Doug Williams Douglas Clayton Durdle ( September 1 , 1972 ) , better known by his ring name Doug Williams , is an English professional wrestler best known for working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Douglas Williams . In TNA Williams is a former two - time X Division Champion and a one - time World Tag Team Champion with former partner Brutus Magnus , and One - time Television Champion . He also works in various independent promotions in the United Kingdom and abroad , including the Frontier Wrestling Alliance ( FWA ) , One Pro Wrestling ( 1PW ) and Pro Wrestling Noah . Professional wrestling career . During the 1990s Williams trained with ( and wrestled for ) NWA UK Hammerlock . While competing in FWA ' s King of England tournament Williams wrestled and won a match against Eddie Guerrero . Williams would also go on to become the promotion ' s top champion on two occasions . Williams wrestled against Martin Stone in the main event of the promotion ' s comeback show " New Frontiers " in August 2009 , and has since become embroiled in the ongoing feud between Stone ' s faction " The Agenda " and the FWA Resistance . By 2004 , Williams would begin touring with Pro Wrestling Noah in Japan where he would become a Global Honored Crown Tag Team Champion with Scorpio . Williams continued to win many foreign and local championships , even defeating " American Dragon " Bryan Danielson in the final of a tournament in Rethel , France on May 6 , 2005 to became the first International Catch Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Champion . While World Wrestling Entertainment was touring England in November 2006 , Williams made a dark match appearance in a losing effort to Carlito . Williams would also appear occasionally on television throughout 2007 and 2008 with British wrestling promotion , while with TNA due to the ruling their contracted wrestlers can appear in independent promotions that aren ' t televised in the USA . Ring of Honor ( 2002 - 2007 ) . Williams went on a tour around the United States on several occasions making notable appearances in Ring of Honor over the course of several years . He debuted for the promotion on June 22 , 2002 , defeating American Dragon . This victory earned Doug a shot at the ROH World Championship on July 27 , 2002 , which was fought under ironman rules in a four way contest , which also featured Christopher Daniels , Low Ki and Spanky . His return to Ring of Honor saw Williams regain the FWA British Heavyweight Championship from Christopher Daniels , on March 22 , 2003 , before unsuccessfully challenging Samoa Joe for the ROH World Championship on April 26 , 2003 . On July 19 , 2003 , Reckless Youth defeated Doug Williams in a pure wrestling challenge . After another stint away , Williams returned on February 14 , 2004 to defeat Chris Sabin in the pure wrestling tournament , but was later knocked out by CM Punk . On July 17 , 2004 , in Elizabeth , New Jersey , Williams defeated Jay Lethal , Nigel McGuinness and John Walters , in order to qualify for the Pure Wrestling final . The final was contested later that evening , and saw Williams defeat Alex Shelley to capture the Pure Wrestling Championship . Doug had two successful defenses of the Pure Wrestling Championship . He defeated Shelley on July 23 , 2004 and defeated Austin Aries via submission one day later . He later then lost the title to John Walters , however , on August 28 , 2004 . On September 11 , 2004 , Williams had another unsuccessful shot at the World Championship , which was also against Samoa Joe . On May 13 , 2005 , Williams once again wrestled in ROH when he teamed with Colt Cabana to defeat the team of Nigel McGuiness and Chad Collyer , before losing to Homicide the next day . During ROH ' s tour of the United Kingdom in August 2006 , Williams teamed with Jody Fleisch as " Team UK " , defeating " Team Noah " ( SUWA and Go Shiozaki ) . The second show of the tour took place in Broxbourne and saw Williams defeat Jimmy Rave . Williams ' last appearances in ROH were in 2007 . On April 13 , Williams teamed with regular partner Nigel McGuinness to face then - World Champion Takeshi Morishima and Chris Hero in a tag team match . McGuinness pinned Hero to win the match for his team . The next night at Fighting Spirit on April 14 , Doug made it two for two by defeating Colt Cabana with his Chaos Theory finisher . Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( 2008 – present ) . House shows ( 2008 ) . Williams wrestled James Storm on March 26 , 2003 during " TNA Xplosion " . It wasn ' t until Williams was confirmed to have signed a contract with TNA Wrestling from June 12 , 2008 that he became part of their roster to take part in TNA Wrestling ' s World X Cup . Williams was part of TNA ' s UK tour , wrestling in all four shows . On June 12 , 2008 , in Liverpool , Doug teamed with Gail Kim , though they fell short in defeat to the team of Awesome Kong and " Cowboy " James Storm . On June 13 , 14 and 15 , TNA held a second show in Liverpool , along with others in Coventry and Brentwood . Doug also wrestled on these shows , with multiple 3 Way Dances against Jay Lethal and A . J . Styles . Styles was victorious on all three occasions . Team International ( 2008 ) . Williams represented Team International during the 2008 World X Cup tournament , where he defeated Team Japan ' s