Something Wicked this way comes...
Character Info
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Gender: M
Age: 29
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 232 lbs
Hometown: City of Angles, CA (Yes, I know it says AngLEs. It's an intentional play on words. Take a minute if you need.)
Alignment: You'd say he's Heel. He'd say he's Neutral
Manager: Foxy Fox
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Move Information
Finishers
Name: Deal Breaker (new full-time finishing maneuver)
Description: Stone Cold Stunner, the long way.
(The natural way to do a Stunner is to boot w/ the right foot, then deliver on the right arm. Ruckus jumps and spins counter in midair, delivering the Deal Breaker with the left arm. A: He's left-handed. B: The move seems flashier that way. He's all about that.)
Name:Facepop
Description:Facebuster DDT
(Used to be Ruckus' main finisher, but it's mostly a "face" move, so now he only uses it in big match situations, to get a specific, BIG pop from the crowd.)
Submission Finisher
Name:Assisted Suicide
Description: Ankle lock single-leg crab.
(Ruckus once used the cutely-named "Heel Turn" ankle-lock, but quickly learned the new breed of wrestlers seem to have a legendary (read annoying) knack for muscling through the pain of all submission moves. So, Ruckus added the step through, elevated single-leg crab tweak as a mind-gamey test of his opponents' instinct for career-preservation. You can be as stubborn as you want about tapping to the move, but you're only adding to the length of time you'll be shelved, rehabbing your legitimate leg injury. Hence the name.)
Desperation Finisher
Name: Something Wicked
Description:Shooting Star leg-drop
Wrestling/Fighting Style: High-spot light heavy weight technician (Not entirely unlike Chris Jericho)
Signature Moves
Name: Mandamner
Description: Code Breaker
Name:Mandamner 2
Description: Top-rope-countering Codebreaker
Name:Ruck Your Mother
Description:Turnbuckle handstand dropkick (Just like Jeff Hardy)
Name: Recap
Description: Lionsault
Standard Moves
1. Bulldog
2. Front Dropkick
3. Crucifix
4. Enzuguri
5. DDTs
6. Somersault leg drop
7. Drop toe hold
8. Standing Hurricanrana
9. Half-Nelson Facebuster
10. Reverse DDT back breaker
(No brute-strength moves. No super-spinny minor impact high-flyer moves. If all else fails, stick to the standards.)
Entrance Info
Entrance Theme: "Something Wicked this way comes," followed by a cover of Queen's "We Will Rock You," converted to "We will Ruck you."
Detailed Entrance description:
(Always by surprise. Even if scheduled to wrestle, the music will wait long enough to almost be uncomfortable, then):
From the PA, a voice sounds out:
Something Wicked this way comes...
-A quick explosion of red and green pyro from the ramp, then-
toom-toom CLACK.
toom-toom CLACK.
toom-toom CLACK.
toom-toom CLACK.
And as the lyrics of "We Will Ruck You" kick in, Ruckus steps onto the stage with a cigarette in his mouth and just stands there, smirking. He waits for a sufficient reaction, then twists up his left pinkie and holds up his right thumb. Dropping the smoke to the ramp, he stamps it out with his foot, and walks to ring, looking confident. Then he slides under the bottom rope, crosses the ring diagonally, and sits on the top turnbuckle, where he unzips the bottoms of his black cargo pants, to make them shorts for the match. Then he drops them on the canvas in his corner, and claps his hands as he waits for the bell.
Picture Base/Poser: Spider Jerusalem without the head tat
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Background Info
Like most, Ruckus started off as an indie jobber wrestling under his given name. After awhile, he re-connected with a childhood friend who was training newbs for his fathers local promotion. Joining forces, Rucks and Doug E Fresh formed the legendary tag team, Something Wicked, and -almost over night- sky-rocketed to the front of the fans hearts, much like the WWE's Rockers. But also like the Rockers, pro-wrestling's "veterans" grew jealous of the young team's fame and fortune. The boys in the back felt that Ryan and Doug hadn't paid their dues long enough to deserve their spot on the card.
Before long, the young team noticed a large backstage political campaign was being launched against them. Despite their card-stealing matches and unheard of merchandise sales, the two stars were relegated to comedy angles and mid-card titles. So, they took their careers into their own hands, started playing the game themselves, and went solo.
Doug began pushing his "professor" gimmick, becoming the cocky, fan-favorite, anti-hero ring tactician. Ruckus became a disenfranchised, funny-but-spiteful, Ravenesque brooder. He stood blatantly in defiance of his federation's power structure, and the free-thinking "smart-mark" fans loved him all the better for it. It wasn't long before his potential and the fans desire to support him could no longer be over-looked.
As life would have it, however, just as his first main event world title push was happening, Ruckus -who's always been an all-around entertainer as opposed to just a wrestler- sold a screenplay to a major Hollywood production studio. Opting to take a leave of absence to push his film and literary career, Ruckus disappeared for just under two years, during which time he turned his screenplay sale into an opportunity to direct, and wrote his autobiography/social commentary novel: Face-Pop Culture. In two years time, he achieved a reputation to produce any creative property he saw fit, and made enough money to retire at age 27.
