| High Flyer | |
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| Statistics | |
| Real name | Jack Harmen |
| Ring Names | {{{names}}} |
| Height | 6’0” |
| Weight | 204¼ lbs/93 Kilos |
| Date of birth | December 17th, 1975 |
| Place of birth | Bethlehem, PA |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
| Resides | Orlando, FL |
| Billed from | |
| Trainer | Jeremy Odesa |
| Current federation(s) |
nbW (2006 - ) |
| Previous federation(s) |
IWO (1999 - 2003) jOlt (2002) WWR (2000, 2002) A! (2002 - 2003) fWo (2003-) |
| Handled by | Thomas Ford |
| Win/Loss Record | {{{winloss_record}}} |
| Debut | l. Edward Glide (January 1998) l. El Hijo del Santo (October 1993) |
| Retired | {{{retired}}} |
High Flyer (Born Jack Harmen, December 17th, 1975) is a wrestler with a wealth of experience, most notable the IGN affiliated Internet Wrestling Organization and the Disney run fans Wrestling Organization.
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His mother would kill herself that evening. Due to his parents dying at such a young age, he considers himself a Cylon in jest.
He has an older brother named Jake, and a younger sister named Tammy Cradle. Shortly after High School graduation, Jack proceded to follow in his father's footsteps, in Mexico.
Flyer wrestled in Mexico for four years, coming straight out of High School. He wore a mask, but everything about him screamed a lack of personality, mostly due to his cultural inability to grasp the language. All of that changed when in 95, he won a tournament to crown the "Best High Flyer," of which he has since taken the moniker. He even went so far as to proclaim that he wasn't named after the style, the style named itself after him. In late 97, he lost a Mask vs. Career match and left Mexico "in shame," in order to return to america.
High Flyer made his stateside debut in January of 1998, wrestling in a Royal Rumble match. He formed an alliance with real wrestler's Shawn Michaels and the Outsiders to form a new form of Degeneration X, which lasted for about a year until their dissolving. After that, Flyer floated around as his own comodity.
High Flyer debuted and quickly won the Television title from Cheez and won the Award for best Champion with said title. The federation hit a hiccup shortly after, but when it returned, Flyer teamed with friend Zealot and won the tag team championship. He was then thrust into the Main Event scene by winning a battle royal and wound up with the World Championship four times in the course of three months. Shortly after that, he was worked into a feud with long time friend Post before the promotion shut it's doors for good in 2000.
High Flyer had memorable feuds with Tigro, Jonny Nightmare, & Muntjack during this time. Throughout the entire promotion, he both feuded and teamed with all three of these men. Jack was also apart of the E-A stable, the Extreme Alliance, and later formed a tag team with Tigro labeled as the Esoterics. Despite all of this, Flyer didn't hold tag team gold until winning the titles with Muntjack. He is a former five time Cruiserweight Champion of the promotion, and it was one of his earliest US Stateside homes.
High Flyer was signed early on for his in ring abilities and natural talent. A long term investment, if it were. As it was, Flyer toiled in the undercard in unremarkable feuds with Jax Stone & Mike Haven.
With the formation of the Cult(Jax Stone, Al Coholic, Ken War & Justin Shack), Flyer wasn't just able to aquire more screen time for the group, he was also able to build long lasting relationships with all parties involved. Al Coholic and him played friend and enemy for the next two years. Shack won up taking two championships off of the Lunatic's shoulders, while Flyer did the same to War.
Beach Party 1999 was the only impressive showing from the Cult in the entire history of the IWO. During this show, High Flyer & Jax Stone defended the IWO I.C. Tag Titles against the NEW Era of Our Kind. Flyer also defended his championship against all members of his Cult stable, and successfully came out of both defenses. Of course, at the end of Beach Party, Stone turned on the group(and specifically Flyer), and the stable could not hold itself together.
Flyer went into a state of denial over losing his first friends/allies/soldiers, and began to go around with the mindset that he WAS the Cult, and as such, the Cult would remain around.
This only further helped his spin out of control. And once he lost both championships to the Beverly Hills Bruisers & Black Assassin, Flyer took time off the air to regroup his character.
He returned a few moments later in a series of "Falling Star" interviews, where random fans would point towards him and call him a failure. It caused a backlash of egoistica proportions, but before anyone could knock him down a few pegs, he first won the United States Championship.
While Champ, he went to a local independant trade facility and found a new product for general consumption... Snow.
He began to go around to anyone and everyone that would listen, attempting to get them to buy the fresh white powder. He would go on to beat the Mysterious One while injured in one of his highest profile matches to date.
