History Wrestling / NigelMcGuinness

* TournamentArc: In 2007 sixteen different promotions were called to a "King Of Europe Cup" (KOE) by Doug Williams and Alex Shane, who were inspired by KOI and Super 8 in the USA. ROH representative [=McGuinness=] defeated TNA rep Rhino in the opening round and ended up beating Premier Promotions rep Doug Williams in the final match.

* TournamentArc: In 2007 sixteen different promotions were called to a "King Of Europe Cup" (KOE) by Doug Williams and Alex Shane, who were inspired by KOI and Super 8 in the USA. ROH representative McGuinness defeated TNA rep Rhino in the opening round and ended up beating Premier Promotions rep Doug Williams in the final match.

* TournamentArc: In 2007 sixteen different promotions arranged a "King Of Europe Cup" (KOE) in the style of KOI and Super 8 in the USA.
* UnderwearOfPower: Often decorated with subtle [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead Union Jacks]]. ROH representative McGuinness defeated TNA rep Rhino in the opening round and ended up beating Premier Promotions rep Doug Williams in the final match.

* SignatureMove: Lots of headstands with this guy, also stepping on the bottom turnbuckle before charging to the other. Used to be lariats until he tore ''both'' of his biceps.

* UnderwearOfPower: Often decorated with subtle [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead Union Jacks]].

Steven Haworth (born 23 January 1976) is an English {{professional wrestl|ing}}er who launched his wrestling career in the United States of America. Prior to his beginnings as a wrestler, he relocated to the United States in the middle of his university education, graduating from Kent State University in 1997 with a degree in chemistry. In September 1998 he began training under Les Thatcher at the Heartland Wrestling Association, having his first match in September 1999—and thus, '''Nigel [=McGuinness=]''' was born.

Debuting in August of 2003 with a win over Chet Jablonsky, Nigel's climb through ROH was one of gradual success, initially jobbing, then forming a short-lived tag team and feud with Wrestling/ColtCabana, before challenging and eventually beating Wrestling/SamoaJoe for the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/roh/roh-p.html ROH Pure Championship]] two years later, all the while seen as a face. After winning the title he turned heel and began developing clever heel gimmicks such as using a Union Jack-covered clothing iron as a weapon and getting opponents counted out through various unfair methods to keep the championship. This eventually landed him in a series of matches with [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/roh/roh-h.html ROH World Heavyweight Champion]] Wrestling/BryanDanielson over the two championships, which eventually concluded in Danielson winning the feud to unify both titles and retire the Pure Championship. Having earned Danielson's respect through the matches, Nigel got to keep the latter belt as an honorary trophy, cementing him back as a face.

The next year would see [=McGuinness=] in feuds against Jimmy Rave and Wrestling/ChrisHero, and in a role as the spokesperson of Japanese promotion Wrestling/ProWrestlingNOAH within ROH. During this time he challenged the ROH World Champion, NOAH's Takeshi Morishima, on several occasions before finally beating him for the title at ''Undeniable'' in October 2007. Though his title reign was soon marred by a series of injuries limiting his amount of action, he eventually found his footing again after turning heel again to defend the championship against Danielson in January by targeting his injured head. His title reign lasted over a year and a half, through defenses against the likes of Wrestling/AustinAries, Wrestling/KevinSteen [[Wrestling/SethRollins Tyler Black]], Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli, Wrestling/JerryLynn, Wrestling/RoderickStrong, and [[Wrestling/SamiZayn El Generico]], and Wrestling/{{Kenta|Kobayashi}}, before finally dropping to Lynn at ''Supercard of Honor IV'' in April 2009.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Being retired from wrestling doesn't mean that active wrestlers can push him around in his role of ROH Matchmaker and expect to get away with it. After Jay Lethal spat on him at ''Final Battle 2012'', Nigel immediately went after him and the two of them had to be pulled apart.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: As a commentator, he was not above pointing out parts of how to work a match and when someone was doing something wrong. Particularly Corino vs Steen at ''Final Battle 2011'' Though some of such slid into catch phrase territory, devoid of the original anti kayfabe context.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: His heavy reliance on chain wrestling and World Of Sport type tricks when he first arrived.

* NoNonsenseNemesis: Prided himself on being serious, which he did not feel Delirious and Claudio Castagnoli were. The latter set out to make him eat those words.

* TheWorfBarrage: His Tower of London (elevated cutter) finisher suffered from this for awhile until he started winning with ti again in his TNA run.

* WoundedGazelleGambit: Played a sick one on Wrestling/BryanDanielson at the 6th Anniversary Show. In fact, here's why "targeting Bryan's head" constituted a heel turn. Citing concerns about his recent concussions, Nigel nearly walked out without defending the title against Danielson…until Danielson came out and agreed to avoid blows to the head. Everything seemed to go well and good, with both men keeping away from head attacks for over 30 minutes of another classic showdown…until Nigel attacking Danielson's injured eye with headbutts, hit Danielson's own "trapped elbows" attack to add more insult, ''then'' made him tap to the London Dungeon.

* WoundedGazelleGambit: Played a sick one on Wrestling/BryanDanielson at the 6th Anniversary Show. In fact, here's why "targeting Bryan's head" constituted a heel turn. Citing concerns about his recent concussions, Nigel nearly walked out without defending the title against Danielson…until Danielson came out and agreed to avoid blows to the head. Everything seemed to go well and good, with both men keeping away from head attacks for over 30 minutes…until Nigel attacking Danielson's injured eye with headbutts, hit Danielson's own "trapped elbows" attack to add more insult, ''then'' made him tap to the London Dungeon.

