History Wrestling / NigelMcGuinness

Made a high-profile return to wrestling in 2023 at ''Supercard of Honor'' and currently working as a color commentator and interviewer for Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, under the Wrestling/RingOfHonor brand.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: A former wrestler who first and foremost cares about the health of the athletes.

** Besides Danielson and Morishima, he also had a rivalry with Claudio Castagnoli in ROH that had it's roots back in IWA Mid-South and the International Wrestling Cartel. The two would end up forming a tag team in 2008 but it didn't work out.

* 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. A hammerlock DDT he calls "Divorce Court".

* SpikyHair: Most typically and often multicolored.

* UseYourHead: Split Colt Cabana open with a headbutt after taking an accidental low blow.

* TheBusCameBack: For refueling, apparently. After he had to take a leave of absence in TNA in September 2010 for health issues, he would return in a brief stint as the ''Xplosion'' "Commissioner" in May 2011 before being released the next month and going on a retirement tour.
* CombatPragmatist: Used all sorts of weapons, made a title reign out of countouts, framed his opponents, and lied like a madman, amongst other tactics he'd use to get an edge on his opponent.
* CoolShades: Tends to don them when acting as a cocky heel and/or SharpDressedMan.

* TheBusCameBack: He returned as a color commentator, before taking over from Wrestling/JimCornette as ROH's onscreen authority figure.

* {{Determinator}}: ROH was made of Fighting Spirit, but he embodied it as a face to ridiculous levels, which oddly enough helped slide back his popularity and led to him eventually [[FaceHeelTurn turning heel]]. Even as a heel he reinvented his wrestling style to keep competing (and finding ways to win by hook or crook) despite his numerous injuries. Continued to do so until not a single person could doubt him.

* {{Heel}}: Often, including as a colour commentator on WWE's NXT and 205 Live commentary teams.

* 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 Wrestling/JayLethal spat on him at ''Final Battle 2012'', Nigel immediately went after him and the two of them had to be pulled apart.

* MulticoloredHair: Brown hair with blonde spikes, until he had the spikes cut in 2009 and went for a "bald" appearance for several years afterward.

* BaldOfEvil: As a heel starting in 2009. Eventually became BaldOfAwesome after he became a largely non-wrestling face again in 2011.

More on his career [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_McGuinness here]].

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 Wrestling/{{WCW}}'s farm league, the Heartland Wrestling Association, having his first match in September 1999—and thus, '''Nigel [=McGuinness=]''' was born.

His arrival in TNA came with the new ring name '''Desmond Wolfe''' and a feud with Wrestling/KurtAngle, who'd just turned face following a two-year stint as the company's BigBad. Wolfe punked out Angle repeatedly heading into their battles, but ultimately lost when it counted, though the matches were highly acclaimed and Wolfe was established as a dangerous player even in defeat. However, a combination of his health issues and the political turnaround of the company due to the 2010 arrival of Wrestling/HulkHogan and Wrestling/EricBischoff resulted in his eventual downgrade in importance, going from one of the top heels to a hopeful member of Wrestling/{{Fortune}} to a short-lived tag team with Magnus called "London Brawling" to being outright PutOnABus. With 2011 came teases from compatriots Magnus and Douglas Williams and a brief return as the Xplosion Commissioner, but nothing came of either role and he was eventually released.

* FatSlob [[ThisLoserIsYou Is You]]: Invoked these tropes 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.

He would go back to Ring of Honor as a color commentator, as well as compete on the independent circuit for a two-month retirement tour in which used both the Nigel [=McGuinness=] and Desmond Wolfe ring names. The final years of his wrestling career, including this retirement were on a documentary called ''The Last of [=McGuinness=]'', in which he confirmed that he'd tested positive for hepatitis B during his TNA tenure and advocated for the end of blading in wrestling. Upon Wrestling/JimCornette's departure in September 2012, he was named the new on-screen "matchmaker" of ROH in addition to his color commentary duties, a role he maintained until December 2016, when he signed with WWE as an announcer, debuting at their WWE United Kingdom Championship Tournament on January 2017 and replacing Corey Graves as the [[Wrestling/{{WWE NXT}} NXT]] color commentator.

Though he continued to wrestle for HWA for the next year, he wound up incurring debts to the point he had to go back to his native England to work two full-time jobs and raise money, then to return to the US to resume his career.

He's also become an assistant film producer and editor outside of wrestling, as well as developed a Kickstar creative project called ''L.A. Fights'', a scripted show about an upstart amateur fighting league.

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Benefited from this at ''Glory by Honor VI: Night One'', when Wrestling/ChrisHero made him tap out, only to not be awarded the ROH World Championship due to [=McGuinness=] being underneath the bottom rope at the time. After the match was continued Nigel was able to make Hero tap instead, giving him another successful retention.

He would go back to Ring of Honor as a color commentator, as well as compete on the independent circuit for a two-month retirement tour in which used both the Nigel [=McGuinness=] and Desmond Wolfe ring names. The final years of his wrestling career, including this retirement were on a documentary called ''The Last of [=McGuinness=]'', in which he confirmed that he'd tested positive for hepatitis B during his TNA tenure and advocated for the end of blading in wrestling. Upon Wrestling/JimCornette's departure in September 2012, he was named the new on-screen "matchmaker" of ROH in addition to his color commentary duties, a role he maintained until December 2016, when he signed with WWE as an announcer, debuting at their WWE United Kingdom Championship Tournament on January 2017.

