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Nigel McGuinness

April 26, 2024

Steven Haworth (born 23 January 1976), better known by his ring name Nigel McGuinness, is an English professional wrestling commentator and retired professional wrestler. He is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) where he serves as a color commentator on Collision. He is best known for work with Ring of Honor, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Noah and WWE.

Nigel McGuinness
McGuinness in 2011
Birth nameSteven Haworth
Born (1976-01-23) 23 January 1976 (age 48)
London, England
Alma materUniversity of Leicester
Children1
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Desmond Wolfe[1]
Nigel McGuinness[1]
Vyvyan Edmondson[2]
Kane[3]
Billed height6 ft 3 in (191 cm)[4]
Billed weight235 lb (107 kg)[4]
Billed fromLondon, England[4]
Trained byChic Cullen[5]
Dave Taylor[5]
Les Thatcher[1]
Robbie Brookside[1]
DebutSeptember 1999[1]
RetiredDecember 2011

Haworth started his career in 1999 in the American independent circuit as Nigel McGuinness. He would begin to work with ROH in 2003. In 2005, he held the ROH Pure Championship for a record 350 days, eventually losing the title to Bryan Danielson in a unification match with Danielson's ROH World Championship. He won the World Championship in 2007 and held the title for 545 days. From October 2009 to June 2011, Haworth wrestled for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Desmond Wolfe. This was his last run as an in-ring performer, as he retired in 2011 due to medical complications. He returned to ROH in August 2011 as a colour commentator and on-screen authority figure, but left in December 2016 and signed with WWE shortly after, working as a commentator for NXT and NXT UK.

Early life edit

Steven Haworth[1] was born in London[6] on 23 January 1976.[7] He grew up in Staplehurst, Kent, where he attended Maidstone Grammar School.[6][8] He was a wrestling fan from the age of 12, particularly enjoying The Hart Foundation and The British Bulldogs, and attended SummerSlam in 1992 while wearing The Ultimate Warrior face paint.[6] He studied at the University of Leicester in the 1990s and spent a sandwich year at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, graduating in 1997 with a 2:1 degree in chemistry.[9]

Professional wrestling career edit

Heartland Wrestling Association (1998–2006) edit

In September 1998, Haworth began training under Les Thatcher in the Heartland Wrestling Association (HWA) in Cincinnati, Ohio, incurring large debts in the process. He debuted in September 1999 under the ring name "Nigel McGuinness", defeating GQ Masters III in a match that was featured on ABC's 20/20. He subsequently spent a year wrestling in the Midwestern United States. Haworth then returned to England, where he worked two full-time jobs to earn enough money to be able to return to the United States to wrestle and wrestled for All Star Wrestling promotions between September and December 2001, where he learned from wrestlers such as Robbie Brookside.

McGuinness developed a heel character which he described as "a punk rock soccer hooligan... Billy Idol meets Johnny Saint".[10]

On 10 July 2001, McGuinness defeated Dean Jablonski in a singles match with the HWA Tag Team Championship on the line (the co-holder of the title, Chet Jablonski, was indisposed), claiming the title for himself and his partner, The Human Time Bomb. McGuinness and The Bomb held the title until 7 August, when the Jablonski brothers regained the title. McGuinness and The Bomb would become champions for a second time on 23 July 2002, defeating the Jablonski brothers once more. They lost the title to Southern Breeze later that year.

In 2003, McGuinness introduced the HWA European Championship to HWA. He held the title until 30 September 2003, when he lost to Hoss. He regained the title on 4 November and promptly retired it.

McGuinness won the HWA Heavyweight Championship on 6 September 2003 in Batavia, Ohio, defeating Chad Collyer, He held the title until 3 January 2004, when he lost the title to Hoss. McGuinness defeated Hoss to begin a second reign with the title on 6 January, and held it until 17 March 2004, when he lost to El Temor.

Ring of Honor (2003-2009) edit

Pure Champion (2003–2006) edit

 
McGuinness as the ROH Pure Champion

McGuinness debuted in Ring of Honor (ROH) on 9 August 2003, defeating Chet Jablonski.[11] He wrestled for ROH throughout 2004, but had limited success. In March 2005, McGuinness and Colt Cabana teamed together to challenge for the ROH Tag Team Championship, but lost to the incumbents, Dan Maff and B. J. Whitmer.[1] Cabana and McGuinness then began fighting one another, with McGuinness defeating Cabana on 7 May 2005, with an accidental low blow for a shot at the ROH Pure Championship. He challenged the champion, Samoa Joe, on 12 June 2005, but was defeated.[1] He faced Joe once more on 27 August, and defeated him to win the Pure Championship.[12]

After becoming champion, McGuinness turned heel and for several months was engaged in a feud with Claudio Castagnoli, instigated by a non-title match on 14 October where Castagnoli was able to use his knowledge of McGuinness's European wrestling style to score a pinfall on the champion.[1] This led to a series of matches for the title, with McGuinness using underhanded tactics to avoid losing the championship belt.[1] On 25 March 2006, McGuinness defeated Castagnoli in a match billed as the latter's last chance to win the championship as long as McGuinness was champion.[1]

During his Pure Championship run, McGuinness regularly carried an iron (decorated with the Union Jack) to ringside. When asked, the typical story given was that a group of men once broke into his home to attack him, but he was able to defend himself with the iron. In reality, he began carrying the iron after a girlfriend's mother asked him why some wrestlers carried weapons to ringside, and then inquired as to whether anyone had ever carried an iron before.[13] He would often use the iron as a weapon to win his matches.

McGuinness also had a malapropistic gimmick in ROH of mispronouncing words. An example would be at Survival of the Fittest 2005 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, when he said the fans appreciated him as much as "their beloved Boston Red Stockings".

