Post by Maelstrom on Apr 10, 2016 10:04:28 GMT
-------------Personal Info-------------
Your Name: Charlie
Your email: viva.elcharlito@gmail.com
Your AIM/Skype etc Name: n/a
-------------Wrestler Info-------------
Wrestler's Name: Maelstrom
Nickname(s): The Human Hellstorm, The Innovator of Intimidation, The Buffalo Bruiser, The Nickel City Nailbomb
Gimmick: Maelstrom is a grizzled veteran with decades of experience, wandering through major promotions in North America and Japan. Arguably bigger in Japan than North America, with cameos in commercials and game shows. Years of tours in the independent circuit. Familiar with both the spotlight that comes from the highs of rich multinational organizations, and the lows of regional independent circuits where love of the sport makes up for the almost nonexistent pay.
A crusty bona fide tough guy with a casual demeanor and a menacing undertone. He's your happy-go-lucky buddy that sometimes forgets that not everyone shares his recreational approach to carnage and mayhem. Definitely at least a little punchy. Tons of injuries over the years. If they bother him, he doesn't let it show. If he's slowed down at all due to his age, he's also gotten more crafty to compensate.
Cult hero in west New York and the Erie area, due to just being a larger-than-life wrestling star with near-constant visibility, doing community work and commercials for local businesses. Can be seen on pretty much any public access station or the radio, pushing used cars or local junior hockey teams. Under the guidance of his handler, has turned his earnings over the years into a lot of fingers in a lot of pies thanks to Buffalo's recent urban revival. Very 'Old Buffalo'.
His popularity with wrestling fans is based heavily in his wrestling style, which has been modestly described as "Bulldozer." Consisting of vicious brawling offense, bone-cracking power, and a love of carnage, he is always good for a show and feeds off the energy of the crowd.
His recent years have been largely spent running a wrestling academy out of Buffalo, NY. For the man himself, it serves as both a pastime and a means of keeping himself sharp for when an offer crosses the table that he can't refuse.
Height: 6'0
Weight: 305
Place of Birth: Buffalo, NY
Alignment: Face
Pic Base: Jeff Monson
Appearance/Attire: Close-shaved head, balding. Heavy stubble to short beard. His face and body are a roadmap of tattoos and scars, and tattoos with scar holes in them. He is not a pretty man. Built for power with broad shoulders, thick muscled limbs, a weightlifter's gut and a near-complete absence of neck. Head like a fire hydrant with cauliflower ears.
Ring attire is a dark grey trunk-legged wrestling singlet with fiery red lightning bolt graphics, and stripes down the legs that read either "I OF I" or "1 OF 1", it's designed to be unclear which. Knuckles and wrists are wrapped in white tape. Knee braces under knee pads, of which these and his boots are dark grey with dark rusty/dried bloody red.
Theme Music: "Raining Blood" by Slayer
Entrance: The lights dim and a crack of thunder rips through the arena, as the infamous "Raining Blood" by Slayer gets the fans on their feet and buzzing excitedly, craning their necks over to the entrance way. The crowd noise builds slowly with anticipation as an amber strobe pulses in time with the three-beat bass drum. Then, just as the guitar sets in... BOOM! that single clap of thunder, and the Human Hellstorm barges out onto the platform, grinning like a shark and thumping his fist over his heart.
Rows of hands reach out from behind the guardrail as he strolls to the ring, hands outstretched to the fans on both sides of the walkway. Entering the ring, he climbs to the second turnbuckle in his corner facing out to the crowd to whom he points and thumps his fist over his heart again, bowing his head in a salute.
Primary Style: Brawler
Secondary Style: Powerhouse
Other Style: Hardcore
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Favourite Moves:
Trademark Move(s) and Description(s):
Finisher(s) and Description:
Manager: Steve Kryzinski
Pic Base: Ron Perlman
Maelstrom's close friend, financial advisor, power of attorney and liason to the non-wrestling parts of the world, where clotheslining people who give you hard looks can get you thrown in jail. "Handler" or "Wrangler" is as applicable a term as Manager. Well-connected motorcycle enthusiast who used Maelstrom's feast-or-famine finances to make money for them both.
Does not get involved in Maelstrom's matches. He works as a buffer between the Human Hellstorm and the real world. His only involvement in wrestling at all is playing foil to his friend.
