Personal Life
Lockwood was born in Anaheim, California, and raised in Pacifica, California, where he graduated from Terra Nova High School. He became interested in professional wrestling in the eighth grade, inspired by Brady Boone. While training as a wrestler and working on the independent circuit, he worked a second job at Safeway.
Lockwood met his wife, N'keigh Wheeler, when she escorted Mark Henry to the ring at Unforgiven 1999, in Charlotte, North Carolina. They married on New Year's Eve, 1999. In 2002, he opened "Crash Holly's School of Professional Wrestling" in Salisbury, North Carolina, where N'keigh grew up.
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