Adam Windsor
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Adam Bryniarski better known world wide as Adam Windsor, is a British born professional wrestler from Coventry, England.
from four to thirteen years of age. He then attended King Henry VIII School
in Coventry
, England and then went to Warwickshire College in Leamington Spa, England.
) at his dojo in Coventry England. Adam trained with Neil and the British Judo and Olympic team until 1999. Adam holds a black belt in Judo and is also an expert in other areas of the martial arts. In addition, Adam competed and was a standout in rugby, cricket, soccer and swimming; Away from athletics Adam was studying marketing and computers.
that a wrestler on the show suggested to Adam that he look into going to Hammerlock Wrestling Academy. Adam started looking into the school and in 1997 began training in Professional Wrestling at the Hammerlock Wrestling Academy in England under Andre Baker. He travelled to London every week by train from Coventry to attend the wrestling and shoot fighting sessions that Baker offered. He made his debut on a show with Hammerlock in Kent, England at the end of 1998.
Between 1996 and 1999 Adam also was writing letters monthly to the WWE office in Stamford CT. The letters he wrote would ask about how to get over to the United States to learn to wrestle. In 1997 Adam received a response by mail from Jim Ross who advised Adam that there was currently no official training program in place but there were some wrestling schools in the US that he could attend. Adam Continued with the letter writing process and in 1999 received a letter from a lady at WWE headquarters by the name of Sue De Rosa. She advised Adam that she had passed his letter on to the current trainer of the 'WWF Dojo' Dory Funk, Jr. and that he would be getting in contact with him. Windsor received a letter from Funk a few weeks later and was then invited to Ocala, Florida in 1999.
Adam moved to America full time in late 1999 and spent time training. He also went to Canada to train with the Hart family in Calgary, Alberta, Canada for a short time. Adam would not travel back to the UK for three years after this point.
In 2000 Adam went on to become the NWA Florida heavyweight champion by defeating, Chris Nelson, Jumbo Barerra and Vito Denucci in one night. A month later he defeated Dory Funk Jr to retain the championship and then went on to have a series of matches with Brent Dail. Adam continued to wrestle all over the US and had the opportunity to wrestle for WCW before it was bought out by Vince McMahon. After WCW was bought out by McMahon, Adam started wrestling dark matches for WWE. In 2004 Adam worked a WWE house show tour around Florida in which he defeated Ricky Noble, Marcus Dillon and Paul London before heading to New Japan Pro Wrestling. Adam was featured in New Japans biggest show of the year in the Tokyo Dome in front of 90,000 people.
Between 2000 and 2006 Adam wrestled on numerous TV Shows through the US including Dory Funk Jrs "BANG TV" show on Fox, "THROWDOWN" on brighthouse network, NWA Wildside TV shown in Georgia. Adam was also regularly listed yearly in the PWI top 500 wrestlers in the world throughout these years.
In 2009 Adam reinvented his character in a new tag team called The European Union with another former Stampede Alumni Neil Faith. The European Union has been one of the top tag teams in Florida since debuting in 2009 and have already been winning championship gold around the state. With offers to wrestle as a tag team around the US, Europe and also Japan, Windsor and Faith have only just began what seems to be an excting ride in the world of tag team wrestling. It would not be a surprise to see this European tag team who are now in the prime of their careers sign as a team with a major US wrestling organization in the near future.
June 2010 The European Union become the WXW Tag team champions.
September 11, 2010 European Union beat Los Ben Dejos to become the Vintage Wrestling World Tag Team Champions.
August 2011 Adam is voted as one of the top current 500 hundred Professional Wrestlers in the world in 2011 at position 392 in Pro Wrestling Illustrated Magazine.
, New Japan Pro Wrestling
(Japan), Stampede Wrestling
(Canada), FMW (Japan), Vintage Wrestling, WXW, Dynamite Championship Wrestling, NWA Wildside
, Kyda Pro Wrestling, NWA Florida, AWA Spinebuster, Funking Championship Wrestling, World - 1 Fighting Arts, NWA Anarchy, Southern Wrestling Federation
Back in the entertainment business, Adam has worked for MTV and appeared on shows such as a True Life Documentary. These documentaries currently still air.
Adam from a young age was also interested in magic and in August 2008 he appeared on stage with David Copperfield in Las Vegas.
In 2009 Adam felt like he had a few more matches left in him so returned to the squared circle to start a tag team with fellow British wrestler and STAMPEDE alumni Neil Faith called the EUROPEAN UNION
As of July 2010 The EUROPEAN UNION are regularly listed in the top 5 Tag Teams in the state of Florida in polls ran by wrestling911.com and marcuspitts.com, they are also currently listed in the top 5 tag teams for NWA Florida/NWA Fusion as well.
