Alex Whybrow

American professional wrestler, manager and commentator as "Sweet 'n' Sour" Larry Sweeney. Trained at various schools, including under "Playboy" Buddy Rose (Paul Perschmann) and Edward Wiskoski before arriving in CHIKARA in 2004. That year, he won the CHIKARA Young Lion's Cup II tournament and promptly became the company's top rudo (heel/villain) as the leader of Sweet 'n' Sour International, a stable which would encompass Claudio Castagnoli, Ultramantis Black, Hallowicked, Crossbones, Rorschach, the Sharecropper, Mano Metalico, Flex Fenom and Mobius. The group fell apart in 2005. Sweeney rebounded at "CHIKARA Planet of the Grapes" on June 19, 2005, where he introduced his own personal title, the ICW/ICWA Tex-Arkana Television Title, which he claimed to have won in a tournament in Shreveport, LA. He was part of the Kings of Wrestling (which encompassed Chris Hero, Claudio Castagnoli, Arik Cannon, Max Boyer, Team F.I.S.T. [Icarus, Gran Akuma and Chuck Taylor], Mitch Ryder and Shayne Hawke) until the group fell apart at the end of 2007. Sweeney continued teaming on and off with Hawke, Ryder and Robbie Ellis under the banner of the Fabulous Three, He also had a stable in Ring of Honor called Sweet 'n' Sour Inc., which included Hero, Sara Del Rey, Bobby Dempsey, Tank Toland, the American Wolves [Eddie Edwards and Davey Richards], Matt Sydal, Shane Hagadorn, Adam Pearce and Daniel Puder. He also managed the Kings of Wrestling (Hero, Castagnoli and Del Rey) in ROH. In 2010, he started making appearances in CHIKARA disguised as Vökoder, a time-traveling robot gimmick first used by Sami Callihan and then more significantly by Tim Donst. He made his last CHIKARA appearance at "CHIKARA The Dark Ciberknetico" as the eighth man for Team CHIKARA in the Torneo Cibernetico match. After the show, he posted a blog on CHIKARA's website announcing his plans to return to the company in 2011. Unfortunately, that never happened. He had one more match, a successful defense of his ICW/ICWA Tex-Arkana Television Title against Chris Hall at "AAW Windy City Classic" on November 27, 2010. On April 11, 2011, three days before Night 1 of "CHIKARA King of Trios 2011," he committed suicide by hanging himself from the turnbuckles of the ring at a wrestling school in Shreveport, LA at the age of 30. He had been suffering from Bipolar Disorder for years and it finally caught up with him. CHIKARA dedicated the show to Sweeney. Later that year, CHIKARA announced the 12 Large: Summit round-robin tournament to crown the inaugural CHIKARA Grand Champion, named for his "12 Large, brother!" catchphrase.