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Dan Dare

xHw Original and the co-leader of Fully Loaded, Dan Dare, is ready to make his debut on the World stage!

"Daring" Dan Michaelson's career has been so intertwined with the existence of xHw that you basically can't say "xHw" without Dan Dare being in the same sentence.
Having trained with them and making his pro debut with them in the early 90's, he was quite the youthful high-flyer; so much so that was fast-tracked to championship contendership conversation and eventually tag-teamed with fellow rookie Keith Gaines (then masked and going by "Lostsyde", named after Lostside Marsh in the video game Soul Blazer), who he won multiple xHw Tag Team Championships with.
During one of their feuds with the heel team of Macabre and RWWCWF mainstay The Underhander, Dan was splashed in the face with acid -- the acid was supposed to be gimmicked (Diet Sprite, actually), but it was in fact real hydrochloric acid, scarring his face permanently. No one to this day has been able to definitively find out who switched out the acid and whether Macabre (who threw the acid) was aware of the switch.

As a result of this, Dan dropped his gimmick and adopted a much darker nature, no longer going by his father's name of Michaelson but his mother's name of Dare, and going by the moniker "Hardkore".

In 1999, he began touring other companies with 2 friends, RWWCWF mainstay "HaRdCoRE" Heriberto Hernandez and mutual friend "Nightmare" Jon Baker; they found their way to the Original-UWF, where Dare rebranded from "Hardkore" to "HaRdKoRE" to sync better with Hernandez, and won multiple Tag Team and 24/7 Hardcore Championships in his 4 or so years with the company.

In 2003, when his half-brother Axl Evermore invested a large chunk of his earnings into starting R:ISE, Dan invested as well and took a behind-the-scenes role as Head Booker rather than appearing on-air as a wrestler or authority figure, and continued his wrestling career in xHw -- only, a short time after the start-up of R:ISE, Dare found himself on the opposing side to former tag partner Keith Gaines, as Keith turned heel in what would become known in the B5C (the Big 5 Confederation, a group of 5 feds under a single cross-promotional banner) and its immediate circle of friendly companies as "The Immaculate Deception".

Dare's role in xHw has primarily been as the top babyface in the company for roughly the past 20-something years, and has been inspired by his younger teammates in Fully Loaded and his trainees in R:ISE to return to touring, signing a touring contract (alongside the rest of Fully Loaded) with the Fire Pro Wrestling Alliance in a highly-publicized press conference in July 2017.

Regular entrance theme is "Ain't My ♥♥♥♥♥" by Metallica
PPV entrance theme is "I'll See You In Heaven Or Hell" by Rage
(alt entrance theme is "Black Or White" by Static-X)

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