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Montel Vontavious Porter
American professional wrestler / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hassan Hamin Assad (born Alvin Antonio Burke Jr.; October 28, 1973) is an American professional wrestler and rapper. He is better known by the ring name Montel Vontavious Porter (MVP). He is currently signed to WWE and is the manager of Omos. He has also worked with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), Ring of Honor (ROH) and New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW).
Montel Vontavious Porter | |
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![]() MVP in September 2019 | |
Birth name | Alvin Antonio Burke Jr. |
Born | (1973-10-28) October 28, 1973 (age 50) Miami, Florida, U.S. |
Children | 1 |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Antonio Banks Antonio Bank$ Lord of War[1][2] Montel Vontavious Porter MVP |
Billed height | 6 ft 3 in (191 cm)[3] |
Billed weight | 259 lb (117 kg)[3] |
Billed from | Miami, Florida[3] |
Trained by | Soulman Alex G Norman Smiley |
Debut | August 10, 2002 |
Porter became famous with his first run in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) from 2005 to 2010. During this time, he became a one-time WWE Tag Team Champion with Matt Hardy and a two-time WWE United States Champion.[4] He was released from his WWE contract in December 2010,[5][6] but returned in the 2020 Royal Rumble match.[7] That same year, he formed a stable called The Hurt Business with Bobby Lashley, Cedric Alexander and Shelton Benjamin.
He spent six months in a juvenile detention center after a robbery and later completed 9½ years of an 18½ year prison sentence for armed robbery and kidnapping which at the time he started it he was sixteen.[8] He has a rare heart condition called Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.[9] He converted to Islam while in prison but has since described himself as a nonbeliever.[10]