During the rest of 2006, McGuinness was mostly uninvolved in the war between ROH and Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), instead developing a new gimmick where he would win his matches by countout by using (often unfair) methods of preventing opponents from returning to the ring. McGuinness received a shot at the ROH World Championship against Bryan Danielson with his own Pure Championship on the line and contested under pure wrestling rules on 29 April. McGuinness again won by countout, by which only the Pure title could be won, but not Danielson's World title. The victory was enough to earn a rematch under regular rules on 29 July, in which Danielson narrowly managed to retain his title.[1] A month later in Liverpool, England, ROH arranged a unification match between the two titles and guaranteed there would be a winner, with both titles able to change hands due to countout or disqualification under pure wrestling rules.[14] McGuinness lost the match on 12 August and the Pure Championship was unified and retired.[12][15] McGuinness reign of 350 days is the longest in the two-year history of the Pure Championship. After the match, Danielson offered McGuinness one more shot at the unified ROH World Championship and on 25 August the two of them wrestled a two-out-of-three-falls match to a 60-minute time limit and as a result McGuinness could no longer challenge for the title as long as Danielson was the champion.[16] After the match, Danielson recognised McGuinness' efforts and gave him the now retired Pure Championship belt as a trophy.[16]

Feud with Jimmy Rave and Chris Hero (2006–2007) edit

After losing the Pure Championship, McGuinness, now a face, challenged for Pro Wrestling Noah's GHC Heavyweight Championship on 16 September 2006, at ROH's Glory by Honor V – Night 2, but was defeated by the defending champion Naomichi Marufuji.[1] The rest of the year saw McGuinness feuding with Jimmy Rave, who, using his new submission manoeuvre, the Heel Hook (a single leg Boston crab and twisting ankle lock combination), forced him to tap out on two separate occasions, first on 8 December 2006, at The Chicago Spectacular Night 1 and then on 23 December 2006, at Final Battle 2006.[1] Rave followed that up with another victory over McGuinness on 27 January 2007, this time in an "I Quit" match, which he won via referee stoppage.[1] In February, McGuinness began acting as a representative of NOAH and as a spokesperson and tag team partner of NOAH talent Takeshi Morishima, upon his arrival to the company.[17] On 4 March in Liverpool, McGuinness ended his feud with Jimmy Rave by defeating him with a Rebound Lariat, which in storyline resulted in Rave suffering a broken jaw and earned the move the new name of Jawbreaker Lariat, when in reality Rave had broken his jaw a month earlier.[18] McGuinness' next feud would be with Chris Hero, who had dubbed himself the best pure wrestler in the world. During this feud McGuinness also received two shots at the ROH World Championship, on 14 April and 16 July, but was both times defeated by champion Takeshi Morishima.[1] On 23 June, McGuinness defeated Hero in a 30-minute time limit match, but Hero came back on 10 August and defeated McGuinness with help from his agent Larry Sweeney and the Sweet 'n' Sour Inc. in a match contested under pure wrestling rules.[1]

ROH World Champion (2007–2009) edit

 
McGuinness as the ROH World Champion in October 2008

On 15 September 2007, at Man Up, ROH's third pay-per-view, McGuinness defeated Chris Hero, Claudio Castagnoli and Naomichi Marufuji in a four-way match to earn one more shot at Takeshi Morishima's ROH World Championship,[1] which McGuinness won at Undeniable on 6 October 2007.[1][19]

In late 2007, ROH confirmed that McGuinness had suffered a torn biceps and would be out of action until Final Battle 2007, however he would not be stripped of the ROH World Championship.[1] On 2 November, the first night of ROH's Glory by Honor VI event in Philadelphia, Chris Hero and his agent Larry Sweeney complained of McGuinness' injury, calling him a fluke champion. Sweeney felt that Hero's victory of the Survival of the Fittest in Las Vegas earned him a title shot any time he wanted. McGuinness, in street clothes, accepted the challenge. He successfully retained the title against Hero, despite first losing the match due to the referee failing to notice McGuinness' foot on the rope while Hero made him tap out to submission.[20]

On 29 December 2007, McGuinness returned to the ring full-time at ROH fifth pay-per-view, Rising Above. During his defence of the ROH World Championship against Austin Aries, however, McGuinness injured his head when Aries dove from the ring onto him, which resulted in him hitting his head on the metal guard rail. The impact gave McGuinness a concussion, broke his nose, opened his eyebrow, and required 14 stitches.[21]

On 25 January 2008, McGuinness wrapped up his feud with Chris Hero by successfully defending his title against him in a steel cage match.[1] In February at ROH's Sixth Anniversary Show, McGuinness turned heel during his successful title defence against Bryan Danielson by breaking an earlier agreement and targeting his head, injured earlier at the hands of Morishima.[22] Throughout the rest of the year, McGuinness successfully defended his title against the likes of Tyler Black, Austin Aries, Kevin Steen, Claudio Castagnoli, Go Shiozaki, Jerry Lynn, Roderick Strong, El Generico and on 22 November 2008, at Rising Above, in a grudge match against Bryan Danielson.[1]

On 20 March 2009, McGuinness sustained an arm injury competing in a tag team match.[1] However, despite the injury reportedly requiring surgery, he still wrestled at the Seventh Anniversary Show the next night and defeated KENTA to retain his title.[1][23][24] Finally, on 3 April 2009 at Supercard of Honor IV, McGuinness lost the ROH World Championship to Jerry Lynn at his 39th defence, ending his reign at 545 days.[19][25][26]

Injuries and departure (2009) edit

After a hiatus to recover from the injury, McGuinness returned to wrestling a few months later. On 24 July, McGuinness suffered a minor injury during a four-way match after his "spine got compacted taking a piledriver", and was unable to wrestle the following night.[citation needed] On 4 September, ROH announced that McGuinness had "in principle" agreed to a contract with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), but confirmed that he would continue to wrestle for ROH until the end of September.[27][28] McGuinness wrestled his last ROH match on 26 September at Glory by Honor VIII: The Final Countdown, losing to Bryan Danielson, who was also making his final appearance for the company.[29]

Independent circuit (2004–2009) edit

 
McGuinness at a 2CW show in April 2009

While still in ROH, McGuinness continued to compete in various other independent promotions like IWA Mid-South, New Era Pro Wrestling, Italian Championship Wrestling, and American All-Star Wrestling, as well as tours in various countries.

McGuinness would also make appearances for some major promotions. On 11 August 2004, McGuinness appeared in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), debuting in a 22-man Gauntlet for the Gold for the TNA X Division Championship, which was won by Petey Williams.[30] On 31 August 2005, McGuinness competed in Ohio Valley Wrestling, WWE's developmental territory, on episode of its OVW TV, losing to Elijah Burke.[1] He would go on to wrestle Danny Basham on 11 September 2005, episode of Sunday Night Heat, taped prior to Raw on 5 September, losing after Basham hit an inverted DDT.[1]

On 13 November 2005, McGuinness returned to TNA at the pre-show prior to the Genesis pay-per-view in a losing effort to Shark Boy, before leaving America to tour Japan with NOAH in November and December 2005.[1] He wrestled nine matches in total, seven of which he won, and teamed with fellow gaijin Doug Williams, 2 Cold Scorpio and Bison Smith.[1] During his tour of Japan, McGuinness was supposed to compete in TNA's 2006 World X Cup Tournament, but Team UK was replaced by Team Canada, after McGuinness and Williams could not appear because both were booked in Japan.

