Sunday, January 9, 2011

Whole New Meaning to Ring Rats

HBK wanna-be making headlines, but not for ring work




Sean Casey. 'Sexy' Sean Casey to be more precise. In 1995, at the beginning stages of the second 'Golden Age' of professional wrestling, Sean Casey was one of several thousands who decided they wanted to get in on the act. They wanted the fame. They wanted to have their own action figure. They wanted to travel the country, adored and hated by the blue collar followers of the sport. They wanted to be famous.
Casey looked like a male-exotic dancer, he worked that into his act. He performed the dancing, the gyrations, the grinding on female fans. He did his best at ripping off Shawn Michaels. He dressed the part. He even posed for Playgirl.
Casey, a native of the Northern Kentucky/Cincinnati area, got his training from Brian Pillman, another native of the area and a world renowned star in the world of controlled combat. He had the look that producers were looking for. He also had a fairly talented resume for his in ring work. He looked to be destined for at least some sort of success in the Rope Opera.
Casey spent time wrestling in small towns. The Gyms, Church Rec Rooms, Flea Markets,etc. He hung out in sleazy bars in sleazier towns. He went to strip clubs. He was living the life of the professional wrestler. He was going from town to town. Not making any real money, but enough to supply his habit of being a 'rassler. Some guys spend their entire career on the road, never getting the chance to shine for more than one match in either the WWE or WCW, which has been replaced with TNA. However, they make a comfortable living doing this, if they work enough. If they are on the road enough. You don't go home.
Sean Casey has had his cup of tea with the big time, though. He has wrestled dark-matches for the WWF(E), he has been beaten up by some of the biggest names on television. He has been signed to the pro wrestling equivalent of a Triple A contract and headlined angles and shows in Louisville based OVW. He became a local celebrity in towns and cities such as this. On the Indy scene, his name was carrying weight. He was fairly sought after for these shows. It may not have been the Garden, but 650 people were showing up to the Local Armory to see him. It may not be thousands, but it's still a good ego stroke.
He was getting good pay days. He was able to say that wrestling is how he was supporting himself. He had obtained a certain level of notoriety. By all accounts, Sean Casey had become a success. He had made it.
I had seen Casey several times on various tv shows for various promotions. Smoky Mountain, OVW, WCW, WWE, and TNA. I had seen his mug on posters hanging in supermarket windows and on telephone polls in Ashland, Huntington, and Ironton. Sean Casey was somewhat of a fixture for more than 1 promoter who was putting on shows in this area. He wrestled all over the country, but was particularly known in Cincinnati, Ashland, Huntington, and Tennessee.
The first time, and only time, I ever came into contact with Casey, was in Huntington. He was booked on a show for 304 Wrestling. It was the summer, and it was before they had moved into their new digs at the Veteran's Memorial Fieldhouse. They were still putting on shows, outdoors, at Remedies Bar. I had seen a few crazy things happen at these shows, as to be expected. It was pro wrestling mixed with alcohol, and in West Virginia, lethal combo.
Casey seemed alright. He was not particularly arrogant, but he did have a smugness to him. Basically, to me, he came off as somebody who thought they were better looking than they actually are, and was just trying to get laid in Huntington.Well, maybe not laid, but just prove he could get more tail then anyone else there. I was backstage for most of that show. In what capacity I actually served, I still don't know. Casey, was the typical journeyman. He was attempting to come off as some kind of guru to the local guys who will never make it, and acting like he had some kind of rub to give them. He was stroking his ego all night, but like I said, he was an alright guy.
He also had an entourage of 2 surgically enhanced women with him.
It came to be known that Casey was pulling in about 3 million dollars a year in income, but not from his wrestling appearances.
Casey, and his lady friends, were running a business out of his Batavia, OH, townhouse called Naughty Bodies or 247 Dancers. The actual business address listed is for Mount Caramel, OH. The business was set up to provide a service that he, and I assume his ladies were used to. It was a service that provided exotic dancers for private parties and events of the such. However, some have said that the service was also acting as an escort service and prostitution activity.
The service came under scrutiny when a 'dancer' with the service, Kristina Hensley, was arrested in Ohio after he client was found under her vehicle in August. Apparently, the customer had confronted her as she was attempting to leave the residence, and she hit him with her Ford Explorer, and sped off. It was at a gas station where she had pulled off that it was discovered that the client, Jae Cho, was underneath her vehicle.
Before that occurred, A male 'performer' with the company, filed suit in Hamilton County Ohio court in which he alleged that after refusing to have sex with a male customer to whom he was hired out to for a performance, that he was no longer given jobs and the company did not contact him and caused him to be out of work. The company tried to have the case thrown out. David Mann, the accuser, said that he reported the incident to his employer, but has since been blackballed by the company. He is seeking a wrongful termination ruling. Naughty Bodies, refuted the claims and stated that they do not expect any employee to provide such services to clients, and they do not condone such activity. They would also go on to say that they do not technically have employees, as they hire out private contractors. That would be only fitting for this company to operate in the same manner that professional wrestling also operates in the sense of employee classification.