But the boredom of being secure just didn't work for Ryan, and he decided to return to wrestling. He needed to see if he had what it took to be world champ. He debuted three months into EWW's development, and with the help of Doug E Fresh and his stablemates in Something WIcked, quickly rose to dominate atop the card, and finally win his first Global title. But then, something truly strange happened.
Due in part to Something Wicked's endless torment of EWW'S front office, the power structure collapsed, and the man who once stood defiant in the face of "creative" found himself the owner of Elite World Wrestling. The opportunity being what it was, Ruckus took the ball and ran with it. He changed the name of the company to Sin City Wrestling, and moved the fed to the basement of the Luxor casino in Nevada, saving $3 million in annual costs in the process. He revamped the look, brought in the best talent available from all ends of the world, and launched the new phenomenon, "wildcard" to startling success. But then the problems started.
The new guys, despite their obvious talent and unwavering confidence, began playing the role Ruckus had played when he first arrived: Shamelessly self-promoting and spitting in the face of the front office. In response, Ruckus became the very thing he once hated, thereby allowing the natural personality of the "new guys" to play to the standard formula of the professional wrestling format. He became the cheating, self-righteous, "exploitive bad guy" boss. And it worked ... on paper.
But Ruckus found himself getting lost in the new role to which he relegated himself. The psychological work of convincingly playing the roll of what he'd fought so hard against began to take it's toll. Compile that with a constant, back-stabby, legally-technical struggle for power within the company, and the once strong and cocky super-anti-hero cracked under the pressure, even falling to the point of allowing current champion, M.D.K. to brand "inferior" across his back, as a metaphorical peace treaty and in-story work to push M.D.K. up.
Well, for lack of a better phrase, that was the straw that broke Ruckus' back. He secretly transferred administrative stroke to his life-long friend Doug, and disappeared from the spotlight, to do some soul searching.
Now he's back.
Crowd Interaction: Ruckus is everything a socially successful wrestler should be. Even when you hate him, you love to hate him.
Pain Tolerance/Stamina: Not super-human, but stubborn
Nicknames
"R2"
"The Real Thing"
"King of the Cage"
"Living Proof"
Past Titles Held
-NCCW: IC, TV, & World titles
-NEW: IC title
-EWW: Cruiserweight/Hardcore title
-EWW: Global title
-SCW: Global title, Tag title, Cruiserweight Title, United title
Character Info
-------------
Gender: M
Age: 29
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 232 lbs
Hometown: City of Angles, CA (Yes, I know it says AngLEs. It's an intentional play on words. Take a minute if you need.)
Alignment: You'd say he's Heel. He'd say he's Neutral
Manager: Foxy Fox
-------------
Move Information
Finishers
Name: Deal Breaker (new full-time finishing maneuver)
Description: Stone Cold Stunner, the long way.
(The natural way to do a Stunner is to boot w/ the right foot, then deliver on the right arm. Ruckus jumps and spins counter in midair, delivering the Deal Breaker with the left arm. A: He's left-handed. B: The move seems flashier that way. He's all about that.)
Name:Facepop
Description:Facebuster DDT
(Used to be Ruckus' main finisher, but it's mostly a "face" move, so now he only uses it in big match situations, to get a specific, BIG pop from the crowd.)
Submission Finisher
Name:Assisted Suicide
Description: Ankle lock single-leg crab.
(Ruckus once used the cutely-named "Heel Turn" ankle-lock, but quickly learned the new breed of wrestlers seem to have a legendary (read annoying) knack for muscling through the pain of all submission moves. So, Ruckus added the step through, elevated single-leg crab tweak as a mind-gamey test of his opponents' instinct for career-preservation. You can be as stubborn as you want about tapping to the move, but you're only adding to the length of time you'll be shelved, rehabbing your legitimate leg injury. Hence the name.)
Desperation Finisher
Name: Something Wicked
Description:Shooting Star leg-drop
Wrestling/Fighting Style: High-spot light heavy weight technician (Not entirely unlike Chris Jericho)
Signature Moves
Name: Mandamner
Description: Code Breaker
Name:Mandamner 2
Description: Top-rope-countering Codebreaker
Name:Ruck Your Mother
Description:Turnbuckle handstand dropkick (Just like Jeff Hardy)
Name: Recap
Description: Lionsault
Standard Moves
1. Bulldog
2. Front Dropkick
3. Crucifix
4. Enzuguri
5. DDTs
6. Somersault leg drop
7. Drop toe hold
8. Standing Hurricanrana
9. Half-Nelson Facebuster
10. Reverse DDT back breaker
(No brute-strength moves. No super-spinny minor impact high-flyer moves. If all else fails, stick to the standards.)
Entrance Info
Entrance Theme: "Something Wicked this way comes," followed by a cover of Queen's "We Will Rock You," converted to "We will Ruck you."
