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'''Peter Gruner''' (b. 1974) is a retired American {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er from Allentown, PA best known for his work in Wrestling/{{WCW}} and Wrestling/{{WWE}} as '''Billy Kidman''' or '''Kidman'''. He debuted in 1994 and first competed under the name '''Kid Flash.''' He formed a tag team with Ace Darling called the Shooting Stars, and they competed in various promotions, winning the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/de/ecwa/ecwa-t.html ECWA (Delaware) Tag Team Titles]] and the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tn/uswa/uswa-t.html USWA World Tag Team Titles]]. He debuted in WCW in 1996 and spent his first year as a {{Jobber}}. He got his first storyline when he climbed the guardrail and joined Wrestling/{{Raven}}'s Flock on the October 13, 1997 ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro''. [[HeelFaceTurn He turned face]] during the Raven-Wrestling/PerrySaturn match at ''WCW Fall Brawl 98'', September 13, 1998, and, the following night on ''Nitro'', defeated Juventud Guerrera to win his first [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-c.html WCW World Cruiserweight Title]]. He would hold the title 2 more times in WCW, along with holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-t.html WCW World Tag Team Titles]] twice, 1x w[=/=]Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr and 1x w[=/=]Wrestling/{{Konnan}}, and he and Rey would defeat Elix Skipper and Kid Romeo to be the second, and final, [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-c-t.html WCW World Cruiserweight Tag Team Champions]]. When WWE bought WCW, Kidman was brought in as part of the [=InVasion=][=/=]Alliance angle. During his WWE run, he would have four more reigns as Cruiserweight Champion and one run with the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-t.html WWE [=SmackDown!=] Tag Team Title]] with [[Wrestling/LondonAndKendrick Paul London]]. WWE released him in 2005 and he toured the independents before returning in 2010 to work as a trainer. He was inducted into the ECWA Hall of Fame in 2004.
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** He also had an example or two around late 2002 and early 2003 after putting on a significant amount of muscle mass, it took him a while to relearn how the physics of getting himself around worked with another 60 pounds or so on his body, and nearly landed on his head a few times.
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* BadassDecay: His feud with Hulk Hogan was this for ''both'' men. After the heat between Hogan and Kidman started, the bookers decided to put Kidman over Hogan, but Hogan refused to sell anything Kidman did. So most of the [=Hogan/Kidman=] matches consisted of Hogan whaling on Kidman to the point that it resembled child abuse, then some bigger guy (often Kidman's stablemate Mike Awesome) would do some sort of run-in to allow Kidman to get the win. Kidman came off looking both horrible and stupid because he wouldn't quit picking fights with a guy he literally couldn't get ''any'' offense on, but Hogan didn't get anything out of the angle either since he kept losing via DeusExMachina.
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* FragileSpeedster: In WCW, as it was adverse to pushing him most of the time, leading to Kidman getting put away in anticlimactic fashions after dazzling audiences his quickness and athletics and his tag team with Paul London, which again wasn't pushed for most of its existence.
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* FragileSpeedster: In WCW, WWE, as it was adverse to pushing him most of the time, leading to Kidman getting put away in anticlimactic fashions after dazzling audiences his quickness and athletics and his tag team with Paul London, which again wasn't pushed for most of its existence.
* HeelFaceTurn: While Perry Saturn was trying to convince The Flock to abandon Raven, Kidman was the one who finally took it to heart, interfering against Raven in the match between Raven and Saturn for The Flock's freedom, and then leading the rest of the Flock away on a chase so that Saturn could win the match.
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* {{Troll}}: When WCW decided to try and make him an anti-hero, he became this. He started by dancing around behind Lance Storm and making faces while the Canadian national anthem played. Then, while affiliated with the Filthy Animals, he carried a camcorder - er, The Kid-corder - around and used it to cause trouble. Even though sometimes his targets were heels, some of them were faces, and he never seemed to have any reason for doing it besides [[ItAmusedMe it amused him]].
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* BadassDecay: His feud with Hulk Hogan was this for ''both'' men. After the heat between Hogan and Kidman started, the bookers decided to put Kidman over Hogan, but Hogan refused to sell anything Kidman did. So most of the [=Hogan/Kidman=] matches consisted of Hogan whaling on Kidman to the point that it resembled child abuse, then some bigger guy (often Kidman's stablemate Mike Awesome) would do some sort of run-in to allow Kidman to get the win. Kidman came off looking both horrible and stupid because he wouldn't quit picking fights with a guy he literally couldn't get ''any'' offense on, but Hogan didn't get anything out of the angle either since he kept losing via DeusExMachina.
