Cuban Linx

Smarks Board Name: Cuban_Linx Wrestlers Name: Stryke Height: 6’3” Weight: 219lbs Hometown: Sydney, Australia. Age: 26 Face/Heel: Heel Weapon(s): Anything within arms reach, Stryke will gladly take it and beat the opponent in the noggin with it. Looks Stryke is of decent build (he’s in good shape, though with no great muscle development), with tanned skin and mid-length brown hair. In the ring he wears shiny silver and blue ‘Hardy Boys’ style baggy pants with your standard wrestling boots. And though it’s not too noticeable, he also has a scar on the right side of his face after a particularly nasty Stairway to Hell match with Low Brass from back in the day. Barbed Wire + Face does not mix. Ring Entrance The arena is silent except for the murmuring of the crowd, but that quickly changes a massive wall of blue and silver pyrotechnics fires up all across the stage, Cypress Hill's "How I Could Just Kill A Man" kicking into action as Stryke steps out onto the stage! The crowd rise to their feet in boos, Stryke slowly sauntering his way down the ramp, soaking up the crowd's hatred as he reaches the ring and climbs up onto the ring apron. The Australian pauses to look out into the crowd, and as the chorus hits Stryke steps to the second turnbuckle and raises his arms to the crowd, further drawing their ire as Funyon commences the introductions. * Funyon stuff here * Stryke hops over the top rope and into the ring, casually leaning back on the ropes as he either focuses his attention on his opponent or waits for them to arrive. Stats Strength: 4 [stryke possesses average strength, he’s strong enough to handle most mid-size opponents, but against the bigger wrestlerss in the SWF he’ll have problems] Speed: 6 [After moving away from his high-flying background during his last SWF stint, Stryke’s dropped weight and has picked up his speed levels once again. He’s quite fast-paced in the ring, and won’t shy away from high-risk manuevers of any kind] Vitality: 7 [Can take his fair-share of punishment, but will go down eventually. The high vitality is more representative of his strong endurance levels rather than his ability to go around no-selling or kicking out of finishers, which won’t be happening anytime soon] Charisma: 3 [Doesn’t get on the mic very much, though he’s capable when he does. Stryke doesn’t radiate charisma like some others in the SWF, though he does have a certain presence in the ring, he prefers his action to do the talking] Style Stryke likes to wrestle a fast-paced style in the ring, utilising both his affinity for high-risk moves with a number of power and ground-based manuevers to wear the opponent down. A lot of the focus of his attack is the head/neck region of the opponent, many of his signature moves targeting that region, before looking to finish them off with one or two big moves. Of course depending on factors such as the match type and the opponent’s size/style etc. Stryke will change his strategy to suit the situtation as necessary. Stryke has some basic submission skills and has numerous mat-based moves in his repertoire, but overall he's just not that good at them. While Stryke is working to improve it his ground game is a weakness the more adept pure wrestlers in he fed will be able to dominate him at, but that won't stop an over-confident idiot like Stryke from trying. He’s also no stranger to the hardcore style, being a two-time Hardcore champ he can bleed like a ’68 Buick losing oil. Feel free to write Stryke however you want though, write him whatever way is easiest for you, i won't mind/care. Signature moves * Half and Half Suplex: Standing behind the opponent, Stryke hooks one of the opponents arms in a chickenwing and the other in a half nelson. From there Stryke suplexes the opponent over, dropping them right on the top of their head. * Spinning Backdrop Suplex: Stryke lifts the opponent for a standard backdrop suplex, but spins around as he’s executing the move before swiftly dropping down, the opponent crashing back first to the mat. * Backslide Neckbreaker: Stryke hooks the opponent for a standard backslide, but instead of pulling them over into a pin he drops down, snapping them to the mat with a modified neckbreaker. * Sleeper Drop: Stryke locks on a sleeper hold, before dropping down, slamming the opponent back/head first to the mat. Stryke'll often milk the