Detailed Entrance description:
(Always by surprise. Even if scheduled to wrestle, the music will wait long enough to almost be uncomfortable, then):
From the PA, a voice sounds out:
Something Wicked this way comes...
-A quick explosion of red and green pyro from the ramp, then-
toom-toom CLACK.
toom-toom CLACK.
toom-toom CLACK.
toom-toom CLACK.
And as the lyrics of "We Will Ruck You" kick in, Ruckus steps onto the stage with a cigarette in his mouth and just stands there, smirking. He waits for a sufficient reaction, then twists up his left pinkie and holds up his right thumb. Dropping the smoke to the ramp, he stamps it out with his foot, and walks to ring, looking confident. Then he slides under the bottom rope, crosses the ring diagonally, and sits on the top turnbuckle, where he unzips the bottoms of his black cargo pants, to make them shorts for the match. Then he drops them on the canvas in his corner, and claps his hands as he waits for the bell.
Picture Base/Poser: Spider Jerusalem without the head tat
-------------
Background Info
Like most, Ruckus started off as an indie jobber wrestling under his given name. After awhile, he re-connected with a childhood friend who was training newbs for his fathers local promotion. Joining forces, Rucks and Doug E Fresh formed the legendary tag team, Something Wicked, and -almost over night- sky-rocketed to the front of the fans hearts, much like the WWE's Rockers. But also like the Rockers, pro-wrestling's "veterans" grew jealous of the young team's fame and fortune. The boys in the back felt that Ryan and Doug hadn't paid their dues long enough to deserve their spot on the card.
Before long, the young team noticed a large backstage political campaign was being launched against them. Despite their card-stealing matches and unheard of merchandise sales, the two stars were relegated to comedy angles and mid-card titles. So, they took their careers into their own hands, started playing the game themselves, and went solo.
Doug began pushing his "professor" gimmick, becoming the cocky, fan-favorite, anti-hero ring tactician. Ruckus became a disenfranchised, funny-but-spiteful, Ravenesque brooder. He stood blatantly in defiance of his federation's power structure, and the free-thinking "smart-mark" fans loved him all the better for it. It wasn't long before his potential and the fans desire to support him could no longer be over-looked.
As life would have it, however, just as his first main event world title push was happening, Ruckus -who's always been an all-around entertainer as opposed to just a wrestler- sold a screenplay to a major Hollywood production studio. Opting to take a leave of absence to push his film and literary career, Ruckus disappeared for just under two years, during which time he turned his screenplay sale into an opportunity to direct, and wrote his autobiography/social commentary novel: Face-Pop Culture. In two years time, he achieved a reputation to produce any creative property he saw fit, and made enough money to retire at age 27.
But the boredom of being secure just didn't work for Ryan, and he decided to return to wrestling. He needed to see if he had what it took to be world champ. He debuted three months into EWW's development, and with the help of Doug E Fresh and his stablemates in Something WIcked, quickly rose to dominate atop the card, and finally win his first Global title. But then, something truly strange happened.
Due in part to Something Wicked's endless torment of EWW'S front office, the power structure collapsed, and the man who once stood defiant in the face of "creative" found himself the owner of Elite World Wrestling. The opportunity being what it was, Ruckus took the ball and ran with it. He changed the name of the company to Sin City Wrestling, and moved the fed to the basement of the Luxor casino in Nevada, saving $3 million in annual costs in the process. He revamped the look, brought in the best talent available from all ends of the world, and launched the new phenomenon, "wildcard" to startling success. But then the problems started.
The new guys, despite their obvious talent and unwavering confidence, began playing the role Ruckus had played when he first arrived: Shamelessly self-promoting and spitting in the face of the front office. In response, Ruckus became the very thing he once hated, thereby allowing the natural personality of the "new guys" to play to the standard formula of the professional wrestling format. He became the cheating, self-righteous, "exploitive bad guy" boss. And it worked ... on paper.
But Ruckus found himself getting lost in the new role to which he relegated himself. The psychological work of convincingly playing the roll of what he'd fought so hard against began to take it's toll. Compile that with a constant, back-stabby, legally-technical struggle for power within the company, and the once strong and cocky super-anti-hero cracked under the pressure, even falling to the point of allowing current champion, M.D.K. to brand "inferior" across his back, as a metaphorical peace treaty and in-story work to push M.D.K. up.
Well, for lack of a better phrase, that was the straw that broke Ruckus' back. He secretly transferred administrative stroke to his life-long friend Doug, and disappeared from the spotlight, to do some soul searching.
Now he's back.
Crowd Interaction: Ruckus is everything a socially successful wrestler should be. Even when you hate him, you love to hate him.
Pain Tolerance/Stamina: Not super-human, but stubborn
Nicknames
"R2"
"The Real Thing"
"King of the Cage"
"Living Proof"
Past Titles Held
-NCCW: IC, TV, & World titles
-NEW: IC title
-EWW: Cruiserweight/Hardcore title
-EWW: Global title
-SCW: Global title, Tag title, Cruiserweight Title, United title
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