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Michael Lockwood
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Johnny Pearson Erin O'Grady The Green Ghost Crash Holly Crash Mad Mikey
Billed height	5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Billed weight	200.2 lb (91 kg)
Born	August 25 1971(1971-08-25) Anaheim, California
Died	November 6 2003 (aged 32) Navarre, Florida
Billed from	Salisbury, North Carolina
Trained by	Jerry Monti Michael Modest Ric Thompson
Debut	1989

Michael John Lockwood (August 25, 1971 - November 6, 2003) was an American professional wrestler best known as Crash Holly, the storyline cousin of Molly Holly and Hardcore Holly in the World Wrestling Federation.

1 Professional wrestling career
2 Death
3 In wrestling
4 Championships and accomplishments
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

Professional wrestling career

Early career

Raised in Pacifica, California, Lockwood graduated from Terra Nova High School in 1988. Lockwood made his wrestling debut in 1989 and competed in Bay Area Wrestling until 1994. He used the alias Johnny Pearson during his stay. In 1996, Lockwood moved to All Pro Wrestling (APW), where he became "The Leprechaun" Erin O'Grady. Lockwood became known especially for his matches with Vic Grimes. After viewing a tape of a match between O'Grady and Michael Modest, Extreme Championship Wrestling employee Taz contacted Lockwood about joining ECW. Prior to entering the World Wrestling Federation, he competed in Monterrey under a mask, using the alias The Green Ghost.

World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment

1999-2001

Lockwood (now using the ring name Crash Holly) entered the WWF as the cousin of Bob 'Hardcore' Holly, whom he slightly resembled. He made his TV debut on the August 16, 1999 episode of RAW is War. The relationship between the cousins was strained, with the grizzled Hardcore Holly frequently threatening Crash. He was often seen bringing a weighing scale when he took on the gimmick of claiming himself to be well over 400 lbs along with Hardcore so that he would be considered a heavyweight. He was fairly successful, with his most notable achievement being his victory over Test for the WWF Hardcore Championship on the February 22, 2000 episode of SmackDown! Crash decreed that he must defend the championship twenty four hours a day, seven days a week ("24/7"). This meant that the title was permanently contested, not just in the course of sanctioned matches, and could thus change hands anywhere as long as a referee was present to administer the three count. Crash Holly was frequently attacked by other wrestlers while in unlikely locations, including an airport, a funhouse, a circus, and even in his hotel room. While Holly was often pinned, he normally immediately regained the title from his opponent. In total, he would win the title 22 times. His most common tactic was to steal a win in one of his or someone's else's Hardcore Title match and quickly running away to the back and from other contenders. This earned him the title the "Houdini of Hardcore". Crash also held the WWF European Championship, WWF Light Heavyweight Championship, and the WWF Tag Team Championship (with Hardcore Holly). In late 2000, Holly's onscreen "cousin" Molly Holly was introduced. In 2001, the Holly Cousins began a feud with The Dudley Boyz. In the course of this feud, Molly Holly began a relationship with Spike Dudley, leading to internal disputes within each family, as well as a Romeo and Juliet-style feud between the six of them.

2002-2003

When the WWF was renamed World Wrestling Entertainment and then divided into two "brands", Crash Holly was initially drafted to the RAW roster, where he had little success. He later jumped ship to SmackDown! in the midst of a match with Jeff Hardy, shortly after Eric Bischoff, having been informed that a RAW wrestler would leave RAW to reunite with a relative on SmackDown! that night, ordered a beatdown on Jeff (who he thought was leaving RAW to be with his brother Matt Hardy). In the weeks following Crash's jump to SmackDown!, Hardcore Holly suffered a serious injury during a match with Brock Lesnar which some attribute to the fact that Holly was "sandbagging" Brock's moves. Hardcore took over a year to recover. The "Holly reunion" storyline was quickly scrapped and Lockwood was left with nothing to do until mid-2003. Later on SmackDown!, Lockwood (now referred to simply as Crash) joined Matt Hardy and Shannon Moore as part of the "Mattitude Followers" stable (as Moore's supposed apprentice, Crash was also referred to by Hardy as a "Moore-on") but failed to recreate his earlier success, and was released by WWE in July 2003.

Other promotions

Lockwood later joined TNA and was renamed Mad Mikey, as well as joining some of his friends at Pro Wrestling Iron, an offshoot of APW, in Hayward, California.

Death

Lockwood died on November 6, 2003, at the age of 32. He is survived by his brother John, his wife, Christeena and his daughter Patricia.^[1] Lockwood died at wrestler Stevie Richards' home and choked on his own vomit. Wrestling-news.com Crash's death report In August 2005, Nora Greenwald (Molly Holly) released an autobiographical DVD entitled "Nora Greenwald: Shootin' the ~~Shi~~ Crap", and a portion of the profits from the sale of the DVD went to Mike Lockwood's daughter's education fund.^[2].