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Kenny Dykstra

January 20, 2023

Kenneth George Doane (born March 16, 1986) is an American retired professional wrestler signed to WWE as a producer and as a trainer at the WWE Performance Center. During his past time in WWE, he was known as Kenny Dykstra and Kenny as a member of The Spirit Squad. Outside of WWE, his most significant appearance in a major promotion was for Major League Wrestling (MLW) in a tag team with Squad member Mike Mondo during 2019.

Kenny Dykstra
Doane in 2009
Birth nameKenneth George Doane[1]
Born (1986-03-16) March 16, 1986 (age 36)[1][2]
Southbridge, Massachusetts, United States[1][2]
Alma materNichols College
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Ken Doane
Kenn Doane
Kenny[3][4]
Kenny Dykstra[4]
"Simply" Stan Shooter
Billed height6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)[4]
Billed weight230 lb (100 kg)[4]
Billed fromWorcester, Massachusetts[5]
Trained byKiller Kowalski[6]
Ohio Valley Wrestling[6]
Debut2001[6]
RetiredApril 20, 2021[7]

Doane was trained by Killer Kowalski and made his wrestling debut at the age of fifteen in 2001. He began working for Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), per WWE request. In May 2003, Doane made his WWE television debut as "Ken Phoenix". During his time in OVW, he won the Television Championship once. After losing the title, Doane became part of The Spirit Squad faction. The team debuted on Raw in January 2006 and won the World Tag Team Championship three months later.

Following the Spirit Squad's dissolution, he began working as "Kenny Dykstra", before being released from his WWE contract in November 2008. He later began working on the independent circuit, wrestling for promotions including Dragon Gate USA and Evolve.

Doane would end up working as a WWE producer and would coach on the side in early 2021.[8]

Professional wrestling career

Early career (2001–2005)

Doane made his professional wrestling debut in 2001 at the age of fifteen.[6][4] He started his professional wrestling career in the New England area under the name "Broadway" Kenn Phoenix.[9] He was later trained by professional wrestler and trainer Killer Kowalski in Malden, Massachusetts.[4][5] After being contacted by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), he was asked to make appearances for their developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW). Doane made his first national television appearance in WWE at the age of 17 on the May 12, 2003 episode of WWE Raw as Ken Phoenix. Along with his brother, Mike Phoenix, he was a participant in Rodney Mack's ongoing "5-Minute White Boy Challenge" where Mack defeated Caucasian wrestlers in under five minutes. Mack defeated the pair in 1:31, forcing them both to submit to his new Blackout finishing hold.[10] He made another appearance, losing to Lance Storm on an episode of Sunday Night Heat before being officially signed to a developmental deal and to OVW full-time on June 4, 2004.[4] On June 3, 2005, Doane had his first match, at the promotion, against Kenzo Suzuki, whom Doane defeated.[4] Three weeks later, on June 25, 2005, he won the Television Championship from Deuce Shade.[11] He had successful title defenses, but Doane lost the title to CM Punk on November 9, 2005.[4]

World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE

The Spirit Squad (2006)

Main article: Spirit Squad

After losing the Television Championship, Doane became a part of the Spirit Squad, a faction using the in-ring personas of male cheerleaders, using the name "Kenny".[4] On the January 23, 2006, episode of Raw, the group helped Jonathan Coachman win a Royal Rumble qualifying match against Jerry "The King" Lawler by performing cheers for Coachman and distracting Lawler.[12] They later became a part of the ongoing scripted feud between WWE chairman Vince McMahon and Shawn Michaels. The villainous McMahon brought in the Squad to attack Michaels on numerous occasions, including placing them in multiple handicap matches.[13][14]

 
Members of the Spirit Squad in the ring, including Kenny on the right

They also continued wrestling in the tag team division, and on April 3, on Raw, the Squad won the World Tag Team Championship when Kenny and Mikey, with outside help from the other three Squad members, defeated the team of Big Show and Kane.[15][16] After winning the championship, all five members of the team were recognized as the champions, allowing any combination of them to defend the championship.[2] Also, Kenny became the second youngest wrestler to win a title in WWE at the age of 20 years and 18 days; he was surpassed by Tyler Bate in 2017.[17]