Sleeper for all it's worth first, then hit the drop just as the opponents starts to fight back. * Event Horizon: Applying a front facelock and hooking the opponents leg, Stryke sets the opponent just as you would for a Fisherman's Suplex/Buster, but instead of lifting the opponent up for the suplex he spins to the side, snapping them down hard in a style similar to a Swinging Neckbreaker. * Facelift: A running dropkick to the face with the opponent seated against the turnbuckles. With an opponent sitting in the corner, Stryke moves to the opposite corner as he lines the victim up before charging in full pelt, dropkicking the opponent right in the face. Nothing flashy, but this will definitely leave you hurting, Stryke holds nothing back on this and will likely have to scrape the opponents face off the bottom of his shoes. * Fireman’s Carry to Facebuster: With the opponent on Stryke’s shoulders, Stryke swings them out, going to one knee and dropping the opponent face-first across his extended knee. * Diving Neckbreaker: Stryke climbs to either the top or middle turnbuckle, and with the opponent standing Stryke dives towards them, catching them by the head and snapping them down with a neckbreaker. * All Time High: A Frogsplash, getting impressive air and hitting hard. Stryke's used this as a finisher in the past, and should he focus his attack on the back or stomach region of the opponent it is still more than capable of getting the victory. Common moves * DDT: Pretty much any way a DDT can be done, Stryke will do it. Standard, double arm, reverse, inverted, tornado, Stryke can adapt to whatever situation he’s in to drive the opponents head into the canvas. * Hurricanrana: Hit from pretty much anywhere at anytime, much like the DDT any way Stryke can think of doing a Hurricanrana he'll do it. * Leg Drops & Elbow Drops: Stryke can do both a number of ways, be it regular, off the top, to a particular bodypart, whatever. * Double Knee Drop * Sit-out Scoop Slam * Bulldog * Neckbreaker * Dropkick: Regular, springboard, missile, whatever the occasion calls for. * Brainbuster * Snap Suplex * Overhead Release Belly to Belly Suplex * German Suplex (not a fan of rolling germans though) * Superplex * Senton Backsplash * Suicide Dives of all kinds, a straight dive, somersault, corkscrew, whatever, Stryke has no problem hurling his body at the opponent with little care for the consequences. * Shoulder Thrusts in the corner * Bodypart specific offence: Armbreakers, Gutbusters, Backbreakers and the like. * Any other basic moves or submission holds, armbars, headlocks, powerslams, basic matwork etc. And it’s non uncommon for Stryke to forget about all the fancy suplexes and flip-floppy crap and just smack the opponent around with some stiff strikes. Really, any moves you'd like Stryke to use that make sense and fit with what he's doing, go right ahead. Rare moves * One-Man Conchairto: With a chair in each hand, Stryke brings them together, sandwiching the opponents head between them. It’ll only turn up in hardcore or no-DQ situations obviously, unless he manages to sneak it in while the referee is suitably distracted. * Cradle Piledriver: From a standing headscissors Stryke lifts the opponent vertical, reaching one arm between the victim's legs and hooking it with his other, before sitting out and spiking the victim's head right into the canvas. Finisher strength, but by no means a sure thing. Finishers * Low End Theory: A Pumphandle Piledriver. As the name indicates, Stryke sets the opponent in a pumphandle position before lifting them up, holding them upside down as shoulder-height before sitting out, crunching the opponent’s skull into the canvas. Serious headaches and pinfalls shall follow. * Breakdown: A combination Top Rope Fallaway Slam/Moonsault Press. Standing on the top turnbuckle Stryke faces out into the crowd, holding the opponent in a fallaway slam position. From there he moonsaults back into the ring, keeping hold of the opponent as the opponent slams to the canvas with Stryke simultaneously landing on top as he would for a moonsault. Only really used against cruiser-sized opposition. Bio Stryke returns for the millionth time. At this point even I don’t remember most of his history, though it's not like Stryke's been involved in anything of note anyway. Chronic no-showing and quitting will do that to you.