* WoundedGazelleGambit: Played a sick one on Wrestling/BryanDanielson at the 6th Anniversary Show.

* TheWorfBarrage: His Tower of London (elevated cutter) finisher suffered from this for awhile until he started winning with ti again in his TNA run.

* ForeignWrestlingHeel: Played straight during his Pure Title reign, subverted afterward as he became much less of a British jerk than a jerk that happens to be British.

* FatSlob [[ThisLoserIsYou Is You]]: Invoked these trope on the audience during his ROH World title run, making "acne-riddled fat boy" Wrestling/KevinSteen the AudienceSurrogate en route to Steen's three title shots against him.

* FatLoser [[ThisLoserIsYou Is You]]: Invoked these trope on the audience during his ROH World title run, making "acne-riddled fat boy" Wrestling/KevinSteen the AudienceSurrogate en route to Steen's three title shots against him.

* FatLoser [[ThisLoserIsYou is You]]: Invoked these trope on the audience during his ROH World title run, making "acne-riddled fat boy" Wrestling/KevinSteen the AudienceSurrogate en route to Steen's three title shots against him.

Debuting in August of 2003 with a win over Chet Jablonsky, Nigel's climb through ROH was one of gradual success, initially jobbing, then forming a short-lived tag team and feud with Wrestling/ColtCabana, before challenging and eventually beating Wrestling/SamoaJoe for the ROH Pure Championship two years later, all the while seen as a face. After winning the title he turned heel and began developing clever heel gimmicks such as using a Union Jack-covered clothing iron as a weapon and getting opponents counted out through various unfair methods to keep the championship. This eventually landed him in a series of matches with ROH World Champion Wrestling/BryanDanielson over the two championships, which eventually concluded in Danielson winning the feud to unify both titles and retire the Pure Championship. Having earned Danielson's respect through the matches, Nigel got to keep the latter belt as an honorary trophy, cementing him back as a face.

* {{Determinator}}: Reinvented his wrestling style to keep competing despite his numerous injuries. Continued to do so until not a single person could doubt him.

** His downslide in TNA was partially the result of higher-ups' spite that he was more popular with the TNA fanbase than the established stars they wanted to push.

* TakeThatAudience: His ROH World Championship FaceHeelTurn was primarily motivated by his desire to make all the doubters eat their words after legitimately seeing the occasional fan demand that he drop the title after his injuries.

* WoundedGazelleGambit: Played a sick one on Wrestling/BryanDanielson at the 6th Anniversary Show.

* CrowdChant: "You're a wanker!" and "Tea And Crumpets!" The former is because he called the ROH Bots wankers, so they threw it right back at him. The latter? Who knows. As world champion, "Drop The Belt!"

Steven Haworth (born 23 January 1976) is an English {{professional wrestl|ing}}er who launched his wrestling career in the United States of America. Prior to his beginnings as a wrestler, he relocated to the United States in the middle of his university education, graduating from Kent State University in 1997 with a degree in chemistry. In September 1998 he began training under Les Thatcher at the Heartland Wrestling Association, but wound up incurring debts to the point he had to go back to his native England to work jobs and raise money to return to the US to wrestle.

Wrestling for companies such as the HWA and All Star Promotions when he returned in 2000, he developed "a punk rock soccer hooligan" gimmick—and thus, '''Nigel [=McGuinness=]''' was born. Making his way up in the ranks and earning championships along the way, it would only be a matter of time before he was signed up by the company which eventually became his wrestling home: Wrestling/RingOfHonor.

Debuting in August of 2003 with a win over Chet Jablonsky, His climb through ROH was one of gradual success, initially jobbing, then forming a short-lived tag team and feud with Wrestling/ColtCabana, before challenging and eventually beating Wrestling/SamoaJoe for the ROH Pure Championship two years later, all the while seen as a face. After winning the title he turned heel and began developing clever heel gimmicks such as using a Union Jack-covered clothing iron as a weapon and getting opponents counted out through various unfair methods to keep the championship. This eventually landed him in a series of matches with ROH World Champion Wrestling/BryanDanielson over the two championships, which eventually concluded in Danielson winning the feud to unify both titles and retire the Pure Championship. Having earned Danielson's respect through the matches, Nigel got to keep the latter belt as an honorary trophy, cementing him back as a face.

The next year would see him in feuds against Jimmy Rave and Wrestling/ChrisHero, and in a role as the spokesperson of Japanese promotion Wrestling/ProWrestlingNOAH within ROH. During this time he challenged the ROH World Champion, NOAH's Takeshi Morishima, on several occasions before finally beating him for the title at ''Undeniable'' in October 2007. Though his title reign was soon marred by a series of injuries limiting his amount of action, he eventually found his footing again after turning heel again to defend the championship against Danielson in January by targeting his injured head. His title reign lasted over a year and a half, through defenses against the likes of Wrestling/AustinAries, Wrestling/KevinSteen [[Wrestling/SethRollins Tyler Black]], Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli, Wrestling/JerryLynn, Wrestling/RoderickStrong, and [[Wrestling/SamiZayn El Generico]], and Wrestling/{{Kenta|Kobayashi}}, before finally dropping to Lynn at ''Supercard of Honor IV'' in April 2009.