Promo
NAME: Promo
NICKNAMES: The Underground Icon
HAILS FROM: Philadelphia, PA
HEIGHT/WEIGHT: 6’3”/265 lbs
ENTRANCE MUSIC: "I Stand Alone" by Godsmack
ACCOLADES (titles, tournaments, awards, etc.): MBE World Champion (1x), UXW World Champion (1x)
AFFILIATION/ALIGNMENT: None
APPEARANCE/ATTIRE: Promo has a well-sculpted frame with very low bodyfat. He has put on some muscle mass since the old days of MBE. He wears black warmup pants with Promo outlined in red on the legs. His mask covers his entire face and has flames rising from the neckline.
WRESTLING STYLE: Prefers to brawl it out, but over the years has developed into a capable technical wrestler.
FINISHER:
1) Promoplex - A top rope German Suplex.
2) Fadeout - This is his version of the katahajime.
OTHER COMMON MOVES: Airplane Spin, Airplane Spin Toss, Tilt-A-Whirl Back Breaker, Spinning Boot Scrape, Knife-Hand Chops, Brainbuster DDT, Drop Kick, Cradle Piledriver, Abdominal Stretch, Dragon Sleeper, Boston Crab.
THREE STRENGTHS:
1) Confidence. Truly believes that he's one of the greats in the sport and can stand toe-to-toe with anyone.
2) Pain Threshhold. Throughout his career, he's proven that he can and will take the big bump. Fortunately, he's been pretty resilient and able to bounce back.
3) Self Reliance. Although he's, somewhat shockingly, aligned with the PBPro Contingent in it's feud with MBE, Promo has almost always been a loner who prefers singles matches where he doesn't have to rely on partners.
THREE WEAKNESSES:
1) The Past. It's not clear who is holding on to the past more in this new version of MBE, the fans or Promo. He continues to parade around with the old MBE World Title, which PBPro officially recognizes.
2) Size. Although he's always up for a good fight, Promo just doesn't have the mass to manhandle the larger opponents that he might face. Recently though, he has been gaining some mass, which he credits to a new Personal Trainer.
3) Too Much, Too Soon. Did Promo attain too much success early in his career? Some believe so, as he went from a small Philadelphia promotion to MBE World Champion in a merger between UXW and MBE. That position, believed by many to be the result of Jess Chapel's influence as the owner of UXW and later the merged federation, might have given Promo too much, too soon.
ENTRANCE DESCRIPTION: "I Stand Alone" by Godsmack begins to play as the lights in the arena go dark and the stage area fills with smoke. White lights slowly illuminate from behind the smoke and the sillouhette of a man with a Signapore cane raised in the air can be seen. A large pyro explosion goes off as the arena lights come back on and Promo makes his way to the ring. Once in the ring, he climbs to the second turnbuckle and raises the Singapore Cane once again pointing either to his opponent or the stage depending on his order of entrance into the ring.
HISTORY: Very little is known about the masked man known as Promo. Jess Chapel found him training in a small gym in Philadelphia and offered him a spot on his new promotion, Underground X-Treme Wrestling (UXW). Promo jumped at the opportunity as he had aspired at being a professional wrestler for a long time. One UXW was underway, Promo found himself to be very popular among the fans at The Storage Facility, UXW's home arena. He was entered into a tournament to crown the very first UXW champion, and defeated Abel of The Twins to move into a four-way match for the title. In that match, Promo faced Victor Molotov, Mi-Raiki Wasabe, and Rat for the belt and after a brutal shot with a golf club to Rat, Promo walked away as the first UXW champion. A short feud with Rat ensued and Promo retained the title. Up next, Victor Molotov, the most technicaly advanced wrestler on the UXW roster, but he was no match for the violence of Promo.
Facing growing financial concerns, Jess Chapel was approached by Mr. Amazing of MBE and the two organizations worked out a merger. This new organization retained the name MBE, but it held onto the X-Treme style of UXW. The champion of MBE, Paco the Wetback, was up next for Promo in a battle to unify the MBE World title and the UXW title. The two men battled fiercely, but in the end, the rookie sensation of Promo bested the veteran dictator.
After a short feud with Freakshow over the MBE World Title, Promo shook MBE to its foundation when he, along with A.J. Cirrus, walked out of the promotion, forfeiting the World and Unified Titles, respectively.
Cirrus and Promo left MBE and went to A1E where they made a quick impact by taking out Nemesys and Drifter. Both men missed action following the sneak attack, and Nemesys suffered a career ending injury from a Promoplex.
The celebration didn't last long as MBE folded and most of the talent made their way to A1E, including Spoiler and Freakfish. The duo made it clear that they blamed Promo & Cirrus for MBE's demise and engaged in all out war, dominating the former MBE champions.
Promo went on to defeat Gladiator to earn a shot at the A1E Cyber title held by Housefly, but came up short in his quest for his first A1E championship.
After an extended absence from the wrestling scene, Promo joined the upstart promotion UCW. This got his competitive blood flowing again and he contacted his old friend AJ Cirrus about another run in A1E. The two of them re-debuted in A1E by attacking the new team of Team Crash and announcing their intentions of going after the A1E World Tag-Team titles.
One day, the phone rang with an incredible offer. MBE was reopening and they actually wanted Promo to be a part of it. With the kind of money that was being put on the table, he'd have been a fool to turn it down. Although there were some serious contract negotiations between the two parties, with both sides walking away from the table at various points, a deal was eventually worked out.
Soon into the new run of MBE, Promo was, quite shockingly, officially recognized as the MBE World Champion by PBPro representative Freakfish, who had obtained 50% control of the company. Now, aligned with Freakfish, A, Ravage and later, Irishred, Promo looks to achieve the goals of PBPro in MBE.
More coming soon...
QUOTES: "In the end, it's not about winning or losing, it's all about the Promo!"
Blood, Sweat, Pain. Everything else is just an excuse.
In the end, it's not about winning or losing, It's all about the PROMO!