History Wrestling / LanceStorm

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'''Lance Storm''' (real name Lance Evers) is a professional wrestler trained by Black Dragon, Ed Langley and Stu Hart, best known for his time in Wrestling/{{ECW}}, Wrestling/{{WCW}}, and Wrestling/{{WWE}}. He started training alongside fellow Canadian wrestler Wrestling/ChrisJericho, with whom he would team with and occasionally feud with off and on around the world, including the [=WAR=] and Wrestling/{{FMW}} promotions in Japan and several independent promotions in Canada. After a brief tenure in Wrestling/JimCornette's [[Wrestling/{{SMW}} Smoky Mountain Wrestling]], they went their separate ways (though both ended up in the same promotions, it was never at the same time till 2001).

Lance Storm found success in ECW tagging with Wrestling/ChrisCandido and later forming the Impact Players with Justin Credible, with the beautiful Dawn Marie by their side. Eventually he left for WCW, where he is best known for holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-us-h.html WCW United States Heavyweight Championship]], the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-c.html WCW World Cruiserweight Championship]], and the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-hc.html WCW Hardcore Championship]] all at once. He awarded his Team Canada ally "Primetime" Elix Skipper the Cruiserweight Title, and awarded the Hardcore Title to another Team Canada member, Pierre Carl Ouelette.

* CardCarryingVillain: Even at ''ECW One Night Stand 2005'', where ECW was supposedly all on the same side against the ''Raw'' and ''[=SmackDown!=]'' "invaders," he still relied on cheating (Justin Credible hitting Jericho in the head with a Singapore Cane while Dawn Marie distracted the referee) to win, even though there would have been no way for Storm to get disqualified.

* PerkyFemaleMinion: At various points, Chastity, Dawn Marie, Major Gunns, Tammy Lynn Sytch, [[Wrestling/CarleneMoore Jazz]]

** The Impact Players name was a reference to Sudden Impact, the name for Jericho and Lance in Japan. Their victory pose was lifted directly from the Wrestling/ShawnMichaels[=/=][[Wrestling/KevinNash Diesel]] and [[Wrestling/{{DGenerationX}} DeGeneration X]] victory pose (Justin Credible was something of a fringe member of Wrestling/TheKliq. Scott Hall mentored him backstage in his Aldo Montoya days, leading to him traveling with them. In February 2001, he made his WWE TV return by running in to make the save for X-Pac.)

* OddFriendship: With Wrestling/{{Goldust}}, who else?

Lance later started working for Wrestling/{{WWE}} when they purchased WCW in 2001, being the second WCW wrestler to win a WWE Title.[[note]]The first was Storm's former Team Canada ally Wrestling/MikeAwesome, who defeated Wrestling/JeffHardy for the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-hc.html WWE Hardcore Title]] on the July 12 (taped July 10) ''[=SmackDown!=]''[[/note]] He was fairly successful in WWE, winning the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/ic.html WWE Intercontinental Heavyweight Title]] and forming a successful ForeignWrestlingHeel Tag Team with Wrestling/{{Christian}}, who won the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-t.html WWE World Tag Team Championship]] from Wrestling/{{Edge}} and Wrestling/HulkHogan, of all people. He also had a similar run with Wrestling/WilliamRegal as his partner. Eventually he retired from full time in-ring action to become a trainer, first for the WWE's developmental program before creating his own school, the Storm Wrestling Academy, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

* {{Irony}}: For all his patriotism, Lance Storm uses [[Wrestling/{{Sting}} the Scorpion Death lock]] instead of [[Wrestling/BretHart the Sharpshooter]].(It's the same move, only applying pressure to different parts of the leg)

** Lance used to wear the WCW Monday Jericho shirt in ECW and years later in Ring of Honor started using Fozzy songs as entrance music.

* TheComicallySerious: This was put to an end after Stone Cold got the crowds chanting boring at him and he began teaming with Val Venis in an effort to make it stop.

