Cuban Linx

6 foot something, couldn't tell you specifically. I'm probably the tallest so far though.

Looks like i didn't receive one either.

Danielson/Evans is a real fun match, but too short to be anything great. Evans only run of offence is pretty crappy too, but everything with Danielson in control is highly entertaining stuff. Evans is stretched into knots in as literal a fashion as is humanly possible. And it was Survival of the Fittest 2004 it was on, not 05. Highly recommended show.

That draft date will work for me

Hey, not dead last anymore, it's amazing what actually writing will do for you. I'll get you yet, An Octopus!

Updated these a little, but still far from perfect. They'll do for now though. = = = = = Smarks Board Name: Cuban_Linx Wrestlers Name: Stryke Height: 6’3” Weight: 223 pounds Hometown: Sydney, Australia Age: 26 Face/Heel: Face Weapon(s): A steel chair will do for most occasions, nothing too fancy. Has utilized barbed wire in the past, but that’s something saved for serious blood feuds. Looks: Stryke falls into a heavy cruiserweight-smallish heavyweight class size-wise, bigger than most cruiser competition but still giving up plenty of size to the true heavyweights. Stryke has cleaned up his look for his latest attempt at conquering the SWF, the messy brown hair has been cut short and the street clothes/shoes look is gone, for the first time in his SWF career Stryke has gone with a more standard wrestling tights, kneepads and boots look, all blue & white in color. 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: Cypress Hill’s “How I Could Just Kill A Man” hits, a wall of blue & white pyrotechnics triggering the cheers of the crowd as Stryke steps through the smoke and sparks onto the stage. Stryke quickly heads down the ramp, slapping a few hands on the way before climbing onto the apron, looking out into the stands for a moment to absorb the adoration of the fans before climbing in and getting straight to business, preparing for the match at hand. Stats: Strength: 4 – Capable of handling himself against most opposition, and generally won’t try his luck against obviously stronger and larger wrestlers. Speed: 5 – Toned down some of his more acrobatic tendencies but still remains very quick on his feet. Vitality: 7 – He’s a stubborn bastard and won’t go down without a fight. Not much of a fight considering his win/loss records, but a fight none the less. Charisma: 4 – Lets his actions do the talking rather than being a loudmouth on the microphone. Grown to be rather popular in his current underdog role, in spite of being a complete asshole prick 90% of his career so far. Style: Stryke tends to be a jack-of-all-trades in the ring. He’s can trade strikes, brawl, take it to the mat or use his speed and high-flying abilities, though he doesn’t excel at any of them. So while he doesn’t have any overwhelming strengths, he can adapt himself to take advantage of the opponent’s weaknesses. In the past perhaps Stryke’s biggest flaw has been his lack of focus, too busy antagonising the crowd, the referee, his opponent and anyone else who gets in his way, which has cost him numerous victories. This time Stryke is determined to get it right, cutting out a lot of excessively risky stuff from his moveset and focusing 100% on winning the match. As part of proving himself Stryke also will try and keep away from taking shortcuts and cheating, something he has done a lot of in the past. And should he be in a match that the rules allow Stryke isn't afraid to go all-out Hardcore as well. Signature moves: * Piledriver – Quick and dirty, Stryke pulls the opponent into a standing headscissors, lifts them vertical and sits out, spiking the opponent on their cranium. * DDT – Pretty much every type of DDT, Stryke will do it. Standard, Double Arm, Inverted, Tornado, Stryke can adapt to whatever situation he’s in to drive the opponents head into the canvas. * Slingshot Suplex – Stryke lifts the opponent as you would for a Vertical Suplex, before bouncing the opponent’s feet off the top rope, using the spring generated to snap the opponent over. It’s also the best move ever. * Fisherman’s Neckbreaker – Stryke hooks the opponent in position for a Fisherman's Suplex, but instead of lifting them vertical Stryke snaps to the side, snapping the opponent over in a neckbreaker variation. * 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 opponent starts to fight back. Once down Stryke will on some ocassions keep the Sleeper locked on, maybe even adding in a body scissors to try and wear the opponent down further. * Airplane Spin – Stryke hoists the opponent onto his shoulders in a Fireman's Carry, and then proceeds to spin around and around multiple times, dizzying the opponent greatly. After a satisfactory number of rotations Stryke usually rolls forward and lands on top of the opponent with a Fireman's Carry takedown, provided he still has the balance to do so. Of course this move affects Stryke almost as much as the opponent, and should Stryke try and do pretty much anything directly after it'll likely be met with almost comical dazed selling of his own. * Double Stomps – Simple but effective, Stryke jumps and lands with both feet on an opponent, his whole bodyweight behind it. Will on occasion be performed off the turnbuckles, with the opponent either laying flat on the mat or in a seated/kneeling position with Stryke delivering the double stomp to the top of their head. * Dropkicks – Basic, but Stryke does them as picture-perfect as possible. Standard, Running, Springboard, Missile Dropkicks are all in Stryke’s arsenal, and all hit spot on for maximum damage possible. * Jumping Enziguri – Stryke jumps up and attempts to cave in the opponent’s skull with his boot, simple yet effective. * All Time High – Top Rope Frogsplash. This will tend to be Stryke's go-to Finisher against opponents he can't hit with either the Backdrop Driver or Low End Theory, or just whenever something aerial is needed for the job. Feel free to kick out of it all you want though. Common moves: Striking – Stryke has worked on his strikes in his time away from the SWF rings, and now has an offence that goes beyond punch, punch, punch, chop, punch. European Uppercuts are perhaps his favorite, but forearms, elbows, kicks, the prerequisite punches and chops, maybe even a headbutt if he’s in the mood to kill a few braincells will all make appearances. Back Senton Moonsault Hurricanrana – From pretty much anywhere. Frogsplash Crossbody Double Underhook Suplex Gutwrench Suplex Backbreaker/Gutbuster Neckbreaker Hammerlock-assisted Moves Fujiwara Takedown/Armbar Abdominal Stretch Bow and Arrow Basic Holds & Chain Wrestling Rare moves: * Low End Theory – Stryke's former finisher of choice, a Pumphandle Piledriver. Dropped for now, but it could certainly make a comeback in a big-time match. * Slingshot Brainbuster – Just like the Slingshot Suplex, only ending in a head-droppingly fun Brainbuster. * Tope Con Hilo – A Somersault dive through the ropes onto an opponent on the floor. Not done as much due to Stryke toning down his style, but every now and then the old completely reckless Stryke might rise to the surface and bust this out again. Finishers: * Backdrop Driver – Your standard Backdrop Suplex, only with a landing that is positively UGLY. Not 100% Ultra Mega Mass Homicide-Always Gets The Pin damaging, but getting dumped forcefully on your skull have never been good for anyone and it'll get the job done more often than not. Stryke will also occasionally reach forward and cradle the opponent’s leg as well in order to REALLY fold them up on their neck with the move. * Flash Pinfalls/Rollups – Victory Rolls, Crucifix pins, Backslides, Small Packages, La Majistral Cradle, any and all sorts of pinning predicaments you can come up with. Stryke’s very adept at all of the above and more, not just as surprise/fluke pins but also as moves he deliberately sets out to trap an opponent with. [Most of my matches I’ve tended to end with rollups anyway, so I might as well run with that and make them an official finisher. Never used my secondary finishers and I’ve rarely used the Backdrop Driver yet either, so until I think of some finishers I actually like enough to use more than once I’ll just Backslide everybody to death.] Bio: Long, convoluted and generally uninteresting. I’ll probably put something here sooner or later, but there’s really nothing important you need to know. Basically Stryke sucked in the past despite obvious talent, and now he’s back to try and convert that potential into actual results this time. Doing a pretty piss-poor job of it so far though.

