Human Tornado

[The Gurricane]

Human Tornado (real name Craig Williams) is a semi-active professional wrestler, PWG, CZW, WSX and ROH alumni. Tornado was a mainstay in the California independent scene, often wrestling for PWG, closely associated with the likes of Chris Bosh, Super Dragon, Excalibur, and Scott Lost. While many may remember him for his time on Wrestling Society X or as "El Snowflake" in Nacho Libre, his most famous feud is with Chris Hero over Candice LeRae and the PWG World Heavyweight Championship. Claudio Castingoli, Hero's former Kings of Wrestling partner (after their CZW run, and before their reunion), aided Tornado, as did Eddie Kingston, LuFisto for a short time, and the Necro Butcher.

Tornado had an amazing Steel Cage Match with Hero to blow off their big feud, and would return later in 2009 to form "Dark & Lovely" with Scorpio Sky. Eventually, Tornado would begin tagging with El Generico, forming the team of "2 Skinny Black Guys", they would begin a short term feud with Chuck Taylor & Kenny Omega (Men of Low Moral Fiber). Tornado and Generico never did win the tag titles, and Tornado's final BOLA tournament would be the 2009 edition, where he would be unsuccesful. In 2010, Tornado wrestled what would be his final PWG match, and final match as an active competitor against Super Crazy.

Tornado would announce on his Facebook he retired, but since then has had a few matches from time to time, one in 2012, one in 2018 for Joey Janela's LA Confidential in a losing effort to Penolpe Ford, and most recently in 2021, where he wrestled Satana Jacksion (a Michael Jackson impersonator). Today, he's active on Twitter, and once in a blue moon streams from his PlayStation 4, but other then that, he's pretty much retired. Tornado will always be remembered for his role in Nacho Libre as El Snowflake, but if you have the time, check out his PWG run. He was exciting, had a fun gimmick, and the P.I.M.P. SLAP was nothing to mess with.
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CHAMPIONSHIPS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Alternative Wrestling Show
  • AWS Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[45]
  • AWS Lightweight Championship (1 time)[45]
• Empire Wrestling Federation
  • EWF American Championship (1 time)[46]
• Pro Wrestling Guerrilla
  • PWG World Championship (2 times)[47]
  • PWG Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with El Generico[48]
  • ¡Dia de los Dangerous! (2008)[18]
• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • PWI ranked him #179 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2009[49]
• Revolution Pro Wrestling
  • Revolution Pro Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[2][45]
• SoCal Uncensored
  • Rookie of the Year (2004)[50]
• Underground Empire Wrestling
  • UEW Internet Television Championship (1 time, current)[51]
• Wrestling Superstars Unleashed
  • WSU Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[45]

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[Death By Looch]

Talk about most underrated and overlooked indie guys...

 

[Hoss]

Always entertaining as hell when I saw him

 

[Chris]