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On March 14th, 1984 at around five in the morning, a son was bore onto Lori and Thomas Harvey, going by the name of Craig R. Harvey. Little did these pair of lucky parents realize what kind of trouble this one boy would cause as he got older. During the first three or four years of his life, the family lived on a farm somewhere outside of La Porte city area, Craig not actually having that many friends due to the fact that he spent most of his time inside, playing with his pet hamster and watching TV. When the family found out that Craig’s mom was pregnant again, his dad decided that it was time to move away from the farm. Craig, of course, was sad, seeing as how that meant leaving behind his first house, but went along with it willingly anyway. They moved to a trailer court in Iowa, where Craig really started to finally gain the friends that he hadn’t had when they lived on the farm, though he still wasn’t exactly the most popular of kids.

He took an early interest in shows such as Beast Wars and Transformers, mainly because of the fighting that was involved in each and every episode, this interest only increasing when he turned six and Power Rangers debuted. Along with getting an interest in Power Rangers when he turned six, his dad quit his job at Gates Tubing and took up a job as a trucker. The pay increase was enough for the family to move out of their trailer to the other side of the town into two story house, where Craig finally started meeting more friends as he turned seven years old. There was one friend he meet inpartciular, Jared Conrad, who really started changing Craig’s life, though it’s a matter of opinion on whether or not it was for the better. Whenever Craig visited Jared’s house, they usually ended up playing such games as WrestleMania on the Super Nintendo, or maybe one of his other games, but each one involved fighting in some way.

Finally, when he turned eight years old, he actually saw his first wrestling match on television. Though, to this day he can’t remember the entire thing, he remembers seeing the Brothers of Destruction, UnderTaker and Kane together, along with either Stone Cold Steve Austin or Big Show with them. His parents, of course, didn’t support the show at all, and it would actually be a few years from then until he would get to see professional wrestling again, which began again when he was 11 years old. He had been channel surfing when he noticed that WWE’s SmackDown was on the newest added channel, KPWB, and he immediately stopped channel surfing and sat back to watch it.

About midway through the show, his dad came in and sat down beside him, watching silently for a few minutes before he pointed out the one thing that Craig had been suspecting; professional wrestling was fake. Craig simply shrugged and told his dad he didn’t care, seeing as how it still entertained him, and his dad shook his head, sticking around for a few more minutes before he walked out, leaving Craig to continue watching it on his own. From then on, he would watch SmackDown every week until KPWB took it off their channel listing, which obviously angered the young boy, who then took the initiative and moved onto the computer for the first time at the age of twelve. He instantly delved into the RolePlay aspect of the chatrooms he visited, many people labeling him as a talent in the making. Eventually, though, he moved away from the chatrooms and onto different forums, where he started hearing news about the WWE, though after a few years, he started hearing about other promotions like TNA and RoH. After downloading a few recent matches from each of the big promotions, he instantly labeled TNA and RoH as better, and as such, started looking for way to make it into promotions like that later on in life.

One day, when Craig was typing up a promo for one of the e-feds he was in, his dad came in and again and noticed what he was doing, simply shaking his head and saying he was wasting his time with this ‘online all fake wrestling’. Craig simply ignored him, as he would do year in and year out after that, even as his parents more and more tried to convince Craig that professional wrestling was a waste of time. In his sophomore year of high school, he was supposed to choose someone he wanted to job shadow, and he instantly decided that he wanted to try and job shadow someone from a nearby independent promotion, but his dad said no as soon as he found out about it. His dad still labeled professional wrestling as a waste of time, even going as far as saying it wasn’t a real job, and forced Craig to choose another type of job to job shadow. Reluctantly, he chose a radio announcer, but his interest in professional wrestling was still not diminished.

When he turned sixteen, he brought up the fact that the same local independent promotion he had wanted to job shadow at was also offering training classes for anyone sixteen and up, as long as they had permission from their parents. His parents again instantly said no, which left Craig fuming mad, but he just refocused the energy more into his e-fedding and whipping himself into shape, even as parents kept telling him to forget about professional wrestling. In the two weeks leading up to Craig’s 18th birthday, he had started packing his belongings up, his parents basically begging him to stick around and goto a nearby college. He, of course, denied them and left early in the morning on the day of his birthday, never going back to visit them after doing so. Craig moved to Ames and briefly trained at the independent promotion’s wrestling school, never getting an official match due to the fact that everyone seemed scared of his usually stiff kicks and stiff chops. Getting tired of the treatment, he packed up again and moved down to Philadelphia, where he briefly trained in RoH’s wrestling school before leaving the country altogether.

