Michael Depoli

Michael Depoli is a professional wrestler who started with Extreme Championship Wrestling. He now works for World Wrestling Entertainment in its revived ECW brand under the ring name Amish Road Kill. His wresting gear is traditional Amish dress and he is billed as being from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, an area of large Amish population.

Career

Roadkill was trained by Taz and Mikey Whipwreck at the ECW House of Hardcore in 1996. Once his training was complete, he joined the ECW roster, and had his first professional match on October 18, 1996 in LuLu Temple in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania against Taz.

In December 1997, Roadkill formed an unlikely tag team with his fellow House of Hardcore graduate, Danny Doring. They were managed by Miss Congeniality until she left ECW in 1999 to join the World Wrestling Federation, and then by Elektra until she turned on them in 2000.

Doring and Roadkill quickly embarked on a two year long feud with Nova and Chris Chetti. This was followed by a series of feuds with the Impact Players (Lance Storm and Justin Credible), Simon Diamond and Johnny Swinger, Joey Matthews and Christian York and then Tommy Dreamer and Raven. The team won the ECW World Tag Team Championships on August 26, 2000, at the Massacre on 34^th Street pay-per-view, defeating Tony Mamaluke and Little Guido. They held the titles until ECW declared bankruptcy in March 2001, and were permitted to keep the title belts in lieu of fees they were owed.

After leaving ECW, Doring and Roadkill made appearances with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, and wrestled dark matches for World Wrestling Entertainment. Roadkill now wrestles for Ohio Valley Wrestling.

Roadkill appeared at the WWE promoted ECW reunion show, ECW One Night Stand 2005 on June 12, 2005. He signed a contract with WWE and was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling, where he made his first appearance since Danny Doring's release on the March 1, 2006 show, facing (and defeating) Johnny Jeter of the Spirit Squad. After the match, Roadkill was assaulted by the rest of the Spirit Squad. Roadkill would continue his work with OVW, even winning the promotion's tag titles with Kasey James.

Return to ECW

On the June 13 edition of ECW, Roadkill took part in the first ever hardcore battle royal and was eliminated by Big Show. Two weeks later, he faced Sabu in an "ECW rules match" in which he lost by tapping out to the "camel clutch".