Larry Sweeney Larry Sweeney ( born Alexander K . Whybrow ( February 15 , 1982 – April 10 , 2011 ) was an American professional wrestler and manager who appeared all over the continental US as well as in Canada , Mexico and Europe . He performed primarily on the American independent circuit in promotions such as Chikara , Full Impact Pro , IWA Deep South , Ring of Honor and International Wrestling Cartel . Career History . Sweeney ' s first professional match took place at the Wind City Pro Wrestling Battle of the Belts 2000 on May 20 , 2000 , at the Hammond Civic Center in Hammond , Indiana . Wrestling under the ring name ' El Zapatista ' , he participated in a three ring , 120 - man battle royal . He did not , however , decide to purse a career in professional wrestling until 2002 , while living in Indiana and training in amateur wrestling at the Sri Satpal Pehlewan Akhara at the Chattrasol Stadium in Model Town , Delhi , India . Later , he enrolled in Chikara Wrestle Factory in Allentown , Pennsylvania , in September 2003 , under head trainer Mike Quackenbush and co - instructors Chris Hero and Skayde . He received additional training from Buddy Rose and Colonel DeBeers in Portland , Oregon , before debuting on May 1 , 2004 , in Ludlow , Massachusetts . On June 16 , 2005 , he defeated wrestling veteran Glen Osbourne for the PWE Heavyweight Championship in Mechanicsburg , Pennsylvania . He held the title for 11 months before losing it to Mike Quackenbush in May 2006 ; in the meantime he had become a regular for many of the larger independent companies in the US . He represented Chikara at MXW ' s InterPromotional Incident in July 2006 . On July 31 , 2006 , Sweeney made an appearance on WWE RAW , broadcast live from Meadowlands Arena in New Jersey , where he played an imposter Nick Hogan ( son of Hulk Hogan ) in a segment titled " Orton Knows Best " ( a parody of the successful reality television show ' Hogan Knows Best ' starring Hulk Hogan and his family ) . Later that year , he was the subject of the ' Introducing ' feature article in the national magazine " The Wrestler " . In 2007 he began feuding with Bryan Alvarez over the ICW / ICWA Texarkana Television Championship . On May 11 , 2007 , in McKeesport , Pennsylvania , he won the ICW Super Indy title , defeating " Black Machismo " Jay Lethal , Azrieal and Shima Wion in a one - night tournament . He then went on to feud for the title with " Fabulous " John McChesney , who defeated him for the title on July 7 . After feuding with McChesney for over six months , Sweeney regained the title on January 19 , 2008 , after winning a Texarkana Death Match . Sweeney was crowned the first CWE Undisputed Champion after defeating Eddie Kingston and Chris Hero in separate matches on July 20 , 2007 in Youngstown , Ohio . In April 2007 , he competed in a War Games match for the NWA Upstate promotion in Rochester , New York , after successfully defending the ICW / ICWA title against Eddie Kingston in a strap match the night before at Colgate , University . Sweeney made his debut with the Hawaii - based promotion Action Zone Wrestling on January 7 , 2008 , CIMA at their even " Battleclash III " , a match billed on his ' ain ' t no doubt about it ' DVD as the 66th Pearl Harbour anniversary showdown . In addition to this , he also participated in a Boxer vs Wrestler match against Larry Barnes ( 44 - 3 - 0 , 17 KO ' s ) on April 5 , 2008 in New Rochelle , New York , at the New Rochelle High School , for the New York State Wrestling Federation . Sweeney announced in November 2008 that he formed his own company , Bad Brothers of Wrestling ( BBOW ) . Under this promotion , he held two shows in April 2007 and October 2008 at Colgate University , and announced plans to run shows at schools and carnivals , primarily in the Midwest . Chikara ( 2004 - 2009 ) . Sweeney made his debut for the Chikara wrestling promotion on July 10 , 2004 at the second annual Young Lions Cup , as the leader of Sweet ' n ' Sour International , a group of wrestlers who were denied wildcard spots in the tournament . Sweeney ' s stable mates interfered in his matches throughout the tournament , in the end assisting him