Dubbed the "Prince Of The Death Matches" by Ian Rotten, Hardcore Craig has proven   that he can go toe to toe with the biggest, toughest monsters and still stand tall.  He can take a beating and dish one out as well and has a tremendous pain threshold. (Mid American Wrestling)

    In 1989, Craig started his wrestling training under A.W.A. wrestler Jonnie Stewart. Around 6 months after training with Stewart, Craig moved his training to Mil. Wis. under W.W.F./W.C.W/A.W.A. wrestler "Rocky" Tom Stone. During training, Craig wrestled on house and TV shows for Stone's promotion, International Association of Wrestling. From there, meeting with other wrestlers and promoters, other shows for outside promotions were booked.

    From day one, Craig has wrestled for Mid-American Wrestling, starting with their very 1st show in 1993. He teamed with "The Beach Bum" (later to be known as Barfly Mike) to form the tag team of "The Waveriders" and proceeded to win tag team titles all over the Midwest. During this time Craig wrestled on WWF's tv shows "Wrestling Challenge", "Superstars of Wrestling" and "Monday Night Raw" with stars such as Rick Martel, The Bushwackers, Bam Bam Bigalow, "Doink" the clown, The Heavenly Bodies, Kamala The Ugandan Giant, Lex Luger, The Steiner Brothers, Gangrel from "The Brood" and The Undertaker.

    As the times and wrestling scene started to change, Craig already had, and his name was changed to Hardcore Craig in 1995. Going from winning tag team and Cruiserweight titles all over the Midwest, now Craig started winning heavyweight titles and wrestling a lot more dangerous, risky matches. At this point wrestling went from wetsuit wearing, long bleach blonde hair, high-flying matches to brutal, bloody, no holds barred wrestling. Tables, ladders, chairs, fluorescent light tubes, fire, barbed wire and thumbtacks were plentiful. This wrestling style was already set in stone during The Waverider days, when Craig and Mike were the first to wrestle in a "Barbed Wire Match" in West Allis, Wisconsin. The show was protested and they even shared the front page on two of Milwaukee's largest newspapers, The "Sentinal" and "The Journal" with the death of Jackie Kennedy Onasis on the top of the page, and "Barbed Wire Death Match" to be held in church assembly hall on the bottom of the page. All in all, you know the saying, any publicity is good publicity.

    After splitting with Mike, Craig wrestled singles matches mostly in the Midwest with misc. matches around the U.S., a tour through Canada, and three tours to Europe which included wrestling his wrestling idol, "The Dynamite Kid" from the former WWF tag team, "The British Bulldogs". Then came the haircut, ring attire and partner change. Craig teamed up with former opponent, Corp. Robinson, to form "The Extreme Dream Team". Wrestling as a tag team in Mid-American Wrestling, the tag titles were won quickly, only to be stripped just as quick, due to a knee injury followed by a shoulder injury and broken sternum.

    After a brief rest/healing, Craig went right back to wrestling singles matches for awhile with a few Indiana promotions. Then once everything was back to normal, "The Extreme Dream Team" was reformed and Craig and Corp. were back at it. Also with all the promotions in the Midwest, Craig has formed another tag team with friend "Metalhead" Steve Stone. The new tag team, "American History Next", is also wrestling all over the Midwest.

   While wrestling mostly in the southern midwest with American History Next, Extreme Dream Team had captured the NWA Midwest Tag Titles.  Shortly after losing those titles to the Scull Crusher in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Craig & Corporal called it quits after finally realizing Corporal was more focused on himself and not Extreme Dream Team

   Now with more time to spend focusing on American History Next, Craig & Steve start filling up their date book.  Averageing about 60 shows a year, American History Next started to gel and take tag titles in whatever promotion they wrestled for. 

    04/21/07 - The POWW promotion was first to be taken over and the Tag Team Titles were easily won.  Then came the AWA/Brew City titles, NWA Wisconsin titles, GLCW titles, then the AWA Platinum Pro titles.

   With 2010 looking to be another full schedule, 43 shows booked and it's only the end of January.  Pro Wrestling Blitz is going to pretty much be the home of American History Next.  NWA/Brew City Wrestling out of West Allis, Wisconsin and GWA/WAR out of Lima, Ohio will fill the rest of the schedule that isn't filled with Blitz dates.  They are ranging from Granite City, Illinois, Des Moines, Iowa, Joliet, Illinois and the Wisconsin Dells.

      In 2010  
it will not be hard to spot Hardcore Craig somewhere 
and he will probably have gold around his waist. ! !
 

  Go to schedule to see where and who he will be wrestling next.