Tazz

Peter Senerchia is an American radio personality, color commentator, and retired professional wrestler. He made his professional wrestling debut on June 3, 1987 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, after being trained by Johnny Rodz. He wrestled as Kid Krush before moving on to the name The Tazmaniac, which he would use variations of for the rest of his career.

About Tazz in brief

Summary Tazz Peter Senerchia is an American radio personality, color commentator, and retired professional wrestler. He is known for his work in Extreme Championship Wrestling. He made his professional wrestling debut on June 3, 1987 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, after being trained by Johnny Rodz. He wrestled as Kid Krush before moving on to the name The Tazmaniac, which he would use variations of for the rest of his career. His World Wrestling FederationEntertainment career as an in-ring performer came to an early end in 2002 and subsequently saw him transition into a color-commentary role. In April 2009, he debuted in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling at their Victory Road pay-per-view under his previous Taz ring name and eventually reprised his role as a color commentator for TNA’s broadcasts, replacing Don West. Taz turned heel and joined up with Bill Alfonso when Taz was brought back in that night’s match with ECW commissioner Bill Alfonso. He then refused to count to three and assaulted Tazod Gordon, then making the count for Alfonso, making the match a no-contest. He was also the special referee for the match between The Steiner Brothers and Jason Steiner in November 2002. He has also worked as a referee for ECW’s matches with the likes of Tommy Dreamer and The Undertaker. He currently works for All Elite Wrestling as a commentator and manager. He also has a successful career as a professional wrestler in New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in 1994 and the IWCCW World Tag Team Championship in 1995.

In the early 1990s, he wrestled for International World Class Championship Wrestling and held its Light Heavyweight Championships for six months in 1991. He held the title once more, this time with Sabu, until Sabu was legitimately fired by ECW owner Paul Heyman for no-showing an event in favor of touring Japan for New Japanpro Wrestling. On July 20, 1995, during a tag team match 2 Cold Scorpio and Dean Malenko delivered a spike piledriver to him, and though he knew it was about to be performed, he did not have time to properly protect himself. As he explained on the DVD documentary The Rise and Fall of ECW, he landed right on his forehead and just jacked his whole neck back and that was it. He would go on to make two additional appearances on house shows in New Jersey on June 29 and June 30, losing to Jim Powers on each occasion. On May 5, 1993, he made his only appearance ever in World Championship Wrestling when he defeated Joey Maggs in a dark match at a Saturday Night taping in Atlanta, Georgia on February 8, 1993. In August 1994, he competed in a one-night eight-man tournament for the vacant NWA world heavyweight Championship, losing against Shane Douglas in the quarter-finals. In October 1993 at NWA Bloodfest, he formed a tagteam with Joe Chetti and Kevin Sullivan called The TZmaniacs. When that team broke up, he was put into another team with Kevin Sullivan, with whom he won two Tag Team Championships twice.