Kid Kash

At 54 years old, Kid Kash has this physical status:

David Tyler Cash (born July 31, 1969), better known as Kid Kash, is an American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler best known for his work in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).

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Professional wrestling career

Kash's father was a boxer, and Kash began training at the age of seven years. He went on to become a professional fighter and worked in Japan. Cash met Ricky Morton on the road with him and continued his training. Cash wrestled on the free circuit as a welder by day. He created a short-lived tag team with Ricky Morton Jericho under the name David Tyler Morton Jericho.

Kash began wrestling at the age of 20 in 1989.

Cash's first mainstream exposure came in late November 1996 with ECW. David Tyler Jericho, then wrestle, then fought in Philadelphia as David Tyler Morton Jericho, and Ric Savage, a former teammate. Cash was a friend of New Jack of the Gangstas and Rob Van Dam, and it was Rob Van Dam who first introduced Cash to Paul Heyman.

Cash left ECW to return to the indies and even wrestled house shows for WWF in 1997. He appeared on television tapings on April 28, 1998, just shy of defeating Taka Michinoku. Cash strained both of his ankles after delivering a botched hurricanrana on Scotty 2 Hotty during a WWF house show against the tag team Too Cool. Cash was depressed for a while due to injuries.

Cash resurfaced in ECW in late 1999 under the banner "Kid Kash," a new gimmick. The name change was due to his uncannily similarity to musician Kid Rock. Kash would dress as Kid Rock from his Devil Without a Cause album and even performed the song (and named one of his finishers, The Bawitaba) during this period in his career. Kash suffered a fractured jaw in Atlanta with The Dupps just months after his return. During games and as payback during a planned run in during Kash's match, he took heat with the tag team for his ostensible and firing moves on Kash as well as during a planned run in. At the time, Atlanta was battling a flu epidemic, so Kash needed to see a private doctor to fix his jaw because the hospitals were overloaded. Despite the injury, Kash continued to wrestle and never skipped a night off. After going from Atlanta to Birmingham, Alabama, less than 24 hours after his jaw was wired shut, he even wrestled on the Guilty as Charged PPV. Paul Heyman and several other ECW wrestlers have earned him the respect of his fellow wrestlers. Kash recovered from the injury and went on to wrestle tag matches, cruiserweight-style matches, and even wrestled Mike Awesome for the ECW World Heavyweight Championship at Living Dangerously on March 12, 2000, although he lost after being knocked from the top rope through a Table. Rob Van Dam, Super Crazy, Nova, and The Sandman were among his tag team members during the time. Kash took the ECW World Television Championship by defeating Rhino on August 26, 2000 at Midtown Massacre. Rhino will regain the title from Kash just a few weeks later. In a singles match at Anarchy Rulz, Kash, EZ Money was pinned to a singles match on October 1. Kash beat C. W. Anderson in November, according to Remember. The Unholy Alliance (Yoshihiro Tajiri and Mikey Whipwreck) defeated him and Super Crazy in a tag team match on December 3 at Massacre on 34th Street. He and Super Crazy and F.B.I. were charged at Guilty as charged. In a three-way dance tag team match, Little Guido and Tony Mamaluke were both defeated by The Unholy Alliance. Following Guilty as Charged, the service was defunct in 2001.

Kash was drafted as "Cash" by ECW two months after ECW folded him into World Championship Wrestling, where he was branded "Cash" by World Championship Wrestling. He only played on Thunder's last episode, where he lost to Jason Jett on March 21, where he was in tears. The World Wrestling Federation bought WCW for the second week in a row.

Kash re-emerged in TNA Wrestling as part of the X Division on August 14, 2002. Kash won the TNA X Division Championship from Sonny Siaki on February 12, 2003, losing the title to Amazing Red on April 30 using the gimmick of a cocky, obnoxious heel (while still retaining a degree of his Kid Rock demeanour). Kid Kash had a lot of rivalries against James Storm, Dusty Rhodes, Jeff Hardy, A.J. Styles, as well as a few intergender matches with Trinity. In addition, Kash was up against legends such as "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and Larry Zbyszko. Ricky Morton, his manager, was even beat by him.

