Sean O ' Haire Sean Christopher Haire ( February 25 , 1971 – September 8 , 2014 ) was an American mixed martial artist and former professional wrestler , better known by his ring name , Sean O ' Haire . Professional wrestling career . World Championship Wrestling . O ' Haire began his career in WCW in June 2000 , in Des Moines , Iowa , where he formed a tag team with fellow WCW Power Plant graduate Mark Jindrak . In August , O ' Haire and Jindrak helped form the Natural Born Thrillers with Mike Sanders , Shawn Stasiak , Chuck Palumbo , Johnny " The Bull " Stamboli , and Reno . They were briefly " coached " by Kevin Nash . In September , O ' Haire and Jindrak won the WCW World Tag Team Championship for the first time . O ' Haire and Jindrak won the title once more before splitting when O ' Haire and Jindrak participated in a tag team battle royal with the Natural Born Thrillers teammates Stasiak and Palumbo . After the conclusion of the match , Sanders declared both teams victorious and said that the teams should trade partners . As a result , O ' Haire formed a new tag team with Palumbo , while the second team consisted of Jindrak and Stasiak . Palumbo and O ' Haire defeated The Insiders ( Diamond Dallas Page and Nash ) in January 2001 . A short time later , The Natural Born Thrillers broke up when Stasiak and Jindrak became jealous of the new tag team champs . The teams met at SuperBrawl Revenge on February 18 for the tag team gold . Palumbo and O ' Haire retained their titles . O ' Haire and Palumbo next feuded with Totally Buff ( Buff Bagwell and Lex Luger ) and defeated them at WCW Greed on March 18 to retain their tag team championship . For the next two weeks , O ' Haire and Palumbo feuded with Team Canada ( Lance Storm and Mike Awesome ) , defeating them on the final " Nitro " on March 26 . WCW was purchased by the WWF , and both O ' Haire and Palumbo ' s contracts were picked up . World Wrestling Federation / Entertainment . O ' Haire and Palumbo made their WWF debuts on the June 28 , 2001 , episode of " SmackDown ! " as part of The Alliance , attacking the Hardy Boyz . O ' Haire and Palumbo started feuding with the A . P . A . in the following weeks , which ended at WWF Invasion on July 22 when the APA defeated them . Subsequently , O ' Haire and Palumbo defeated the Hardy Boyz on the August 2 , 2001 edition of " SmackDown ! " . O ' Haire and Palumbo next dropped the WCW Tag Team titles to the Brothers of Destruction ( The Undertaker and Kane ) on the August 9 edition of " SmackDown ! " and lost their rematch for the tag - team gold in a steel cage match the following week on " Raw " . O ' Haire and Palumbo ' s last televised match together was on the August 26 edition of " Heat " defeating The Holly Cousins , Hardcore and Crash . Palumbo was thrown out of The Alliance in late October and joined the WWF in November . Also in September , O ' Haire was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling ( OVW ) for seasoning where he joined Kenny Bolin ' s " Bolin Services " . O ' Haire returned to WWE on the June 30 , 2002 edition of " Heat " , defeating Justin Credible . He made a few more appearances on " Heat " , in dark matches and at house show s throughout the rest of 2002 , facing off against and teaming with the likes of Shawn Stasiak , Doug Basham , Damaja , Crash Holly , D ' Lo Brown , Johnny Stamboli , Shelton Benjamin , Charlie Haas , Christopher Nowinski , Raven , and Credible . During this time , he still worked in OVW , as well . In January 2003 vignettes started to appear on WWE programming showing O ' Haire in his new gimmick — a Devil ' s advocate character . He urged people to commit adultery , break the law , not pay taxes , and not go to church , among other things . He ended each vignette with the line " I ' m not telling you anything you don ' t already know " . In 2003 , O ' Haire returned to the main " SmackDown ! " roster , telling various superstars to perform indecent acts which included persuading Spanky to streak through the arena and Dawn Marie to flash the audience . O ' Haire ' s dark persona included a long