Edward Chastain is a professional National Wrestling Alliance

National Wrestling Alliance

The National Wrestling Alliance is a wrestling promotion company and sanctions various NWA championships in the United States. The NWA has been in operation since 1948...

 wrestler. Best known by his ring name Iceberg. He has competed for several professional wrestling promotions, including 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...

 (TNA) and Wrestling International New Generations (W*ING) in Japan

Japan

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. He later wrestled as part of The Extreme Freebird alliance. He has also held the NWA Anarchy Heavyweight Championship

NWA Anarchy Heavyweight Championship

The NWA Anarchy Heavyweight Championship is the top title for NWA Anarchy professional wrestling promotion. It was awarded to the first champion in 2005 and is currently the top title for the Georgia territory of NWA Anarchy, like NWA World Heavyweight Championship is the top title for National...

.

Professional wrestling career

Chastain was mentored by Abdullah the Butcher

Abdullah the Butcher

Lawrence Robert "Larry" Shreve best known as Abdullah the Butcher, and also at times The Madman from the Sudan, is a semi-retired Canadian professional wrestler known as one of the most brutal or "hardcore" professional wrestlers of all-time...

, who inspired him to use a fork as a foreign object during matches. Early in his career, Chastain faced and defeated such wrestlers as Mr. Pogo and Abdullah the Butcher. In TNA Wrestling, he was brought in by manager

Manager (professional wrestling)

In professional wrestling, a manager is a secondary character paired with a wrestler for a variety of reasons. The manager is often either a non-wrestler, an occasional wrestler, an older wrestler who has retired or is nearing retirement or, in some cases, a new wrestler who is breaking into the...

 Don Callis

Don Callis

Don Callis is a Canadian former professional wrestler and manager, known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation as The Jackyl, and Extreme Championship Wrestling as color commentator Cyrus.-Early life:...

 to feuded

Feud (professional wrestling)

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 with The Sandman

Jim Fullington

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. At TNA's fifty-third weekly pay-per-view event, Chastain defeated Norman Smiley

Norman Smiley

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. Chastain later lost a pay-per-view match against The Sandman. After the match, Callis ended his business arrangement with Chastain, putting on a rubber glove and then shaking his hand.

In 2003, he was one third of the alliance The Extreme Freebirds, with Tank and Ray Gordy

Ray Gordy

Terry Ray Gordy, Jr. is an American professional wrestler best known for his time in World Wrestling Entertainment appearing on its SmackDown brand under the ring names Jesse and Slam Master J...

.

After winning the NWA Anarchy Heavyweight Championship

NWA Anarchy Heavyweight Championship

The NWA Anarchy Heavyweight Championship is the top title for NWA Anarchy professional wrestling promotion. It was awarded to the first champion in 2005 and is currently the top title for the Georgia territory of NWA Anarchy, like NWA World Heavyweight Championship is the top title for National...

, he defended it against Mikael Judas

Mikael Judas

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 and Phill Shatter

Phill Shatter

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 at the NWA 60th Anniversary Show. In NWA in September 2009, he wrestled in a match which carried a stipulation that he would be forced to retire if he lost. Iceberg lost the match but then wrestled one final match under his real name, Edward Chastain, claiming that only the Iceberg character had to retire. During this match, he wore a dress shirt and tie, and the fans chanted "You're a legend!" after Chastain won the match.

In wrestling

• Signature moves
  • Avalanche splash
  • Clothesline
  • Forearm smash

• Managers
  • Don Callis
    Don Callis
    Don Callis is a Canadian former professional wrestler and manager, known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation as The Jackyl, and Extreme Championship Wrestling as color commentator Cyrus.-Early life:...
    
    
  • Jeff G. Bailey
  • Reverend Dan Wilson

Championships and accomplishments

• Continental Championship Wrestling
• CCW Heavyweight Championship
• CCW Brass Knuckles Championship

• Extreme Wrestling Alliance
• EWA Heavyweight Championship
• EWA United States Championship

• IWA-Deep South
• IWA-Deep South Tag Team Championship

• National Wrestling Federation
• NWF Heavyweight Championship

• NWA Anarchy
  NWA Anarchy
  NWA Anarchy Wrestling is an American independent professional wrestling promotion based in Cornelia, Georgia and promoting events throughout North Georgia...
  
  
• NWA Anarchy Heavyweight Championship
  NWA Anarchy Heavyweight Championship
  The NWA Anarchy Heavyweight Championship is the top title for NWA Anarchy professional wrestling promotion. It was awarded to the first champion in 2005 and is currently the top title for the Georgia territory of NWA Anarchy, like NWA World Heavyweight Championship is the top title for National...
  
   (1 time)
• NWA Anarchy Tag Team Championship
  NWA Anarchy Tag Team Championship
  The NWA Anarchy Tag Team Championship is the top tag team championship in NWA Anarchy that started 2005 after NWA Wildside folded.The title starts off where the NWA Wildside Tag Team Championship left off, but is not considered as the replacement of the NWA Wildside Tag Team Championship. After the...
  
  

• NWA Wildside
  NWA Wildside
  NWA Wildside was an American independent professional wrestling promotion based in Cornelia, Georgia, with an office in Atlanta, Georgia, operating between September 1999 and April 2005....
  
  
• NWA Wildside Heavyweight Championship
  NWA Georgia Heavyweight Championship
  The NWA Georgia Heavyweight Championship was the major title in the Georgia Championship Wrestling professional wrestling promotion. It started in 1964 and was unified in 1981 with the NWA National Heavyweight Championship....
  
  
• NWA Wildside Tag Team Championship (2 times) with - Tank

• New Age Wrestling Alliance
• NEWA Hardcore Champion Championship

• Starsouth Championship Wrestling Alliance
• SCWA Georgia Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
• SCWA Heavyweight Championship
• SCWA Tag Team Championship (4 times)

• Ultimate Extreme Wrestling
• UEW Tag Team Championship

• W*ING
• W*ING Hardcore Championship

External links

• Profile at Online World Of Wrestling