Full Bio - "Franchise" Cooper Tate

"Franchise" Cooper Tate

Name: "Franchise" Cooper Tate
E-mail: the_breeze@hotmail.com
AOL IM: franchisecooper
Hometown: Dallas, TX
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 250 lbs.
Body build: Athletic
Wrestling style: Technical/very ring savy
Manger (M/F): none
Alignment: heel/neutral
Catch phrases: "This is The Franchise Player's world and I'm just nice enough to let you live in it!"
Theme music: "Bawitdaba" by Kid Rock
Finisher (description): Show Stopper (rock bottom)
Trademark move (description): 1. Decapitator (clothesline from top rope)
2. Franchise Face Plant (facebuster)
5 other moves: spinebuster, russian leg sweep, DDT, neckbreaker, superkick

History: Cooper Tate was born the son of two very athletic parents. His father was a high school football coach and his mother was an athletic trainer for a local college. As soon as Cooper was old enough to participate in sports, it was obvious that he was exceptionally talented. He continued playing multiple sports in junior high school, but the one he excelled at was football. He began playing for the high school varsity football team when he was in eighth grade and became a starter at strong safety mid-way through the season. From that point until his high school career ended, he started every game at strong safety for the Southern Texas Bobcats. His defensive play was dominant and he was an all-state selection for three years in a row from his freshman to junior years. He was also named the Texas High School Defensive Player of the year at the end of his junior season. The scholarship offers poured and he was recruited by almost every major university in the country. He f! inally accepted a scholarship to play at the University of Florida. But, his college career never came to be because Cooper was injured in the fourth game of his senior season. While running back an interception, he was hit from behind causing him to fall forward awkwardly and tear his PCL. The doctors told him he would never be able to play competitive football again.

Rather than become depressed, Cooper decided to channel his efforts elsewhere and devoted himself entirely to his schoolwork and was able to get a partial academic scholarship to the University of Texas. Also during the time while he was rehabilitating, he met Alex Sanders who had been a local wrestling legend around the Dallas-Fort Worth area for years. Cooper began to tell Sanders that he was a big wrestling fan and wouldn't mind training to become a professional wrestler since he still had a desire to compete against top athletes. Sanders began training Cooper who was also taking classes at UT in business administration. After a year in college, Cooper decided that wrestling was going to be his future and not running a business. So, he began training with Sanders full-time and was instrumental in helping Sanders found his Texas School of Wrestling. After nearly two years of training with Sanders, Cooper had his professional wrestling debut in the Southern States Wrestling A! lliance on September 6, 1994 winning his first match. At the time he was billed as "Kid" Cooper, but he was quickly given the nickname "Prime Time" by SSWA President Donnie Anson who said that Cooper was one of the hardest working wrestlers he had and all his matches were worthy of "those prime time shows on cable." Now Being billed as "Prime Time," Cooper slowly worked his way up the ranks and defeated The Redneck for the Southern Heavyweight Title in January of '95. Cooper held the title until he left the SSWA in April of that year when he lost a loser leaves town match to his mentor Alex Sanders.

Cooper spent the next year bouncing from fed to fed, slowly making a name for himself before he was signed by the Bluegrass Wrestling Alliance in December of '95. There he had a tremendous feud with Bluegrass Champion "Main Event" Mark Ellis that many consider to be one of Cooper's strongest feuds to date. The feud culminated with a steel cage first blood match that Cooper won to gain the second title of his career. Cooper reigned as the Bluegrass Champion from February '96 until he left in May of that year. It was during this time that a bitter feud erupted between BWA President Chris Sanders and BWA Vice-President Jeremy Banks. The feud divided the BWA and eventually saw it begin to split into two factions. During a BWA television show, Banks then declared he was leaving the BWA to open his own fed, the North American Wrestling Federation, and was taking "The Franchise" of the BWA with him and he announced that Cooper Tate was going to be the man he built the NAWF around.

The NAWF held it's first card in May in which the newly dubbed "Franchise" Cooper Tate made it to the finals of the NAWF World Title tournament. He lost the match, but was awarded the NAWF United States Title. He held that title until June when he began to go after the NAWF World Title in a feud with "Hollywood" Rip Boulder. "The Franchise" quickly became one of the top draws and his win over Boulder to win the NAWF World Title on July 4th marked his arrival as one of the top names in the sport. He held that title until late August when he lost it in an amazing Fatal Four Way Cage Match. The winner of that match, Shawn Striker, and The Franchise had a heated feud going and were getting ready for a sixty minute Ironman Match when the NAWF had to close it's doors.