black trench coat he wore to the ring and his obsession with spiders , including fairly new tattoos with black flames on each wrist and a red spider web shooting out from the flames on his left wrist and a blue spider web on his right wrist . Also on the inside of his left forearm was a blue spider and on the inside of his right forearm was a red spider . His titantron video was also inside the body of a spider with a spiderweb in the background . O ' Haire quickly came under the tutelage of wrestling legend , ' Rowdy ' Roddy Piper in April 2003 . O ' Haire ' s new persona was abandoned but he held victories over Rikishi , Funaki , Mr . America ( Hulk Hogan ) , Chris Benoit , and Eddie Guerrero . WWE officially released Piper from his contract on June 26 , 2003 , right after O ' Haire and Piper made their last appearance together on " SmackDown ! " . O ' Haire was left to fend for himself and spent the majority of the rest of 2003 in matches on " Velocity " , dominating anyone in his path until late November . At that time , O ' Haire was involved in a motorcycle accident which required stitches and kept him out of action for the next month or so . When he recovered in February 2004 , he was sent back to OVW and released on April 3 , 2004 . Independent circuit . O ' Haire went to work for New Japan Pro Wrestling in May 2004 . On July 17 , 2004 , O ' Haire and Piper re - united at a Ballpark Brawl show where O ' Haire was Piper ' s hand picked wrestler to face Jimmy Hart ' s wrestler Abyss . O ' Haire defeated Abyss by disqualification . O ' Haire then went on to work for Ultimate Pro Wrestling . O ' Haire reunited with Chuck Palumbo on February 23 , 2005 at UPW ' s Homecoming Havoc in which they were defeated by Tom Howard and Predator . O ' Haire ' s last wrestling match was a dark match before " SmackDown ! " , on March 28 , 2006 where he was defeated by Scotty 2 Hotty . O ' Haire retired from professional wrestling after this to focus on mixed martial arts . Kickboxing . Sean entered K - 1 on December 31 , 2004 with a second round knockout loss to Musashi and then went on to compete in two WGP rounds held in Las Vegas ( 05 , 06 ) where he racked up losses to both Gary Goodridge ( 1st round 0 : 55 tko ) & Chalid Arrab ( 1st round 0 : 23 ko ) to round off his K - 1 record to 0 / 3 . Not long after his first K - 1 bout he was allegedly slated for a fight against Rick Cheek but his record was brought into question ; K - 1 reportedly claimed his record was 10 / 1 in kickboxing & 8 / 0 in MMA where only his K - 1 bout vs Musashi & his MMA bout against Shungo Oyama could be found . Personal life . O ' Haire married Joy Elizabeth in Maui , Hawaii on May 15 , 2005 . Approximately a year and a half later he announced their divorce during a radio interview with SquaredCircleRadio . O ' Haire now works as a bodyguard . He was spotted backstage at a Keyshia Cole concert ( standing behind Christina Milian ) in Atlanta in May 2009 . In 1992 , O ' Haire was arrested for assault . In 2006 , O ' Haire was found guilty of assaulting a woman at " Club Hypnotic " in June 2004 . He was also involved in a fight in Hilton Head on March 30 , 2007 , in which he sustained fractures to his face and skull , including his orbital bone . As the result of the fight , the vision in his left eye was impaired . Although O ' Haire claimed that he was going to the aid of a friend , witnesses asserted that O ' Haire tried to instigate a fight with his alleged assailant , Juan Brantley . Brantley had filed a complaint with police on March 17 , in which he stated that O ' Haire had attempted to start a fight with him at another bar . On Labor Day Weekend 2009 , O ' Haire was arrested for allegedly choking his girlfriend . Death . On September 9 , 2014 , O ' Haire ' s body was found by his father , hanged from a bedpost in his Spartanburg , South Carolina , home . He had apparently committed suicide the day prior . O ' Haire had been reportedly suffering from depression and alcohol addiction prior to his death . It had been reported that O ' Haire had been to WWE sponsored rehab multiple times .