Chad Slivenski Chad Slivenski ( July 4 , 1972 ) is a semi - retired American professional wrestler , known by his ringname Chad Bowman , who competed in East Coast and Mid - Atlantic independent promotion s during the 1990s and 2000s . Early in his career , Slivenski spent time in regional promotions such as the United States Wrestling Association and Smokey Mountain Wrestling before their close in the mid - 1990s , and made occasional appearances as a preliminary wrestler in World Wrestling Entertainment . Slivenski also wrestles under the name " Stone Cold " Chad Austin , an in - ring persona he originally used in Extreme Championship Wrestling , and continued in other Philadelphia - based " hardcore " wrestling promotions such as Combat Zone Wrestling and IWA Mid - South . While in ECW , Austin was subject to a real - life " shoot " when New Jack intentionally broke his leg with a steel chair . In later shoot interviews , New Jack has credited Austin for inadvertently inspiring his 187 finishing move , a top rope dive onto an opponent with a steel chair , which he had first used to injure him . A mainstay of the Mid - Eastern Wrestling Federation and Maryland Championship Wrestling , he and kayfabe brother Chip Bowman were members of the " heel " stable Total Quality Management with MCW Heavyweight Champion " Wiseguy " Jimmy Cicero and MCW Tag Team Champions Cueball Carmichael & Dino Devine from 2000 until their breakup in 2002 . He and Devine later began teaming together as The Slackers and won both the MEWF and MCW Tag Team titles . Career . Early career ( 1991 - 1993 ) . Born in Red Bank , New Jersey , Chad Slivenski trained under Don Owens and made his wrestling debut on September 11 , 1991 . He spent two years on the East Coast and Mid - Atlantic " indy circuit " , as well as stints in the United States Wrestling Association and Smokey Mountain Wrestling , prior to joining Tod Gordon and Eastern Championship Wrestling in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania in late - 1993 . Extreme Championship Wrestling ( 1993 - 1996 ) . Slivenski made his ECW debut as Chad Austin on its first major show , the 2 - day " NWA Bloodfest " , at the ECW Arena on October 1 , 1993 . On both nights , he wrestled Bad Breed ( Ian & Axl Rotten ) with Todd Shaw and Don E . Allen respectively , as well as losing to Jimmy " Superfly " Snuka . These matches were later broadcast on the first episodes of " ECW Hardcore TV " during the next few weeks . On November 14 , 1993 , Austin was the sole survivor of a 6 - man elimination tag team match with Watsumi the Rising Sun and Joe College against the American Ninja , Johnny Paradise and The Comet at Kenwood High School in Essex , Maryland . Slivenski was part of two other memorable Hardcore TV moments that year . On December 13 , he was scheduled to face Mr . Hughes but the lights unexpectedly went out , and when they came back on again , the entire ECW locker room was engaged in a brawl in the ring . A week later , Slivenski was brought out by Terry Funk as a mock Sabu impersonator and attacked by Funk . When Sabu ' s then manager Paul E . Dangerously confronted Funk , he was chased off . In front of a sold - out crowd at the ECW Arena , Slivenski scored an upset victory over Pitbull # 1 in his ECW debut at Holiday Hell ' 93 on December 26 , 1993 . When his opponent continued attacking him after the match , The Sandman came to his rescue . This match aired on ECW Hardcore TV three days later . Slivenski continued to be a regular at the ECW Arena during the next year . On February 5 , 1994 , he lost to 911 in the opening match of ECW ' s " The Night the Line was Crossed " . In the first half of 1994 , he also faced The Public Enemy ( Rocco Rock & Johnny Grunge ) , Johnny Hotbody , Hack Meyers and Shane Douglas . On April 9 , he challenged Ricky Blues at the Mid - Eastern Wrestling Federation ' s Kenwood Khaos in Essex . That summer , he appeared on three major ECW shows . On June 24 , his match against Don E . Allen at Hostile City Showdown ' 94 ended in a no - contest when 911 interfered and incapacitated both men with a choke slam . A month