Personal Life
Haynes was briefly married to Jeannie Clark, who is from England, in order for her to continue to work in the United States. Haynes married his third wife Meredith Fletcher on April 16, 2008.
Haynes ended up in a hospital when he was attacked outside a body shop on Southeast Foster Road in Portland. This was due to Haynes' skimming off the top while being a mule in a marijuana smuggling operation some years ago after finding out that he was being underpaid and lied to. Unbeknownst to him, he was transporting cocaine and not marijuana. Haynes himself admitted the motivation behind the attack on his person since the statute of limitations on the laws he broke had run out.
Haynes claims to have been considered for the larger than life babyface role given to Hulk Hogan by the WWF in the early 80s and that the first WrestleMania was going to be built around him, but his loyalty to Eddie Graham in the Florida territory kept him from accepting the offer. He also claimed that he was the victim of a serious prank by WWF wrestler Diesel in the mid 90s when he called him at his home in Portland saying that Vince McMahon wanted him to wrestle a tryout match at a house show in Texas. He made the long road trip and when he got to the arena, no one knew what he was talking about.
In 2009, during a shoot interview with RF Video, Haynes criticized Vince McMahon for the deaths of several WWE wrestlers. He went as far as to blame McMahon for the Chris Benoit double murder and suicide and claiming that Daniel Benoit was actually McMahon's son, causing Benoit to commit the crimes after making the discovery. He also claims to have contracted the Hepatitis-C disease.
In the same year, Haynes opened a restaurant in his hometown of Portland.
Haynes' wife, Meredith, gave birth to their first child, son Preston Jack Haynes, on May 9, 2009.
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