Post by Clancy McClean on Sept 14, 2004 13:53:33 GMT -6
CLANCY McCLEAN
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[/center]From Wikipedia:
Clancy McClean is an American business magnate, socialite, author, freelance journalist, occasional professional wrestler and television personality. He is the chairman and CEO of the CMC Corporation, an international conglomerate with interests in a wide array of business sectors including entertainment, professional wrestling, property development and stationary production. McClean came to prominence in 2001 as an on-screen personality for professional wrestling promotion GroundZero Wrestling 2K1 and has over the years become a fully fledged celebrity. He has topped the Sunday Times Rich List on five occasions.
Real Name: Clarence Xavier McClean
Nicknames: “The Renaissance Man”, “The C-Man”, “Wealth Personified”, “The” Clancy McClean, “The Writing Franchise”, “Clance Vance”, “Clancy McDirty” (alleged pornstar alter ego), “The Philanthropist”, will often borrow nicknames from established GZW2K1 stars e.g. Clancy “Monarch” McClean, etc.
Date of Birth: 21st October 1959 (53 years old)
Height: 5’8
Weight: 250lbs
Hometown: San Francisco, California
Theme Music: “Money” by Pink Floyd
Clancy McClean is perhaps the most colourful GZW2K1 on-air personality of all-time. An accomplished entrepreneur and business magnate in his own right, he first came to the Globalverse in 2001 as the manager of heel stable What Money Can Buy. From these humble beginnings he has risen, fallen and risen again any number of times. His tenure has seen him as a manager, active competitor, executive, columnist and more often than not as a general on-air personality.
Wrestling Career Highlights
GZW2K1 United States Heavyweight Champion
GZW2K1 Director of New Media
Freelance journalist – author of critically acclaimed Just Business column
Represented GZW2K1 at 2006 RoughKut Invitational II Tournament
Hotwire Magazine Man of the Year (2004, 2005)
Personality
Clancy McClean is outspoken, verbose and obnoxious. He has more than an inflated opinion of himself and is semi-delusional regarding his own achievements and status. Though he has often in jest ascribed titles and awards upon himself, in more recent times it seems as though he may not be joking and that he actually believes that he, for example, is the only Grand Slam Champion in GZW2K1. Whether this is the early onset of dementia or just a benign silliness isn’t clear. Fundamentally a selfish, nasty little man though this can often manifest itself in on-screen comedy so his darker side tends to be overlooked.
Portfolio
Brilliant entrepreneur that he is, Clancy McClean has many, many fingers in many, many pies.
• CMC Corporation
The CMC Corporation is one of the world’s largest multinational corporations, yet it is not entirely clear what it is that they do. Clancy McClean founded the CMC Corporation in 1991, initially as a manufacturer of staplers and other low-margin, low-risk office equipment. As the years went on Clancy’s ideas became bigger, bolder and grander – some good, many bad (see “Failed Ventures” below). The corporation today has interests in property development, investment banking, publishing, adult entertainment, education (the recently established Clancy McClean College of Medicine and Beauty Therapy in Idaho Beer Bottle Crossing, Georgia, for one) amongst many more. It is also the parent company of indy wrestling concern Insane Gods of Wrestling. McClean and his CMC Corporation have officially been declared as ‘persons of interest’ by a number of American and International law enforcement agencies, including the IRS, the FBI and INTERPOL. The corporation has been suspected of insider trading and industrial espionage for several years, though to date no formal charges have ever been brought forward. Clancy himself was charged with tax evasion for the financial year 2001-2002, although charges were promptly dropped.
• Insane Gods of Wrestling (IGW)
Clancy McClean’s very own wrestling promotion, wherein he can (and does) live out his wildest, stupidest fantasies. McClean acquired the company in 2006 and gutted the roster and administrative staff, upping sticks entirely to his hometown of San Francisco, California. The roster was replaced with a mixture of blatant rip-offs of established Globalstars and poorly-developed “gimmick” characters. Surprisingly the promotion has gone from strength to strength and its sporadic, oft-unplanned television output boasts higher ratings now than it did in its previous, better run and better quality, incarnation.
• Just Business
One of GZW2K1 Hotwire magazine’s longest-running columns, and generally considered as Clancy’s big break within the wrestling industry. Though publication now is infrequent at best, Just Business remains a favourite amongst readers and back editions pull in massive numbers. Better than The Cairns Opinion.
Failed Ventures
Like any great “ideas man”, more than a couple of Clancy’s ventures have not worked out quite as well as he may have planned.
• McCleanald’s
Clancy’s stab at the fast food sector. Established in December 1999, its corporate insignia (as well as general restaurant layout, menu, staff uniforms, clown spokesperson, etc.) bore a striking resemblance to that of rival chain McDonald’s. McCleanald’s folded in January 2000 amid a barrage of aggressive lawsuits.
