Hank Clampet

Height: 6'0" Weight: 222 lb. Origin: Nashville, Tennesse Trademark Move: Country Bumpkin Championships: 2 Time North American Champion, 2 Time Cruiserweight Champion, Tag Team Champion Collision Course Record: 2-3

Hank Clampet strutted his way into the ACW from ACW Europe in 2001, and hasn’t stopped since. In his first match the man from the country side defeated former ACW World champion Chris Jericho making a big impression.

Clampet raised a lot of eyebrows with his unique wrestling style and extravagant personality. There may not be a person alive who has as much energy or the ability to taunt and show off as much as Clampet. Clampet’s flashiness would garner him the opportunity to go for the Cruiserweight title, and be successful for his first title in the ACW.

All of Clampet’s accomplishments caught the attention of some of the ACW’s top performers two of them to be exact and they are Josh McMullin and Jake Pain. McMullin and Pain asked Clampet to join there newly formed stable J-Factor. Along with David Graves and Alexander Morton the new stable immediately took off.

In J-Factor Clampet really flourished. He won the Cruiserweight title again and also had a reign as Tag Team champion. J-Factor became the most dominant stable in the ACW. They feud with most of the top stars in the ACW including James Lyght, Armstrong, Houston, and Dayhawk.

Clampet’s biggest match would happen at Collision Course 4 when he faced his J-Factor partner Jake Pain. This was a chaotic time for J-Factor. Everyone was going in many different directions. Josh McMullin and Jake Pain were very upset about not having the ACW World title, and being excluded from the main event of Collision Course. Morton and Graves were having problems of their own with Mae Young.

Clampet’s and Pain’s feud would start with Clampet being backstage in the J-Factor locker room humming country music, and Pain really hates country music. Pain would ask Clampet to stop on many occasions and Clampet wouldn’t, so Pain challenged Clampet to a match at Collision Course 4. They both agreed to put all of their differences aside after the match for the good of J-Factor.

At Collision Course Clampet and Pain had one of the best matches on the card. Clampet come out on the short end, but has nothing to be embarrassed about because Jake Pain is considered to be the best technical wrestler in the ACW. With this match Clampet really announced to the world that he can hang with anyone in the wrestling world.

After a little bit of turbulence J-Factor quickly returned to there winning ways and domination of the ACW roster. With the return to dominance J-Factor was on top of the world. That is until the roster split. After the roster split J-Factor was split in two with Jake Pain and Alexander Morton on Chaos, and Josh McMullin, Hank Clampet, and David Graves on Mayham.

Even with Pain and Morton on Chaos J-Factor continued to be a force to be reckoned with. With the departure of Pain and Morton McMullin decided to bring Shirly Bane into the stable. Clampet, Graves, and Bane continued to win and win while McMullin would lose and lose.

Then at Stand Off 2002 the Mayham and Chaos rosters would compete against eachother in Stand Off matches. At the PPV J-Factor was scheduled to face of against Pain and Punishment (Jake Pain and Alexander Morton’s new stable). J-Factor would go on to lose to their former stable mates which would anger Clampet.

Clampet knew there needed to make a change, and that change was Clampet taking over the leadership role and kick McMullin out of the stable. With McMullin kicked out J-Factor continued on there downward slide. Even loosing a match to Josh McMullin and Dylan Sam Gaurd at Misfortune 2003.

Just before Collision Course 5 the rosters were brought back together. Clampet and the rest of J-Factor were still struggling, so they decided to disband. Clampet, Graves, and Morton continued to be friends. Now on his own Clampet began to win the crowd over. The crowd started to warm up to the charismatic country loving superstar.

Now with the support of the crowd Clampet started to shine brighter than ever before. Clampet was on a roll going into Collision Course 6. Clampet was entered into the ACW 25,000 dollar open. Clampet entered the match 28 out of 35 competitors, and went on to eliminate the final 6 wrestlers including Tyson J. Mysery (Jake Pain’s prodige) to win the 25,000 dollars.

With the big win at Collision Course 6 Clampet turned his attention to win some more gold in the ACW. In his quest for gold Clampet ran in to Fred Hilton, and these two men started a legendary feud. Even though Clampet didn’t win any of the big PPV matches he pushed Hilton farther than any man has ever done.

After the feud with Hilton Clampet was entered into the 2005 Assailant Series tournament to face the North American champion at the Owen Hart Memorial PPV. Clampet went on to win the tournament beating such opponents as Panzer, Loco, Covington Rhodes, and Kevin Eckert.

Having won the 2005 Assailant Series tournament Clampet won the right to face the North American champion at the Owen Hart PPV, and to no coincidence the champion is his former friend Jake Pain. In an incredible match Clampet defeated Pain to win his first North American championship and get a little revenge for their match at Collision Course 4.

Now with the big win and the North American title Clampet is on a big roll going into Collision Course 7. Expect Clampet to play a big roll and continue to garner the respect of all of the ACW fans. He’ll probably be strutting as he does it knowing Clampet.

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