September 11, 2010 European Union beat Los Ben Dejos to become the Vintage Wrestling World Tag Team Champions.
October 2010 The European Union are constantly ranked as the number one tag team in Florida.
On a normal day to day basis Adam and his wife Jade own and run a Public Relations Entertainment Company representing US and international talent from a variety of different entertainment area's which has grown significantly over the past few years and continues to be a force in today's PR and promotional market. They had their second child Lachlan at the end of October 2010. Jades adopted father Steve Austin is one of Lachlans Godfathers and his other Godfather is Former British Professional Wreslter Tony Walsh.
At the beginning of December 2010 Adam and Jade launched a new web based international digital media corporation which has already garnished rave reviews from US and foreign press. In 2011 they plan to insert their corporation into the global digital media market and aim to be one of the leaders in this ever growing and changing industry within the next couple of years.
As far as the wrestling side of Adam's career, he has committed to a few matches in 2011 with Tag Team Partner Neil Faith, but plans on stepping back and working more behind the scenes with talent and also working on the creative end of the business with several different organizations. Adam has written hundreds and hundreds of wrestling television shows and scripts over the years as well as trained hundreds and hundreds of wrestlers from all over the world. His main aim now as far as the professional wrestling business goes is to be able to share his knowledge with other wrestlers that he has gained and help as many wrestlers that he can with their careers.
August 2011 Adam is voted as one of the top current 500 hundred Professional Wrestlers in the world in 2011 at position 392 in Pro Wrestling Illustrated Magazine. In an interview conducted with Adam at the beginning of August 2011 Adam talked about his current involvement with an evolving Wrestling promotion and also how he is in the transition of moving completely out of in ring competition all together and his ambitions to continue on in the Wrestling industry part time on a creative level while continuing to run his non wrestling related organizations and businesses.
November 2011 Adam was featured in a Florida life and style magazine being interviewed about his achievments and goals in and out of wrestling. A notable fact from this interview is that Adam continues to give back to the local community that he lives in. Over the years Adam has helped developed tens of thouands of square area footage into different pieces of property which have benefited the commnunity such health clubs and restaurants. Even though Adam now enjoys a much more quiet life with his wife and children at home, and enjoys not being on the road wrestling or on his phone 24/7 with his businesses, he still likes to work on fun and interesting projects that not only bring jobs to the community that he lives in, but also expands what his town has to offer. Adams latest developed property is set for a January 2012 open and launch.
Also of note in the interview, Adam also continues to work behind the scenes with a quickly evolving wrestling promotion and he would like to continue to grow this body of work as he feels that his in ring matches are pretty much finished. He really loves to share his experiences and knowledge of the wrestling business to young up and coming stars and not only help them improve their wrestling ability and timing but also advise them on how to save and invest the money that they make wisely as the wrestling business can be a very tough industry to stay involved in.
Early life
Bryniarski was born in Coventry, England. He attended Coventry Preparatory SchoolCoventry Preparatory School
King Henry VIII Preparatory School is an independent school in Coventry, England with 210 pupils aged from 5 to 11 years old. It also has a Nursery, Bright Futures Playclub, for an additional 40 children aged from three to four years old...
from four to thirteen years of age. He then attended King Henry VIII School
King Henry VIII School
King Henry VIII School is a coeducational Independent school founded in 1545 by John Hales, comprising a senior school and associated preparatory school located in Coventry, England...
in Coventry
Coventry
Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the second largest city in the English Midlands, after Birmingham, with a population of 300,848, although...
, England and then went to Warwickshire College in Leamington Spa, England.
Judo
Beginning at the age of eight, he was involved in judo training for ten years. He trained with World and Olympic Judo Champion Neil Adams (brother of the late judo and wrestling star Chris AdamsChris Adams
Christopher John Adams is the current cricket manager of Surrey County Cricket Club and a former English first-class cricketer who briefly represented his nation at Test and One Day International level....
) at his dojo in Coventry England. Adam trained with Neil and the British Judo and Olympic team until 1999. Adam holds a black belt in Judo and is also an expert in other areas of the martial arts. In addition, Adam competed and was a standout in rugby, cricket, soccer and swimming; Away from athletics Adam was studying marketing and computers.