Masato Yoshino in his " Impact ! " debut on July 10 , 2008 . He then wrestled in a 12 - Man World X Cup elimination contest , at Victory Road . Williams returned to TNA at Turning Point where he competed in a X Division seeding match . He eliminated Jimmy Rave from the ten man match , but in the end the eventual winner Eric Young eliminated him placing him third in the X Division rankings . Williams competed on TNA ' s 2009 Maximum Impact Tour in X Division matches . British Invasion / World Elite ( 2009 – 2010 ) . Williams re - appeared on TNA television on the April 30 , 2009 , edition of " Impact ! " , as a member of The British Invasion faction , along with Brutus Magnus and Rob Terry . The British Invasion got to the final of the Team 3D Invitational Tag Team Tournament but lost to Beer Money , Inc . ( James Storm and Robert Roode ) at Sacrifice . In the dark match of Slammiversary , the British Invasion defeated Rhino and Eric Young . Later that evening , they interfered in the TNA World Tag Title match . At Victory Road , Team 3D retained their IWGP World Tag Team Titles against the British Invasion . On the July 25th edition of Impact ! , the British Invasion , Sheik Abdul Bashir and Kiyoshi defeated the TNA Originals after Eric Young turned on his team . After the match , Young , the British Invasion , Bashir and Kiyoshi formed World Elite . On the July 30 episode of " Impact ! " , Williams and Magnus won the IWGP Tag Team Championship by defeating Team 3D in a Tables match . However , New Japan Pro Wrestling would state that they still recognize Team 3D as the official champions since TNA did not have proper sanction to make the title change . On August 10 , 2009 , NJPW formally recognized the title switch . At Bound for Glory the British Invasion lost the IWGP Tag Team Titles back to Team 3D , but managed to win the TNA World Tag Team Titles in a four way Full Metal Mayhem Tag Team match against Booker T and Scott Steiner , Team 3D and Beer Money . The following month at Turning Point Williams and Magnus successfully defended the titles in a three - way match against Beer Money and The Motor City Machineguns ( Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin ) . At Final Resolution they were once again able to retain their titles in a match against Shelley and Sabin . At Genesis the British Invasion lost the TNA World Tag Team Titles to Matt Morgan and Hernandez . X Division Champion and Fourtune ( 2010 - present ) . On the January 28 edition of " Impact ! " Williams cashed in Rob Terry ' s " Feast or Fired " briefcase and used it to defeat Amazing Red for the TNA X Division Championship . Two days later Williams competed in his first Ultimate X match at a house show in London , successfully defending his new title against Daniels , Suicide , Amazing Red and Chris Sabin . On the February 18 edition of " Impact ! " Rob Terry grew tired of his stable mates ' abuse and attacked Magnus , thus completing his face turn . At Destination X Williams successfully defended the X Division Championship against Shannon Moore after hitting him with a brick and afterwards cut a promo , where he claimed to hate the current X Division , full of acrobats calling themselves wrestlers , before announcing that he was going to re - establish the division as a place for pure catch - as - catch - can wrestlers like himself . On the April 5 edition of " Impact ! " Williams began using the ring name Douglas Williams . At Lockdown Williams was scheduled to defend his title in a three - way steel cage match against both Kazarian and Moore , but was forced to miss the event due to being unable to fly out of England after the country ' s airspace was closed following a volcano eruption in Iceland . At the event TNA announced that as a result of missing the show , Williams was stripped of the X Division Championship . After missing two more weeks of " Impact ! " , Williams returned on the May 3 edition of " Impact ! " and refused to hand the Championship belt over to the new champion , Kazarian , and claimed that he had to beat him for it at Sacrifice , in order to get it . Two weeks later at Sacrifice Williams defeated Kazarian to regain the X Division Championship . The following month at Slammiversary VIII Williams successfully defended his X Division Championship against Brian Kendrick , using a high flying maneuver , a tornado DDT , despite his previous anti - high flying statements . On July 3 , 2010 , Dixie Carter announced that Durdle had signed a new long – term contract with TNA , which also led to him relocating from the United Kingdom to the United States . On July 11 at Victory Road Williams successfully defended his X Division Championship against Brian Kendrick , this time in an Ultimate X submission match . On the August 5 edition of " Impact ! " Williams interfered in a Street Fight between Jay Lethal and Ric Flair , helping Flair win the match . The following week Williams joined Flair ' s Fourtune stable , as he , A . J . Styles , Kazarian , Robert Roode , James Storm and Matt Morgan attacked EV 2 . 0 , a stable consisting of former Extreme Championship Wrestling performers . At No Surrender Williams defeated EV 2 . 0 member Sabu to retain the X Division Championship . On September 6 , at the tapings of the September 16 edition of " Impact ! " , Williams lost the X Division Championship to Jay Lethal .