Tommy End

Tommy End
Birth name	Tommy Budgen[1]
Born	May 19, 1985 Alkmaar, Netherlands[2]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Tommy End Tommy The End Thomas van Dyck
Billed height	5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Billed weight	211 lb (96 kg)
Billed from	"The Lodge in Amsterdam"[3] Netherlands[4]
Trained by	Johnny Kidd Chris Hero Mike Quackenbush
Debut	2002

Tommy Budgen, better known under his ring name Tommy End, is a Dutch professional wrestler. He's a prominent wrestler in the United Kingdom and Europe, working for promotions like Insane Championship Wrestling, Progress Wrestling, westside Xtreme wrestling and Revolution Pro Wrestling among others.^[5][6][7][8] He has also worked for international promotions, such as North America's Evolve Wrestling, WWNLive, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, Chikara and Combat Zone Wrestling, as well as Japanese promotions like Big Japan Pro Wrestling, Dragon Gate and Pro Wrestling Noah.^{[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]}

End is known for having a extended background in martial arts and has competed in various martial arts such as kickboxing and Pencak Silat from ages 9 to 15. End still teaching and trains kickboxing to this day. End has adapted most of his background into his style giving him a unique striking ability and is known for utilizing devastating striking combinations to finish opponents. To this day kickboxing remains his biggest influence for his style in pro wrestling.

End has held numerous championships, among other accolades he is a former: wXw Unified World Heavyweight Champion, wXw World Light Heavyweight Champion, wXw World Tag Team Champion, ICW Tag Team Champion, Progress Wrestling Tag Team Champion.^[17]

In wrestling

• Finishing moves
  • Anti Cross (Modified octopus hold)
  • Blood Moon Stomp / Crescent Moon Stomp / Owari Death Stomp (Diving double foot stomp)^[18][19]
  • Dragon Slayer / Owari Death Clutch (Modified dragon sleeper, sometimes preceded by a cutter)^[18]

• Signature Moves
  • Brainbuster
  • Multiple kick variations
    • Roundhouse^[1]
    • Spinning back heel^[18]
    • Standing spinning heel
  • Multiple knee variations
    • High
    • Running
    • Spinning
  • Multiple suplex variations
    • Deadlift German
    • Exploder^[18]
    • Saito^[18]
  • Multiple striking combinations
  • Nephilim (Springboard moonsault, sometimes to the outside of the ring)^[18]
• With Michael Dante
  • Double team finishing moves
    • Anti Hero (Dante holds opponent in a bodyscissor whilst End jumps from the second rope in a front flip giving their opponent a cutter whilst going down to the mat)
    • Black Mass (End uses a release Gourdbuster to throw an opponent into Dantes Front powerslam)
    • Dead Man's Trigger (Dante holds opponent in reverse bodyscissor, Whilste End jumps from the second rope with double knees)
    • Majestic Twelve (End does a running knee strike in the corner, whilst Dante comes in from the apron and gives his opponent a gore while jumping through the ropes at the same time)

• Managers
  • Scottish Ghetto Boy (PWH)
• Nicknames
  • "The End"
  • "The Anti-Hero"^[20]
• Entrance themes
  • "Zombie Autopilot" by Unearth
  • "New World Disorder" by Biohazard
  • "Frank Zito" by Necro
  • "Heavy Eyes" by Brutality Will Prevail^[21]

Championships and Accomplishments

• Adriatic Special Combat Academy
  • Super 8 Cup II (2013)^[22]

• Catch Wrestling Norddeutschland
  • CWN Mittelgewichtsmeisterschaft Championship (1 time)^[23][24]

• Fiend Wrestling Germany
  • FWG Lightweight Championship (1 time)^[25][24]
  • FWG Lightweight Title Tournament (2009)

• Fight Club: PRO
  • FCP Championship (1 time)^[26][27][28]

• Freestyle Championship Wrestling
  • FCW Deutschland Lightweight Championship (1 time) ^[29]

• Insane Championship Wrestling
  • ICW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Michael Dante^[30][31][32]
  • ICW "Match of the Year" Bammy Award (2015) – for Legion (Mikey Whiplash, Tommy End & Michael Dante) vs New Age Kliq (BT Gunn, Chris Renfrew & Wolfgang) at Fear & Loathing VIII

• International Catch Wrestling Alliance
  • ICWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)^[33][34]
  • ICWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion (1 time)^[35]
  • ICWA European Tag Team Championship/NWA European Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Michael Dante^[36]

• Pro Wrestling Holland
  • PWH Tag Team Championship (1 time, current) – with Michael Dante^[37]

• Pro Wrestling Showdown
  • PWS Heavyweight Championship (1 time)^[38][39]

• Progress Wrestling
  • Progress Wrestling Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Michael Dante^[40]

• Southside Wrestling Entertainment
  • SWE Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Michael Dante^[41][42][43]

• westside Xtreme wrestling
  • wXw Unified World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)^[44][45]
  • wXw World Lightweight Championship (2 times)^[5][46]
  • wXw World Tag Team Championship (2 times, current) – with Anthony Zeus/Michael Dante^[5][47]
  • 16 Carat Gold Tournament (2013, 2015)^[48][49]
  • Chase The Mahamla (2011)^[50]
  • World Lightweight Tournament (2006)^[51]

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