Max Pelham[6] (born February 15, 1986)[1][2] is an American retired professional wrestler best known for his work in the developmental territory, NXT, under the ring name Mickey Keegan.

[5] Bauer first began competing in Chaotic Wrestling (CW) in 2005, and was part of the villainous faction Intellectual Properties with Arch Kincaid and Thomas Penmanship.

On June 30, however, Kincaid and Bauer won back the CW Tag Team Championship from The Logan Brothers, but lost it to Jason Blade and Kid Mikaze on October 20.

[11] At the end of 2007 and start of 2008, Big Business were involved in a rivalry with Brian Fury, with all members taking him on in both singles and tag team matches.

[12][13] Bauer later broke away from Big Business, and began competing in singles matches, before forming a short-lived tag team with Chase Del Monte.

[28] On October 27, Bauer lost a match to the NECW Television Champion Brandon Locke by disqualification after Richter, who had been banned from ringside interfered.

[31] At Genesis on February 27, Bauer had the title match that he earned by winning The Toxic Waltz tournament, but lost to the reigning champion Rick Fuller by disqualification.

[33] On April 26, at Spring Breakdown the NECW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship was vacated due to a controversial ending of the match at March Badness.

[34] Numerous successful title defenses followed for Bauer, including a triple threat match at Birthday Bash 8: Larger Than Life when he defeated "Big" Rick Fuller and D.C.

[42] He made his debut on October 24 on an NXT house show teaming with Corey Graves to defeat Ben Satterley and Trent Barreta.