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[[caption-width-right:200:Hello, ladies!]]

->''"You know something, the Big Valbowski is a lot like Website/TVTropes: Click on me once, and you'll be clicking all night long."''
-->--A Website/TVTropes-related example of one of the many DoubleEntendre riddled lines used as part of his ring entrance

Sean Allen Morley (born March 6, 1971), better known by his Wrestling/{{WWE}} ring name, Val Venis, is a Canadian motorcycle racer turned {{professional wrestl|ing}}er, trained by Wrestling/MissingLink, Jason Sterling, Wrestling/DoryFunkJr and Tom Pritchard, known for being a part of the WWE roster during the Wrestling/AttitudeEra.

He got his start in London UK based All-Star Wrestling in 1994 as the {{jobber}} Scott Border, before getting his first real push in the Puerto Rican World Wrestling Council as Glamour Boy Sean, winning the World TagTeam Title belts alongside Glamour Boy Shane. He'd also work in the Mexican World Wrestling Council(Wrestling/{{CMLL}}) as Love Machine #2, tag team partner of Love Machine Art Barr, before breaking out as singles star Steele. He entered the WWF in 1998 with the persona of a wrestling porn star, particularly the way he would shoot "films" showing him having sex with people related to other wrestlers, particularly their wives or sisters. He later became a part of the PowerStable Wrestling/RightToCensor. After Right to Censor ended, he would bounce around a series of more jobber roles before being released from his WWE contract in 2009.

Ever since then, he's mostly wrestled in the Indies, along with a short, three month tenure in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]]. However, he nowadays spends most of his time as an advocate for marijuana legalisation.

