Tag: Abyss

Professional wrestler Chris Parks is better known as Abyss. He had previously wrestled as Chris Justice and Justice, appearing at NWA TNA Wrestling’s first ever weekly pay-per-view (June 19th 2002) as Justice in a tournament to crown a Heavyweight Champion.

A month later he was given the Abyss name and gimmick by booker Dutch Mantell while working in IWA in Puerto Rico. In 2003 he would return to TNA, establishing himself as a hardcore brawler with feuds against Kid Kash, Raven,  AJ Styles, and others while becoming an integral part of the Monsters Ball series of matches.

Following feuds with Sabu, Jeff Hardy and Samoa Joe, Abyss captured the World Heavyweight Championship by DQ from Sting. He would go on to further gimmick matches and feuds over the next few years before being taken under Hulk Hogan’s wing in 2010 and turning face. Abyss would turn heel again though and in 2011 he won the TNA TV Championship and the X Division belt making him both a triple crown and grand slam winner.

In 2012 Park debuted as lawyer Joseph Park, the wimpy brother of Abyss who was searching for his brother. This would begin a storyline where the two had no idea that they were the same person. When Park would see his own blood he would snap and show tendencies of his monstrous brother with no memory of doing so. Eventually Park was confronted by Eric Young with the truth that Abyss and Park are the same person, leading to Park becoming Abyss full time again in 2014. In 2017 Joseph Park would return to feud with “his brother” but it would be a ruse as Joseph Park turned heel and allied himself with his alter ego.