Stryke's 4th stint in the SWF. Will it be as underwhelming and crap as his others? Only time will tell.

Unless Heyman gets back on the creative team i don't see Rhyno doing anything of note any time soon.

Hopefully the good sales lead to another Ric Flair collection in the future, there's still a ton of good stuff they could use.

Jay-Z - Girls, Girls, Girls

Cypress Hill - Rock Superstar

Outkast & Raekwon The Chef - Skew It On The Bar-B

120 points yesterday, having the whole best possible team other than Joe Johnson. Good enough to move me to 87.5% and up to 13th in the group. 11/22: PG- Stephon Marbury SG- Quentin Richardson SF- Kevin Garnett PF- Kenyon Martin C- Zydrunas Ilgauskas Coach- Don Nelson Today's looking pretty good so far, 57 VGM's with Billups, Arenas and Duncan still early in their games, and Peja & Miller yet to start playing.

Benoit/Lesnar at Rumble and Holly losing a throwaway title match on a Smackdown seem the likely options, though whatever plans they have for Angle and how his injury affects things could throw things out of wack.

Steph being kept off TV longer will probably end up meaning she's not around for just a few more weeks, not any decent length of time unfortunately.

defence

war

11/21 team: PG- Chauncey Billups SG- Gilbert Arenas SF- Predrag Stojakovic PF- Tim Duncan C- Brad Miller Coach- Gregg Popovich

Possible new Family Guy is very good news, though i reserve the right to bitch when Fox inevitably screws it up again.

I wouldn't mind dying from excess vodka intake, there are certainly worse ways to go.

Character development? What's that? I've been here over two years and i haven't even come up with an actual name for Stryke, let alone answers for all the other crap.

Double Dash is out? Boy, i'm really out of the loop when it comes to video games lately. Looks like my bank accounts going to get even smaller.

Vaguely entertaining. Everyone try harder.

ROOKIE MATCH Sean Casey vs. Dominic Korgath TRIPLE THREAT SUBWAY MATCH "Hollywood" Spike Jenkins vs. Manson vs. Unknown Warrior SJL EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP Landon "La Cucaracha" Maddix © vs. Alan Clark SJL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Aecas © vs. Todd Royal Too lazy to give reasons for my picks.

Looking at the rest of their schedule the Bengals have a definite chance to win thier division, though i don't trust any AFC North team to end up any better than 8-8 or 9-7. Whoever wins the division will likely just end up as fodder for either the Titans or Colts though, whichever one ends up the top wildcard team.

Tennessee Titans - 35 points Hooray at being in the game as the week. I'll almost certianly be in it next week as well. Carolina at Dallas Detroit at Minnesota Indianapolis at Buffalo Jacksonville at N.Y. Jets New England at Houston New Orleans at Philadelphia Pittsburgh at Cleveland Seattle at Baltimore San Francisco at Green Bay [LOCK] Chicago at Denver St. Louis at Arizona Cincinnati at San Diego Oakland at Kansas City Tennessee at Atlanta Washington at Miami N.Y. Giants at Tampa Bay

Looking at 113 points today, although considering Stojakovic and B. Miller got 33 and 34 points respectively it's a tad dissapointing. Baron Davis' shithouse 3 VGM's drags me down, though it's not as bad as Andre Miller's 0 VGM's and Michael's Redd's 3 VGM's for me yesterday. Team for the 20th. PG- Stephon Marbury SG- Emanuel Ginobili SF- Drik Nowitzki PF- Tim Duncan C- Radoslav Nesterovic (i really wish there was a better option at C, in the two previous times i've had him on my team he's scored a massive 1 VGM total) Coach- Doc Rivers, though with him being fired i guess it's whoever the replacement Magic coach is.

One of only two 8-2 teams, and in two weeks i face off against Gert T's Jets, to perhaps decide who ends up with the best overall record.

121 points, and Zach Randolph is quickly becoming my personal god. 11/19 team: PG- Baron Davis SG- Kobe Bryant SF- Predrag Stojakovic PF- Zachary Randolph (might as well just put him at PF permanently the way he's going) C- Brad Miller Coach- Phil Jackson

Belated birthday salutations to you both.