Jon Dalton is featured as one of the members of the cast in the CMT network’s reality television series Ty Murray’s Celebrity Bull Riding Challenge. He is a professional wrestler who was born on March 11, 1974 in Danville, Virginia. Dalton studied at George Washington High School, before going on to pursue higher learning at Virginia Tech located in Blacksburg. Back in 1998, Dalton began to wrestle in North Carolina, then subsequently moved to Oregon. Under his alias of Jonny Fairplay, he started up his own promotion company named New Dimension Wrestling, and then worked as heel commentator and promoter.
At the same time, he was also in charge of his own professional wrestling radio talk show, which was broadcast online. Dalton had a number of different wrestlers as guest commentators for the duration of his show. He was trained by Rowdy Roddy Piper, who also later on collaborated with him as a production assistant. He was even in the same car accident which nearly killed Piper. Dalton has appeared in a number of different reality television series, such as Survivor: Pearl Islands, Kill Reality, and Celebrity Poker Showdown. Apart from his TV work, he has been romantically linked to America’s Next Top Model contestant Michell Deighton.
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