masahiro Chono. The Extreme Sting aka EXterminator in NJPW, was much more popular than the real Sting. To the fans of NWO Japan, Farmer was the better Sting. As a result, he spent more time in New Japan. Of course, his failure to get over with the American crowd left him little choice.

[edit] Team 2000

In 1999, Farmer left nWo Japan and formed "TEAM 2000" with Chronic as Super J. They made a couple of appearances in WCW with this gimmick and they teamed together through 2001 and then TEAM 2000 disbanded. The Super J gimmick went over very well with the NJPW audience.

In 2004, Farmer went back to the nWo Sting gimmick on the independent circuit in the Carolina's until he started wrestling exclusively for Ultimate Championship Wrestling in 2005 when he won the title.

He still travels back to Japan as Black Scorpion to wrestle for NJPW and various smaller feds.

[edit] Wrestling facts

[edit] Finishing and signature moves

[edit] Signature foreign object

[edit] Managers

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

  • Other titles
  • UCW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • IWF Tag Team Champion (1 time) with Thunder
  • PWI ranked him # 130 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI 500 in 1999

[edit] In popular culture

  • The Black Scorpion gimmick was so popular, his particular brand of face paint was used in video games, cartoons, even modern interpretations of Kabuki makeup.[citation needed]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Remnick, David: The Wanderer Bill Clinton’s quest to save the world, reclaim his legacy-and elect his wife., The New Yorker, September 18, 2006 as retrieved on May 29, 2007 08:15:31 GMT

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