| Ring Names: | Hot Shot Johnny Devine, Havok, J.P. Parsons |
| Billed Height: | 5' 10'' |
| Billed Weight: | 222 lbs |
| Born: | April 27, 1974 (1974-04-27) (age 34) Merritt, British Columbia |
| Billed From: | Windsor, Ontario, Canada |
| Trained By: | Bad News Brown, Scott D'Amore, Bruce Hart, Stu Hart, Davey Boy Smith |
| Debut: | October 27, 1997 |
| Titles held: |
Memphis Wrestling, Memphis Southern Tag Team Championship (1 time) with Eric Young, Stampede Wrestling, British Commonwealth Mid-Heavyweight Championship (1 time), Stampede International Tag Team Championship (2 times) with Greg Pawluk (1), and Harry Bulldog Smith (1), Top Rope Championship Wrestling, TRCW Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time), TRCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) with Rick Vain, Western Canadian Extreme Wrestling, WCEW Cruiserweight Championship (1 time), Great Canadian Wrestling, Canadian Champion( 2 time), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, TNA X Division Championship (1 time)
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| Finishing/Signature moves: | Five Star Moonsault (Moonsault into frog splash), Devine Intervention (Double underhook piledriver), Devine Driller (Spinning fireman's carry dropped into a facebreaker), Devine Driver (Pumphandle sitout scoop slam piledriver), Devine DDT (Spike DDT to an opponent caught in between the top and middle ropes), Love Gun Moonsault (Split-legged moonsault), Devine Retribution (Frankensteiner), Springboard crossbody, Enzuigiri |
John Peter (J.P) Parsonage, better known by his ring name, "Hot Shot" Johnny Devine, is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is currently wrestling on the Canadian independent
circuit and plans to attend Broadcasting school aswell as helping train at Scott D'Amore's wrestling academy.
As a teenager, Devine and his friends organised and competed in a wrestling show. After graduating from Garden City Collegiate West high school, Devine relocated to America, attending college in Minnesota. After graduating, he joined the Canadian infantry, and met Bret Hart while posted to Calgary, Alberta in 1997. Devine then decided to train as a wrestler.
He began training in August 1997 in the infamous Hart Dungeon under Bruce Hart, a son of the legendary Stu Hart. He debuted on October 27, 1997, facing "Gorgeous" Vinny Vegas (not to be mistaken with Vinnie Vegas). Devine then wrestled for various independent promotions in Western Canada, and in April 1999 he joined the resurrected Stampede Wrestling, a wrestling promotion operated by the Hart family, at times forgoing pay when attendances were poor and takings low. As part of the Stampede Wrestling roster, Devine appeared on the A-Channel on Canadian television. In 2001 he wrestled with the short-lived Western Canadian Extreme Wrestling promotion.
Devine wrestled dark matches for both Extreme Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation. While unable to wrestle due to nerve damage in his right shoulder, he operated his own promotion, Young Lions Wrestling.
In June 2004 Team Canada began a lengthy feud with the 3Live Kru.
On September 26, 2004 Johnny Devine and fellow TNA wrestler Andy Douglas were involved in an altercation outside of a Nashville, Tennessee nightclub, "The Mix Factory". Devine was stabbed in the stomach, and his gallbladder was removed as a result. He was sidelined for six weeks while recuperating, returning on December 5. His hospital bills totalled $23,000 USD.
In March 2005 Devine was removed from in-ring competition once more after he tore his medial collateral ligament and anterior cruciate ligament while defending the Mid-Southern Tag Team Championships with Eric Young for Memphis Wrestling in Memphis, Tennessee. He underwent knee surgery on March 15, with a predicted recovery time of six months to a year. While injured, Devine worked as a trainer at Scott D'Amore's Can Am Wrestling School in Windsor, Ontario, as well as acting as an announcer for some promotions. He was replaced within Team Canada by A-1.
Devine returned to the ring in July 2005, wrestling occasionally for various Canadian independent promotions. On August 18, 2005, Devine appeared on an episode of WWE SmackDown! as J.P. Parsons, teaming with Ruffy Silverstein and losing to Road Warrior Animal and Heidenreich in a squash match.
In October 2005 he returned to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Two weeks later, he announced that he required further surgery as a result of the stabbing thirteen months earlier, which had been improperly treated by doctors in Nashville, leaving him with several hernias. He underwent surgery to repair the hernias on January 27, 2006. Devine later relocated to Windsor, Ontario.
Devine returned to TNA on the May 4, 2006 episode of iMPACT!, teaming with Eric Young and subsequently losing to Shocker and Magno of Team Mexico in the first round of the 2006 World X Cup.
On the June 29, 2006 episode of iMPACT!, Team Canada was disbanded by TNA Management Director Jim Cornette. On the same episode of iMPACT!, Devine joined Paparazzi Productions, appearing alongside Alex Shelley and acting as his production assistant. Since then, Devine has been alongside both Alex Shelley and Kevin Nash of Paparazzi Productions, being involved in various comedy vignettes and accompanying Nash and Shelley to ringside.
Devine was fired from Paparazzi Productions by Kevin Nash for allegedly refusing to edit German snuff films for Nash and replaced with Austin Starr.
Devine appeared with Matt Bentley and Kazarian at TNA's Prime time premiere, displaying an entirely different look. The three have been dubbed Serotonin, a new version of Raven's Flock stable. As apart of the new group, Devine's name was changed to Havok. Following Kaz's turn, the release of Martyr (Bentley), and Raven's disappearance from television, the Havok gimmick still continued even with him on his own as a member of the X Division - including standing up for them against Team 3D. On the November 15th edition of Impact, Team 3D apparently took him hostage in order to get their demands met by the Motor City Machine Guns. The X Division rescued him and he went under the ring and grabbed a Kendo Stick, then he suddenly attacked his fellow X Division stars thus turning on the division and joining Team 3D on their quest to destroy it. This also effectively ended Serotonin once and for all, since within that segment, he'd ditched both the face paint and the brooding attitude associated with the group. The week after that he went back to being called Johnny Devine.
On the 11/27 edition of TNA Today Johnny Devine deafeted Petey Williams via Double underhook piledriver. Devine was sporting new entrance music and attire as well as a cocky and obnoxious attitude.
On the January 24, 2008 taping of TNA Impact Devine defeated Jay Lethal to win the TNA X Division Champion after Brother Ray hit Lethal with a kendo stick. This is Devine's first major title in TNA. He lost the title back to Lethal at TNA Against All Odds after being pinned in the six man street fight.
At Bound for Glory Devine was involved in the Steel Asylum match. He also interfered during the Monster's Ball match helping Team 3D put Abyss through a flaming table.
Devine asked for his release from TNA and left on October 13, 2008. Devine claimed he left because wrestling was "no longer fun" for him at TNA. He is now planning to take a broadcasting and TV production course, and will continue to work on the independent circuit and teach at Scott D'Amore's Can-Am wrestling school in Windsor, Ontario.
