UpdatedName: "The Crusher" Stan Fulton
Birthdate: 09/08/1976
Alignment: heel
Build: Think wrecking ball with arms and legs; curly black hair and full bushy beard and mustache.
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 367 lbs.
Hometown (birthplace): Hoyt Lakes on Minnesota's Iron Range.
Resides (hails from): Duluth, Minnesota
Style: brawler (lots of clotheslines, headbutts, punches) and mat wrestler; very little aerial offense (see below)
Special Moves: Can every once in a while pull off a dropkick
Signature Moves: "Drop Line" (running elbow to the chest), "Clear Cut" (a spinning clothesline), powerslam, bell clap to the ears, body avalanche, thumb to the eye, "Stump Shot" (headbutt to the groin)
Finisher: "The Crusher" (a big splash from the 2nd turnbuckle) or the "Backcut Slam" (spinning side slam aka Abyss's Black Hole Slam)
Entrance Music:
“Fifty Goddamn Skeleton Warriors” by DeathmøleEntrance Lights/Pyro: None/Standard House lighting
Pre-OOWF Career HighlightsMinnesota Wrestling Authority Heavyweight Champion [x6]
Minnesota Wrestling Authority Wrestler of the Year [x2] (2006, 2007)
OOWF ChampionshipsOOWF World Heavyweight Champion [x2]
World Tag Team Champions [x2] (with Ecosystem; with Matt Folz)
Onslaught [x4]
DDT Iron Man Heavy Metal [x5]
Intercontinental [x2]
Campeonas de Trios (w/ LD Williams and Tytan) [x1]
OOWF Awards and Achievements2016: OOWF Hall of Fame inductee
2014: Wrestler of the Year
2014: Finisher of the Year
2014: Heel of the Year
2014: Angle of the Year ("Fulton embraces his dark side")
2014: Catchphrase of the Year ("Enjoy the Pain")
2013: Grand Slam Championship
2013: Six-Pack Championship
2013: Angle of the Year ("The Redemption of Eco & Fulton")
2012: Angle of the Year ("The Rise & Fall of the New Guard")
2012: Catchphrase of the Year ("I Can’t Believe I Work in This Shithole")
2011: Gimmick of the Year ("No Gimmick Needed")
2010: Tag Team Invitational (with Matt Folz)
Associates: Martha Rodriguez (his personal attache and CEO of Grand Slam Consulting North LLC, Fulton's personal consulting company); The Saints of Sinners (Moosehead Jack, Stank, Matt Folz, Firewoman)
OOWF Debut:
Midweek Mayhem: May 19, 2010
Backstory and other info: Stan Fulton began his professional career working for independent promotions throughout the Northern part of Minnesota where he gained the sobriquet of "The Crusher" just like his idol, Jerry Blackwell. After about three or four years and a few small market titles, Fulton left the US for South Korea.
Fulton competed in the Chuseok Ssireum Championships on a number of occasions in the Baekdu weight class, winning two. He also competed in the 2009 Korea Ssireum Grand Championship in Seoul where he finished sixth.
After the 2009 tournament, Fulton traveled across South Korea learning Taekwondo and Haidong Gumdo from some of the world's greatest masters. Finally returning to the States in early 2010, Fulton returned to Minnesota and won the Minnesota Wrestling Authority Heavyweight Champion for the sixth and final time in February 2010 and immediately abandoned it and the organization in a speech that's still regarded as one of the MWA's Greatest Moments.
Fulton joined the OOWF in May 2010 and debuted on the May 19, 2010
Midweek Mayhem defeating Bishop Blaize. His first PPV was
Storming the Beach later that month where he won a three-way match against Outback Jack and Spin Hansen.
After a short feud with Matt Folz, Fulton spent some time in the Onslaught Championship title picture winning it on four separate occasions. He never however pinned a challenger while holding the belt. He only held onto the belt by time limit draw.
He then joined the Ecosystem-led stable known as DEVIL (nee DEVILS, nee E-DEVILS, nee DELIVERS). He left that stable on September 10, 2010 and then teamed with Matt Folz again. Not long after, when Folz joined Alexander Darling's "Unforgiven" stable, Fulton developed a tag team with Ravenna Blue ("Beauty and the Beast") before she left the OOWF, never to be seen again. Fulton then teamed with Moosehead Jack and Stank in that year's Trios tournament.
Fulton not long after found himself in the Intercontinental title picture, fighting against self-proclaimed champion, Ecosystem, who, as OOWF CEO, stripped Matt Folz of the belt. In Eco's first PPV defense, at
MADNESS 7 on March 27, 2011, he lost the IC title to Fulton.
Fulton then defeated Eco (in Eco's rematch-clause match) and Matt Folz in subsequent bouts before taking on DH Magnusson in four straight weekly matches, the first and last for the title; those two were won by Fulton, the last being a chain match at
No Justice, No Peace. His next title defense would be his last as he lost a match to Zane Myers added at the last second to a
Mayhem card by new GM, Selena al-Takriti, on June 22, 2011. Fulton regained the IC title at
Mid-Summer Night's Scream 5 on June 26, 2011 in a three-way-dance against Myers and JW Westgaard, pinning Myers for the title. Fulton lost the IC title to Chris Evans at
Judgment Eve on 08/28/2011.
