History Wrestling / Tazz

Currently he's working in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, initially as a commentator, and then as the manager and spokesman for Team Taz, consisting of "The Machine" Brian Cage, "Absolute" Ricky Starks, and "Powerhouse" Will Hobbs, as well as Taz' own son Tyler, a trainee performing as "Wrestling/{{Hook}}".

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His time in AEW has shown that he has ''not'' mellowed out in age but he's absolutely proud of his son Wrestling/{{Hook}} (not that [[TheStoic Hook]] reciprocates those feelings) and has a kind of fatherly aura to the rest of Team Taz in AEW.

* HostileShowTakeOver: Attempted to take over [[BShow Sunday Night Heat]]

* PintSizedPowerhouse

* [[PutOnABus Put On The Commentators Table]]: Due to mounting neck injuries.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His time in AEW has shown that he has ''not'' mellowed out in age but he's absolutely proud of
his son Wrestling/{{Hook}} (not that [[TheStoic Hook]] reciprocates those feelings) and has a kind of fatherly aura to the rest of Team Taz in AEW.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite being as vile as he was in Wrestling/{{ECW}}, he absolutely loves his son Wrestling/{{Hook}} (not that [[TheStoic Hook]] reciprocates those feelings) and has a kind of fatherly aura to the rest of Team Taz in AEW.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite being as evil as he was in Wrestling/ECW, he absolutely loves his son Wrestling/{{Hook}} (not that [[TheStoic Hook]] reciprocates those feelings) and has a kind of fatherly aura to the rest of Team Taz in AEW.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor; An example that applies even within kayfabe. The difference between Taz the wrestler and Taz the commentator is night and day.

Currently he's working in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, initially as a commentator, and then as the manager and spokesman for Team Taz, consisting of "The Machine" Brian Cage, "Absolute" Ricky Starks, and "Powerhouse" Will Hobbs, as well as Taz' own son Tyler, a trainee performing as "Hook".

* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Hook is a PrettyBoy with an athletic build and a very light skin tone; effectively the complete opposite of his father. Were it not for the fact that their familial connection is frequently mentioned as part of his role in Team Taz, you would likely never guess that the two are related.

* RelativeButton: Not the usual example of gloating about something horrible a person has done to someone's relative, but when [[Wrestling/CodyRhodes Cody]] came out to interrupt a ranting promo Taz was cutting on AEW management, he foolishly pressed Taz's button when he asked him [[ArmorPiercingQuestion why Taz's son Hook was training to wrestle with CODY rather than his father?]] Taz was so furious that he jumped Cody as soon as he turned his back and put him in the Tazmission.

* WrestlingFamily: Held the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/newengland/icw/icw-t.html ICW/IWCCW Tag Team Titles]] with his cousin Joe Chetti as the Tazmaniacs, Noga and Mako. Taz later trained Joe's younger brother Chris, who started as an anonymous member of heel Taz's entourage of trainees Team Taz (which included the guys who would go on to become the last-ever [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ecw/ecw-t.html ECW World Tag Team Champions]] "Dastardly" Danny Doring and "The Angry Amish Warrior" Roadkill) and wrestled as G.Q. "Gorgeous" Quartermaine of the tag team the Erotic Experience before [[AscendedExtra finding success in the mid-card as a tag team competitor]]. His son "Hook" is also a young wrestler in AEW, initially just assisting his father's [[PowerStable hit squad]] whenever he could, but finally making his in-ring debut on the 10th December episode of ''Rampage''.

* WrestlingFamily: Held the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/newengland/icw/icw-t.html ICW/IWCCW Tag Team Titles]] with his cousin Joe Chetti as the Tazmaniacs, Noga and Mako. Taz later trained Joe's younger brother Chris, who started as an anonymous member of heel Taz's entourage of trainees Team Taz (which included the guys who would go on to become the last-ever [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ecw/ecw-t.html ECW World Tag Team Champions]] "Dastardly" Danny Doring and "The Angry Amish Warrior" Roadkill) and wrestled as G.Q. "Gorgeous" Quartermaine of the tag team the Erotic Experience before [[AscendedExtra finding success in the mid-card as a tag team competitor]]. His son "Hook" is training to be a wrestler in AEW and although he's not ready for in-ring competition yet, is currently assisting his father's [[PowerStable hit squad]] whenever he can.

* BadassBeard[=/=]BeardOfEvil: With connected mustache

You can read more about his career at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tazz The Other Wiki]].

'''[[CatchPhrase "Because I'm Taz, The Human Suplex Machine! Beat me if you can, survive if I let you!]]'''

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''[[Website/{{Botchamania}} "How much does this guy weigh?"]]''

Currently he's working in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, initially as a commentator, and then as the manager and spokesman for "The Machine" Brian Cage, "Absolute" Ricky Starks and "Powerhouse" Will Hobbs.

* RelativeButton: Not the usual example of gloating about something horrible a person has done to someone's relative, but when [[Wrestling/CodyRhodes Cody]] came out to interrupt a ranting promo Tazz was cutting on AEW management, he foolishly pressed Tazz's button when he asked him [[ArmorPiercingQuestion why Tazz's son Hook was training to wrestle with CODY rather than his father?]] Tazz was so furious that he jumped Cody as soon as he turned his back and put him in the Tazmission.

