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Jon Trosky (born November 12, 1980) is an American College Professor at Penn State University, an actor / stuntman in the Screen Actors Guild, and a professional wrestler known by his ring name Supreme Lee Great, who competed in North American independent promotions including the Heartland Wrestling Association, Jersey All Pro Wrestling, the National Wrestling Alliance, Pro Wrestling Unplugged, and World Xtreme Wrestling. One of the 200 finalists selected for the first season of WWE Tough Enough, Trosky made several appearances for World Wrestling Entertainment. He was also formerly employed an information technology consultant for with which he toured Italy and Australia between 2005 and 2007. Trosky has also established a successful career as a stunt performer and coordinator. In 2007, he and Smooth Tommy Suede trained Nicolas Cage, and later Mickey Rourke, for the lead role in Darren Aronofsky's film ''The Wrestler''. This led to further work in ''Tell Tale'', starring Josh Lucas and Brian Cox, and in the independent film ''Big Fan'' as the stunt double for Patton Oswalt. He has since worked as a stunt rigger on the television series ''Life on Mars'' and ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'', and as a utility stunt performer in feature films ''Remember Me'', ''13'', ''The Switch'' and ''Rabbit Hole''. Trosky also was the stuntman in the ''Coke Zero'' ''Super Bowl XLIII'' Commercial that was a spoof of the 1979 ''Mean'' ''Joe Greene'' ''Coca-Cola'' commercial. The 2009 commercial featured ''Troy Polamalu'' tackling Trosky who was doubling for ''Robert Alan Beuth''. ==Early life and career== Trosky became interested in professional wrestling at an early age when he and his brother were taken to see a World Wrestling Federation show at the local Catholic Youth Center in Scranton. Learning amateur wrestling in elementary school, he eventually had a successful career in high school winning district championships in folk style and placements in state tournaments for Greco-Roman freestyle wrestling. He also took second place at the Keystone State Games. Trosky was offered athletic scholarships to Wilkes University and King's College among others. After deciding to attend Wilkes, his scholarship was withdrawn a week before the semester as he had been competing professionally in violation of NCAA regulations. He eventually attended Bloomsburg University graduating with a degree in mass communications in 2003 and later received a master's degree in interactive instructional technology.〔McCaffrey, Sean. "Interview with Supreme Lee Great." ''DeclarationofIndependents.net.'' 2003. 24 Aug. 2008 He and a friend, Garrett Orban, began competing in "backyard wrestling" as teenagers with Trosky using the name "The Comet Warrior". Trosky, along with Orban and Brian Dorshefski, also set up rings for Extreme Championship Wrestling and other local promotions, in part to Orban's friendship with local wrestling promoter Dan Kowal. Kowal, founder of GLOW, Women's Extreme Wrestling and The Wrestling Zone, later expressed interest in booking him and his friends after seeing one of their tapes in November 1998. They were originally supposed to appear in Kowal's WWWA promotion in February 1999, however several show cancellations pushed back his debut for several months. On May 22, 1999, Trosky had his first professional wrestling match against Garrett Dominance (Garrett Orban) in Malvern, Pennsylvania. A few months later, he and another friend, Brian Dorshefski, traveled to Tennessee and Kentucky where he began his initial training with Mike Promo where he learned ring psychology and southern style wrestling. After two weeks, he returned to Pennsylvania and eventually started training at the Wild Samoan Pro Wrestling Training Center in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. As well as Afa and Sal Bellomo, other wrestlers involved in his training included Samula Anoa'i and former graduates Jake Molsonn and Tommy Suede.〔 He graduated four months later, two months less than the standard six month program, although he continued to train at the center throughout his early career and, in October 2000, he became an assistant instructor at the school. He also trained at the East Coast Pro Wrestling school and in the Tennessee-Kentucky area.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jon Trosky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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