Patrick Kenney

is an American retired professional wrestler and baseball player better known by his ring name Simon Diamond He most recently worked for professional wrestling promotion Impact Wrestling as a producer Diamond is best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling from 1998 to 2001 On July 9 2003 Kenney and Swinger appeared on a Total Nonstop Action Wrestling TNA payperview beginning a feud with Americas Most Wanted Chris Harris and James StormChampionships on August 27 2003 and held the titles until November 19 when the titles were held up following a controversial ending to a match with the 3 Live Kru In September 2005 Kenney spent two weeks in India where he and fellow TNA employees Sonjay Dutt and Shark Boy visited several cities promoting the debut of Impact on ESPN Star SportsOn September 28 in Bhopal a riot broke out when 1000 fans were excluded from an event after attendance exceeded expectations1 None of the three TNA wrestlers were injured Kenney returned to America in October 2005 and on December 8 started an angle with Chicago White Sox catcher A J Pierzynski At Turning Point the Diamonds in the Rough Diamond Young and Skipper were defeated in a sixman tag team match by Chris Sabin Sonjay Dutt and Dale Torborg who had Pierzynski in their corner Pierzynszki returned to TNA in March 2006 and was once again confronted by Diamond who ended up getting hit with a chair by the White Sox catcherShortly thereafter Kenney became a road agent for TNA On November 3 2008 Kenney was released from his contract with TNA with them citing budgetary cuts as the reason On September 18 2009 TNA Wrestling announced that Kenney had been rehired as a road agent to replace the fired Jim Cornette and BG James Kenney returned to television on the July 15 2010 edition of Impact aligning himself with fellow ECW alumni Tommy Dreamer Raven Stevie Richards Rhino Brother Devon Al Snow and Mick Foley in their invasion of TNA The following week TNA president Dixie Carter agreed to give the ECW alumni their own reunion payperview event Hardcore Justice The Last Stand as a celebration of hardcore wrestling and a final farewell to the company At the event Kenney returned to his Simon Diamond persona and teamed with Johnny Swinger and Kid Kash in a sixman tag team match where they were defeated by Little Guido Tony Luke and Tracy Smothers of The Full Blooded Italians At May 8 2012 Kenny substituted Taz as Color Commentator at TNA Xplosion joining Jeremy Borash On June 19 2017 Kenney left Impact Wrestling alongside Shane Helms and Al Snow Other media Diamond appeared as a playable character in the 2000 video game ECW Hardcore Revolution Personal life Kenney began dating Dawn Marie in October 1998 Before dating the two had been good friends for almost two years They had planned to be married by the end of 2000 or into 2001 They did not wed but stayed engaged for several years afterwardsAfter seven years together their relationship began to come to an endKenney and Candice Kenney have a child born in 2010 In 2001 Kenney filed a sexual abuse lawsuit against a former priest at Salesianum School