Joe Hitchen
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Joseph Edward "Joe" Hitchen (born September 2, 1969) is a Canadian professional wrestler
Professional wrestling
Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...

, better known by his ring name
Ring name
A ring name is a stage name used by a professional wrestler, martial artist, or boxer. While some ring names may have a fictitious first name and surname, others may simply be a nickname, such as The Undertaker.-Wrestling:...

, Joe E. Legend.

Canadian independent circuit

Joe Legend began wrestling in Canada before becoming a part of the successful tag team
Tag team
Tag team professional wrestling is a variation in which matches are contested between teams of multiple wrestlers. A tag team may comprise two wrestlers who normally wrestle in singles competition, but more commonly are made of established teams who wrestle regularly as a unit and have a team name...

 Sex and Violence with Sexton Hardcastle
Adam Copeland
Adam Joseph Copeland is a retired Canadian professional wrestler and actor, better known by his ring name Edge. He is currently signed to WWE under a Legends contract....

 in the Detroit area. His debut match was against Zakk Wyld (Keith Assoun) in Brampton. Ontario in 1992. During 1997, Sex and Violence were a part of a bigger gang which was known as THUG Life, which was composed of Legend, Hardcastle, Christian Cage
Jason Reso
William Jason Reso is a Canadian professional wrestler and actor, better known by his ring names Christian and Christian Cage...

, Zakk Wyld, Bloody Bill Skullion and Rhino Richards
Terry Gerin
Terrance "Terry" Gerin is an American professional wrestler and actor, better known by the ring name Rhino . He is best known for his career in Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Wrestling Federation / Entertainment and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling...

. Among his catchphrases used was "Heroes come and heroes go, but legends live forever!"

Europe

Hitchen later competed under XL Legend in the Catch Wrestling Association
Catch Wrestling Association
The Catch Wrestling Association was a professional wrestling organization based in Austria and Germany and was founded in 1973. It was formerly run by famous AWA champion Otto Wanz. The CWA featured a traditional brand of mat wrestling mixed with various “Strong Man” competitions...

 which is based in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. He later teamed with Rhino Richards
Terry Gerin
Terrance "Terry" Gerin is an American professional wrestler and actor, better known by the ring name Rhino . He is best known for his career in Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Wrestling Federation / Entertainment and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling...

 to win the vacant World Tag Team Championship
CWA World Tag Team Championship (Germany)
The CWA World Tag Team Championship was the tag team professional wrestling title in the German professional wrestling promotion the Catch Wrestling Association. It was established in 1988, and lasted until the promotion's 2000 closing.-Title history:...

s by defeating Rico de Cuba and August Smisl on October 10, 1998 in Hanover
Hanover
Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...

, Germany. The title were vacated in October 1998 when Rhino Richards left the promotion after signing with Extreme Championship Wrestling
Extreme Championship Wrestling
Extreme Championship Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion that was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1992 by Tod Gordon and closed when his successor, Paul Heyman, declared bankruptcy in April 2001...

. After his departure from the WWF in the spring of 2001, Legend found success in Germany and England.

In April 2005, he was one of the lead trainers of Celebrity Wrestling
Celebrity Wrestling
Celebrity Wrestling is a British television programme, broadcast on ITV in 2005. It involved two teams of celebrities, competing against each other in wrestling style events. The series was presented by Kate Thornton and Rowdy Roddy Piper...

in the United Kingdom on ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

. This Saturday evening reality show saw celebrities learn wrestling and compete in challenge matches. After a few weeks the program was set to be cancelled, but instead was moved to Sunday morning to finish its final episodes.

He can now be found wrestling in and around the United Kingdom for promotions such as All Star Wrestling
All Star Wrestling
All Star Wrestling is a British Professional wrestling promotion also known as All Star Promotions, Superslam Wrestling and Big Time Wrestling and originally known as Wrestling Enterprises , run by Brian Dixon and based in Liverpool, England...

, working regular shows at Butlins holiday parks
Butlins
Butlins is a chain of large holiday camps in the United Kingdom. Butlins was founded by Billy Butlin to provide affordable holidays for ordinary British families....

 after throwing out an open challenge to potential rivals for his Pan Pacific and GSA heavyweight titles. He has also toured Wales for both Orig Williams and Alan Ravenhill.

