Drew Gulak (April 28, 1987) is an American professional wrestler who currently works for WWE on its Raw brand, Beyond Wrestling and Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), where he is the one time and current CZW World Heavyweight Champion, two time CZW World Tag Team Champion, one time CZW Wired TV Champion, and 2005 Chris Cash Memorial Battle Royal winner. In addition he has appeared in wXw, Wrestling Is Art, UWA Hardcore Wrestling, BATTLEWAR, PROJECT WRESTLING UNITED (Montreal,Quebec), Wrestling Is Respect, EVOLVE, and Dragon Gate USA.
Professional Wrrestling Career
Combat Zone Wrestling (2005–present)
After beginning training in 2004 during the merger between the CZW Wrestling Academy and the CHIKARA Wrestle Factory Drew Gulak debuted at the inaugural Maven Bentley Association, a sister company of CZW, event at Northeast High School in Philadelphia, PA on April 16, 2005. Six months later Drew Gulak made his Combat Zone Wrestling debut at Down With The Sickness 4-Ever, a tribute show to the late Chris Cash defeating over 20 participants in an over the top rope battle royal on September, 10th 2005.
Team AnDrew
Gulak was paired up with fellow CZW student Andy Sumner in training due to his amateur wrestling background being similar to Sumner's background in Sambo grappling. Together known as Team AnDrew the duo captured the CZW World Tag Team Championship twice before disbanding in 2009 after Sumner had a falling out with CZW and disappeared from contact at large except for a lone appearance in 2010.
Wired Television Champion
After venting frustration following the abandonment of his partner in 2009, Gulak began finding success as a singles wrestler capturing his first single's championship in the CZW Wired TV Championship in early 2010 by defeating Tyler Veritas in a TV taping at Swinging for the Fences.
Gulak would go on to hold the title for 429 days defeating the likes of Nick Gage, Zack Sabre, Jr., Rich Swann, and several others including the one-off return of his former tag team partner Andy Sumner before losing the title to AR Fox in June 2011.
Campaign for a Better Combat Zone
During his run as Wired TV Champion Gulak began to characterize himself as that of a political leader and activist within the company speaking out against ethical issues of violence including CZW's famed ultraviolence and the frequent manhandling of company referees, specifically targeting the actions of long-time fan favorite Nick Gage.
Gulak interjected himself in a match pitting Nick Gage against Big Japan Wrestling star and then Ultraviolent Underground Champion Yuko Miyamoto at Cage of Death XII and served as a special guest referee for the bout. After strictly enforcing the rules of a regular professional wrestling match Gage attacked Gulak forcing him to leave the bout and be replaced by another official. This was the last time the two of them shared a ring together.
On December 30, 2010, The State of New Jersey made public that it was seeking Nick Gage as a suspect of Bank Robbery on which he later turned himself in and was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Gulak, feeling justified by this turn of events, went on to mock the former CZW Champion the following month so far as donning Gage's ring attire and associating himself with Gage's former manager Dewey Donovan taking him on as his "Personal Title Belt Transporter" and "Investment Management Specialist."
In the following months Gulak would continue to speak out against ethical issues of violence and mismanagement within CZW using Nick Gage's incarceration as a prime example as well as the stories of several other ill-fated wrestlers that worked for the company in the past. This drew the ire of several roster members such as former training partner Danny Havoc, Jon Moxley, and Devon Moore, leading them to interrupt Gulak as well as physically assault him during his so-called "paid presentation time." In response to this Gulak hired Nui Tofiga, a gigantic Samoan wrestler to become his "Enforcement Agent."
After holding the Wired TV Championship for over a year, Gulak was defeated for the title by AR Fox at Prelude to Violence 2 on June 11, 2011 in Philadelphia. After the match Gulak was mocked by Danny Havoc, who held the Ultraviolent Underground championship at the time. Gulak then took a leave of absence to tour Europe over the summer as an ambassador for CZW while the company was expanding its international ties but not before proclaiming that he was looking to expand his campaign and grant an opportunity to other wrestlers who might not always get a chance to wrestle in the spotlight. These tryout matches were overseen by Donovan and Tofiga in his absence.
At Tournament of Death X, while Gulak was away, Donovan and Tofiga interjected themselves in Danny Havoc's first round match against BJW Star Abdullah Kobayashi where Mr. Tofiga shoved Havoc off the top rope through some light tubes positioned outside the ring causing him to lose the bout. At Tangled Web 6 on August 10, 2013, Gulak defeated Masada to win the CZW World title.
Personal life
Gulak has a brother who wrestles under the ring Little Mondo.
In Wrestling
- Finishing moves
- Gu-Lock / University Stretch (Dragon sleeper)
- Trailblazer (Figure 7 Ankle lock & Indian deathlock Combination)
- Spine Splitter (Belly-to-back suplex backbreaker)
- Signature moves
- Bataclan (Snap suplex into the turnbuckles)
- Bodyslam sometimes draping an opponent's legs into the ropes
- Flying clothesline
- Gulak Attack (Corner clothesline usually followed by a running clothesline to the back)
- Single leg boston crab sometimes preceded by heel kicks
- O'Connor roll
- Running slingshot splash
- Southern Lights Suplex (Inverted Northern Lights suplex)
- Tree of Woe sometimes followed by a running dropkick
- Nicknames
- "University City Stretcher"
- "Legal Eagle"
- Managers
- Rodney Rush 2010
- Dewey Donovan 2011–present
- Tag teams and stables
- Team AnDrew (w/ Andy Sumner)
- Campaign for a Better Combat Zone
- Gentleman's Club
- Amazing Gulaks (w/ Rory Gulak)
- Catch Point
- Fourth Gunn (w/ Biff Busick)
- Entrance themes
Championships and Accomplishments
- CZW Wired TV Championship (1 time)
- CZW World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- CZW Tag Team Championship (2 times) (with Andy Sumner as Team AnDrew)
