Ahmed Johnson's Biography
Anthony "Tony" Norris was born June 6, 1970 and better known by his ring name, Ahmed Johnson, is a retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his career in the WWF (World Wrestling Federation), which lasted from October 1995 to February 1998. He is a one-time Intercontinental Champion and is the first wrestler of African American descent to ever hold the title.During the early 1990s, he went to the training school run by Scott Casey and Ivan Putski in Houston with fellow trainees Booker T and Stevie Ray. Norris started wrestling in 1994 in the Global Wrestling Federation (GWF) as Moadib. He was part of Skandor Akbar's heel stable Devastation, Inc.
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Ahmed made his WWF debut as a face on the October 23, 1995 episode of Monday Night Raw. At Survivor Series, the team of Razor Ramon, Yokozuna, Owen Hart, and Dean Douglas took on the team of Shawn Michaels, Sycho Sid, The British Bulldog, and Ahmed Johnson. The survivors were Michaels, Bulldog, and Ahmed. At Season's Beatings on December 17, Ahmed went one-on-one with Buddy Landel (replacing Dean Douglas) Ahmed pinned Landel with the Pearl River Plunge in 42 seconds to win the match. After the match, Ahmed was interviewed by Jerry Lawler. Lawler distracted Ahmed so that Jeff Jarrett could hit Ahmed in the head with his gold record. Ahmed amazingly got back up and ran backstage to look for Jarrett. This incident started a feud between Ahmed and Jarrett. Ahmed went one-on-one with Jarrett at the 1996 Royal Rumble. Jarrett slapped the Figure Four Leglock on Ahmed, yet Ahmed reversed it. Jarrett made it to the ropes and then jumped from the top turnbuckle, hitting Ahmed in the head with his guitar. Ahmed won by disqualification. Ahmed amazingly got back up and ran backstage to look for Jarrett. At WrestleMania XII, Camp Cornette (Vader, Owen Hart, and The British Bulldog) took on the team of Yokozuna, Jake "the Snake" Roberts, and Ahmed Johnson. Camp Cornette won when Vader pinned Roberts with the Vader Bomb. At Good Friends, Better Enemies on April 28, Roberts and Ahmed teamed up to take on Hart and Bulldog. While Jim Cornette had the referee distracted, Bulldog hit him in the knee with Cornette's tennis racket; he then forced Roberts to submit with a Single leg Boston Crab. After the match, Roberts and Ahmed attempted to put Roberts' python, Revelations, on Cornette, but Hart pulled Cornette out of the ring.
At King of the Ring, Johnson defeated Goldust to win the WWF Intercontinental Championship. As the first African American Intercontinental Champion, most assumed it was only a matter of time before he climbed to main event status. He was soon paired on-screen with Shawn Michaels in several tag team matches and often helped Michaels against Jim Cornette and his men, known as Camp Cornette. At International Incident, Johnson along with Sycho Sid and Michaels lost to Vader, Owen Hart, and the British Bulldog. On the August 5 edition of Raw, Ahmed won an 11-man battle royal, last eliminating the man whom he beat for the IC title, Goldust to be the #1 contender for the WWF Championship.
On the July 22 edition of Raw, Michaels and Johnson teamed again and challenged The Smoking Gunns (Billy and Bart) for the WWF Tag Team Championship. During the match, Faarooq Asad debuted and attacked Johnson. This was supposed to lead to a match at SummerSlam for the Intercontinental Title. He was diagnosed with legit kidney problems, however. As a result, he was out for 4 months and to keep the angle going the attack by Farooq was said to be the cause of the kidney damage. By the time the news was made public on WWF programming, the third (out of 4) showings of Raw from Seattle taped on the same night as the attack had not been broadcast, and it included the 11-man battle royal which Ahmed Johnson won. Voice-over correction was done so that Ahmed's participation in the battle royal was said to be against doctors' orders when in reality his kidney problem had yet to be discovered. The injury forced him to vacate his Intercontinental Championship, which was subsequently won in a tournament by Marc Mero. A second battle royal was held between the final four participants of the previous one, which was won by Goldust.
He returned to enter a feud with Faarooq in 1997 (who had a new gimmick and formed the Nation of Domination). Finally, the two had an encounter at Royal Rumble 1997, where Johnson won by disqualification. Two days later, Johnson and The Undertaker defeated Faarooq and Nation member Crush in a No Holds Barred match at a show Triple Threat. He began teaming with the Legion of Doom (Hawk and Animal) and the three fought the entire Nation at WrestleMania 13 in a Chicago Street Fight. At A Cold Day In Hell, he defeated Crush and Savio Vega in a Gauntlet match before losing to Faarooq. Mired in the angle, however, and losing popularity with the fans, Johnson turned into a shadow of his former self.
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