Trent Acid

Michael Verdi (November 12, 1980 – June 18, 2010), best known by his ring name Trent Acid, was an American professional wrestler.

He worked as a tag team wrestler for most of his career, primarily as part of The Backseat Boyz with Johnny Kashmere, in several American independent promotions, including Combat Zone Wrestling and Ring of Honor.

He also worked a singles career with several promotions, including Juggalo Championship Wrestling.

Verdi was childhood friends with Rocky Ciarrocchi (better known as fellow wrestler Helter Skelter).

Acid wrestled at the age of 14.

He wrestled in independent promotions only in Philadelphia, Delaware and New Jersey.

Acid debuted in Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) in 1999 and competed mostly in singles matches.

At the first Cage of Death, he teamed with White Lotus to face the Kashmerinoes (Johnny Kashmere and Robbie Mireno).

Acid wrestled many matches against Kashmere before teaming up with him to form The Backseat Boyz.

The Backseat Boyz won the CZW Tag Team Championship.

While part of this team, Acid still wrestled in the singles division and won the CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship three times, competing against the likes of Ruckus and Justice Pain for the title.

He also became the second Best of the Best winner by defeating Jody Fleisch in the final match at Best of the Best 2.

Then on August 19, 2001, he beat Jun Kasai for the CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship.

On December 2, 2001 he defeated Ruckus for the BJW Junior Heavyweight Championship in Philadelphia at CZW Cage of Death III.

He would drop the title to The Winger at Harder Than Hardcore Series 2002 on March 3, 2002, in Yokohama.

Acid joined Ring of Honor (ROH) in 2002, when he and Johnny Kashmere defeated Homicide and Steve Corino in an interpromotional match between ROH and CZW at the first Glory By Honor.

The Backseat Boyz would go on to work for ROH permanently.

In September 2003, Acid won the vacant CZW Iron Man Championship by defeating Nick Gage and Jimmy Rave in a three-way match.

Around this time, Acid, along with Johnny Kashmere, joined the Hi-V stable and feuded with Zandig and his ultraviolent team.

This feud came to an end at Cage of Death V in the Cage of Death match.

However, before competing in the Cage of Death match, Acid first had to defend his Iron Man Championship against Jimmy Rave.

The match went to a time limit draw with each man scoring one fall, but the match was ordered to restart and Rave won the title.

Acid went on to the Cage of Death but was eliminated and his team eventually lost.

The Hi-V broke up after this and The Backseat Boyz soon left CZW.

They continued wrestling together and competed in many scramble matches against the likes of The SAT, The Carnage Crew and Special K. However, Acid is perhaps best known from ROH for his feud with Homicide which ended in a Fight Without Honor match on May 28, 2003, at Wrestlerave 03 which Acid would win.

After this feud, The Backseat Boyz won the ROH Tag Team Championship by defeating Special K in the final round of a gauntlet match for the vacant title.

This made The Backseat Boyz the first team to win both the CZW and ROH Tag Team Championships.

Acid and Kashmere lost the title to Special K at the next show.

Later, Kashmere left ROH and Acid would continue as a singles wrestler.

At ROH's Reborn: Completion, Acid fought with Jimmy Rave but he lost after Rave hit the Rave Clash on him.

At Testing The Limit, he challenged Samoa Joe for the ROH World Championship, but did not win.

He was also part of the Scramble Cage Melee main event in the scramble cage.

Acid returned to CZW later in 2004 and feuded with Teddy Hart and Messiah.

He left again shortly after.

At the young age of 19, Acid would go to Japan to work for Big Japan Pro Wrestling.

They had a working relationship with CZW.

Acid would drop the CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship to Winger on July 2 in Tokyo.

He would feud with Ryuji Ito.

Acid had his last ROH match at Final Battle 2004 against Jimmy Jacobs.

After losing this match, he quit ROH.