The Wall

(December 27, 1966 - December 6, 2003)

Real Name:  Jerry Tuite

Aliases:  The Wall, Sgt. AWOL

Height/Weight:  6'8", 320 lbs

Finishing Maneuver:  Chokeslam

Titles Held:  

Feuds:  Vampiro & The Misfits, General Rection

Jerry Tuite debuted in World Championship Wrestling in the fall of 1999 as "The Wall", massive bodyguard of Alex Wright, who had been repacked into a sort of "neo-Nazi" character called Berlyn, who hated those foreign to Germeny and wasn't shy about sharing his feelings.  When Berlyn's character failed to click with the WCW audiences (he would lose to WCW undercard talent Brad Armstrong  on pay-per-view just a month later), The Wall was eventually pushed away from Wright's character after a feud with Vampiro & The Misfits.

Wall has the unique distinction of being revealed as the new member of "The Revolution" at the Souled Out 2000 pay-per-view, a group that by the next evening's broadcast would fail to exist due to 3 of the 5 members leaving for the World Wrestling Federation.  Wall was now pushed as a relatively unstoppable force in the hardcore division, using his vicious (but rather unoriginal) chokeslam to put opponents through wooden tables.

Wall's biggest WCW match came at the 2000 "Spring Breakout" edition of WCW Monday Nitro, as he stood atop of a hotel and challenged the legendary Hulk Hogan to a match.  Wall would actually go on to win this contest by disqualification.  In the middle of the year, The Wall found himself as a replaced for "Major Stash" (Van Hammer) in the "Misfits in Action" group, led by Hugh "General Rection" Morrus.  Wall was re-christened "Sgt. AWOL", and teamed with mid-card acts Chavo Guerrero, Jr. ("Lt. Loco), Lash LeRoux ("Corporal Cajun"), Major Gunns, and Rection as regular fixture on Vince Russo's "new" WCW programs.

Towards the dying days of WCW, Sgt. AWOL would revert back to his evil ways, turning on Rection & Cajun to temporarily allign with Chavo Guerrero, Jr., who had also quit the group.  AWOL would do battle with Rection following Rection's losing of the WCW U.S. Title, so the matches came off very flat and unimportant to many fans.

When the World Wrestling Federation purchased WCW in March of 2001, The Wall was one of the 24 wrestlers signed to a developmental deal.  However, Wall was released shortly after, due to unconfirmed reports of heavy drug use.

Wall would make appearences in XPW, NWA-TNA, All Japan, and WWA from 2002 to 2003.  His last match was for All Japan Pro Wrestling on 12-05-03, a six-man tag team victory that saw Tuite wrestle as "Gigantes" and team with Bull Buchanan & Justin Credible to defeat Nobutaka Araya, Tomoaki Honma, and Kazushi Miyamoto.  He would die the next day.

Jerry "The Wall" Tuite died on December 6, 2003 while on tour with All Japan Pro Wrestling from an apparent massive heart attack.