The Eliminators

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The Eliminators
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Tag team
Members	Perry Saturn John Kronus
Name(s)	The Eliminators
Heights	5 ft 10 in (178 cm) - Perry Saturn 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) - John Kronus
Debuted	1993
Disbanded	1997
Promotions	USWA WAR ECW

The Eliminators was a professional wrestling tag team that consisted of Perry Saturn and John Kronus who were most well know for their time in ECW between 1995 and 1997 before breaking up.

1 History
- 1.1 USWA
- 1.2 ECW
2 In Wrestling
3 Championships and accomplishments

While working as the manager of a nightclub in Boston, Perry Satullo met bouncer George Caiazo, who expressed an interest in becoming a wrestler. Satullo sent Caiazo to Killer Kowalski's school to train, and then offered to form a tag team with him. At this point, Satullo adopted the surname Saturn and Caiazo based his surname on the Greek equivalent of the God Saturn, Cronus just spelled Kronus. As Saturn and Cronus were their cultures' respective gods of the harvest, Satullo proposed that the team be known as "The Harvesters of Sorrow". Promoter Jerry Lawler advised Satullo that the significance of the name would not be evident to many fans, so they became known as "The Eliminators" instead.

The Eliminators wrestled their first match together at a United States Wrestling Association house show in 1993. They were hired at a starting salary of $40 a week, and shared an apartment with Brendan Shanahan and James Lewis. After working with the USWA for a while, gaining experience as a team the two managed to negotiate a 100% pay rise. The team’s first brush with tag-team gold came when they made it all the way to the finals of a tournament to crown new USWA Tag-Team Champions but lost in the finals to Brian Christopher and Saturn’s mentor "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert in April 1994. The team kept pursuing the titles and a few weeks later on May 2, 1992 Saturn and Kronus beat Christopher & Gilbert for the titles.

The Eliminators held the gold for about 6 weeks until they came up against PG-13 on June 13, 1994 who beat them for the titles. The Eliminators stuck around the USWA for the remainder of 1994 working both as a tag-team and in individual competition.

In 1995 Saturn and Kronus branched out and travelled to Japan to work for the Japanese wrestling federation WAR. On one WAR card they tangled with wrestling legends Mil Mascaras, Bob Backlund & Jimmy Snuka.

During their tour of Japan the compactly-built and heavily-tattooed Saturn and the high-flying Kronus caught the attention of booker Paul Heyman. Heyman signed the two with Extreme Championship Wrestling when they were originally brought in to job to the Steiner Brothers when he thought they were staying with the company for a lengthy period. Heyman initially planned on giving the Eliminators a sadism and masochism gimmick and but soon changed his mind and presented the duo as an unstoppable force ala the Road Warriors. He also gave them a manager, Jason Knight, to compensate for their weak interview skills.

The Eliminators started a violent feud with The Pitbulls whom they clashed with repeatedly between October 1995 and April 1996. The teams clashed both in regular tag-team competition and with partners such as The Heavenly Bodies, Stevie Richards and Raven in an Ultimate Jeopardy Steel Cage match against the Pitbulls, Public Enemy and Tommy Dreamer on December 9, 1995. After The Pitbulls' manager Francine cut Saturn's hair, he shaved his head completely in a homage to Mickey Knox, the character depicted by Woody Harrelson in Natural Born Killers (in reality, Saturn was beginning to go bald).

On February 2, 1996 the Eliminators beat Cactus Jack and Mikey Whipwreck to win the ECW Tag Team Championship. After disposing of the Pitbulls the Eliminators were targeted by The Gangstas setting off a bloody feud between the two teams. On August 13, 1996 the Gangstas beat the Eliminators for the tag-team titles and clung on to the gold until the Eliminators regained the titles on December 20, 1996. As the Eliminators / Gangstas feud continued into 1997 another team entered the fray making it a three way way between the Eliminators, the Gangstas and the Dudley Boyz. The Dudley Boys won the tag-team titles from the Eliminators on March 15, 1997 only to lose them back to the Eliminators at ECW’s first PPV Barely Legal on April 13, 1997.

On May 31, 1997 in Trenton, New Jersey Saturn tore his ACL when he landed on a crutch while executing a kick on Big Dick Dudley. Despite the injury Saturn competed in a match that saw the Eliminators drop the tag-team titles back to the Dudley Boyz. After intense reconstructive surgery, Saturn was given a recovery time of as much as a year. He began rehabilitating after two months and returned to action in August although in a diminished capacity due to his knee problems. Saturn had become impatient with what he regarded as Kronus' lack of motivation and dedication, and refused to reform the Eliminators. Paul Heyman offered to release him from his contract if he could find alternate employment. Saturn entered into negotiations with World Championship Wrestling and signed a contract with WCW while not being 100% recovered from his knee injury.

After Saturn left Kronus began teaming with various wrestlers including former enemy New Jack to form The Gangstanators but never achieved the same success as he did together with Perry Saturn