* WrestlingFamily: Held the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/newengland/icw/icw-t.html ICW/IWCCW Tag Team Titles]] with his cousin Joe Chetti as the Tazmaniacs, Noga and Mako. Taz later trained Joe's younger brother Chris, who started as an anonymous member of heel Taz's entourage of trainees Team Taz (which included the guys who would go on to become the last-ever [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ecw/ecw-t.html ECW World Tag Team Champions]] "Dastardly" Danny Doring and "The Angry Amish Warrior" Roadkill) and wrestled as G.Q. "Gorgeous" Quartermaine of the tag team the Erotic Experience before [[AscendedExtra finding success in the mid-card as a tag team competitor]]. His son "Hook" is training to be a wrestler in AEW.

Currently he's working in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, initially as a commentator, and then as the manager and spokesman for "The Machine" Brian Cage and "Absolute" Ricky Starks.

* StartMyOwn: His frustration with getting [[SecondPlaceIsForLosers passed over]] for shots at [[Wrestling/ShaneDouglas "The Franchise" Shane Douglas]]' [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ecw/ecw-h.html ECW World Heavyweight Title]] while he had been the ECW World Television Champion in 1998 led to him introducing his own belt, the unofficial [[http://www.solie.org/titlehistories/ftwecw.html ECW FTW (Fuck the World) Heavyweight Title]].

* WrestlingFamily: Held the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/newengland/icw/icw-t.html ICW/IWCCW Tag Team Titles]] with his cousin Joe Chetti as the Tazmaniacs, Noga and Mako. Taz later trained Joe's younger brother Chris, who started as an anonymous member of heel Taz's entourage of trainees Team Taz (which included the guys who would go on to become the last-ever [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ecw/ecw-t.html ECW World Tag Team Champions]] "Dastardly" Danny Doring and "The Angry Amish Warrior" Roadkill) and wrestled as G.Q. "Gorgeous" Quartermaine of the tag team the Erotic Experience before [[AscendedExtra finding success in the mid-card as a tag team competitor]].

* WritingAroundTrademarks: His original name, the Tazmaniac and his following one of Taz were changed to Tazz when he debuted in WWE. He was able to get away with it in ECW due to ECW being too low-key for Creator/WarnerBros to notice.

Currently he's working in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, initially as a commentator, but more recently as the manager and spokesman for "The Machine" Brian Cage and "Absolute" Ricky Starks.

Currently he's working in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, initially as a commentator, but more recently as the manager and spokesman for "The Machine" Brian Cage.

* CuckoolanderCommentator: When Tazz isn't spouting cliche one liners, giving insight into a happening or praising the misdoings of the roster's miscreants, he's saying something that has nothing to do with anything.

* ChokeHolds: His FinishingMove, the Tazmission, a half nelson choke with body scissors. The choking half nelson suplex is generally called the Tazplex when anyone else does it but this does not apply to Tazz himself, oddly.

* ClusterFBomb: In his ECW days. There was also one of the two favorite {{crowd song}}s [[FanCommunityNicknames the Mutants]] used whenever they watched Taz wrestle: ''[[PrecisionFStrike F*** him up Taz, f*** him up! clap-clap-clapclapclap!]]''

** Later that night, there was a match, such as it was, between Commissioner Tod Gordon and evil referee Bill Alfonso. Wrestling/{{Beulah McGillicutty}}, then a heel as Wrestling/{{Raven}}'s [[{{Kayfabe}} girlfriend]], is supposed to be the referee, but Fonzie attacks her and throws her out of the match. They sort-of brawl for a while, complete with Fonzie blading, with no referee. Taz comes down while Tod is attempting a pin, starts to count, then stops, beats up Tod, puts Alfonso on top and counts the pin, this turning himself heel. The crowd is shocked, and Taz explains that he did it because none of the fans called or wrote or made any attempt to contact him after his injury and that Alfonso was the only person who seemed to care about him. He also rips on the fans for being happy to see Sabu, who had returned earlier that night after seven months in self-imposed exile in WCW, Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling and the indies,[[note]]Sabu had left ECW right before ''The Three-Way Dance'' on April 8th and the fans had chanted "FUCK SABU! FUCK SABU!"[[/note]], Paul E. and whatever and whoever else comes to mind, finally saying to the fans, "I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOU!"

* StartMyOwn: His frustration with getting passed over for shots at [[Wrestling/ShaneDouglas "The Franchise" Shane Douglas]]' [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ecw/ecw-h.html ECW World Heavyweight Title]] while he had been the ECW World Television Champion in 1998 led to him introducing his own belt, the unofficial [[http://www.solie.org/titlehistories/ftwecw.html ECW FTW (Fuck the World) Heavyweight Title]].

* HiddenDepths[=/=]RealMenWearPink: [[https://www.infinitecore.ca/superstar/index.php?threadid=84502&page=18#post_869648 According to]] "Surfer" Ray Odyssey, who rode with Wrestling/TommyDreamer and The Tazmaniac in their ICW/IWCCW (New England), Taz would force them to be quiet when Music/{{Extreme}}'s "More Than Words" came on the radio.

* StartMyOwn: His frustration with getting passed over for shots at [[Wrestling/ShaneDouglas "The Franchise" Shane Douglas]]'s [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ecw/ecw-h.html ECW World Heavyweight Title]] while he had been the ECW World Television Champion in 1998 led to him introducing his own belt, the unofficial [[http://www.solie.org/titlehistories/ftwecw.html ECW FTW (Fuck the World) Heavyweight Title]].