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Handler information.
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Handler name: Moze Howard
Email address: mozeart@juno.com
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Vital Statistics.
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These exist to help give a better idea to the fedhead which character should go over which way in matches. Values range from 0-5, 2 being average, 0 being virtually non-existant, 5 not being allowed unless you have a 0 or a 1. Place a + next to any statistic that you have also selected as an Advantage below. Please erase the definition of the statistic when assigning a value. Total value of Statistics cannot exceed 20.
Strength: Physical heft, striking power, and etcetera. 3+.
Toughness: Ability to withstand punishment. 4.
Stamina: How much you can do before becoming winded/weakened by physical activity. 3.
Coordination: The catch-all statistic for high-fliers and those that rely on skill more than power. 3.
Intelligence: The ability to work the referee, knowing when to put your opponent away, etcetera. 3.
Focus: Your awareness of your surroundings, ring positioning and the like. 4+.
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Singles information.
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Inring name: “The Trashman” Tyrone Heat.
Real name: Tyrone Burnside Heatwole.
Hometown (in character): Chicago, Illinois.
Age/Birthdate: 25/1986.
Height: 5'11".
Weight: 245 lbs.
Gimmick/personality (face): Tyrone's a straightforward urban warrior with a violent disposition and a general inclination towards encouraging others to act right, even if it means beating them up. Essentially, he commands respect, wants people to respect each other, and shows respect to everyone until they misbehave, at which point all bets are off.
Match psychology: Tyrone comes into every match looking to unbalance the other guy. Against smaller guys, virtually everything he does is done in order to lead into the Trash compacter, but against big men he'll want to take out his opponent's legs, hit a Cobra Clutch Suplex, and apply the Punk Choker.
Alignment: Face. An extremely rough, righteous-acting face.
Advantages.
1: Snatch Press/Vertical Leap. Far from being just a standard power wrestler, Tyrone can military press men larger than himself by using his overly strong core (mostly legs) to get them started upwards, then extends his arms to a locked position. It's the Snatch Press specifically, and not any other lift that he truly excels at, and the upward momentum of this move can send most men flying in a way you wouldn't expect from someone who's only 6'1”. The same physicality allows him to propel himself up in much the same way, over 4' into the air.
2: Intensity. When wrestling, Tyrone doesn't just hit one move and then stop, he presses the advantage continuously, and isn't above taking a shortcut against a particularly vile opponent. There's no posing, no mocking, just continuous motion. The name of the game is “by any means necessary”.
3: Focus. It is virtually impossible to take Tyrone away from his target, although his target can change and his focus can be split, getting a cheap shot in on him via the numbers game is very difficult.
Disadvantages.
1: Inexperience. A young man scarcely out of the small independent scene, Tyrone doesn't know all the tricks of the trade, and can be duped by a more seasoned grappler.
2: Anger. Tyrone demands respect, and takes offense easily where offense is intended. This temper can send him on a violent fit, or in pursuit of an opponent who has allies in waiting.
3: High Risk. Unable to properly gauge his opponent's physical state, Tyrone sometimes will take to the air, and be caught off guard by an opponent playing possum.
Wrestling style(s): Power Wrestler/MMA.
Main wrestling maneuvers (5-20 moves).
1: Cobra Clutch. Includes variants done from the front and side. Anything to tie up an arm. Part of his submission finisher and so can also induce panic in a victim who realizes how close he is to being in the Punk Choker. Submission/weardown hold.
2: Double Armbar, side. Lay victim on front, grab by one arm, roll up on side, straddle abdomen, apply armbar. The other arm is pinned on the mat by victim's own weight, and leaning on him constricts his lungs and sturnum by overextending his pectorals. Weardown hold.
3: Double Throat Thrust. Done to break an opponent's momentum or out of desperation, usually followed up on with a takedown and weardown/submission hold.
4: Flying shoulder charge. Done at a full sprint, and with force sufficient to send both Tyrone and his victim hurtling sideways after impact.
5: Guillotine choke on standing opponent. Done specifically in counter to a powerbomb or similar move.
6: STF. Nothing too unusual here, just as the preferred method to wear down the legs of larger opponents.
7: Suplex variants; Exploder, Cradle, German, Dragon, Tiger so on and so forth.
8: Boxing strikes; both hands, hooks, crosses, straights, jabs, uppercut and etcetera.
9: Martial arts strikes; chops, roundhouse kicks, front thrust kick, shin kicks, superkick and etcetera.
