Alex Arion
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Alex Pliakos is an American
United States
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 professional wrestler
Professional wrestling
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, better known by his ring name
Ring name
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 "The Golden Greek" Alex Arion. He competes in Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic independent promotions including Chaotic Wrestling
Chaotic Wrestling
Chaotic Wrestling is an American independent wrestling promotion based in North Andover, Massachusetts owned by Jamie Jamitowski and formerly Killer Kowalski prior to his death in August 2008. In addition to the promotion is the Chaotic Training Center, a professional wrestling school where...

, the East Coast Wrestling Alliance, Eastern Pro Wrestling, Jersey All Pro Wrestling
Jersey All Pro Wrestling
Jersey All Pro Wrestling is an independent wrestling promotion based in New Jersey.-1997:Jersey All Pro Wrestling is an independent wrestling promotion that was founded by "Fat" Frank Iadeavia on April 19, 1997. This promotion was born out of a dream of "Fat" Frank. He wanted to take the promotion...

, New England Championship Wrestling
New England Championship Wrestling
New England Championship Wrestling was an independent professional wrestling promotion based in the Northeastern United States and has promoted events since 2000...

 and Top Rope Promotions
Top Rope Promotions
Top Rope Promotions, formerly known as Yankee Pro Wrestling, is a Northeastern independent professional wrestling promotion based in New Bedford, Massachusetts and is the largest promotion in the southern New England-area rivaling other Northeastern promotions including Chaotic Wrestling, the...

. He has also made several appearances for Ring of Honor
Ring of Honor
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 and the World Wrestling Federation
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.

Early career (1997-2001)

Trained at the Bodyslammers Wrestling Gym by Al Snow
Al Snow
Allen Ray Sarven is an American professional wrestler and actor better known by his ring name of Al Snow. He is best known for his work in Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment and currently works for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as a road agent.-Early career:Sarven...

 and Steve Bradley
Steve Bradley
Steven Richard Bisson was an American professional wrestler who had competed on North American independent promotions throughout the 1990s including East Coast Wrestling Association, IWA Puerto Rico and the National Wrestling Alliance as well as spending over three years in World Wrestling...

, Pliakas made his professional debut in 1997. Wrestling under the name "The Golden Greek" Alex Arion, he spent over three years on the independent circuit, including the Century Wrestling Alliance
Century Wrestling Alliance
The Century Wrestling Alliance, formerly known as NWA Cold Front and NWA New England, is a New England-based American independent wrestling promotion located in Boston, Massachusetts...

 (or NWA New England) and Pennsylvania Championship Wrestling, prior to wrestling for New England Championship Wrestling in early-2000. In 2001, Arion appeared on the April 14 edition WWF Jakked in a tag team match with Lo Ki against Perry Saturn and 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...

.

Chaotic Wrestling and New England Championship Wrestling (2002-2007)

In March 2002, Arion defeated "Brutal" Bob Evans for the NECW Heavyweight Championship
NECW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship
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 and held it for 9 months before losing the title to Maverick Wild
Scott C. Despres
Scott Cameron Despres is an American professional wrestler, trainer and promoter. Known by the ring name Maverick Wild, he was one of the top stars of the New England independent circuit during the 1990s and early 2000s as a mainstay for International World Class Championship Wrestling, the...

 on December 20, 2002. That same year, he also wrestled in Green Mountain Wrestling. Winning the GMW King of the Mountain Television Championship, he defended the title against Justin Powers
Justin McIsaac
Justin McIsaac is a semi-retired American professional wrestler, also known by his ring names "The Alpha Male" Justin Powers or Justin Shaype, who competes in independent promotions on the East Coast and Northeastern United States...

 and Fred Curry, Jr.
Fred Curry, Jr.
Fred Thomas Koury, III better known under the name ”Flyin'” Fred Curry, Jr., is an American professional wrestler of Lebanese descent, currently wrestling in the independent circuit in the Northeastern United States most notabily as a mainstay of Assault Championship Wrestling and New England...

 at the GMW Dojo.

