is an American professional wrestler best known for his stint with the World Wrestling Federation as Alex "The Pug" Pourteau between 1996 and 1997. Pourteau, working for the GWF won their Global Wrestling Federation Light Heavyweight Championship on four occasions. His first reign began on July 31, 1992, when he defeated Terry Simms. He would lose the title to Mike Dahl on October 23, 1991; after winning the World Wrestling Council World Junior Heavyweight Championship. Pourteau then went on tour with World Wrestling Counciland whilst on the tour won the World Wrestling Council World Junior Heavyweight Championship by defeating Ricky Santana on September 4, 1991.He lost the title on September 21 of the same year and returned to the GWF. He did not return to World Wrestling Council following the tour. After returning to the Global Wrestling Federation, he again won the GWF Light Heavyweight Championship on January 22, 1993, by defeating Mike Dahl. Pourteau lost the title to Calvin Knapp but won the championship a third time after defeating Steven Dane after Knapp had vacated the title. On February 20, 1994, he lost the title, once again to Knapp, whom he defeated for the championship in August 1994 in Guatemala. Later in the same month, Pourteau lost the championship to Osamu Nishimura, with the GWF closing in September 1994. Pourteau also began teaming with Shawn Summers, in a tag team known as the Beach Bullies, although the team had no championship success. Pourteau had also begun to wrestle for Network of Wrestling in Japan for two years, beginning in 1993 and ending in 1995.Pourteau, whilst wrestling for the company, had no championship success. World Wrestling Federation Pourteau had worked for the World Wrestling Federation on odd occasions from 1994, but began to wrestle full-time for the company in 1996. Pourteau received a push from the WWF, under the name Alex "The Pug" Pourteau, with the gimmick of an amateur wrestler (using the theme song The Steiner Brothers used in the WWF), however his character did not last. Sometimes he teamed up with Aldo Montoya and Bob Holly. After a year with the company, Pourteau left the WWF in 1997. Post WWF career Since leaving the WWF in 1997, Pourteau joined WCW for a brief stint mainly performing on WCW Pro and WorldWide. He then wrestled on the independent wrestling circuit. Pourteau has wrestled for independent companies including Full Impact Pro. In 2001 he returned to World Wrestling Council, winning their Television Championship on July 7.He lost the championship on July 28, 2001, to Chris Grant. Pourteau, at unknown periods of his career, has also won the CWA (Dallas) Tag Team Championship,BDPW (Dallas) Heavyweight Championship TAP (Texas) Heavyweight Championship and the SECW Tag Team Championship (with Frankie Lancaster). At WrestleMania XXV, Pourteau participated as a member of John Cena's "army