He traveled the world, visiting different wrestling schools while doing odd jobs to pay for the schooling...until he reached the island of Gaia. Once there, he entered a rather...controversial phase of his life, where he pissed off pretty much anyone whom tried working with him, including the people who ran BTWF. During his time on Gaia, he formed two wrestling federations, NWFG and GWF, the first one not having any success whatsoever. After that federation collapsed, he came back to Bspam for a while...but after just a couple of months, he was fired and given a beatdown in his last match. In that beatdown, the likes of Darson Grays, Ravena, The Demon, The Punisher and Raymond Kage all came out and broke him, quite literally. But he refused to stay out of the game, and went on to reform the GWF, choosing to just book the matches whilst his injures slowly healed up. He dealt with his share of troublemakers, but he seemed to finally be on the road to calming down, even going as far as stepping up to Brian Blade and asking him if he would like for their two feds to converge into one. This caused large amounts of controversy, and after hearing the opinions of some of the superstars of his federation, Craig, now known permanently as Pohatu, fled from GWF, leaving it in the hands of another booker. Pohatu went back to BTWF, competing silently for quite sometime...until he got a letter of invitation from JWA, where Pohatu promptly started slacking off in BTWF again, focusing more of his energy on JWA. After getting a 2-0 winning streak in JWA, he was placed in a Universal title match against Virus, where they fought in an Ultimate X match. Virus won, but it took the help of his two cronies, Ryan Pileg and Respawn distracting the referee and knocking Pohatu out for Virus to win.

After that, Pohatu’s recent friend, The Tiger, came to JWA, and almost instantly the two clicked as a tag team. They went on to win the tag team titles from the tag team champions, White Dragon and Shadow, whom were a pair of big men who had been viewed as unstoppable. Unfortunately, Nature were only able to defend the titles once before JWA closed, defeating the very same people whom they had won the titles from. After JWA closed, Pohatu disappeared for a month or so, finally popping up in ExWA and forming Nature again with Tiger, who had already been there. The two didn’t have as much success in ExWA, though they did win the tag team titles, but when they did...a match was signed that would change Pohatu’s character. In the match that they won the tag team titles in, they defeated Daven and Senor Gomez, which would seem like a good thing for Nature...but it would actually end up putting their friendship on the line. Management revealed that the winning team would be facing off at Quest for Gold to determine the new ExWA Golden Champion, and since Nature had won...it would be two best friends battling against each other. The two of them went to the PayPerView and fought like it was their lives at stake, rather than a title, and Pohatu ended up countering a enzuigiri from Tiger and turned it into a Styles Clash for the win. After the match, the two shook hands to show that they were still friends, and went on to stay tag team partners and friends as JWA re-opened.

When JWA re-opened, people thought that everything was sorted; that JWA wouldn’t shut down again...but it was not to be. After just a couple of monthes, the federation again shutdown, leading to yet another controversial phase in Pohatu’s life. As all of his friends, including The Tiger, went off to Fuer Wrestling Alliance, Pohatu actually went off to a smaller company that was holding a tournament. Pohatu went to only the third round, being defeated by a person who hasn’t been heard from since the tournament ended(the person ended up losing). Pohatu stayed with the company for a short time afterward...but ended up leaving them permanently when he found out that the current World Heavyweight Champion was also the owner of the company, doing everything he could to make sure the title stayed around his waist at all times. The company itself closed down a short time later...and Pohatu went to the very federation that was considered JWA’s arch nemesis; WWCWF. The Electric Enigma had no idea of this as he entered the company, but soon realized why only the undedicated JWA wrestlers went to the WWCWF. The likes of garbage wrestlers like Bryan Stinberg were able to rise to the top and become World Champion...while the very talented people, like Pohatu and G-Dawg were held down at the bottom of the card, never being given a chance to compete for the World Title. Pohatu ended up leaving this company...twice. The first time was because he got into an argument that escalated through the entire company, the second time was because he found out that WWCWF’s owner was one of the wrestlers. This same wrestler just happened to be the one that the entire company seemed to revolve around...and Pohatu made sure that his opinion of garbage like that was known through the whole company as he left.