Kash won the NWA World Tag Team Championship on March 31, 2004, and the pair picked the titles up for the second time on April 21, before losing them to America's Most Wanted in June 2004. After months of exposing the organization, TNA reported that Kash had been fired from his TNA position on April 20, 2005. After being banned from TNA, he signed with WWE.

Kash's first appearance on television was as one of many disrupters in the main event at ECW One Night Stand. However, his first official WWE outing was his appearance in the television broadcasting of Sunday Night Heat against Tajiri on June 19, 2005, in what was dubbed a tryout match. In an interview on June 23, he said, "You never know what the company is looking for." I may not be what they're looking for. "I can only wish" means he kept trying to get back to the WWE, implying that he will keep trying to get to the WWE's deal. Kash later wrestled a few matches on Velocity before returning to the SmackDown in the same month. He was reported to have signed a developmental contract with WWE and was later assigned to Deep South Wrestling, and to have been promoted to Deep South Wrestling. Brand: a new brand. On SmackDown!, Kash appeared after a tag team match between MNM and The Mexicools, reportedly attacking Juventud. Super Crazy, a Mexicanol member, took on Super Crazy the following week. Kash won the match, earning him a title match against Juventud at Armageddon. Kash made his WWE pay-per-view debut on December 18, 2017, defeating Juventud in the Cruiserweight Championship. Kash lost the Cruiserweight Championship to Gregory Helms on January 29 at the Royal Rumble in Rumble.

Kash began to regularly tag teams with Jamie Noble to face face opponents of the cruiserweight division; during May 2006, the team's founders, who wore dog collars, often barked at and bit players, and soon after, the team's name was changed to Kash; soon after the team was established, Kash has a new haircut. The pair were soon branded The Pit Bulls and joined the WWE Tag Team Championship hunt for Paul London and Brian Kendrick. This was Kash's last WWE pay-per-view appearance at The Great American Bash on July 23rd, when Noble and Kendrick defeated him and Noble at The Great American Bash. In a tag team match against K. C. James and Idol Stevens, his last WWE appearance on the September 29 episode of SmackDown! WWE announced that Kash had been fired from his WWE gig on September 27, 2006. Kash would later admit that his release was due to him being caught smoking weed backstage at a WWE convention in Montreal, Canada.

On The Fight Network in the United Kingdom, Kash appeared on Real Quality Wrestling. He spent time in several European countries, including One Pro Wrestling in Tewkesbury for top midlands wrestling Pro Championship Wrestling, and also in Waterford, Ireland, for Irish Whip Wrestling. In Nashville, where he lives, Kash wrestled often for promotions. The most notable of this championship was NWA Southern All-Star Wrestling, where he has won the tournament multiple times. Kid Kash performed in August 2009 at Skegness and Cleethorpes, with Real Deal Wrestling assisting them with their Summer Slamfest.

Kash, Simon Diamond, and Johnny Swinger were defeated by Little Guido, Anthony Luke, and Tracy Smothers in a six-man tag team competition on August 8, 2010. Kash wrestled in a dark match the following day, but losing to Okada. Kash's return to TNA on June 13, 2011, when the tapings of the Impact Wrestling edition of June 16, 2011, culminated in a three-way first round match of a TNA tournament, which also included Jimmy Rave.