The payoff involved an angle where Flyer was being arrested for illegally opening a trade company without filing the right paper work and tax status. Flyer got out of all charges due to the simple fact that he had not sold a single foot of snow to that date.
At the end of the 2000 May Mayhem Match, Flyer appeared in the middle of the ring, coming out of a time machine(that he bought from Rob Kestler by trading him some snow for it) with the tag team championship(A belt he currently did not hold, a tag team he currently was not apart of), and destroyed everyone with it in a truly "WTF"esq moment.
The tag team that Flyer would be in in the near future would be Team V.I.A.G.R.A. with fellow salesman Tony Davis, and they would shortly win the tag team titles, holding onto them as long as the record breakers, Hostile Youth. VIAGRA played babyfaces, dominating all challengers for months, including a short five minute World title reign for the Lunatic. Shortly afterwards, Flyer became bitter over what had occured and they looked to create a bit of chaos and panik and gain their rightful glory at the top of the card, believing themselves to be the top draws of the show.
They turned heel and joined with Evan Levine and his Central Powers to accomplish this, but nothing is ever as it seems. Tony would lose a World Heavyweight Championship match and be forced to retire due to the match's stipulation. Evan Levine wound up screwing Flyer out of the World Championship, and weeks afterwards, attempted to bring the FWF over to invade the promotion. At Fear the Darkness, Flyer attempted to stop Evan with inside knowledge and a well timed sledgehammer to the skull, but things didn't work out as planned, and Evan was victorious over Psycho Jay due to Flyer's actions.
Flyer would turn face from this point, teaming with legend Phelen Kell until Kell's disappearance from wrestling in January of 2001. Flyer wouldn't see much action early in 2001, suffering from a torn ACL that would have to be repaired(the same injury that cost him the United States title in a cage versus Shack, and the same injury that Flyer fought through for his biggest victory to date against the Mysterious One. Tony Davis reinjured the apendage by striking Flyer with a car in early January, putting both men on the shelf for about three months.
Davis returned as the evil TRENCH COAT MAN, or Trenchie for short, being basically mean to puppies and small children. He ran amok for a while until Flyer came to stop him, and revealed Trenchie to be none other than Tony Davis in an impromptu match at April's WarCry event. Davis won the match, but absolutely had to destroy Flyer in order to do so.
Two months later at Beach Party, their conflict would come to a close, and VIAGRA would reform, wrestling Shawn Arrows & Ben Archer for a bit before putting over Doozer and leaving the federation for jOlt.
Flyer would remain behind to help try to pick up the shattered pieces of what had since become the IWO.
Jack was set to run a program against AWS Man(Also Known as Bill) when Joey Malone & Kent Anthason both left the promotion shortly after the fallout of 2001. But the promotion ran into technical issues and things were left unresolved due to a phantom Hostile Takeover that had never taken place. Word is, none of the executives could figure out who the title should go to. The promotion lost some funding, and things dramatically changed.
When the place returned, Flyer was the longest running roster member, and had recently been inducted into the Hall of Fame. With new champ Simon Seaman crowned, he needed an adversary, and Flyer was that man. They feuded for a bit before Flyer put Seaman over in a retirement match.
But like all retirement matches, it didn't stick, and Flyer was back by Ice Age. He made fun of this on a few occassions and held reseverations about returning to an IWO ring so soon, but the roster had been depleted and star power was needed. Flyer went into a feud with Sam Potright over the new Cruiserweight Championship(A retooled TV title), and then dropped the belt to Donnie Daze before reforming Team VIAGRA.
VIAGRA would go on to win the Tag Team Titles, and they would be the last team to ever hold them.
In 2003, Flyer returned as the IWO did, in an independant fashion. He wrestled every show, usually putting over talent in a means to facilitate new stars. Dolby Jenkins and he were set to have a huge blow off at Ice Age, but in September, the promotion, met with the death of fan favorite Syphon Fission and growing financial constraints, closed its doors for good.
High Flyer entered jOlt with tag team partner Tony Davis as part of Team V.I.A.G.R.A.. They went on to partner with Chris Titan and Chris Register and call themselves Fueled by V.I.A.G.R.A.. They would each win the tag team titles, before the four man tag team/stable split up, and Viagra won the defending contest.
Most of this tour was under a prankster/jovial motif. Particularly interactions with former owner of the promotion.
High Flyer joined Action! Wrestling in December of 2002. He wrestled Joey Malone in the main event for the Action! World Heavyweight Championship.