Your Name: Charlie
Your email: viva.elcharlito@gmail.com
Your AIM/Skype etc Name: n/a
-------------Wrestler Info-------------
Wrestler's Name: Maelstrom
Nickname(s): The Human Hellstorm, The Innovator of Intimidation, The Buffalo Bruiser, The Nickel City Nailbomb
Gimmick: Maelstrom is a grizzled veteran with decades of experience, wandering through major promotions in North America and Japan. Arguably bigger in Japan than North America, with cameos in commercials and game shows. Years of tours in the independent circuit. Familiar with both the spotlight that comes from the highs of rich multinational organizations, and the lows of regional independent circuits where love of the sport makes up for the almost nonexistent pay.
A crusty bona fide tough guy with a casual demeanor and a menacing undertone. He's your happy-go-lucky buddy that sometimes forgets that not everyone shares his recreational approach to carnage and mayhem. Definitely at least a little punchy. Tons of injuries over the years. If they bother him, he doesn't let it show. If he's slowed down at all due to his age, he's also gotten more crafty to compensate.
Cult hero in west New York and the Erie area, due to just being a larger-than-life wrestling star with near-constant visibility, doing community work and commercials for local businesses. Can be seen on pretty much any public access station or the radio, pushing used cars or local junior hockey teams. Under the guidance of his handler, has turned his earnings over the years into a lot of fingers in a lot of pies thanks to Buffalo's recent urban revival. Very 'Old Buffalo'.
His popularity with wrestling fans is based heavily in his wrestling style, which has been modestly described as "Bulldozer." Consisting of vicious brawling offense, bone-cracking power, and a love of carnage, he is always good for a show and feeds off the energy of the crowd.
His recent years have been largely spent running a wrestling academy out of Buffalo, NY. For the man himself, it serves as both a pastime and a means of keeping himself sharp for when an offer crosses the table that he can't refuse.
Height: 6'0
Weight: 305
Place of Birth: Buffalo, NY
Alignment: Face
Pic Base: Jeff Monson
Appearance/Attire: Close-shaved head, balding. Heavy stubble to short beard. His face and body are a roadmap of tattoos and scars, and tattoos with scar holes in them. He is not a pretty man. Built for power with broad shoulders, thick muscled limbs, a weightlifter's gut and a near-complete absence of neck. Head like a fire hydrant with cauliflower ears.
Ring attire is a dark grey trunk-legged wrestling singlet with fiery red lightning bolt graphics, and stripes down the legs that read either "I OF I" or "1 OF 1", it's designed to be unclear which. Knuckles and wrists are wrapped in white tape. Knee braces under knee pads, of which these and his boots are dark grey with dark rusty/dried bloody red.
Theme Music: "Raining Blood" by Slayer
Entrance: The lights dim and a crack of thunder rips through the arena, as the infamous "Raining Blood" by Slayer gets the fans on their feet and buzzing excitedly, craning their necks over to the entrance way. The crowd noise builds slowly with anticipation as an amber strobe pulses in time with the three-beat bass drum. Then, just as the guitar sets in... BOOM! that single clap of thunder, and the Human Hellstorm barges out onto the platform, grinning like a shark and thumping his fist over his heart.
Rows of hands reach out from behind the guardrail as he strolls to the ring, hands outstretched to the fans on both sides of the walkway. Entering the ring, he climbs to the second turnbuckle in his corner facing out to the crowd to whom he points and thumps his fist over his heart again, bowing his head in a salute.
Primary Style: Brawler
Secondary Style: Powerhouse
Other Style: Hardcore
Strengths:
- Toughness - Maelstrom is a tough man in an industry full of tough men. Known in Japan for his series of hardcore deathmatches involving flaming tables, wrestling mines, broken glass and barbed wire. He is the sort of wrestler who in the past has lit his fist on fire willingly, because he would then be punching his opponent with fire. It is also a known fact that trying to stop him with blows to the head is not an efficient or wise approach. It has been done, but it was neither efficient nor wise.
- Experience - Few people can deny the Innovator of Intimidation's great ring psychology. Decades in the industry have left him not only with knowing how to read opponents and how to engage them, but also with a million little dirty tricks to gain the upper hand as well. Deceptively wily in spite of his smash-mouth style, he is a seasoned veteran with a time-proven skill for gaming the system and skirting the line with subtle cheap shots. The ring with its steel posts, tight ropes and removable turnbuckle padding is itself a foreign object in the Human Hellstorm's arsenal.
- Power - Maelstrom is built like a fridge and has a low center of gravity. His every move is about physical domination, from explosive throws to bone-cracking holds to simply using his dense and durable frame like a cannonball. Where his reknowned strength alone isn't enough, his intensity and explosiveness cover the shortfall.
