Tim Storm Tim Scoggins ( May 1 , 1965 ) is an American professional wrestler better known by the ring name Tim Storm . He has worked primarily across the central and southern United States wrestling territories . Storm currently works for the National Wrestling Alliance where he is a two - time former NWA North American Heavyweight Champion and is the current NWA World Heavyweight Champion . Career . Professional Championship Wrestling ( 2003 - 2008 ) . Storm wrestled three years for the Texas - based wrestling promotion Professional Championship Wrestling ( PCW ) from 2003 - 2008 . During his time in PCW , Storm wrestled as one - half of the team called The Dark Circle with Apocalypse . With Apocalypse , Storm won the PCW Tag Team Championship during his first month of wrestling in the promotion . The Dark Circle won the tag titles from The Keg Brothers ( Duffy & Ruffy ) on May 10 , 2003 . Afterwards , during the course of 2003 , 2004 and 2006 , Storm saw action in singles and tag team competition , wrestling his last PCW match on January 5 , 2008 in a Texas Tornado tag team match at PCW Full Throttle against the team of Action Jackson and Franco D ' Angelo . Traditional Championship Wrestling ( 2010 - present ) . In 2010 , Storm began working for the Arkansas - based company Traditional Championship Wrestling ( TCW ) . He joined forces once more with his former partner Apocalypse , wrestling again as The Dark Circle . Together , they held the TCW Tag Team Championships during the months of June through August . Storm challenged for the TCW International Heavyweight Championship on August 20 in a losing effort to the champion Jeff Jett at TCW Back To School Bash . On August 21 , Storm wrestled a series of three matches ( being his last for the 2010 year ) at TCW Throwdown In The Downtown IV including a tag team title match , and two consecutive singles matches , winning all three . Storm returned to TCW on April 7 , 2012 , wrestling at TCW Fort City Showdown successfully defending the TCW International Heavyweight Championship in a Lumberjack match against Killer Nikels . On May 5 , Storm again won his second title defense against TCW Bash At The Bluff against " Mr . Saturday Night " Michael Barry . At TCW Summer Inferno on June 2 , Storm teamed with The Giant Titan beat The Bradford Family ( Boink The Clown and Killer Nikels ) . He went on to wrestle a singles match that same night against Shane Williams in a losing effort . Storm later faced Williams again at TCW Freedom Wrestlefest on July 4 for the TCW International Heavyweight Championship , in a successful title defense . On August 11 , Storm loss the title to Williams at TCW Back To School Bash 3 . During the rest of August up until September , Storm won a string of singles matches before losing to Shane Williams on the September 15 edition of the TCW TV taping . On October 20 , Storm won a match against The Giant Titan at TCW Battle Of Bryant , before competing in a successful tag match with Scott Steiner against the team of Generation Perfection ( Alan Steel and Michael Barry ) . On December 8 , Storm won the International Heavyweight Championship from Shane Williams at TCW Holiday Homecoming 2 , winning his title defense in the following match against John Omari . This would be his last match for the 2012 year with TCW . On May 2 , 2015 , Storm , putting the TCW title on the line , defeated NWA Mid - South Heavyweight Champion Gaylon Summers by forfeit in a title unification match in Dyersburg , Tennessee to unify both championships and retire the TCW title . Independent Circuit ( 2011 ) . On May 1 , 2011 , Storm competed in a semi - final match at the Inaugural Germanfest Wringenmiesterschaft Tournament for the Indy World Championship . He won his semi - final match against Jason Jones before going on to face Jeremy Young . Finally , Storm defeated Kahagas in the final tournament match , winning the Indy World Championship . National Wrestling Alliance ( 2011 - present ) . Beginning in May 2011 , Storm worked for the National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA ) and its various promotions . On June 11 , Storm won the NWA Oklahoma Heavyweight Championship from Michael Faith . He challenged unsuccessfully for the NWA Houston Heavyweight Championship against the champion Scot Summers on July 8 at NWA Houston Independence Explosion III . On October 27 , 2014 , Storm defeated NWA North American Champion Byron Wilcott to win the title at an NWA Main Event Wrestling show in Sherman , Texas . He defended the title for six months before dropping it to NWA National Heavyweight Champion Jax Dane in a title vs . title match on April 12 , 2015 in Las Vegas , Nevada . Storm went on to win the NWA Mid - South Heavyweight title from Gaylon Summers by forfeit on May 2 , 2015 ( as noted above ) , but that reign was short - lived as Rob Conway defeated Storm for the title on June 20 , 2015 in Dyersburg . On July 17 , 2015 in Sherman , Texas , Storm regained the NWA North American title when he defeated Andy Anderson in a tournament final for the title , which had been vacated on May 28 when previous champion Dane was injured . On July 16 , 2016 in Pavo , Georgia , Storm ' s second North American title reign ended when Tyson Dean defeated him for the belt . On October 21 , 2016 , Storm defeated NWA World Heavyweight Champion Jax Dane at an NWA Texoma Wrestling event in Sherman , Texas to win the title , ending Dane ' s 14 - month reign with the title and marking Storm ' s first reign with the title , as well as making Storm the oldest wrestler to hold the championship at the time of his title win at age 51 , edging previous record holder Lou Thesz ( who was 49 years , 8 months old when he lost the title to Gene Kiniski on January 7 , 1966 ) . Texas Stampede Wrestling ( 2012 ) . Storm worked in events involving Texas Stampede Wrestling beginning on January 28 , at TSW One More Time in a successful tag team match with Apocalypse against the International Playa ' s Club ( C - Diddy and Jared Steele ) . He wrestled again at TSW Spring Fling on March 31 against Mike Foxx and Action Jackson in a losing triple threat match . On April 14 , Storm wrestled at TSW Knuckle Up against Mike Foxx in a ( special referee Action Jackson ) GWT Indy World Title match , winning against Foxx by DQ . At that same event he defeated Boink the Clown in a consecutive title defense . On June 16 , at TSW Tru - Life Playaz Ball , Storm wrestled and loss to Bobby Lambert .