10 Next Generation Wrestlers You Didn't Know About

8. Nick Patrick

The New World Order€™s official official in World Championship Wrestling, Nick Patrick was infamous for his screw-job finishes to matches on behalf of Hogan and the others: the most notorious of which was the slow fast count at Starrcade 1997 when he wrecked the Sting/Hogan main event match that had been eighteen months in the making, deliberately or not. At one point, it would have been fair to say that Nick Patrick was more over as a heel than many of the wrestlers on the WCW roster. The son of wrestling legend Jody €˜the Assassin€™ Hamilton, Patrick initially wanted to be a wrestler himself, but injuries brought his in-ring wrestling career to an end before it even really began. Loving the industry he€™d been raised in, Joseph Hamilton Jnr. chose to make a career for himself as a referee, picking the name Nick Patrick to avoid any charges of nepotism and make it on his own. Patrick had a long and eventful history as a referee with the NWA, WCW and WWE before being released from WWE in 2008 due to nagging issues with his back. His father would run WCW training centre The Power Plant until it closed, and then WWE developmental promotion Deep South Wresting for a couple of years until severing connections in 2009 and joining Rampage Pro Wrestling in Georgia to direct their TV show. His son Nick would join him there until the two left RPW fairly acrimoniously in 2010. Neither man works in wrestling any longer.