Served as an Army Airborne Ranger during Desert Storm.
In April 2004, was shot three times in the neck with a 25 caliber
handgun after attempting to save a woman from two would-be rapists. As
a result had a steel plate and three screws inserted into his C-5, C-6,
C-7 vertebrae.
Executed one of the most dangerous dives in wrestling, when in ECW he
climbed a scaffold and did an elbow drop, both he and his opponent were
carried out of the ring.