He would go back to Ring of Honor as a color commentator, as well as compete on the independent circuit for a two-month retirement tour in which used both the Nigel [=McGuinness=] and Desmond Wolfe ring names. The final years of his wrestling career, including this retirement were on a documentary called ''The Last of [=McGuinness=]'', in which he confirmed that he'd tested positive for hepatitis B during his TNA tenure and advocated for the end of blading in wrestling. Upon Wrestling/JimCornette's departure in September 2012, he was named the new on-screen "matchmaker" of ROH in addition to his color commentary duties, a role he maintained until December 2016.

* BigDamnHeroes: Prevented Wrestling/ChrisHero from breaking Wrestling/BrunoSammartino's neck at ''All Star Extravaganza III''

** TheBusCameBack: For refueling, apparently. He would return in a brief stint as the "Xplosion Commissioner" before being released and going on a retirement tour.

** Had to take a leave of absence in TNA when his health issues caught up with him.
*** TheBusCameBack: For refueling, apparently. He would return in a brief stint as the "Xplosion Commissioner" before being released and going on a retirement tour.

He would go back to Ring of Honor as a color commentator, as well as compete on the independent circuit for a two-month retirement tour in which used both the Nigel [=McGuinness=] and Desmond Wolfe ring names. The final years of his wrestling career, including this retirement were on a documentary called ''The Last of [=McGuinness=]'', in which he confirmed that he'd tested positive for hepatitis B during his TNA tenure and advocated for the end of blading in wrestling. Upon Wrestling/JimCornette's departure in September 2012, he was named the new on-screen "matchmaker" of ROH in addition to his color commentary duties, a role he has maintained to this day.

!!!"Tropes and Crumpets":

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Had various health issues in the later half of 2010 that limited his wrestling and eventually caused his TNA release and retirement.

* HonestCorporateExecutive: He decided not to suspend Wrestling/BulletClub for ruining Wrestling/ColtCabana's championship match with Wrestling/JayLethal because Bullet Club makes them a lot of money. He then fined them instead and used the money to strengthen ROH security so it wouldn't happen again.

* HonestCorruptExecutive: He decided not to suspend Wrestling/BulletClub for ruining Wrestling/ColtCabana's championship match with Wrestling/JayLethal because Bullet Club makes them a lot of money. He then fined them instead and used the money to strengthen ROH security so it wouldn't happen again.

His arrival in TNA came with the new ring name '''Desmond Wolfe''' and a feud with Wrestling/KurtAngle, who'd just turned face following a two-year stint as the company's BigBad. Wolfe punked out Angle repeatedly heading into their battles, but ultimately lost when it counted, though the matches were highly acclaimed and Wolfe was established as a dangerous player even in defeat. However, a combination of his health issues and the political turnaround of the company due to the 2010 arrival of Wrestling/HulkHogan and Wrestling/EricBischoff resulted in his eventual downgrade in importance, going from one of the top heels to a hopeful member of Wrestling/Fortune to a short-lived tag team with Magnus called "London Brawling" to being outright PutOnABus. With 2011 came teases from compatriots Magnus and Douglas Williams and a brief return as the Xplosion Commissioner, but nothing came of either role and he was eventually released.

* DemotedToExtra: In TNA, he constantly punked out Kurt Angle within his debut, at one point ranked at #1 on the TNA online poll, and seemed to be on his way to becoming a member of Fourtune. After months of jobbing he and Douglas Williams seemed to switch places between who's partnering with Magnus and who's with Wretling/{{Fortune}}, not to mention Wolfe was stuck in a dysfunctional relationship with Chelsea. Just when the London Brawling team was about to get some traction and reverse this trope, his medical issues caught up to him.

* TheApprentice: He and Swiss Money Holding\The Kings Of Wrestling were able to put enough of their differences aside in IWA Switzerland to help Italian migrant Andres Diamond.

* BadassDecay: Was a '''{{badass}}''' in ROH as Nigel [=McGuinness=], and started out as one in TNA as Desmond Wolfe. But thanks to Hulk Hogan, Eric Bischoff, and Hepatitis B, he slid lower and lower down the card suffering one humiliation after another until he was [[YankTheDogsChain outright pulled out of a show in which he had a tag team title shot]] and that was really the end of it.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: His heavy reliance on chain wrestling and World Of Sport type tricks when he first arrived in Ring of Honor, where most of the roster were Japanese trained, meticulously studied territorial era USA tapes or both.

* FinishingMove: Grounded Wristlock ([[NameOfPower Thames Barrier]]), Elevated Cutter(Tower Of London)

* InsultBackfire: He would go on to call his kneeling face buster a "Guvnor's Crumpet"

** Also with BJ Whitmer in ROH, continuing on from IWA M-S(again), which itself was continuing on from The Heartland Wrestling Association, where they first matched up. [=McGuinnes=], Whitmer and Danielson would team up in NOAH to slightly more success.

* TournamentArc: In 2007 sixteen different promotions were called to Liverpool for a "King Of Europe Cup" (KOE) by Doug Williams and Alex Shane, who were inspired by APW's KOI and the East Coast Wrestling Alliance 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 Liverpool for 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.

* WoundedGazelleGambit: Played a sick one on Wrestling/BryanDanielson to retain his world title 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.

* {{Malaproper}}: Had this as an aspect of his gimmick, such as calling the [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} Boston Red Sox]] the "Boston Red Stockings" or nicknaming Wrestling/JerryLynn "Geritol Lynn".

* NicknamingTheEnemy: Geritol Lynn.

** Also with BJ Whitmer in ROH, carrying continuing on from IWA M-S(again) and The Heartland Wrestling Association where they first met. [=McGuinnes=], Whitmer and Danielson would team up in NOAH to slightly more success.