He also made a brief appearance in Ring of Honor
Ring of Honor
Ring of Honor ' is an American professional wrestling promotion, founded in 2002 by Rob Feinstein and Gabe Sapolsky. From 2004 to 2011, the promotion was under the ownership of Cary Silkin before being sold to the Sinclair Broadcast Group in May 2011...

 facing Maverick Wild at ROH Invades Boston on August 24. Manager Prince Nana
Prince Nana
Prince Nana Osei Bandoh is an American professional wrestler of Ghanaian extraction, better known by his ring name, Prince Nana. He has stated that he is an Ashanti prince.-Professional wrestling career:...

 also accompanied him to ringside in his match against Dunn a few weeks later. The match was originally scheduled to be a tag team match, however Nana suffered a concussion at ROH Road to the Title and was unable to compete. Arion defeated Dunn with a superfly splash in under two minutes and, afterwards, Prince Nana made an offer to Arion to become his servant. Arion seemingly agreed and went to shine his shoes but instead hit Nana with a superkick. On November 16, he teamed with Don Juan and Fast Eddie in a 6-man tag team match against The Carnage Crew
The Carnage Crew
-History:The Carnage Crew of Loc and DeVito had their first ROH match together at Night of Appreciation defeating The Ring Crew Express. They were very hard hitting and used many high impact moves. At the time, there were two other similar teams in ROH: Da Hit Squad and the Natural Born Sinners...

 at ROH Scramble Madness held at the Americal Civic Center in Wakefield, Massachusetts
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.

In early-2003, he made his last appearance for Ring of Honor defeating Hot Stuff Hernandez on March 15. He also participated in the 2003 ECWA Super 8 Tournament being eliminated by Paul London
Paul London
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 in the opening rounds in Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington, Delaware
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. He would also team and later feud with his kayfabe
Kayfabe
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 brother Frankie Arion.

On June 17, 2004, Arion faced Michael Sain for the NECW Heavyweight Championship at NECW's Fan Appreciation Night at the Goodtime Emporium in Somerville, Massachusetts
Somerville, Massachusetts
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. This was their second meeting, their previous match ending in controversy when outside interference by Sein's manager Alex Crowley caused Arion to lose the match. By March 2005, he was also managed by Crowley.

In April 2005, Arion wrestled Fred Curry, Jr.
Fred Curry, Jr.
Fred Thomas Koury, III better known under the name ”Flyin'” Fred Curry, Jr., is an American professional wrestler of Lebanese descent, currently wrestling in the independent circuit in the Northeastern United States most notabily as a mainstay of Assault Championship Wrestling and New England...

 in Framingham, Massachusetts
Framingham, Massachusetts
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 to for a title shot against then NECW Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion Chris Venom. This show was part of NECW's Spring Breakthrough Tour which also held shows in Seekonk
Seekonk
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 and Somerville, Massachusetts
Somerville, Massachusetts
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. He lost to Curry one year later at Defiant Pro Wrestling's Scorned held at the Naugatuck Portuguese Club in Naugatuck, Connecticut
Naugatuck, Connecticut
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 on April 16, 2006.

Appearing in Top Rope Promotions
Top Rope Promotions
Top Rope Promotions, formerly known as Yankee Pro Wrestling, is a Northeastern independent professional wrestling promotion based in New Bedford, Massachusetts and is the largest promotion in the southern New England-area rivaling other Northeastern promotions including Chaotic Wrestling, the...

 during the fall, he eventually joined Arch Kincaid and Max Bauer
Max Bauer (wrestler)
Max Bauer, is an American professional wrestler, who is currently wrestling on the independent circuit in the Northeastern United States.Bauer has primarily competed in the Chaotic Wrestling and New England Championship Wrestling promotions, but has wrestled for numerous other independent...

 in the heel
Heel (professional wrestling)
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stable Intellectual Properties on December 1. He replaced Thomas Penmanship, an original member, who had turned on the group the same night. Teaming with Max Bauer, while Arch Kincaid settled into a managerial role, the two feuded with The Logan Brothers throughout the next year.