'''Lance Storm''' (real name Lance Evers) is a professional wrestler best known for his time in Wrestling/{{ECW}}, Wrestling/{{WCW}}, and Wrestling/{{WWE}}. He started training alongside fellow Canadian wrestler Wrestling/ChrisJericho, with whom he would team with and occasionally feud with off and on around the world, including the [=WAR=] and Wrestling/{{FMW}} promotions in Japan and several independent promotions in Canada. After a brief tenure in Wrestling/JimCornette's [[Wrestling/{{SMW}} Smoky Mountain Wrestling]], they went their separate ways (though both ended up in the same promotions, it was never at the same time till 2001).

* TenMinuteRetirement: Originally intended to retire following a match against Jericho at ECW One Night Stand. He's since wrestled a few matches since his supposed retirement, but these matches almost always involve other close friends of his such as [[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Bryan Alvarez]], Wrestling/{{Christian}}, and ECW alumni. One notable exception was a match against Wrestling/BryanDanielson at Wrestling/RingOfHonor.

** HappyDance: A lot of viewers did not realize what the gimmick was supposed to be, so he had a bit of a double take when people told him [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]] stole his gimmick, until he realized they were referring to her dancing for no reason.

* JerkassHasAPoint: When Storm arrived in WCW he ended up teaming with Billy Kidman. Kidman made fun of Lance regularly, and would do stuff like dance around behind him and make faces while he was talking. Storm finally turned on Kidman, but to be fair Kidman was really asking for it.
* MaskedLuchador: As the "Ideal Canadian"

* StillGotIt: After retiring, when he came back to wrestle Wrestling/BryanDanielson (considered by many to be probably the best wrestler in the world) and showed he could keep up with him for 30 minutes straight and nearly beat him, he received a huge chant of this from the Wrestling/RingOfHonor fans (along with chants of [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments "Thank You Lance!" and "Please Come Back!"]]).

* VitriolicBestBuds: With Wrestling/ChrisJericho. While he credits Jericho for keeping him in the business, he would also shoot down any of Chris's lame ideas for ring names, finishers, etc. with brutal honesty.
** HilariousInHindsight: Lance shutting down one finisher name, The Boomstick, in 2007 became funnier in 2012, when TNA's Jay Bradley used it as his finisher's name.

Lance later started working for Wrestling/{{WWE}} when they purchased WCW in 2001, being the second WCW wrestler to win a WWE Title.[[note]]The first was Storm's former Team Canada ally Wrestling/MikeAwesome, who defeated Wrestling/JeffHardy for the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-hc.html WWE Hardcore Title]] on the July 12 (taped July 10) ''[=SmackDown!=]''[[/note]] He was fairly successful in WWE, winning the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/ic.html WWE Intercontinental Heavyweight Title]] and forming a successful ForeignWrestlingHeel Tag Team with Wrestling/{{Christian}}, who won the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-t.html WWE World Tag Team Championship]] from Wrestling/{{Edge}} and Wrestling/HulkHogan, of all people. He also had a similar run with Wrestling/WilliamRegal as his partner. Eventually he retired from full time in-ring action to become a trainer, first for the WWE's developmental program before creating his own school, the Storm Wrestling Academy, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is also a regular guest on [[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Figure Four Daily]] with Bryan Alvarez.

* [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead Wearing A Flag On Your Tights]]: Before switching to the aforementioned UnderwearOfPower, his tights were in red and white Canadian colors, as can be seen on this very page.

Lance Storm found success in ECW tagging with Wrestling/ChrisCandido and later forming the Impact Players with Justin Credible, with the beautiful [[Characters/WWEDivas Dawn Marie]] by their side. Eventually he left for WCW, where he is best known for holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-us-h.html WCW United States Heavyweight Championship]], the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-c.html WCW World Cruiserweight Championship]], and the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-hc.html WCW Hardcore Championship]] all at once. He awarded his Team Canada ally "Primetime" Elix Skipper the Cruiserweight Title, and awarded the Hardcore Title to another Team Canada member, Pierre Carl Ouelette.

* CardCarryingVillain: Even at ''ECW One Night Stand 2005'', where ECW was supposedly all on the same side against the ''Raw'' and ''[=SmackDown!=]'' "invaders," he still relied on cheating (Justin Credible hitting Jericho in the head with a Singapore Cane while [[Characters/WWEDivas Dawn Marie]] distracted the referee) to win, even though there would have been no way for Storm to get disqualified.