I'm in as the Cream & The Clear.

CAGE MATCH Landon Maddix vs Michael Cross -> Cross LETHAL LOTTERY (Pool C) TAG TEAM MATCH Bruce Blank & Amy Stephens (1-0) vs Kevin Coyote & Insane Luchador (0-0) -> Bruce & Amy CRUISERWEIGHT TITLE BOUT SINGLES MATCH Zyon© vs "The Divine Wind" Akira Kaibatsu -> Zyon LETHAL LOTTERY BOUT (Pool A) TAG TEAM MATCH The Crimson Skull & Jason von Dierch (0-2) vs Stryke & Wildchild(0-0) -> Stryke & Wildchild. I actually wrote something for once! An incredible achievement to be matched by an equally incredible default victory. CRUISERWEIGHT TITLE CONTENDERSHIP SINGLES MATCH "Hollywood" Spike Jenkins vs Laberinto -> Spike LETHAL LOTTERY BOUT (Pool D) TAG TEAM MATCH Archie Griffon & Jay Hawke (1-0) vs Jimmy the Doom & Manson (1-0) -> Hawke & Griffon OPENING BOUT SINGLES MATCH Allan Hadrian vs Matt "The Cosplay Master" Myers -> Hadrian

Hooray for my first match since Clusterfuck.

