History Wrestling / FrankieKazarian

* ForWantOfANail: You could argue that if it wasn't for what Kazarian and Daniels did to AJ Styles, he would've never become the DarkerAndEdgier AJ of today, left TNA, and ended up fitting right at home in the Wrestling/BulletClub, and thus they probably would've lost a ton of steam after losing [[Wrestling/FergalDevitt Prince Devitt]]. Doubles as UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling and NiceJobFixingItVillain for everyone else. For what it's worth, Kaz ended up reaping the benefits of this, betraying Daniels to join the Bullet Club himself, albeit a year after AJ had already left the main branch to start an offshoot in WWE. Only for Daniels to benefit as well because the betrayal was a ruse to draw Adam Cole into overconfidence so that Daniels could catch him off guard and beat him for the ROH World Heavyweight Title.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Following in Jay Lethal's wake the Addiction also go invitations to throw the first pitch at baseball games, Frankie at San Manuel Stadium in San Bernardino, CA as Inland Empire 66ers hosted the Modesto Nuts.

Frankie Kazarian (born Frank Benedict Gerdelman on August 4, 1977 in Palm Springs, California) is an American {{professional wrestl|ing}}er of UsefulNotes/{{Armenia}}n descent best known for his years of work in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] and Wrestling/RingOfHonor, and currently wrestling for Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling.

* ActionDad: Besides not being taken, besides an inability to conform to the navy, besides refusing to cut his hair for WWE, besides his rebellion against Serotonin, "Rebel" is also his son's name.

First trained by Killer Kowalski in 1998, Kazarian started out on the independent scene in California, with notable companies including the Empire Wrestling Federation, Millennium Pro Wrestling, Ultimate Pro Wrestling (where he trained alongside friends such as Wrestling/SamoaJoe, Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels, and Wrestling/JohnCena, as well as teamed with former Wrestling/{{ECW}} alumnus [[Wrestling/MikeBucci Mike "Nova" Bucci]] as Evolution (not to be mistaken with [[Wrestling/{{Evolution}} a certain faction]] whose [[Wrestling/TripleH leader]] was also a Kowalski alumnus), and especially Wrestling/ProWrestlingGuerilla, winning titles in many of these promotions. Notable brushes with the mainstream during this time include a match with he and Nova against star Wrestling/{{WW|E}}F tag team Wrestling/{{Edge}} and Wrestling/{{Christian}} and a prophetic run-in with Mike Tenay at a Wrestling/{{WCW}} event.

More details on him can be found through [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Roode The Other Wiki]].

He briefly left TNA to see if WWE possessed greener pastures, but ended up returning with only a month's worth of a ''Velocity'' winning streak under his belt when they tried to get him to cut his hair and he refused (in addition to him realizing that they had no plans on revamping their Cruiserweight division). He returned to the indies, then to TNA and his team with Michael Shane (now going by his real name Matt Bentley due to trademark issues), before the two were repackaged as part of a gothic faction also involving Johnny Devine, revealed to have become understudies to Wrestling/{{Raven}}. As part of the gimmick, while Devine and Bentley were renamed Havok and Martyr, Kazarian simply had his name shortened to Kaz. [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers This was a significant]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} hint]] that he'd retained some sense of his individuality and that the angle was mostly meant to get him over as he would rebel against Raven, turn face, and overcome Serotonin. He would embark on the biggest push of his TNA career, being marketed as a fearless competitor and athlete, defeating [[Wrestling/{{Christian}} Christian Cage]] in a ladder match for a shot at Wrestling/KurtAngle's TNA World Heavyweight Championship, and even coming just short of defeating Angle. Other angles included a tag team with Eric Young and his superhero alter ego, usually to fight against Wrestling/JamesMitchell's team of monsters, and a stint in the World X Cup in which he failed to get the victory for Team TNA, which was used to write him out as having [[{{Kayfabe}} fallen out of love with wrestling]] so that he could be used as the masked video game character Suicide.