In 2007, McGuinness represented ROH in the King of Europe Cup. He made his way through to the final and, in his home country, defeated fellow Brit and tag-team partner Doug Williams to win the 2007 tournament final.[31]

On 14 October 2007, McGuiness wrestled James Tighe in the first round of the British National Championship held by International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom (IPW:UK), however McGuiness was disqualified for the use of brass knuckles and eliminated from the tournament.

McGuinness won the 1PW Openweight Championship, his first title in a British promotion, on 19 April 2009, by defeating Johnny Moss.[32]

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2009–2011) edit

Main article: Fortune (professional wrestling)
 
Wolfe in a match with Kurt Angle

On 4 September 2009, ROH announced that Haworth had agreed to a contract with the WWE "in principle".[27] On 20 October 2009, it was reported that Haworth's deal with the WWE had fallen through due to him failing a pre-screening physical test after feeling an old biceps injury needed surgery[33][34] and that he had decided to sign with TNA instead.[35] He officially made his TNA return as a heel under the ring name Desmond Wolfe on 22 October episode of Impact! by attacking Kurt Angle.[36] The following week, Wolfe defeated Angle in a street fight via referee stoppage, following a lariat.[37] On 12 November, Wolfe won a third exchange with Angle as he laid him out with a DDT.[38] At Turning Point, Angle defeated Wolfe via submission.[39] The following month at Final Resolution, Wolfe faced Angle in a "Three Degrees of Pain" two-out-of-three-falls match. Wolfe managed to gain the first fall by pinning Angle following the Tower of London, but tapped out to the ankle lock in the second fall to make it even. In the final fall, which could only be won by escaping the cage, Angle managed to escape first and won the match and the feud.[40]

 
Fourtune hopefuls: (from left to right) Wolfe, Robert Roode, A.J. Styles, and James Storm.

Following the loss to Angle, Wolfe moved on to feuding with D'Angelo Dinero, who defeated him on 4 January 2010, three-hour, Monday night episode of Impact!.[41] At Genesis, Wolfe debuted a new valet, who was later named Chelsea, and defeated Dinero in a rematch.[42][43] At Against All Odds, Wolfe entered the 8 Card Stud Tournament to crown a new number one contender to the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, but was defeated in the first round by the eventual winner of the whole tournament, Dinero.[44] On 25 February episode of Impact!, Wolfe aligned himself with Ric Flair and then TNA World Heavyweight Champion A.J. Styles in their battle with Hulk Hogan, Abyss and D'Angelo Dinero.[45] On 4 March episode of Impact!, Wolfe received his first shot at the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, held by Styles, in a four-way match, which also included Dinero and Abyss, but Styles was able to retain his title by defeating Dinero via referee stoppage.[46] The following week on Impact!, Wolfe and Dinero were scheduled to once again face each other, but the match was cancelled after Wolfe attacked Dinero during an interview and re-injured his ankle.[47] Wolfe and Dinero finally had their fourth singles match together on 29 March episode of Impact!, and this time Wolfe was able to pin the number one contender after hitting him with a chain, while Chelsea was distracting the referee,[48] but on the following episode of Impact! Dinero defeated Wolfe in a rematch in just two minutes.[49] At Lockdown, along with Sting, Robert Roode and James Storm, Wolfe represented Team Flair in the annual Lethal Lockdown match, where they were defeated by Team Hogan (Abyss, Jeff Jarrett, Rob Van Dam and Jeff Hardy), when Abyss pinned Wolfe.[50] On 26 April, TNA introduced a new "Championship Ranking" system, where fans were allowed to vote on the number one contender to the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.[51] Surprisingly, Wolfe led the first poll from start to finish, ahead of the likes of Jeff Hardy, Mr. Anderson, Sting, A.J. Styles, Kurt Angle, D'Angelo Dinero and Abyss, and on 3 May episode of Impact! was granted a shot at the title, held by Rob Van Dam.[52][53] However, Wolfe was defeated in the title match.[53] At Sacrifice, Wolfe was defeated by Abyss, who as a result won Chelsea's services for 30 days.[54] On the following episode of Impact!, Chelsea started showing sympathy towards Abyss, when he was being brutalised by Wolfe.[55] The following month at Slammiversary VIII, Wolfe was defeated by Abyss in a Monster's Ball match, when Chelsea turned on him and helped Abyss pick up the victory.[56] On the following episode of Impact!, Ric Flair, who had aligned himself with Wolfe, Styles, Roode, Storm and Kazarian, announced that he would reform The Four Horsemen under the new name Fourtune, stating that each of them would have to earn their spots in the group and that in order for Wolfe to earn his spot, he needed to become the Lex Luger of the group.[57][58] Later in the night, Chelsea reluctantly returned to Wolfe after her 30 days with Abyss were up. Wolfe gave her a chance to redeem herself, but her behaviour outside the ring provided a distraction, which cost Wolfe his match against Flair's nemesis Jay Lethal.[58] After a series of losses, Wolfe attempted to get back in good graces with Flair by helping Styles and Kazarian defeat Samoa Joe and Rob Terry at Victory Road to earn their spots in Fourtune, only to get a muscle buster from Joe after the match.[59] On the following episode of Impact!, Wolfe confronted Flair when he inducted Styles and Kazarian into Fourtune, demanding to be included in the stable.[60] Two weeks later on Impact!, Flair revealed Robert Roode and James Storm as the final two members of Fourtune, leaving Wolfe out of the stable.[61]

 
Wolfe, Chelsea and Magnus posing in the ring in July 2010

After failing to make it into Fourtune, Wolfe went on to form a tag team with fellow Briton Magnus and together the two not only ended Wolfe's losing streak, but also started a winning streak, defeating teams like Amazing Red and Suicide, Hernandez and Rob Terry and Ink Inc. (Jesse Neal and Shannon Moore) on episodes of Xplosion, and in the process earned themselves the right to challenge for the TNA World Tag Team Championship.[62][63][64] On 26 August episode of Impact!, the team was named London Brawling.[65] They were scheduled to receive their shot at The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) and the TNA World Tag Team Championship at No Surrender, but were at the last minute pulled from the event, with TNA citing a "personal issue" as the reason.[66] It was later reported that Wolfe was pulled from the event due to an undisclosed medical situation that would sideline him for the next few months.[67] On a December 2014 podcast, McGuinness revealed that at this time, he tested positive for Hepatitis B.[68]

