Sylvester Terkay

Early life While attending North Carolina State University, Terkay was a member of the Wolfpack wrestling team. He won four consecutive ACC heavyweight wrestling championships (1990, 1991, 1992, and 1993). Terkay finished the season as a first-team All-American in each of his final three seasons.

Inoki Genome Federation / Pro Wrestling Zero1 and Later career (2007–2012) After leaving the WWE, Terkay returned to wrestling for the Japanese promotions of Inoki Genome Federation (IGF) and Pro Wrestling Zero1 and wrestled under his alter ego The Predator. At IGF's Genome14, Terkay faced Keith Hanson in a match which ended after an angry Antonio Inoki legitimately came to ringside and shouted at both of them to stop.

On March 31, 2012 Terkay worked his last match which took place in Georgetown, Guyana for the WrestleRama event when he teamed with Paul Lee losing to Raven and Tom Howard.

Mixed martial arts career During his time in Zero1, Terkay also fought in several mixed martial arts (MMA) matches for K-1. He made his debut by knocking out his opponent Mauricio da Silva in 13 seconds as part of the annual K-1 New Year's Eve spectacular, K-1 Dynamite. He returned at the Romanex event in 2004, facing Ultimate Fighting Championship and PRIDE Fighting Championships veteran Gary Goodridge. Despite Terkay's size advantage, experience played in Goodridge's favor and he finished Sylvester in 1:22.

Also in 2004, however, Terkay defeated K-1 veteran Kristof Midoux, former trainer of Georges St-Pierre and Choi Mu-Bae, submitting him with a wrestling neck crank. This attracted a revenge match against Mu-Bae, which was won again by Terkay by unanimous decision in his last MMA venture. It was reported he had trouble getting fight contracts, as his lack of name value mixed with his good performances were seen as dangerous to established stars.

Kickboxing career In December 2005, Terkay made his kickboxing debut against Remy Bonjasky in K-1 Premium 2005, losing the match in a controversial unanimous decision. The normally polite Japanese audience booed heavily at this outcome, feeling Terkay was the true winner, and K-1 chairman Sadaharu Tanikawa agreed their opinion in the post-event press conference.

Terkay had his second and last kickboxing fight at K-1 Las Vegas, facing fellow superheavyweight Choi Hong-man, who came similarly from losing to Remy Bonjasky. Hong-man scored an early knockdown, but Terkay came back fast and fought a back and forth first round. The second round wasn't any different, with the Korean taking another point by knockdown and making Terkay bleed, only for Terkay to rally back and almost drop Choi down before the bell rang. At the third, Terkay controlled an exhausted Choi, harassing him with combinations against the ropes until the end of the match. The decision was given to Choi due to the points scored. As in the previous match, the audience booed the decision, again feeling that Terkay was the victor and that the score system did not do justice to the match.

Filmography Film Film Year Film Role Notes 1999 My Favorite Martian Huge Guard Movie 1999 Pros & Cons Prison Guard Movie 1999 Universal Soldier: The Return Hospital Security Guard Movie 2004 Slammed The Goon Movie 2005 101 Reasons Not to Be a Pro Wrestler Himself / The Predator Video documentary 2006 Evil Bong Bouncer Movie 2008 Muay Thai Giant Movie 2010 True Legend Elder Scot Brother Movie 2012 Extreme Rising Mum Movie 2014 Pro Wrestlers vs Zombies Himself Movie

Television Television Year Title Episode Role Notes 1994 Coach "Coach for a Day: Part 2" Walter TV series 1995 In the House "Christmas Story" Santa TV series 1996 The Parent 'Hood "Substitute's Pet" Burly Man TV series 1996 The Bold and the Beautiful "Episode #1.2378" Harry TV series 1999 Mad About You "Separate Beds" Amish Hellcat TV series 1999 V.I.P. "The Quick and the Dead" Bruno TV series 2000 Indie Wrestling School N/A Himself TV movie 2001 Black Scorpion "Fire and Brimstone" and "No Stone Unturned" Granite TV series

Mixed martial arts record Win

Mu Bae Choi Decision (unanimous) K-1 HERO's - HERO's 2005 in Seoul

Seoul, South Korea Win

Kristof Midoux Submission (neck crank) K-1 - Premium 2004 Dynamite!!

Osaka, Japan Loss

Gary Goodridge TKO (punches) K-1 MMA - Romanex

Saitama, Japan Win

Mauricio da Silva TKO (punches) K-1 - Premium 2003 Dynamite!!

Nagoya, Japan K-1 record

Championships and accomplishments

Amateur wrestling National Collegiate Athletic Association 1993 NCAA Division I Champion 3-time Division I NCAA All-American 4-time ACC Champion

Professional wrestling Pro Wrestling Illustrated Ranked No. 150 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2003 Pro Wrestling Zero1 Zero-One United States Heavyweight Championship (2 times) Ultimate Pro Wrestling UPW Heavyweight Championship (1 time, inaugural)