If the "intimidation factor is important in professional wrestling today, then "Luther Reigns" fits that bill to a scary tee. A former WWE Smackdown superstar and bodyguard for former WWE World Champion "Kurt Angle", raised as a kid in New York's brutal Hell's Kitchen, this gargantuan monster, seemingly chiseled from rock-solid granite, knows what it is to struggle for survival. He's brought those street skills to the squared circle.
There's much more, however, to this man-mountain than meets the eye. His inspirational story is one of personal success as well. The son of a single mother, Luther Reigns left home at the age of 16 to fend for himself, and when he discovered that life was survival of the fittest, he set off to prove he could rise head and shoulders above his dead-end troubled life. So immense was his enormous drive, he built himself not only to amazing physical proportions, but mentally as well, lifting himself by his considerable bootstraps to respected place as a sports medicine student at renowned Arizona State University.
His biggest personal rush came as he neared graduation and a friend turned him on to the famed WCW Power Plant, where he auditioned and became one of the chosen few. Over the next two years, "Luther Reigns" competed as a single and tag team wrestler, then known as "Horshu" with America's then second top promotion, WCW World Championship Wrestling. A career that ended when he decided to move west to his present home in Arizona and to reevaluate his future options.
After meeting with ICW owners, whom he describes as "the ones who made everything possible for me again", Reigns is now emerging as one of ICW's top superstars and headliners, both in single and tag team action and as the new enforcer for the Ballard Brothers. "No matter who they throw against me, I will be ready to prove who the dominant force is here in your federation. Everybody will know my name!" Yes, when it comes to top wrestling action, one thing is certain. There ain't no business like Reigns business!