Personal Background
- Name: Johnny Archer
- Known as: "the Scorpion"
- Sex: Male
- Age: 39 years old
- Date of Birth: 12 November 1968
- Place of Birth: Spring Hill, Florida, USA
- Country: united States of America
- Nationality: American
- Hobbies: playing pool
- Spouse: na
- Sports: Billiard
- 1992 WPA World Nine-ball Championship
- 1997 WPA World Nine-ball Championship
- 1999 US Open Nine-ball Championship
- 2000 Enjoypool.com Nine-ball Championship
- 2003 Brunswick Pro Players Championship
- 2003 World Summit of Pool
- 2003 AZBilliards "Money List" leader
- 2003 Sudden Death Seven-ball
- 2003 On Cue; Philippines vs. Rest of the World
- 2006 SML Open
- 2006 International Challenge of Champions
- 2007 Texas Hold 'Em Billiards Championship
- 2007 Turning Stone Classic VIII
- He is one of the most successful nine-ball players of the past fifteen years, having won the majority of the game's major tournaments at least once, culminating in him being named Billiards Digest Player of the Decade at the end of the 1990s. Archer is a two-time WPA World Nine-ball Champion, winning in both 1992 when he defeated Bobby Hunter, and later again in 1997 after beating Lee Kun-fang of Chinese Taipei (Taiwan). He was also a runner-up the following year, losing in the final to Takahashi Kunihiko of Japan. He was the 1999 U.S. Open champion, and has won over 60 professional tournament throughout his career.
- He has also been a regular on the successful US Mosconi Cup team, having joined them ten times, winning on nine of those occasions. The US's only loss with Archer in the team came in 2002, when they were beaten 9-12 by Europe. He has captained the American side since 2004, retaining the Cup on each occasion, the most recent a 12-12 draw in Rotterdam, Netherlands with the US retaining the trophy on account of being the current holders of it.
- Archer also won the 2006 US$50,000 winner-take-all International Challenge of Champions by defeating Thorsten Hohmann in the finals.
- In 2007, he won the Texas Hold 'Em Billiards Championship. While in the 2005 event, the entire purse was awarded to the winner, in the 2007 event, the purse has been split.
- September 3, 2003, the Ripley's Believe It or Not! TV show, Episode 418, invited Archer and Jeremy Jones to an challenge match in speed pool. The show had them timed against each other, to try to beat the record, which at that time stood at 1 minute 30 seconds to break a full rack of balls and then pocket all fifteen balls, and then move to another table and do it again. Archer was the victor. The event was recorded in a warehouse in Los Angeles where other challenge matches were also taking place to beat records.
- Archer has recently rejoined the staff at Inside POOL Magazine, where he writes a monthly instruction column. His instructional writings also appear at InsidePOOLmag.com.