Eugene

Nicholas David Dinsmore (born December 17, 1975), better known by his ring name Eugene, is an American retired professional wrestler.

Dinsmore's career began in 1996 in Ohio Valley Wrestling, where he would become the OVW Heavyweight Champion a record eight times as well as the OVW Southern Tag Team Champion eleven times.

Dinsmore debuted in 1996, and soon began wrestling in the United States Wrestling Association (USWA).

In Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), he formed a successful tag team with Rob Conway, called The Lords of The Ring.

The team had a record ten reigns as Southern Tag Team Champions.

Dinsmore also held the OVW Heavyweight Championship a record ten times.

Dinsmore also appeared in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from August 1998 to January 1999, mainly used as a jobber on WCW Saturday Night he also worked on two episodes of Thunder (losing to Ernest Miller and Kanyon), and on two episodes of Nitro (first teaming with Lenny Lane to lose a handicap match to Scott Steiner, then losing a singles match to Wrath).

While still in OVW, Dinsmore also made some appearances as a jobber in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), first on an episode of Shotgun Saturday Night in 1999.

He wrestled in the WWF as Doink the Clown on two later occasions, and as one half of Los Conquistadores (with Rob Conway).

He debuted in the WWE in 2004 under the name Eugene Dinsmore, Eric Bischoff's nephew, and an intellectually disabled wrestling savant.

During his time in the company, he was involved in various storylines and competed against such wrestlers like Triple H and Kurt Angle.

He also won the World Tag Team Championship with William Regal.

On the April 5, 2004 episode of Raw, Dinsmore made his World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) debut as Eugene.

WWE wrote Eugene as the "special" and overly excited nephew of Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff, who had savant-like wrestling ability from watching his favorites on television, Dinsmore has described his portrayal of Eugene as being inspired by Rip Rogers' autistic child and Dustin Hoffman's performance in the film Rain Man.

Bischoff soon placed him under the care of the newly returned William Regal.

Although Regal was originally dispirited at having to manage Eugene, he would grow fond of him and the two would quickly become firm friends.

In May 2004, Eugene began a feud with Jonathan Coachman, who attempted to banish him from WWE (only to be stopped by The Rock).

The feud culminated in Eugene's pay-per-view debut, when he defeated Coachman at Bad Blood.

Eugene then feuded with Triple H, which led to a match between the two at SummerSlam, which Eugene lost.

Two weeks later on Raw, they fought a no disqualification match, which Eugene won after interference from Randy Orton.

The next week, they had a steel cage match, which Eugene lost and suffered a kayfabe dislocated shoulder, ending the feud.

After taking a few weeks off to sell his injuries, he feuded with his uncle, Eric Bischoff.

This led to a match at the first-ever Taboo Tuesday pay-per-view on October 19.

The fan-chosen (via voting at WWE's website) stipulation for the match was that the loser would have his head shaved.

Eugene won this match (with help from Mr. McMahon) and subsequently shaved Bischoff's head.

With Regal, Eugene won his first and only championship in WWE, taking the World Tag Team Championship from La Résistance on the November 15 episode of Raw.

Eugene suffered an injury at New Year's Revolution on January 9, 2005, in a match with Christian and Tyson Tomko, after botching a dropkick.

Although they won the match, he suffered a ruptured left patellar ligament, which required surgery and sidelined him for six months.

This also cost him the World Tag Team Championship, which Regal lost to La Résistance when forced to defend at a house show on January 16, teamed with Jonathan Coachman as a substitute.

During recovery, Eugene made a surprise appearance at WrestleMania 21, delivering a promo until being interrupted and attacked by Muhammad Hassan and Daivari.

He would be saved by returning Hulk Hogan, after he attacked the villainous duo.

Eugene returned to wrestling on the July 25, 2005 episode of Raw, taking part in Kurt Angle's regular "Kurt Angle Invitational" challenge.

Eugene defeated Angle, winning his cherished Olympic gold medal (per match stipulation), and starting a feud between the two.

The feud culminated at SummerSlam, where Angle defeated Eugene to regain his medal.

Eugene then briefly teamed with Tajiri (who, incidentally, had also previously teamed with William Regal).

The team lasted until Tajiri's release in December 2005.

At Taboo Tuesday, Rob Conway teamed with Tyson Tomko to face Eugene and a "WWE Legend", to be chosen by the fans.

Dinsmore was eventually released in 2007, before returning to OVW, where he won the Heavyweight Championships two more times.

He made a brief return to WWE in 2013, but he was released the next year.

In 2015, he opened his own promotion, Midwest All Pro Wrestling.