Abyss ended up loving being a part of history when the spot went through safely. Bischoff had high hopes for many talents, but he also wanted to make many changes to improve their characters moving forward. Abyss was a gimmick that Bischoff absolutely hated and felt would never lead to long-term main event scene.
Bischoff confirmed on his podcast that he came up with Joseph Park, because he viewed his personality as stronger without a mask. TNA was always up and down on how they chose to use Abyss. There were months where Abyss was the top heel on the show, but other times, they would feature him in a secondary position. Abyss revealed that Sting was one of his biggest supporters when the legend joined the company.
Even though the DQ was a terrible way to execute it, Abyss won his only world title in wrestling against The Icon. Sting tried his best to make Abyss look great with mixed results, due to the booking of Vince Russo with wacky swerves and gimmick matches. Dutch Mantell was one of the most respected minds in the business for various backstage roles. Abyss had a working relationship with Mantell before TNA even started. Abyss used this and found enough momentum to land with TNA in the early years.
The gimmick and name was utilized for most of his career outside of the Joseph Park runs. Tommy Dreamer worked for WWE management and reached out with the offer of a lifetime. WWE wanted a new monster character to feud with Undertaker and Abyss was offered that spot. Abyss was even told he could have a WrestleMania match against Undertaker with the streak on the line. Hulk Hogan coming to TNA saw the entire roster having to prove themselves again with someone new in control.
Brother Runt continued to feud with Abyss, challenging him to a match at Hard Justice , which Abyss accepted. In the end, Abyss came out the winner. Abyss and Runt still battled after this match, with Abyss defeating Runt in a Thumbtacks match on Impact!
After the match, Abyss was attacked by Raven, which led to a Hangman's Horror match on another episode of Impact! Abyss continue to feud with Runt and Raven, while also going after Samoa Joe. Soon after the announcement, Jake "The Snake" Roberts was announced as the special guest referee for the match. At the event, Abyss lost when Joe pinned Raven. Following the event, Sting tried to reason with Abyss and turn him away from Mitchell, referring to Abyss as "Chris".
Christian Cage soon interjected himself into this, claiming to know a secret from Abyss' past and attacked both him and Sting. Abyss successfully defended the Championship at Turning Point against Sting and Cage in a three-way match.
On the January 24 episode of Impact! On the March 22 episode of Impact! During the match, Mitchell returned with a woman who Abyss recognized. Abyss left with Mitchell and the woman, leaving Sting alone to fight Cage and Styles. The following week on Impact! With Mitchell threatening to call the police and tell them the truth, Abyss was forced to obey him.
On the following Impact! But after Abyss got his bag of tacks and dumped them on the mat to chokeslam Mitchell on to them Cage, Styles, Steiner and Tomko attacked Abyss, beating him with a chair and a barbed wire baseball bat, which in the storyline, put him out of action.
On the last Impact! Following the match, Abyss attacked the referee, security, and several members of TNA staff while Cage escaped. Abyss and Sting defeated Tomko and A. Abyss and Sting continued to feud with Christian's Coalition after the event. During the match Abyss was dragged under the ring and when he re-appeared, he was covered in blood. Styles pinned Abyss after Tomko had slammed him onto a pile of thumbtacks and broken glass.
The following week Abyss and Sting defeated Cage and Styles in a ladder match , after an assist from the debuting Andrew Martin. The following Impact! The last Impact! At No Surrender , Abyss fell to Angle after tapping out to the ankle lock. Following the bout, James Mitchell appeared, and a hand ripped through the ring and dragged Abyss into the ring. Abyss faced Angle in a rematch on the following Impact! Abyss had Angle in Angle's ankle lock maneuver, when Judas Mesias appeared, coming out through the ring and attacking Abyss.
Angle escaped, while Mesias choked out Abyss with barbed wire in the ring. The four battled at Bound for Glory in a Monster's Ball match , with Abyss picking up the victory with a pinfall over Raven. Following the event, Abyss battled against Mitchell and Black Reign, with Black Reign and Abyss attacking each other on several occasions.
After the match, Abyss was attacked and thrown off the stage by Black Reign and a mysterious wrestler, later identified as Rellik. Following the event, Abyss continued to feud with Black Reign and Rellik and brought in Rhino to help him even.
Rhino could not make the event due to a legitimate neck injury caused by Rellik during a match on Impact , so Abyss chose Raven as his new partner. During the weeks following Turning Point, Mitchell threatened to reveal "a dark secret" of Abyss's past. When Mitchell demanded Abyss tell the world the dark secret of his past, Abyss refused stating "The secret lives with me and it dies with me! Abyss then went to chokeslam Mitchell, which prompted the return of Judas Mesias.
Following this event, Abyss and Mesias had a hardcore match at Final Resolution , which Mesias won after a Straight to Hell onto a steel chair wrapped in barbed wire. Mitchell again demanded Abyss tell the world the dark secret of his past. Abyss refused yet again, and Mitchell attempted to set him on fire. The storyline continued when Mitchell revealed on the January 17 episode of Impact! On the February 14 episode of Impact!
The official TNA website then took Abyss off the roster list. In the following weeks, vignettes of Abyss were shown where he was locked in an asylum. Abyss returned to action at Slammiversary after the X Division Championship match wearing a white asylum uniform with his inmate number and his last name 'Park' on the back and a new gray and black mask. Subsequently, Abyss did not have any matches, but made after-match run-ins to save other faces from assaults by heels.