After the NAWF closed, The Franchise had no problem finding work and began a stint in the Hotshot e-Wrestling League. The Franchise also became a main draw in HEL and went on to hold all three singles titles. His feud with former HEL Champion Shane Jenkins culminated with The Franchise winning the HEL Championship at the federation's final card. It is after this time when success seemed to go to The Franchise's head. Beginning with his stint in the NAWF and continuing today, The Franchise has easily fallen into being pursued by the main stream media. He has always been a welcome guest on MTV as well as several of the late night talk shows as well as Howard Stern's nationally syndicated radio program. It's at this time that The Franchise began to not only wrestle, but also be bask in the acceptance he had accepted from the mainstream. The Franchise began competing in two and three feds at a time in an effort to prove that he was indeed as good as he said. For nearly six months ! he bounced around from fed to fed winning several different titles, but always looked down upon his competition. That was until he joined the American Heritage Wrestling Alliance in March of 1997.

In the AHWA, The Franchise wrecked havoc and went after anyone and everyone quickly alienating himself from the members of the fed. Despite having hardly any allies at all, The Franchise decided to go after The Faction, the AHWA's dominate stable that featured the AHWA World, North American, and Tag Team Champions. The Franchise began a strategy of picking off each member at a time and was successful in injuring three of the four members over a course of almost six weeks. Finally, he had a match against the head of The Faction and AHWA World Champion "Marvelous" Mike Morton where he was able to win the AHWA World Title. One week later, The Franchise lost a loser leaves town match to Morton when every member of The Faction returned and interfered on Morton's behalf. After the match they broke The Franchise's leg in three places and put him on the shelf for nearly six months.

After that incident, The Franchise has spent the past couple of years bouncing around from indy fed to indy fed, mainly being brought in as a Special Enforcer or a Commissioner. He made up with BWA President Chris Sanders and served as BWA Commissioner for nearly eight months. His eight month tenure as commissioner ended when he intentionally lost a match for the commissioner position to The Psycho Phantom because he wanted out of his contract so that he could devote his time to training for his full-time return to the ring.

He made his return to the wrestling world in the summer of 2000 when he joined the JNF and quickly became one of their main draws and, arguably, the top heel in the fed. Starting out working his way up through fueds with Yobbo, Squigg, and Awesome Tom, The Franchise caught the eye of JNF CEO Le Poncho and was dubbed "Poncho's Franchise." With the stroke of the most powerful man in the fed on his side, The Franchise quickly shot up through the roster. His fued with The Raging Hobo, nicknamed The Turtle Rape Saga, is legendary among the fans of the JNF. Two epic matches took place in which The Franchise was victorious both times. During all of this, The Franchise won the GOLD Championship from Buzz in a brutual match that all but ended Buzz's JNF career. His brutal fued with Havok culminated in a first blood match at the JNF's last ppv Landslide, where The Franchise came out on top as the last JNF GOLD Champion.

