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<!-- EDIT BELOW THIS LINE --“The Legend” Butcher Blackwell was trained by his Uncle Jerry "Crusher" Blackwell At The Blackwell Traning Facility in Stone Mountain Georgia from 1987-1989 until health reasons forced Jerry to Contact his old friend and fellow wrestler and most successful trainer to some of the biggest names in Pro Wrestling today "Pretty Boy" Larry Sharpe and ask him if he could do him a favor and continue to train his nephew at World Famous Monster Factory located in Paulsboro New Jersey. Sharpe agreed with no hesitation and Butcher was flown out to New Jersey and picked up with Larry where he left off with his Uncle Jerry.

In 1989 Butcher made a Successful debut in Ocean City New Jersey defeating his opponent in under 1 minute in front of about 850 wrestling fans. Hence "The Legend" Butcher Blackwell was born. Blackwell wrestled over the next few years all over the United States and Europe gaining the reputation as a Bad Ass, hard hitting, Mountain from Stone Mountain just like his uncle.

Butcher would quickly become Larry’s go-to guy for assistance in promotion of the school and training of new wrestlers. Both Sharpe and Butcher were profiled in numerous media features about pro wrestling in the late 80’s and early 90’s; including A Current Affair, Telerific a kids T.V.show, The Morton Downey Jr. Show, The Paulsboro Times, People Magazine, Rolling Stone Magazine, The Home News Newspaper, ABC News as well as all other major news Media.

Butcher Blackwell has wrestled for WWF (now the WWE), National Wrestling Alliance, USWA, Smokey Mountain Wrestling, All-Japan Wrestling, Pennsylvania Championship Wrestling, National Wrestling Federation, International Championship Wrestling, Universal Wrestling Alliance, World Wrestling Alliance, Soul Asylum Wrestling, Jersey all Pro Wrestling, Pennsylvania Championship Wrestling, East Coast Pro Wrestling, Devastation Wrestling Federation and countless other independent circuit organizations.

Butcher Blackwell’s resume as a singles and tag team wrestler includes matches with top stars such as King Kong Bundy, Junkyard Dog, Hillbilly Cousin Luke, Bam Bam Bigelow, Rick "The Model" Martel, Cowboy "Ace" Bob Orton, Dino Bravo, One Man Gang, Ric Flair, "The Natural Disasters" Earthquake & Typhoon, Koko B. Ware, "The Hart Foundation" Jim " The Anvil" Niedhart & Bret "The Hitman" Hart, Chris Candido, Jimmy "Superfly” Snuka, Big Dick Dudley, Taz, Tom Brandi, The Island Warriors, Nunzio, Crowbar, Johnny Grunge, 911, The Bushwackers, S.D Jones, Ivan Putski, Scott Putski, Tito Santana, PaPa Shango, Jerry "The King" Lawler, Tommy Dreamer, Nunzio, Johnny Grunge, Salvatore Sincere, Don Muraco, Andrew Anderson, and Balls Mahoney, to name a few.

After the passing of Bruiser in January 2010, Butcher Blackwell decided to make a return to the squared circle to honor his brother’s memory. On April 30, 2010, Butcher fought alongside Justin Blackwell and General Bobby Lee Walker in a match against Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka and JC the outpatient.

Butcher is a nine-time champion. He has held the North Atlantic Wrestling Federation, Universal Wrestling Alliance and Soul Asylum Wrestling Heavyweight Championships, East Coast Pro Wrestling and Jersey All Pro Wrestling United States Championships, and is a four-time World Tag Team Champion, 3 times with East Coast Professional Wrestling & 1 time with the National Wrestling Alliance with his late brother Bruiser Blackwell. They are Known collectively as The Blackwell Brothers, Butcher and Bruiser were also managed by the late great Captain Lou Albano in the late 90’s.

Highlights of Butcher’s career, as well as his return to the ring, are currently available on YouTube.