Mike Awesome

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mike Awesome
Occupation	Wrestler
Date Of Birth	Jan 24, 1965(1965-01-24)
Age	59
Date Of Death	2007-02-17
Birthplace	Tampa
Country	United States
Birth City	Florida
Horoscope	Capricorn

Mike Awesome Biography

Mike Awesome is one of the most popular and richest Wrestler who was born on January 24, 1965 in Tampa, Florida, United States. Star wrestler in WWF and Hardcore Champion, who was also well-known in the ECW for his marquee matches against Masato Tanaka.

His distant relationship to His interest in wrestling was kindled by his distant relation to wrestling legend Hulk Hogan: his father’s sister married Hogan’s brother. , the legendary wrestler, sparked his interest in wrestling. Hogan’s sister was his father’s wife.

Michael Lee Alfonso (January 24, 1965 – February 17, 2007) was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his appearances with the American professional wrestling promotions Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment under the ring name Mike Awesome and for his appearances in Japan with Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling and All Japan Pro Wrestling as The Gladiator.

Alfonso was trained to wrestle by Steve Keirn, debuting on February 26, 1989 at the Eddie Graham Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida. Alfonso trained for about one year along with former professional wrestlers, Dennis Knight (Mideon, Phineas Godwin) and the late “Big” Al Green before making his debut. Alfonso competed in Florida Championship Wrestling, USWA, NWA and World Championship Wrestling, before making his way to FMW in Japan.

He married Delisa Bowers, his high school sweetheart; they had two children together.

Mike Awesome Net Worth

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

Before moving to America, he wrestled in Japan as Gladiator.

He was not a fan of the WWF’s political atmosphere and resigned from the promotion. He also claimed that he was being underpaid.

In March, Gladiator participated in a tournament to determine the #1 contender for the Double Championship at 9th Anniversary Show. He defeated Hisakatsu Oya in the quarter-final and Yukihiro Kanemura in the semi-final to become the runner-up of the tournament as he lost to Hayabusa in the final. At FMW’s first pay-per-view event FMW 9th Anniversary Show, Gladiator teamed with ZEN teammate Tetsuhiro Kuroda to take on TNR members Super Leather and Horace Boulder in a losing effort. Later at the event, Atsushi Onita lost a match to TNR member Kodo Fuyuki, which forced Onita to end ZEN. Gladiator became a free agent after ZEN’s dissolution on May 5. Gladiator’s last pay-per-view appearance in FMW was at the Welcome to the Darkside pay-per-view on August 22, where he defeated Naohiko Yamazaki, Yoshinori Sasaki and Mr. Pogo #2 in a gauntlet match. On August 26, Gladiator wrestled his last FMW match, in which he defeated longtime rival Super Leather. Alfonso injured his knee during the match and went on a hiatus, during which he returned to United States and toured with Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) for the rest of the year. He left the company due to disagreement over Kodo Fuyuki’s style of booking.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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In 1993, Gladiator formed the first villainous faction in FMW called Team Canada with Ricky Fuji, Big Titan, Horace Boulder, Dr. Luther and Dr. Hannibal after The Sheik and Sabu turned fan favorites and formed an alliance with Atsushi Onita. At 4th Anniversary Show, the team of Gladiator, Ricky Fuji and Big Titan defeated Katsuji Ueda, The Great Punk and Tarzan Goto in a Captain’s Fall Losing Captain Leaves Town No Rope Barbed Wire Tornado Street Fight Deathmatch, which Team Canada won. The group strengthened its dominance after Mr. Pogo returned to FMW in the summer of 1993 and took over as the leader of the group. Gladiator and Titan were defeated by Sambo Asako and Mr. Gannosuke at Summer Spectacular. The team of Gladiator, Titan and Fuji gained more success by defeating Asako, Katsuji Ueda and Grigory Verichev in a street fight at Year End Spectacular.

Facts & Trivia

Mike Ranked on the list of most popular Wrestler. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Mike Awesome celebrates birthday on January 24 of every year.

The following year, Gladiator and Titan participated in a double-elimination tournament for the newly created Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship, in which they defeated Hideki Hosaka and Hisakatsu Oya in the quarter-final, Jinsei Shinzaki and Masaru Toi in the semi-final and Mr. Gannosuke and Tarzan Goto in the final to succeed in their block and then defeated Atsushi Onita and Katsutoshi Niiyama in the tournament final on January 18, 1994 to win the Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship, marking Alfonso’s first title in FMW. They successfully defended the title against Atsushi Onita and Sambo Asako in a street fight on March 29 and then lost the title to Mr. Pogo and Hisakatsu Oya in their second title defense on April 21. The title loss created dissension between Titan and Gladiator. At 5th Anniversary Show, Gladiator, Titan and Fuji took on Fuyuki-Gun in a match, where Gladiator and Titan had a miscommunication with each other but they still managed to win their match but Gladiator abandoned his partners after the match to quietly end Team Canada. As a result, Gladiator began feuding with Titan and defeated him in their first singles match against each other on July 31. Gladiator won a rematch at Summer Spectacular, before finally losing to Titan on September 7 to end the rivalry.