On-screen his absence was explained by Magnus, who claimed that in an attempt to become a dual athlete, Wolfe had travelled to London to try out for Chelsea F.C.[69] On 21 November 2010, TNA president Dixie Carter announced that Wolfe was close to a comeback.[70] On 16 December episode of Impact!, Magnus met his former tag team partner Doug Williams and informed him that Wolfe was now done with football and would be coming back soon, while also telling him that they had gotten rid of Chelsea.[71] Wolfe finally made his return in a non-televised segment on 10 December 2010, at the tapings of the 6 January 2011, episode of Impact!, when he and Magnus saved Williams from Fortune members A.J. Styles and Rob Terry.[72][73]

On 16 May 2011, Wolfe made his return to TNA, when he was announced as the new commissioner of Xplosion, turning face in the process.[74] During his time as the commissioner, Wolfe also served as the third member of the Xplosion announcing team, working beside Jeremy Borash and Taz.[75][76] However, on 17 June it was reported that Wolfe had been released from his TNA contract.[77][78]

Independent circuit and retirement (2011) edit

After a fourteen-month break from in-ring competition, it was announced on 24 October that McGuinness would be making his return to the ring on 11 November at a Squared Circle Wrestling (2CW) event in Watertown, New York, starting a two-month-long string of shows billed as the "Nigel McGuinness Retirement Tour".[79] In his return match, McGuinness faced Eddie Edwards in a losing effort.[80] McGuinness decided to retire since WWE didn't sign him, he didn't want to return to TNA and he couldn't continue to use the wrestling style he used in ROH.[81] The following day, McGuinness was defeated by Chad Collyer at a HWA event in Hamilton, Ohio.[82] A week later Haworth, performing as Desmond Wolfe, was defeated by Jebediah at a Main Event Championship Wrestling event in Alliance, Ohio.[83] On 25 November, McGuinness returned to the United Kingdom, when he was defeated by Eddie Edwards in a Fight Club: Pro Championship three-way match in Wolverhampton, which also included Trent Seven.[84] The following day, McGuinness was defeated by Jon Ryan at a Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw) event in Oberhausen, Germany, before returning to lose to Joel Redman at an International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom (IPW:UK) event in Sittingbourne on 27 November.[85][86] After two more weekends of shows in the United Kingdom, McGuinness returned to the United States for his final match, which took place at an American Pro Wrestling Alliance (APWA) event in Clarksburg, West Virginia on 17 December 2011. When Jimmy Jacobs couldn’t make it due to bad weather, promoter Don West inserted McGuinness into the match; he would initially lose this match, but the decision was reversed due to a handful of tights, causing him to win (and retire with) the championship. He would then become the APWA Commissioner/Associate Booker before signing an exclusive deal with Ring of Honor. He would compete in his final matches at APWA's 3rd Annual Holiday Grand Prix, which was a two-night show in Clarksburg, WV.[87][88]

Return to ROH (2011–2016) edit

 
McGuinness (right) with his Ring of Honor Wrestling broadcast partner Kevin Kelly in August 2011

On 13 August 2011, Haworth, returning to his Nigel McGuinness ring name, returned to ROH at the promotion's first Ring of Honor Wrestling tapings under the Sinclair Broadcast Group banner, working as the colour commentator beside Kevin Kelly.[89] The tapings concluded with McGuinness saving Eddie Edwards from the House of Truth.[90] At the 3 November 2012, tapings of Ring of Honor Wrestling, McGuinness was named the new "Matchmaker" of Ring of Honor, replacing Jim Cornette as the main on-screen authority figure.[91][92] In December 2012, McGuinness released a documentary titled The Last of McGuinness on his final days as an in-ring performer, during which he revealed that WWE had rescinded his contract after feeling an old biceps injury needed surgery, while his in-ring career in TNA ended after contracting hepatitis B during his time there.[33][93][94][95] In late May 2013, McGuinness toured the United Kingdom with the shorter final cut of his documentary and has become an advocate for hepatitis B vaccination and an end to the use of intentional blood loss in wrestling. In 2014, following the success of his documentary, McGuinness began working in the film industry as an Assistant Editor and Production Assistant on various television shows and in December of that year launched a Kickstart campaign for his new creative project, L.A. Fights, described as a scripted show about "a diverse group of amateur fighters and their morally ambivalent promoter struggle to coexist in their upstart fight league".[96] In December 2016, ROH announced McGuinness had resigned as the promotion's matchmaker.[97]

WWE (2016–2022) edit

After being recommended by WWE lead commentator Michael Cole, on 15 December 2016, WWE announced that McGuinness had signed with the company as a commentator. McGuinness made his commentary debut at the WWE United Kingdom Championship Tournament on 14 and 15 January 2017, alongside Michael Cole.[98][99] McGuinness became a colour commentator for NXT on 8 February episode, establishing himself as a "heel sympathizer". On 4 September, McGuinness joined the 205 Live and Main Event commentary teams. In 2019 WWE released a documentary on McGuinness' career entitled Chasing the Magic: The Nigel McGuinness Story on the WWE Network, that covered his full career from his early childhood fandom of wrestling to his success as a commentator for the company.[100] On 28 May it was reported McGuinness had been furloughed during April as part of budget cuts stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.[101] He returned on the 17 September episode of NXT UK alongside Andy Shepherd and the following night on 205 Live alongside Vic Joseph. McGuinness was released from WWE on October 22, 2022, ending his six year tenure with the company.[102]

All Elite Wrestling / Second return to ROH (2023–present) edit

At Supercard of Honor, McGuinness made his surprise return to ROH for the first time since 2016, as a commentator. McGuinness also went on to commentate on Ring of Honor Wrestling from April to June 2023.

On 5 April 2023, AEW and ROH President and CEO Tony Khan announced that McGuinness signed a contract with ROH's sister company All Elite Wrestling (AEW).[103] On 16 June, it was announced that McGuinness would be part of the AEW Collision commentary team alongside Kevin Kelly and Jim Ross,[104] as well as Tony Schiavone who became full-time commentary on 14 October.[105] When Kelly departed AEW on 8 March 2024, it has reduced the commentary team to Schiavone and McGuinness.[106]

Personal life edit

In 2017 he announced that he was expecting his first child.[107]

His in-ring run ended when he tested positive for Hepatitis B.[108][109]

He put on a one-man show that is partly spoken word and part magic exhibition.[110][111]