He issued an open challenge on the September 4 episode of Impact! After nailing Devine with a chokeslam, Team 3D attacked Abyss, which caused Matt Morgan , whom Abyss had previously saved, to make a rescue. He handed Abyss a chair to attack 3D, but Abyss threw it away and left the ring.
Abyss and Morgan though would unite as a team to counter the attacks of 3D. The two teams met at No Surrender in a match, which Morgan and Abyss won. During the match Abyss was powerbombed through a flaming table by Team 3D, which in storyline, caused Abyss to have third-degree burns and was sent to the hospital later that night and was treated for the burns. On the November 6, episode of Impact! At Genesis , they lost in a three-way title match, which also included new champions Lethal Consequences Jay Lethal and Consequences Creed , when Abyss accidentally hit Morgan with a chair.
The latter ended in a loss when Abyss' 'therapist', Dr. Stevie , interfered in the match, by attacking Abyss when he was on the verge of using weapons against Morgan. Stevie had appeared in many therapy segments with Abyss up to that point, in which he would attempt to help Abyss get over his addiction to violence; sometimes going as far as to beat him. At the following pay-per-view, Sacrifice , Dr. Stevie booked the first ever Knockout's Monster's Ball match , in which Abyss would be in the corner of Daffney , another patient of Stevie's, opposite Taylor Wilde , the best friend of Abyss' "girlfriend", Lauren.
Abyss turned on Dr. Stevie after the match, after Stevie first told him to attack Wilde and then threatened Lauren, at which point he grabbed Dr. Stevie and chokeslammed him onto a pile of tacks. Abyss went on later to team up with Taylor Wilde at Slammiversary to defeat Raven and Daffney in the first ever mixed tag team Monster's Ball match.
Over the following month the feud between Abyss and Dr. Stevie continued, with Stevie kidnapping Lauren and shocking Abyss with a taser.
At Victory Road , Abyss came to the ring in a new costume, having discarded the Asylum patient attire. Abyss went on to defeat Dr. On the July 30 episode of Impact! On the September 24 episode of Impact! Foley revealed Abyss as the one who tore up his picture and beat him to a bloody pulp with a video tape and the baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. Abyss then challenged Foley to a Monster's Ball match which Foley accepted, but only after adding Dr.
Stevie as the referee of the match. Two weeks later Abyss defeated Dr. Stevie via pinfall. After the match Dr. Stevie attacked Abyss with a kendo stick when Mick Foley came to the ring to assist Dr. Foley had Stevie hold up Abyss while Foley aligned himself up with a shot at Abyss with a kendo stick when Foley intentionally hit Dr. Stevie instead. Foley walked up the ramp without any reasoning for assisting Abyss. The following week, Foley explained that he had played Dr. Stevie all along and had challenged Abyss to a match at Bound for Glory in order to test how tough he really was, seemingly returning to being a face.
Afterwards Foley booked a match between Abyss and Stevie for the following week with the added stipulation that if Stevie lost the match, he would have to leave TNA.
On the November 12 episode of Impact! Raven returned to TNA, saved Stevie's future in the company, by costing Abyss a match against him and threw a fireball on Foley's face.
During Abyss' and Foley's feud with Stevie and Raven TNA shot an angle, in which Stevie set Abyss on fire, that Spike wouldn't let them air on the channel and therefore had to be aired on the company's website. When Foley finally agreed to work with Bischoff, he was booked to face Abyss at Against All Odds in a No Disqualification match as part of the 8 Card Stud Tournament , with the added stipulation that if a barbed wire baseball bat was not used during the match, Abyss would lose his mask on the following episode of Impact!
Abyss defeated Foley with the Black Hole Slam, just as he was going to use the bat. In the semifinals of the tournament, Abyss was defeated by Mr. On the following episode of Impact! An exasperated Hogan took Abyss to his office, gave him a pep talk about how he once was the most feared man in the company, and how sick he is of him being a neurotic mess. He offered his guidance and then his Hall of Fame ring and said that it would make Abyss a god of wrestling. On the March 8 Monday night episode of Impact!
Abyss won the match by pinning Styles with a Black Hole Slam. The following day on Impact! Abyss was announced as the captain of Team Hogan in the annual Lethal Lockdown match, where they would meet Team Flair, captained by Sting. On the April 26 episode of Impact! Abyss defeated Ric Flair in a match, where Flair's and Hogan's Hall of Fame rings were at stake and as a result Flair lost possession of his ring to Hogan. On the May 3 episode of Impact!
The following week Abyss was given a shot at the TNA Global Championship , but was unable to compete after being arrested for allegedly assaulting Chelsea. Later in the night it was revealed that Chelsea and Wolfe, who was scheduled to face Abyss at Sacrifice , had set Abyss up.
At Sacrifice Abyss defeated Wolfe to win Chelsea's services for 30 days. Later in the night, he competed in a three-way match against Mr. After the match, Abyss turned heel by destroying both of his opponents and having a heated confrontation with Hogan. The following week Abyss revealed that he was being controlled by an entity, who was coming to TNA, before returning Hogan's Hall of Fame ring to him, shoving it down his throat.
On the July 15 episode of Impact!
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