Scott Colton (born May 6,
1980 in Chicago) is an American
professional wrestler better known by
his ring name Colt
Cabana. Colton is most notably known from his time
in
Ring of Honor, which he is
currently employed by. Colton also wrestled as
Scotty
Goldman in
World
Wrestling Entertainment and as
Matt Classic in
MTV's
Wrestling
Society X.
He began his professional wrestling career in ROH, where he was
placed in a rivalry with
CM Punk before
uniting with Punk and
Ace Steel to form
the
Second City Saints alliance.
He later formed a
tag team with Punk to win
the
World Tag Team
Championship twice. He also had
rivalries with
Homicide and
then-
World Champion Bryan Danielson. He has also toured in
countries outside of the United States, and he was a part of the
short lived Wrestling Society X on MTV in late 2006, where he
portrayed an "old school" wrestling persona. In 2007, he left ROH
to wrestle in
Ohio Valley
Wrestling, a developmental territory of World Wrestling
Entertainment, where he won the
Television Championship once and the
Southern Tag Team
Championship once with
Charles Evans and once with
Shawn
Spears. He made several appearances with WWE on its
SmackDown brand before being released from his
contract in February 2009.
Professional wrestling career
Ring of Honor
Scott Colton was trained by Chris Guy (
Ace
Steel) and Danny Dominion, alongside Phil Brooks (
CM Punk). He broke into
Ring of Honor with the name Colt Cabana as CM
Punk's rival before joining Punk's alliance, the
Second City Saints. Cabana and Punk later
became two–time
ROH Tag
Team Champions. With Punk becoming a singles star, Cabana
feuded with
Austin Aries and
Nigel McGuinness. On August 13, 2005 Cabana
defeated Punk in a
two out
of three falls match in their hometown of Chicago in what was
supposed to be Punk's last ROH match before going to
World Wrestling
Entertainment.
Between August 2005 and April 2006, Cabana was involved in a feud
with
Homicide, which featured Cabana
being strangled with a metal coat hanger, bleeding from numerous
chair shots, having
Drāno poured down his
throat, being piledriven off the ring apron through a table, and
getting his head crushed between a ladder. On April 1, 2006 in
Chicago, Colt Cabana finally got his revenge and earned the respect
of Homicide after a
Chicago Street
Fight, which saw the feud settled with a handshake and an
embrace.
After his
decisive victory against Homicide, Colt Cabana challenged the
ROH World Champion Bryan Danielson for the World Championship
at Ring of Honor's 100th show on April 22, 2006 in Philadelphia
. Danielson defeated him in less than five
minutes. Feeling he lost the match because he had spent the past
eight months "brawling" as opposed to wrestling, Cabana rededicated
himself. He eventually earned a rematch against Danielson at
Chi-Town Struggle on June 24, though he once again lost.
Cabana received one last shot against Danielson for the ROH World
Championship on August 26. The two fought to a 60-minute time limit
draw in a two out of three falls match, with each wrestler earning
one fall.
In October 2006, Cabana was involved in an auto accident with
fellow Ring of Honor stars
Adam Pearce
and
Dave Prazak.
Cabana was driving
from a Ring of Honor event in Dayton, Ohio
when he lost control of their car due to the
weather conditions. The car was totaled but everyone was
wearing seat belts, which saved their lives. It was initially
reported that Cabana had to have a toe amputated, though in reality
he had only bruised it. Despite the injury, Cabana wrestled the
next night in Chicago Ridge, Illinois. Pearce and Prazak also
walked away with bruises but were otherwise fine.
On April 3, 2007 it was revealed by the Ring of Honor website that
Colton had signed a WWE developmental contract and would soon leave
to begin working for their developmental territory
Ohio Valley Wrestling. At
Good
Times, Great Memories (named in his honor), held on April 28
in Chicago, Cabana defeated long-time friend and fellow Chicago
wrestler Adam Pearce.
Wrestling Society X
In November 2006, Colton taped several matches for
Wrestling Society X (WSX), a new
wrestling series on MTV. He competed under the name Matt Classic,
who is a throwback to the wrestlers of the 1950s and 1960s. His
gimmick used "old school" moves such as the
skull vice and the
abdominal
stretch as finishers. To further enhance his gimmick as an old
school wrestler, his WSX profile listed him as having won the
Heavyweight Championship in 1952 (28 years before he was born).
According to
Kevin Kleinrock, the
plan was for Cabana to appear in season two as "Letterman" Colt
Cabana, the frat brother of
Matt Sydal
and Sydal's girlfriend
Lizzy
Valentine would be cheating on Sydal with Cabana. The Matt
Classic gimmick was created as a way to "bring Colt into the WSX
family" in the first season, and Kleinrock said they did not expect
the character to catch on.
Outside the US
In 2004 and 2005, Colton went on extensive tours of Europe,
competing in Scotland, Germany and France, but mainly England. He
received the 2004 Match of the Year in a
European rounds style bout with
World of
Sport journeyman,
Johnny
Kidd. Cabana also did a short tour of
Puerto Rico for
IWA PR in early 2005.
During
2006, Cabana would become a popular wrestler in the British
promotion 1 Pro
Wrestling (1PW) often tag teaming with Darren Burridge as Team SHAG (Street
Hooligans Adventure Gang). During 1PW's first anniversary
show Team SHAG won the 1PW Tag Team Championship during a three way
ladder match against the defending champions
Jonny Storm and
Jody
Fleisch, and the Southern Comfort team of
Tracey Smothers and
Chris Hamrick.