Championships and accomplishments edit

References edit

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  • Interview at Twnpnews.com
  • Solie's title histories
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nigel, mcguinness, steven, haworth, born, january, 1976, better, known, ring, name, english, professional, wrestling, commentator, retired, professional, wrestler, currently, signed, elite, wrestling, where, serves, color, commentator, collision, best, known, . Steven Haworth born 23 January 1976 better known by his ring name Nigel McGuinness is an English professional wrestling commentator and retired professional wrestler He is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling AEW where he serves as a color commentator on Collision He is best known for work with Ring of Honor Total Nonstop Action Wrestling Pro Wrestling Noah and WWE Nigel McGuinnessMcGuinness in 2011Birth nameSteven HaworthBorn 1976 01 23 23 January 1976 age 48 London EnglandAlma materUniversity of LeicesterChildren1Professional wrestling careerRing name s Desmond Wolfe 1 Nigel McGuinness 1 Vyvyan Edmondson 2 Kane 3 Billed height6 ft 3 in 191 cm 4 Billed weight235 lb 107 kg 4 Billed fromLondon England 4 Trained byChic Cullen 5 Dave Taylor 5 Les Thatcher 1 Robbie Brookside 1 DebutSeptember 1999 1 RetiredDecember 2011 Haworth started his career in 1999 in the American independent circuit as Nigel McGuinness He would begin to work with ROH in 2003 In 2005 he held the ROH Pure Championship for a record 350 days eventually losing the title to Bryan Danielson in a unification match with Danielson s ROH World Championship He won the World Championship in 2007 and held the title for 545 days From October 2009 to June 2011 Haworth wrestled for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Desmond Wolfe This was his last run as an in ring performer as he retired in 2011 due to medical complications He returned to ROH in August 2011 as a colour commentator and on screen authority figure but left in December 2016 and signed with WWE shortly after working as a commentator for NXT and NXT UK Contents 1 Early life 2 Professional wrestling career 2 1 Heartland Wrestling Association 1998 2006 2 2 Ring of Honor 2003 2009 2 2 1 Pure Champion 2003 2006 2 2 2 Feud with Jimmy Rave and Chris Hero 2006 2007 2 2 3 ROH World Champion 2007 2009 2 2 4 Injuries and departure 2009 2 3 Independent circuit 2004 2009 2 4 Total Nonstop Action Wrestling 2009 2011 2 5 Independent circuit and retirement 2011 2 6 Return to ROH 2011 2016 2 7 WWE 2016 2022 2 8 All Elite Wrestling Second return to ROH 2023 present 3 Personal life 4 Championships and accomplishments 5 References 6 External linksEarly life editSteven Haworth 1 was born in London 6 on 23 January 1976 7 He grew up in Staplehurst Kent where he attended Maidstone Grammar School 6 8 He was a wrestling fan from the age of 12 particularly enjoying The Hart Foundation and The British Bulldogs and attended SummerSlam in 1992 while wearing The Ultimate Warrior face paint 6 He studied at the University of Leicester in the 1990s and spent a sandwich year at Kent State University in Kent Ohio graduating in 1997 with a 2 1 degree in chemistry 9 Professional wrestling career editHeartland Wrestling Association 1998 2006 edit In September 1998 Haworth began training under Les Thatcher in the Heartland Wrestling Association HWA in Cincinnati Ohio incurring large debts in the process He debuted in September 1999 under the ring name Nigel McGuinness defeating GQ Masters III in a match that was featured on ABC s 20 20 He subsequently spent a year wrestling in the Midwestern United States Haworth then returned to England where he worked two full time jobs to earn enough money to be able to return to the United States to wrestle and wrestled for All Star Wrestling promotions between September and December 2001 where he learned from wrestlers such as Robbie Brookside McGuinness developed a heel character which he described as a punk rock soccer hooligan Billy Idol meets Johnny Saint 10 On 10 July 2001 McGuinness defeated Dean Jablonski in a singles match with the HWA Tag Team Championship on the line the co holder of the title Chet Jablonski was indisposed claiming the title for himself and his partner The Human Time Bomb McGuinness and The Bomb held the title until 7 August when the Jablonski brothers regained the title McGuinness and The Bomb would become champions for a second time on 23 July 2002 defeating the Jablonski brothers once more They lost the title to Southern Breeze later that year In 2003 McGuinness introduced the HWA European Championship to HWA He held the title until 30 September 2003 when he lost to Hoss He regained the title on 4 November and promptly retired it McGuinness won the HWA Heavyweight Championship on 6 September 2003 in Batavia Ohio defeating Chad Collyer He held the title until 3 January 2004 when he lost the title to Hoss McGuinness defeated Hoss to begin a second reign with the title on 6 January and held it until 17 March 2004 when he lost to El Temor Ring of Honor 2003 2009 edit Pure Champion 2003 2006 edit nbsp McGuinness as the ROH Pure Champion McGuinness debuted in Ring of Honor ROH on 9 August 2003 defeating Chet Jablonski 11 He wrestled for ROH throughout 2004 but had limited success In March 2005 McGuinness and Colt Cabana teamed together to challenge for the ROH Tag Team Championship but lost to the incumbents Dan Maff and B J Whitmer 1 Cabana and McGuinness then began fighting one another with McGuinness defeating Cabana on 7 May 2005 with an accidental low blow for a shot at the ROH Pure Championship He challenged the champion Samoa Joe on 12 June 2005 but was defeated 1 He faced Joe once more on 27 August and defeated him to win the Pure Championship 12 After becoming champion McGuinness turned heel and for several months was engaged in a feud with Claudio Castagnoli instigated by a non title match on 14 October where Castagnoli was able to use his knowledge of McGuinness s European wrestling style to score a pinfall on the champion 1 This led to a series of matches for the title with McGuinness using underhanded tactics to avoid losing the championship belt 1 On 25 March 2006 McGuinness defeated Castagnoli in a match billed as the latter s last chance to win the championship as long as McGuinness was champion 1 During his Pure Championship run McGuinness regularly carried an iron decorated with the Union Jack to ringside When asked the typical story given was that a group of men once broke into his home to attack him but he was able to defend himself with the iron In reality he began carrying the iron after a girlfriend s mother asked him why some wrestlers carried weapons to ringside and then inquired as to whether anyone had ever carried an iron before 13 He would often use the iron as a weapon to win his matches McGuinness also had a malapropistic gimmick in ROH of mispronouncing words An example would be at Survival of the Fittest 2005 in Dorchester Massachusetts when he said the fans appreciated him as much as their beloved Boston Red Stockings During the rest of 2006 McGuinness was mostly uninvolved in the war between ROH and Combat Zone Wrestling CZW instead developing a new gimmick where he would win his matches by countout by using often unfair methods of preventing opponents from returning to