Other maneuvers (Basic moves. Fill this out if your wrestler has a unique or nonstandard ring-style. optional).
1: Leaping Hip Check. Substitute for dropkicks, please.
Signature maneuvers (Optional).
1: Cobra Clutch Suplex. Apply cobra clutch, throw hip into opponent, heave upwards and over. Vertical bump.
2: Single leg shoulder throw. Catching a kick, Tyrone will squat down, turn his shoulder into the knee of the victim, and roll his victim's weight over his shoulder as with an ipponzei (judo shoulder throw often mislabeled an “armdrag”). Good lead-in to an STF or similar maneuver.
Finisher(s) (Optional).
1: Trash Compacter. Military Press DVD.
Tyrone uses his unusual snatch press strength to quickly heave his victim up, then, when he's confident he's properly balanced the load, he'll release with the hand holding up his victim's head, leap up, wrap an arm around the head, hook a leg, and fall on his side. The impact is more than enough to finish most opponents off. Good up to 300 pounds.
2: Punk Choker. Cobra Choke + Arm Trap.
Usually led into by a Cobra Clutch Suplex, Tyrone will apply a cobra clutch (if it's not already locked on post suplex) while the victim is on his stomach, and wrap his legs around the victim's other arm (think “Crippler Crossface”), preventing easy escape. Victim's able to free that arm may be able to escape, but otherwise, it's virtually impossible.
Chain wrestling (combinations taken from the above fields--optional).
1: Double throat thrust, cobra clutch suplex, punk choker.
2: Catch kick, single leg shoulder throw, STF.
Entrance.
[Kill the lights. Sirens sound, and the ringing instrumental opening of "Still" by the Geto Boyz plays.]
#Still...#
#Kill...#
[From the back lumbers a thick shadow in a ring robe, fists wrapped in tape and encased in MMA-style padded gloves.]
#Still...#
#Kill...#
[A spotlight shines on the entrance portal and he throws his hands up in mock victory. A young, powerful black man, his robe a deep, glittering red vinyl, he looks to camera, intensity oozing from every pore.]
#Back up in your ass with the resurrection,#
#is the group harder than an erection,#
#that shows more affection.#
#They wanna ban us on Capitol Hill,#
#'cause it's "die muthafuckas, die muthafuckas"--still.#
[He beats his chest with one hand, extends his fists to the air once more, flexes powerfully and finally strides down the entrance ramp, powerfully, pointing to random fans, and shouting “RESPECT!” between slapping random outstretched hands.]
#All along (still) it was the ghetto, nothing but the ghetto.#
#Takin' short steps one foot at a time and keep my head low,#
#and never let go, 'cause if I let go, then I'll be spineless.#
#I'm goin' INSAAAAANE!#
[Walking a lap around the ring, he slaps hands with more random fans, shouting “POUND IT!” to one, and giving a thumbs up after receiving a fist bump.]
#I think my mind just goes outta control,#
#and judge your subjects muthafuckas read about.#
#I touch on the shit that they be leavin' out,#
#I seen this muthafucka's .9 smokin'.#
#I seen the same nigga with the .9 die with his eyes open.#
[Lap continues, and he grins at the camera, exposing a mouthpiece that reads "Respect" across the teeth. Leaping vertically, Tyrone clears the ring apron easily, jumps, spins and faces the crowd.]
[Pounding his chest again, Tyrone Heat raises his fists one more time.]
#And simply what this means is,#
#he didn't know that every dog had his day.#
#Until he seen his,#
#I bet you muthafuckas will too.#
#Because its die muthafucka, die muthafucka still fool,#
[As his music continues, Heat throws his weight over the top rope, backflipping into the ring, and thrusts his fists skyward once more.]
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History.
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The only child of a single mother, Tyrone Burnside grew up in the projects of Chicago an angry and disenfranchised youth. Violence raged in his neighborhood, and while he learned the slippery techniques necessary to avoid harm while running the streets, a home invasion that left his mother hospitalized ingrained a deep-seeded hatred of those who don't show respect and common consideration to others. The police failed to find the perpetrators, and the people of his community were mostly close-mouthed about the incident, refusing to testify, but word got around that the robbery and assault was part of a gang initiation.
Tyrone wasn't able to act at the time, being only about 15, but he decided that he would do so when the time was right. Training his body, and being the “good boy” that his mother demanded he be, Tyrone became a champion athlete in high school, and even came under the tutelage of a local martial arts teacher who agreed to teach him for free, provided he did odd jobs around the dojo.