Along with Daniels, Sky, and Wrestling/TheElite, Kazarian would leave ROH in 2008 after Final Battle to join AEW where he and Sky would become the promotion's [[Main/UrExample inaugural]] World Tag Team Champions.

He briefly left TNA to see if WWE possessed greener pastures, but ended up returning with only a month's worth of a ''Velocity'' winning streak under his belt when they tried to get him to cut his hair and he refused (not to mention him realizing that they had no plans on revamping their Cruiserweight division). He returned to the indies, then to TNA and his team with Michael Shane (now going by his real name Matt Bentley due to trademark issues), before the two were repackaged as part of a gothic faction also involving Johnny Devine, revealed to have become understudies to Wrestling/{{Raven}}. As part of the gimmick, while Devine and Bentley were renamed Havok and Martyr, Kazarian simply had his name shortened to Kaz. [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers This was a significant]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} hint]] that he'd retained some sense of his individuality and that the angle was mostly meant to get him over as he would rebel against Raven, turn face, and overcome Serotonin. He would embark on the biggest push of his TNA career, being marketed as a fearless competitor and athlete, defeating [[Wrestling/{{Christian}} Christian Cage]] in a ladder match for a shot at Wrestling/KurtAngle's TNA World Heavyweight Championship, and even coming just short of defeating Angle. Other angles included a tag team with Eric Young and his superhero alter ego, usually to fight against Wrestling/JamesMitchell's team of monsters, and a stint in the World X Cup in which he failed to get the victory for Team TNA, which was used to write him out as having [[{{Kayfabe}} fallen out of love with wrestling]] so that he could be used as the masked video game character Suicide.

* UrExample: The first Millennium Pro Wrestling, Wrestling/{{P|roWrestlingGuerilla}}WG Champion, and one half of the first AEW World Tag Team Champion, alongside fellow SCU member Scorpio Sky.

* UrExample: The first Millennium Pro Wrestling, Wrestling/{{P|roWrestlingGuerilla}}WG Champion, and one-half of the first AEW World Tag Team Champion, alongside fellow SCU member Scorpio Sky.

Along with Daniels, Sky, and Wrestling/TheElites, Kazarian would leave ROH in 2008 after Final Battle to join AEW where he and Sky would become the promotion's [[Main/UrExample inaugural]] World Tag Team Champions.

Upon leaving TNA, Daniels took Kazarian with him back to Ring of Honor, where they have resumed their tag team under the name of The Addiction. While first presenting themselves as faces due to Daniels' homecoming and feuding with the ROH-purist Decade group (with ironically a similar mission to Fortune), they eventually turned heel after being revealed as the masterminds behind an "invasion" scheme called the Knights of the Rising Dawn, meant to create misdirection as well as bring in ex-TNA ally Chris Sabin so they could steal the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/roh/roh-t.html ROH World Tag Team Titles]] from reDRagon (Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly). In 2017, he became the newest member of the Wrestling/BulletClub. [[FakeDefector And then he didn't.]] That same year, Scorpio Sky would join The Addiction with the group being named SoCal Uncensored (SCU).

** SoCal Uncensored (SCU) with Daniels and Scorpio Sky.

* UrExample: The first Millennium Pro Wrestling, Wrestling/{{P|roWrestlingGuerilla}}WG Champion, and AEW World Tag Team Champion with fellow SCU member Scorpio Sky.

Upon leaving TNA, Daniels took Kazarian with him back to Ring of Honor, where they have resumed their tag team under the name of The Addiction. While first presenting themselves as faces due to Daniels' homecoming and feuding with the ROH-purist Decade group (with ironically a similar mission to Fortune), they eventually turned heel after being revealed as the masterminds behind an "invasion" scheme called the Knights of the Rising Dawn, meant to create misdirection as well as bring in ex-TNA ally Chris Sabin so they could steal the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/roh/roh-t.html ROH World Tag Team Titles]] from reDRagon (Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly). In 2017, he became the newest member of the Wrestling/BulletClub. [[FakeDefector And then he didn't.]]

* UrExample: The first Millennium Pro Wrestling and Wrestling/{{P|roWrestlingGuerilla}}WG Champion.

