Doug Basham (born May 12, 1977) is a professional wrestler who is currently performing for World Wrestling Entertainment.
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| Born | May 12, 1977 Louisville, Kentucky |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Doug Basham, "The Bash Man", The Machine |
| Billed height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) |
| Billed weight | 245 lb (111 kg) |
| Trained by | Danny Davis |
| Debut | 1993 |
Before being called up to the main roster Basham competed in its developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW). Doug Basham is in fact the nephew of OVW founder Danny Davis.
Career
Ohio Valley Wrestling
Doug was a top babyface in the company winning the OVW Heavyweight Title on a number of occasions.
Doug turned heel and was involved in a storyline that saw him grow jealous of his uncle's fondness for another OVW Superstar Nick Dinsmore.
Doug disappeared in late 2000 and came back as a masked man known as The Machine who attacked Nick Dinsmore. Dinsmore would go on to defeat The Machine in a Retirement vs. Mask match and unmask Basham.
Doug "The Machine" Basham went on to create the Revolution stable and feuded with OVW's top stars. Basham signed a WWE development contract in April 2002 and was soon signed to SmackDown! in May 2003.
After disappearing of WWE TV in September 2005, Doug would return to OVW under a new gimmick "The Superstar of Superstars" where he came out to the ring using the Superman theme before signing a new deal with WWE in April 2006.
World Wrestling Entertainment
Doug Basham entered SmackDown! as one-half of the tag team, The Basham Brothers with his tag partner Danny Basham. The Basham Brothers debuted as a team on May 29, 2003 and defeated the team of Rikishi & Brian Kendrick. The Basham Brothers were later joined by Shaniqua. They were portrayed with a bondage-based S&M gimmick and won their first WWE Tag Team Championship from Los Guerreros on the October 23, 2003 edition of SmackDown!. The team would go on to lose the titles in February, 2004 at WWE No Way Out 2004 to Rikishi and Scotty Too Hotty. The Basham Brothers and Shaniqua faced Scotty 2 Hotty and Rikishi in a handicap match and lost when Shaniqua was pinned by Rikishi. The Basham Brothers would go on to lose their manger Shaniqua when she was sent to OVW for training not long after No Way Out. For the next few months the Basham Brothers were regulars on WWE Velocity despite a few occasions on SmackDown! generally losing in the outcome.
The Basham Brothers would go on to join John Bradshaw Layfield's cabinet stable on the 25 November 2004. Known as JBL's Co-Secretaries of Defense. Their role was often to sacrifice themselves to prevent Layfield from getting harmed after he had provoked an opponent. The Bashams would once again win Tag Team gold defeating four other teams including Rey Mysterio and Rob Van Dam, Luther Reigns and Mark Jindrak, and Eddie Guerrero and Booker T. The Basham Brothers lost the titles to Rey Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero at WWE No Way Out on February 20 2005 from here on The Bashams would either be Jobbing on SmackDown! or defeating any team that came in their path on Velocity. The Basham Brothers quit Layfield's Cabinet on the June 16, 2005 episode of SmackDown!, claiming that they were tired of being "JBL's crash test dummies" and not getting enough respect.
On June 30, 2005, Danny Basham became one of the last minute trades in the 2005 WWE Draft lottery, which saw him jump from SmackDown! over to WWE RAW. This left both men in singles compitition in WWE on different brands. Doug would return to TV on August 27, 2005 edition of Velocity under "The Bash Man" Doug Basham gimmick. The Bash Man came out to the ring wearing sunglasses, a shiny leather vest, and shiny wool pants. Doug continued to work squash matches under this unexplained gimmick sporadically over several months.
While disappearing off WWE TV, Doug would return to OVW for several stints before signing a new deal with WWE in April 2006. Both Doug and Danny would reunite in WWE's revived ECW brand during July 2006 at several house shows before becoming on-screen enforcers for Paul Heyman.
In wrestling
- Nicknames
- "The Machine"
- Doug "The Machine" Basham
- "Co-Secretary Of Defense"
- "The Bash-Man"
- Previous managers
- Finishing and signature moves
- Last Impression (high jumping leg lariat)
- Piledriver - in OVW
- Jujigatame
- XTornado
- Super Rydeen bomb
- Top-rope diving leg drop
- Single-leg boston crab
- Suplex powerslam
Trivia
- Doug Basham and Damaja (Danny Basham) had been embroiled in a bitter feud in Ohio Valley Wrestling just before getting called up by WWE.
Championships and accomplishments
- 4-time OVW Heavyweight Champion
- 2-time OVW Southern Tag Team Champion (1-time with Flash Flanagan, 1-time with Danny Basham)
- 2-time WWE Tag Team Champion (with Danny Basham)