And, there is more...
Tracey Adkins, a dancer with Naughty Bodies, and one of the group entitled 'The 5 Most Wanted' who travel the wrestling circuit with Casey as wrestling performers as well, was charged with rape in Ohio. She is also believed to be the actual girlfriend of Sean Casey, or at least at the time of the ordeal. She would even go on record as saying that she was in fact, engaged to Casey. This was reported in 2007. Adkins is accused by a Cincinnati area stripper of raping her in December, in a home that was owned by Casey. Adkins testified that she had consensual, oral sex with the 20 year old stripper.
The kicker here is that this case also involved former NFL Quarterback, Steve Mcnair. McNair was playing for Baltimore at the time, and was in town to play the Bengals. It was testified in court that the stripper, who never had her real name released, had flirted with McNair all evening, and it was also testified by another party that Summer, the stripper, had sex with McNair that evening.
Adkins stated that 'Summer', was paid $100 to dance that evening at the house to music from a pornographic movie. It was also noted by both women, the Casey was present and sitting on the couch with both women during the act.
Summer had claimed that she asked Sean to "make her stop" and asked "what the hell are you all doing to me?!" She did, however say that Casey did not do anything to her(Summer), nor force her to do anything. Summer also went on the record to say that Adkins would go from performing oral sex on her, to having sexual intercourse with Casey, back and forth. She also said that she asked Casey for help, to which he replied, "I told you she was the freak, not me."
Casey had a cast on his leg, due to it being broken during the alleged altercation.
At one point, it was claimed that Adkins had asked the stripper, "Don't you want to see Cincinnati's sexiest couple enjoy themselves?"
Summer also stated that Adkins forced her to take Ecstasy, therefore she could not resist what was happening. She also denied having sex with McNair that evening. However, according to another dancer who was involved in the evening, Andrea Harris, Summer not only strongly came on to McNair in a limo, but had sex with him in bathroom stall at the airport, to which Mrs. Harris claimed to have witnessed after she went to check on the two when she heard 'banging noises'.
Before the night in question, apparently Summer, the accuser, had been reprimanded by Adkins, while she was working for Naughty Bodies, for having sex with a client.
Summer claimed she had sent out text messages on this evening asking for help. No such text messages were found to be on the phone.
Big mess huh? Well, there is more.
Leap forward to the current time. Naughty Bodies is under investigation again. Both offices for the company, in Covington,KY and Clermont,OH have been searched, or more applicable, raided, by agents from the Vice Squad and the IRS. Agents spent hours taking out boxes of evidence from Sean Casey's home, and even were said to have been getting things out of the trash and putting them with other pieces of evidence.
Authorities from either agency are not saying anything, almost not acknowledging that any investigation is on-going. But, they wore flack jackets and beat down some doors, so yeah, somethings going on. It's pretty big.
Neighbors expect the worse in the situation. Noting that there are way too many people, and girls, coming in and out of the house all hours of the day. And, the area is not zoned for any type of business.
So, just from what is known through other court cases and police activity involving the business, and the fact that the IRS teamed up with the Vice Squad, It would be a pretty safe bet that the charges are going to be tax evasion and prostitution. It's no real secret when you have cracked out whores coming and going what is happening at your, ahem, place of business.
In the comment section of a local TV outlet, one comment was left by someone who claimed to have been under the employment of Naughty Bodies, they wrote that 'the books were always done in pencil and the paper shredder was 2 feet away." The commenter also stated that a reply she got, presumably from Adkins, was that more or less, she just liked writing in pencil.
Eventually, after all the evidence is scoured over, we will have names of employees and clients. And, I have a feeling this is going to be bigger than even I can imagine at this point. There is about to be a lot of dirty laundry hung out on the line.
Nikita Koloff wouldn't do this shit.
Erotica and Pro Wrestling. Tag Team Champs of the World.

Casey is currently wrestling a full-time schedule for 304 Wrestling in Huntington, WV and Frontier Elite Wrestling, based out of Indianapolis, Indiana, respectively.

3 comments:

jesseward said...

This is marvelous. Illegal sex, pro wrestling, strippers, money and West Virginia all wrapped up into one glorious story.

IDGE said...

I just noticed that this guy looks like Rick Moranis on roids.

Anonymous said...

Oh my naughty bodies have taken a toll. Lord tanning beds are not on their side. Should have stopped when you were asked to stop. Good luck with that oh my goodness I didn't know you were a neighbor here in Cincinnati. The accusations are not very good but anyway I hope you have a great time with t
My personal property you have accumulated in your backyard and the person that I was with for 17 years. Good luck with that