the ring McGuinness received a shot at the ROH World Championship against Bryan Danielson with his own Pure Championship on the line and contested under pure wrestling rules on 29 April McGuinness again won by countout by which only the Pure title could be won but not Danielson s World title The victory was enough to earn a rematch under regular rules on 29 July in which Danielson narrowly managed to retain his title 1 A month later in Liverpool England ROH arranged a unification match between the two titles and guaranteed there would be a winner with both titles able to change hands due to countout or disqualification under pure wrestling rules 14 McGuinness lost the match on 12 August and the Pure Championship was unified and retired 12 15 McGuinness reign of 350 days is the longest in the two year history of the Pure Championship After the match Danielson offered McGuinness one more shot at the unified ROH World Championship and on 25 August the two of them wrestled a two out of three falls match to a 60 minute time limit and as a result McGuinness could no longer challenge for the title as long as Danielson was the champion 16 After the match Danielson recognised McGuinness efforts and gave him the now retired Pure Championship belt as a trophy 16 Feud with Jimmy Rave and Chris Hero 2006 2007 edit After losing the Pure Championship McGuinness now a face challenged for Pro Wrestling Noah s GHC Heavyweight Championship on 16 September 2006 at ROH s Glory by Honor V Night 2 but was defeated by the defending champion Naomichi Marufuji 1 The rest of the year saw McGuinness feuding with Jimmy Rave who using his new submission manoeuvre the Heel Hook a single leg Boston crab and twisting ankle lock combination forced him to tap out on two separate occasions first on 8 December 2006 at The Chicago Spectacular Night 1 and then on 23 December 2006 at Final Battle 2006 1 Rave followed that up with another victory over McGuinness on 27 January 2007 this time in an I Quit match which he won via referee stoppage 1 In February McGuinness began acting as a representative of NOAH and as a spokesperson and tag team partner of NOAH talent Takeshi Morishima upon his arrival to the company 17 On 4 March in Liverpool McGuinness ended his feud with Jimmy Rave by defeating him with a Rebound Lariat which in storyline resulted in Rave suffering a broken jaw and earned the move the new name of Jawbreaker Lariat when in reality Rave had broken his jaw a month earlier 18 McGuinness next feud would be with Chris Hero who had dubbed himself the best pure wrestler in the world During this feud McGuinness also received two shots at the ROH World Championship on 14 April and 16 July but was both times defeated by champion Takeshi Morishima 1 On 23 June McGuinness defeated Hero in a 30 minute time limit match but Hero came back on 10 August and defeated McGuinness with help from his agent Larry Sweeney and the Sweet n Sour Inc in a match contested under pure wrestling rules 1 ROH World Champion 2007 2009 edit nbsp McGuinness as the ROH World Champion in October 2008 On 15 September 2007 at Man Up ROH s third pay per view McGuinness defeated Chris Hero Claudio Castagnoli and Naomichi Marufuji in a four way match to earn one more shot at Takeshi Morishima s ROH World Championship 1 which McGuinness won at Undeniable on 6 October 2007 1 19 In late 2007 ROH confirmed that McGuinness had suffered a torn biceps and would be out of action until Final Battle 2007 however he would not be stripped of the ROH World Championship 1 On 2 November the first night of ROH s Glory by Honor VI event in Philadelphia Chris Hero and his agent Larry Sweeney complained of McGuinness injury calling him a fluke champion Sweeney felt that Hero s victory of the Survival of the Fittest in Las Vegas earned him a title shot any time he wanted McGuinness in street clothes accepted the challenge He successfully retained the title against Hero despite first losing the match due to the referee failing to notice McGuinness foot on the rope while Hero made him tap out to submission 20 On 29 December 2007 McGuinness returned to the ring full time at ROH fifth pay per view Rising Above During his defence of the ROH World Championship against Austin Aries however McGuinness injured his head when Aries dove from the ring onto him which resulted in him hitting his head on the metal guard rail The impact gave McGuinness a concussion broke his nose opened his eyebrow and required 14 stitches 21 On 25 January 2008 McGuinness wrapped up his feud with Chris Hero by successfully defending his title against him in a steel cage match 1 In February at ROH s Sixth Anniversary Show McGuinness turned heel during his successful title defence against Bryan Danielson by breaking an earlier agreement and targeting his head injured earlier at the hands of Morishima 22 Throughout the rest of the year McGuinness successfully defended his title against the likes of Tyler Black Austin Aries Kevin Steen Claudio Castagnoli Go Shiozaki Jerry Lynn Roderick Strong El Generico and on 22 November 2008 at Rising Above in a grudge match against Bryan Danielson 1 On 20 March 2009 McGuinness sustained an arm injury competing in a tag team match 1 However despite the injury reportedly requiring surgery he still wrestled at the Seventh Anniversary Show the next night and defeated KENTA to retain his title 1 23 24 Finally on 3 April 2009 at Supercard of Honor IV McGuinness lost the ROH World Championship to Jerry Lynn at his 39th defence ending his reign at 545 days 19 25 26 Injuries and departure 2009 edit After a hiatus to recover from the injury McGuinness returned to wrestling a few months later On 24 July McGuinness suffered a minor injury during a four way match after his spine got compacted taking a piledriver and was unable to wrestle the following night citation needed On 4 September ROH announced that McGuinness had in principle agreed to a contract with World Wrestling Entertainment WWE but confirmed that he would continue to wrestle for ROH until the end of September 27 28 McGuinness wrestled his last ROH match on 26 September at Glory by Honor VIII The Final Countdown losing to Bryan Danielson who was also making his final appearance for the company 29 Independent circuit 2004 2009 edit nbsp McGuinness at a 2CW show in April 2009 While still in ROH McGuinness continued to compete in various other independent promotions like IWA Mid South New Era Pro Wrestling Italian Championship Wrestling and American All Star Wrestling as well as tours in various countries McGuinness would also make appearances for some major promotions On 11 August 2004 McGuinness appeared in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling TNA debuting in a 22 man Gauntlet for the Gold for the TNA X Division Championship which was won by Petey Williams 30 On 31 August 2005 McGuinness competed in Ohio Valley Wrestling WWE s developmental territory on episode of its OVW TV losing to Elijah Burke 1 He would go on to wrestle Danny Basham on 11 September 2005 episode of Sunday Night Heat taped prior to Raw on 5 September losing after Basham hit an inverted DDT 1 On 13 November 2005 McGuinness returned to TNA at the pre show prior to the Genesis pay per view in a losing effort to Shark Boy before leaving America to tour Japan with NOAH in November and December 2005 1 He