Rob Conway

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Robert Thomas (Rob) Conway, Jr. (born November 28, 1971 in New Albany, Indiana) is an American professional wrestler, currently performing for World Wrestling Entertainment on the RAW brand.

1 Career
- 1.1 Ohio Valley Wrestling and Music City Wrestling
- 1.2 World Wrestling Entertainment
2 In wrestling
3 Championships and accomplishments
- 3.1 Championship succession
4 External links
5 Fan Sites

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Career

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Ohio Valley Wrestling and Music City Wrestling

Rob Conway teamed with Nick Dinsmore (Eugene) under the names Limited Edition (MCW), Borkcin Brothers (OVW), Lords of the Ring (OVW) and was also a member of Bolin Services with The Prototype, Nick Dinsmore, Recon, and Mark Henry in OVW.

As the Lords of the Ring, Conway and Dinsmore won the OVW Tag Team titles on 11 occasions and once captured the MCW North American Tag Team titles.

On April 28, 1999 Rob Conway defeated his own partner Nick Dinsmore to win the OVW Heavyweight Championship, which Dinsmore regained from Conway on May 7 of that year. Conway won the OVW Heavyweight Championship a second time on August 17, 1999, pinning Damaja. He lost the title to Rico Constantino on November 10, regaining it on September 6, 2000, with a victory over Nick Dinsmore.

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World Wrestling Entertainment

Conway debuted in the then-World Wrestling Federation on the May 20, 2000, episode of Jakked, where he was defeated by Bull Buchanan. Over the next three years, Conway appeared in tryout matches on Velocity and Sunday Night Heat, losing to wrestlers such as A-Train, Randy Orton, and The Hurricane.

In a match taped for the July 17, 2003, episode of SmackDown!, Rob Conway and Nick Dinsmore appeared under masks as "Los Conquistadores", losing to Rey Mysterio and Billy Kidman. On July 27, 2003, at Vengeance 2003, Conway once again competed as the masked Conquistador, this time with Johnny Jeter as his partner, as part of the APA Bar Room Brawl.

Rob Conway made his proper debut for the company on the August 18, 2003, episode of RAW, planted in the audience dressed as an American soldier. After Conway was "harassed" by the heel tag team La Résistance, he was invited into the ring by The Dudley Boyz, who were then feuding with La Résistance. While "celebrating" with the Dudley Boyz and waving the American flag, Conway suddenly hit them both with the flagpole, revealing himself to be in cahoots with La Résistance. La Résistance operated as a three man team until René Duprée was drafted to SmackDown! following WrestleMania XX. Conway and Sylvain Grenier continued to team together and had renewed his nickname as Robert (pronounced "Roh-Bair") Conway. They even won the World Tag Team Championships on three occasions. The team was separated after Grenier was drafted to SmackDown! in the 2005 Draft Lottery.

Despite the return to RAW of Duprée in the same lottery which claimed Grenier, Conway began wrestling in singles competition, brought back his original identity as Rob Conway, making a new persona and developed a new appearance and gimmick reminiscent of Buff Bagwell. He now refers to himself as "The Con-Man" Rob Conway. A notable trademark of Conway is while his music "Just Look At Me" is playing, he lip-synchs it on the way to the ring, as if he is singing it.

Image:Elbow drop.jpg During the RAW Homecoming, Conway interrupted a segment involving WWE Legends, after disrespecting the legends Conway was assaulted by the Legends and went on to have matches against more legends to get retribution for his humiliation. Conway would refer to these as his "Legend Killings", he would pick up wins over these legends:

During this time he would go on to begin feuding with Eugene, a big fan of the legends who stuck up for them. At the 2005 Taboo Tuesday pay-per-view, Conway teamed with Tyson Tomko to face Eugene and a legend as voted for by the fans. 'Superfly' Jimmy Snuka beat out Kamala and Jim Duggan in the voting. Snuka pinned Conway after a Superfly Splash. On the next RAW, Conway attempted to take the Intercontinental Championship from the legendary "Nature Boy" Ric Flair, but came up short when Conway was locked in Flair's infamous Figure-Four Leglock while Flair used the ropes for leverage to make him tap.

Through the rest of that year and the start of 2006 Conway went back to competing on Sunday Night Heat making only a few appearances on RAW. In March 2006, Conway was once again teaming with Rene Dupree (during dark matches), hinting a possible La Résistance re-union.

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In wrestling

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Quotes

"I'm gonna do things my way....The Con-way!"
"Just look at me!"
"The whole damn world wants to look like me!"
"I am the Con-man!"
"Ain't I a sight to see?"
"You Know Todd I only have three percent body fat, and if I could find it id turn it into muscle" (in an interview with Todd Grisham)

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