Training
Adam wanted to be a professional wrestler from a very young age. From about 12 years of age Adam sought the help and advice from former British wrestler Tony 'Banger' Walsh about how to break into the business. Walsh set up meetings with Adam and his son Darren who wrestled at the time on the UK Independent scene so that he could get his advice, too. He also gave him contact information for independent shows being run in the area that he could attend to watch and talk to the athletes performing. It was at one of these shows held in Leamington SpaLeamington Spa
Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or Leamington or Leam to locals, is a spa town in central Warwickshire, England. Formerly known as Leamington Priors, its expansion began following the popularisation of the medicinal qualities of its water by Dr Kerr in 1784, and by Dr Lambe...
that a wrestler on the show suggested to Adam that he look into going to Hammerlock Wrestling Academy. Adam started looking into the school and in 1997 began training in Professional Wrestling at the Hammerlock Wrestling Academy in England under Andre Baker. He travelled to London every week by train from Coventry to attend the wrestling and shoot fighting sessions that Baker offered. He made his debut on a show with Hammerlock in Kent, England at the end of 1998.
Between 1996 and 1999 Adam also was writing letters monthly to the WWE office in Stamford CT. The letters he wrote would ask about how to get over to the United States to learn to wrestle. In 1997 Adam received a response by mail from Jim Ross who advised Adam that there was currently no official training program in place but there were some wrestling schools in the US that he could attend. Adam Continued with the letter writing process and in 1999 received a letter from a lady at WWE headquarters by the name of Sue De Rosa. She advised Adam that she had passed his letter on to the current trainer of the 'WWF Dojo' Dory Funk, Jr. and that he would be getting in contact with him. Windsor received a letter from Funk a few weeks later and was then invited to Ocala, Florida in 1999.
Adam moved to America full time in late 1999 and spent time training. He also went to Canada to train with the Hart family in Calgary, Alberta, Canada for a short time. Adam would not travel back to the UK for three years after this point.
America
Adam made his American wrestling debut in August 1999 in Florida in a tag team match which involved Lonnie Valdez as his tag team partner and they faced HC LOC and Jeremy Jet. Adam scored the winning pinfall in his first ever match. Adam competed that same night in a Battle Royal along with Amy Dumas who would go to perform in WWE under the name of Lita. Adam then made his Japanese debut in 1999 for FMW on pay per view.In 2000 Adam went on to become the NWA Florida heavyweight champion by defeating, Chris Nelson, Jumbo Barerra and Vito Denucci in one night. A month later he defeated Dory Funk Jr to retain the championship and then went on to have a series of matches with Brent Dail. Adam continued to wrestle all over the US and had the opportunity to wrestle for WCW before it was bought out by Vince McMahon. After WCW was bought out by McMahon, Adam started wrestling dark matches for WWE. In 2004 Adam worked a WWE house show tour around Florida in which he defeated Ricky Noble, Marcus Dillon and Paul London before heading to New Japan Pro Wrestling. Adam was featured in New Japans biggest show of the year in the Tokyo Dome in front of 90,000 people.
Between 2000 and 2006 Adam wrestled on numerous TV Shows through the US including Dory Funk Jrs "BANG TV" show on Fox, "THROWDOWN" on brighthouse network, NWA Wildside TV shown in Georgia. Adam was also regularly listed yearly in the PWI top 500 wrestlers in the world throughout these years.
In 2009 Adam reinvented his character in a new tag team called The European Union with another former Stampede Alumni Neil Faith. The European Union has been one of the top tag teams in Florida since debuting in 2009 and have already been winning championship gold around the state. With offers to wrestle as a tag team around the US, Europe and also Japan, Windsor and Faith have only just began what seems to be an excting ride in the world of tag team wrestling. It would not be a surprise to see this European tag team who are now in the prime of their careers sign as a team with a major US wrestling organization in the near future.
June 2010 The European Union become the WXW Tag team champions.
September 11, 2010 European Union beat Los Ben Dejos to become the Vintage Wrestling World Tag Team Champions.
August 2011 Adam is voted as one of the top current 500 hundred Professional Wrestlers in the world in 2011 at position 392 in Pro Wrestling Illustrated Magazine.
Europe
Adam has been featured over the years on numerous occasions on TV in the UK for his achievements in wrestling, most notably wrestling on a TV Show shown on the Wrestling Channel on SKY TV.Personal life
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- Adam is married to Jade Adams, daughter of Gentleman Chris AdamsChris AdamsChristopher John Adams is the current cricket manager of Surrey County Cricket Club and a former English first-class cricketer who briefly represented his nation at Test and One Day International level....
and Jeanie Clarke, and the niece of his Judo mentor and trainer, Neil Adams. - Jade is also the adopted daughter of Stone Cold Steve AustinStone Cold Steve AustinSteve Austin , better known by his ring name "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, is an American film and television actor and retired professional wrestler...