Three weeks later, McMahon scheduled another handicap match, with the Spirit Squad facing Michaels.[18][19] The match never started, however; instead the Spirit Squad brutally beat down Michaels, ripping apart his ring attire and, as part of the storyline, shattered his knee with a chair.[18] McMahon then called Triple H to the ring to attack Michaels with a sledgehammer; however, Kenny snatched the sledgehammer away from him, disrespecting Triple H, which led to him attacking the group.[18] Triple H and Michaels revived their former team, D-Generation X (DX), and began a feud with the Spirit Squad.[20][21] DX played various sophomoric pranks on the team and the McMahons (Vince and his son Shane), as well as defeating the Spirit Squad in handicap tag team matches at Vengeance and a clean sweep in an elimination handicap match at Saturday Night's Main Event XXXIII.[21][22][23][24]

At the same time as their feud with DX and their alignment with McMahon, the team also wrestled other teams in Raw's tag division over the World Tag Team Championship. The group successfully defended the tag team championship against the teams of Jim Duggan and Eugene, Charlie Haas and Viscera, and Snitsky and Val Venis.[22] They then entered a lengthy feud with The Highlanders,[25][26] whom they eventually defeated to retain the title at Unforgiven.[27]

The Spirit Squad as a whole later began a losing streak with separate members losing singles matches to Ric Flair on consecutive episodes of Raw.[28][29][30] After two consecutive losses to the debuting Cryme Tyme, Kenny attacked Mikey on the October 23 episode of Raw, and announced that he was going to defeat Flair. Kenny was successful, despite Flair attempting to even the odds by bringing other WWE Legends (Dusty Rhodes, Sgt. Slaughter, and "Rowdy" Roddy Piper) to the ring with him.[31][32] It was then announced that Flair and a legend, selected by interactive voting, would wrestle the team for the World Tag Team Championship at the Cyber Sunday pay-per-view in early November.[32] The fans chose Piper, and he and Flair defeated Kenny and Mikey to win the championship.[33]

The group disbanded on the November 27 Raw after losing a five-on-three match against Flair and DX.[34] Later that night, DX placed all five members into a crate stamped "OVW, Louisville, Kentucky", a reference to the developmental territory from which the Squad had come.[35]

Singles competition (2006–2008)

After the breakup of the Spirit Squad, he was repackaged as Kenny Dykstra – an homage to baseball player Lenny Dykstra – with new attire and entrance music.[3][36] He became interested in joining the group Rated-RKO, which consisted of Edge and Randy Orton. In order to join, he was told to prove himself first.[37] He continued the feud with Ric Flair, managing to pick up three straight victories before finally losing to him on the January 15, 2007, episode of Raw.[4] Dykstra competed in the 2007 Royal Rumble match and got eliminated by Edge. After his feud with Flair, Dykstra became a mainstay on Raw's sister show Heat, having feuds with both Eugene and Val Venis.

He then formed a tag team with Johnny Nitro,[38] but the duo split when Dykstra was drafted to the SmackDown! brand on June 17, 2007, as part of the WWE Supplemental Draft.[39]

Dykstra made his debut on the July 6 episode of SmackDown! in a losing effort to the re-debuting Chuck Palumbo.[40] On the July 20 episode of SmackDown!, Dykstra participated in a 20-man battle royal for the World Heavyweight Championship and was eliminated by Chris Masters; later on that evening, he lost to Matt Hardy in singles competition.[41]

Dykstra formed an on-screen relationship with Victoria on the July 27 episode of SmackDown!.[42] The two teamed together in mixed tag team matches, usually against Jimmy Wang Yang and Torrie Wilson or Chuck Palumbo and Michelle McCool.[43] They also regularly accompanied each other to the ring for matches.[44][45] After a leave of absence from television in the first half of 2008, Dykstra made his return on the August 15 episode of SmackDown, losing to WWE Champion Triple H. On November 10, 2008, WWE announced Doane had been released from his contract.[46]

Return (2016)