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I'd gladly be in, but since i'm already in the H2H league people that missed out on that one should probably get first preference here. If there's any spots left over after that i'd take one.

1. Head to Head or Rotisserie? Head to Head 2. Max on player aquisitions/trades for season? (if yes, how many?) No 3. Time managers have to protest pending trades? (No or yes and # of days) Yes, 2 days or so should be fine. 4. Trade deadline? (if yes, use July 30, Aug 6, Aug 13, Aug 20 or Aug 27?) No preference really, one of the August dates will be fine i suppose. 5. Time players are on waivers (days or no waivers) 2 days max. 6. Use "can't cut list"? No preference, No i suppose 7. Trades reviews by commisioner or league votes? No preference either way. 8. After draft, all unclaimed players free agents or waivers? Waivers 9. Minimum innings pitched per week? (if yes how many) 26-30, something in that range should work. 10. Roster changes weekly or daily? Weekly, but i don't mind either way.

AIM - KillAllHumans101 My use of it tends to be rather sporadic though.

I've signed up as the Scott Boras Allstars, so there's only one spot left to be filled now.

I'd say Telfair's topped Stoudamire's 'weed wrapped in tinfoil through a metal detector' incident as the teams #1 airport-related retarded act. Sneaking a loaded gun onto a plane for god knows what idiotic reason, that's some real stupidity even by recent Jailblazer standards. So much for cleaning up the teams image... At least the Rasheed/Bonzi/Damon-era Blazers could actually win a game in between the stupidity, it's harder to look past the off-court antics when the team is now dead-last in the conference, can't score, can't defend and regularly gets hammered by 20, 30, even up to 45 points.

I'm in again for sure. Smell the ratings was abducted by aliens or something and i don't think Flik posts on TSM anymore, everyone else from last year is still around so that's two spots open for newcomers, four if you bump the number of teams to 20. There's usually more than one league around though so anyone that wants in a league will be in one.

Gabe's never been good when it comes to ridiculous hyperbole, while this is the worst case so far it's far from the first time he's built up expectations too high for ROH to deliver. And that's with a fanbase that already loves to jump to conclusions and unrealistic scenarios.

If they want a DJ for a Legends show they should bring in DJ Ran to get all up in everyone's area.

Danielson/Aries going for 2 hours 40 minutes in 2004 would have been a disaster. The 75 minute match was pretty much ALL Danielson, Aries was still too green at the time to even work the match they did, let alone one over twice as long, and as much as i enjoy everything Danielson does his supposed original plan was massively over-ambitious for anyone, and honestly pretty stupid and masturbatory, Danielson beat Aries in less than 20 minutes in their previous match, now he wouldn't be able to beat him in over EIGHT times as long just a few months later? It's pretty much a miracle they held things together for the length they did go, in 75 minutes they really did everything they possibly could, i have no idea what else they could have done to fill over an hour of extra time. They would have had to go to the Hero/Punk 45+ minute 'feeling out process' book of wasting time, and the crowd would have burnt out long before they even started to built to the finish.

Having Punk on the show isn't close to meeting the level of hype for this surprise. Punk having a match or whatever isn't 'something unique everyone will be talking about', nor will he make it 'a special night that no one in attendance will ever forget', not to mention all the other hyperbole that's been thrown at this. Punk appearing would be a good start, but i'd hope there's more to it than that. The biggest thing they could probably do with Punk is another Punk/Joe match, but with Joe not on the show as far as i remember i can't think of anything huge he could be involved in matchwise.

As long as we get the motivated, serious Briscoes of 2004 and not the drunk, no ring gear, uprotected chair shot and Shooting Star Press to nowhere Briscoes of recent times i'm pleased they're finally making a return. As for the big surprise i honestly can't think of anything ROH could do that could possibly justify the level of hype this has gotten. ROH doesn't have the best track record when it comes to surprises, mystery wrestlers and fans setting their expectations WAY too high, even if it is something great it'll probably come off as a letdown in comparison to the second coming of Jesus-level anticipation they've built up.

Basically every big HHH or HBK of the past few years (haven't watched lately so i don't know if they still do it) involves them bleeding, usually in the same predictable manner as every other WWE main event match. That when it's a problem for me, when it's becomes part of the 'formula', as much a regular spot as any signature move instead of something that really adds to the match.

Bah, Wildchild will kick all your asses when it comes to crazy spotfest clusterfucks of doom. And i'll be right there, riding his coattails to victory.

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Damn you winning all the games i was winning. I want my Asteroids, Breakout, Curveball and Copter 1st places back.