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		"Franchise" Cooper Tate Name: "Franchise" Cooper Tate E-mail: the_breeze@hotmail.com AOL IM: franchisecooper Hometown: Dallas, TX Height: 6'5" Weight: 250 lbs. Body build: Athletic Wrestling style: Technical/very ring savy Manger (M/F): none Alignment: heel/neutral Catch phrases: "This is The Franchise Player's world and I'm just nice enough to let you live in it!" Theme music: "Bawitdaba" by Kid Rock Finisher (description): Show Stopper (rock bottom) Trademark move (description): 1. Decapitator (clothesline from top rope) 2. Franchise Face Plant (facebuster) 5 other moves: spinebuster, russian leg sweep, DDT, neckbreaker, superkick History: Cooper Tate was born the son of two very athletic parents. His father was a high school football coach and his mother was an athletic trainer for a local college. As soon as Cooper was old enough to participate in sports, it was obvious that he was exceptionally talented. He continued playing multiple sports in junior high school, but the one he excelled at was football. He began playing for the high school varsity football team when he was in eighth grade and became a starter at strong safety mid-way through the season. From that point until his high school career ended, he started every game at strong safety for the Southern Texas Bobcats. His defensive play was dominant and he was an all-state selection for three years in a row from his freshman to junior years. He was also named the Texas High School Defensive Player of the year at the end of his junior season. The scholarship offers poured and he was recruited by almost every major university in the country. He f! inally accepted a scholarship to play at the University of Florida. But, his college career never came to be because Cooper was injured in the fourth game of his senior season. While running back an interception, he was hit from behind causing him to fall forward awkwardly and tear his PCL. The doctors told him he would never be able to play competitive football again. Rather than become depressed, Cooper decided to channel his efforts elsewhere and devoted himself entirely to his schoolwork and was able to get a partial academic scholarship to the University of Texas. Also during the time while he was rehabilitating, he met Alex Sanders who had been a local wrestling legend around the Dallas-Fort Worth area for years. Cooper began to tell Sanders that he was a big wrestling fan and wouldn't mind training to become a professional wrestler since he still had a desire to compete against top athletes. Sanders began training Cooper who was also taking classes at UT in business administration. After a year in college, Cooper decided that wrestling was going to be his future and not running a business. So, he began training with Sanders full-time and was instrumental in helping Sanders found his Texas School of Wrestling. After nearly two years of training with Sanders, Cooper had his professional wrestling debut in the Southern States Wrestling A! lliance on September 6, 1994 winning his first match. At the time he was billed as "Kid" Cooper, but he was quickly given the nickname "Prime Time" by SSWA President Donnie Anson who said that Cooper was one of the hardest working wrestlers he had and all his matches were worthy of "those prime time shows on cable." Now Being billed as "Prime Time," Cooper slowly worked his way up the ranks and defeated The Redneck for the Southern Heavyweight Title in January of '95. Cooper held the title until he left the SSWA in April of that year when he lost a loser leaves town match to his mentor Alex Sanders. Cooper spent the next year bouncing from fed to fed, slowly making a name for himself before he was signed by the Bluegrass Wrestling Alliance in December of '95. There he had a tremendous feud with Bluegrass Champion "Main Event" Mark Ellis that many consider to be one of Cooper's strongest feuds to date. The feud culminated with a steel cage first blood match that Cooper won to gain the second title of his career. Cooper reigned as the Bluegrass Champion from February '96 until he left in May of that year. It was during this time that a bitter feud erupted between BWA President Chris Sanders and BWA Vice-President Jeremy Banks. The feud divided the BWA and eventually saw it begin to split into two factions. During a BWA television show, Banks then declared he was leaving the BWA to open his own fed, the North American Wrestling Federation, and was taking "The Franchise" of the BWA with him and he announced that Cooper Tate was going to be the man he built the NAWF around. The NAWF held it's first card in May in which the newly dubbed "Franchise" Cooper Tate made it to the finals of the NAWF World Title tournament. He lost the match, but was awarded the NAWF United States Title. He held that title until June when he began to go after the NAWF World Title in a feud with "Hollywood" Rip Boulder. "The Franchise" quickly became one of the top draws and his win over Boulder to win the NAWF World Title on July 4th marked his arrival as one of the top names in the sport. He held that title until late August when he lost it in an amazing Fatal Four Way Cage Match. The winner of that match, Shawn Striker, and The Franchise had a heated feud going and were getting ready for a sixty minute Ironman Match when the NAWF had to close it's doors. After the NAWF closed, The Franchise had no problem finding work and began a stint in the Hotshot e-Wrestling League. The Franchise also became a main draw in HEL and went on to hold all three singles titles. His feud with former HEL Champion Shane Jenkins culminated with The Franchise winning the HEL Championship at the federation's final card. It is after this time when success seemed to go to The Franchise's head. Beginning with his stint in the NAWF and continuing today, The Franchise has easily fallen into being pursued by the main stream media. He has always been a welcome guest on MTV as well as several of the late night talk shows as well as Howard Stern's nationally syndicated radio program. It's at this time that The Franchise began to not only wrestle, but also be bask in the acceptance he had accepted from the mainstream. The Franchise began competing in two and three feds at a time in an effort to prove that he was indeed as good as he said. For nearly six months ! he bounced around from fed to fed winning several different titles, but always looked down upon his competition. That was until he joined the American Heritage Wrestling Alliance in March of 1997. In the AHWA, The Franchise wrecked havoc and went after anyone and everyone quickly alienating himself from the members of the fed. Despite having hardly any allies at all, The Franchise decided to go after The Faction, the AHWA's dominate stable that featured the AHWA World, North American, and Tag Team Champions. The Franchise began a strategy of picking off each member at a time and was successful in injuring three of the four members over a course of almost six weeks. Finally, he had a match against the head of The Faction and AHWA World Champion "Marvelous" Mike Morton where he was able to win the AHWA World Title. One week later, The Franchise lost a loser leaves town match to Morton when every member of The Faction returned and interfered on Morton's behalf. After the match they broke The Franchise's leg in three places and put him on the shelf for nearly six months. After that incident, The Franchise has spent the past couple of years bouncing around from indy fed to indy fed, mainly being brought in as a Special Enforcer or a Commissioner. He made up with BWA President Chris Sanders and served as BWA Commissioner for nearly eight months. His eight month tenure as commissioner ended when he intentionally lost a match for the commissioner position to The Psycho Phantom because he wanted out of his contract so that he could devote his time to training for his full-time return to the ring. He made his return to the wrestling world in the summer of 2000 when he joined the JNF and quickly became one of their main draws and, arguably, the top heel in the fed. Starting out working his way up through fueds with Yobbo, Squigg, and Awesome Tom, The Franchise caught the eye of JNF CEO Le Poncho and was dubbed "Poncho's Franchise." With the stroke of the most powerful man in the fed on his side, The Franchise quickly shot up through the roster. His fued with The Raging Hobo, nicknamed The Turtle Rape Saga, is legendary among the fans of the JNF. Two epic matches took place in which The Franchise was victorious both times. During all of this, The Franchise won the GOLD Championship from Buzz in a brutual match that all but ended Buzz's JNF career. His brutal fued with Havok culminated in a first blood match at the JNF's last ppv Landslide, where The Franchise came out on top as the last JNF GOLD Champion. Match History none