Post by Josh Kennedy on Jul 2, 2017 1:16:42 GMT
THE VITALS
Picture Base: Elmo O'Connor (AKA Bones) (Get in touch for usable pictures for graphics if needed, it takes some digging)
Ring Name: Josh Kennedy
Current Nicknames: N/A
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 174 lbs
Date of Birth: 10th July 1991
Billed From: Long Beach, California
Pro Wrestling Debut: 2010 (Fictional)
2015 in UWF (Actual)
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Alignment: Tweener, leans face.
Gimmick: A bipolar hardcore wrestler who's unhealthily obsessed with being the best possible version of himself.
Twitter Handle: @kennedymustdie
MATCH ENTRANCE
Entrance/In Ring Attire: Josh's in-ring attire varies little. He always wears black shorts, and black-and-white trainers. Josh completes his attire with a rotating series t-shirts or tank tops for various hardcore punk and metal bands he enjoys. It seems as though he sports a new one nearly every time he appears.
Entrance Theme: "Jimmy" by Tool
Entrance Description: A thick, distorted guitar riff rings out loudly, the introduction to "Jimmy" by Tool. As the drums come in, bright white lights strobe in time with the irregular rhythm of the song. The initial din dies down, and Josh Kennedy appears, squatting on the entrance ramp as the vocals to the song begin. He gradually rises to his feet, and outstretches his arms.
He then raises his left hand to cover half of his face, displaying the Ouroboros tattoo on the back of it. He drops the hand and makes his way to the ring, slapping hands with the fans as he does so, before rolling under the ropes, slingshotting himself off of them and stopping his momentum as he hits the other side, slouching against the ropes with a confident smirk.
WRESTLING INFORMATION
Wrestling Style: Grappling/Striking Hybrid
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Strike Moves:
Front Grapple Moves:
Back Grapple Moves:
Ground Moves:
Aerial Moves:
Submission Moves:
Corner Moves:
Running Moves:
Signature Moves:
Finishing Moves:
Desperation Finishing Move:
CAREER INFORMATION & ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Home Promotion: UWF
Current Promotions: CWC, Slaughterhouse Wrestling, Redemption Wrestling
Previous Promotions: All past promotions are mentioned above.
Championships:
1 x UWF Grand Prix Champion
1 x UWF Hardcore Champion
1 x UWF Universal Champion
Current CWC Trios Champion (w/ The Filth Parade)
Additional Career Accomplishments:
UWF Hardcore Champion of the Year (2016)
UWF Wrestler of the Year (2016)
BIOGRAPHY
Since his early teens, Josh has been a devoted hardcore punk and metal kid, and this culture defines him to this day. As does his mental instability, something he shared with his late father, who passed away when Josh was 11. The loss of their father greatly strained Josh and his sister Lexi's relationship with their mother. Kicked out of his family home at 18, after standing up for his pregnant sister while she was 16-year-old, Josh travelled around, trying to find a place for he and his sister to settle. He found to a trailer park in Reno, Nevada and started wrestling on the indie circuits around the area to make just enough money for himself, his sister, and newborn niece Clara to live and keep the trailer. Eventually taking a lucrative job offer in Tokyo, Josh left his family behind in order to keep a roof over their heads, and having dedicated 5 years of his life to the Japanese hardcore and deathmatch-based wrestling federation over there, Josh became a beloved foreign star in Japan. Eventually getting the call to work with the big-leagues in America while struggling through the remnants of a failed relationship he'd had there, Josh left Japan to rejoin his family and sign with the UWF, the company that had cemented his love of wrestling when he was young. His fluctuating mental health caused him to struggle, as it continues to do, but he eventually found Championship success, finding a home at the top of the Hardcore division after returning from a nine-month injury, and ending up undefeated in Hardcore matches during a six-month reign with the Hardcore title, working as hard as he could to elevate it before eventually relinquishing it to reign as Universal Champion after a successful title challenge. Struggling under the pressure of a World Championship reign, Josh was finally diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a diagnosis that had eluded him throughout his troubled youth.
As his struggles with his own mental health and work continued, it all came to a head resulting in his final, unsuccessful UWF Universal Championship defense. Josh promptly lost himself to an intense stint of binging alcohol and drugs, amongst other self-destructive behaviors. After a brief sabbatical to put himself back on track, Josh returned to the industry revitalised and ready to balance in-ring competition in CWC's brutal deathmatch brand Slaughterhouse Wrestling with caring for his niece, whom he has been left by his flighty sister to raise completely alone. Still incredibly unstable and self-destructive, but partially recovered, Josh tries to turn to his work as an outlet, although his vices still persist.
