Update - July 08, 2007
Update - June 19, 2007 (Fixed for Rev. 0)
Smarks Board Name: Sly
Wrestlers Name: Austin Sly
Nicknames: The Sly One
Height: 6’ 3”
Weight: 240 lbs.
Hometown: St. Louis, MO
Age: 28
Face/Heel: Heel
Stable: Revolution Zero
Ring Escort: None
Weapon(s): Preference to Steel Chairs and Baseball Bats
Quote: “You should’ve just stayed home today.”
Looks: Shortly after his induction into Revolution Zero, Austin decided it was time for a makeover. His hair has been shortened up and is now just shaggy, barely too short to touch his collar in the back and just long enough to reach his eyes in the front. He has also recently added red highlights to his dark black hair, giving him a slightly more punk look. Sly wears an absolute plethora of t-shirts which will range from vintage punk rock tee’s (such as The Clash, Black Flag, etc.) to newer punk (Rancid, Alkaline Trio, etc.) or even wrestling related (SWF or Rev-0) and novelty tee’s, but he’s always wearing his black cut-off Dickies that stretch down to his shins that are held up by a metal studded belt, and a custom pair of Vans.
Ring Entrance: The lights in the arena go dark as a hush falls over the crowd.
'WEL-WEL-W-W-WELCOME TO THE REVOLUTION!'
*Boom!*
A barrage of silver sparks fills the air as The Sly One’s chosen pyros explode from each side of the entrance ramp, receiving a less than positive response from the crowd on hand. The opening chord of The Offspring “Defy You” fill the arena…
You may push me around,
But you can not win.
You may throw me down,
But I’ll rise again.
… escorting Austin from behind the curtain and out onto stage. He pauses at the top of the ramp for only a brief second to take a glance through the audience before he heads towards the ring.
(Funyon stuff goes here.)
Austin climbs the ring steps and enters into the ring between the second and third rope before shooting across the ring and ascending the corner turnbuckles. He stretches his arms out into a crucifixion-esque pose (not to be confused with Kibigami), soaking in the loathing of the fans. He cracks a slight smile before jumping down and going into his pre-match stretches.
(You can take quite a few liberties with my introduction just so long as you stick with the basics... I don't want to be dancing down to the ring to Bon Jovi or some shit. That’s what Skull was for.)
Stats:
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Strength: 5
Speed: 7
Vitality: 4
Charisma: 4
Style: Strong Technical Style with Submissions
Signature moves:
- Sky Surfer (Just a lionsault. Was listed as a finisher for the entire run up until this stats change, so it’s still likely to get a pin, but I just felt it didn’t really match my style anymore.)
- Backbreaker with choke hold (performed just like a normal backbreaker, but instead of letting the opponent roll off his knee, Austin places his forearm across their throat)
- Double Arm DDT
- Figure Four Leg Lock
- Spinning Toe Hold
- Slylock (Ankle Lock)
Common moves: (All can feature variations when needed)
- Springboard Elbow/ Dropkick/ Spinning Heel Kick (just springboards~!)
- Chopblock
- Suplexes (With preference to Northern Lights)
- DDTs (With preference to Tornado and Fisherman)
- Superkick (hey, everyone has it)
- Knee Drop Bulldog
- Boston Crab
- Half Boston Crab
- Shinbreaker
- Twisting Neckbreaker
- STF
- Leg Lock/ Reverse Leg Lock
- Choke Holds
- Other common Heel tactics
Rare moves:
- So-Cal (Set up like most other top rope finishers, the opponent is to be sitting on the turnbuckle as Austin climbs to the top rope. He then hits a swinging neckbreaker to the campus below with both men landing flat. Particularly devastating and rare.)
- Shooting Star Press (This is *only* broke out as a last resort, big time move)
- Running Sit-Out Powerbomb (probably his biggest power move)
- Phoenix Splash (Moonsault into a 450 Splash, another last resort)
Finishers:
- Boot Heel Stretch (Texas Cloverleaf, named after the South-East corner of Missouri which is often referred to as the Boot Heel)
- Sold Out (A Reverse STO, Impaler, or Flatliner, can perform any variation)
Notes: Extremely cocky and arrogant heel. He’ll use every trick in the book and maybe a few that he just thought of to beat you. He taunts the crowd and his opponents constantly, loving to use hand gestures and colorful language in order to get his points across. He loves to work the legs of his opponent in order to ground them or lead to one of many submission moves.
Bio: Austin Sly started his wrestling career, as is fairly common anymore, in high school. He was a stand out in the state of Missouri, placing fifth in his weight class his sophomore year. As sad as it may seem, this was the peak of his academic-wrestling career. His father lost his job that summer when the television assembly plant closed it’s doors. Times were tight for the Sly family, and Austin was forced to pick up a part time job in order to help out with bills. He wasn’t allowed on the wrestling team the following year due to his slipping grades, but was allowed to continue taking Band due to it being his best subject and the only class he regularly attended. When Austin graduated from high school in 1998, he started working weekends with a local indy federation based out of the St. Louis area. A year and a half later, he was picked up as a full-time worker for the ICW.
Sly formed an instant bond with the owners that made of the tri-fecta management system that owned and operated the struggling, but financially comfortable, indy federation. His closest friend on the tour, though, was Marcus Cirillo. Despite being one of the owners of the fed, Marcus (who went simply by Crow in the ring) was a rather down-to-earth individual and a dedicated worker. The pressure was beginning to wear on him, though, and he quickly found comfort in illegal drugs. Soon enough there wasn’t a man in the locker room that didn’t have his own vice. One night, in a drug and alcohol induced haze, Crow made the mistake of booking his young friend in a match against their Heavyweight Champion who was simply known as Hangover Man. Austin wrestled what many considered to be the greatest match of his young career that night, barring the final few moments, which saw the full weight of both Hangover Man and himself collapse onto his neck in a twisted turn of events from a botched hurricanrana.
While Austin would recover, his neck and his psyche would never be the same. There’s no way to be quiet sure if it’s because of the accident or just simply that he’d had enough of life kicking around, but Austin turned cold to the world that night. His friends and family began to notice a difference in him even before he ever left the hospital. He spent the next few months training with fellow independent wrestler NTD (before he got signed to the then IGNWF in Sept. 2000) before making his in-ring return to the ICW early the next year.
The ICW didn’t last very long after Austin’s return, finally closing its doors later that year. The influx of recognizable stars to the independent scene forced Austin even lower on the totem pole and forced him to take work anywhere that he could find it. At the same time, his interest in music started to return (partially due to feeling lost in his other career). He would be sited often playing open mic nights at bars whenever he could find the time. He spent the next few years of his life this way until one faithful day in April 2004 when he received a call from the SWF. The rest has been history…
Board Promos:
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Titles Held:
Cruiserweight Champion (1) (6/23/04 to 7/12/04, 19 Days)
USJL Champion (1) (3/07/05 to 3/25/05, 19 days)
