{"id":37660,"date":"2019-02-06T13:57:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T18:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=37660"},"modified":"2019-02-06T13:57:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T18:57:45","slug":"the-king-of-the-goths-jimmy-havoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/02\/06\/the-king-of-the-goths-jimmy-havoc\/","title":{"rendered":"The King Of The Goths: Jimmy Havoc"},"content":{"rendered":"

With news breaking that\u00a0Jimmy Havoc\u00a0<\/strong>has joined\u00a0All Elite Wrestling<\/strong> (AEW)<\/a> many fans are wondering just who this Jimmy Havoc guy is.\u00a0 While he has appeared for\u00a0Major League Wrestling\u00a0<\/strong>and some of the\u00a0Ring Of Honour\u00a0<\/strong>shows in the UK, as well as\u00a0IMPACT,<\/strong> it’s safe to say that the US fanbase has never truly seen the best of Jimmy Havoc.<\/p>\n

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Photo: James Musselwhite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At his best, Jimmy Havoc carried\u00a0PROGRESS Wrestling\u00a0<\/strong>to new heights as their champion for over 600 days in one of\u00a0the greatest storylines in recent wrestling history.\u00a0 From his entrance to his attire to his demeanor, the man had an aura that made him special no matter where he went in the UK.\u00a0 Whenever he arrived you knew Jimmy F**king Havoc was about to mess someone up.<\/p>\n

What made Havoc so special was the fact that he was a special kind of deranged.\u00a0 He wasn’t some over the top heel, he didn’t use smoke and mirrors to be a spooky heel.\u00a0 He was just a genuinely evil man, a man who spoke\u00a0only with anger, a man sick and tired of not being recognized for all he’s done, a man who could bring an axe to a fight and make you believe that he would use it.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ROGJOuH53ls<\/p>\n

It must be hard to believe but Havoc was actually trained in the NWA\u00a0Hammerlock UK<\/strong> school alongside the likes of\u00a0Zack Sabre Jr<\/strong>.\u00a0 This school mostly taught the old school, technical British Wrestling style, so Havoc can actually hang with anyone when it comes to ring work but his path has always been to use his brawling and hardcore style instead.\u00a0 His early years were spent wrestling on a scene with very little buzz and doing hardcore matches in a scene usually known for technical wrestling definitely\u00a0didn’t help.<\/p>\n

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Photo: PROGRESS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It wasn’t until the BritWres boom and a turn towards over 18, edgier and darker content that Havoc caught on with fans.\u00a0 It was in PROGRESS that he defined his entire career.\u00a0 His run from Chapter 2-21 saw him go from underdog babyface that fans loved, to a sadistic murderous man who held the company hostage for two years, to a fallen man that left for a year.\u00a0 It was during this time that he was also\u00a0IPW:UK\u00a0<\/strong>World Champion for 770 days, Future Pro Wrestling (<\/strong>FPW) <\/strong>Champion for 461 days and\u00a0Southside Wrestling Entertainment (SWE) <\/strong>Speed King Champion for 204 days.\u00a0 It had taken him almost a decade but Havoc was the biggest name in British Wrestling.\u00a0 No matter where he went he felt special and dominant.<\/p>\n

Since his year-long knee injury he has taken a step back from the sadistic character and has never rediscovered the man he was from 2012-2015 but it’s in there somewhere.\u00a0 If AEW truly knows what they have on their hands, they could have a main event heel on their hands and a special talent to spearhead the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With news breaking that\u00a0Jimmy Havoc\u00a0has joined\u00a0All Elite Wrestling (AEW) many fans are wondering just who this Jimmy Havoc guy is.\u00a0 While he has appeared for\u00a0Major League Wrestling\u00a0and some of the\u00a0Ring Of Honour\u00a0shows in the UK, as well as\u00a0IMPACT, it’s safe to say that the US fanbase has never truly seen the best of Jimmy Havoc. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":37664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,6,20],"tags":[4133,3911,521,475],"class_list":["post-37660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-north-america","category-progress","tag-aew","tag-all-elite-wrestling","tag-jimmy-havoc","tag-progress"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}