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Wrestling: Lance Storm

"Calgary, (Dramatic Pause), Alberta, Canada"

Lance Storm (real name Lance Evers) is a professional wrestler best known for his time in ECW, WCW, and WWE. He started training alongside fellow Canadian wrestler Chris Jericho, with whom he would team with and occasionally feud with off an on around the world. After a brief tenure in Jim Cornette's Smoky Mountain Wrestling, they went their separate ways (though both ended up in the same promotions, it was never at the same time till 2001).

Lance Storm found success in ECW tagging with Chris Candido and later forming the Impact Players with Justin Credible, with the beautiful Dawn Marie by their side. Eventually he left for WCW, where he is best known for holding the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship

, the WCW World Cruiserweight Championship

, and the WCW Hardcore Championship

all at once. He awarded his Team Canada ally "Primetime" Elix Skipper the Cruiserweight Title, and awarded the Hardcore Title to another Team Canada member, Pierre Carl Ouelette.

Lance later started working for WWE when they purchased WCW in 2001, being the first WCW wrestler to win a WWE Title. He was fairly successful in WWE, winning several mid-card titles and forming a successful Foreign Wrestling Heel Tag Team with Christian, who won the WWE World Tag Team Championship

from Edge and Hulk Hogan, of all people. He also had a similar run with William Regal as his partner. Eventually he retired from full time in-ring action to become a trainer, first for the WWE's developmental program before creating his own school, the Storm Wrestling Academy, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is also a regular guest on Figure Four Daily with Bryan Alvarez.

As usual, you can find the basics about his career at The Other Wiki

Tropes associated with Lance Storm include:

10-Minute Retirement: Originally intended to retire following a match against Jericho at ECW One Night Stand. He's since wrestled a few matches since his supposed retirement, but these matches almost always involve other close friends of his such as Bryan Alvarez, Christian, and ECW alumni. One notable exception was a match against Bryan Danielson at Ring Of Honor.
Book Ends: His first and last match of his full-time career were both against Chris Jericho.
Breakup Breakout: The Marty Janetty to Chris Jericho, arguably the Shawn Michaels to Justin Credible, whose main event ECW run is overshadowed by Lance's mid-card WCW run.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada, eh?
Card-Carrying Villain: Even at ECW One Night Stand 2005, where ECW was supposedly all on the same side against the Raw and SmackDown! "invaders," he still relied on cheating (Justin Credible hitting Jericho in the head with a Singapore Cane while Dawn Marie distracted the referee) to win.
Catch Phrase: "If I can be serious for a moment..."
- "and that's from Calgary, (Dramatic Pause) Alberta, Canada!"
The Comically Serious
Deadpan Snarker: You'll see a lot of this on the Q&As of his website.
Q: What is the most difficult thing you have ever tried to do in the ring?
A: Convince people I enjoyed doing the cabbage patch.
- In fact, when someone asked him if he would mind being referred to as "The Soup Nazi, but for wrestling questions," he replied "Not in the least." If you send the man a question and he thinks it's stupid, he won't mince words.
- Even when presented a student's over the top serial rapist gimmick, his first response was "well, if you're going to rape people, you need to have better facial expressions."
Do Not Call Me Paul: He really doesn't like fans using his real last name.
Foreign Wrestling Heel: As part of the UnAmericans. "America Sucks," indeed.
Fun with Acronyms: Saskatchewan H'ardcore International Title, very much a literal case of Getting Crap Past the Radar.
Gag Penis
- Happy Dance: A lot of viewers did not realize what the gimmick was supposed to be, so he had a bit of a double take when people told him Victoria stole his gimmick, until he realized they were referring to her dancing for no reason.
Gone Horribly Right: When Stone Cold Steve Austin called Lance boring, it just killed Lance's heat.
Hidden Depths: While Lance was always billed as The Stoic, any shoot interview with him reveals he's a pretty good Deadpan Snarker and actually pretty funny when telling stories.
Meaningful Rename: In WCW, renamed the United States Heavyweight Title to Canadian Heavyweight Title, the Hardcore Title to Saskatchewan Hardcore International Title, and the Cruiserweight Title to The 100kg and Under Title.
Odd Friendship: With Goldust, who else?
One of Us: As seen on his blog after his retirement, Lance Storm is a smark of the highest order.
Power Stable: (in WCW): Team Canada, with Elix Skipper, Jacques Rougeau, Carl Pierre Ouelette, Major Gunns, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan^noteAfter a heel turn, Mike Awesome and Kid Romeo.
- (in WWE): The Un-Americans: with Christian, Test and William Regal.
Shout Out: The Impact Players name was a reference to Sudden Impact, the name for Jericho and Lance in Japan. Their victory pose was lifted directly from the Shawn Michaels/Diesel and DeGeneration X victory pose (Justin Credible was linked to The Kliq).
- Lance used to wear the WCW Monday Jericho shirt in ECW and years later in Ring of Honor started using Fozzy songs as entrance music.
Still Got It: After retiring, when he came back to wrestle Bryan Danielson (considered by many to be probably the best wrestler in the world) and showed he could keep up with him for 30 minutes straight and nearly beat him, he received a huge chant of this from the Ring Of Honor fans (along with chants of "Thank You Lance!" and "Please Come Back!").
- Six years later, he made another appearance in ROH to face Mike Bennett, which was almost as well received. Lance might not wrestle very often anymore, but he make sure it's worth it when he does.
The Stoic: Almost never smiles. This extends to his personal life too.
Tag Team: Sudden Impact/The Thrillseekers, with Chris Jericho
- The Impact Players, with Justin Credible
Trademark Favorite Food: Cracker Barrel. He actually carries around a map showing every Cracker Barrel location when he travels to the U.S.
Too Many Belts: Held three titles at once in WCW.
Underwear of Power
Unrelated Brothers: According to Lance Storm, the Hardy Boys, The Steiner Brothers, The Usos and the Mcmahons are not really related. The only real siblings in professional wrestling are him and Victoria.
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Chris Jericho. While he credits Jericho for keeping him in the business, he would also shoot down any of Chris's lame ideas for ring names, finishers, etc. with brutal honestly.
Wearing A Flag On Your Tights: Before switching to the aforementioned Underwear of Power, his tights were in red and white Canadian colors.
Wrestling Family: A running gag on his website was that The Hardy Boys and everyone else anyone cared to ask about were not really related because he and Victoria were the only true siblings in wrestling. Victoria mentioned on byte this that she did not really mind.
X Meets Y: Style is a blend of Bret Hart-esque mat and submission wrestling and high flying similar to a young Shawn Michaels. He's even used both of their finishers (Sharpshooter and Superkick) at various points of his career.