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| - Tyler James Chandler (born May 25, 1982) is a Canadian professional wrestler signed with PRIDE Wrestling. Chandler is a second-generation professional wrestler; his father David "Dave" Thompson competed in the professional wrestling industry mainly within the Toronto area. Overall, Chandler has won a total of 17 championships in his career, including being a 9-time World Champion, having held the TDW World Heavyweight Championship four times and the xWo Championship, WWE Championship, FCW Florida Heavyweight Championship, OWA Heavyweight Championship and EWE World Heavyweight Championship all once each. Chandler is best known for his stints in Two Worlds Wrestling Federation where he is a former United Kingdom and Lionheart Champion. Chandler was trained by Rain and soon went on to form his own wrestling company along with longtime friend Rob Chapman called Extreme Wrestling Alliance. The company would have only one show where Rob would defeat Chandler in a brutal and barbaric Barbed Wire Massacre match for the EWA World Heavyweight Championship, the company soon folded shortly afterwards due to complaints about how graphic the match was. After EWA folded Chandler signed with Xtreme Wrestling Organization in 2006. Tyler would soon leave xWo not long afterwards before re-signing with xWo in 2007. Chandler would go on to hold the xWo Championship, although his reign lasted less than ten minutes as he would go on to lose it right back to Mephisto, who cashed in his rematch clause. Chandler would return to the xWo in 2010 and within a few months he would win the xWo Television Championship and would go on to become the longest reigning Television Champion in xWo history. In 2008, Chandler signed with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE The E-Fed) and was sent to their developmental territory, FCW. After Chandler was moved to the main roster in September 2009; he received a push which quickly led to a WWE Intercontinental Championship reign, winning the championship in November 2009 and would go on to hold it for nearly six months, losing it at Wrestlemania 25 to the Motor City Machine Guns ending his reign at 154 days. Not long after this Chandler engaged in a heated rivalry with Randy Orton that saw them compete in a Last Man Standing Match at Backlash which Orton would go on to win. The feud with Orton would end not long afterwards in June, before Chandler began a feud with then WWE Champion, John Cena starting yet another push for Chandler. Tyler would challenge Cena for the WWE Championship on an episode of Raw in a Street Fight, however he was unsuccessful, it was during this time as well that Chandler formed his own villianous stable, called the Sinners along with Justin Angel, Desmond Wolfe and Batista. After the stable quietly split up, Chandler returned to singles competition, before being plagued with a few injuries and returned to lower card status; before taking some time off in March 2012. In July 2012, Chandler returned to the WWE after a four month hiatus and once again became a member of the RAW brand for the first time since July 2011. During that time, he won the WWE Intercontinental Championship for a second time, and later went on to win the WWE Championship; his first world championship in the WWE. Chandler would then go on to headline many pay-per-view events for the organization, which included: SummerSlam (2012), Survivor Series (2012), Royal Rumble (2013), Cyber Sunday (2013) and Wrestlemania XXIX; where he successfully defended the WWE Championship. After being with the company for over five years, Chandler left WWE in 2013 and signed a multi-year contract with World Elite Wrestling (WEW). Chandler would later retire from wrestling in October 2014. Chandler would come out of retirement two years later in February 2016 after signing a contract with Orlando Wrestling Alliance.
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