later at Heat Wave 1994 , Slivenski was disqualified in his match against ECW Television Champion Mikey Whipwreck as well as their rematch in Wildwood , New Jersey a week later . Five days later in Montgomeryville , Pennsylvania , he teamed with Rockin ' Rebel and Jason Knight in a 6 - man tag team match to defeat Don E . Allen , Dino Sendoff and Hack Meyers . On August 13 , he defeated " Ironman " Tommy Cairo at Hardcore Heaven 1994 . He also wrestled Mr . Hughes , Sabu , Damien Stone , Steve Richards , Rockin ' Rebel and Chris Benoit on Hardcore TV over the summer . On November 22 , he and Hack Meyers lost to Stevie Richards & JT Smith in a tag team match and , the following week , wrestled Shane Douglas for the ECW Heavyweight Championship . On December 24 , 1994 , Slivenski participated in a battle royal at the ECW Arena . He was the event ' s first entrant and , upon entering the ring , announced he was quitting SMW and had bought a house in Atlanta claiming he was soon heading to World Championship Wrestling adding that " ECW was small time " . Upon hearing this , everyone in the battle royal immediately entered the ring to go after Slivenski and threw him out . Led by Shane Douglas , the wrestlers forced to say " ECW is number one ! " in the house microphone . This resulted in Tod Gordon coming out and ordering everyone to the back , with the exception of Axl Rotten and Pitbull # 2 , and reenter the ring under Royal Rumble - style rules . The event was later included as part of " ECW Extreme Warfare , Vol . 1 " . On January 7 , 1995 , Slivenski lost to JT Smith at the ECW Arena and to The Tazmaniac at the Big Apple Dinner Theater in Kennett Square , Pennsylvania on February 24 . The following night at ECW ' s Return of the Funker , he and Joel Hartgood lost to The Pitbulls ( Pitbull # 1 & Pitbull # 2 ) in front of 1 , 150 fans . At Hardcore Heaven 1995 , a tag team match between himself and The Broad Street Bully against Dino Sendoff and Don E . Allen ended in a no contest when 911 , as he did the previous year , entered the ring and choke slammed all four men . He and Don E . Allen also lost to Dances with Dudley & Dudley Dudley at Gangsta ' s Paradise ' 95 on August 16 . Slivenski also defeated Raven for the MEWF Mid - Atlantic Championship on October 1 , 1995 . He lost the title to Corporal Punishment on November 12 , and after it was declared vacant the next month , lost to Devon Storm in a match to determine the new champion . On April 1 , 1996 , Slivenski was involved in a real - life " shoot " with New Jack when he took part in a tag team " double tables " match with The Blue Meanie against The Gangstas at an April Fool ' s Day television taping for ECW Hardcore TV . Slivenski had replaced Meanie ' s original partner , Stevie Richards , who had suffered a cracked orbital bone during an alterication with Tommy Dreamer and Shane Douglas . According to New Jack , as with the Mass Transit incident , he " didn ' t like his attitude " and had particularly taken offense when Slivenski approached him to discuss the match beforehand . At the end of the match , New Jack dove off the top rope with a steel chair and onto Slivenski injuring his face . Afterwards , he took the chair and hit him five times breaking his leg as well . He later began using the move , referred to as a 187 , as his finisher and has credited Slivenski , alblit sarcastically , for its creation . Mid - Eastern Wrestling Federation and the Independent circuit ( 1996 - 1999 ) . Leaving ECW shortly after this incident , Slivenski began competing in the Mid - Eastern Wrestling Federation . A month before his run - in with New Jack , he had wrestled Steve Corino in Baltimore . His injuries caused him to miss a year of ringtime before eventually returning to the ring in early - 1997 . In one of his first matches back , he was scheduled to headline a National Wrestling League show in Boonsboro , Maryland with Devon Storm on April 22 , 1997 , but the match was cancelled when Storm was unable to appear . A year later , he lost to The Cat Burglar in a 3 Way Dance with Steve Corino for the MEWF Light Heavyweight Championship