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Josh Harter (born February 4, 1982 in Detroit, Michigan), better known by his ring name Chris Sabin, is an American professional wrestler, currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in its X Division and Border City Wrestling.

Career

Harter began training as a wrestler in his home state of Michigan at the NWA Great Lakes Pro Wrestling School. After the school began experiencing difficulties, he travelled to Windsor, Ontario and completed his training under Scott D'Amore and Amazing N8 at the Can-Am Wrestling School. He debuted in 2000 after four months training as Chris Sabin, and began working for D'Amore's Border City Wrestling promotion and for independent promotions in Michigan.

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

Sabin joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in 2003 as a face and immediately began competing in the X Division. On April 30, 2003, he faced Jerry Lynn and defending champion Amazing Red for the TNA X Division Championship when members of Vince Russo's Sports Entertainment Xtreme stable attacked Lynn and Red. After the match, Sabin turned heel by joining the stable. On May 25, he defeated Jerry Lynn to unify his X Division Championship with Lynn's WWA International Cruiserweight Championship. Sabin main evented the June 28 TNA pay-per-view when he unsuccessfully challenged A.J. Styles for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. His reign ended after three months when he lost to Michael Shane in the first ever Ultimate X match on August 20.

On September 3 of that year, Sabin won the 2003 Super X Cup, thus becoming the number one contender to the X Division Championship. He regained the X Division Championship on January 7, 2004, defeating Shane, Christopher Daniels and Low-Ki in the second Ultimate X match. He was stripped of the title on March 26, 2004 after a knee injury left him unable to defend it.

After returning from injury, Sabin took part in the X Cup Tournament in May 2004, forming Team USA with Jerry Lynn, Christopher Daniels and Elix Skipper. On May 26, Team USA defeated Team Mexico, Team Canada and Team Japan in a two hour pay-per-view event which saw the teams fight one another in a variety of matches. The finals saw Sabin wrestle the Canadian Petey Williams and the Mexican Héctor Garza in an Ultimate X match, which Sabin won when he retrieved a large red "X" which had been suspended above the ring on steel cables.

For the remainder of 2004 Sabin contended for the X Division Championship. He won another Ultimate X on November 9 to win a title shot at Petey Williams. During the leadup, they ran an angle where Sabin was able to reverse Williams' Canadian Destroyer into his own Cradle Shock finishing move. At Turning Point on December 5, however, Williams was able to secure a victory with the help of a pair of brass knuckles. Sabin got another shot at the title at Final Resolution on January 16, 2005, in an Ultimate X match with Williams and A.J. Styles. Styles won the match and the title when he snatched the title from Williams' and Sabin's collective grip while they were still on the X ropes.

Throughout 2005, Sabin feuded with Michael Shane, by now wrestling as Matt Bentley. In September 2005 he began a feud with Shocker that was killed when Shocker was unable to return from Mexico for their scheduled match at Unbreakable on September 11.

So far in 2006, Sabin has mostly teamed up with Sonjay Dutt, to great effect, beating Team Canada in a #1 Contenders Tag Team Tournament on Impact.

However at the Against All Odds PPV event Sabin and Dutt were beaten by Chris Harris and James Storm (America's Most Wanted) in a bout for the NWA World Tag Team Championships.

On March 11, Chris Sabin defeated Alex Shelley and Sonjay Dutt in a 3-way match to represent both the USA in the "International X-Division Showcase" at TNA Destination X 2006 as well as joining Jay Lethal on Team TNA in the upcoming World X Cup Tournament.

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