Confident, but not egotistical, Josh has embraced and strengthened many of the aspects of himself he had, until recently, wanted to tear away. The instability, volatility, extreme recklessness, and sheer brutality that makes him the often unparalleled hardcore wrestler he has come to be known as. Fully embracing his desire to inject chaos as he goes. This behavior is likely to cause friction between Josh and figures of authority who wish to run a tight ship. If given the freedom to do as he pleases, Josh will be respectful, otherwise, Josh will be incredibly insubordinate, and likely spurred on to behave even more chaotically. Josh is never one to back down from any kind of fight regardless of his chances, and this approach can end up being to his own detriment when he picks on somebody who is considered far more talented than himself, or provokes them to seek him out. Despite his deeply-rooted flaws, he is fiercely loyal to the very select few people who mean anything to him, and he is (perhaps surprisingly) easy to get along with outside of the ring, humorous, easygoing, self-aware, and perhaps most shockingly, reasonable. He is always grateful for fans that choose to support him, but he will never adjust his behaviors or change himself because he does something they dislike.
Picture Base: Elmo O'Connor (AKA Bones) (Get in touch for usable pictures for graphics if needed, it takes some digging)
Ring Name: Josh Kennedy
Current Nicknames: N/A
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 174 lbs
Date of Birth: 10th July 1991
Billed From: Long Beach, California
Pro Wrestling Debut: 2010 (Fictional)
2015 in UWF (Actual)
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Alignment: Tweener, leans face.
Gimmick: A bipolar hardcore wrestler who's unhealthily obsessed with being the best possible version of himself.
Twitter Handle: @kennedymustdie
MATCH ENTRANCE
Entrance/In Ring Attire: Josh's in-ring attire varies little. He always wears black shorts, and black-and-white trainers. Josh completes his attire with a rotating series t-shirts or tank tops for various hardcore punk and metal bands he enjoys. It seems as though he sports a new one nearly every time he appears.
Entrance Theme: "Jimmy" by Tool
Entrance Description: A thick, distorted guitar riff rings out loudly, the introduction to "Jimmy" by Tool. As the drums come in, bright white lights strobe in time with the irregular rhythm of the song. The initial din dies down, and Josh Kennedy appears, squatting on the entrance ramp as the vocals to the song begin. He gradually rises to his feet, and outstretches his arms.
He then raises his left hand to cover half of his face, displaying the Ouroboros tattoo on the back of it. He drops the hand and makes his way to the ring, slapping hands with the fans as he does so, before rolling under the ropes, slingshotting himself off of them and stopping his momentum as he hits the other side, slouching against the ropes with a confident smirk.
WRESTLING INFORMATION
Wrestling Style: Grappling/Striking Hybrid
Strengths:
- Deadly Striker - Josh's kicks and knee strikes are rather powerful, creating the backbone of his in-ring style.
- Resilient - Josh isn't made of metal, but he sure can take a beating. His years of deathmatch wrestling have undoubtedly helped him in this.
- Relentless - Josh's offense is reckless and fast-paced. This isn't without its flip-side, however.
- Researcher - Josh tries to scout his opponents meticulously. He generally has a good sense of ring awareness he can twin with this knowledge to give him an upper-hand.
- Scrawny - Josh weighs 174 pounds. Although relatively strong for his weight, he's not superhuman, and struggles to lift opponents weighing over 250 pounds.
- Relentless - Josh's fast-paced offence can wear him down almost as much as his opponent. He has, on more than one occasion run himself to collapsing and losing his control over a match as he's chained a long flurry attacks together.
- Reckless - Josh has also been prone to self-injury, taking ridiculous risks to his own health in the pursuit of victory, regardless of whether or not they pay off.
- Scatterbrained - Josh does whatever comes to him in the moment. This means he can sometimes lose focus, and despite the unpredictability this style brings and his meticulous research, he doesn't come into the ring with a plan.