in defeating Jigsaw to win the Chikara Young Lions Cup in only his seventh professional match . On October 30 , 2004 , Sweet ' n ' Sour International faced a group led by Jigsaw in an eight - on - eight torneo cibernetico match . During the match , his stable mate , Spyrazul , unmasked himself as Mike Quackenbush and turned on him , allowing Jigsaw to pin Sweeney . Sweeney lost the Young Lions Cup to Jigsaw on November 19 in his first defense . He entered into the 2005 Tag World Grand Prix with Share Cropper , but they were eliminated in the first round of the tournament by Shane Storm and Mister ZERO . On May 20 , Sweeney and Cropper were defeated by Jolly Roger and Lance Steel in a " Crybaby / Slave for a Month " match , and as a result the entire Sweet ' n ' Sour International stable were forced to wear diapers the following night . Sweeney refused to do this and fired all of his stable members , disbanding Sweet ' n ' Sour International . The following month Sweeney brought his ICW / ICWA Texakana Television Championship to Chikara and debuted his new bodyguard , Mana the Polynesian Warrior . On March 31 , Sweeney lost the title to Milano Collection A . T . and after he and Mana were defeated on April 21 , Mana turned on Sweeney . Sweeney debuted his new talk show segment , " Winner ' s Circle " , the following month , and then defeated Mana before regaining the Texarkana Television title from Milano Collection A . T . . He then started a feud with Eddie Kingston , to whom he would lose the Texarkana title to on July 22 . During the feud , Sweeney and Kingston performed and angle where Sweeney ran over Kingston with a car . He recaptured the title in Canada , but on November 18 , 2006 at " Talent Borrows , Genius Steals Kingston " defeated him in a " Yellow Belly strap match " to end the feud . In 2007 , Sweeney ' s Ring of Honor trainer Chris Hero entered Chikara , when on April 22 he helped Hero defeat Claudio Castagnoli and thus forced him back into the Kings of Wrestling . The following month , Hero , Castagnoli , and Sweeney joined forces with Team F . I . S . T . ( Icarus , Gran Akuma , and Chuck Taylor ) to form the Kings of Wrestling superstable . Mitch Ryder , Shayne Hawke , and Max Boyer later joined the stable . Castagnoli defeated Hero on December 9 , and the Kings of Wrestling disbanded shortly afterward . Sweeney , however , continued to team with Mitch Ryder and Shayne Hawke , and as the " Fabulous Three " they made it to the quarter finals of the 2008 King of Trios tournament , before losing to the Golden Trio of Delirious , Hallowicked , and Helios . After the trio lost a number of consecutive matches , Ryder fired Sweeney from the group on June 15 , 2008 , after which he turned face for the first time in his Chikara career . He attempted to earn the trust of his former Kings of Wrestling stable mate Chris Castagnoli for months , until he finally agreed to team with Sweeney on December 14 . However , in their match against the Fabulous Two , he turned on Castagnoli , hitting him in the face with brass knuckles and re - joining Ryder and Hawke . Ring of Honor ( 2006 - 2009 ) . Sweeney made his Ring of Honor debut on December 23 , 2006 , when he interfered on behalf of the Kings of Wrestling in their win against the Briscoe Brothers ( Jay and Mark Briscoe ) . Chris Hero announced the following night that Sweeney would join ROH as his new agent . After that , Sweeney went on to form Sweet ' n ' Sour Inc . , an agency constisting of his " clients " Chris Hero , Sara Del Ray , personal trainer Tank Toland , and Bobby Dempsey . In February 2008 he declared a hostile takeover of attempt on ROH and signed Adam Pearce , Brent Albright , and Shane Hagadorn in the wake of the declaration . That same month he perpetrated the simulated rape of Allison Danger by Bobby Dempsey on his newest interview segment " The Larry Sweeney show starring Larry Sweeney " . The segment earned him a " Turnbuckle Turkey " award from the magazine " Inside Wrestling " in November . Brent Albright quit the group following a loss where he and Chris Hero dropped a Scramble Match to Delirious and Pelle Primeau on May 10 , 2008 . Sweeney