During his time in the now defunted Frontier Wrestling Alliance
XWA (professional wrestling)
XWA is a British professional wrestling promotion, based in the English north west seaside town of Morecambe, Lancashire, dealing primarily in the professional wrestling industry...

 he wrestled for the FWA British Heavyweight Championship in a five-way match at The Champions Series Final on January 5, 2006 in Hoddesdon
Hoddesdon
Hoddesdon is a town in the English county of Hertfordshire, situated in the Lea Valley. The town grew up as a coaching stop on the route between Cambridge and London. It is located southeast of Hertford, north of Waltham Cross and southwest of Bishop's Stortford. At its height during the 18th...

, Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England. The county town is Hertford.The county is one of the Home Counties and lies inland, bordered by Greater London , Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and...

, England, but was defeated by Hade Vansen
Hade Vansen
Hade Vansen is an English professional wrestler who was under a contract with World Wrestling Entertainment until he was released from his contract on January 9, 2009.-Career:...

.

World Wrestling Federation

He made his TV debut on the July 2, 2000 episode of Heat
WWE HEAT
WWE Heat was a professional wrestling television program produced by World Wrestling Entertainment...

. He competed as Just Joe in the WWF before going off to wrestle in Japan and Europe. When he was in the WWF, his gimmick was that of a messenger who tried to stir the pot. His catchline in the WWE was "The Boys in the back are talking." He would always try to stir up a bad situation. He wrestled a few times in the WWF, including matches against Dean Malenko
Dean Malenko
Dean Simon is a retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Dean Malenko. He is currently signed to WWE working as a road agent. He is best known for his time with Extreme Championship Wrestling , New Japan Pro Wrestling and World Championship Wrestling...

, Essa Rios
Mr. Águila
José Seldano is a Mexican professional wrestler or luchador currently working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre...

, and Raven
Scott Levy
Scott Anthony Levy , better known by his ring name Raven, is an American professional wrestler, wrestling producer, wrestling writer, and occasional author and actor currently working for Juggalo Championship Wrestling , where he is co-holder of the JCW Tag Team Championship, as well as other...

. All of these matches were shown on programs such as Heat
WWE HEAT
WWE Heat was a professional wrestling television program produced by World Wrestling Entertainment...

and Metal. On an October 2000 episode of Jakked, he had the distinction of having to job
Job (professional wrestling)
In professional wrestling slang, the term job describes a losing performance in a wrestling match. It is derived from the euphemism "doing one's job", which was employed to protect kayfabe. As professional wrestling is scripted, inevitably a wrestler will be required to lose to an opponent.The term...

 to the Brooklyn Brawler
Steve Lombardi
Steve Lombardi is an Italian American professional wrestler, and road agent. He is also known by his ring name Brooklyn Brawler...

, who was infamous for jobbing to other wrestlers as well. Probably his most memorable moment came when he was attacked by Stone Cold Steve Austin
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Steve Austin , better known by his ring name "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, is an American film and television actor and retired professional wrestler...

 at Unforgiven 2000.

International Wrestling Association and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

During his time in the Puerto Rican
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

 International Wrestling Association
International Wrestling Association
The International Wrestling Association is a wrestling promotion in Puerto Rico, started in Japan in 1994 by promoter Victor Quiñones. The Hispanic division was created in 1999. The company was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance until 2001, but again became a member in 2007...

 Hitchen wrestled under the ring name Nord. On March 8, 2003 he captured the IWA Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship
IWA Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship
The IWA Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship is a secondary professional wrestling title defended in the Puerto Rican International Wrestling Association....

 by defeating Glamour Boy Shane
Shane Sewell
Shane Sewell is a Canadian professional wrestler and referee. He is perhaps best known for his stint in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as both a referee and wrestler.-International Wrestling Association:...

 in Toa Baja
Toa Baja, Puerto Rico
Toa Baja is a municipality of Puerto Rico located in the northern coast, north of Toa Alta and Bayamón; east of Dorado; and west of Cataño. Toa Baja is spread over 5 wards and Toa Baja Pueblo . It is part of the San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo Metropolitan Statistical Area.Toa Baja considered to be a...

, Puerto Rico. He lost the championship to Chicano
Carlos Cotto
Carlos Omar Cotto Cruz is an Puerto Rican professional wrestler, also known by his ring names, El Chicano and El Ilegal.-Personal life:...

 in Bayamón
Bayamón, Puerto Rico
Bayamón is a municipality of Puerto Rico located on the northern coastal valley, north of Aguas Buenas and Comerío; south of Toa Baja and Cataño; west of Guaynabo; and east of Toa Alta and Naranjito. Bayamón is spread over 11 wards and Bayamón Pueblo...

, Puerto Rico on April 19 the same year.

