Crash Holly

Michael John Lockwood (August 25, 1971 – November 6, 2003) was an American professional wrestler.

Lockwood was born on August 25, 1971, in San Francisco, California.

He was raised in Pacifica, California, where he graduated from Terra Nova High School.

He became interested in professional wrestling in the eighth grade, inspired by Brady Boone.

While training as a wrestler and working on the independent circuit, he worked a second job at Safeway.

Lockwood debuted in 1989 and spent a decade wrestling on the independent circuit before signing with the World Wrestling Federation in 1998, debuting the following year as Crash Holly.

He formed a tag team with his kayfabe cousin Hardcore Holly, with whom he won the WWF World Tag Team Championship.

Lockwood debuted in 1989, as "Johnny Pearson" in Bay Area Wrestling for Woody Farmer, where he wrestled until 1994.

He dislocated his shoulder about five times and took 18 months off to recover.

He then wrestled on the independent circuit as "'Irish' Erin O'Grady".

In 1995, he appeared in Mexico with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre as "Super Diablo".

In 1996, he joined All Pro Wrestling (APW), where he became known as "'The Leprechaun' Erin O'Grady" and had several matches with Vic Grimes.

Lockwood joined the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion in November 1997 after ECW wrestler Taz viewed a tape of a match between O'Grady and Michael Modest and referred him to ECW owner Paul Heyman.

Erin O'Grady lost four untelevised matches in ECW, including a dark match at November to Remember.

Following his stint in ECW, Lockwood returned to APW where he performed until October 1998.

O'Grady wrestled Vic Grimes in a try-out match for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) on January 20, 1998, and both were signed to contracts.

In November 1998, Lockwood was sent to Power Pro Wrestling, the WWF's developmental promotion, to train.

Here, he won the Power Pro Wrestling Young Guns Championship and the PPW Tag Team Championship.

WWF Talent Coordinator Bruce Prichard sent Lockwood to Mexico, to prepare him for the style of the WWF's lucha libre show, WWF Super Astros.

He wrestled in Monterrey for three months, under a mask, as "The Green Ghost" (a play on the word "gringo").

He was best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) / World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) from 1999 to 2003 under the ring names Crash Holly or simply Crash.

Lockwood debuted on WWF television as "Crash Holly", the storyline cousin of Bob "Hardcore" Holly, on the August 16, 1999, episode of Raw is War They became known as the Holly Cousins.

Their relationship was a strained one, and Hardcore frequently threatened Crash.

When they took the gimmick of claiming to be "super heavyweights", over 400 lb each, Crash would carry a scale to ringside to "weigh in" before matches.

Crash made his pay-per-view debut at SummerSlam in August, where the Holly Cousins wrestled in a Tag Team Turmoil match, won by the Acolytes Protection Agency.

At Rebellion, the Holly Cousins competed against APA and Edge and Christian in a triangle match, which Edge and Christian won.

On October 17, at No Mercy, the Holly Cousins defeated The New Age Outlaws by disqualification.

The next night on Raw is War, they defeated the Rock 'n' Sock Connection for the WWF Tag Team Championship.

They held the title until the November 4 SmackDown!, when they lost it to Mankind and his new partner, Al Snow.

At Survivor Series on November 14, the Holly Cousins teamed with Too Cool to defeat Edge & Christian and the Hardy Boyz in a survivor series match.

Later that month, the Holly Cousins began a short feud with Too Cool and Rikishi Phatu.

At Armageddon on December 12, 1999, they defeated Phatu and Viscera.

The Holly Cousins was expanded into a stable with the addition of Molly Holly in 2000.

During his WWF/WWE career, Holly established himself in the hardcore division by winning the WWF Hardcore Championship on 22 occasions, with many of his reigns coming during a period when the title was defended "24/7".

The feud continued into February 2000.

At the Royal Rumble on January 23, 2000, both Hollys took part in the titular Royal Rumble match, with Crash Holly being eliminated by The Rock.

In February 2000, Crash Holly joined the hardcore division.

After being released from WWE in June 2003, Holly joined NWA Total Nonstop Action as Mad Mikey, where he remained until his death later that year.

Holly was also a one-time WWF European Champion and a one-time WWF Light Heavyweight Champion.

In total, Holly had over 25 championship reigns in the WWF.