In late 2016, Doane, as Kenny, and Mikey returned to WWE for a short storyline with Dolph Ziggler (formerly Nicky in the Spirit Squad). On October 4, on SmackDown, they utilised their Spirit Squad characters to taunt Ziggler about his time in the Spirit Squad, before attacking him at the behest of the Intercontinental Champion The Miz and Maryse.[47] Five days later, at the No Mercy pay-per-view, he and Mikey tried to distract Ziggler in his career vs. title match under Maryse's command, but were unsuccessful in doing so.[48] On the October 11 episode of SmackDown, Kenny and Mikey faced Ziggler in a two-on-one handicap match; Ziggler won but was then attacked by The Miz and saved by Rhyno and Heath Slater.[49] Kenny and Mikey unsuccessfully challenged Slater and Rhyno for the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship on October 25.[50] They appeared throughout November in tag team matches, before disappearing off television.

Post WWE career (2009–2021)

 
Doane in 2010

In 2009, Doane began working for Dragon Gate USA under his real name.[6] On December 3, 2009, it was announced that Doane would be joining recently opened promotion Evolve as Kenn Doane.[51] He debuted at the promotions first show on January 16, 2010, in a loss to Jimmy Jacobs.[52]

On March 9, 2010, Doane, under his real name, wrestled in a tryout dark match for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, losing to Homicide.[4] On November 15, 2011, Doane wrestled a dark match for WWE at the SmackDown tapings in Bridgeport, Connecticut, losing to Justin Gabriel.[53] In September 2014, Doane took part in Chikara's 2014 King of Trios tournament, using his Spirit Squad character and teaming with Johnny and Mikey.[54] After a win over Sinn Bodhi and the Odditorium (Qefka the Quiet and Sir Oliver Grimsly) on September 19, the Spirit Squad was eliminated from the tournament in the second round on September 20 by the Golden Trio (Dasher Hatfield, Icarus, and Mark Angelosetti).[55]

On November 12, 2016, wrestling as The Spirit Squad, Doane along with Mikey captured the NYWC Tag Team Championship from Hounds of Hatred (Boo and Bam Sullivan) at Firestorm 3.[56] 15 days later, Spirit Squad lost the titles back to Hounds of Hatred.[56] At Ring of Honor television tapings in April 2017, Kenny and Mikey unsuccessfully challenged The Young Bucks for the ROH World Tag Team Championship.[57] On July 24, 2019, it was announced that Squad members Dykstra and Mike Mondo were now signed to Major League Wrestling (MLW). They would go on to debut at that month's Never Say Never show.[58] Kenny announced on April 20, 2021 through Twitter that he was retired from in-ring action.

Second return to WWE (2021–present)

On October 6, 2021, Doane was reportedly rehired by WWE to work as a trainer at the WWE Performance Center.[59] Two months later, he began working as a producer on Raw and SmackDown.[60]

As a role of a producer, Doane is seen occasionally breaking up brawls between wrestlers such as restraining Kevin Owens who fought The Bloodline (The Usos and Solo Sikoa) on the January 16, 2023 episode of Raw as he was among the officials separating those men.[61]

Other media

Doane appeared on Seducing Cindy, a Fox Reality series[62] that follows Cindy Margolis, once the most downloaded woman on the Internet, as she searches for a new love. The program premiered on January 30, 2010.[63] Doane made it to the final five, one episode away from the season finale, but was eliminated.

In 2013, while rehabbing a knee injury, Doane penned his first children's book entitled Billy's Bully. The book was released in June 2013.[64]

Personal life

Doane was born to Ken and Vickie Doane[5] in Southbridge, Massachusetts. His parents were supportive of his decision in becoming a professional wrestler.[5] He has an older brother named Mike. Doane attended Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School in Charlton, Massachusetts[5] and Nichols College, Dudley, MA.

Doane was formerly engaged to fellow professional wrestler Mickie James.[65]

In 2012, Doane enrolled in Nichols College where he started playing football. He plays as a tight end and linebacker.[66]

 
Doane performing his "Sky High Leg Drop" (a High-angle diving leg drop)
 
Doane performing a suplex.

