Peter Senerca

Pete Senerca aka Taz or Tazz (born Peter Senerchia on October 11, 1967 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American former professional wrestler who is now working as the color commentator for World Wrestling Entertainment's SmackDown! brand alongside its play-by-play commentator Michael Cole.

Contents

1 Career 1.1 ECW 1.2 WWF/WWE 2 Profile 2.1 Finishing / Signature Moves 2.2 Quotes 3 Titles held 4 Job Titles

Career

ECW

Senerca enjoyed major success from 1993–1999 in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), wrestling under the name Taz. He built up an incredible reputation, showcasing technical mat maneuvers combined with submission holds and a wide range of suplexes that led him to be dubbed "the human suplex machine." His feud with Sabu, whom he defeated at the first televised ECW Pay-per-view—"Barely Legal"—in 1997, is considered by many to be among the best of the 1990s, He went on to defeate wrestlers such as Bam Bam Bigelow, Rob Van Dam, Lance Storm, Jerry Lynn and Mikey Whipwreck.

Taz defeated Shane Douglas in three minutes to claim the ECW World Television Championship at Wrestlepalooza '97, and later on introduced his own title belt, the ECW FTW Heavyweight Championship, which he defended against anyone. Taz once again defeated Shane Douglas to win the ECW World Heavyweight Championship which he held for 9 months before losing it to Mike Awesome in a 3-way dance with Masato Tanaka at Anarchy Rulz '99.

WWF/WWE

Senerca made his official WWF (now WWE) debut at Royal Rumble 2000 as Tazz, and was the first man to defeat then-undefeated Kurt Angle. He had a short feud with The Rock and Kurt Angle before tangling with Big Boss Man. He then entered a 13-man Battle Royal for the WWE Hardcore Championship at Wrestlemania 2000 and secured the Title twice; once by pinning Crash and once by pinning Pete Gas but was unable to leave the match as the Hardcore Champion. He won the Title once more by pinning Perry Saturn but shortly lost the Title again to Crash while under the 24/7 rule.

He returned to ECW while under WWE contract and surprised the fans by defeating Mike Awesome (who was under WCW contract) to win the ECW World Heavyweight Title in an ECW ring.

Tazz returned to WWE and faced Triple H who was the WWE Champion at the time in the first-ever ECW Champion vs. WWE Champion match on SmackDown!. A month or so later, Tazz was involved in the WWE Intercontinental Championship hunt but was unsuccessful in capturing the Title from Chris Benoit on two occassions and soon sat out due to an arm injury. When he returned, he defeated Al Snow at Fully Loaded 2000 and quickly got himself involved in a feud with Jim Ross and Jerry "The King" Lawler. He lost the Pay-Per-View match to Jerry Lawler at SummerSlam 2000 but was able to get his rematch victory over Lawler at Unforgiven 2000 (this was the same time that Raven made his WWE debut). Tazz occassionally wrestled matches but was focusing more on commentating in 2001 until Paul Heyman reformed ECW within the WWE during the Invasion storyline and Tazz quickly joined and found some success but was still going nowhere. It was in 2002 that Tazz was finally able to capture WWE gold again and did so by defeating the Dudley Boyz for the WWE World Tag-Team Championship Title with Spike as his partner. Before Tazz retired from the ring, he defeated the late great Mr. Perfect.

Profile

• Height: 5'6" (1.75 m)
• Weight: 248 lb (112 kg)
• Birthday: October 11, 1967
• Hometown: Brooklyn, New York, New York
• Trained by: Johnny Rodz
• Professional Debut: 1987
• Previous Identities: Kid Krush / Taz / Tazmaniac / The Tasmanian Devil
• Previous Managers: Woman, Tony Rumble, Richard Lee, Bill Alfonso, Billy the P
• Nicknames: The Human Suplex Machine, The One Man Crime Spree, The most miserable person on the face of the earth, The Street Thug, The Human Wrecking Machine

Finishing / Signature Moves

• Tazmission (katahajime)
• Tazmissionplex (Half-Nelson Suplex)
• Head and Arm Tazplex (modified overhead belly to belly suplex)
• Super Head and Arm Tazplex (top rope modified overhead belly to belly suplex)
• Tazplex (modified side head and arm suplex)
• Taz Capture Suplex (leg hook overhead belly-to-belly suplex)
• T-Bone Tazplex
• Release German Suplex
• Release Dragon Suplex
• Release Tiger Suplex
• Release Northern Lights Suplex
• Wheelbarrow Suplex
• The Brooklyn Boot (Mafia Kick)
• The Angry Man's Clothesline

Quotes

• "I do what I want, when I want."
• "Beat me--if you can. Survive--if I let you.",
• "The mood is about to change!"
• "You're just another victim."
• "Thug Life born, Thug Life bred, and when the time is right, I'll be Thug Life dead".
• "MTV: More Tazz Victims!"
• "Here comes the Pain!" (In reference to Brock Lesnar)
• "This is going to be a rocket buster!"

Titles held

World Wrestling Entertainment

• 1-Time WWF World Tag-Team Champion (with Spike Dudley)
• 3-Time WWF Hardcore Champion

Extreme Championship Wrestling

• 2-Time ECW World Heavyweight Champion
• 2-Time ECW FTW World Heavyweight Champion
• 3-Time ECW Tag-Team Champion (2-time with Kevin Sullivan, 1-time with Sabu (Terry Brunk))
• 2-Time ECW World Television Champion

Century Wrestling Alliance

• 1-Time CWA Light Heavyweight Champion (first ever)

Pro Wrestling Illustrated

• PWI ranked him # 147 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003.

Job Titles

• WWE Pay-Per-View Color Analyst
• WWE SmackDown! Color Analyst
• WWE Sunday Night Heat Color Analyst
• WWE Velocity Color Analyst

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