First trained by Killer Kowalski in 1998, Kazarian started out on the independent scene in California, with notable companies including the Empire Wrestling Federation, Millennium Pro Wrestling, Ultimate Pro Wrestling (where he trained alongside friends such as Wrestling/SamoaJoe, Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels, and Wrestling/JohnCena, as well as teamed with former Wrestling/{{ECW}} alumnus [[Wrestling/MikeBucci Mike "Nova" Bucci]] as Evolution [not to be mistaken with [[Wrestling/{{Evolution}} a certain faction]] whose [[Wrestling/TripleH leader]] was also a Kowalski alumnus]), and especially Wrestling/ProWrestlingGuerilla, winning titles in many of these promotions. Notable brushes with the mainstream during this time include a match with he and Nova against star Wrestling/{{WW|E}}F tag team Wrestling/{{Edge}} and Wrestling/{{Christian}} and a prophetic run-in with Mike Tenay at a Wrestling/{{WCW}} event.

He briefly left TNA to see if WWE possessed greener pastures, but ended up returning with only a month's worth of a ''Velocity'' winning streak under his belt when they tried to get him to cut his hair and he refused. He returned to the indies, then to TNA and his team with Michael Shane (now going by his real name Matt Bentley due to trademark issues), before the two were repackaged as part of a gothic faction also involving Johnny Devine, revealed to have become understudies to Wrestling/{{Raven}}. As part of the gimmick, while Devine and Bentley were renamed Havok and Martyr, Kazarian simply had his name shortened to Kaz. [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers This was a significant]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} hint]] that he'd retained some sense of his individuality and that the angle was mostly meant to get him over as he would rebel against Raven, turn face, and overcome Serotonin. He would embark on the biggest push of his TNA career, being marketed as a fearless competitor and athlete, defeating [[Wrestling/{{Christian}} Christian Cage]] in a ladder match for a shot at Wrestling/KurtAngle's TNA World Heavyweight Championship, and even coming just short of defeating Angle. Other angles included a tag team with Eric Young and his superhero alter ego, usually to fight against Wrestling/JamesMitchell's team of monsters, and a stint in the World X Cup in which he failed to get the victory for Team TNA, which was used to write him out as having [[{{Kayfabe}} fallen out of love with wrestling]] so that he could be used as the masked video game character Suicide.

* DiabolusExMachina: TNA's Bad Influence owes its existence to this trope. He and Daniels had issues with each other after Fortune's breakup and were pretty much thrown back together just to make AJ Styles's life more difficult…hey, {{tropes are not bad}}.

Frankie Kazarian, born Frank Benedict Gerdelman on August 4, 1977 in Palm Springs, California, is an American professional wrestler of UsefulNotes/{{Armenia}}n descent best known for his years of work in Wrestling/{{TNA}} and currently wrestling for Wrestling/RingOfHonor.

Upon leaving TNA, Daniels took Kazarian with him back to Ring of Honor, where they have resumed their tag team under the name of The Addiction. While first presenting themselves as faces due to Daniels' homecoming and feuding with the ROH-purist Decade group (with ironically a similar mission to Fortune), they eventually turned heel after being revealed as the masterminds behind an "invasion" scheme called the Knights of the Rising Dawn, meant to create misdirection as well as bring in ex-TNA ally Chris Sabin so they could steal the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/roh/roh-t.html ROH World Tag Team Titles]] from reDRagon (Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly).

In 2017, he became the newest member of the Wrestling/BulletClub. [[FakeDefector And then he didn't.]]

!!!"The Coolest Tropes in Wrestling":

* GroinAttack: Accidentally one to Dalton Castle at ''Supercard Of Honor X'', who was attempting a sunset flip on Donovan Dijak, after taking a drop toe hold form Page and landing his for head in Castle's crotch, who then sat up into Dijak's. Kazarian then intentionally gave one to Page while he was performing a standing switch, causing him to stumble into the middle ropes and cause it to hit Daddiego and Cheeseburger in their groins as they're entering. Kazarian mocks them all, who all in turn kick him below the belt simultaneously.