He holds the distinction of being the youngest and first Canadian to hold the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship. He is also a 3 time WWC Tag Team Champion alongside Shane twice and Rex King once, a 2x WWC Television Champion, an IWA Puerto Rico Tag Team Champion with Ricky Banderas, a 2x WWF Intercontinental Champion, a 1x WWF European Champion, a Heartland Wrestling Association tag team champion with Steve Bradley, a WWE World Tag Team Champion (w/Wrestling/LanceStorm) and an EXW Tag Team Champion with Dexter Verity.
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!!My Trope List, Ladies!
* AlliterativeName: '''V'''al '''V'''enis, which fits well with his pornstar gimmick.
* AntiClimax: Val Venis retained the intercontinental championship during his second reign even after Wrestling/{{Rikishi}} splashed him from the top of a fifteen foot cage! What could possible stop him? Wrestling/{{Chyna}} pinning Wrestling/TrishStratus in a tag match with Wrestling/EddieGuerrero? Oh, wait...
* ArchEnemy: Kaientai (particularly their manager, Yamaguchi-san), Wrestling/{{Goldust}}, and Wrestling/KenShamrock were his major ones, particularly since he slept with their wives or sisters. Then dumped them.
* BadassInANiceSuit: His look was much more regal than even his Glamour Boy or Steele days in Wrestling/RightToCensor. Val Venis with a collar and a ''tie''.
* BaldOfEvil: He cut his hair very short when he turned heel, and kept it short after joining Wrestling/RightToCensor. He never grew it back afterwards, even after RTC ended and he turned face again.
* TheCasanova: As many love-struck ladies in the audience will tell you, along with a few others who have starred in his videos.
* CatchPhrase: "Hello, Ladies!" Doubles as IncomingHam, since that's how his entrance music would start.
* CompositeCharacter: A mix of Wrestling/RickRude and [[Film/BoogieNights Dirk Diggler]].
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: During his run as Chief Morley, when he was Wrestling/EricBischoff's flunky.
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable
** He was undefeated for two years in IWA Puerto Rico, not even being stopped by long time foe Huracán Castillo Jr. and company co founder Savio Vega, but was eventually beaten by Tiger Ali Singh.
** While Kaientai's castration attempt was thwarted, Wrestling/TakaMichinoku was able to end Val Venis's undefeated streak in the WWF after Venis agreed to [[GimmickMatches run the gauntlet]] against the entire stable. One on one, Venis and Michinoku wrestle to a draw.
* DemotedToExtra: After his Chief Morley gimmick, he became Val again, but lost his hair, his charm, and rarely was allowed to use the mic. He was buried as a result.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Sums up his entrance video.
* DoubleEntendre: So many during his porn star gimmick.
* FinishingMove: A Fisherman's suplex or a power bomb variation(usually spinning), unless he's Val Venis. Then it's The Money Shot (a top rope splash) and the Venis Flytrap (a reverse figure-four leglock).
* GameBreakingInjury: A neck injury put his career on hold in 2000.
* GroinAttack: Was the victim a lot of these, including the infamous "I Choppy-choppy your pee-pee!" incident.
* HumiliatingWager: Love Machine #2 was part of a special CMLL show where he faced Zumbido in a mask vs mask match. Zumbido lost. Steele was later unmaked by Rayo de Jalisco Jr. in the main event of a ''Super Viernes''.
* ICallHimMisterHappy: "The Big Valbowski". Also served as his RedBaron.
* JackOfAllStats: Sean is more of a tag team specialist whose good on the mic than a standout singles star. Which is not to say he's bad at anything when it comes to singles matches, he just does not stand out. He's big and strong, especially on Latin America and the US independent circuits, but not to the degree of Bronco #1, Alofa or The Head Hunters he shares those circuit with. He's quick and nimble, but not to the degree to Lizmark, Wrestling/LanceStorm, or Wrestling/ChrisJericho. He's a good technical wrestler, but if that's what you really want there's Fishman, Wrestling/DeanMalenko, Wrestling/ChrisBenoit, in striking Chicano, Wrestling/UltimoDragon, etc, etc. Morely's bigger than average for a wrestler of his talents but otherwise doesn't stand out much in singles matches.
* JapaneseRanguage: He went by Sean Morgan in Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling, as "Morley" was too hard announcers to pronounce. However, most records still ''spell'' his name as "Morley".
* KavorkaMan: He wasn't a bad looking guy, but he wasn't a {{pretty boy}} either. TruthInTelevision as some porn stars also come across this way.
* KnightInShiningArmor: Steele's gimmick. His mask was even designed to look like a knight's helmet.
* LightIsNotGood: Wrestling/RightToCensor had everyone wearing white shirts despite being heels, with Venis in particular accentuating it by wearing white pants also (everyone else in the stable wore black pants). Also, with Wrestling/TrishStratus as his manager, Val Venis wrestled in all white ring gear despite being a heel.
* LovableSexManiac: Comes with the trade.
* MaskedLuchador: In CMLL and the Mexican independent circuit as Love Machine #2 and Steele.
* ModestyTowel: In his entrance. {{Subverted|Trope}} because he wore his wrestling gear under the towel.
* MoralGuardians: In Wrestling/RightToCensor.
