In the beginning...

It all started back in 1989. William DeMott started training on Johnny Rodz' Wrestling School. He started wrestle around in the Indy federations. In early 1992, DeMott became Crash the Terminator and defeated Steve Strong in Puerto Rico for the American Wrestling Federation Heavyweight title. Later in 1992, Crash the Terminator W*NG in Japan. Here he won the Tag Team titles along with Mr.Pogo. Crash competed in W*NG for quite some time, and in 1993 he won a 16 man tournament to become the W*NG Heavyweight Champion. Crash later became more extreme as he faced Leatherface in a barbed wire baseball bat match in the extreme IWA in Japan. Crash the Terminator returned to the United States to ECW where he had a short stint. Later, Crash came to Pennsylvania Championship Wrestling where he won a battle royal to become PCW Heavyweight Champion. DeMott already had a pretty impressive title reign.

World Championship Wrestling

Bill's career took a serious turn, when he entered World Championship Wrestling in September of 1995. Kevin Sullivan had requested DeMott for the company. He started wrestling in WCW as the Man of Questions and the Laughing Man, which both were weird gimmicks. He wrestled on WCW Saturday Night and on WCW's Monday Night Nitro. DeMott slowly became a familiar face in the company and got known as Hugh Morrus, which sounded like "humorous" when it was mentioned. Hugh Morrus impressed lots of guys with his moonsault called No Laughing Matter, due to his big size and weight of almost 300 pounds. Morrus defeated guys like Chris Kanyon in dark matches and on Saturday Night. He decided to set his sight on the WCW Tag Team titles and formed a team with Joey Maggs. However, Morrus changed his partner to the huge Scott Norton. Morrus and Norton though, did never win WCW Tag Team titles and split up. In the fall of 1996, Hugh Morrus was invited to a Japan/USA All Star Tournament along with such stars as Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Stephen Regal, Sting and Lex Luger in Japan.

The Dungeon of Doom

Hugh Morrus became a big heel when he joined Jimmy Harts, Dungeon of Doom in 1996. The mission of the group was to kill Hulkamania and Hulk Hogan who was the biggest babyface in the company. However, Morrus' role in the faction was not big though as he joined it really late, when the group was splitting up, and Hogan became heel with the nWo. Morrus went back to his low carder role on the weekly WCW Monday Nitro and Saturday Night. Then, on September 22, Morrus was defeated by the rookie, Bill Goldberg to start the biggest winning streak in sports entertainment. Morrus had a few more matches with Goldberg, but were never able to defeat the big monster. Hugh Morrus got a short-lived push when pinning guys like La Parka, Psichosis, Glacier, Mike Enos, Sick Boy and others. In 1999, DeMott's contract was running out with the company, but the WCW wanted Hugh Morrus for three more years, so he signed a new contract.

The First Family

Hugh Morrus became a new man. He started using weapons and competing in the WCW's Hardcore league. Jimmy Hart became interested in Morrus and wanted him for his new faction, which basically was a team of lunatics using weapons to bruise their opponents. Jimmy Hart added the likes of Brian Knobbs, Jerry Flynn and The Barbarian. One night on WCW Monday Nitro, Morrus was about to finish off Van Hammer by giving him the No Laughing Matter through a table, but president of WCW, Ric Flair, came out and told Morrus that if he ever used hardcore in a WCW ring again, he was fired. The Morrus was attacked from behind by Van Hammer with a table and lost the match. This made another hardcore wrestler, Hak (Sandman), to do something nobody else had ever done. He invited everybody who had the guts, to a non sanctioned Hardcore Junkyard Invitational match in Ft.Lauderdale Florida at Bash at the Beach 1999. When the match debuted on July 11, Morrus made a huge impact by tossing several wrestlers into cars, even leaping from one car to another with an elbow drop. Morrus didn't win the match though. His hardcore rival, Fit Finlay, did. The First Family started feuding with the heel faction The Revolution and the First Family started to become popular. At WCW Fall Brawl 1999, Hugh Morrus and Brian Knobbs managed to defeat Revolution members, Shane Douglas and Dean Malenko by DQ. The First Family broke up, shortly after. Hugh Morrus disappeared for a while as Brian Knobbs started competing for the WCW Hardcore title. In 2000, Hugh Morrus returned, squashing wrestlers on Nitro and Thunder. The fans hated Morrus for his angry attitude. But then, the new beginning for WCW came... and the new beginning for Bill DeMott came...