* ArchEnemy: (in Wrestling/{{SMW}}): The Heavenly Bodies

* CatchPhrase: "If I can be serious for a moment..."

* DeadpanSnarker: You'll see a lot of this on the Q&As of his website.

* PowerStable:

* ShoutOut: The Impact Players name was a reference to Sudden Impact, the name for Jericho and Lance in Japan. Their victory pose was lifted directly from the Wrestling/ShawnMichaels[=/=][[Wrestling/KevinNash Diesel]] and [[Wrestling/{{DGenerationX}} DeGeneration X]] victory pose (Justin Credible was something of a fringe member of Wrestling/TheKliq. Scott Hall mentored him backstage in his Aldo Montoya days, leading to him traveling with them. In February 2001, he made his WWE TV return by running in to make the save for X-Pac.)

* TagTeam: Sudden Impact/The Thrillseekers, with Wrestling/ChrisJericho

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Cracker Barrel. He actually carries around a map showing every Cracker Barrel location when he travels to the U.S.

* CoolTeacher: Called such by many talents in OVW, whom Lance would talk up on his website when he deemed any ready for the main roster. Also trained ECW teammate Justin Credible.

* CoolTeacher: Called such by many talents in OVW, whom Lance would talk up on his website when he deemed any read for the main roster. Also trained ECW teammate Justin Credible.

* OneOfUs: As seen on his blog after his retirement, Lance Storm is a smark of the highest order.

* [[CanadaEh Calgary, Alberta, Canada, eh?]]

* TheComicallySerious

* UnderwearOfPower

* PowerStable: (in Wrestling/{{WCW}}): Team Canada, with Elix Skipper, Jacques Rougeau, Carl Pierre Ouelette, Major Gunns, [[Wrestling/HacksawJimDuggan "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan]][[note]]After a [[FaceHeelTurn heel turn]][[/note]], [[Characters/{{ECW}} Mike Awesome]] and Kid Romeo.

** HappyDance: A lot of viewers did not realize what the gimmick was supposed to be, so he had a bit of a double take when people told him Victoria stole his gimmick, until he realized they were referring to her dancing for no reason.

* UnrelatedBrothers: According to Lance Storm, the Hardy Boys, The Steiner Brothers, The Usos and the Mcmahons are not really related. The only real siblings in professional wrestling are him and Victoria.

Lance later started working for Wrestling/{{WWE}} when they purchased WCW in 2001, being the second WCW wrestler to win a WWE Title.[[note]]The first was Storm's former Team Canada ally Mike Awesome, who defeated Wrestling/JeffHardy for the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-hc.html WWE Hardcore Title]] on the July 12 (taped July 10) ''[=SmackDown!=]''[[/note]] He was fairly successful in WWE, winning the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/ic.html WWE Intercontinental Heavyweight Title]] and forming a successful ForeignWrestlingHeel Tag Team with Wrestling/{{Christian}}, who won the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-t.html WWE World Tag Team Championship]] from Wrestling/{{Edge}} and Wrestling/HulkHogan, of all people. He also had a similar run with Wrestling/WilliamRegal as his partner. Eventually he retired from full time in-ring action to become a trainer, first for the WWE's developmental program before creating his own school, the Storm Wrestling Academy, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is also a regular guest on [[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Figure Four Daily]] with Bryan Alvarez.

* XMeetsY: Style is a blend of Wrestling/BretHart-esque mat and submission wrestling and high flying similar to a young Wrestling/ShawnMichaels. He's even used both of their finishers (Sharpshooter and Superkick) at various points of his career.

* GoneHorriblyRight: When Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin called Lance boring, it just killed Lance's heat.

* BreakupBreakout: The Marty Jannetty to Wrestling/ChrisJericho (although very successful compared to most Jannettys), arguably the Wrestling/ShawnMichaels to Justin Credible, whose main event ECW run is overshadowed by Lance's upper midcard WCW run.

* BreakupBreakout: The Marty Jannetty to Wrestling/ChrisJericho, arguably the Wrestling/ShawnMichaels to Justin Credible, whose main event ECW run is overshadowed by Lance's mid-card WCW run.

* GagPenis