He returned to America in 2004 to compete in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling is a privately held professional wrestling promotion founded by Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett. The company broadcasts its events on television and the Internet fifty two weeks a year with over a million weekly viewers on its primary television program, Impact...

. During his time in TNA as part of the Red Shirt Security, he won the NWA World Tag Team Championship
NWA World Tag Team Championship
The National Wrestling Alliance World Tag Team Championship is the professional wrestling world tag team championship within the NWA framework.-History:...

 with Kevin Northcutt
Kevin Northcutt
Kevin Northcutt is an American professional wrestler.-Total Nonstop Action Wrestling:During his time in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as part of the Red Shirt Security, he won the NWA World Tag Team Championship with Joe E. Legend & held the belts from January 28, 2004 until February 4 of the...

. They held the belts from January 28, 2004 to February 4 of the same year.

World Wrestling Professionals

Joe E. Legend tours annually with World Wrestling Professionals
World Wrestling Professionals
World Wrestling Professionals is a South African professional wrestling promotion created in 2002. The internationally-televised promotion is owned by Mark Beale and Abdul Kader, and is heavily influenced by American mainstream wrestling....

 (WWP), a South African promotion currently airing on a nationally broadcast network. He also acts as their scouting agent, having been responsible for bringing Mikey Whiplash, Angelico and Murat over to WWP. Joe Legend worked for WWP in 2007 and 2008, and returned in 2009.
The January 10, 2009 episode of WWP saw Joe Legend defeat PJ Black (current WWE superstar Justin Gabriel) to capture the then vacant WWP Heavyweight World Title
WWP Heavyweight World Title
The WWP Heavyweight World Championship is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in the South African professional wrestling promotion World Wrestling Professionals, contested exclusively among Heavyweight wrestlers. It was created in April 2004 when WWP debuted its television...

 for the first time.

Independent Wrestling Federation

Hitchen competed at Independent Wrestling Federation's Wrestliada 2007 in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

, Russia, under the ring name Joe Legend. At this event July 28, 2007 on he defeated Volcano to become the first IWF World Champion. During his reign he defeated Raven
Scott Levy
Scott Anthony Levy , better known by his ring name Raven, is an American professional wrestler, wrestling producer, wrestling writer, and occasional author and actor currently working for Juggalo Championship Wrestling , where he is co-holder of the JCW Tag Team Championship, as well as other...

 to retain the championship.

Do or Die Wrestling

On October 26, 2009. Hitchen competed at the first ever show for Do Or Die Wrestling, based out of Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

. In this show Austin Aries
Austin Aries
Daniel Healy "Dan" Solwold, Jr. better known by his ring name Austin Aries, is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , where he is the current X Division Champion...

 defended the ROH World Championship
ROH World Championship
The Ring of Honor World Championship is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in Ring of Honor. The championship has also been through other companies in cooperation with ROH through the Global Professional Wrestling Alliance , the governing body of many independent wrestling...

 against Ruckus
Ruckus
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.

On May 8, 2010 at the "All or Nothing" PPV, Joe became the first ever Do or Die Wrestling International Champion after winning a gauntlet match and defeating, in the main event, Jędruś Bułecka and Kamil Aleksander in a Triple Threat Match. Earlier that night, he also competed in a 10-man Battle Royal to determine who would enter last in the Gauntlet match (That match won by Jędruś Bułecka).

Turkish Power Wrestling

January 29 , 2011 Murat Bosporus defaeted Joe Legend (Intercontinental Championship Match)

February 12 , 2011 Batdal defaeted Joe Legend via of DQ (Singles Match)

May 8 , 2011 Joe Legend defaeted Soldier (Singles Match)

October 16 , 2011 Joe Legend defaeted Big Boy (No DQ Match)

Other media

In December 2007, Joe E. Legend became the co-host of The Main Event Radio, which is the official podcast of TotalWrestling.net.

In May 2009, Hitchen was announced as one of the competitors on the Turkish version of "Gladiators", which began filming in September 2009.

In wrestling

  • Finishing moves
    • Rolling Cutter
      Cutter
      A cutter may refer to several types of nautical vessels. When used in the context of sailing vessels, a cutter is a small single-masted boat, fore-and-aft rigged, with two or more headsails and often a bowsprit. The cutter features a mast set farther back than on a sloop...