ordered him to beat down Bobby Dempsey with the rest of the stable , but instead he delivered suplexes to every member aside from Sweeney who escaped the ring once Albright started attacking . Sweeney made an offer to No Remorse Corps leader Roderick Strong on June 6 to join his stable . Strong decline , as he had done before , only to be attacked and beat down by his NRC stable mate Davey Richards . Richard then after tore away his NRC shirt , revealing that he was wearing a Sweet ' n ' Sour Inc . shirt underneath , thus joining the stable . On June 28 , 2008 in Chicago Ridge , Illinois , Sweeney welcomed Go Shiozaki and Tank Toland back into the group . During his time with Ring of Honor , Sweeney only wrestled four matches with the promotion ; he defeated Claudio Castagnoli in a singles match at Final Battle 2007 , he competed in a six - man tag in spring 2008 , defeated Roderick Strong in a gauntlet match in August 2008 and wrestled in a tag match with Davey Richards in December 2008 . Sweeney made an appearance at a Shimmer Women Athletes , the sister promotion of ROH , taping on October 19 , 2008 . On the show , he cut a promo about how his client Sara Del Rey would get her Shimmer Championship rematch in ROH . Later in the evening , he would pull Del Rey out of the ring to save her from MsChif and Serena Deeb . Sweeney announced that he had quit ROH over monetary issues on his Myspace on April 20 , 2009 . He returned to the company as a color commentator on December 12 , 2009 at Final Battle 2009 , but did not make any appearances after that . Other Independant Promotions ( 2010 ) . Sweeney wrestled his first match in 14 months on August 14 , 2010 , losing to Dan Lawrence at an All American Wrestling event . On August 21 , 2010 Sweeney returned to the Pittsburgh - based International Wrestling Cartel and participated in a 3 - on - 3 War Games Steel Cage Match , the main event of the evening . In that match , he pinned radio personality Bubba the Bulldog , and after that was eliminated by his longtime nemesis ' Fabulous ' John McChesney after absorbing four successive superkicks and sustaining tremendous blood loss . His team went on to victory without him , when Dennis Gregory defeated McChesney . Return to Chikara ( 2010 ) . He returned to Chikara at " Chikarasaurus Rex : King of Show " on July 26 , 2010 , where he , disguised as Vökoder , a cyborg , previously portrayed by Tim Donst , stared down his Bruderschaft des Kreuzes partner Pinkie Sanchez . He made his next appearance as the cyborg on August 29 , being eliminated by Sanchez from The Countdown Showdown battle royal . Sweeney went public with his hatred for Sanchez on the " In Your Head " radio show , even the identity of Vökoder was meant to be a mystery . On October 19 , it was announced that he would take the final spot on UltraMantis Black ' s Team Chikara in the " torneo cibernetico " match , where they would face BDK . During the match on October 23 , Vökoder was unmasked as Sweeney . He managed to eliminate Sanchez from the match before being eliminated himself by Claudio Castagnoli . He posted a blog entry on Chikara ' s official site on December 29 , 2010 , where he announced he would return to the promotion in 2011 . After his death , on King of Trios 2011 , Chikara dedicated the tournament to his memory . Death . Whybrow was found dead on the morning of April 1 , 2011 , at the age of 29 , after hanging himself off a turnbuckle in a Lake Charles , Louisiana wrestling school . He was survived by his parents and two siblings . Personal life . Whybrow was born in Chicago , Illinois , and was raised in Wilmette , Illionois , with two siblings . He graduated from New Trier High School and Oberlin College . As a junior at Oberlin , he travelled to India for a study - abroad program , and became interested in wrestling after seeing it there . He later moved to and resided in Pennsylvania . Whybrow suffered from bipolar disorder and had a mental breakdown in 2009 , which he called the " absolute worst event " of his life at the time . Prior to becoming a professional wrestler , Whybrow worked as a house painter , blacksmith ' s apprentice and Kaplan tutor .