on September 18 , 1998 . On October 1 , 1999 , he wrestled Jake Daniels for the Bad Crew ' s Hardway Wrestling in Bethlehem , Pennsylvania . He also wrestled for Atlantic Terror Championship Wrestling and Cueball Carmichael ' s Independent Pro Wrestling Alliance . Maryland Championship Wrestling ( 2000 - 2003 ) . In early - 2000 , Slivenski started wrestling for Maryland Championship Wrestling . On January 19 , 2000 , he teamed with " Wiseguy " Jimmy Cicero in a match for the then vacant MCW Tag Team Championship and lost to The Holy Rollers ( Earl the Pearl & Rich Myers ) in a 3 Way Dance with The Badstreet Boys ( Joey Matthews & Christian York ) in Glen Burnie , Maryland . On April 14 , he became the MCW Cruiserweight Champion in Annapolis by defeating Adam Flash and Quinn Nash in an elimination match . Around this time , he and kayfabe brother Chip Bowman joined Cicero ' s " heel " stable Total Quality Management with MCW Tag Team Champions Cueball Carmichael & Dino Devine . Two weeks later , he and Chip joined Cicero in a 6 - man tag team match against King Kong Bundy and The Ghetto Mafia ( 2 - Dope & Sydeswype ) in Lusby , Maryland on April 29 . Over the next seven months , Slivenski successfully defended his title against Mikey Whipreck , Qenaan Creed and Black Dragon . He also defeated former champion Adam Flash at a special MCW show near Ocean City , Maryland on June 10 and Ronnie Zukko at the 2000 Shane Shamrock Memorial Cup on July 19 . That summer , he and Qenaan Creed became involved in a 3 - month feud over the title . At an October 28 show in Glen Burnie , Creed was briefly awarded the title after using a chain brought by Slivenski to pin the champion . When the referee spotted the chain , it was assumed it belonged to Creed and he was disqualified . A local disc jockey who had been invited to the event , and had been attacked by Total Quality Management earlier in the show , informed the referee what had taken place and the decision was again reversed giving Creed the win via disqualification but not the belt . He finally lost the title to Creed a month later in Odenton . On December 6 , 2000 , he and Chip Bowman took on Qenaan Creed and Kelly Bell in Glen Burnie . During the next year , Slivenski cut down on his ring schedule to recuperate from an injury . On July 28 , 2001 , Slivenski lost to Julio Dinero in Bel Air , Maryland . At the end of the year , he and Dino Devine lost to Van Hammer & The Cowboy , a local WZBH disc jockey , in Laurel on December 16 , 2001 . On January 30 , 2002 , he appeared with Total Quality Management in their final match together in front of an estimated 1 , 200 fans at an MCW Rage TV taping in Glen Burnie . He had been scheduled to take part in a 6 - man tag team match with Dino Divine and Kelly Bell against Jimmy Cicero and The Badstreet Boys ( Joey Matthews & Christian York ) but was replaced by ex - member Cueball Carmichael . Slivenski ' s team lost when Carmichael was pinned and , according to the pre - match stipulations , TQM was forced to disband . Soon after the TQM ' s breakup , Slivenski formed a tag team with former stablemate Dino Divine called The Slackers . On February 16 , they defeated Van Hammer & The Cowboy in a rematch on MCW Rage TV in Harrington , Delaware but lost to Gill berg & Steve Wilkos of the Jerry Springer Show at Michael ' s Eighth Avenue in Glen Burnie a month later . In his pro wrestling debut , Wilkos put both men in the sleeperhold to get the victory . The Slackers bounced back by winning the MCW Tag Team Championship from The Badstreet Boys on the May 22nd edition of Rage TV . The team defended the titles against The S . A . T . ( Jose & Joel Maximo ) at the 2002 Shane Shamrock Memorial Cup as well as The Briscoe Brothers ( Jay and Mark Briscoe ) and The Holy Rollers ( Earl The Pearl & Ramblin Rich ) during the next few months . On August 16 , Slivenski made a one - time appearance for Beautiful Babes of Wrestling to wrestle Alexis Laree in an intergender match in Martinsburg , West Virginia . In early - 2003 , The Slackers became involved in a feud with The Bruiser when , on January 29 , they