Cabana also made his Japanese debut for
Zero 1 Max in 2006. In a later tour, he
formed an alliance with Steve Corino and Yoshi known as the P Force
Men, which wore all pink outfits. Colt's also appeared and wrestled
for Ireland's Irish Whip Wrestling, Austria's Rings of Europe and
various Montreal & Toronto Canadian independents. Colton's
final European appearance as an independent wrestler took place at
UK promotion 1PW on April 6, 2007 where he, along with fellow Team
SHAG member Darren Burridge, successfully defended the 1PW Tag Team
Championship against
Doug
Williams and
Nigel McGuinness,
before formally retiring his half of the title.
World Wrestling Entertainment (2007-2009)
Colton has also worked a number of preliminary matches in
World Wrestling Entertainment
(WWE) on its
Heat and
Velocity shows. On one occasion, he
competed under the name Chris Guy, the real name of his trainer
Ace Steel. The real Chris Guy wrestled in
a match for WWE in 2004 under the name of Scott Colton, Colton's
real name.
On April 3, 2007 it was announced that Colton had signed a contract
with WWE. He was assigned to
Ohio
Valley Wrestling, their developmental territory, and made his
debut at a TV taping on May 30. Wrestling as Colt "Boom Boom"
Cabana, he lost to
Michael W. Kruel in the first round of a tournament to
determine who would face
The Miz at an
OVW live event on June 8. He won his first match in OVW when he
forced the Belgium Brawler to submit with the
Chicago Crab on June 23.
After helping
Al Snow regain the role of OVW
Troubleshooter from Kruel, Cabana became involved in the
OVW Television Championship
picture, defeating champion
Shawn
Spears by countout on August 11. Cabana twice came close to
winning the title only to be denied by the TV time-limit expiring.
Cabana defeated Spears on October 31, 2007 to win the OVW
Television title. When OVW was replaced by
Florida Championship
Wrestling (FCW) as the WWE developmental territory, Colt Cabana
was moved down to FCW.
On the August 15, 2008 edition of
SmackDown, Colton made
his debut as Scotty Goldman, losing to The
Brian Kendrick. On the August 22 edition of
SmackDown, Goldman was a participant in the 10-man
battle royal
match to determine a qualifier for the
WWE Championship scramble match at
Unforgiven. Goldman lost after being
eliminated by
Curt Hawkins
and Zack Ryder. His last singles match on
SmackDown!
was a quick loss against
The Great
Khali. He appeared in an
Elimination Chamber qualifying battle
royal on the February 6, 2009 edition but was eliminated first.
This was his first appearance on TV in almost five months. Colton
had a show on WWE.com, called
Good as Goldman, formerly
known as
What's Crackin'?, which premiered on January 14,
2009. He, however, received his release from his WWE contract on
February 20, 2009. His final match for WWE, a losing effort to
Umaga, was aired on the February 20
episode of
SmackDown. During his tenure on the main roster
of WWE, he was mainly utilized as a
jobber.
Return to the independent circuit and Ring of Honor
On February 21, 2009, Colton made his return to
Pro Wrestling Guerrilla at
Express Written Consent where he, as Colt Cabana,
challenged
Chris Hero for the
PWG World Championship in a 3-way
match which also included
Human
Tornado. Hero was able to retain his belt by pinning Tornado
and afterwards promised Cabana a 1-on-1 shot at the belt. On March
14, 2009, he was defeated by Loca Vida at 2CW in Binghamton, NY in
a classic comedy match.
On March 21, 2009, he made his surprise return to Ring of Honor. In
a tag match at the ROH 7th Anniversary Show, Bryan Danielson and
his mystery partner, the returning Colt Cabana, defeated Bison
Smith and his mystery partner who was revealed to be the also
returning Jimmy Rave.
On April 25, Colton received an ROH World Title shot against Jerry
Lynn but lost.
On June 6, Colt Cabana debuted on
Ring of
Honor's HDNet Program, teaming with
Brent Albright. On June 27 he beat
D'Lo Brown on a ROH show.
At the September 22 tapings of
Total Nonstop Action
Wrestling's weekly television program
Impact!, Colton, under his Colt Cabana
persona, wrestled in a dark match, where he defeated
Puma.
Personal life
Colton
went to Western Michigan University
and played on their football team until graduating in
2002 with a degree in Business
marketing. While there he became friends with
Matt Cappotelli, who went on to win
WWE Tough Enough
3. Colton and
CM Punk are good
friends in real life, and they are both mentioned in
Kidd Russell's single "I'll Do One." Russell
also performed the "
Copa Cabana"
remix that Colton used as entrance music with his Colt Cabana
persona.
Colton is
Jewish. He has a brother named
Greg Colton, who works on
Fox Network's
Family
Guy.
In wrestling
-
- As Colt Cabana
- As Matt Classic
- Entrance
themes
- "Boom Boom" by Kidd Russell (ROH)
- "Copacabana" by Barry Manilow (ROH)
- "Super Freak" by Rick James (ROH; Used at Testing the
Limit as a tribute to Rick James)
- "Copacabana (Remix)" by Barry Manilow and Kidd Russell (ROH /
Independent circuit)
- "Anarchy" by Peter Northcote and Lindsay Jehan (WWE)
Championship and accomplishments
- All-Star Championship Wrestling / NWA Wisonsin
- ACW/NWA Wisconsin Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- Insane Wrestling Federation
- IWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- International Wrestling Cartel
- IWC Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- IWC Super Indy Championship (1 time)
- Landmark Wrestling Federation
- LWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- Pro Wrestling WORLD-1 Great Lakes
- WORLD-1 Great Lakes Openweight Championship (1 time)
- Steel Domain Wrestling
- SDW Television Championship (1 time)
- Other titles
- ICW/ICWA Tex-Arkana Television Championship (4 times)
- MMW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- PWF Cruiserweight Championship (1 time)
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