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- With this week’s call-up of Alicia Fox to the ECW roster, I thought I would note an old, yet interesting story involving her, as well as two other members of the ECW roster who were called up to the main roster in the past year. This particular incident occurred when the three were in WWE’s developmental system last year.
A few days after last year’s WrestleMania, Fox (real name Victoria Crawford), along with current ECW stars Jack Swagger (real name Jake Hager) and Ricky Ortiz (known as Atlas DaBone in developmental) showed up in no condition to perform at an Ohio Valley Wrestling show. All three current ECW stars showed up to the Friday, April 6, 2007 Ohio Valley Wrestling house show allegedly “stoned out of their minds” and reeking of marijuana.
The wrestlers were immediately reprimanded by Idol Stevens, who occupied a head position in the organization at the time before being being let go by WWE later in the year.
The three wrestlers were very new to the business at the time. Crawford signed with WWE when Kelly Kelly signed her deal in the spring of 2006. Johnny Ace recruited the two after seeing their pictures in a modeling catalog. Jim Ross & Ace recruited Swagger because he was a highly regarded amateur wrestler out of the University of Oklahoma. Ricky Ortiz was signed to a deal within mere months of his debut in early 2007, largely due to his look.
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