Kid Kash David Cash ( July 31 , 1969 ) better known by his ring name Kid Kash , is an American professional wrestler known for his work in Extreme Championship Wrestling , Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment Professional wrestling career . Kash ' s father was a boxer and Kash began training by the age of seven years old . He went on to become a professional fighter and worked in Japan . There is when Cash met Ricky Morton and Morton liked what he saw and told Cash he would train him and take him under his wing . Working as a welder by day , Cash wrestled on the independent circuit . Under the name David Jericho he formed a short - lived tag team with Morton . Kash said , on " Blood , Guts & No Glory " , that his very first wrestling pay was $ 3 . " I almost didn ' t take it . I mean , 3 bucks ? That ' s ridiculous ! " For his second match , he was paid $ 5 . " The most I got paid that year probably was $ 50 . " Extreme Championship Wrestling ( 1996 – 2000 ) . David Cash ' s first mainstream exposure came in late 1996 with Extreme Championship Wrestling . Kash , then wrestling as David Jericho , went to Philadelphia with friend and sometimes tag - team partner " Heavy Metal " Ric Savage . Kash was friends with New Jack of the Gangstas and Rob Van Dam . Kash shortly left ECW back to the indies and even wrestled house shows for World Wrestling Entertainment . It was during a WWE house show against the tag team Too Cool that Cash broke both of his ankles performing a botched hurricanrana on Scotty 2 Hotty . The injury sidelined Cash for a while but upon his return to the ring he resurfaced in ECW in late 1999 under a new gimmick , Kid Kash . The name change was due to his uncanny resemblance of musician Kid Rock . Under this name , Kash would dress like Kid Rock from his Devil Without a Cause album , and even used the song ( and named one of his finishers , the moneymaker ) during this phase in his career . Just months after his return Kash suffered a broken jaw in Atlanta at the hands of the The Dupps . He had legitimate heat with the tag team for their supposed stiff and shoot moves on Kash during matches and as payback during a planned run - in during Kash ' s match Bo Dupp did an unplanned frog splash right on Kash ' s face , breaking both sides of his jaw . At the time Atlanta was going through a flu epidemic and so Cash had to get a private physician to fix his jaw because the hospitals were swamped . Despite the injury Kash continued to wrestle , and never took a night off . He even wrestled on the Guilty As Charged PPV the very next night after driving from Atlanta to Birmingham , AL . Literally after his surgery , which in turn earned him the respect of Paul Heyman and several other ECW wrestlers . Kash recovered from the injury without any problems and went on to wrestle tag matches , cruiserweight - style matches , and even wrestled Mike Awesome for the ECW World Heavyweight Championship at Living Dangerously on March 12 , 2000 , although he lost after he was superbombed from the top rope through a Table . His tag team partners during the time include the likes of Rob Van Dam , Super Crazy , Nova and The Sandman . He won the ECW World Television Championship one time , defeating Rhino for it on August 26 , 2000 . A few weeks later , Rhino would reclaim the title from Kash . World Championship Wrestling ( 2001 ) . On March 21 , 2001 Kid Kash signed with the WCW where they billed him as Kash . Less than a week later WWE and Vince McMahon purchased WCW , and wanted to keep Kash on through a renegotiation of his contract , which would have cut his wages considerably . Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( 2002 – 2005 ) . On August 14 , 2002 Kash re - emerged in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as part of the X Division . Using the gimmick of a cocky , obnoxious heel ( while still maintaining a degree of his Kid Rock mannerisms ) , Kash won the TNA X Division Championship from Sonny Siaki on February 12 , 2003 and lost the title to Amazing Red on April 30 . Some of the more notable feuds Kid Kash developed in TNA were against James Storm , Dusty Rhodes , Jeff Hardy , A . J . Styles , and even a few intergender matches with Trinity . Also , Kash faced off against legends such as Roddy Piper & Larry Zbyszko . He even beat his trainer , Ricky Morton . On March 31 , 2004 Kash teamed up with Dallas to win the NWA World Tag Team Championship and the pair picked the titles up a second time on April 21 before losing them to America ' s Most Wanted in June . Kash was released from his TNA contract on April 20 , 2005 after making inflammatory remarks on Wrestling News Live on April 18 , 2005 in which he stated he wanted out of the company due to his misusage and signed with WWE shortly after . World Wrestling Entertainment ( 2005 – 2006 ) . Kash ' s first appearance on television was as one of many interferers in the main event at ECW One Night Stand 2005 . His first official proper WWE outing , however , was the June 19 , 2005 airing of " Sunday Night Heat " against Tajiri in what was designated a tryout match . On June 23 he said in an interview that " " You never know what the company is looking for . I might not be what they ' re looking for . I can only hope " " , indicating that he continued to pursue a WWE contract . That same month he was reported to have signed a developmental deal with WWE and to have been assigned to Deep South Wrestling . Kash then wrestled a few matches on Velocity , before coming up to Smackdown . Kid Kash showed up after a tag team match between MNM and the Mexicools on Smackdown , viciously attacking Juventud Guerrera . The following week he faced off against Mexicool member , Super Crazy . Kash picked up the win , earning himself a title match with Juventud at Armageddon . Kash made his WWE pay - per - view debut on December 18 , 2005 at Armageddon 2005 in Providence , Rhode Island . On the card , he defeated WWE Cruiserweight Champion Juventud Guerrera to win the title . The Pit Bulls . After losing the Cruiserweight title at the Royal Rumble , Kash began to frequently tag team with fellow cruiserweight Jamie Noble to take on the face members of the cruiserweight division ; during May 2006 , Kash and Noble used a gimmick previously seen in ECW , where they wore dog collars , often barked at and bit opponents , and wrestled rather aggressively . The pair were soon named The Pit Bulls and entered the hunt for Paul London and Brian Kendrick ' s WWE Tag Team Championship . The team , however , came to an end upon Kash ' s release from the company on September 27 , 2006 . Independent promotions . He made an appeance on Real Quality Wrestling which shows on The Fight Network in the United Kingdom . He has recently been wrestling in Tewkesbury for top midlands promotion Pro Championship Wrestling as well as in Waterford , Ireland for Irish Whip Wrestling . However , Kash was involved in some controversy at a One Pro Wrestling show where , during a match against Pac , he seemingly attacked a photographer who had not been part of any planned involvement , as well as taking a video camera from a ringside cameraman . Kid Kash has wrestled in several indy promotions since leaving WWE , perhaps most notably Showtime All - Star Wrestling , where he has had a lengthy title reign as the promotion ' s International Champion . As of August 2009 , Kid Kash was wrestling for an independent promotion known as Real Deal Wrestling ( RDW ) which runs shows in northeast England , mainly the east coast . On 16 August 2009 , as part of an ongoing feud , he wrestled the promotion ' s current heel champion Prince Ameen in a match lasting approximately 30 minutes ; after winning via count - out ( but thus failing to gain the title ) , Kash challenged Ameen to a rematch the following week . Kid Kash , along with ECW original Jerry Lynn have reportedly been in talks with TNA about a one - off return at the 2010 Hard Justice PPV as part of the ECW invasion angle involving other stars such as Tommy Dreamer and Stevie Richards .