Monday, January 27, 2020
Former WWE Announcer Sean Mooney Signs With NWA
Former WWE announcer Sean Mooney has joined up with the National Wrestling Alliance. Debuting for WWE back in 1988, Mooney worked for the company as a commentator, backstage interviewer, and host on various shows until 1993.
He made sporadic appearances for WWE in recent years, appearing on the 1,000th episode of RAW in July of 2012. Mooney also showed up on the WWE Network show, The Edge and Christian Show That Totally Reeks Of Awesomenes.
"Proud to join such an incredible team! #MooneyisBack @nwa #NWAPowerrr," Mooney commented on Twitter.
NWA announced his first appearance will be on tomorrow's NWA Powerrr.
"We are proud to welcome legendary announcer Sean Mooney to the National Wrestling Alliance family. You'll see his first appearance on #NWAPowerrr this Tuesday at 6:05pm."
FORMER WCW STAR VAN HAMMER ARRESTED FOR DUI AFTER STRIKING FIVE YEAR OLD BOY
According to the police report, Hildreth was driving driving near south Seacrest Boulevard and Southeast 34th Avenue when Hildreth's car struck the boy, who was riding his bicycle with his father. Hildreth allegedly got out of the car, stated the boy jumped out in front of him, then drove away. Another witness followed Hildreth to his home and identified him to police. The police report notes that Hildreth smelled of alcohol and refused to take a breathalyzer, leading to his arrest. He was booked into custody at 8 PM Eastern last night.
Hildreth has been charged with felony hit and run with failure to stop in a crash involving others and serious bodily injuries, DUI with injuries to another person and leaving the scene of an injury crash.
Hildreth was in Palm Beach County Court this morning to be arraigned with bail set at $125,000. During the hearing, it was noted he had two previous DUIs in the past, one in Texas in 1985 and one in Georgia in 2004. Hildreth was also ordered not to have contact with the victim or any potential witnesses, to make himself available to random testing for drugs and alcohol and that he not use any alcohol or drugs not carry and illegal weapons on his person:
Hildreth, best known as Van Hammer, was trained by Dean Malenko and Dan Spivey before debuting in World Championship Wrestling in 1991, playing a heavy metal rock and roll character. He may be best remembered for a Falls Count Anywhere match with Mick Foley on a live Clash of Champions special and winning a 1992 Jesse Ventura Invitational arm-wrestling tournament. He was with WCW for several years before departing. Hildreth received a WWF tryout in 1993 but wasn't brought into the company. He returned to WCW during the Nitro era, where he was a member of Raven's Flock and a member of the Misfits in Action tag stable as Major Stash. He also had a hand in training Ring of Honor stars Jay and Mark Briscoe.
Hildreth remains incarcerated at the Palm Beach Main Detention Center as of this writing.
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