Sean Royal

Professional wrestling career

Early career (1984–1986) Sean Royal made his professional wrestling debut in 1984 after training under Hiro Matsuda. He initially worked for Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The team made a special appearance in Memphis, working for the Continental Wrestling Association (CWA) where they lost to the MOD Squad on a show in the Mid-South Coliseum on September 1, 1986.

On December 25, 1986, the New Breed defeated Vic Steamboat and Kendall Windham in the finals of a tournament for the vacant NWA Florida Tag Team Championship, which had been inactive since 1981. After the title win the New Breed was put into a storyline feud with the face team (those that portray the good guys) the Southern Boys (Steve Armstrong and Tracy Smothers). The feud between the two teams led to the Southern Boys defeating the New Breed for the NWA Florida Tag Team Championship on February 11, 1987. The team kept their futuristic gimmick and their heel characters (those that portray the bad guys) as they were immediately put up against the popular team the Rock 'n' Roll Express of Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson, stating that they had been sent back from the future to save the fans from the Rock 'n' Roll Express, who would supposedly go crazy over what happened to Rock and Roll in the year 2000.

The storyline with the Rock 'n' Roll Express was still in its infant stages when the New Breed was involved in a car accident and Chris Champion's injuries forced him to not wrestle for an extended period. JCP used the sympathy that Royal and Champion garnered from the car accident to turn the team into faces, as Jim Cornette, the manager of the Midnight Express tried to recruit Royal to his group, but Royal refused. During his recuperation, Champion appeared on television with circuit boards and wires glued to his cast, making it look like it was a futuristic "healing device". On November 26, 1987 the New Breed was scheduled to face the Sheepherders (Luke Williams and Butch Miller) in a steel cage match for the UWF World Tag Team Championship as part of the Universal Wrestling Federation's Superdome pre-Starrcade '87 show, but Champion failed to appear for the event. Royal defeated Killer Khalifa in a singles match at the event instead. Royal since stated in a shoot interview that he was livid with Champion over this, and he retired from full-time wrestling soon after, opting to become a construction worker instead. He wrestled his last NJPW match on November 4, 1993 as part of a special NJPW show in Sumo Hall. Royal teamed up with the Barbarian, losing to the Jurassic Powers. He would retire from wrestling.

NWA Wildside (2000–2002) In 2000, Royal returned to pro wrestling, teaming up with Rusty Riddle to form a team known as Total Destruction in NWA Wildside. As a member of Total Destruction Royal once again plays a heel character, leading to a storyline where the team was banned from NWA Wildside for 30 days. During that time period the team won the NWA Wildside Tag Team Championship from Blackout (Homicide and Rainman) after a surprise challenge, but since the team was supposed to be banned from working in NWA Wildside they were forced to return the championship to Blackout a week later. NWA Wildside NWA Wildside Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Rusty Riddle