Championships and accomplishments

Notes

a Kenny defended the championship with either Johnny, Mitch, Nicky, or Mikey under the Freebird Rule.

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This article needs to be updated Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information May 2019 Kenneth George Doane born March 16 1986 is an American retired professional wrestler signed to WWE as a producer and as a trainer at the WWE Performance Center During his past time in WWE he was known as Kenny Dykstra and Kenny as a member of The Spirit Squad Outside of WWE his most significant appearance in a major promotion was for Major League Wrestling MLW in a tag team with Squad member Mike Mondo during 2019 Kenny DykstraDoane in 2009Birth nameKenneth George Doane 1 Born 1986 03 16 March 16 1986 age 36 1 2 Southbridge Massachusetts United States 1 2 Alma materNichols CollegeProfessional wrestling careerRing name s Ken Doane Kenn DoaneKenny 3 4 Kenny Dykstra 4 Simply Stan ShooterBilled height6 ft 5 in 1 96 m 4 Billed weight230 lb 100 kg 4 Billed fromWorcester Massachusetts 5 Trained byKiller Kowalski 6 Ohio Valley Wrestling 6 Debut2001 6 RetiredApril 20 2021 7 Doane was trained by Killer Kowalski and made his wrestling debut at the age of fifteen in 2001 He began working for Ohio Valley Wrestling OVW per WWE request In May 2003 Doane made his WWE television debut as Ken Phoenix During his time in OVW he won the Television Championship once After losing the title Doane became part of The Spirit Squad faction The team debuted on Raw in January 2006 and won the World Tag Team Championship three months later Following the Spirit Squad s dissolution he began working as Kenny Dykstra before being released from his WWE contract in November 2008 He later began working on the independent circuit wrestling for promotions including Dragon Gate USA and Evolve Doane would end up working as a WWE producer and would coach on the side in early 2021 8 Contents 1 Professional wrestling career 1 1 Early career 2001 2005 1 2 World Wrestling Entertainment WWE 1 2 1 The Spirit Squad 2006 1 2 2 Singles competition 2006 2008 1 2 3 Return 2016 1 3 Post WWE career 2009 2021 1 4 Second return to WWE 2021 present 2 Other media 3 Personal life 4 Championships and accomplishments 5 Notes 6 References 7 External linksProfessional wrestling career EditEarly career 2001 2005 Edit Doane made his professional wrestling debut in 2001 at the age of fifteen 6 4 He started his professional wrestling career in the New England area under the name Broadway Kenn Phoenix 9 He was later trained by professional wrestler and trainer Killer Kowalski in Malden Massachusetts 4 5 After being contacted by World Wrestling Entertainment WWE he was asked to make appearances for their developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling OVW Doane made his first national television appearance in WWE at the age of 17 on the May 12 2003 episode of WWE Raw as Ken Phoenix Along with his brother Mike Phoenix he was a participant in Rodney Mack s ongoing 5 Minute White Boy Challenge where Mack defeated Caucasian wrestlers in under five minutes Mack defeated the pair in 1 31 forcing them both to submit to his new Blackout finishing hold 10 He made another appearance losing to Lance Storm on an episode of Sunday Night Heat before being officially signed to a developmental deal and to OVW full time on June 4 2004 4 On June 3 2005 Doane had his first match at the promotion against Kenzo Suzuki whom Doane defeated 4 Three weeks later on June 25 2005 he won the Television Championship from Deuce Shade 11 He had successful title defenses but Doane lost the title to CM Punk on November 9 2005 4 World Wrestling Entertainment WWE Edit The Spirit Squad 2006 Edit Main article Spirit Squad After losing the Television Championship Doane became a part of the Spirit Squad a faction using the in ring personas of male cheerleaders using the name Kenny 4 On the January 23 2006 episode of Raw the group helped Jonathan Coachman win a Royal Rumble qualifying match against Jerry The King Lawler by performing cheers for Coachman and distracting Lawler 12 They later became a part of the ongoing scripted feud between WWE chairman Vince McMahon and Shawn Michaels The villainous McMahon brought in the Squad to attack Michaels on numerous occasions including placing them in multiple handicap matches 13 14 Members of the