While Intercontinental Champion, Fulton completed for the Campeonas de Trios Championships along with Regicide (LD Williams and Tytan), winning those titles by defeating Drink & Destroy on
Midweek Mayhem on 07/13/2011.
Following his short, but successful tenure in the IC picture, Fulton found himself without a direction. Working with Grand Slam Champion and self-proclaimed Greatest of All Time, Davin Moreland, in addition to WWE Legend Kevin Nash, Fulton set his sights on the World Heavyweight Championship that was held at that time by Alexander Darling. Darling lost the title to Eric O'Mac at
Hell on Earth in late September 2011 and Fulton convinced GM Selena al-Takriti to grant him a World Championship match at
Doomy Doomy Doom Doom 8 on October 29, 2011, at which Fulton defeated O'Mac to become OOWF World Heavyweight Champion.
There were insinuations that Fulton was part of a stable along with Moose, Stank, LD Williams and Tytan, but nothing was seen of the five men together other than random meetings in coffee shops and bars and the team of Regicide and Fulton for the Trios titles.
After his matches with Chris Evans for the Intercontinental Championship, Fulton was recruited to be a part of Evan's stable called the New Guard in late 2011. Fulton refused as he didn't believe Evans was a serious leader or talent. At least that what it was made to seem. Actually, Folz convinced Fulton to join the New Guard, but to wait until the right time to spring the news. Which was done during
November Pain where Fulton not only joined the New Guard, but helped put Dynamite Danny Taylor in the hospital.
Fulton continued to hold the World Championship, defeating Davin Moreland twice (once in a cage), Ricky Soaring Eagle, Psyckle and Comrade Sharkoff amongst others. He finally lost the title to LD Williams at
MADNESS 8 on May 25, 2012.
Fulton rejoined the tag team division teaming with fellow New Guard member Mai Muyo in a new incarnation of Beauty and the Beast before Mai started competing as a singles wrestler and winning the Intercontinental Championship. Fulton, however, won a championship contract good for any title in the OOWF.
Fulton was still friends with Mai and had become part of a new tag team called Salvation with Mai's brother Ecosystem. As Fulton and Eco have quite a past (see history above), tensions had run high as Fulton attempted to bring Eco back from the dark side and become a true face in the OOWF. Salvation achieved the goal for which Fulton set out: they became Tag Team Champions at
Hell on Earth IX on September 29, 2013 by turning heel and defeating Texpress in a best 2 out of 3 match showing everyone that it was Eco who was turning Fulton not the other way around. This partnership then quickly ended as each man achieved what they wanted; Fulton got the Grand Slam and Eco proved that he still was the master manipulator.
Fulton was then offered and accepted an invitation to join the Saints of Sinners, along with a one-of-a-kind OOWF Grand Slam Championship title belt. The Saints were at the time composed of Moosehead Jack, Chloe, LD Williams, Stank and Stan Fulton. Fulton's personalities and gimmicks were stripped away by Moosehead Jack until the Crusher was laid bare, clear of the minutia that kept the true Crusher from being dominant. Fulton's first major statement upon achieving this enlightenment was to tie Mai to a chair and make her watch while Eco was crucified. Fulton's emergence as one of the truly wicked members of the roster was complete. Finally, on Christmas Island, at
Territorial Beatings IX, Stan Fulton regained the OOWF World Heavyweight Championship, defeating Ghosthead inside a steel cage.
The 2014 OOWF Season ended as the most successful ever for Fulton, as he reigns as World Heavyweight Champion and won the Wrestler, Heel, Finisher and Catchphrase of the Year Awards, along with being part of the Angle of the Year as well.
After a brutal 2015 series of matches with Alexander Darling, Fulton retired from active wrestling and returned to South Korea to meditate and study the martial arts further. He turned over control of his consulting company to Martha Rodriguez and went into seclusion, appearing only once in 2016 to accept his co-induction into the OOWF Hall of Fame. At least until May of 2018 when Fulton returned to the Saints of Sinners after a call from Moosehead Jack. Within a few weeks of his return, he won the OOWF Tag Team Championships for a second time (completing his second Grand Slam), this time with his former long time adversary and current Saints of Sinners stable-mate, Matt Folz. Fulton was a loyal member of the Saints of Sinners in the war of control for the OOWF in 2018.
Fulton again stepped away from the OOWF after the first round of the OOWF Invitational in February 2019; his last match being a victory over his sensei, Moosehead Jack. He returned to Minnesota where he lives in a modest house overlooking the Duluth harbor, watching OOWF and buying up whatever interests of theirs are ever for sale (e.g., the PHWF, OOWF Catering, etc.).
Personality: Fulton is usually very respectful to everyone, even if he doesn't like them much (think Nick Bockwinkel). An occasional swear word might escape him, but he doesn't speak like a sailor, especially when women are around. He is usually the consummate gentleman.
He does have a short temper, a result of his Italian heritage and can be set off completely, but never over trivial minutiae. He has a distrust, bordering on a psychological fear, of clowns and dwarves. An oddity: though being from Minnesota's Iron Range and Duluth, he doesn't like Bob Dylan much nor cares for winter's snows. He's a fan of hockey, fantasy football and of NASCAR and will be seen occasionally watching races with Awesome Bill From Dawsonville.
