History Wrestling / JamesStorm

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

* ArchEnemy: Triple X (Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels[=/=]Wrestling/LowKi[=/=]Elix Skipper), Daniels[=/=]Wrestling/AJStyles, [[Wrestling/{{Rhyno}} Rhino]], [=LAX=], [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys Team 3-D]], [[Wrestling/JamesMitchell the New Church]], Gunner.

* PowerTrio: Recently ran the Death Crew Council alongside Bram and Eddie Kingston.

Born on June 1, 1977 in Franklin, Tennessee, James Allen Cox, better known by his ring name "The Cowboy" James Storm, is an American professional wrestler currently employed by Wrestling/{{TNA}}. He is a former five-time[[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tna/tna-t.html TNA World Tag Team Champion]] and a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tna/tna-h.html TNA World Heavyweight Champion]].

* ThePowerOfHate: James Storm is clearly at his best when he's fighting someone or something he hates, so once his character started getting stale, TNA decided to run with it and turn him into a heel chock full of bitter piss and vinegar to go around.

* CoolHat: Dropped with his latest FaceHeelTurn.

* GoodIsDumb: Dumb enough to put his number 1 contendership on the line just because Bobby Roode made a comment about his daughter. [[CaptainObvious He lost.]]

** Planet [[Wrestling/JeffJarrett Jarrett]]
** [=Fourtune=]-> Wrestling/{{Fortune}}
** Immortal
** The Revolution with Seiya Sanada, Manik, Abyss and [[MeaningfulRename Khoya]]
** R'n'B Security with Cassidy Riley, Chris Harris and Chris the Bambikiller
* PowerTrio: Recently started the Death Crew Council with Bram and Eddie Kingston.

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James Cox, better known by his ring name "Cowboy" James Storm, is an American professional wrestler currently employed by Wrestling/{{TNA}}. He is a former 5x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tna/tna-t.html TNA World Tag Team Champion]] and a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tna/tna-h.html TNA World Heavyweight Champion]].

* BreakupBreakout: The more successful member of his previous team with Chris Harris (AKA Braden Walker), America's Most Wanted. Most people expecting them to breakup suspected Chris Harris would be the more successful, [[PrejudicedForPecs largely because he was larger]] but Harris ended up on SYFY's ill conceived Wrestling/{{ECW}} {{revival}}, which got worse ratings than TNA iMPACT, hardly used him anyway and he never reached his old heights, such as they were, after he left and the program was canceled while James Storm was part of two more successful tag teams, established a singles career, was part of a popular stable and formed his own stable. Subverted with Beer Money; while it can be said that Bobby Roode has been more successful since breaking up their duo, Storm has continued on being a driven character.

* DanceSensation: Impact Wrestling was infected by the Harlem Shake and not even James Storm had any resistance to it.

** He asked Wrestling/MickieJames to leave her husband and raise her newborn baby with him for his Revolution. When she rejected with him, he said her respected her decision, [[ILied then pushed her in front of a train]].

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Remember when he turned on Chris Harris and ended AMW by doing this? Beer Money ended the other way around.

* MoodWhiplash: On Controla PR, talking about how much he love Puerto Rico, sight seeing, drinking, wrestling, until he's asked about the island's best tag team "La Artileria Pesada" and goes on a rant about how that means nothing because he and Abyss are the best tag team in the world.

* PapaWolf: Messing with his daughter has serious consequences. Just ask Wrestling/BobbyRoode, who faced serious consequences like [[ComicallyMissingThePoint ...a World Heavyweight Title shot?]][[labelnote:context]]In late 2012 Roode goaded Storm into putting his title shot on the line by making a remark about Storm's daughter, which set Storm off. Roode wound up winning the match.[[/labelnote]]

* TagTeam: (Unofficially) America's Most Wanted with Cassidy Riley. (Officially) America's Most Wanted with Chris Harris. Beer Money Inc with Bobby Roode. [[FanNickname Gunstorm]] with Gunner. The Revolution with Abyss via Feast or Fired briefcase.

** Americas Most Wanted with Triple X when Chris Harris of the former team accidentally won the NWA World Tag Team Title with Prime Time Elix Skipper of the later team. Them against The Naturals and Team Canada. When Skipper and Harris were learning to get along, Daniels and Storm ended up accidentally winning the belts from them, putting the whole situation back to square one.

* UndyingLoyalty: Even when Wrestling/AJStyles himself left TNA, Storm stuck around, and his departure in 2015 was (according to most sources) primarily monetary-driven, as Storm had to provide for his family, but he returned when the outside money ended up not being what he was lead to believe.

** Bobby Roode from Beer Money Inc, and to a lesser extent, every other member of Fourtune/Fortune.

* WhiteMaskOfDoom: Wears this with Kingston and Bram in the DCC.

* JerkassHasAPoint
** Storm complaining about Gunner stealing the World Title case and throwing in the towel during Storm's tournament match with Wrestling/BobbyRoode, which took place the night after Roode ambushed Storm in a bar. While Storm really has no room to argue on losing out on the "Feast or Fired" briefcase (Gunner low-shotted him and took the case, which had the World Title shot) since it was every man for themselves, he does bring up that he's been in bar fights before and doesn't always wrestle at 100% the following night. Plus, he specifically told Gunner not to get involved in his street fight with Roode, and yet there he was throwing in the towel.

* BestBeerEver: Well, he did ride a beer cooler to the ring, and he still carries at least one bottle almost everywhere he goes. Rhino throught of him as TheAlcoholic, though, as he treats alcoholism as a disease and refuses to drink since he lost his dad to it at 15, almost lost his daughter to it, apparently running in his family, and having lost a marriage to alcohol consumption. Storm lost his dad the same way at 12 but doesn't care. He persists in drinking and considers refusal to drink with him an insult. That Storm in no way seems impaired also makes him a DrunkenMaster.