interfered in his match against Danny Doring costing him the MCW Heavyweight Championship . Slivenski managed to beat him in a singles match on March 12 and , with Devine , in a tag team match with Romeo Valentine on May 15 . Slivenski and Devine remained tag team champions until MCW ' s final show , the 5th annual 2003 Shane Shamrock Memorial Cup in Glen Burnie on July 16 , 2003 . In a special interpromotional match , they lost to The Ghetto Mafia in a 3 Way Dance with MEWF Tag Team Champions Team Punishment ( Derek Wayne & Buzz Stryker ) to unify both titles . Return to the Indies ( 2003 - 2005 ) . After the close of MCW , Slivenski competed for various independent promotions in the Mid - Atlantic area . In the Mid - Eastern Wrestling Federation , he lost to " Hollywood " Bob Starr in a match for the vacant MEWF Mid - Atlantic Championship in North Point , Maryland on September 7 . On October 18 , he appeared at " UnCivil War " for the National Wrestling League and House of Pain Wrestling Federation , held at a local high school in Gettysburg , Pennsylvania , where he and Shawn Summers took on The Big New Yorkers ( Jerkface & Jackpot Jimmy Jessup ) but lost via disqualification when their valet , Katravina , was caught trying to stop Jessup from pinning Slivenski . On November 15 , 2003 , he lost to Hyjinx in a Four Corners match with OGB and Brandon Mercury for the NWL Cruiserweight Championship in Newville , Pennsylvania . On January 11 , 2004 , Slivenski and Divine captured the MEWF Tag Team Championship from Suicide & Bruiser and held the titles for the next three months . Two weeks later , he lost to Chris Nightmare in Smyrna , Delaware for Maximum Championship Wrestling on January 24 . He also made another NWL / HoPWF appearance on February 14 where he unexpectedly won the NWL Cruiserweight Championship from OGB in a lumberjack match in Blue Ridge Summit , Pennsylvania . Prior to the match , he introduced the 6 ' 8 " 330 - pound Dorian DeVille as his new manager and had helped Slivenski win the title with outside interference . He was stripped of the belt the next month after failing to make a scheduled title defense in Newville on March 6 . Three weeks later , he showed up at an MEWF show at the Northpoint Flea Market in Dundalk , Maryland . Slivenski returned to the NWL to participate in a fundraising event for wrestler Adam Helsley , who was severely injured in a car accident the previous year , where he wrestled The Dynamic Sensation at Paw Paw High School in Paw Paw , West Virginia on May 8 . Also appearing on the card was Morgus the Maniac , John Rambo and former WWF World Tag Team Champion Headshrinker Samu . Two months later , he regained the NWL Cruiserweight title from Hyjinx in a no - disqualification match in Martinsburg , West Virginia on July 17 . Slivenski would hold the title for over eight months , the second - longest reign in the title ' s history , until losing it to Fumar in Hagerstown , Maryland on April 2 , 2005 . The previous month , he had wrestled Morgus the Maniac at a Maryland Wrestling Alliance card in Glen Bernie . He also returned to the ECW Arena after nearly a decade where , as Chad Austin , he participated in a 5 - team Royal Rumble - style tables elimination match at IWA Mid - South ' s " Something to Prove " show on June 11 . Substituting for Silas Young , he and Eric Priest were the first entrants and were met by ROH students Davey Andrews and Shane Hagadorn . Both Slivenski and Hagadorn ' s teams were simultaneously eliminated when Eddie Kingston powerbombed Hagadorn onto an already prone Slivenski though a table . The match was eventually won by The Iron Saints ( Vito and Sal Thomaselli ) becoming 5 - time IWA Mid - South Tag Team Champions . Later that year , Slivenski reunited with Dino Devine in Fort Meade Wrestling to defeat their old MCW rivals The Holy Rollers at the Fort Meade Army Base in Odenton , Maryland on October 1 , 2005 . Maryland Championship Wrestling ( 2006 - ) . When Maryland Championship Wrestling resumed operations in late - 2006 , The Slackers were among the first alumni to return to the promotion . On February 26 , 