Shannon Moore

Veteran pro wrestler Shannon Moore is best known for the time spent with two of the world’s biggest promotions: the former WCW during the 1990s and WWE during the 2000s. Now with over 25 years of experience in the ring, he currently wrestles for the independent ARW promotion. He is also a noted tattoo artist and is one of the few pro wrestlers that can claim to have written his own theme music.

Moore was born in North Carolina in 1979. Two of his best childhood friends were the future wrestling legends Matt and Jeff Hardy, and when they turned professional in the early 1990s, they trained him up to follow them into sports entertainment. He duly made his professional debut in 1995. By the end of the decade, he’d been signed up by WCW and became part of 3 Count, a trio of young male wrestlers who became the promotion’s version of a boyband, parodying the clean-cut likes of N*Sync and the Backstreet Boys. During his time there, he also won the Hardcore Championship title. In 2001, WWF acquired WCW, and Moore was one of the wrestlers whose contract was picked up. He stayed with the world’s number-one wrestling promotion for seven years as it transitioned to WWE. During that time, he teamed up with Jeff Hardy, competed on Raw and Smackdown and appeared at major events such as Wrestlemania.

Since leaving the WWE, Moore has flourished on the American wrestling circuit, taking in spells with ECW, TNA, and many others, winning numerous belts and titles.