Spirit Squad in the ring including Kenny on the right They also continued wrestling in the tag team division and on April 3 on Raw the Squad won the World Tag Team Championship when Kenny and Mikey with outside help from the other three Squad members defeated the team of Big Show and Kane 15 16 After winning the championship all five members of the team were recognized as the champions allowing any combination of them to defend the championship 2 Also Kenny became the second youngest wrestler to win a title in WWE at the age of 20 years and 18 days he was surpassed by Tyler Bate in 2017 17 Three weeks later McMahon scheduled another handicap match with the Spirit Squad facing Michaels 18 19 The match never started however instead the Spirit Squad brutally beat down Michaels ripping apart his ring attire and as part of the storyline shattered his knee with a chair 18 McMahon then called Triple H to the ring to attack Michaels with a sledgehammer however Kenny snatched the sledgehammer away from him disrespecting Triple H which led to him attacking the group 18 Triple H and Michaels revived their former team D Generation X DX and began a feud with the Spirit Squad 20 21 DX played various sophomoric pranks on the team and the McMahons Vince and his son Shane as well as defeating the Spirit Squad in handicap tag team matches at Vengeance and a clean sweep in an elimination handicap match at Saturday Night s Main Event XXXIII 21 22 23 24 At the same time as their feud with DX and their alignment with McMahon the team also wrestled other teams in Raw s tag division over the World Tag Team Championship The group successfully defended the tag team championship against the teams of Jim Duggan and Eugene Charlie Haas and Viscera and Snitsky and Val Venis 22 They then entered a lengthy feud with The Highlanders 25 26 whom they eventually defeated to retain the title at Unforgiven 27 The Spirit Squad as a whole later began a losing streak with separate members losing singles matches to Ric Flair on consecutive episodes of Raw 28 29 30 After two consecutive losses to the debuting Cryme Tyme Kenny attacked Mikey on the October 23 episode of Raw and announced that he was going to defeat Flair Kenny was successful despite Flair attempting to even the odds by bringing other WWE Legends Dusty Rhodes Sgt Slaughter and Rowdy Roddy Piper to the ring with him 31 32 It was then announced that Flair and a legend selected by interactive voting would wrestle the team for the World Tag Team Championship at the Cyber Sunday pay per view in early November 32 The fans chose Piper and he and Flair defeated Kenny and Mikey to win the championship 33 The group disbanded on the November 27 Raw after losing a five on three match against Flair and DX 34 Later that night DX placed all five members into a crate stamped OVW Louisville Kentucky a reference to the developmental territory from which the Squad had come 35 Singles competition 2006 2008 Edit After the breakup of the Spirit Squad he was repackaged as Kenny Dykstra an homage to baseball player Lenny Dykstra with new attire and entrance music 3 36 He became interested in joining the group Rated RKO which consisted of Edge and Randy Orton In order to join he was told to prove himself first 37 He continued the feud with Ric Flair managing to pick up three straight victories before finally losing to him on the January 15 2007 episode of Raw 4 Dykstra competed in the 2007 Royal Rumble match and got eliminated by Edge After his feud with Flair Dykstra became a mainstay on Raw s sister show Heat having feuds with both Eugene and Val Venis He then formed a tag team with Johnny Nitro 38 but the duo split when Dykstra was drafted to the SmackDown brand on June 17 2007 as part of the WWE Supplemental Draft 39 Dykstra made his debut on the July 6 episode of SmackDown in a losing effort to the re debuting Chuck Palumbo 40 On the July 20 episode of SmackDown Dykstra participated in a 20 man battle royal for the World Heavyweight Championship and was eliminated by Chris Masters later on that evening he lost to Matt Hardy in singles competition 41 Dykstra formed an on screen relationship with Victoria on the July 27 episode of SmackDown 42 The two teamed together in mixed tag team matches usually against Jimmy Wang Yang and Torrie Wilson or Chuck Palumbo and Michelle McCool 43 They also regularly accompanied each other to the ring for matches 