Troy Martin

Troy Allan Martin (born November 21, 1964) is an American professional wrestler and promoter, better known by his ring name Shane Douglas. He is best known for his tenures in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he worked as a wrestler and a manager.Martin held a dozen championships between ECW, WCW and the WWF and is a five-time world champion: a four-time ECW World Heavyweight Champion and a one-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion. He is also a one-time WWF Intercontinental Champion, a two-time ECW World Television Champion, a one-time WCW United States Heavyweight Champion and a two-time WCW World Tag Team Champion.He achieved the biggest success of his career in ECW, where he debuted in 1993 and captured the ECW Heavyweight Championship twice in his rookie year. He had his career-defining moment when he won a tournament for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, where he publicly rejected the NWA title belt and helped ECW into evolving from an NWA territory to a nationwide phenomenon. He helped ECW into becoming the pioneer of hardcore wrestling and brought extremism to the company. Within ECW, he adopted nickname The Franchise in reference to his status as the franchise player of the promotion. WWE, who purchased that organization, asserted: Without Shane Douglas, there would have been no ECW. He headlined many events for the ECW including three editions of the companys premier pay-per-view event November to Remember in 1996, 1997 and 1998.

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