Shortly after that, he begun a friendship with A! Carnage champ Simon Seaman. Or seemed to, until Tony Davis showed up, and the two attacked him. This lead to a heel turn, which was effective enough to screw up Flyer's run in his other promotion, the aWc.
Flyer and Davis routinely performed as Team V.I.A.G.R.A. during this time. Their tour of duty lasted approximately four months.
Stint 1 2000 High Flyer joined the promotion during a large crossover event involving IWO superstars. He feuded with Al Coholic, but after a short controvery, left to return back to the Internet Wrestling Organization.
Stint 2 2002 Set in the future five years, the Lunatic would be a crippled veteran trying to make his return to the business inside the halls of the World Wrestling Revolution. What that meant was a return to the wacky antics of his prime.
So much so, the WWR gave him his own half hour television show, broadcasted as part of the programming. The show followed Flyer, his wife Kate Young-Harmen, his son Allocca Harmen, & his next door neighbor and clown friend Harlequinn.
The first episode involved Flyer and Harlequinn discovering a conspiracy for wide spread mind control perpetrated by the "I Can't Believe it's Not Butter" company. The second episode involved a snow storm that buried a local convience store that Flyer was shopping inside of an avalanche of snow. Plans were made and production began on EP 3, "The Day the Dance Died" involving "Southtown" Josh Klein & "Fly Guy" Derek Edwards losing their local night club, but WWR production on a whole ceased to function and the program was forced to be cancelled.
During this run, Flyer was a Main Event superstar, fighting Spike Saunders & Ray Chavez for the WWR Championship in the main event of WWR's first and only Pay Per View, WWR Wresolution
High Flyer joined this for a short period of time, hoping to find his brother, who had once wrestled inside it's walls years ago. He got involved in a short altercation with Kent Anthason, former IWO World Heavyweight Champion, but things somewhat stalled.
High Flyer was billed as a babyface World Heavyweight Champion. The only problem?
Everyone hated him.
Not because of who he was, but just what he did, in a much larger promotion, Action! Wrestling. After attacking Simon Seaman, Flyer debuted to a shocking course of boos.
Over the next month, Flyer attempted to stay calm, sell the idea, keep the story moving. But things flowndered pretty quickly. Under the pressure of making a company work that had a backwards main event, he occassionally broke out of his kayfabe'd "nice guy" and revealed the frustration that the whole situation was causing him.
It was the start of his Lunatic phase.
At the first pay per view, Flyer defeated L.i.T. via nefarious deeds, and went full blown heel. He did everything to keep his place at the top, cheating, running away, defending the belt with honor, until it all crashed down at the next show, Ascension, where L.i.T. would win the championship.
After that, Flyer went nuts, rampaging for his rematch through roster man after main event. When he was suspended, he destroyed a production truck. And when he still wasn't listened to, he took aWc off the air. He never returned after that, but the promotion would a few months later, severly crippled from Flyer's stunt.
High Flyer had a short lived tandem with Evan Levine. But long enough to win the FWF World Tag Team titles with.
High Flyer was signed onto a contract in April of 2003, a few weeks before Cyberslam. Due to a rib injury in aWc, Flyer wasn't able to enter the promotion until after the biggest pay per view of the year, debuting in his original hometown of Philadelphia.
High Flyer joined and immediately started a feud with former Cruiserweight Champion Great Dragon. After taking the loss in the pay per view showdown, Flyer toiled in the CW division until joining the Rogues in October.
That's when he finally defeated then champion Scotty J. Bowman for the title.
As a member of the Rogues, Flyer held onto his cruiserweight championship as if it were his meal ticket. Flyer played a "Second in Command" pseudo mentorship role with eron, until his eventual retirement in a match against Spyder.
Thrusted into the leadership position, Flyer attempted to make bold challenges to gain attention, and it cost him the fWo Cruiserweight Championship in a match against Scott Slugger. Two weeks later he regained the championship, and then entered into a deal with Lance Knight to take out Kellen Kinkade. But it was all an unsuccessful scheme by Flyer to take Kinkade and Knight to beat each other up and take the United States title.
During his planning, he lost his championship to Kagos and everything fell apart. Flyer turned on Knight and Flyer had to fight a war on two fronts, while facing the new US Champ, Jon Crisp.
Flyer tumbled out of the title chase and wound up inside the tag division, questioning his loyalties when former tag partner Tony Davis & best friend showed up. He had to choose between the Legion of Dairy & Davis, and chose Davis, only for the LoD 2k3 to show up as allies of Tony. Everything would fall apart when Flyer injured Davis at the February show, and showed remorse for his actions...