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* DoingItWrong: The first time he tried to use the shooting star press in a match he landed in the same spot he jumped from. Specifically, he was trying to duplicate a move he saw Wrestling/JushinThunderLiger do. After that did not work he tucked his legs in and the shooting star press as we know it came about.
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**SchmuckBait: One of his signature moves was countering a powerbomb with a facebuster – even against opponents who never usually went for powerbombs!
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* VillainSong''You can run'', but then the invasion was over and Billy Kidman was a baby {{face}}. Until he injured Chavo Guerrero with the shooting star press and refused to do it, until fans asked for it and he purposefully set out to injure people with the move.
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'''Peter Gruner''' (b. 1974) is a retired American {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er from Allentown, PA best known for his work in Wrestling/{{WCW}} and Wrestling/{{WWE}} as '''Billy Kidman''' or '''Kidman'''. He debuted in 1994 and first competed under the name '''Kid Flash.''' He formed a tag team with Ace Darling called the Shooting Stars, and they competed in various promotions, winning the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/de/ecwa/ecwa-t.html ECWA (Delaware) Tag Team Titles]] and the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tn/uswa/uswa-t.html USWA World Tag Team Titles]]. He debuted in WCW in 1996 and spent his first year as a {{Jobber}}. He got his first storyline when he climbed the guardrail and joined Wrestling/{{Raven}}'s Flock on the October 13, 1997 ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro''. He turned face during the Raven-Wrestling/PerrySaturn match at ''WCW Fall Brawl 98'', September 13, 1998, and, the following night on ''Nitro'', defeated Juventud Guerrera to win his first [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-c.html WCW World Cruiserweight Title]]. He would hold the title 2 more times in WCW, along with holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-t.html WCW World Tag Team Titles]] twice, 1x w[=/=]Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr and 1x w[=/=]Wrestling/{{Konnan}}, and he and Rey would defeat Elix Skipper and Kid Romeo to be the second, and final, [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-c-t.html WCW World Cruiserweight Tag Team Champions]]. When WWE bought WCW, Kidman was brought in as part of the [=InVasion=][=/=]Alliance angle. During his WWE run, he would have four more reigns as Cruiserweight Champion and one run with the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-t.html WWE [=SmackDown!=] Tag Team Title]] with Paul London. WWE released him in 2005 and he toured the independents before returning in 2010 to work as a trainer. He was inducted into the ECWA Hall of Fame in 2004.
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'''Peter Gruner''' (b. 1974) is a retired American {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er from Allentown, PA best known for his work in Wrestling/{{WCW}} and Wrestling/{{WWE}} as '''Billy Kidman''' or '''Kidman'''. He debuted in 1994 and first competed under the name '''Kid Flash.''' He formed a tag team with Ace Darling called the Shooting Stars, and they competed in various promotions, winning the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/de/ecwa/ecwa-t.html ECWA (Delaware) Tag Team Titles]] and the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tn/uswa/uswa-t.html USWA World Tag Team Titles]]. He debuted in WCW in 1996 and spent his first year as a {{Jobber}}. He got his first storyline when he climbed the guardrail and joined Wrestling/{{Raven}}'s Flock on the October 13, 1997 ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro''. [[HeelFaceTurn He turned face face]] during the Raven-Wrestling/PerrySaturn match at ''WCW Fall Brawl 98'', September 13, 1998, and, the following night on ''Nitro'', defeated Juventud Guerrera to win his first [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-c.html WCW World Cruiserweight Title]]. He would hold the title 2 more times in WCW, along with holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-t.html WCW World Tag Team Titles]] twice, 1x w[=/=]Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr and 1x w[=/=]Wrestling/{{Konnan}}, and he and Rey would defeat Elix Skipper and Kid Romeo to be the second, and final, [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-c-t.html WCW World Cruiserweight Tag Team Champions]]. When WWE bought WCW, Kidman was brought in as part of the [=InVasion=][=/=]Alliance angle. During his WWE run, he would have four more reigns as Cruiserweight Champion and one run with the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-t.html WWE [=SmackDown!=] Tag Team Title]] with [[Wrestling/LondonAndKendrick Paul London.London]]. WWE released him in 2005 and he toured the independents before returning in 2010 to work as a trainer. He was inducted into the ECWA Hall of Fame in 2004.
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* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Paul London's red. Putting a stop to London's Warlord dashes was the first order of business when Kidman realized they would be tagging.
