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Paul Pumphrey

American martial artist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ7153027 ↗
Source-derived summary

Paul Pumphrey is a martial arts professional and a world champion breaker.

Biography

Paul began breaking at a young age and spent hours in his friend's warehouse breaking concrete with his brother, Craig. Paul developed a signature shoulder ram technique to perform impressive breaks. He has set world records for breaking 23 slabs of concrete, which he did on the Steve Harvey Show. Paul has cited his greatest achievement as winning back-to-back titles in the World Breaking Championships. Paul went to high school with former WWE wrestler Rob Conway. With his brother Craig, he also presents the television show Human Wrecking Balls.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Paul Pumphrey” as american martial artist. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current 102-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Paul, Pumphrey and American can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american martial artist. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7153027. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Paul Pumphrey” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.