44 45 After a leave of absence from television in the first half of 2008 Dykstra made his return on the August 15 episode of SmackDown losing to WWE Champion Triple H On November 10 2008 WWE announced Doane had been released from his contract 46 Return 2016 Edit In late 2016 Doane as Kenny and Mikey returned to WWE for a short storyline with Dolph Ziggler formerly Nicky in the Spirit Squad On October 4 on SmackDown they utilised their Spirit Squad characters to taunt Ziggler about his time in the Spirit Squad before attacking him at the behest of the Intercontinental Champion The Miz and Maryse 47 Five days later at the No Mercy pay per view he and Mikey tried to distract Ziggler in his career vs title match under Maryse s command but were unsuccessful in doing so 48 On the October 11 episode of SmackDown Kenny and Mikey faced Ziggler in a two on one handicap match Ziggler won but was then attacked by The Miz and saved by Rhyno and Heath Slater 49 Kenny and Mikey unsuccessfully challenged Slater and Rhyno for the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship on October 25 50 They appeared throughout November in tag team matches before disappearing off television Post WWE career 2009 2021 Edit Doane in 2010 In 2009 Doane began working for Dragon Gate USA under his real name 6 On December 3 2009 it was announced that Doane would be joining recently opened promotion Evolve as Kenn Doane 51 He debuted at the promotions first show on January 16 2010 in a loss to Jimmy Jacobs 52 On March 9 2010 Doane under his real name wrestled in a tryout dark match for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling losing to Homicide 4 On November 15 2011 Doane wrestled a dark match for WWE at the SmackDown tapings in Bridgeport Connecticut losing to Justin Gabriel 53 In September 2014 Doane took part in Chikara s 2014 King of Trios tournament using his Spirit Squad character and teaming with Johnny and Mikey 54 After a win over Sinn Bodhi and the Odditorium Qefka the Quiet and Sir Oliver Grimsly on September 19 the Spirit Squad was eliminated from the tournament in the second round on September 20 by the Golden Trio Dasher Hatfield Icarus and Mark Angelosetti 55 On November 12 2016 wrestling as The Spirit Squad Doane along with Mikey captured the NYWC Tag Team Championship from Hounds of Hatred Boo and Bam Sullivan at Firestorm 3 56 15 days later Spirit Squad lost the titles back to Hounds of Hatred 56 At Ring of Honor television tapings in April 2017 Kenny and Mikey unsuccessfully challenged The Young Bucks for the ROH World Tag Team Championship 57 On July 24 2019 it was announced that Squad members Dykstra and Mike Mondo were now signed to Major League Wrestling MLW They would go on to debut at that month s Never Say Never show 58 Kenny announced on April 20 2021 through Twitter that he was retired from in ring action Second return to WWE 2021 present Edit On October 6 2021 Doane was reportedly rehired by WWE to work as a trainer at the WWE Performance Center 59 Two months later he began working as a producer on Raw and SmackDown 60 As a role of a producer Doane is seen occasionally breaking up brawls between wrestlers such as restraining Kevin Owens who fought The Bloodline The Usos and Solo Sikoa on the January 16 2023 episode of Raw as he was among the officials separating those men 61 Other media EditDoane appeared on Seducing Cindy a Fox Reality series 62 that follows Cindy Margolis once the most downloaded woman on the Internet as she searches for a new love The program premiered on January 30 2010 63 Doane made it to the final five one episode away from the season finale but was eliminated In 2013 while rehabbing a knee injury Doane penned his first children s book entitled Billy s Bully The book was released in June 2013 64 Personal life EditDoane was born to Ken and Vickie Doane 5 in Southbridge Massachusetts His parents were supportive of his decision in becoming a professional wrestler 5 He has an older brother named Mike Doane attended Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School in Charlton Massachusetts 5 and Nichols College Dudley MA Doane was formerly engaged to fellow professional wrestler Mickie James 65 In 2012 Doane enrolled in Nichols College where he started playing football He plays as a tight end and linebacker 66 Doane performing his Sky High Leg Drop 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