Montel Vontavious Porter

Hassan Hamin Assad (born Alvin Antonio Burke Jr.; October 28, 1973) is an American professional wrestler and rapper. He is better known by the ring name Montel Vontavious Porter (MVP). He is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is the co-leader and Manager (professional wrestling) of the stable The Hurt Syndicate. He has also worked with WWE, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), Ring of Honor (ROH) and New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). 

Porter became famous in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he first wrestled from 2005 to 2010. During this time, he became a one-time WWE Tag Team Champion with Matt Hardy and a two-time WWE United States Champion. He was released from his WWE contract in December 2010, but returned in the 2020 Royal Rumble match. That same year, he formed a stable called The Hurt Business with Bobby Lashley, Cedric Alexander and Shelton Benjamin. In September 2024, MVP made his debut for All Elite Wrestling (AEW).

He spent six months in a juvenile detention center after a robbery and later completed 9½ years of an 18½ year prison sentence for armed robbery and kidnapping which at the time he started it he was sixteen. He has a rare heart condition called Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. He converted to Islam while in prison but has since described himself as a nonbeliever.

 Championships and accomplishments 
 All Pro Wrestling
APW Universal Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 The Baltimore Sun
 Most Improved Wrestler of the Year (2007)
 Big League Wrestling
 BLW World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 BLW Title Rumble Match (2018)
 CBS Sports
 Comeback Wrestler of the Year (2020)
 Coastal Championship Wrestling
 CCW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 DDT Pro-Wrestling
 Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship (1 time)
 Future of Wrestling
 FOW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Punisher
 Imperial Wrestling Revolution
 IWR Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 IWR Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with D Money, Marce Lewis, Montego Seeka and Nytronis A'Teo
 New Japan Pro-Wrestling
 IWGP Intercontinental Championship (1 time, first)
 IWGP Intercontinental Championship Tournament (2011)
 Pro Wrestling Illustrated
 Comeback of the Year (2020)
 Ranked No. 23 of the best 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2008
 Southern Championship Wrestling Florida
 SCW Florida Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 World Class Revolution
 WCR Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
 World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE
 WWE United States Championship (2 times)
 WWE Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Matt Hardy
 Slammy Award (1 time)
Trash Talker of the Year (2020) 
 Wrestling Observer Newsletter
 Most Improved (2007)
 Most Underrated (2008)

 References 

 Other websites 
 Official website 
 TNA profile 
 MVP on WWE.com

Category:1973 births
Category:Living people
Category:African-American wrestlers
Category:All Elite Wrestling people
Category:American agnostics
Category:American burglars
Category:American kidnappers
Category:American professional wrestlers
Category:American robbers
Category:Converts to Islam
Category:Former WWE wrestlers
Category:Professional wrestling authority figures
Category:Professional wrestling managers and valets
Category:Rappers from Florida
Category:Sportspeople from Miami
Category:Total Nonstop Action Wrestling alumni