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* VillainSong''You can run'', but ThrowTheDogABone: He was one of the wrestlers whose matches were rigged on WCW.com to count for Hogan's when fans voted them best of the night on their polls. Hogan then the invasion was over and Billy claimed that Kidman couldn't draw, based on his poor performance in the voting. The first thing Russo and Bischoff did as bookers was a baby face. Until he injured Chavo Guerrero with the shooting star press and refused to do it, until fans asked for it and he purposefully set out to injure people with the move.have Kidman beat Hogan.
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* VillainSong''You can run'', but then the invasion was over and Billy Kidman was a baby {{face}}. Until he injured Chavo Guerrero with the shooting star press and refused to do it, until fans asked for it and he purposefully set out to injure people with the move.
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* TheEnforcer: For the Flock.
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* UrExample: He actually was using the running-up-the-turnbuckles bulldog ''before'' [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys Little Spike Dudley]] started using it in ECW. However, because Spike's version was actually named (the Acid Drop), once Kidman started getting a push, people thought that Kidman was doing Spike's move.
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** He actually was using the running-up-the-turnbuckles bulldog ''before'' [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys Little Spike Dudley]] started using it in ECW. However, because Spike's version was actually named (the Acid Drop), once Kidman started getting a push, people thought that Kidman was doing Spike'smove.move.
** While on Monday Night Nitro, Kidman was accused of stealing Wrestling/LowKi's Ki Crusher by one of the Impact Championship Wrestling commentators, though devil's advocate suggested Kidman may have come to the same conclusion on his own without knowledge of who Low Ki was.
** He actually was using the running-up-the-turnbuckles bulldog ''before'' [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys Little Spike Dudley]] started using it in ECW. However, because Spike's version was actually named (the Acid Drop), once Kidman started getting a push, people thought that Kidman was doing Spike's
** While on Monday Night Nitro, Kidman was accused of stealing Wrestling/LowKi's Ki Crusher by one of the Impact Championship Wrestling commentators, though devil's advocate suggested Kidman may have come to the same conclusion on his own without knowledge of who Low Ki was.
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* RomanceOnTheSet: With Wrestling/TorrieWilson, both on- and off-camera.
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* YouCanRunButYouCantHide: As mentioned above, his most notable WWE theme was titled "You Can Run."
* SomeoneWroteABookAboutMe: An updated book detailing his career, "Billy Kidman: The Shooting Star", was released in early 2014.
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* YouCanRunButYouCantHide: As mentioned above, his most notable WWE theme was titled "You Can Run."
* SomeoneWroteABookAboutMe: An updated book detailing his career, "Billy Kidman: The Shooting Star", was released in early 2014."
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* YouCanRunButYouCantHide: As mentioned above, his most notable WWE theme was titled "You Can Run.""
*SomeoneWroteABookAboutMe: An updated book detailing his career, "Billy Kidman: The Shooting Star", was released in early 2014.
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* DoingItWrong: The first time he tried to use the shooting star press in a match he landed in the same spot he jumped from. Specifically, he was trying to duplicate a move he saw Jushin Liger do. After that did not work he tucked his legs in and the shooting star press as we know it came about.
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* DoingItWrong: The first time he tried to use the shooting star press in a match he landed in the same spot he jumped from. Specifically, he was trying to duplicate a move he saw Jushin Liger Wrestling/JushinThunderLiger do. After that did not work he tucked his legs in and the shooting star press as we know it came about.
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* TheRunaway: In Bruce Mitchell's 1998 column about what he saw as the gay elements of Raven's Flock (see the Ho Yay entry on Raven's YMMV page), he wrote, "Billy Kidman has got the Bus Station Runaway look down cold."
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* UrExample: He actually was using the running-up-the-turnbuckles bulldog ''before'' [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys Little Spike Dudley]] started using it in ECW. However, because Spike's version was actually named (the Acid Drop), once Kidman started getting a push, people thought that Kidman was doing Spike's move.