- Intensity - He is fast out of the gate. A calling card of his is chaining strikes, throws and holds in rapid succession. Where others will feel out an opponent through test grappling, Maelstrom is more the 'gong and dash' type and loves that early rush and constant pressure.
- Gladiator Mentality - Maelstrom draws energy from the crowd, finding second and third winds where many others draw down and come up empty. The louder they cheer, the stronger he seems to get and the less pain he seems to feel.
Weaknesses:
- Technique - Where Maelstrom is a raging wind, the tree that bends will find its place against him. Technicians have picked him apart. High-flyers have flattened him. Even other blood-and-guts ground pounders like him have found success by exploiting his reckless gluttony for punishment.
- Inflexibility - Not particularly adaptive, doesn't care to alter his approach to unique challenges, set in his ways - take your pick. At this point he has accepted this about himself. He took a deep introspective look and decided to turn his strengths up to eleven instead. Deal with it.
- Mileage - He's in his forties and has so many plates and pins in his body that he's legally a cyborg by now. He's still an elite talent and a serious threat to anyone on any given day, but he's definitely on his back nine and occasionally it shows against younger talent that has been watching him since they were in grade school. In spite of his otherworldly intensity and physique at his age, it's unanimously agreed that he's gotten a bit brittle.
- Bleeding - Unsurprisingly due to his scar tissue and his wrestling style, the crimson mask is a regular feature in Maelstrom's matches. Blood in his eyes has cost him dearly on a few occasions.
- Gladiator Mentality - He has eased off of opponents before if he felt he could push them further, and continue to please the crowd, by letting them slightly recover from the brink. Always wants a close match and aspires to push opponents to their limits. He has let advantages go only to have opponents turn the tide and put him away.
- Ambition - In glaring contrast to most wrestling superstars, Maelstrom is not a belt chaser. It's been argued that many of his upset losses to hungry up-and-comers occurred because they just wanted it more.
Favourite Moves:
- Headbutts from anywhere and everywhere. Maelstrom loves to use his head to shift momentum, to cap off a flurry, or just because the opportunity presents itself. He is a long-standing industry innovator of headbutt spots.
- Punch flurries. The Human Hellstorm loves to trade. Will swat with open hands like a bear if under referee pressure.
- Shoulder blocks, both running and flying. He'll go high at the head, body to body, or cut someone off from the knees.
- Clotheslines and lariats
- Top rope guillotine drop
- Gorilla press slam
- Facebreaker knee smash
- Kneelift
- Abdominal stretch
- Bear hug
- Side slam
- Powerslam
- Backbreaker
- Shoulderbreaker
- Kneebreaker
- Powerbombs of all varieties, including gutwrench and sitdown
- Backdrop
- Belly-to-belly suplex
- Belly-to-back suplex
- Capture suplex
- Gutwrench suplex
Trademark Move(s) and Description(s):
- Nailbomb Exploder: Dramatically wound up spine drop followed with a wind-up diving headbutt. Maelstrom holds his opponent's legs until he throws himself down headfirst.
- Nailbomb Sidewinder: Dramatically wound up spine drop followed with a scissor heel hook. Also can be a finisher.
- Hammer House: Flurry of left and right looping hammer blows to the head, shoulders and body in the corner. Finishes with a headbutt.
- Running Corner Body Splash. Remember Vader's? Maelstrom does.
- Grievous Bloody Hellstorm (GBH for short) - Niche move, only seen when a chair is in play. Opponent hits Maelstrom with a chair. Maelstrom grabs opponent's hands at the moment of impact, holding the chair against his head. Maelstrom winds up and headbutts his opponent with the chair still between their heads.
Finisher(s) and Description:
- Hellstorm Rising: Stalling, walking, high-angled Northern Lights Bomb. Think Oklahoma Slam or the Jackhammer.
- Hellstorm Rising Omega: Variation that runs into and launches backward off the bottom turnbuckle. Only comes out at those special times. One of those moves developed in Japan that you won't see much in the west.
- Nickel City Nightfall: Dragon Sleeper.
Manager: Steve Kryzinski
Pic Base: Ron Perlman
Maelstrom's close friend, financial advisor, power of attorney and liason to the non-wrestling parts of the world, where clotheslining people who give you hard looks can get you thrown in jail. "Handler" or "Wrangler" is as applicable a term as Manager. Well-connected motorcycle enthusiast who used Maelstrom's feast-or-famine finances to make money for them both.
Does not get involved in Maelstrom's matches. He works as a buffer between the Human Hellstorm and the real world. His only involvement in wrestling at all is playing foil to his friend.
Well howdy there pardner.