The Eliminators The Eliminators were a professional wrestling tag team that consisted of Perry Saturn and John Kronus who were most well known for their time in Extreme Championship Wrestling between 1995 and 1997 . History . While working as the manager of a nightclub in Boston , Perry Satullo met bouncer George Caiazzo , who expressed an interest in becoming a wrestler . Satullo sent Caiazzo to Killer Kowalski ' s school to train , and then offered to form a tag team with him . At this point , Satullo adopted the surname Saturn and Caiazo called himself after the Greek equivalent Kronus . As Saturn and Cronus were their cultures ' respective gods of the harvest , Satullo proposed that the team be known as " The Harvesters of Sorrow " . Promoter Jerry Lawler advised Satullo that the significance of the name would not be evident to many fans , so they became known as " The Eliminators " instead . United States Wrestling Association . The Eliminators wrestled their first match together at a United States Wrestling Association house show in 1993 . They were hired at a starting salary of $ 40 a week , and shared an apartment with Brendan Shanahan and James Lewis . After working with the USWA for a while , gaining experience as a team the two managed to negotiate a 100 % pay rise . The team ' s first brush with tag - team gold came when they made it all the way to the finals of a tournament to crown new USWA Tag Team Champions but lost in the finals to Brian Christopher and Saturn ' s mentor " Hot Stuff " Eddie Gilbert in April 1994 . The team kept pursuing the titles and a few weeks later on May 2 , 1994 Saturn and Kronus beat Christopher and Gilbert for the titles . The Eliminators held the gold for about 6 weeks until they came up against PG - 13 on June 13 , 1994 who beat them for the titles . The Eliminators stuck around the USWA for the remainder of 1994 working both as a tag - team and in individual competition . In 1995 Saturn and Kronus branched out and travelled to Japan to work for the Japanese wrestling federation WAR . On one WAR card they tangled with wrestling legends Mil Máscaras , Bob Backlund and Jimmy Snuka . Extreme Championship Wrestling . During their tour of Japan the compactly - built and heavily - tattooed Saturn and the high - flying Kronus caught the attention of booker Paul Heyman . Heyman signed the two with Extreme Championship Wrestling when they were originally brought in to job to the Steiner Brothers when he thought they were staying with the company for a lengthy period , however they would later defeat The Steiner Brothers and Taz at " Gangstas Paridise " on September 16 , 1995 . Heyman initially planned on giving the Eliminators a sadomasochism gimmick and but soon changed his mind and presented the duo as an unstoppable force ala the Road Warriors . He also gave them a manager , Jason Knight , to compensate for their weak interview skills . The Eliminators started a violent feud with The Pitbulls whom they clashed with repeatedly between October 1995 and April 1996 losing to them at the supercard " November To Remember ' 95 " although they would defeat them in rematches at " December to Dismember " and " Holiday Hell " . During their feud , the teams clashed in both in regular tag - team competition such as during " December To Dismember " when teaming with Raven , Stevie Richards and The Heavenly Bodies in an Ultimate Jeopardy Steel Cage match against the Pitbulls , Public Enemy and Tommy Dreamer on December 9 , 1995 . After The Pitbulls ' manager Francine cut Saturn ' s hair , he shaved his head completely in a homage to Mickey Knox , the character depicted by Woody Harrelson in " Natural Born Killers " ( in reality , Saturn was beginning to go bald ) . On February 2 , 1996 the Eliminators beat Cactus Jack and Mikey Whipwreck to win the ECW World Tag Team Championship at a house show in Queens , New York . After disposing of the longtime rivals the Pitbulls at " Big Ass Extreme Bash " on March 8 ( although the team defeated the Pitbulls in later house shows ) , the Eliminators were targeted by The Gangstas setting off a bloody feud between the two teams facing them in a 6 - man tag team match with Brian Lee against The Gangstas and Tommy Dreamer at " A Matter of Respect " and later faced them in title defences at " Fight The Power " and " Hardcore Heaven ' 96 " , the latter a resulting in a no contest . On August 13 , 1996 the Gangstas beat the Eliminators for the tag - team titles in a four corners elimination match with the Bruise Brothers and the Samoan Gangsta Party at the supercard " The Doctor Is In " and , although defeated in subsequent rematches , The Gangstas managed to hold on to the gold until the Eliminators regained the titles at a house show in Middletown , New York on December 20 , 1996 . As the Eliminators / Gangstas feud continued into 1997 , another team entered the fray making it a three way between the Eliminators , the Gangstas and the Dudley Boyz . After defenses against teams such as Axl Rotten and D - Von Dudley and Sabu and Rob Van Dam , the Dudley Boys won the tag - team titles from the Eliminators at " Hostile City Showdown " on March 15 , 1997 only to lose them back to the Eliminators at ECW ' s first PPV " Barely Legal " on April 13 , 1997 . On May 31 , 1997 in Trenton , New Jersey , during a three way dance with the Dudley Boyz and PG - 13 , Saturn tore his ACL when he landed on a crutch while executing a kick on Big Dick Dudley . Despite the injury , Saturn continued to compete and defeated the Dudley Boyz at " Wrestlepalooza ' 97 " and Kronus continued defendiing the title in handicap matches against the F . B . I before Saturn competed in a match that saw the Eliminators drop the tag - team titles back to the Dudley Boyz at a house show in Waltham , Massachusetts on June 20 , 1997 . After intense reconstructive surgery , Saturn was given a recovery time of as much as a year . He began rehabilitating after two months and returned to action in August although in a diminished capacity due to his knee problems . Saturn had become impatient with what he regarded as Kronus ' lack of motivation and dedication , and refused to reform the Eliminators . Paul Heyman offered to release him from his contract if he could find alternate employment . Saturn entered into negotiations with World Championship Wrestling and signed a contract with WCW while not being 100 % recovered from his knee injury . After Saturn left , Kronus began teaming with various wrestlers , including former enemy New Jack to form The Gangstanators but never achieved the same success as he did together with Saturn .