* MrFanservice: His wrestling entrances, notably. At times one couldn't if they were at a wrestling show or a ladies' club.
* NameOfPower: He can win matches with a small package, because it's a ''big'' package
* ParallelPornTitles: From ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' to "Saving Ryan's Privates" (i.e. Ryan Shamrock was a woman in his movie), for example.
* PowerStable: Wrestling/RightToCensor.
* PutOnABus: He, the Goodfather and Bull Buchanan were all shipped off to OVW around the start of the [=InVasion=] angle.
* TheRival
** Invader #1, Ray González and Huracán Castillo Jr. were his three big ones in WWC, both in singles action and alternating between tagging with each other against The Canadian Glamour Boys. Huracán Castillo Jr. had a similar "high class" if not necessarily "glamours" image that lead him and Sean to team several times, but they were never very successful as a tag team and Huracán Castillo Jr. also fought Sean in back to back [[GimmickMatches cage matches]]. Morley and Castillo's rivalry was so famous even the WWF brought them in in 1997, but given this was a year before Morley's official debut as Val Venis it seems the WWF had second thoughts about adding another chapter to it. IWA Puerto Rico had no cold feet put them back at it again.
** The Headhunters(A and B) were his biggest obstacles in CMLL's parejas and tercias divisions. La Ola Azul weren't too far behind them, though Steel sometimes teamed with Atlantis and Lizmark.
** His most high profile one is Rayo de Jalisco Jr, as they fought over the CMLL World Heavyweight Title belt, tournaments, for each others' masks and in at least one [[NoHoldsBarredContest Súper Libre]]. Jalisco Jr even teamed with The Head Hunters ''at least'' five times against Steele. ''Val Venis'' even showed up at the 66th Aniversario for one last shot at his old rival.
** He and Steve Bradley battled The Island Boys Kimo and [[Wrestling/{{Umaga}} Ekmo]] over The Heartland Tag Team Title belts. Then Val Venis met them again in WWE as Three Minute Warning.
** He's been a glamour boy, a love machine, a porn star and a porn producer, which means he's got no shortage of sexual rivals across the entire spectrum, be it "playa" Danny Demanto, "pimp" the Godfather, sleazy Wrestling/JoeyRyan, GorgeousGeorge Wrestling/RicoConstantino, serial molester Viscera, beef cake Rhett Titus...in particular with Sexxxy Eddie over whether The Money Shot is better than the Five Star Porn Splash.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: TNA switching to live television on Monday Nights caused a scheduling conflict that prevented him from returning to CMLL. He only stayed with TNA for three shows and then left, cutting his feud with Wrestling/JeffJarrett short.
* {{Sexophone}}: His entrance theme was mostly a jazzy saxophone tune.
* SpearCounterpart: The Canadian Glamour Boys were this to the Glamour Girls Wrestling/LeilaniKai and Judy Martin.
* StripPoker: In a rare act that wasn't ''entirely'' self servicing, Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople Wrestling/AngelinaLove, Wrestling/VelvetSky and Wrestling/MadisonRayne attempted to boost TNA's ratings in their uncertain new time slot with a card game after they came to the conclusion "poker shows" were the hottest fad going. Fellow porn star Val Venis showed up and challenged them to face him in strip poker.
* TagTeam
** His most successful and memorable were The Canadian Glamour Boys with Shane, although Shane was once substituted for Rex King, who is actually from New York.
** Los Hechiceros with Love Machine as Love Machine #2
** Supply And Demand with The Godfather as Val Venis(Pimps tend to deal in prostitutes rather than porn stars, but whatever)
** V-Squared with Viscera, also as Val Venis while Viscera was in his "World's Largest Love Machine" phase...
* TagTeamTwins: Los Hechiceros could pull it off if they decided to wear masks with the same pattern, but usually they tried to stand out as individuals.
* TournamentArc:Prior to losing his mask to him, Steele defeated Rayo de Jalisco Jr. in the finals of CMLL's 1997 ''Gran Prix Internacional''
* UnderwearOfPower: His main ring gear of choice when he wasn't a part of Wrestling/RightToCensor.
* UrExample: He and Ricky Santana defeated Wrestling/TheHeadbangers and Savio Vega and Huracan Castillo Jr. in a [[MeleeATrois Three-Way Dance]] tournament final on January 6, 2000 to become the inaugural [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pr/iwa-pr/iwapr-t.html IWA (Puerto Rico) World Tag Team Champions]].
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Val Venis and TAKA Michinoku were friends until TAKA learned Val was sleeping with Yamaguchi-san's wife and began plotting his betrayal of Val...
* WouldHitAGirl
** During his Wrestling/RightToCensor run, he and Ivory teamed up to give Chyna a spike piledriver.
** A year earlier, he seemed pretty reluctant to face her in a King of the Ring qualifying match on the June 6, 1999 Sunday Night Heat. He ultimately lost after HHH showed up and kicked him in the groin while he had her in a fisherman's suplex and then revived the ref.
** Joey Ryan would, and he [[RivalsTeamUp recruited]] Val Venis and Sexxxy Eddie for the purpose of defeating [[Wrestling/{{Kazza}} Martina]], Wrestling/ScarlettBordeaux and Priscilla Kelly at the 2019 [[FanConvention WrestleCon]].
* WrestlingDoesntPay: A wrestling porn star.
* WrestlingPsychology: He was good at long term selling and had good timing for spots.