History Wrestling / SteveBlackman

* StartMyOwn: His training school, ''[=BlackmanMMA=]'', and his ''Blackman Fighting Systems'' promotion.

** A story in Wrestling/BobHolly's book tells how a drunken Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield decided to repeatedly play the jerk on Blackman in an airport, only for Steve to backhand him in the face and start raining punches on him before being restrained by other wrestlers. Blackman was supposedly charging a low kick before they grabbed him, and Holly assured that had Steve's leg not got caught in a bag handle, Layfield would have had to go to the hospital. (Another popular version has Blackman landing a crescent kick to the jaw, but given that we know John got out of the incident alive, we will believe Holly instead.)

* {{Determinator}}: In RealLife, he almost died after contracting malaria and dysentery while wrestling in South Africa. He not only recovered, but the martial arts that would help cement his gimmick in the WWE, helped him with his physical therapy.

* IKnowKarate: An interesting variation. Although his entire gimmick was about his martial arts background, exactly which styles Blackman was trained in remain a mystery. For what's said, he trained boxing and amateur wrestling at college, as well as possibly UsefulNotes/{{Kickboxing}}; judging for his in-ring style, he was at least familiar with UsefulNotes/{{Karate}}, UsefulNotes/{{Taekwondo}} or both due to his kicking stances, as well as UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} or some form of jiu-jitsu due to his submissions, and maybe eskrima for his weapons expertise; and finally, a [[http://www.wwe.com/classics/wherearetheynow/steveblackmanpart2 WWE article]] describes him as having a background in UsefulNotes/MuayThai and an unspecified style of jiu-jitsu. In any case, he’s a UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts trainer now.

* WeaponOfChoice: So many choices… he mainly used [[SinisterScythe a pair of kama]] for his ring entrances, but he's also used [[WoodenKatanasAreEvenBetter kendo sticks]] and [[DualWielding eskrima sticks]]. He even whipped out [[FightingWithChucks nunchucks]] on Wrestling/KurtAngle.

* BadassBeard[=/=]BadassMustache

As usual, you can find the basics at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Blackman The Other Wiki]].

* RedBaron: "The Lethal Weapon".

Steve Blackman (born September 28, 1963) is a retired American {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er, martial artist and UsefulNotes/{{M|ixedMartialArts}}MA trainer from Annville, PA who competed for Wrestling/{{WWE}} first as a {{Jobber}} in 1988 and then full-time from 1997-2002. He debuted in 1986 and first worked for Stampede Wrestling in Calgary. He made a surprise return/debut on the November 3, 1997 ''Raw'', coming out of the crowd to rescue Wrestling/{{Vader}} from the Hart Foundation. His first match was as the replacement for [[Wrestling/DelWilkes the Patriot]] on Team USA (Vader[=/=]Wrestling/{{Goldust}}[=/=][[Wrestling/MarcMero "Marvelous" Marc Mero]]) against Team Canada (Wrestling/DaveyBoySmith[=/=][[Characters/WWERockNWrestling Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart]][=/=]Doug Furnas[=/=]Phil [=LaFon=]) at ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 1997.'' Over the course of his WWE run, he would hold the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-hc.html WWE Hardcore Title]] six times. He retired in 2002 after his contract ran out.

** Another anecdote by Teddy Long sees Wrestling/BigShow messing with Blackman while the latter was resting laying on the floor. Apparently, all Blackman needed were his feet and a legsweep to take Show down and immobilize him.
** He had a beef with Wrestling/BigVanVader and Buzz Sawyer since they bullied him while they all were working in Japan. At the time Blackman was still sick and a new boy in the crew and had promised his family and girlfriend not to get in fights, so he had to suck it up. However, when Vader and him met again in WWF, Blackman didn't have these limitations anymore. As soon Vader saw what was coming for him, he apologized profusely to him in front of the entire locker room.

Steve Blackman (born September 28, 1963) is a retired American {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er, martial artist and UsefulNotes/{{M|ixedMartialArts}}MA trainer from Annville, PA who competed for Wrestling/{{WWE}} first as a {{Jobber}} in 1988 and then full-time from 1997-2002. He debuted in 1986 and first worked for Stampede Wrestling in Calgary. He made a surprise return/debut on the November 3, 1997 ''Raw'', coming out of the crowd to rescue Wrestling/{{Vader}} from the Hart Foundation. His first match was as the replacement for [[Wrestling/DelWilkes the Patriot]] on Team USA (Vader[=/=]Wrestling/{{Goldust}}[=/=][[Characters/WWENewGeneration "Marvelous" Marc Mero]]) against Team Canada (Wrestling/DaveyBoySmith[=/=][[Characters/WWERockNWrestling Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart]][=/=]Doug Furnas[=/=]Phil [=LaFon=]) at ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 1997.'' Over the course of his WWE run, he would hold the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-hc.html WWE Hardcore Title]] six times. He retired in 2002 after his contract ran out.

