Gene Snitsky (also spelled as Gene Snisky; listed from Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania) is a professional wrestler currently performing for World Wrestling Entertainment on the RAW brand.
Profile
Early career
He is a graduate of the Wild Samoan Training Center and wrestled in Ohio Valley Wrestling as Mean Gene Mondo. He previously wrestled with world eXtreme wrestling under the name "Mean" Gene Snisky and won the tag-team championship along with his partner Robb Harper. When he went to singles competition, he won the wXw Heavyweight Championship.
Career in World Wrestling Entertainment
He made his WWE debut on the September 13, 2004 edition of RAW against Kane. During this match, Snitsky hit Kane on the back with a steel chair causing Kane to fall on his pregnant wife Lita resulting in the death of their baby. During this angle he repeatedly stated "It wasn't my fault", which became his catch phrase.
He was then situated in a major feud with Kane, which lead to a match at Taboo Tuesday. In this match, Snitsky used a steel chair and crushed Kane's larynx. WWE used this angle as kayfabe for Kane's absence, when in reality Kane was going to film a movie. This feud resumed at the WWE New Year's Revolution pay-per-view, when Kane came back from filming his WWE-produced movie with Snitsky losing to Kane.
On the January 17, 2005 RAW, Kane and Snitsky were booked to compete in a No Holds Barred match. Kane and Snitsky battled inside and outside the ring in their scheduled match. The Kane-Snitsky match, and the show, ended with Kane performing his finishing move (the chokeslam) to Snitsky while they were both on the edge of the stage, this saw both wrestlers fly off the stage, with both wrestlers falling through tables and other paraphernalia set up below the entrance ramp.
At Survivor Series 2004, and more recently at 2005's Royal Rumble, Snitsky has had an encounter with another psychotic man, from SmackDown!, Heidenreich, in which they both exchanged their views on each other – "I like .. your .. poems."; "I .. like what you do.. to babies." — while breathing hard, both their trademark ways of talking.
At 2005's Royal Rumble, Snitsky secretly partnered with Heidenreich, planning to interfere in Heidenreich's Casket Match with The Undertaker. It was later revealed that Kane was hidden in the casket, and pounced on both Snitsky and Heidenreich, where they continued their fight in the crowds, before letting the Casket Match continue. This started a chain reaction of feuds, where WrestleMania 21 would see The Undertaker partnter with Kane to take on Snitsky and Heidenreich. The idea was later ditched by The Undertaker — wanting to keep his deadman persona before he planned to leave the WWE — and instead fought Randy Orton.
Championships and accomplisments
- 1-Time wXw Heavyweight Champion
- 1-Time wXw Tag-Team Champion (with Robb Harper )