• Clancy McClean and the Clancy McCleans
During one of his frequent hiatuses from the wrestling world, Clancy formed this lacklustre dance-punk band. Though they released nine albums in 2008 and toured extensively in Zambia, the band were a critical and financial failure. They split in 2009, though Clancy maintains that a comeback tour (and 17 accompanying comeback albums) is a distinct possibility.
• Dry-Mc-Clean-Bank
This silly dry cleaners-cum-bank (with a crap name) opened its doors one week before the collapse of the Lehman Brothers. Clancy’s idea in this case was to save time for busy professionals who could carry out their financial business whilst getting their clothes dry-cleaned. It folded the day after the Lehman Brothers did.
• GZW2K1 Presidential Bid(s)
Clancy has publicly had designs on the position of GZW2K1 President for many years now, seemingly more because he wants rid of his old rival Seth Richards than for any major political purpose. He has been unsuccessful thus far.
• Creation Wrestling 2 ½
Clancy’s attempt in mid 2011 to establish an indy promotion in the UK to rival his bitter enemy Chris Cairns’ Creation Wrestling II never got off the ground. His attempts to secure patents and trademarks for the name alone cost several million British pounds and were unsuccessful nonetheless.
• McClean-Slate Bankruptcy Consultancy
Semi-legal at best, this short-lived agency was set up to assist a number of Clancy’s property developer pals in hiding and concealing as many of their assets as possible from governmental agencies (post the property market collapse) and then how to go about filing for bankruptcy. Though the company folded within a number of weeks, the IRS is still investigating its books.
Friends
• Tech Nishin’
Clancy’s jack-of-all-trades sidekick. Tech Nishin’ is a qualified engineer, with a master’s degree from MIT. Upon graduating, he joined the CMC Corporation on its graduate programme (which has since been discontinued). Clancy found Tech’s appearance humorous and so plucked him away from his valuable engineering job to become a general dogsbody for Clancy himself. He had made sporadic appearances alongside Clancy on GZW2K1 TV and is a regular commentator on IGW programming.
• BDR
The two met when a young BDR interviewed Clancy for a Hotwire magazine special and have been good pals ever since. Clancy sees a lot of himself in the obnoxious egomaniac and has a soft spot for the young man. BDR worked his way up to become Assistant Director of New Media for GZW2K1, working directly under Clancy. Though the two share a penchant for frequent disappearances from GZW2K1 and have possibly never been both active at the same time since 2005, they remain in regular contact. Clancy fancies himself as something of a father figure to BDR.
• Jay Jameson
Clancy championed this young man during the boom of 2005 and had big plans for him to become a major player. Jameson received a generous push and with Clancy in his corner seemed destined for greatness. His career, however, petered out in a haze of substance abuse and general apathy. Clancy maintains a soft spot for the long-retired Jameson nonetheless.
• Powerful heels in general
Essentially quite a spineless man with questionable moral ties, Clancy has historically attached himself to the powerful heel wrestlers and on-air personalities. He has used his Just Business column among other platforms to promote the likes of Pimp Bizkit, Monarch, Monarch, Leon Corbin and whoever else happens to be powerful or popular.
Enemies
• Chris Cairns
Clancy’s greatest rival and without doubt the longest-running feud in GZW2K1 history. Though its beginnings may have been petty (some say neither man can remember what it was they were initially fighting about), the rivalry has got legs and has persisted for nearly a decade. The war has generally taken place on the pages of Hotwire magazine, where Clancy’s Just Business and Cairns’ Opinion have often gone head-to-head, and more recently via the competition between Insane Gods of Wrestling and Creation Wrestling II. Petty, bitter one-upmanship have made for some of the most bizarre television in the history of the Globalverse. Despite the two meeting in the ring at Heatwave 2011 (and Clancy picking up the decisive win) the feud shows no signs of calming down…ever.
• Seth Richards
Richards initially worked under McClean in the early days of GZW2K1, until the two had a mysterious falling out that led to McClean disappearing for almost three years and Richards taking over all of his GZW2K1 interests, including his beloved What Money Can Buy stable. All sorts of rumours have circulated concerning what exactly happened although neither man has ever clarified what happened. Richards is said to have had a major hand in firing Clancy in 2006 following his poorly-received US Heavyweight title reign. Bad blood still remains between the two.
• Reject
Clancy was Reject’s manager for much of 2004 and early 2005, though the volatile former HKWF star proved quite difficult to actually ‘manage’. They severed ties and ultimately Clancy was able to get Reject fired from GZW2K1 at 2005’s Fallout: Destiny Fulfilled. Reject still harbours a grudge and infrequently shows up at Clancy’s IGW shows and demands to compete. One of the few people that Clancy is legitimately afraid of.
• Most Globalstars
Clancy has been publicly very critical of more or less everyone who has ever competed on GZW2K1 TV at one point or another, be it through the pages of his Just Business column or on-air. Some let it go over their head and get on with their lives while others have taken it more personally and maintain a grudge against McClean.