The Misfits in Action

On April 10, 2000, Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff took over World Championship Wrestling. The show opened with Russo and Bischoff in the ring, with a lot of young and underrated wrestlers in the ring, including Morrus. Russo said that it was time for the old guys (Hulk Hogan, Sting, Luger, Savage, Nash, Flair) to step aside and let the new generation of wrestlers take over. Of course, the so called New Blood became a heel faction. Hugh Morrus lost a couple of matches and was fired by Vince Russo because he had disappointed him. However, the next many weeks Morrus showed up at ringside with all of the other young guys Russo had fired (Lash LeRoux, Chavo Guerrero, Van Hammer) and helped out the good guys (Millionaires Club) against the New Blood. At Slamboree 2000, Russo wanted to make sure that Morrus never messed with his business again, so he booked him against U.S. Champion Scott Steiner in a title match. Before the match, Morrus said he wanted to be known by his real name. Hugh E. Rection. The Misfits in Action (Lash LeRoux, Chavo Guerrero, Van Hammer) was at ringside, and by the end, the MIA broke into a huge brawl with Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff's security team. Rection tapped out to the Steiner Recliner and lost the match. Steiner started beating Rection, but then Booker T entered the ring and saved Rection. Booker T was fired from WCW, but reappeared as one of the Misfits. The MIA was dressed in military clothes and changed names. Chavo Guerrero became Lieutenant Loco. Lash LeRoux became Corporal Cajun. Van Hammer became Major Stash. Hugh E. Rection became Captain Rection. Booker T became G.I.Bro. The MIA started feuding with the Filthy Animals and Lieutenant Loco ended up winning the Cruiserweight title. G.I.Bro left the faction when he was offered to return to WCW as Booker T. Captain Rection took over the leadership and became General Rection.

General Rection

The MIA ended up becoming major babyfaces. General Rection slowly came into the spotlight of WCW which he had been waiting for since he arrived in 1995. At the same time, a new wrestler, Lance Storm, debuted. All he did for many months was beating American wrestlers, talking trash about America and telling Americans to come to Canada. General Rection wanted to defend his pride as American and the Misfits in Action became Made in America, changing Major Stash with Sergeant A-Wall (The Wall). For three months, MIA and Team Canada (Lance Storm, Elix Skipper and Hacksaw Jim Duggan) feuded. This rivalry led to General Rection finally winning a title in the WCW. The United States Heavyweight Championship, which he won by defeating both Lance Storm and Hacksaw Jim Duggan in a handicap match at WCW Halloween Havoc 2000. The following night on Nitro, Rection was granted with a tribute segment. Many wrestlers, valets and referee came out to pay their tribute as the fans chanted "USA" over and over again. Rection said that he tributed his title win to all of the midcarders that has wrestled in WCW. Suddenly, Goldberg came out. Goldberg respected Rection, telling him that the Goldberg winning streak had to start somewhere. DeMott was respected by the wrestlers and the fans.

The Invasion on WWE

Rection lost the U.S. title to Lance Storm, however, shortly after he won new gold in WCW. Rection won the WCW Tag Team Championship with Alex Wright in Germany. This made some tension with the MIA. Rection also managed to win the U.S. Title back from Lance Strom at WCW Mayhem. He defended the title for two months, feuding with Douglas who he defeated at Starrcade. Rection lost his U.S. Title to Shane Douglas at WCW Sin, and the MIA split up. Rection became Hugh Morrus again, feuding with his former tag team partners Chavo Guerrero and the Wall. Hugh Morrus defeated The Wall at Superbrawl: Revenge 2001. The WCW though was at the edge of going bankrupt. However, the competing company, World Wrestling Entertainment purchased the WCW. At the last episode of WCW, WWE owner, Vince McMahon came out and said that no former WCW superstar would have a chance in the WWE, because he had fired them all. But then, Shane McMahon came out and announced that HE had bought the WCW to beat his daddy. No sign of WCW until June where Kane and Christian faced off at WWE RAW as Hugh Morrus suddenly charged the ring and gave Christian a No Laughing Matter then escaping through the crowd. That was just one of many segments of WCW stars invading WWE. The WCW alliance even joined forces with the ECW superstars to become known as The Alliance. Hugh Morrus was a loyal member to the Alliance and won a match along with Stasiak and Chris Kanyon at the Invasion pay per view over WWE stars, Big Show, Billy Gunn and Albert. But the Alliance did not succeed in taking over WWE. This made it a hard time for Morrus who was unpopular with the WWE superstars. Morrus and Chavo Guerrero started sucking up to Vince McMahon, but he instead fired them. But Shane McMahon and Stephanie then sold their stockings in WWE to a huge legend and former WCW star, Ric Flair! Ric Flair gave every single Alliance member a chance in WWE. Hugh Morrus returned and was drafted to the SmackDown! brand. But in May, something bad happened to DeMott. He was seriously injured in a Motorcycle Accident and was forced to leave the company for six months. In the meantime, Hugh Morrus became Bill DeMott on WWE's Tough Enough II which aired on MTV. Here he was the hardass trainer. When Tough Enough ended, DeMott returned to the ring...

The end of Hugh Morrus...

Hugh Morrus wrestled as Morrus for some time losing lots of matches on house shows and on Velocity, but in November, he changed. Bill DeMott arrived in the WWE on SmackDown! brutally destroying lots of superstars including Shannon Moore, Funaki and Crash Holly. DeMott was just known as himself and got a huge push. DeMott was not the happy-go-lucky Hugh Morrus any longer. DeMott's push didn't lead to anything though as WWE sends him to wrestle on Velocity. DeMott decided to retire from the wrestling business, leaving a huge mark on the SmackDown! roster after several victories. He became an announcer with Josh Matthews on WWE Velocity. Throughout most of 2004, Bill called the action along with Josh Matthews, but in late 2004, WWE announced Tough Enough season 4. Bill DeMott, along with Al Snow, trained the new competitors to find out who was Tough Enough. Bill didn't return to the announcing booth on Velocity. He continued training, and will be assigned the job as the head trainer on the new WWE development area Deep South Wrestling.