wrestled nine matches in total seven of which he won and teamed with fellow gaijin Doug Williams 2 Cold Scorpio and Bison Smith 1 During his tour of Japan McGuinness was supposed to compete in TNA s 2006 World X Cup Tournament but Team UK was replaced by Team Canada after McGuinness and Williams could not appear because both were booked in Japan In 2007 McGuinness represented ROH in the King of Europe Cup He made his way through to the final and in his home country defeated fellow Brit and tag team partner Doug Williams to win the 2007 tournament final 31 On 14 October 2007 McGuiness wrestled James Tighe in the first round of the British National Championship held by International Pro Wrestling United Kingdom IPW UK however McGuiness was disqualified for the use of brass knuckles and eliminated from the tournament McGuinness won the 1PW Openweight Championship his first title in a British promotion on 19 April 2009 by defeating Johnny Moss 32 Total Nonstop Action Wrestling 2009 2011 edit Main article Fortune professional wrestling nbsp Wolfe in a match with Kurt Angle On 4 September 2009 ROH announced that Haworth had agreed to a contract with the WWE in principle 27 On 20 October 2009 it was reported that Haworth s deal with the WWE had fallen through due to him failing a pre screening physical test after feeling an old biceps injury needed surgery 33 34 and that he had decided to sign with TNA instead 35 He officially made his TNA return as a heel under the ring name Desmond Wolfe on 22 October episode of Impact by attacking Kurt Angle 36 The following week Wolfe defeated Angle in a street fight via referee stoppage following a lariat 37 On 12 November Wolfe won a third exchange with Angle as he laid him out with a DDT 38 At Turning Point Angle defeated Wolfe via submission 39 The following month at Final Resolution Wolfe faced Angle in a Three Degrees of Pain two out of three falls match Wolfe managed to gain the first fall by pinning Angle following the Tower of London but tapped out to the ankle lock in the second fall to make it even In the final fall which could only be won by escaping the cage Angle managed to escape first and won the match and the feud 40 nbsp Fourtune hopefuls from left to right Wolfe Robert Roode A J Styles and James Storm Following the loss to Angle Wolfe moved on to feuding with D Angelo Dinero who defeated him on 4 January 2010 three hour Monday night episode of Impact 41 At Genesis Wolfe debuted a new valet who was later named Chelsea and defeated Dinero in a rematch 42 43 At Against All Odds Wolfe entered the 8 Card Stud Tournament to crown a new number one contender to the TNA World Heavyweight Championship but was defeated in the first round by the eventual winner of the whole tournament Dinero 44 On 25 February episode of Impact Wolfe aligned himself with Ric Flair and then TNA World Heavyweight Champion A J Styles in their battle with Hulk Hogan Abyss and D Angelo Dinero 45 On 4 March episode of Impact Wolfe received his first shot at the TNA World Heavyweight Championship held by Styles in a four way match which also included Dinero and Abyss but Styles was able to retain his title by defeating Dinero via referee stoppage 46 The following week on Impact Wolfe and Dinero were scheduled to once again face each other but the match was cancelled after Wolfe attacked Dinero during an interview and re injured his ankle 47 Wolfe and Dinero finally had their fourth singles match together on 29 March episode of Impact and this time Wolfe was able to pin the number one contender after hitting him with a chain while Chelsea was distracting the referee 48 but on the following episode of Impact Dinero defeated Wolfe in a rematch in just two minutes 49 At Lockdown along with Sting Robert Roode and James Storm Wolfe represented Team Flair in the annual Lethal Lockdown match where they were defeated by Team Hogan Abyss Jeff Jarrett Rob Van Dam and Jeff Hardy when Abyss pinned Wolfe 50 On 26 April TNA introduced a new Championship Ranking system where fans were allowed to vote on the number one contender to the TNA World Heavyweight Championship 51 Surprisingly Wolfe led the first poll from start to finish ahead of the likes of Jeff Hardy Mr Anderson Sting A J Styles Kurt Angle D Angelo Dinero and Abyss and on 3 May episode of Impact was granted a shot at the title held by Rob Van Dam 52 53 However Wolfe was defeated in the title match 53 At Sacrifice Wolfe was defeated by Abyss who as a result won Chelsea s services for 30 days 54 On the following episode of Impact Chelsea started showing sympathy towards Abyss when he was being brutalised by Wolfe 55 The following month at Slammiversary VIII Wolfe was defeated by Abyss in a Monster s Ball match when Chelsea turned on him and helped Abyss pick up the victory 56 On the following episode of Impact Ric Flair who had aligned himself with Wolfe Styles Roode Storm and Kazarian announced that he would reform The Four Horsemen under the new name Fourtune stating that each of them would have to earn their spots in the group and that in order for Wolfe to earn his spot he needed to become the Lex Luger of the group 57 58 Later in the night Chelsea reluctantly returned to Wolfe after her 30 days with Abyss were up Wolfe gave her a chance to redeem herself but her behaviour outside the ring provided a distraction which cost Wolfe his match against Flair s nemesis Jay Lethal 58 After a series of losses Wolfe attempted to get back in good graces with Flair by helping Styles and Kazarian defeat Samoa Joe and Rob Terry at Victory Road to earn their spots in Fourtune only to get a muscle buster from Joe after the match 59 On the following episode of Impact Wolfe confronted Flair when he inducted Styles and Kazarian into Fourtune demanding to be included in the stable 60 Two weeks later on Impact Flair revealed Robert Roode and James Storm as the final two members of Fourtune leaving Wolfe out of the stable 61 nbsp Wolfe Chelsea and Magnus posing in the ring in July 2010 After failing to make it into Fourtune Wolfe went on to form a tag team with fellow Briton Magnus and together the two not only ended Wolfe s losing streak but also started a winning streak defeating teams like Amazing Red and Suicide Hernandez and Rob Terry and Ink Inc Jesse Neal and Shannon Moore on episodes of Xplosion and in the process earned themselves the right to challenge for the TNA World Tag Team Championship 62 63 64 On 26 August episode of Impact the team was named London Brawling 65 They were scheduled to receive their shot at The Motor City Machine Guns Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin and the TNA World Tag Team Championship at No Surrender but were at the last minute pulled from the event with TNA citing a personal issue as the reason 66 It was later reported that Wolfe was pulled from the event due to an undisclosed medical situation that would sideline him for the next few months 67 On a December 2014 podcast McGuinness revealed that at this time he tested positive for Hepatitis B 68 On screen his absence was explained by Magnus who claimed that in an attempt to become a dual athlete Wolfe had travelled to London to try out for Chelsea F C 69 On 21 November 2010 TNA president Dixie Carter announced that Wolfe was close to a comeback 70 On 16 December episode of Impact Magnus met his former