2006 , The Slackers briefly won the MCW Tag Team titles in a 4 Way Dance with The Holy Rollers and Jason Static & Judas Young at MCW ' s " Resurrection " in Dundalk , Maryland . Later that night , however , they lost the titles to The James Gang ( BG James & Kip James ) in a 3 Way Dance with The Holy Rollers when referee Earl Hebner turned heel and made a " fast count " to give them the win . Hebner then got into a fight with another referee who put him in a sharpshooter and made him " tap out " . The Slackers were given another chance to win back the titles at the March 26th " The Phenomenal Four " show but lost to Danny Doring & Danny Jax in another 4 Way Dance with The Holy Rollers and The James Gang . Unable to regain the titles , The Slackers turned towards The Holy Rollers with whom they feuded for the next three months . Although they lost to them in a lumberjack match at Guerrilla Warfare on April 22 , they defeated them in an Evening Gown match at Xtreme Measures a month later . The feud ended at Red , White , Black & Bruised when they defeated The Holy Rollers at the Fort Meade Army Base on July 22 . As a result of their victory , The Holy Rollers were forced to break up and Earl The Pearl had to leave MCW . One week later , Slivenski appeared as Chad Austin at Combat Zone Wrestling ' s " Tournament Of Death V " in Smyrna , Delaware where he wrestled Kylie Pierce in an intergender match . Slivenski lost the match after Pierce hit him with a light tube . A few months later , The Slackers teamed with Tito Santana in a 6 - man tag team match to defeat Buck and Phat Blues Security at MCW ' s " Tribute To The Legends " show in Dundalk on September 10 , and beat Buck Chyld & Doyle Day at " Monster Mash " on October 29 . On November 11 , they lost to Bruiser & Genesis in a 4 Way Dance against the Rehoboth Beach Crew and Phat Blues Security at North Carroll High School in Hampstead , Maryland . At MCW ' s Holiday Homecoming , Slivenski and Devine lost to The Ghetto Mafia in a grudge match at Michael ' s Eighth Avenue in Glen Burnie on December 28 , 2006 . On February 25 , 2007 , The Slackers defeated the Rehoboth Beach Crew ( Stevie Riggs & LK ) at MCW ' s 9th Anniversary Show at the MCW Arena in Dundalk . The following month , he and Devine faced two of the three members of the RBC at " March Madness : When Monsters Collide " ; while Devine lost to L . K . , Slivenski beat Tyler Hilton to win the MCW Rage Television Championship . On April 21 , The Slackers teamed with Doink the Clown in a 6 - man tag team match to defeat the Rehoboth Beach Crew ( Tyler Hilton , Stevie Riggs & LK ) at Aggravated Assault ' 07 . The event was held at the Arena Club in Bel Air , Maryland with over 1 , 000 in attendance . After six weeks as champion , Slivenski lost the title back to Hilton at Xtreme Measures II in Dundalk . That fall , he was one of several wrestlers nominated by fans in an online vote to challenge Hilton for the title at the upcoming " Kickoff Chaos " supercard on September 9 . The other nominees included his tag team partner Dino Divine , Stevie Riggs and LK of the Rehoboth Beach Crew , Buck Chyld , Ramblin Rich and Patrick Brink . On December 8 , he wrestled at a Maximum Championship Wrestling supercard , " The Road to Full Access 4 " , in Blue Ridge Summit and lost to MCW Heavyweight Champion Matt Turner in a non - title match . At Holiday Homecoming ' 07 , Slivenski lost to Ruckus at Michael ' s 8th Avenue in Glen Burnie . In early - 2008 , Slivenski made several appearances for the Eastern Wrestling Alliance in Baltimore . On March 16 , he defeated Jimmy Starz at its " Fight The Power " supercard . After the match , he was attacked by The Varsity ( Zach Matthews & Bruce Chan ) . He made another appearance a month later losing to Zachary Shane at Baltimore ' s Tall Cedar Hall on April 20 . Later that year , he and Kylie Pierce lost an intergender tag team match to Angela & The Baltimore Bully at MCW ' s " Raven ’ s Kickoff " in Canton , Maryland on September 5 , 2008 . On November 7 , 2009 , he lost to Queenan Creed a 3 Way Dance with Andrew Ryker at the New Green Room in Dundalk .