Chris Parks

Known for ActingBorn 1973-10-04 (age 52)Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Christopher Parks, better known by his ring name "The Monster" Abyss, is an American professional wrestler most recently signed with Impact Wrestling. As Abyss in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), Parks is a former NWA World Heavyweight Champion, being the first of only two men to hold the title while competing under a mask. Abyss is the heaviest wrestler to hold the X Division Championship. He also captured the Television Championship once, the NWA World Tag Team Championship once with A.J. Styles and the TNA World Tag Team Championship twice with James Storm and Crazzy Steve. With having won all the required championships, Abyss was the fourth man to complete the Triple Crown Championship and the second to complete the Grand Slam Championship Chris Parks was born in Washington, D.C. He attended high school in Cleveland, Ohio, where he played American football. Training and debut Chris Parks was trained by Roger Ruffin of the Northern Wrestling Federation (NWF). He won his debut match by disqualification. For the first few years of his career, Parks worked in the NWF as the Original Terminator, Chris Justice, and then Prince Justice. In 2001, Parks worked for NWA Wildside, where he won the NWA Wildside Tag Team Championship with A.J. Styles. He also wrestled Jerry Lawler in Memphis Power Pro Championship Wrestling. Parks was then discovered by Dutch Mantel, who at the time was booking the IWA Puerto Rico, when Mantel attended the first ever Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) pay-per-view in Huntsville, Alabama on June 19, 2002. Parks appeared at the pay-per-view in the Gauntlet for the Gold match under the ring name Justice. Mantel then booked Parks to appear in the IWA. The Abyss character first appeared in IWA at Golpe de Estado in July 2002 in front of 13,000 fans at the Roberto Clemente baseball park in Carolina, Puerto Rico, when he attacked and disabled Shane the Glamour Boy, who was scheduled to appear in the main event that night versus Savio Vega. While working for the company, Parks held the IWA Hardcore Championship, IWA Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship, and IWA World Tag Team Championship. Parks worked in the IWA under Mantel for approximately one year until he rejoined TNA in 2003.Read more

Movies & web series

TNA: Best of the Asylum Years, Vol 2

ROH: Year Four

Alex Shelley: Made in Detroit

ROH: Top 100 Matches, Vol 2

Jeff Jarrett: King of the Mountain

TNA Wrestling: Ultimate Matches

Bloodstained Honor

TNA Wrestling: 50 Greatest Matches

TNA: The 50 Greatest Moments

TNA Unbreakable 2005

TNA Hard Justice 2005

TNA Wrestling: Bound for Glory

TNA Against All Odds 2007

TNA Against All Odds 2010

IMPACT Wrestling: Homecoming 2019

TNA Final Resolution 2009

TNA Hard Justice 2008

TNA Genesis 2005

Criminal Minds

TNA One Night Only X-Travaganza 2013

TNA One Night Only: Hardcore Justice 2

TNA Genesis 2006

TNA Final Resolution 2005

TNA No Surrender 2005

TNA Destination X 2005

TNA Lockdown 2005

TNA Bound for Glory 2005

TNA Slammiversary 2005

WWE: Unreal

TNA Bound for Glory 2006

TNA Turning Point 2004

WWE Friday Night SmackDown

The Essential AJ Styles Collection

TNA iMPACT!

TNA Lockdown 2013

TNA Slammiversary XI

TNA Turning Point 2012

TNA Sacrifice 2011

TNA Slammiversary 2009

TNA Lockdown 2009

TNA Turning Point 2008

TNA Bound for Glory IV

TNA Final Resolution 2007

TNA Destination X 2006

TNA Against All Odds 2006

TNA Turning Point 2006

TNA Lockdown 2006

TNA Slammiversary 2006