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Frequently Asked Questions

• Who is Chris Kanyon?

  He was best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) from 1994 to 2004, under the ring names Chris KANYON, KANYON, and Mortis. As a youth, KANYON played roller hockey, basketball, and baseball at school. He attended Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens, graduating in 1988.

• What happened to Kanyon Kanyon?

  On the program, KANYON stated that on September 14, 2003, he had taken 50 sleeping pills in a suicide attempt. In the early hours of October 16, 2004, he was arrested in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida for " disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence" after attempting to break up a fight.

• How did Jim Kanyon make his WWF debut?

  On July 5, 2001, KANYON made his WWF debut on SmackDown! as part of The Alliance, a group of former WCW wrestlers who were " invading " the WWF. He made his WWF pay-per-view debut at InVasion, a one-off show featuring WWF superstars against former WCW and ECW employees.

• When did Chris Kanyon start wrestling?

  He wrestled his first match on April 5, 1992, in Levittown, New York at the Island Trees Junior High School, and wrestled one match as Chris Morgan before adopting the ring name Chris Canyon and later changed it to Chris KANYON.

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