Stryke’s Stats Template V9.2
Smarks Board Name: Cuban_Linx
Wrestlers Name: Stryke
Height: 6’3”
Weight: 230lbs
Hometown: Sydney, Australia. Now resides in San Diego, California, but unless the show happens to be in SD he'll just be announced as being from Sydney.
Age: 25
Face/Heel: Heel, though not to the asshole-ish extents of the past. He’s still not particularly liked, though he’ll be cheered ahead of most other heels.
Weapon(s): Anything within arms reach.
Looks
Stryke is of decent build, having added a bit of muscle definition over recent months, but he’s hardly huge or anything. Similar to Edge in size I guess. He still maintains his tanned skin and shaggy brown hair, and in the ring wears shiny silver ‘Hardy Boys’ style baggy pants, with black edging. 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 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 quickly heading down the ramp to the beat and climbing up onto the ring apron. The Australian pauses to look out into the crowd, and as the chorus hits Stryke steps tp the second turnbuckle, raising his arms to the crowd 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: 5 [Decent strength, enough to lift most opponents, though he’s still going to have a hard time with the larger opponents he’ll face. His improved strength has given a little extra impact to his strikes]
Speed: 5 [speed and high-flying is no longer the focus of Stryke’s attack, though he’s still quick on his feet and will fly on occasion, Stryke still has a few big aerial moves left up his sleeve]
Vitality: 7 [Can take his fair-share of punishment, but will go down eventually. The high vitality is more representative of his improved 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 wrestles a far more grounded style than he used to, taking his time to wear the opponent down instead of relying on high-risk moves to get the job done. This isn’t to say he won’t go up to the top rope, his ability to fly is still an important part of his offence, he’ll just use more caution and pick his spots better than before.
A lot of the focus of his attack is the head/neck region of the opponent, many of his signature moves targeting that region, and after wearing the opponent down with strikes and smaller moves he’ll try and put the opponent down for good with a big head-drop or two.
This is just a general outline of what Stryke’s match strategy usually is, depending on factors like the opponent, the type of match, what’s one the line etc he can change his approach as necessary. Really, you can write Stryke however the hell you like, i don't particularly care.
Signature moves
* Double Underhook Brainbuster: With the opponent doubled over in front of him Stryke underhooks both arms, lifting them vertical and swiftly dropping down, the opponent drilled into the canvas in a Brainbuster-esque maneuver, landing on their shoulder/upper back region. Not a throwaway move, you’ll be hurting after this.
* 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.
* 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.
* Running Neckbreaker: Stryke doubles the opponent over in the middle of the ring, before running at the ropes and rebounding back, taking the opponent's head and snapping them down with a very fast spinning neckbreaker, Stryke's momentum adding to the torque on the victim's neck.
* Facewash: A running dropkick to the face with the opponent seated against the turnbuckles. With an opponent sitting in the ring corner, Stryke moves to the opposite corner, stomping his foot a few times as he lines the victim up. Stryke then charges in full pelt, dropkicking the opponent right in the face. Nothing flashy, but this will definately leave you hurting, Stryke holds nothing back on this and will likely have to scrape the opponents face off the bottom of his shoes.
* Broken Arrow: Press Slam to Samoan Drop. With an opponent coming off the ropes Stryke presses them into the air, before dropping them down onto his shoulders, falling back and slamming the opponent to the mat with a Samoan Drop.
* Fireman’s Carry to Facebuster: With the opponent on Stryke’s shoulders, Stryke swings them out, dropping to one knee and dropping the opponent face-first across his extended knee.
* Top Rope Elbow Drop: With the opponent down in the ring, Stryke scales the ropes and leaps from the top, flying across the ring and buries his elbow right into the opponent’s chest, driving the air right out of them.
Common moves
* Various strikes. Your basic punches, stiff forearm shots, knees, European Uppercuts, whatever. Stryke won’t often go toe-to-toe in a striking battle with an opponent unless he’s sure he has the advantage, against expert strikers, counter-wrestlers or just plain powerful opponents he’ll use more caution in his attack.
* 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 mat.
* Sit-out Scoop Slam
* Bulldog
* Neckbreaker
* Dropkick: Regular, springboard, missile, whatever the occasion calls for.
* Superkick
* Sit-out Front Suplex, sometimes dropping the opponent stomach-first across the top rope.
* Vertical Suplex
* Overhead Release Belly to Belly Suplex
* German Suplex, almost always bridged.
* T-Bone Suplex
* Superplex
* Senton Backsplash
* Hurricanrana
* Suicide Dive. Not as often as in the past, but Stryke still has no qualms about putting his body on the line.
* Any other basic moves or holds, leg drops, headlocks, sleepers, powerslams, basic matwork etc. Any moves you want to include really, whatever makes writing your match and dealing with my shitty disjointed moveset easier.
Hardcore 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.
Rare moves
* Sit-out Powerbomb: Used exclusively on smaller wrestlers, often as a counter to a hurricanrana or similar moves. If Stryke's feeling really mean, he could powerbomb the opponent into the turnbuckle, but that'll be saved for opponents Stryke really hates or for really big situations.
* 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. Capable of finishing a match, but can be kicked out of and used as near-fall material if you'd like.
* All Time High: A Frogsplash, a former finisher and Stryke’s big aerial move. Gets impressive air and hits hard, this will usually be brought out if the opponent is too large to hit with the Low End Theory and is too tough to submit with the Event Horizon.
* Supercharger: Jody Fleisch's 720 DDT. Stryke's biggest aerial move, and also the most powerful of his collection of DDT's. Stryke stands on the apron facing a standing opponent in the ring, before slingshotting up onto the top rope, doing a 180 degree turn so he lands facing out towards the crowd. From there he springs back towards the opponent, doing another 180 turn as he catches the opponent around the head for the DDT. Holding the opponent he uses the momentum of the spring to spin around a full 360 degrees before spiking the opponent head first into the mat with a vicious tornado-style DDT. 180 + 180 + 360 = 720.
The move is done pretty much in one motion executing it very quickly, Stryke using the momentum he picks up to really snap the opponent into the mat with maximum force. Performing this takes alot out of Stryke, so should he fuck it up he'll be ripe for the picking by his opponent. The rarest move in Stryke's current moveset, this really won't be brought out except for really big situations where Stryke needs an all-or-nothing, ace in the hole move to win.
Finishers
* Low End Theory: 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.
* Event Horizon: Alex Shelley's Border City Stretch. Essentially picture Chris Benoit's Crippler Crossface, but instead of putting the victim's arm between his legs Stryke places it over his shoulder so the arm is behind his head. He then pulls back on the oponents head with the crossface with all the force he can muster, until either the opponent taps or escapes.
Bio
Stryke's past is irrelevant. All that matters is that on the January 12 edition of SWF Smarkdown, Stryke staked his career on winning the Clusterfuck Battle Royale. It's all about the present now for the Australian Superstar, either he reaches his potential now or he leaves the SWF behind forever. Don't think he's worried for a second though, he IS winning, the sooner you accept that fact the better.
Stryke lost, so as promised he's gone.