Arion faced newly crowned NECW Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion DC Dillinger in his first title defense in Brockton, Massachusetts
Brockton, Massachusetts
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 on March 3, 2007. On May 18, he also challenged Chaotic Wrestling New England Champion
Chaotic Wrestling New England Championship
The Chaotic Wrestling New England Championship is a professional wrestling title in American independent promotion Chaotic Wrestling. The title was first won by "Latin Fury" Luis Ortiz in Revere, Massachusetts on February 23, 2001. There have been a total of 22 recognized individual champions, who...

 Brian Fury but failed to win the title. At NECW Global Impact the following month, defeated to "Sensational" Scott Reed on June 30. Max Bauer and TJ Richter attempted to attack Arion after the match but was stopped by NECW officials who threatened them with suspension. Arion then confronted the three challenging Richter to a singles match to allow his brother Frankie Arion, who had been forced to leave the promotion 10 months earlier, to return to NECW. Richter instead proposed a gauntlet match in which he would have to defeat all three men or retire from wrestling which Arion accepted.

On July 20, he won the gauntlet match defeating Scott Reed, Max Bauer (via disqualification) and TJ Richter to officially reinstate his brother. Following his victory, Frankie Arion
Francesco Roda
Frank Roda is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Frankie Arion. He is currently wrestling in the independent circuit in the Northeastern United States and Canada.-Professional wrestling career:...

 entered the ring and embraced his brother. He and Frankie Arion
Francesco Roda
Frank Roda is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Frankie Arion. He is currently wrestling in the independent circuit in the Northeastern United States and Canada.-Professional wrestling career:...

 later defeated DNA (T.J. Richter and Max Bauer), accompanied by Scott Reed, at NECW's Birthday Bash on August 18. He also received rematches against Brian Fury for the Chaotic Wrestling Heavyweight title defeated him by disqualification on September 7. Weeks later in NECW, he and Jason Blade lost to The Forgotten.

He and Max Bauer began teaming as Big Business and, October 19, they defeated Bryan Logan & Brian Fury. The following night, Arion won the New England Heavyweight Championship from Logan but lost to him two weeks later. On November 3, he also wrestled Bob Evans for the EPW Heavyweight Championship. In late-December, Arion took part in the NECW's annual Toxic Waltz tournament in which the loser of every match picks the opponent for the winner. Arion defeated "Die Hard" Eddie Edwards
Eddie Edwards (wrestler)
Eddie Edwards is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for wrestling with Ring of Honor , where he is a former ROH World Champion. He also had previous reigns as a former ROH World Tag Team Champion with his partner Davey Richards as The American Wolves and as the inaugural ROH World...

 in the first round before losing to D.C. Dillinger. He and Brian Fury teamed together to defeat Max Bauer in Syracuse, New York
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 on December 29, 2007.

Recent years (2008-present)

On January 19, 2008, he and Bobby Fish lost to Sabotage (Eddie Edwards & DC Dillinger) and to Bob Evans in a rematch for the EPW Heavyweight title several days later. On January 28, Arion teamed with Max Bauer, Brian Fury and Bobby Fish in an 8-man survival match against NECW Triple Crown champion Rick Fuller
Rick Fuller
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, Antonio Thomas, DC Dillinger and Eddie Edwards in the main event at NECW Snowbrawl. Although his team won the match, Arion was eliminated when he was pinned by Eddie Edwards.

