Post by Cromwell Welkins on Jun 10, 2008 11:39:43 GMT -6
Cromwell Welkins : International Yahtzee Champion[/u]
Height: 6'4"
Weight: 232 lbs.
DOB: July 23, 1979
Hails From: Farnham, Surrey, the United Kingdom
Appearance: Fairly powerfully built, but not completely stacked with muscles. Dark brown hair that hangs to about his shoulders. A slight mustache that he will occasionally curl on the ends for special occasions. To the ring, will wear a pair of black tights with the number 5 on his right front hip and a blue stripe running down each leg. No shirt, taped up wrists, black boots.
Entrance Music: "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!" - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Alignment: Old-school heel transported to the 21st century. The kind of guy who'll beg off and then low-blow, and then has no qualms with "accidentally" knocking out the ref and getting a steel chair.
Wrestling Style: Fierce brawler with splashes of technical prowess thrown in. Tends not to do too many high-flying moves - when he does, he either fails spectacularly or pulls off something amazing, a la early 2000s Kurt Angle. He's more prone to use some sort of trickery to obtain a win than use a finishing move.
Signature Moves
Suffragette City: A high-angle spinebuster; occasionally done as a counter against a running opponent.
Tea For Two: an armdrag with a followthrough into an armbar submission.
The Last Waltz: A sitout Razor's Edge powerbomb.
Finishing Maneuvers
Rolling The Fives:[/u] An explosive move to be used against a standing opponent. Not so much a finsher as a desperation move that usually spells disaster for his opponent. Cromwell will take a running start[or bounce off the ropes, what have you] towards his opponent, then as he approaches, leaps, grabs their head, and flips forward into a neckbreaker.
The British Invasion:[/u] A submission finisher. Cromwell locks his downed opponent in a single leg crab submission, then once he has it cinched in, he takes his free hand and starts to push the opponent's foot down, in a modified ankle lock submission.
Backstory
Having initially gained fame on the international Yahtzee circuit, Cromwell also ganied notoriety from his behind-the-scenes behavior. Drinking, fighting, and rampant misogyny followed him from match to match, finally culminating in his banishment from the YFI[the body overseeing all international Yahtzee competitions].
Having lost the ability to earn a living at his best talent, Cromwell turned to his next best - fighting. He competed as a bare-knuckle boxer across England, but found the money not worth the abuse his "dice-shakin' knuckles", as he calls them. He drifted around smaller independent feds in England for a bit, building his reputation as an ill-tempered misogynist. He believes women only have a place in wrestling as eye candy, and this has led to some memorable brawls once he came over to America and learned exactly what a "women's division" is.
Cromwell is coming to ICW to try and make a bigger mark on the American wrestling scene. Well-known at home in England, he feels that the only way to one day regain entry into the Yahtzee community is to build up enough fame that they have no choice but to beg for his return. Time will tell how well this idea pans out...
Height: 6'4"
Weight: 232 lbs.
DOB: July 23, 1979
Hails From: Farnham, Surrey, the United Kingdom
Appearance: Fairly powerfully built, but not completely stacked with muscles. Dark brown hair that hangs to about his shoulders. A slight mustache that he will occasionally curl on the ends for special occasions. To the ring, will wear a pair of black tights with the number 5 on his right front hip and a blue stripe running down each leg. No shirt, taped up wrists, black boots.
Entrance Music: "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!" - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Alignment: Old-school heel transported to the 21st century. The kind of guy who'll beg off and then low-blow, and then has no qualms with "accidentally" knocking out the ref and getting a steel chair.
Wrestling Style: Fierce brawler with splashes of technical prowess thrown in. Tends not to do too many high-flying moves - when he does, he either fails spectacularly or pulls off something amazing, a la early 2000s Kurt Angle. He's more prone to use some sort of trickery to obtain a win than use a finishing move.
Signature Moves
Suffragette City: A high-angle spinebuster; occasionally done as a counter against a running opponent.
Tea For Two: an armdrag with a followthrough into an armbar submission.
The Last Waltz: A sitout Razor's Edge powerbomb.
Finishing Maneuvers
Rolling The Fives:[/u] An explosive move to be used against a standing opponent. Not so much a finsher as a desperation move that usually spells disaster for his opponent. Cromwell will take a running start[or bounce off the ropes, what have you] towards his opponent, then as he approaches, leaps, grabs their head, and flips forward into a neckbreaker.
The British Invasion:[/u] A submission finisher. Cromwell locks his downed opponent in a single leg crab submission, then once he has it cinched in, he takes his free hand and starts to push the opponent's foot down, in a modified ankle lock submission.
Backstory
Having initially gained fame on the international Yahtzee circuit, Cromwell also ganied notoriety from his behind-the-scenes behavior. Drinking, fighting, and rampant misogyny followed him from match to match, finally culminating in his banishment from the YFI[the body overseeing all international Yahtzee competitions].
Having lost the ability to earn a living at his best talent, Cromwell turned to his next best - fighting. He competed as a bare-knuckle boxer across England, but found the money not worth the abuse his "dice-shakin' knuckles", as he calls them. He drifted around smaller independent feds in England for a bit, building his reputation as an ill-tempered misogynist. He believes women only have a place in wrestling as eye candy, and this has led to some memorable brawls once he came over to America and learned exactly what a "women's division" is.
Cromwell is coming to ICW to try and make a bigger mark on the American wrestling scene. Well-known at home in England, he feels that the only way to one day regain entry into the Yahtzee community is to build up enough fame that they have no choice but to beg for his return. Time will tell how well this idea pans out...