Steve Blackman (b. 1963) is a retired American {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er, martial artist and UsefulNotes/{{M|ixedMartialArts}}MA trainer from Annville, PA who competed for Wrestling/{{WWE}} first as a {{Jobber}} in 1988 and then full-time from 1997-2002. He debuted in 1986 and first worked for Stampede Wrestling in Calgary. He made a surprise return/debut on the November 3, 1997 ''Raw'', coming out of the crowd to rescue Wrestling/{{Vader}} from the Hart Foundation. His first match was as the replacement for [[Wrestling/DelWilkes the Patriot]] on Team USA (Vader[=/=]Wrestling/{{Goldust}}[=/=][[Characters/WWENewGeneration "Marvelous" Marc Mero]]) against Team Canada (Wrestling/DaveyBoySmith[=/=][[Characters/WWERockNWrestling Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart]][=/=]Doug Furnas[=/=]Phil [=LaFon=]) at ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 1997.'' Over the course of his WWE run, he would hold the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-hc.html WWE Hardcore Title]] six times. He retired in 2002 after his contract ran out.

!!! "The Lethal Tropes":

* IgnoreTheFanservice: Defended the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-hc.html WWE Hardcore Title]] against Albert (w[=/=]Wrestling/TrishStratus) on the October 5 (taped October 3), 2000 ''[[Wrestling/WWESmackDown WWE [=SmackDown!=]]]''. Trish started taking off her coat to distract Blackman, who proceeded to drown her in fire extinguisher spray, and then did the same to Albert, en route to winning the match after a flying kendo stick shot.

* WouldHitAGirl: Blackman didn't go any easier on women who interfered in his hardcore matches than he did on the men he was fighting. As noted above, he sprayed Trish Stratus with a fire extinguisher when she [[DistractedByTheSexy tried to distract him]] in his match with Albert. When Terri Runnels jumped onto his back when he was fighting Perry Saturn, Blackman nearly spanked her until Saturn interfered.

* OnlySaneMan: At ''Survivor Series 99'', he was on a team with wrestling porn star Val Venis, [[Wrestling/MarkHenry "Sexual Chocolate" Mark Henry]] and wrestling vampire [[Wrestling/DavidHeath Gangrel]]. At least relatively sane, given that he was still a martial arts guy with a murder stare.

** A story in Wrestling/BobHolly's book tells how a drunken Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield decided to repeatedly play the jerk on Blackman in an airport, only for Steve to backhand him in the face and start raining punches on him before being restrained by other wrestlers. Blackman was supposedly charging a low kick before they grabbed him, and Holly assured that had Steve0s leg not got caught in a bag handle, Layfield would have had to go to the hospital. (Another popular version has Blackman landing a crescent kick to the jaw, but given that we know John got out of the incident alive, we will believe Holly instead.)

* IKnowKarate: And interesting variation, as although his entire gimmick was about his martial arts background, exactly which styles Blackman was trained in remains a mystery. For what's said, he trained boxing and amateur wrestling at college, as well as possibly kickboxing; judging for his in-ring style, he was at least familiar with UsefulNotes/{{Karate}}, UsefulNotes/{{Taekwondo}} or both due to his kicking stances, as well as UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} or some form of jiu-jitsu due to his submissions, and maybe eskrima for his weapons expertise; finally, a [[http://www.wwe.com/classics/wherearetheynow/steveblackmanpart2 WWE article]] describes him as having a background in UsefulNotes/MuayThai and an unspecified style of jiu-jitsu. In any case, he’s a UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts trainer now.

** A story in Wrestling/BobHolly's book tells how a drunken Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield decided to repeatedly play the jerk on Blackman in an airport, only for Steve to backhand him in the face and start raining punches on him before being restrained by other wrestlers. Steve was supposedly charging a low kick before they grabbed him, and Holly assured that had his leg not got caught in a bag handle, Layfield would have had to go to the hospital. (Another popular version has Blackman landing a crescent kick to the jaw, but given that we know John got out of the incident alive, we will believe Holly instead.)