He blinded Poison Ivy, he crippled Deacon, and he forced "Superstar" Vince Jacobs into fWo retirement.
And then admitted to it all as a plan to gain the fWo championship.
Too bad the plan backfired, crippled the federation's already fragile defenses, and lead to the Countdown riot that shut the federations doors down from Network Television.
In 2006, after the fWo's Countdown event, Flyer returned to his school to give some of his protegues a bit more training. Derek Edwards & Josh Klein returned as pupils, as new ACW star Lucious attended. Others are thought to have, but no other names have been released.
Shortly after this was completed, Flyer returned to the ring at ACW's Courage 100, wrestling and losing to Alias.
High Flyer joined the Primetime Central GTT 6 tournament, and lost in the third round in a contest with finalist Sammy Brown, having defeated Jim Axtell(via forfeit) and Steve Watson - CPA in prior rounds. Watson even lasted an extra round past Flyer, having gained a replayed entry due to the closeness of their first round matchup.
High Flyer debuted in December of 2006 in No Brand Wrestling, taking over a vacated spot in the second round of the North Atlantic championship tournament. Flyer used this oppertuinity to take him all the way to the finals, losing in a Ladder match to Austin Advent at 25 to Life.
Flyer and Davis joined forces as Team VIAGRA, and continued to appear on sporatic nbW shows, highlighting themselves up until Flyer's Shivaree win. Since then, they defeated SJH and Cappy at the biggest show of the year, and now await reassignment once nbW figures out their television deal.
During this off time, Flyer has begun working for TEAM once more, wrestling at their Super Show IV and now in their Tournament of Champions.
Rumors persist of a possible job commentating for a federation, but Flyer doesn't seem to be hanging up the boots any time soon, and so they remain rumors.
Bolded entries were included in a compilation set the IWO released in February of 2007. It involved a line of "Classic Superstars," detailing High Flyer, Tony Davis, Syphon Fission, Joey Malone, Kent Anthason, & Sam Potright. These bolded entries were included in disc 2 of the IWO set. Others are included on the unofficial compilation tape by RF Video.
| fWo World Heavyweight Championship | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by: Vince Jacobs |
Date 10/30/05 | Succeeded by: Current |
| fWo World Tag Team Championship | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by: Blue Rogues (the Codemaster & Coral Avalon) |
First w/ Rana Venenosa | Succeeded by: Current |
| fWo Internet Championship | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by: Voran Xias |
First ' | Succeeded by: Rana Venenosa |
| fWo United States Championship | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by: Eli Flair |
First ' | Succeeded by: Kellen Kinkade |
| fWo Cruiserweight Championship | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by: Scotty J. Bowman |
First ' | Succeeded by: Scott Slugger |
| fWo Cruiserweight Championship | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by: Scott Slugger |
Second ' | Succeeded by: Rush |
| fWo Cruiserweight Championship | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by: Doctor Curiosity |
Third ' | Succeeded by: Michelle Masters |
| IWO World Heavyweight Championship | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by: Gunnar Smith |
First ' | Succeeded by: Gunnar Smith |
| IWO North American Championship | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by: Vacant |
First ' | Succeeded by: Spaz |
| IWO Pacific Championship | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by: Ken War |
First ' | Succeeded by: Scott Stone |
| IWO Extreme Championship | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by: Mike Extreme |
First ' | Succeeded by: Justin Shack |
| IWO United States Championship | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by: Ian Kain |
First ' | Succeeded by: Justin Shack |
| IWO T.V./CW Championship | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by: Jax Stone |
First ' | Succeeded by: Fugite |
| IWO T.V./CW Championship | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by: Fugite |
Second ' | Succeeded by: Black Assassin |
| IWO T.V./CW Championship | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by: Vacant |
Third ' | Succeeded by: Sam Potright |
| IWO T.V./CW Championship | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by: Sam Potright |
Fourth ' | Succeeded by: Donnie Daze |
| IWO World Tag Team Championship | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by: Enemies of the State |
First as Team V.I.A.G.R.A. ' | Succeeded by: Team Tampax |
| IWO World Tag Team Championship | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by: Legion of Dairy |
Second as Team V.I.A.G.R.A. ' | Succeeded by: Vacated |
| IWO I.C. Tag Team Championship | ||
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| Preceded by: Legion of Dairy |
First as The Cult w/ Jax Stone ' | Succeeded by: High Flyer & Dark Wolf |
| IWO I.C. Tag Team Championship | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by: The Cult |
Second w/ Dark Wolf ' | Succeeded by: Beverly Hills Bruisers |
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