Who Test is:

PERSONAL PROFILE:
FAVORITE BAND/SINGER: Any R&B singer
BIGGEST THRILL IN LIFE: When I was in the main event on RAW
PERSON YOU WOULD MOST LIKE TO MEET: Arnold Schwarzenegger
FAVORITE SPORT: (Besides Wrestling): Hockey
FAVORITE ATHLETE: Wayne Gretzky
FAVORITE TELEVISION SHOW: The Simpsons
HOBBIES: Working out
FAVORITE FOOD: Steak
FAVORITE FAST FOOD: Burger King Whopper
FAVORITE ACTOR: Arnold Schwarzenegger
FAVORITE ACTRESS: Salma Hayek
FAVORITE MOVIE: Friday
IF I COULD HAVE DONE IT DIFFERENTLY, I WOULD HAVE: I wouldn't change a thing
SECRET TALENT: I'm a good cook
BEST ADVICE EVER RECEIVED: Keep your mouth shut
FAVORITE VIDEO GAME: NHL Hockey '98
FAVORITE CARTOON CHARACTER: Homer Simpson
Height: 6'6"
Weight: 282 lbs.
Born: Whitby, Ontario on March 17th, 1975
Finisher: Final Exam (Pump Handle Slam)
Real Name: Andrew Martin
Other Aliases: Martin Kane, T.J. Thunder
Career Highlights: Former WWF Hardcore Champion
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Whitby, Ontario's Andrew Martin is the latest Canadian to crack the WWF roster. And he arrived with a bang.  On RAW on December 15, he came to the aid of WWF World Champ Rocky Maivia and took care of challenger Hunter Hearst Helmsley. Though unamed on TV at the moment, he expects to be called 'Test.'  Though he's only been at the wrestling game a very short while, Martin's had some top notch teachers -- Bret Hart, Leo Burke and Dory Funk Jr.
  Martin was always a wrestling fan growing up in Whitby, a city east of Toronto. He loved watching Bret Hart, and also counted Superfly Snuka, Mr. Perfect and Diesel among his favourites.  One day he met Bret Hart at a restaurant.
  "To make a long story short, he offered to train me," explained Martin to SLAM! Wrestling in Cherry Hill, New Jersey at the NWA 50th Anniversary show. "Two weeks later I quit both my jobs, went down for eight months. He and Leo Burke trained myself and a few other Canadian guys -- Glenn Kulka, Adam Copeland [Edge] was there, Jay Reso [Christian Cage]. The four of us trained together and it was a good experience. He was very good to me."  Up next was a chance to go to the WWF Funking Dojo, where the WWF puts rookies and prospective employees through a grueling training camp. Though many different WWF stars of past and present help out, Dory Funk Jr. and Tom Pritchard are the primary teachers.  "It was a great learning experience," said Martin. "Dory Funk's a great teacher. Couldn't ask for anyone better. Teaches a lot like Leo Burke, who taught me."
  At the NWA 50th Anniversary show, Martin accounted himself well in the WWF Funking Dojo Battle Royale against other trainees, the fifth-to-last eliminated. He enjoyed the match, but looks forward to showing off in singles matches.
  Martin described his style as "very aggressive, but at the same time, I can very well for a big guy, technical style. I was taught both ways."
 While still learning the game, he worked the Saskatchewan-based Hardcore/Wild West circuit through Leo Burke, and actually won the promotion's heavyweight title in a triangle match against Burke and John Cosman. He was never tested as champion, as his win came on the last show promoted by that group. Martin also spent time around Winnipeg as T.J. Thunder and Martin Kane.
 He's not sure where the WWF is going with his character yet -- which debuted on Sunday Night Heat October 25, 1998 as a roadie for Motley Crue -- but does have a believable long-term goal.
  "I want to make this as long a career as I can possibily have it."
 -- Bio by GREG OLIVER, SLAM! Sports
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Test: I'm no diesel wannabe!
Test wants the Diesel-Test comparisons to stop.
"They can say what they want, but there's no comparison between myself and Diesel, aka Kevin Nash," Test, aka Andrew Martin, said at a WWF press event in Toronto to hype WrestleMania. "I think I'm twenty years younger and it's a whole new style, it's a whole different generation. Test is Test. Kevin Nash is Kevin Nash."  The Whitby, Ontario native  really enjoyed his role in The Corporation and the WWF. "It's been great," he said. "It's been a great experience getting to see a lot of places I'd never thought I'd see." Like The Rock says, Test knows his role at the moment, and it isn't in the spotlight at the top of cards, though he did get into WrestleMania in a tag title match with D'Lo Brown against Owen Hart & Jeff Jarrett.  "My role is as the insurance policy," he explained. "I'm busy looking after the rest of the guys, making sure everything runs okay. I'm there to watch their backs, they're there to watch mine."  All The Corporation members have been good to him, helping him learn more about the wrestling game, he said. Except one. "Kane, Kane doesn't have too much to say," he laughed.  There wasn't any initiation for the 6-foot-6-inch giant when he reached the bigs. "It's not like hockey or football or anything like that. You don't get your head shaved, or other things," he said. "The guys are pretty good." Regular fans of the WWF will know that Test hasn't exactly set the world on fire with his matches, most of which end in a DQ or some other non-finish. Test brushed off that comment. "I haven't lost too many matches on TV neither."
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