On March 29, he was accompanied by his sister Elektra Arion who was at ringside during his match against Scotty Osbourne at NECW March Badness. That same month, he beat Antonio Thomas
Tom Matera
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 at a show for Eastern Pro Wrestling. Arion later replaced Thomas in the 5th annual Iron 8 tournament. Defeating "The Japanese Terror" Kahagas in the first round, he later won the tournament pinning the previous winner Eddie Edwards in the finals. A four-way match, the other wrestlers involved were Scott Osborne and Gran Akuma
Gran Akuma
Gran Akuma is a professional wrestler who currently works for Chikara and Combat Zone Wrestling, where he uses the ring name AKUMA. He has also worked for the Florida based Full Impact Pro. In Chikara, he was a member of the Kings of Wrestling stable, while also being a part of Team F.I.S.T. with...

. On June 6, he defeated Bryan Logan for the Chaotic Wrestling Heavyweight Championship
Chaotic Wrestling Heavyweight Championship
The Chaotic Wrestling Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship in Chaotic Wrestling. It is the primary championship in the promotion.The current champion is Handsome Johnny, who is in his third reign as champion...

 in Lowell, Massachusetts
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. He held both the Heavyweight and New England championships for two months until being forced to forfeit the New England title to Scott Reed on August 15. On September 20, Arion made a special appearance at NECW's show Autumn Unleashed as guest referee in the main event between Max Bauer and D.C. Dillinger for the NECW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship.

Championships and accomplishments

  • American Wrestling Alliance
    • AWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

  • Chaotic Wrestling
    Chaotic Wrestling
    Chaotic Wrestling is an American independent wrestling promotion based in North Andover, Massachusetts owned by Jamie Jamitowski and formerly Killer Kowalski prior to his death in August 2008. In addition to the promotion is the Chaotic Training Center, a professional wrestling school where...

    • Chaotic Wrestling Heavyweight Championship
      Chaotic Wrestling Heavyweight Championship
      The Chaotic Wrestling Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship in Chaotic Wrestling. It is the primary championship in the promotion.The current champion is Handsome Johnny, who is in his third reign as champion...

       (1 time)
    • Chaotic Wrestling Tag Team Championship
      Chaotic Wrestling Tag Team Championship
      The Chaotic Wrestling Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling tag team title in American independent promotion Chaotic Wrestling. The title was first won by The Damned defeating Derik Destiny and Kid Krazy in Worcester, Massachusetts on September 17, 2000...

       (1 time) - with Max Bauer
      Max Bauer (wrestler)
      Max Bauer, is an American professional wrestler, who is currently wrestling on the independent circuit in the Northeastern United States.Bauer has primarily competed in the Chaotic Wrestling and New England Championship Wrestling promotions, but has wrestled for numerous other independent...

    • Chaotic Wrestling New England Championship
      Chaotic Wrestling New England Championship
      The Chaotic Wrestling New England Championship is a professional wrestling title in American independent promotion Chaotic Wrestling. The title was first won by "Latin Fury" Luis Ortiz in Revere, Massachusetts on February 23, 2001. There have been a total of 22 recognized individual champions, who...

       (1 time)

  • Declaration of Independents
    • DOI ranked him #63 of the 250 best singles wrestlers of the DOI Top 250 in 2005

  • Elite Wrestling Alliance
    • EWA United States Championship (1 time)

  • Green Mountain Wrestling
    • GMW Television Championship (1 time)
    • GMW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Steve Ramsey

  • Renegade Wrestling Federation
    • RWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

  • New England Championship Wrestling
    New England Championship Wrestling
    New England Championship Wrestling was an independent professional wrestling promotion based in the Northeastern United States and has promoted events since 2000...

    • NECW Heavyweight Championship
      NECW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship
      The NECW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship is the top professional wrestling title in New England Championship Wrestling. It was originally known as the NECW Heavyweight Championship until the title was unified with the PWF Northeast and Mayhem titles...

       (1 time)
    • Iron 8 Championship Tournament (2008)
    • Toxic Waltz (2008)

  • Pro Wrestling Illustrated
    Pro Wrestling Illustrated
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    • PWI ranked him #257 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI 500 in 2003

  • Wrestling Federation of America
    • WFA Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Brandon Locke

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