. According to Austin's official autobiography 'The Stone Cold Truth' he adopted her after having been her stepfather for several years while married to Jade's mother Jeannie Clark. - Adam and Jade have two sons.
- Adam also has two brothers (Richard and Christoper) that are twins.
- Adam's Father was born in England but his family is originally from Poland.
- Adam's Mother is from Cape Town, South Africa.
- Adam and Jade usually spend at least 3 months a year in England.
- Adam and Jade at the beginning of December 2010 launched a new international digital media corporation.
- Adam is a Nationally Certified and Registered EMT
- Adam has appeared on stage at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas Nevada with David Copperfield
- Adam is married to Jade Adams, daughter of Gentleman Chris Adams
In wrestling
- Finishing moves
- Spinning Diamond Cutter
- Superkick
- Signature moves
- Enzuigiri
- European uppercut
- Multiple suplex variations
- Belly to back
- Double arm trap
- Gutwrench
- Snap
- Super
- Vertical
- Springboard flying forearm smash
- Standing or an inverted DDT
- Swinging neckbreaker
- Union Jack - Double team tag move with Neil Faith
- Managers
- Missy HyattMissy HyattMelissa Ann Hiatt is an American professional wrestling valet, better known by her ring name, Missy Hyatt. She gained the majority of her fame while working for World Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling....
- Dory Funk Jr.
- LitaLitaLita or LITA may refer to:* Lithuanian litas, the official currency of Lithuania* Lita Ford, American rock musician* Lita , an album by Lita Ford...
- Terry FunkTerry FunkTerrence "Terry" Funk is an American professional wrestler and actor known chiefly for the hardcore wrestling style he adopted in the latter part of his career that inspired many younger wrestlers, including Mick Foley...
- Pat Tanaka
- Mickie JamesMickie JamesMickie Laree James , better known simply as Mickie James, is an American professional wrestler and singer of mixed Native American-Caucasian descent, currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , where she is a former two-time TNA Women's Knockout Champion.James began her professional...
- Al Friend
- Rico Moon
- Candi Lynn
- James W. Gooding III
- Percival A Friend
- Missy Hyatt
Championships and accomplishments
- Funking Conservatory
- FC Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
- FC TV Championship (4 times)
- FC Tag Team Championship (5 times) - with Paul London (1), Neil Faith (1), Osamu Nishimura (1), David Flair (1) and Steve Corino (1)
- FC International Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- FC Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- FC Quadruple Crown Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- National Wrestling AllianceNational Wrestling AllianceThe National Wrestling Alliance is a wrestling promotion company and sanctions various NWA championships in the United States. The NWA has been in operation since 1948...
- NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship
- NWA South Georgia Heavyweight Championship
- Southern Wrestling Federation
- SWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Neil Faith (1)
- World Xtreme WrestlingWorld Xtreme WrestlingWorld Xtreme Wrestling is a Northeastern-based independent professional wrestling promotion which has held events across the United States and have toured in Japan, the Middle East and South Pacific region including American Samoa and Guam....
- WXW Tag Team Championship - with Neil Faith
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- Vintage Wrestling Tag Team Championship - with Neil Faith
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- Pro Wrestling Illustrated Position 392 in the top 500 active Professional Wrestlers of 2011
Wrestling promotions worked for
WWE,WCW, TNATNA
TNA may refer to:*Tamil National Alliance, a political coalition in Sri Lanka*The National Archives, in the United Kingdom*The New Amsterdams, a band*Threose nucleic acid, an analog of the nucleic acid DNA*Tonga Nurses' Association...
, New Japan Pro Wrestling
New Japan Pro Wrestling
is a major professional wrestling promotion in Japan, founded by Antonio Inoki in June 1972 and owned by Yuke's since 2005, when Inoki sold the promotion. Naoki Sugabayashi is the current President of the promotion and has held that position from 2007. Owing to its TV program aired on TV Asahi, it...
(Japan), Stampede Wrestling
Stampede Wrestling
Stampede Wrestling is a Canadian professional wrestling promotion based in Calgary, Alberta and was for nearly 50 years one of the main promotions in western Canada and the Canadian Prairies...
(Canada), FMW (Japan), Vintage Wrestling, WXW, Dynamite Championship Wrestling, NWA Wildside
NWA Wildside
NWA Wildside was an American independent professional wrestling promotion based in Cornelia, Georgia, with an office in Atlanta, Georgia, operating between September 1999 and April 2005....
