Axl Rotten

Quick Facts

Full Name	Axl Rotten
Occupation	Wrestler
Date Of Birth	Apr 21, 1971(1971-04-21)
Age	53
Date Of Death	February 4, 2016, Linthicum Heights, MD
Birthplace	Baltimore
Country	United States
Birth City	Maryland
Horoscope	Taurus

Axl Rotten Biography

Axl Rotten is one of the most popular and richest Wrestler who was born on April 21, 1971 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

Knighton was trained to wrestle by Ricky Lawless at a gym on Baltimore’s North Avenue, receiving supplementary training from Joey Maggs. He debuted on the independent circuit at the age of 17, adopting the ring name “Axl Rotten”, a portmanteau of the rockers Axl Rose and Johnny Rotten. Rotten won his first championship teaming with Lawless to win the tag team titles in Frank Cain’s Star Cavalcade Wrestling during the summer of 1988. He also succeeded Lawless as the promotion’s heavyweight champion when, shortly after reigning champion Ricky Lawless was murdered, he won the vacant title from The Psycho in Thomasville, Georgia on November 30, 1988.

In the early 1990s, Rotten trained Ian Rotten, who formed a tag team with Axl, masquerading as his brother and taking his stage name from Cheech Marin’s character in Get Out of My Room. The duo, known as The Bad Breed, wrestled primarily in the Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation. Axl later opened his own professional wrestling promotion in Maryland called Universal Independent Wrestling. The promotion featured wrestlers such as the Bad Breed, Bam Bam Bigelow and Scotty The Body. It had a television series that aired on Saturday nights on the local ABC channel. The promotion closed in the mid-1990s.

Axl Rotten Net Worth

Axl Rotten is one of the richest Wrestler from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Axl Rotten 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Brian Knighton (April 21, 1971 – February 4, 2016), better known by the ring name Axl Rotten, was an American professional wrestler. In the early 1990s, he was a part of the tag team The Bad Breed with Ian Rotten. He had a short stint with World Championship Wrestling in 1991, but he was best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) from 1993 to 1999.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Axl Rotten height 1.85 m Bill weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Axl Rotten Dating?

According to our records, Axl Rotten married to Laura Russell. As of December 1, 2023, Axl Rotten’s is not dating anyone.

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Bad Breed competed in ECW’s tag team division in the early years of the company until the team was forced to disband after losing to The Pitbulls and engaged in a rivalry against each other that Pro Wrestling Illustrated named Feud of the Year in 1995. After an unsuccessful singles career, Rotten formed short-lived tag teams with Hack Meyers and D-Von Dudley before forming Hardcore Chair Swingin’ Freaks with Balls Mahoney in 1997. The team lasted until Rotten departed ECW in 1999. Knighton then wrestled on the independent circuit and appeared at World Wrestling Entertainment’s ECW One Night Stand pay-per-view in 2005.

Facts & Trivia

Bill Ranked on the list of most popular Wrestler. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Axl Rotten celebrates birthday on April 21 of every year.

At The Doctor is In, Rotten competed against D-Von Dudley in a match which ended in a no contest after interference by Dudley Brothers. Rotten left with D-Von after the match and formed a tag team with D-Von, thus turning into a villainous character for the first time in his ECW career. Rotten and Dudley wrestled Dudley Brothers in a series of matches throughout the fall of 1996. Rotten defeated his former tag team partner Hack Meyers at November to Remember. Rotten and D-Von pursued the World Tag Team Championship, receiving title shots against The Gangstas on the December 10 episode of Hardcore TV and The Eliminators at House Party on January 11, 1997, but failed to win the titles. Rotten followed with a feud against Dudley Brothers member Spike Dudley, whom he defeated in matches at Winter Blowout and CyberSlam.

How did Axl Rotten?

Instead Rotten, who was born Brian Knighton, died Feb. 4 of an apparent drug overdose , according to Anne Arundel County police. Police said he was found slumped in the corner beside a toilet on the floor inside a bathroom stall of a McDonald’s in Linthicum Heights.

Is Axl Rotten Dead?

February 4, 2016