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'''Peter Gruner''' (b. 1974) is a retired American {{Professional Wrestl|ing]}er from Allentown, PA best known for his work in Wrestling/{{WCW}} and Wrestling/{{WWE}} as '''Billy Kidman''' or '''Kidman'''. He debuted in 1994 and first competed under the name '''Kid Flash.''' He formed a tag team with Ace Darling called the Shooting Stars, and they competed in various promotions, winning the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/de/ecwa/ecwa-t.html ECWA (Delaware) Tag Team Titles]] and the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tn/uswa/uswa-t.html USWA World Tag Team Titles]]. He debuted in WCW in 1996 and spent his first year as a {{Jobber}}. He got his first storyline when he climbed the guardrail and joined Wrestling/{{Raven}}'s Flock on the October 13, 1997 ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro''. He turned face during the Raven-Wrestling/PerrySaturn match at ''WCW Fall Brawl 98'', September 13, 1998, and, the following night on ''Nitro'', defeated Juventud Guerrera to win his first [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-c.html WCW World Cruiserweight Title]]. He would hold the title 2 more times in WCW, along with holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-t.html WCW World Tag Team Titles]] twice, 1x w[=/=]Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr and 1x w[=/=]Wrestling/{{Konnan}}, and he and Rey would defeat Elix Skipper and Kid Romeo to be the second, and final, [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-c-t.html WCW World Cruiserweight Tag Team Champions]]. When WWE bought WCW, Kidman was brought in as part of the [=InVasion=][=/=]Alliance angle. During his WWE run, he would have four more reigns as Cruiserweight Champion and one run with the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-t.html WWE [=SmackDown!=] Tag Team Title]] with Paul London. WWE released him in 2005 and he toured the independents before returning in 2010 to work as a trainer. He was inducted into the ECWA Hall of Fame in 2004.
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'''Peter Gruner''' (b. 1974) is a retired American {{Professional Wrestl|ing]}er Wrestl|ing}}er from Allentown, PA best known for his work in Wrestling/{{WCW}} and Wrestling/{{WWE}} as '''Billy Kidman''' or '''Kidman'''. He debuted in 1994 and first competed under the name '''Kid Flash.''' He formed a tag team with Ace Darling called the Shooting Stars, and they competed in various promotions, winning the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/de/ecwa/ecwa-t.html ECWA (Delaware) Tag Team Titles]] and the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tn/uswa/uswa-t.html USWA World Tag Team Titles]]. He debuted in WCW in 1996 and spent his first year as a {{Jobber}}. He got his first storyline when he climbed the guardrail and joined Wrestling/{{Raven}}'s Flock on the October 13, 1997 ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro''. He turned face during the Raven-Wrestling/PerrySaturn match at ''WCW Fall Brawl 98'', September 13, 1998, and, the following night on ''Nitro'', defeated Juventud Guerrera to win his first [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-c.html WCW World Cruiserweight Title]]. He would hold the title 2 more times in WCW, along with holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-t.html WCW World Tag Team Titles]] twice, 1x w[=/=]Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr and 1x w[=/=]Wrestling/{{Konnan}}, and he and Rey would defeat Elix Skipper and Kid Romeo to be the second, and final, [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-c-t.html WCW World Cruiserweight Tag Team Champions]]. When WWE bought WCW, Kidman was brought in as part of the [=InVasion=][=/=]Alliance angle. During his WWE run, he would have four more reigns as Cruiserweight Champion and one run with the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-t.html WWE [=SmackDown!=] Tag Team Title]] with Paul London. WWE released him in 2005 and he toured the independents before returning in 2010 to work as a trainer. He was inducted into the ECWA Hall of Fame in 2004.
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'''Peter Gruner''' (b. 1974) is a retired American {{Professional Wrestl|ing]}er from Allentown, PA best known for his work in Wrestling/{{WCW}} and Wrestling/{{WWE}} as '''Billy Kidman''' or '''Kidman'''. He debuted in 1994 and first competed under the name '''Kid Flash.''' He formed a tag team with Ace Darling called the Shooting Stars, and they competed in various promotions, winning the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/de/ecwa/ecwa-t.html ECWA (Delaware) Tag Team Titles]] and the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tn/uswa/uswa-t.html USWA World Tag Team Titles]]. He debuted in WCW in 1996 and spent his first year as a {{Jobber}}. He got his first storyline when he climbed the guardrail and joined Wrestling/{{Raven}}'s Flock on the October 13, 1997 ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro''. He turned face during the Raven-Wrestling/PerrySaturn match at ''WCW Fall Brawl 98'', September 13, 1998, and, the following night on ''Nitro'', defeated Juventud Guerrera to win his first [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-c.html WCW World Cruiserweight Title]]. He would hold the title 2 more times in WCW, along with holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-t.html WCW World Tag Team Titles]] twice, 1x w[=/=]Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr and 1x w[=/=]Wrestling/{{Konnan}}, and he and Rey would defeat Elix Skipper and Kid Romeo to be the second, and final, [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-c-t.html WCW World Cruiserweight Tag Team Champions]]. When WWE bought WCW, Kidman was brought in as part of the [=InVasion=][=/=]Alliance angle. During his WWE run, he would have four more reigns as Cruiserweight Champion and one run with the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-t.html WWE [=SmackDown!=] Tag Team Title]] with Paul London. WWE released him in 2005 and he toured the independents before returning in 2010 to work as a trainer. He was inducted into the ECWA Hall of Fame in 2004.
