Matt Bloom

[2][5][8] Bloom debuted on WWF television on the April 11, 1999, episode of Sunday Night Heat, saving Droz from a beating at the hands of Big Boss Man.[19] Boss Man and Albert would challenge Big Show for the WWF Championship in a losing effort in a handicap match on the December 13 episode of Raw is War.[23][24][25][26][27] At King of the Ring on June 25, T & A competed against Too Cool (Grand Master Sexay and Scotty 2 Hotty), The Hardy Boyz (Matt and Jeff), and Edge and Christian in a four corners elimination match for the Tag Team Championship, which they failed to win.On the June 28 episode of SmackDown!, Albert defeated Kane in a no disqualification match, following assistance by Diamond Dallas Page to win the Intercontinental Championship, his first and only title in the WWF.Albert held the Intercontinental Championship for a month, retaining the title against The Undertaker, Edge, Rhyno, former X-Factor teammate Justin Credible, and Tommy Dreamer.At Invasion, Albert represented WWF by teaming with Billy Gunn and Big Show against Alliance's Chris Kanyon, Hugh Morrus and Shawn Stasiak in a losing effort.The following night, Albert lost the Intercontinental Championship to Alliance member Lance Storm on the July 23 episode of Raw is War, after several wrestlers interfered.[8] On the January 22, 2004, episode of SmackDown!, A-Train defeated Shannon Moore to qualify for the 2004 Royal Rumble match, which he failed to win after being eliminated by the eventual winner, Chris Benoit.After Benoit decided to wrestle Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship on the Raw brand, General Manager Paul Heyman held a SmackDown!On March 11, 2007, in Nagoya, Bloom and Travis Tomko defeated Manabu Nakanishi and Takao Omori to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship.On September 5, 2008, Bernard and Fuller betrayed Shinsuke Nakamura and Hirooki Goto to align themselves with Togi Makabe's Great Bash Heel stable.[41] Bad Intentions made their first successful defense of the IWGP Tag Team Championship on July 19, defeating Seigigun and No Limit in a three-way "Dogfight".[43][44] On January 4, 2011, at Wrestle Kingdom V in Tokyo Dome, Bad Intentions successfully defended the IWGP Tag Team Championship in a three-way match against Beer Money, Inc. (James Storm and Robert Roode) and Muscle Orchestra (Manabu Nakanishi and Strong Man).[52] On September 9, Bad Intentions became the longest reigning IWGP Tag Team Champions, breaking the previous record of 446 days set by Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Masahiro Chono in 2003.Bad Intentions made their second GHC Tag Team Championship defense on October 31, defeating Go Shiozaki and Shuhei Taniguchi at a Pro Wrestling Noah event.[56] On November 12 at Power Struggle, Bad Intentions made their tenth successful IWGP Tag Team Championship defense against Archer and Suzuki.[57] On January 4, 2012, at Wrestle Kingdom VI in Tokyo Dome, Bad Intentions lost the IWGP Tag Team Championship to Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima), ending their record-setting reign at 564 days.[60] Bloom publicly denied the signing;[61] however, on the March 19 episode of Raw, he appeared in a vignette under the new ring name "Lord Tensai" (天災).[62][63] On the April 2 episode of Raw, Bloom made his WWE re-debut as Lord Tensai, where he was accompanied by his follower Sakamoto before defeating Alex Riley.[64] In the following weeks, Tensai went on a winning streak, scoring pinfall victories over lower card wrestlers and even main stars including John Cena and WWE Champion CM Punk.[67] Following this, Tensai began losing much more frequently throughout the rest of 2012,[68] beginning with John Cena ending his winning streak before he also suffered a loss to World Heavyweight Champion Sheamus.[74] Over the next three months, Tensai's losing streak resumed, as he lost to the likes of Tyson Kidd, Sin Cara, Randy Orton, and Ryback.[85] Tensai (also now referred to by the name Sweet T)[86] and Clay announced their official tag-team name "Tons of Funk" on the March 27 episode of Main Event, where they accompanied The Funkadactyls (Cameron and Naomi) to the ring in a losing effort to The Bella Twins with Team Rhodes Scholars in their corner when Nikki pinned Naomi after an interference by Cody Rhodes.[92] In November 2013, Tons of Funk began to show signs of instability once Clay started a storyline where he became angry and jealous of the debuting Xavier Woods.[97] After Tons of Funk disbanded, Bloom was taken off television and, in January 2014, began working in WWE's developmental territory NXT as a commentator under the new ring name "Jason Albert".[6] On August 7, Bloom stated he decided to retire from in-ring competition and announced that he would begin working as a trainer in the WWE Performance Center, resuming his teaching profession.