    • Lifting reverse STO
    • Piledriver

  • Signature moves
    • Jumping DDT
    • Godzilla Chokebomb (Chokebomb)
    • Sitout Shoulder Jawbreaker
    • Bulldog

Championships and accomplishments

  • Athletik Club Wrestling
  • ACW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

  • Catch Wrestling Association
    Catch Wrestling Association
    The Catch Wrestling Association was a professional wrestling organization based in Austria and Germany and was founded in 1973. It was formerly run by famous AWA champion Otto Wanz. The CWA featured a traditional brand of mat wrestling mixed with various “Strong Man” competitions...

  • CWA World Tag Team Championship
    CWA World Tag Team Championship (Germany)
    The CWA World Tag Team Championship was the tag team professional wrestling title in the German professional wrestling promotion the Catch Wrestling Association. It was established in 1988, and lasted until the promotion's 2000 closing.-Title history:...

     (1 time) - with Rhino Richards
    Terry Gerin
    Terrance "Terry" Gerin is an American professional wrestler and actor, better known by the ring name Rhino . He is best known for his career in Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Wrestling Federation / Entertainment and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling...


  • Deutsche Wrestling Allianz
  • DWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

  • DO or Die Wrestling
  • DDW International Champion (1 time, current)

  • German Stampede Wrestling
  • GSW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

  • German Wrestling Promotion
  • GWP WrestlingCorner.de Championship (1 time)

  • Insane Championship Wrestling
  • ICW/MWCW Mid-West Unified Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Sexton Hardcastle
    Adam Copeland
    Adam Joseph Copeland is a retired Canadian professional wrestler and actor, better known by his ring name Edge. He is currently signed to WWE under a Legends contract....

  • ICW Brass Knuckles Championship (1 time)

  • International Wrestling Association
    International Wrestling Association
    The International Wrestling Association is a wrestling promotion in Puerto Rico, started in Japan in 1994 by promoter Victor Quiñones. The Hispanic division was created in 1999. The company was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance until 2001, but again became a member in 2007...

  • IWA Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship
    IWA Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship
    The IWA Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship is a secondary professional wrestling title defended in the Puerto Rican International Wrestling Association....

     (1 time)
  • IWA Television Championship (1 time)

  • Independent Wrestling Federation (Russia)
  • IWF World Championship (1 time, current)

  • International Catch Wrestling Alliance
  • ICWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time, current)

  • Outlaw Championship Wrestling
  • OCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Sexton Hardcastle

  • Pennsylvania Championship Wrestling
  • PCW America's Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • Giorgio Foods Tag Team Tournament (1999) - with Jason Lee

  • Pro Wrestling Fighters
  • PWF Buckhorn Wrestling Cup (2009)

  • Pro Wrestling Illustrated
    Pro Wrestling Illustrated
    Pro Wrestling Illustrated is a professional wrestling magazine. PWI is currently based in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania and published by Kappa Publishing Group.-History:The first issue of Pro Wrestling Illustrated was released in 1979...

    • PWI ranked him #195 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2010

  • Pro Wrestling Xtreme
  • PWX Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

  • Pan Pacific Wrestling Association
  • Pan Pacific Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

  • Swiss Wrestling Federation
  • SWF Powerhouse Championship (1 time)

  • Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
    Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
    Total Nonstop Action Wrestling is a privately held professional wrestling promotion founded by Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett. The company broadcasts its events on television and the Internet fifty two weeks a year with over a million weekly viewers on its primary television program, Impact...

  • NWA World Tag Team Championship
    NWA World Tag Team Championship
    The National Wrestling Alliance World Tag Team Championship is the professional wrestling world tag team championship within the NWA framework.-History:...

     (1 time) - with Kevin Northcutt
    Kevin Northcutt
    Kevin Northcutt is an American professional wrestler.-Total Nonstop Action Wrestling:During his time in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as part of the Red Shirt Security, he won the NWA World Tag Team Championship with Joe E. Legend & held the belts from January 28, 2004 until February 4 of the...


  • World Wrestling Professionals
    World Wrestling Professionals
    World Wrestling Professionals is a South African professional wrestling promotion created in 2002. The internationally-televised promotion is owned by Mark Beale and Abdul Kader, and is heavily influenced by American mainstream wrestling....

  • WWP Heavyweight World Title
    WWP Heavyweight World Title
    The WWP Heavyweight World Championship is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in the South African professional wrestling promotion World Wrestling Professionals, contested exclusively among Heavyweight wrestlers. It was created in April 2004 when WWP debuted its television...

     (1 time)

  • World Wrestling Superstars
  • WWS Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

  • Wrestling-Family-Germany Promotion
  • WFG Championship (1 time, current)

  • Other Titles
  • IMP Tag Team Championship (1 time)
  • GPW Continental Championship (2 times)

External links

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