Perry Saturn

Perry Arthur Satullo (born October 25, 1966) is an American retired professional wrestler known by his ring name, Perry Saturn.

Satullo began training as a professional wrestler at Killer Kowalski's school in Malden, Massachusetts around 1988, taking the ring name Saturn from the Roman god of the same name before later tweaking it to Perry Saturn.

Since debuting in 1990, Saturn wrestled for promotions including Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).

He is a former ECW World Tag Team Champion, WCW World Tag Team Champion, WCW World Television Champion, WWF European Champion and WWF Hardcore Champion.

He has been recognized by commentators as one of the more relevant stars in WCW and ECW in the late 1990s.

Satullo enlisted in the United States Army for four years at the age of seventeen, before eventually embarking on a career in professional wrestling.

Satullo finished a bachelor's degree before he became a full-time wrestler.

Satullo is also a certified graduate of the U.S. Army Ranger School and has served in the United States Army Rangers.

He debuted on October 27, 1990, in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Satullo also wrestled in Kowalski's International Wrestling Federation as "The Iron Horseman", a cowboy complete with black leather stetson and chaps.

Satullo eventually won the IWF Light Heavyweight Championship.

In June 1992 he worked as enhancement talent in WWF.

While working as the manager of a nightclub in Boston, Satullo met bouncer George Caiazzo, who expressed an interest in becoming a wrestler.

Satullo sent Caiazzo to Kowalski's school to train, and then offered to form a tag team with him.

The Greek equivalent of the god Saturn was Cronus, so Satullo chose the ring name "John Kronus" for Caiazzo.

As Saturn and Cronus were their cultures' respective gods of the harvest, Satullo proposed that they be known as "The Harvesters of Sorrow".

Promoter Jerry Lawler advised Satullo that the significance of the name would not be evident to many fans, so they became known as The Eliminators.

Satullo began wrestling for independent promotions throughout New England, as well as touring Japan with New Japan Pro-Wrestling in 1993.

The Eliminators wrestled their first match together at a United States Wrestling Association (USWA) house show in 1993 in Tennessee.

They were hired at a starting salary of $40 a week (they later successfully negotiated a 100% pay raise),and shared an apartment with four other wrestlers.

The Eliminators won the World Tag Team Championship on May 2, 1994, from Satullo's mentor, Eddie Gilbert, and Brian Christopher.

They held the titles until June 13 when they were defeated by PG-13.

Satullo later traveled to Japan with Caiazzo to wrestle for Wrestle Association "R".

On March 22, 1994, Saturn wrestled a dark match at a WWF Superstars taping in Lowell, MA.

The compactly-built and heavily tattooed Satullo and the high-flying Caiazzo caught the attention of Paul Heyman's Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) when they were brought in to job to the Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott), and the Eliminators were hired by ECW in 1995.

Heyman quickly abandoned plans to give them a sadism and masochism gimmick and instead booked them as an unstoppable force in the ECW tag division, giving them a manager, Jason.

The Eliminators captured the ECW Tag Team Titles three times between 1996 and 1997, and feuded with teams such as The Gangstas and The Pitbulls.

After The Pitbulls' manager Francine cut Saturn's hair, he shaved his head in a homage to Mickey Knox, the character depicted by Woody Harrelson in Natural Born Killers (in reality, Satullo was beginning to go bald).

Satullo was a trainer in the ECW House of Hardcore, a professional wrestling school at which Taz and Mikey Whipwreck also taught.

Saturn was respected for his focus and drive on fundamentals and technical wrestling.

On May 31, 1997, in Trenton, New Jersey, Satullo tore his ACL when he landed on a crutch while executing a kick on Big Dick Dudley.

After intense reconstructive surgery, he was given a recovery time of up to a year.

He began rehabilitating after two months and returned to action in August.

Impatient with what he regarded as Caiazzo's lack of motivation and dedication, he refused to reform the Eliminators.

Paul Heyman offered to release him from his contract if he could find alternative employment, and Satullo entered into negotiations with World Championship Wrestling (WCW).

On August 28, 1997, Satullo was offered a job by WCW road agent Terry Taylor, who had been impressed by a bump that Satullo had taken in a scaffold match.

He debuted in WCW on September 8, facing Billy Kidman, but was sidelined for a month afterward as his knee had not entirely healed.

Later that year, he and Kidman joined The Flock, a heel stable of misfits and misanthropists led by the nihilistic Raven.

Saturn's childhood was referenced, with Raven bringing up the violence Saturn incurred at the hands of his stepfather.

The enforcer of The Flock, Saturn won gold on November 3, 1997, when he defeated Disco Inferno to win the World Television Championship.