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Danny Holly (also spelled as Hollie, or Holliday) better known as Danny Basham is a professional wrestler currently performing for World Wrestling Entertainment and is signed to the RAW brand.

Career

Holly made his wrestling debut in Ohio Valley Wrestling, as the Damaja. On January 6, he and David C. were awarded the OVW Tag Title when Nick Dinsmore no-showed and Rob Conway was counted out. He was also a three-time OVW Champion, defeating the likes of Dinsmore, Flash Flanagan, and Nova.

In 2003 he was given the managerial services of Tough Enough II winner Shaniqua, and then on May 29, made his WWE television debut (as Danny Basham), teaming with Doug Basham to form the heel tag-team, the Basham Brothers. The Bashams (as they were commonly known) were later aligned with the valet, Shaniqua. As well as being portrayed with a bondage-based S&M gimmick, the "brothers" often switched places mid-match, so the "fresher" wrestler was always in the ring. In almost all cases the referee acted oblivious to the switch, despite their easily differentiated faces and won their first WWE Tag Team Championship from Los Guerreros on the October 23, 2003 edition of Smackdown!. The team would go on to lose the titles in Feburary 2004 to Rikishi and Scotty Too Hotty. The Basham Brothers and Shaniqua faced Scotty 2 Hotty and Rikishi at WWE No Way Out 2004 in a handicapped match for the tag team titles but lost the match when Shaniqua was pinned. Right after this match The Basham Brothers would lose their manger Shaniqua as she was sent to OVW for training.

The Basham Brothers would go on to join John Bradshaw Layfield's cabinet stable on the 25 November 2004. Known as JBL's Co-Secretaries of Defense. Their role was often to sacrifice themselves to prevent Layfield from getting harmed after he had provoked an opponent. The Bashams would once again win Tag Team gold defeating four other teams. The Basham Brothers lost the titles to Rey Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero at WWE No Way Out on February 20 2005. The Basham Brothers quit Layfield's Cabinet on the June 16, 2005 episode of SmackDown!, claiming that they were tired of being "JBL's crash test dummies" and not getting enough respect.

On June 30, 2005, Danny Basham became one of the last-minute trades in the 2005 WWE Draft, which saw him leave SmackDown! for RAW. This marked the end of the partnership with his "twin brother," who remained on SmackDown!

On the July 18th edition of RAW, Danny Basham made an appearance as one of Chris Jericho's hand picked lumberjacks in the Lumberjack match between John Cena and Gene Snitsky in which Jericho picked all heel lumberjacks to make the odds unfair for John Cena. At the end, the face superstars came out to make the odds even and John Cena picked up the win with the F-U.

In August 2005 Holly worked dark matches during RAW tapings under his former gimmick, The Damaja.

He made his debut on September 11th 2005 edition of WWE Heat as Danny Basham with his Damaja gimmick only more gothic and Raven-like with new music and had his first televised match on the RAW brand. Holly disappeared after that.

On December 17th Danny Basham returned to action at a RAW house show. Much like his "brother" Doug, he has grown his hair out. Danny Basham disappeared again after that.

On February 3, 2006, his wwe.com profile was updated, with his new profile picture and entrance music video.

Danny Basham returned to action at a Raw house show on February 10, 2006 But he has yet to make a televised appearence since September 2005. Danny Basham disappeared yet again after that.

On March 17th, 2006 Rene Dupree and The Basham Brothers were recently offered new deals from WWE. There is no word yet if they have signed them though.

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