tag team partner Doug Williams and informed him that Wolfe was now done with football and would be coming back soon while also telling him that they had gotten rid of Chelsea 71 Wolfe finally made his return in a non televised segment on 10 December 2010 at the tapings of the 6 January 2011 episode of Impact when he and Magnus saved Williams from Fortune members A J Styles and Rob Terry 72 73 On 16 May 2011 Wolfe made his return to TNA when he was announced as the new commissioner of Xplosion turning face in the process 74 During his time as the commissioner Wolfe also served as the third member of the Xplosion announcing team working beside Jeremy Borash and Taz 75 76 However on 17 June it was reported that Wolfe had been released from his TNA contract 77 78 Independent circuit and retirement 2011 edit After a fourteen month break from in ring competition it was announced on 24 October that McGuinness would be making his return to the ring on 11 November at a Squared Circle Wrestling 2CW event in Watertown New York starting a two month long string of shows billed as the Nigel McGuinness Retirement Tour 79 In his return match McGuinness faced Eddie Edwards in a losing effort 80 McGuinness decided to retire since WWE didn t sign him he didn t want to return to TNA and he couldn t continue to use the wrestling style he used in ROH 81 The following day McGuinness was defeated by Chad Collyer at a HWA event in Hamilton Ohio 82 A week later Haworth performing as Desmond Wolfe was defeated by Jebediah at a Main Event Championship Wrestling event in Alliance Ohio 83 On 25 November McGuinness returned to the United Kingdom when he was defeated by Eddie Edwards in a Fight Club Pro Championship three way match in Wolverhampton which also included Trent Seven 84 The following day McGuinness was defeated by Jon Ryan at a Westside Xtreme Wrestling wXw event in Oberhausen Germany before returning to lose to Joel Redman at an International Pro Wrestling United Kingdom IPW UK event in Sittingbourne on 27 November 85 86 After two more weekends of shows in the United Kingdom McGuinness returned to the United States for his final match which took place at an American Pro Wrestling Alliance APWA event in Clarksburg West Virginia on 17 December 2011 When Jimmy Jacobs couldn t make it due to bad weather promoter Don West inserted McGuinness into the match he would initially lose this match but the decision was reversed due to a handful of tights causing him to win and retire with the championship He would then become the APWA Commissioner Associate Booker before signing an exclusive deal with Ring of Honor He would compete in his final matches at APWA s 3rd Annual Holiday Grand Prix which was a two night show in Clarksburg WV 87 88 Return to ROH 2011 2016 edit nbsp McGuinness right with his Ring of Honor Wrestling broadcast partner Kevin Kelly in August 2011 On 13 August 2011 Haworth returning to his Nigel McGuinness ring name returned to ROH at the promotion s first Ring of Honor Wrestling tapings under the Sinclair Broadcast Group banner working as the colour commentator beside Kevin Kelly 89 The tapings concluded with McGuinness saving Eddie Edwards from the House of Truth 90 At the 3 November 2012 tapings of Ring of Honor Wrestling McGuinness was named the new Matchmaker of Ring of Honor replacing Jim Cornette as the main on screen authority figure 91 92 In December 2012 McGuinness released a documentary titled The Last of McGuinness on his final days as an in ring performer during which he revealed that WWE had rescinded his contract after feeling an old biceps injury needed surgery while his in ring career in TNA ended after contracting hepatitis B during his time there 33 93 94 95 In late May 2013 McGuinness toured the United Kingdom with the shorter final cut of his documentary and has become an advocate for hepatitis B vaccination and an end to the use of intentional blood loss in wrestling In 2014 following the success of his documentary McGuinness began working in the film industry as an Assistant Editor and Production Assistant on various television shows and in December of that year launched a Kickstart campaign for his new creative project L A Fights described as a scripted show about a diverse group of amateur fighters and their morally ambivalent promoter struggle to coexist in their upstart fight league 96 In December 2016 ROH announced McGuinness had resigned as the promotion s matchmaker 97 WWE 2016 2022 edit After being recommended by WWE lead commentator Michael Cole on 15 December 2016 WWE announced that McGuinness had signed with the company as a commentator McGuinness made his commentary debut at the WWE United Kingdom Championship Tournament on 14 and 15 January 2017 alongside Michael Cole 98 99 McGuinness became a colour commentator for NXT on 8 February episode establishing himself as a heel sympathizer On 4 September McGuinness joined the 205 Live and Main Event commentary teams In 2019 WWE released a documentary on McGuinness career entitled Chasing the Magic The Nigel McGuinness Story on the WWE Network that covered his full career from his early childhood fandom of wrestling to his success as a commentator for the company 100 On 28 May it was reported McGuinness had been furloughed during April as part of budget cuts stemming from the COVID 19 pandemic 101 He returned on the 17 September episode of NXT UK alongside Andy Shepherd and the following night on 205 Live alongside Vic Joseph McGuinness was released from WWE on October 22 2022 ending his six year tenure with the company 102 All Elite Wrestling Second return to ROH 2023 present edit At Supercard of Honor McGuinness made his surprise return to ROH for the first time since 2016 as a commentator McGuinness also went on to commentate on Ring of Honor Wrestling from April to June 2023 On 5 April 2023 AEW and ROH President and CEO Tony Khan announced that McGuinness signed a contract with ROH s sister company All Elite Wrestling AEW 103 On 16 June it was announced that McGuinness would be part of the AEW Collision commentary team alongside Kevin Kelly and Jim Ross 104 as well as Tony Schiavone who became full time commentary on 14 October 105 When Kelly departed AEW on 8 March 2024 it has reduced the commentary team to Schiavone and McGuinness 106 Personal life editIn 2017 he announced that he was expecting his first child 107 His in ring run ended when he tested positive for Hepatitis B 108 109 He put on a one man show that is partly spoken word and part magic exhibition 110 111 Championships and accomplishments editThe Baltimore Sun Newcomer of the Year 2009 112 FIST Wrestling FIST Heavyweight Championship 1 time 113 Heartland Wrestling Association HWA European Championship 2 times 1 HWA Heavyweight Championship 2 times 1 HWA Tag Team Championship 2 times with the Human Time Bomb 1 New Breed Wrestling Association New Breed Heavyweight Championship 2 times 1 114 One Pro Wrestling 1PW Openweight Championship 1 time 32 Pro Wrestling Illustrated Ranked No 6 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2009 115 Ring of Honor ROH Pure Championship 1 time 12 ROH World Championship 1 time 19 Total Nonstop Action Wrestling TNA World Tag Team Championship No 1 Contenders Tournament 2010 with Magnus 116 Other titles King of Europe Cup 2007 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