Kash revealed on July 12, 2011 that he had re-signed with TNA. On the September 11 edition of Impact Wrestling, Kash returned to TNA, while Eric Bischoff, who appeared in a backstage segment, introduced new X Division rules. Following week, Kash participated in a gauntlet competition to determine the top contender for the X Division Championship. Kash gave him a Money Maker after being dropped from the game by Jesse Sorensen, and he charged him the match. Kash defeated Sorensen in a singles match after a rollup the previous week, while keeping his tights. Kash was pinned in a tag team match against Sorensen on September 1st, and Brian Kendrick joined Austin Aries and Sorensen. Jesse Sorensen defeated Kash in an X Division number one finals match on September 11 at No Surrender. Kash was chastised for insulting Brian Kendrick in a new episode of Impact Wrestling on October 6th. In a three-way match that also included Sorensen, Kash failed to capture the X Division Championship from Aries on November 13 in Turning Point, Kash. Kash failed to win the X Division Championship in a singles match with Aries the following month. Kash was disqualified from a four way X Division Championship match that also featured Austin Aries, Jesse Sorensen, and Zema Ion on January 8. Kash sustained a fractured nose in a three-way match against Jesse Sorensen and Shannon Moore on January 21, making him inactive for two months. Following bullying from Bully Ray, Kash returned from injury on the 22nd edition of Impact Wrestling, a four-way match for the X Division Championship that ended in a no contest.

On June 10, Kash returned to pay-per-view at Slammiversary after being defeated by Hernandez in a singles match. Kash entered a tournament on July 8 to select the new X Division champion, but Mason Andrews was disqualified in his first round match. On July 26, Kash and Gunner confronted and eventually assaulted Chavo Guerrero Jr., before Guerrero was saved by Hernandez. In Guerrero's TNA debut match the following week, Kash was defeated by Guerrero. Guerrero and Hernandez defeated the Machino team in a tag team match on August 12 at Hardcore Justice, Kash, and Gunner. In a rematch on the October 18 episode of Impact Wrestling, Kash and Gunner met Guerrero and Hernandez, now the TNA World Tag Team Champions. Rob Van Dam was unsuccessfully defeated by Impact Wrestling Kash on the X Division Championship on November 15th. Kid Kash would start working with Ohio Valley Wrestling, TNA's developmental territory, in early November 2012. He made his debut on the Platoon of Wayne on the November 14 tapings. In a triumphant attempt against Elvis Pridemoore, he made his in-ring debut the same night. In a segment between the Platoon of Wayne and James "Moose" Thomas, he appeared on the OVW's December 1 edition. Samoa Joe defeated him on December 5, the TNA Xplosion's episode. He appeared in a three-way match to determine the X Division Champion at Final Resolution, which was defeated by Kenny King on December 6th. This was Kash's last appearance in TNA on January 3nd, when he lost to Christian York. Kash was released from his TNA service on February 2, 2013, after one month in inactivity.

Kash and his tag team partner, Josh Shockman, were defeated by Jerry Lynn and Ricky Morton during their TNA debut on January 5, 2013. Kash defeated Little Guido on March 2, 2013, but lost a three-way match for the vacant HRT heavyweight title, which was lost by Angel. Kash faced IWC Super Indy champion Tony Nese on April 13, but the team lost the championship. Kid Kash defeated Facade at an IWC show on April 14, 14 years ago. Kash and Doug William met Owen Phoenix and Ultimo Dragon in a losing proposition on May 25, 2013. Kash and Stan Lee were defeated by Cerebus and K. C. Thunder at the Brad Armstrong Memorial Event on June 16, 2013. In a losing fight, Kash had a losing match against Chris Michaels on September 9, nine years ago. Kash will lose to VsK at a VPW show on November 18, 2014.

Kash began his retirement tour in September 2015, when he and Ricky Morton defeated Jeff Connelly and Brian Montgomery in a humiliating fight. After the game, Kash and Morton argued. Kash wrestled in a losing fight against Chase Owens in December 2015, where the stipulation was that if Kash won Ricky Morton would retire and if Owens won Kash would retire.

In January 2018, he joined Ky-ote as part of the Arrow Club in a losing fight against the Von Erichs - Marshall. On August 11, Kash returned as a member of the Arrow Club at World Class Revolution Pro Wrestling, where he and Ky-ote defeated the Von Erich brothers, as well as Prince Mahalli and Rasheed Ali for the World Class Tag Team Championships.

Mixed martial arts career

Kash made his pro MMA debut at Valor Fights 38 on November 5, 2016. Lindsey Jones knocked him out in 38 seconds.

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