Martial arts helped teach him some degree of control, and although he could walk away from disrespect done casually, any threat towards himself or any other would bring recriminations in spades.
Finally, in the big center lot in the center of the neighborhood, where an apartment building once stood, Tyrone was called out. One of the gang recruits who had assaulted his mother, fresh out of jail, wanted to re-establish himself in the neighborhood as one to be feared, and Tyrone at this point was seen as the man to beat.
Maintaining control, Tyrone blocked almost exclusively for several minutes as a larger and larger crowd gathered around the lot. The thug became frustrated, and started cursing, frantically, his drug-addled state becoming clear to everyone around, and as a response, Tyrone dropped his hands, and waited. This response gave the thug pause, but not for long, and he struck Tyrone several times before finally realizing that his attacks were having little to no effect.
Hearing the sirens of the police cars as they approached to break up the fight, Tyrone grinned, and waved the thug back in. Looking for a way out of the circle of people, the thug just panicked. “Them cops're comin' for you, man. I called 'em for you.” That revelation caused the thug to recognize Tyrone, and he came back at him, only to be pitched through the air, and kicked in the face. A knife came out, and Tyrone disarmed him, breaking his hand. As the police approached, the thug pulled out a gun, and fired at Tyrone, hitting a flesh wound in his side. People scattered, and in the chaos, the police called for him to drop his gun, but it was too late...
Now truly angry, Tyrone managed to get ahold of the gun, breaking that hand like he did the first. After that, it was less than a minute of shrieking pain, and before the cops could even break it up, Tyrone left the thug a bleeding mess and mostly crippled, perhaps for life. As the police piled on, he spat on the now comatose thug, screaming “that was for my mama! You hurtin' nobody now, punk!” This event earned him the nickname of “The Trashman”, given him by his own mother on hearing that he'd taken the surviving thug that assaulted her out, and possibly permanently.
Although heartbroken at now seeing how her own trauma had affected her son, Tyrone's mother was proud of the man he had become. His sentence for the charge of “felonious assault” was cut from 5 years to 3 months on appeal, and by that time it was “time served”. Tyrone's record as a star athlete in high school and minority status got him into a good school, and at age 19, he entered college.
Finishing in 3 years with honors, Tyrone scarcely even needed his athletic grants, and stepped out of the football program in his second year. At age 22, he was a college graduate, but his background left him unsatisfied with the possibilities offered him by a business degree.
His lawyer by this point had had his felony conviction overturned, based primarily on the fact that the thug had been the aggressor in the confrontation and armed to the teeth while Tyrone was unarmed. Another factor in that was that Tyrone's neighbors came out of the woodwork, perhaps out of guilt for being unwilling to stick up for his mother almost three years before the fight. This, he argued, made it not just self-defense, but justifiable actions given what the thug had done. Not to mention the fact that the thug, on parole, had crack cocaine and crystal meth in his system...
At this point, with a clean record again, Tyrone went into a dojo of another sort. Taking a paid internship at an investment firm to pay the bills and support his mother, Tyrone secretly started training as a professional wrestler.
Appearance (both physical appearance and ring attire. Also entrance attire, if applicable).
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Tyrone is a powerhouse, plain and simple, with thick legs and a muscular abdomen and torso that, while trim, are not in any way thin. His wing muscles, while large, don't extend much beyond his sides (think 40", no fat). This overdeveloped core is what allows him to do what he does, and his physique is in no way to be considered “deceiving”. He is what he looks like. Accentuating this appearance is kanji burned into his right arm in a tribal fashion, the top of which wraps around an old bullet wound.
On top of his head, Tyrone has both a reverse mohawk (two strips on the side)and a regular mohawk (one strip down the middle). These are closely cropped, with the reverse mohawk trailing down his cheekbones to taper off at his jawline (think mini-sideburns). His eyes are a shade of brown so deep that they're almost black, and his intensity causes his corneas to often be bloodshot just because of his blood pressure.
To the ring Tyrone wears a glittering red vinyl ring robe. In the ring Tyrone wears simple black wrestling trunks, and a full compliment of pads; elbow, knee, shinguards, padded gloves over taped hands, and a black mouthguard with the word “RESPECT” printed across the front in white. Likewise, his trunks have the same word going down the outside of either thigh