It just so happened that when the Electric Phenomenon left the WWCWF again, JWA was reopening, looking to be better than ever with Al Powers having recently reappeared. Al Powers was boasting of a One Night Stand, with WarZone Undergrounds leading up to it. At first, Pohatu just hid in the background, waiting for One Night Stand...but then, after he heard a rant from the owner, speaking of undedicated people, the Electric Enigma came out and started wrestling. At the One Night Stand PayPerView, Pohatu ended up competing twice in one night...and ended up losing both matches. The first one was supposed to be a Olympic based wrestling match against Dan Piechowski, who just so happened to have Cael Sanderson on his side of the ring. Before the match started, none other than The Invincible came down to commentate, but ended up getting involved in the match as Cael Sanderson helped Dan cheat to win. The Invincible pulled Cael out of the ring by the ankle, looking to be locking in the De-Feater Ankle lock...but Cael reversed out of it and ended up putting the hardcore patriot through a table with a T-Bone Suplex. Just as Cael had done that, Dan had picked up the pin, so the two split from the ring and headed for the back. Afterward, Pohatu thanked The Invincible, the two embracing in friendship before heading for the back.

At first, it looked like Pohatu was going to continue competing after One Night Stand, but then the Electric Enigma finally realized just how bad his injuries were. So, on his final episode of WarZone Underground, Pohatu came out and gave his retirement speech. When he gave this speech, though, the JWA crowd were unusually disrespectful. After the speech, Pohatu left the building, thinking that Al was fine with it...but he was very wrong. In a rare moment of immaturity, Al Powers went out and quickly found someone who looked like Pohatu and hired him to be a dummy, who then went on to compete that night against a fellow Iowan wrestler who had recently joined the JWA. The look-a-like was taken down with just one kendo shot to the face...and the crowd just laughed, thinking that it was the real Pohatu in the ring. The Electric Enigma himself did not find out about this until a couple days later and, in his absolute rage, cut off all his ties to JWA, like similar people had. Some of these people include, but are not limited to; Senor Gomez, The Corpse, Reaper and many others. Since then, Pohatu had not been too keen on stepping foot inside of a wrestling ring. At the request of some of his agents, however, he finally did settle for the CTC, believing that he’s been involved in wrestling for too long to just disappear after the disrespect he received from Al Powers.

This settlement was only temporary, however, was after only two or three matches, the Electric Enigma disappeared seemingly off the face of the earth. The truth of the matter is that he actually went back to school, pursuing his degree in English, hoping to become an English teacher, his more violent side having seemingly soothed after so much time dedicated to wrestling. However, as his first year in college wrapped up...Pohatu was reeled into a fight against a drunkard that was attempting to kidnap his, at the time, girlfriend. Not holding back as the drunk charged him, the fight actually ended fairly quickly, with the Iowan having found out that his opponent actually had to go to the hospital and have reconstructive surgery done to his cheek, which had been SHATTERED. The feeling of exhilaration and excitement that he had felt from the fight was all that was needed, causing Craig to throw college back to the curb. His girlfriend fully disapproved of the notion, and broke up with him as he was typing up his applications to various federations. Dedicating the time that would've spent on his girlfriend instead to training, Pohatu worked on getting himself into as good of shape as he could...until he heard back from two federations, out of the half a dozen he had heard from. The first was Fusion Championship Wrestling, more well known as FCW. Not having any previous experience with them, Pohatu nonetheless went after it, winning his first two single matches, which were televised, with seeming ease, despite his ring rust.

His next test would prove to be a bigger one in regards to his ring rust in FCW, however, as he went on to face almost half of the roster in a Battle Royal to determine the number one contender to the Genocide Heavyweight Championship. Despite being thrown around like a rag doll, and getting beat almost to the point of unconsciousness, Pohatu still pulled off the upset, albeit with a bit of help due to an enemy of my enemy situation. Later that night, however, the champion was injured in a title defense, making it so that Pohatu was forced to face off against one of the Genocide jobbers at the following week's PayPerView instead of the champion. His time spent in the FCW thus far had helped him to prepare for the PWA, though, which was getting ready for it's Rumble in the Bronx. Having worked with the fed a few times before, once with his friend The Tiger, and the second time rising to the Television gold, Pohatu was hesitant, obviously unsure of what he would be able to do. However, as he saw that Riona Langly and his former friend, Shadow Starr, had both risen to greatness inside of the PWA, The Lightning hardened his resolved and started to double his training, wanting to show those who knew him EXACTLY what it was he was able to do. Pohatu managed to place fifth place in the PWA Rumble in the Bronx, being eliminated at the same time as Riona Langly by Matthew Engel, who went on to outlast Scott Nash Strader and Jethro Hayes in order to win the Rumble overall.

The week after the Rumble, Pohatu faced off against Matthew in what can only be described as a nail biter. With a hook of the tights, though, Engel pulled off the win over the Electric Enigma. To top off matters, though, the person that Pohatu HAD been sanctioned to face for the Television championship of the PWA, Alex Wilkie, was de-throned in the main event of the night. None other than the OWNER of the PWA, Chamelion, who was also a member of the same faction as Matthew Engel!

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