Teddy "The Bear" Jones

Teddy Jones is a former Olympic boxer turned mixed martial artist. He would have been remembered for the Olympics part someday if his temper hadn't put another fighter in a coma in an out of the ring brawl during the games. Shrugging off the incident as a bump in the road, Teddy spent the next several years doing mixed martial arts before branching out into professional wrestling, looking to be set up for fine careers in both. Teddy "The Bear" Jones became a Super Heavyweight crowd favorite, his distinctive mustache and over the top All American personality making him an easy fit for posters, action figures, and video games. But Teddy has never been the brightest bulb in the box, and would prove his own worst enemy.

The steroid scandal barely made news in the MMA world, and it didn't hurt his wrestling career in the slightest. His penchent for frequent divorce, often due to the outrageous affairs he was terrible at keeping a secret, caused a chuckle here or there, but no one questioned that he was a contender. When he got into the odd bar fight he got it may have actually helped his image. He never hurt anybody too bad. He was just a big guy with a big mustache that liked to fight.

But then Texas happened.

Super Heavyweight title fight. Teddy "The Bear" Jones, the reigning champ, set to bust up Patrick "Four Leaf" Quincey in the live pay-per-view event of the summer. Late in the fight, Teddy was on the ground and having a rough time of it. After what seemed to him an absurdly short time for this to be the state of things, the ref called the fight and declared Patrick Quincey the victor. Teddy hopped up, furious, and started shouting at the ref, demanding the fight resume. The ref wouldn't budge. Something in Teddy snapped that day (later, during the trial, he blamed it on the illegal bull shark testosterone he'd secretly been taking) and he lost all control. By the time they pulled Teddy off him, the referee was struggling to breathe. He survived but was never fit to referee again. And Teddy Jones never had a sanctioned fight again.

After serving some jail time for the incident with the referee, Teddy supplemented his savings with street fights recorded for the internet and betting on himself in underground fight clubs. By then he'd lost custody of all five of his children, his third divorce was finalized, and the referee had been known and liked enough that he got the cold shoulder with the wrestling industry too. With nothing left to lose, only a few years left in his prime, and no lucrative prospects on the horizon, mercenary work seemed as good a choice as any for a man whose primary skill is hurting people.