Jerry Tuite

## Professional wrestling stats

### Known as

Big John, Gigantes, Hell Raiser, Sgt. A.W.O.L., Malice, Sgt. A-Wall, Snuff, The Wall

### Trained by

Iron Mike SharpeBam Bam Bigelow

**Jerry Tuite** (December 27, 1966 - December 6, 2003) was an American professional wrestler best known by his ring names, **The Wall**, **Malice** or **Gigantes**, performing for World Championship Wrestling and All Japan Pro Wrestling.

## Professional wrestling career

Born in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, Tuite broke into the wrestling business in the mid-90s after learning the ropes under veteran Iron Mike Sharpe at his training school in New Jersey. Tuite trained at the WCW Power Plant before he wrestled full-time as **The Wall** in WCW. It is also worth noting that he was a protegé of Bam Bam Bigelow.

Tuite debuted as a bodyguard for Berlyn, then later moved to the singles division. The Wall and Berlyn had a feud with Vampiro and Jerry Only of the Mistfits.

The feud led to WCW Mayhem where Berlyn and Vampiro fought in a chain match. During the match The Wall and Berlyn had problems which The Wall left the match leaving Berlyn left alone and lost to Vampiro. The Wall and Berlyn had a feud where Wall defeated Berlyn on an edition of Thunder on January 20, 2000.

Then The Wall vanished for a while until returning to WCW Souled Out where he defeated Billy Kidman in a cage match. For a while The Wall had a ongoing feud with Kidman and Vampiro. The Wall took on The Demon at Superbrawl where The Wall beat The Demon. The Wall had a personal feud with Bam-Bam Bigelow where Bigelow was the one who brought the Wall in WCW and was mad at The Wall for his actions where The Wall was beating up wrestler including David Flair and Crowbar.

This feud involved Crowbar and Flair when the feud lead to WCW Uncensored where Wall and Bigelow fought in a match in which The Wall was disqualified for putting Bigelow through a table. After the match Flair and Crowbar came out and attacked The Wall where The Wall knocked out Flair.

Crowbar and The Wall then went backstage, then appeared 15 feet above the entryway where The Wall gave Crowbar a chokeslam off the platform, sending crowbar through the stage.

Also during this time the Wall teamed with Jeff Jarrett to take on Sid Vicious and Vampiro, on the March 6th episode of WCW Monday Nitro. Jarrett pinned Sid after The Wall hit Sid with a chokeslam. Later in the month of March at WCW's annual Spring Breakout, The Wall defeated Hulk Hogan by disqualification.

The in April of 2000. Eric Bishoff and Vince Russo restarted WCW and vacated all WCW Titles. The Wall entered the WCW United states title tournament where at WCW Spring Stampede when The Wall faced Scott Steiner but The Wall lost when he chokeslamed a referee through a table and another referee came and disqualified The Wall.

The Wall then teamed up with Shane Douglas where they tried to win the Tag team belts from Kronik but Douglas left the wall during the match and didn't win. The Wall and Douglas had problems and this led to a feud where they both fought in a best of 5 tables match at WCW Great American Bash where Dougles won. After the match The Wall put a referee through a table.

The Wall then disapeared again for a while until returning with a new look.

Joining the stable The Misfits in Action a military group that was led by Hugh Morrus, Chavo Guerrero Lash LeRoux and Major Gunns. The wall became Sgt. A-WALL. The group had various stable feuds with 3 Count, The Natural Born Thrillers and Team Canada.

At the start of 2001 The MIA had issues involving Morrus and Guerrero and it lead the group to break up. Then Sgt. A-WALL went back to his old character The Wall. The Wall and Hugh Morrus then had a short feud which lead into Superbrawl: Revenge where Morrus defeated The Wall. After the feud with Morrus The Wall didn't appear on TV and didn't appear on the final nitro show when the WWE brought WCW.

Most notably, Tuite fought Hulk Hogan on an episode of Monday Night Nitro and won via disqualification after Vampiro interfered. The episode happened on March 27, 2000.

After WCW was bought out by Vince McMahon, Tuite was offered a developmental contract with the WWF, but did not accept it.

In 2002, not only did Tuite change his outlook on life, he also completely revamped his look, coming back strong in the independent circuit. He was given a second chance at the big time in TNA, performing under the moniker of **Malice**. He was a member of Jim Mitchell's Disciples of the New Church and on numerous occasions nearly won the NWA World's Heavyweight Championship.

Tuite wrestled for AJPW as **Gigantes**, as a regular performer for the remainder of 2003. In his final match on December 5, 2003 Tuite teamed with Bull Buchanan and Justin Credible to defeat Nobutaka Araya, Tomoaki Honma and Kazushi Miyamoto in Tokyo.

## Death

On December 6, 2003, Tuite was found dead in his hotel room by wrestlers Nosawa and La Parka. The cause of death was later identified as an apparent heart attack. No drugs were found in his hotel room and there was no evidence of drug use by physical examination, although he did have a history of drug use and that is thought to at least been a contributing factor for having a heart attack.