, Kyda Pro Wrestling, NWA Florida, AWA Spinebuster, Funking Championship Wrestling, World - 1 Fighting Arts, NWA Anarchy, Southern Wrestling Federation
2006-2009
Adam took time off of professional wrestling between 2006 and 2009 to heal his body from the constant work it had been doing from when he started with full contact sports at 8 years old. He also felt that it was time for him and his family to settle down and start a new business venture. Adam's time off from the ring lead him into being one of the youngest Director Of Operations, President and part owner of a multimillion dollar health club franchise in Florida and the United States. Adam had a staff of over 300 people working for him throughout the company that he expanded over the course of just over 4 years. At the same time he also ventured into and had some success in the realstate market. He went on to help put together and run a part of the Stimulus Plan that President Obama put into place for specialized refinances that qualified.Back in the entertainment business, Adam has worked for MTV and appeared on shows such as a True Life Documentary. These documentaries currently still air.
Adam from a young age was also interested in magic and in August 2008 he appeared on stage with David Copperfield in Las Vegas.
In 2009 Adam felt like he had a few more matches left in him so returned to the squared circle to start a tag team with fellow British wrestler and STAMPEDE alumni Neil Faith called the EUROPEAN UNION
2010
Even though Adam has pretty much retired from actually competing in the ring, he still continues to wrestle in Florida and throughout the United States with tag team partner Neil Faith in THE EUROPEAN UNION on a limited basis.As of July 2010 The EUROPEAN UNION are regularly listed in the top 5 Tag Teams in the state of Florida in polls ran by wrestling911.com and marcuspitts.com, they are also currently listed in the top 5 tag teams for NWA Florida/NWA Fusion as well.
September 11, 2010 European Union beat Los Ben Dejos to become the Vintage Wrestling World Tag Team Champions.
October 2010 The European Union are constantly ranked as the number one tag team in Florida.
On a normal day to day basis Adam and his wife Jade own and run a Public Relations Entertainment Company representing US and international talent from a variety of different entertainment area's which has grown significantly over the past few years and continues to be a force in today's PR and promotional market. They had their second child Lachlan at the end of October 2010. Jades adopted father Steve Austin is one of Lachlans Godfathers and his other Godfather is Former British Professional Wreslter Tony Walsh.
At the beginning of December 2010 Adam and Jade launched a new web based international digital media corporation which has already garnished rave reviews from US and foreign press. In 2011 they plan to insert their corporation into the global digital media market and aim to be one of the leaders in this ever growing and changing industry within the next couple of years.
As far as the wrestling side of Adam's career, he has committed to a few matches in 2011 with Tag Team Partner Neil Faith, but plans on stepping back and working more behind the scenes with talent and also working on the creative end of the business with several different organizations. Adam has written hundreds and hundreds of wrestling television shows and scripts over the years as well as trained hundreds and hundreds of wrestlers from all over the world. His main aim now as far as the professional wrestling business goes is to be able to share his knowledge with other wrestlers that he has gained and help as many wrestlers that he can with their careers.
2011
In February 2011, Adam assisted his wife and her brother and sister in opening a memorial website for their late father Gentleman Chris Adams http://www.gentlemanchrisadams.com In tribute to the fallen English wrestler, Adam uses the superkick as one of his primary finishing maneuvers.August 2011 Adam is voted as one of the top current 500 hundred Professional Wrestlers in the world in 2011 at position 392 in Pro Wrestling Illustrated Magazine. In an interview conducted with Adam at the beginning of August 2011 Adam talked about his current involvement with an evolving Wrestling promotion and also how he is in the transition of moving completely out of in ring competition all together and his ambitions to continue on in the Wrestling industry part time on a creative level while continuing to run his non wrestling related organizations and businesses.
November 2011 Adam was featured in a Florida life and style magazine being interviewed about his achievments and goals in and out of wrestling. A notable fact from this interview is that Adam continues to give back to the local community that he lives in. Over the years Adam has helped developed tens of thouands of square area footage into different pieces of property which have benefited the commnunity such health clubs and restaurants. Even though Adam now enjoys a much more quiet life with his wife and children at home, and enjoys not being on the road wrestling or on his phone 24/7 with his businesses, he still likes to work on fun and interesting projects that not only bring jobs to the community that he lives in, but also expands what his town has to offer. Adams latest developed property is set for a January 2012 open and launch.
Also of note in the interview, Adam also continues to work behind the scenes with a quickly evolving wrestling promotion and he would like to continue to grow this body of work as he feels that his in ring matches are pretty much finished. He really loves to share his experiences and knowledge of the wrestling business to young up and coming stars and not only help them improve their wrestling ability and timing but also advise them on how to save and invest the money that they make wisely as the wrestling business can be a very tough industry to stay involved in.