As usual, you can find the basics at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Kidman The Other Wiki]].
!!! "You can't powerbomb Kidman's tropes!":
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He tried to get Raven to lay off of Scotty Riggs after Raven had given Riggs the drop-toehold into the chair.
* FaceHeelTurn: Turned [=Heel=] after a botched Shooting Star Press that resulted in severe concussion for Chavo Guerrero
* FinishingMove: Shooting Star Press, Kid Krusher, BK Bomb
* FragileSpeedster
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: While he was in The Flock, he essentially played a heroin addict, even naming his finisher "The Seven Year Itch."
* IHaveTheHighGround.
* LastNameBasis: During, and for a while after, his tenure in The Flock.
* LimitedWardrobe: For much of his run he seemed to constantly wear the same wifebeater and jean shorts.
* PowerStable: Was a member of both The Flock and The Filthy Animals
* RetiredBadass: Works behind the scenes for WWE currently.
* RomanceOnTheSet: With Wrestling/TorrieWilson, both on- and off-camera.
* SchmuckBait: One of his signature moves was countering a powerbomb with a facebuster – even against opponents who never usually went for powerbombs!
** It got to the point where the move's unofficial name became YOU CAN'T POWERBOMB KIDMAN
* UnderwearOfPower
* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Paul London, that he turned on in the wake of injuring Chavo.
* WrestlingFamily: Ex-husband to Torrie Wilson.
'''Peter Gruner''' (b. 1974) is a retired American {{Professional Wrestl|ing]}er from Allentown, PA best known for his work in Wrestling/{{WCW}} and Wrestling/{{WWE}} as '''Billy Kidman''' or '''Kidman'''. He debuted in 1994 and first competed under the name '''Kid Flash.''' He formed a tag team with Ace Darling called the Shooting Stars, and they competed in various promotions, winning the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/de/ecwa/ecwa-t.html ECWA (Delaware) Tag Team Titles]] and the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tn/uswa/uswa-t.html USWA World Tag Team Titles]]. He debuted in WCW in 1996 and spent his first year as a {{Jobber}}. He got his first storyline when he climbed the guardrail and joined Wrestling/{{Raven}}'s Flock on the October 13, 1997 ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro''. He turned face during the Raven-Wrestling/PerrySaturn match at ''WCW Fall Brawl 98'', September 13, 1998, and, the following night on ''Nitro'', defeated Juventud Guerrera to win his first [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-c.html WCW World Cruiserweight Title]]. He would hold the title 2 more times in WCW, along with holding the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-t.html WCW World Tag Team Titles]] twice, 1x w[=/=]Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr and 1x w[=/=]Wrestling/{{Konnan}}, and he and Rey would defeat Elix Skipper and Kid Romeo to be the second, and final, [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-c-t.html WCW World Cruiserweight Tag Team Champions]]. When WWE bought WCW, Kidman was brought in as part of the [=InVasion=][=/=]Alliance angle. During his WWE run, he would have four more reigns as Cruiserweight Champion and one run with the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-t.html WWE [=SmackDown!=] Tag Team Title]] with Paul London. WWE released him in 2005 and he toured the independents before returning in 2010 to work as a trainer. He was inducted into the ECWA Hall of Fame in 2004.
As usual, you can find the basics at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Kidman The Other Wiki]].
!!! "You can't powerbomb Kidman's tropes!":
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He tried to get Raven to lay off of Scotty Riggs after Raven had given Riggs the drop-toehold into the chair.
* FaceHeelTurn: Turned [=Heel=] after a botched Shooting Star Press that resulted in severe concussion for Chavo Guerrero
* FinishingMove: Shooting Star Press, Kid Krusher, BK Bomb
* FragileSpeedster
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: While he was in The Flock, he essentially played a heroin addict, even naming his finisher "The Seven Year Itch."
* IHaveTheHighGround.
* LastNameBasis: During, and for a while after, his tenure in The Flock.
* LimitedWardrobe: For much of his run he seemed to constantly wear the same wifebeater and jean shorts.
* PowerStable: Was a member of both The Flock and The Filthy Animals
* RetiredBadass: Works behind the scenes for WWE currently.
* RomanceOnTheSet: With Wrestling/TorrieWilson, both on- and off-camera.
* SchmuckBait: One of his signature moves was countering a powerbomb with a facebuster – even against opponents who never usually went for powerbombs!
** It got to the point where the move's unofficial name became YOU CAN'T POWERBOMB KIDMAN
* UnderwearOfPower
* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Paul London, that he turned on in the wake of injuring Chavo.
* WrestlingFamily: Ex-husband to Torrie Wilson.
