Montel Vontavious Porter

**Hassan Hamin Assad** (born **Alvin Antonio Burke Jr.**; October 28, 1973) is an American professional wrestler and rapper. He is better known by the ring name **Montel Vontavious Porter** (**MVP**). He is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is the co-leader and Manager (professional wrestling) of the stable The Hurt Syndicate. He has also worked with WWE, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), Ring of Honor (ROH) and New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW).

Porter became famous in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he first wrestled from 2005 to 2010. During this time, he became a one-time WWE Tag Team Champion with Matt Hardy and a two-time WWE United States Champion. He was released from his WWE contract in December 2010, but returned in the 2020 Royal Rumble match. That same year, he formed a stable called The Hurt Business with Bobby Lashley, Cedric Alexander and Shelton Benjamin. In September 2024, MVP made his debut for All Elite Wrestling (AEW).

He spent six months in a juvenile detention center after a robbery and later completed 9½ years of an 18½ year prison sentence for armed robbery and kidnapping which at the time he started it he was sixteen. He has a rare heart condition called Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. He converted to Islam while in prison but has since described himself as a nonbeliever.

## Championships and accomplishments

- **All Pro Wrestling**
    - APW Universal Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- ***The Baltimore Sun***
    - Most Improved Wrestler of the Year (2007)
- **Big League Wrestling**
    - BLW World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
    - BLW Title Rumble Match (2018)
- **CBS Sports**
    - Comeback Wrestler of the Year (2020)
- **Coastal Championship Wrestling**
    - CCW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- **DDT Pro-Wrestling**
    - Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship (1 time)
- **Future of Wrestling**
    - FOW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Punisher
- **Imperial Wrestling Revolution**
    - IWR Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
    - IWR Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with D Money, Marce Lewis, Montego Seeka and Nytronis A'Teo
- **New Japan Pro-Wrestling**
    - IWGP Intercontinental Championship (1 time, first)
    - IWGP Intercontinental Championship Tournament (2011)
- ***Pro Wrestling Illustrated***
    - Comeback of the Year (2020)
    - Ranked No. 23 of the best 500 singles wrestlers in the _PWI 500_ in 2008
- **Southern Championship Wrestling Florida**
    - SCW Florida Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- **World Class Revolution**
    - WCR Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
- **World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE**
    - WWE United States Championship (2 times)
    - WWE Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Matt Hardy
    - Slammy Award (1 time)
        - Trash Talker of the Year (2020)
- ***Wrestling Observer Newsletter***
    - Most Improved (2007)
    - Most Underrated (2008)

## Other websites

- Official website
- TNA profile
- MVP on WWE.com

## Infobox (professional wrestler)

- **name**: Montel Vontavious Porter
- **image**: MVP 2019-2.jpg
- **image size**: 230px
- **caption**: MVP in September 2019
- **birthname**: Alvin Antonio Burke Jr.
- **birth place**: Miami, Florida, U.S.
- **children**: 1
- **names**: Antonio Banks
Antonio Bank$
Lord of War
**Montel Vontavious Porter**
**MVP**
- **height**: 6 ft 3 in
- **weight**: 259 lb
- **billed**: Miami, Florida
- **trainer**: Soulman Alex G
Norman Smiley
- **debut**: August 10, 2002