** He also accused Gunner of sabotaging him by telling Roode where he was that night so that Roode would jump him. You'd think this is InsaneTrollLogic, since he has no evidence of this and it's probably more likely Roode took an educated guess based on being his tag team partner for 3½ years, but stranger things have happened in wrestling.
** Turns out, the latter wasn't the case. Storm realized how jealous and bitter he appeared when his daughter asked him why he was mad at Gunner, so he decided to support Gunner's rise to the top. Only to [[FaceHeelTurn screw him out of the world title at the last second]], becoming a vicious and hate-filled redneck avenger of his own cause.

* TheAlcoholic: Well, he did ride a beer cooler to the ring, and he still carries at least one bottle almost everywhere he goes. What differentiates him from Rhino is that Rhino treats alcoholism as a disease and refuses to drink since he lost his dad to it at 15, almost lost his daughter to it, apparently running in his family, and having lost a marriage to alcohol consumption. Storm lost his dad the same way and 12 but doesn't care. He persists in drinking and considers refusal to drink with him an insult. That he in no way seems impaired also makes storm a DrunkenMaster.

* BoringInvincibleHero
** A complaint of the IWC. Not so much that he's invincible, but Storm's "drunken cowboy" character to many fans has grown stale and they feel he needs a reboot, not unlike his former partner BobbyRoode, who went from "rich tycoon" to "It Factor".
** Then Storm going from "drunken cowboy" to "evil redneck crusader" at the turning point of his problems with Gunner, making him less boring. This makes him less boring but continual clean wins over baby faces have caused some to see as too invincible.

* TheAlcoholic[=/=]DrunkenMaster: Well, he did ride a beer cooler to the ring, and he still carries at least one bottle almost everywhere he goes.

* BreakupBreakout: The more successful member of his previous team with Chris Harris (AKA Braden Walker), America's Most Wanted. Subverted with Beer Money; while it can be said that Bobby Roode has been more successful since breaking up their duo, Storm has continued on being a driven character.

** Great Muta apparently disrespected Storm somehow when they were both in WCW, so Storm's decided to welcome Muta to TNA by verbally degrading him to his student Sanada, inflating the pressure Sanada felt he was under to succeed under Muta's directive, and turning Sanada against Muta.

* {{Jerkass}}: As a heel.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When in America's Most Wanted he went on one against LAX after Hernandez border-tossed Wrestling/GailKim. He also went on one against Mr. Anderson for using his offer for a friendly drink to ambush him, as well as both Bobby Roode and Gunner for costing him world title opportunities.

* UndyingLoyalty: Even when Wrestling/AJStyles himself left TNA, Storm stuck around, and his departure in 2015 was (according to most sources) primarily monetary-driven, as Storm had to provide for his family.

* WouldHitAGirl: Counted on when Bitch Slap went after America's Most Wanted in TNA, in an effort to raise the profile of women in the company. Unfortunately, injuries they suffered in matches against men like Storm ended up ''[[GoneHorriblyWrong lowering]]'' the profile of women in the company, making it illegal for men to fight women.

James Cox, better known by his ring name '''"Cowboy" James Storm,''' is an American professional wrestler currently employed by Wrestling/{{TNA}}. He is a former 5x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tna/tna-t.html TNA World Tag Team Champion]] and a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tna/tna-h.html TNA World Heavyweight Champion]].

* BadassBeard: Usually covering almost all his face but not particularly thick

* PowerTrio: Recently started the Death Count Council with Bram and Eddie Kingston.

* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: After briefly leaving TNA he came back at the start of 2016 to save Wrestling/BobbyRoode from a beating at the hands of Eric Young and Bram and, declaring his intention to start having fun again, called for a Beer Money reunion. Roode accepted.

** The Revolution with Seiya Sanada, Manik, Abyss and [[spoiler:[[MeaningfulRename Khoya]]]]

James Cox, better known by his ring name '''"Cowboy" James Storm,''' is an American professional wrestler formerly employed by Wrestling/{{TNA}}, and currently appearing for Wrestling/{{WWE}} on its NXT brand. He is a former 5x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tna/tna-t.html TNA World Tag Team Champion]] and a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tna/tna-h.html TNA World Heavyweight Champion]].

** America's Most Wanted and Gail Kim used to be close, but then they replaced her with Jacqueline. Chris Harris and Gail Kim remained close actually and Storm ended up dumping Harris too.

** He asked Wrestling/MickieJames to leave her husband and raise her newborn baby with him for his Revolution. When she rejected with him, he said her respected her decision, then pushed her in front of a train.
* {{Expy}}: Considered to be one of both Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin and Wrestling/ShawnMichaels. His "Revolution" gimmick is called out as one of [[Wrestling/TheWyattFamily Bray Wyatt]], but he himself claims it's more inspired by Wrestling/KevinSullivan. Seeing as how he's a vengeful crusading grandmaster and not an evil spirit possession, the man has a point.

* RedBaron: "The Tennessee Cowboy"

!!! "Sorry, about your damn tropes!"

* DisproportionateRetribution: Great Muta apparently disrespected Storm somehow when they were both in WCW, so Storm's decided to welcome Muta to TNA by verbally degrading him to his student Sanada, inflating the pressure Sanada felt he was under to succeed under Muta's directive, and turning Sanada against Muta.

James Cox, better known by his ring name '''"Cowboy" James Storm,''' is an American professional wrestler formerly employed by Wrestling/{{TNA}}. He is a former 5x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tna/tna-t.html TNA World Tag Team Champion]] and a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tna/tna-h.html TNA World Heavyweight Champion]].