Strike Moves:
- Axe Kick
- Busaiku Knee Kick
- Pele Kick
- Shining Wizard
- Savate Kick
- Jumping High Knee
Front Grapple Moves:
- Single Knee Facebuster
- Spinebuster
- Exploder Suplex
Back Grapple Moves:
- Saito Suplex
- Dragon Suplex
- Backstabber
Ground Moves:
- Body Stomps
- Knee Drop
- Snap DDT
Aerial Moves:
- Springboard Moonsault
- Shooting Star Press
- Springboard Knee Strike
Submission Moves:
- Anaconda Vice (Highly uncommon)
- Bully Choke (Highly uncommon)
- Koji Clutch (Highly uncommon)
Corner Moves:
- Shiranui
- Shotgun Knee
- Hesitation Dropkick
Running Moves:
- Bulldog
- Jumping DDT
- Sling Blade
Signature Moves:
- "Deathcrush" (Slingshot Sit-Out Powerbomb)
- "Oblivion's Peak" (Roundhouse Kick)
- "Widowmaker" (Hammerlock Lariat)
- "Ghost Hardware" (Fisherman Driver)
- "Broken Mirror" (Curb Stomp. Nobody has kicked out of this to date)
CAREER INFORMATION & ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Home Promotion: UWF
Current Promotions: CWC, Slaughterhouse Wrestling, Redemption Wrestling
Previous Promotions: All past promotions are mentioned above.
Championships:
1 x UWF Grand Prix Champion
1 x UWF Hardcore Champion
1 x UWF Universal Champion
Current CWC Trios Champion (w/ The Filth Parade)
Additional Career Accomplishments:
UWF Hardcore Champion of the Year (2016)
UWF Wrestler of the Year (2016)
BIOGRAPHY
Since his early teens, Josh has been a devoted hardcore punk and metal kid, and this culture defines him to this day. As does his mental instability, something he shared with his late father, who passed away when Josh was 11. The loss of their father greatly strained Josh and his sister Lexi's relationship with their mother. Kicked out of his family home at 18, after standing up for his pregnant sister while she was 16-year-old, Josh travelled around, trying to find a place for he and his sister to settle. He found to a trailer park in Reno, Nevada and started wrestling on the indie circuits around the area to make just enough money for himself, his sister, and newborn niece Clara to live and keep the trailer. Eventually taking a lucrative job offer in Tokyo, Josh left his family behind in order to keep a roof over their heads, and having dedicated 5 years of his life to the Japanese hardcore and deathmatch-based wrestling federation over there, Josh became a beloved foreign star in Japan. Eventually getting the call to work with the big-leagues in America while struggling through the remnants of a failed relationship he'd had there, Josh left Japan to rejoin his family and sign with the UWF, the company that had cemented his love of wrestling when he was young. His fluctuating mental health caused him to struggle, as it continues to do, but he eventually found Championship success, finding a home at the top of the Hardcore division after returning from a nine-month injury, and ending up undefeated in Hardcore matches during a six-month reign with the Hardcore title, working as hard as he could to elevate it before eventually relinquishing it to reign as Universal Champion after a successful title challenge. Struggling under the pressure of a World Championship reign, Josh was finally diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a diagnosis that had eluded him throughout his troubled youth.
As his struggles with his own mental health and work continued, it all came to a head resulting in his final, unsuccessful UWF Universal Championship defense. Josh promptly lost himself to an intense stint of binging alcohol and drugs, amongst other self-destructive behaviors. After a brief sabbatical to put himself back on track, Josh returned to the industry revitalised and ready to balance in-ring competition in CWC's brutal deathmatch brand Slaughterhouse Wrestling with caring for his niece, whom he has been left by his flighty sister to raise completely alone. Still incredibly unstable and self-destructive, but partially recovered, Josh tries to turn to his work as an outlet, although his vices still persist.
Confident, but not egotistical, Josh has embraced and strengthened many of the aspects of himself he had, until recently, wanted to tear away. The instability, volatility, extreme recklessness, and sheer brutality that makes him the often unparalleled hardcore wrestler he has come to be known as. Fully embracing his desire to inject chaos as he goes. This behavior is likely to cause friction between Josh and figures of authority who wish to run a tight ship. If given the freedom to do as he pleases, Josh will be respectful, otherwise, Josh will be incredibly insubordinate, and likely spurred on to behave even more chaotically. Josh is never one to back down from any kind of fight regardless of his chances, and this approach can end up being to his own detriment when he picks on somebody who is considered far more talented than himself, or provokes them to seek him out. Despite his deeply-rooted flaws, he is fiercely loyal to the very select few people who mean anything to him, and he is (perhaps surprisingly) easy to get along with outside of the ring, humorous, easygoing, self-aware, and perhaps most shockingly, reasonable. He is always grateful for fans that choose to support him, but he will never adjust his behaviors or change himself because he does something they dislike.