Phoenix
New member
Joe plagiarised someone's bio layout and now I am plagiarising him ... is there a name for that level of plagiarism or would 'eminently sensible' cover it? 
Anyhoo - here goes:
MEMBER INFORMATION:
Name: Jay
Email Address: phoenixjay@gmail.com
AIM: flamebyrd
Preferred Method of Handling: (FW Promo, Freestyle RP, Angle/Storyline, Hybrid) - Well I currently (or last time I RPd) went with the freestyle (PTC) narrative RP with relevence ... that said I can mix it up so will go with 'hybrid'
Best Way to Contact you: (PM/Email/IM) Email, PM here or PTC, or by leaving a coded note under the third tree from the left - you know the place.
WRESTLER INFORMATION:
Wrestler Name: Jay Phoenix
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 215 lbs
Hailing From: Flagstaff, Arizona
Handedness: Right, but years of martial arts makes him nearly as good with his left.
Disposition: Ladi back, easy going and one of the 'good guys' .. oh, and a complete and utter 'baby face'
Gimmick: He lives the gimmick in that Phoenix is a Native American with a Shaman for a Grandfather - what you see is what you get. He is both highly focused, and highly spiritual. Looks towards the Native American spirits to guide him ... very open and trusting, with an attitude of seeing the best in everyone until proved otherwise.
Ring Attire / Looks:
Ring Entrance: Well, this was the fed based one last time -
Announcer … from Flagstaff, Arizona, weighing in at 215lbs, standing 5'11", this is the HOTTEST star in wrestling … JAY PHOENIX!!
Theme Music: "Phoenix Rising" by Annihilator
Tactics/Style: Phoenix's overall style is that of a fast-paced, risk-taker. He knows that he isn't the biggest or strongest man in wrestling so normally tries to dictate the pace of the match. As he is well versed in different styles of wrestling he isn't averse to playing wrestlers at their own game to try to keep them off balance so will move from high-flying, to submission based, to martial arts, to mat based wrestling and back again. Phoenix prefers to stick to the rules and will rarely ever cheat - he is very honourable - even when this is to his disadvantage.
Movelist:
Strikes
Basic forearms
Basic elbow smashes
Open-handed palm strikes
Knife-edge chops
Dropkick
Rolling kick
Roundhouse kicks to legs, body, and head.
Shining Wizards of all sorts and sizes.
Jumping knee, HHH style.
Missile dropkick
Somersault dropkick
Flying forearm smash
Submissions
Cross armbreaker
Fujiwara armbar
Triangle choke
Texas Cloverleaf
Figure Four Leglock
Sharpshooter
Anklelock
Grapevine Anklelock
Other Moves
Huracanranas of all sorts.
DDT
Double-Arm DDT
Senton
Tiger Suplex Hold
Russian Legsweep
Tornado DDT
Super Frankensteiner
Diamond Cutter
Diving shoulderbarge
Victory roll (springboard from outside)
Various martial arts moves
Signature Moves
Calm before the storm - sleeperhold/legscissored armbar submission, held till either a tap out or the opponent goes to sleep.
Thunderstorm – twisting corckscrew moonsault from the top rope
Electric Chair – Hurricinrana from the top-rope
Lights Out - side thrust kick to the face
Burn Out - Mysterio’s 619
Fade Out – Sharpshooter
Finishing Moves
From the ashes
Short arm clothesline into two round kicks first to the stomach and then to the face. As opponents falls to the canvas Ember runs up the turnbuckle and without pausing performs a shooting star press.
Phoenix Rising
To setup the finishing move, a butterfly powerbomb (pedigree set up … both arms behind back while head is lowered, into a short power-bomb,if the opponent is too big, then just the pedigree is used instead of the powerbomb) leaving them on the mat. After the set up move, Phoenix springboards from the middle of the top rope, into a somersault leg drop, landing across the opponents chest.
Strengths
Experience, Resilience, and Versatility.
Phoenix is a veteran of the business and, because of that, is both extremely experienced and has built up a high level of resilience. There is little that he hasn't seen - or been faced with - inside the ring so not only has great ring awareness but little rattles him and just when you think that you have him beaten, just when you think that he has to be finished, is normally the time when he surprise you with one last burst of energy or a move that he doesn't normally do.
Weakness
Trusting, Injury Prone and Mental Stability.
Despite all of his experience, despite what has been done to him in the past, Phoenix tries to see the best in everyone, even his opponents. This means that he can be lulled into a false sense of security quite easily. On top of that it won't matter if someone is using a steel-chair and a cattle-prod against him Phoenix refuses to use weapons - or cheat - to win a match unless there really is no other recourse ... and even if he is forced to defend himself by using a weapon he won't take a win that way.
His body has ben batterred and broken over the years and some people in the know have even targeted certain areas deliberately (his knee, for example). On top of that there is a 'question' about his mental stability (see BIOGRAPHY for details).
Biography
Phoenix was brought up by his grandfather after his parents were killed while he was still a small child. His grandfather wanted him to follow in his own steps and become a both a shaman for their tribe and a political/business player with the Native American community. Phoenix had other ideas. Well, actually, he had three:
1 - stay best friends forever with Rick James his (obviously) best friend. Promises made, even before reaching double figures in age, are still promises after all.
2 - go to college and and get a couple of degrees - one in social anthropology and one in pyschology.
3 - represent his Country in the Olympics at Archery.
One and two were easy to do but it was while at College with Rick that number three changed; so did his whole life. Rick James got an internship with Vanilla Networks, a multi-media agency that just so happened to have a TV station that owned a wrestling franchise. Always athletic Phoenix was immediately hooked on the sport and even though it meant giving up his Olympic dream (one thing that his grandfather - grudginly - admitted was a worthwhile goal ... he wasn't too sure about the other goals) he started training to be a wrestler. Training hard.
Fast forward a few years - ok, more than a few, but you know what I mean ... we don't have time to to an autobiograhpy here folks! - and goals one and two were still firmly established plus his new and improved goal of 'making it in wrestling' was pretty much a success too: six World level titles in six different PTC federations with Phoenix also being the only wrestler to appear in all six GTTs, plus the only man to ever reach the finals twice (losing - controversially - to Vampir Nosferatu in GTT1 and Dave Snow in GTT6) meant that Phoenix was a household name whereever he went.
The only problem was that - currently and since the end of GTT6 - the only place that Phoenix wanted to be was ANYWHERE outside of wrestling. The sport that he had once loved, the business that had been his life, had broken him. For nearly two years he had lost himself under the mask of a wrestler known only as Ember - everything that Phoenix was Ember was the opposite; vain, eogmaniacal; viscious; selfish; evil. A strong word, perhaps, but to Phoenix himself he believed - totally - that Ember was nothing more than evil personified. Obviously, to his 'doctors' Ember was just a personality Phoenix's pysche had come up with as the result of a psychotic break - a completely seperate personality that allowed Phoenix to play out his repressed desires. To Phoenix himself, though - and to his grandfather, the mystical shaman - they knew better. Ember was the non-born soul of Phoenix's own twin brother who had died in the womb ... someone who had never managed to have a life of his own and so, bitter and twisted in the spirit World of the Native Ancestors, Ember had possessed Phoenix's body and trapped his mind in a small, dark, corner of his own psyche.
... still with me? Well done!
Either way - medically and emotionally boorken with a pyschotic break induced split personality or spiritually possessed by the soul of his never born twin - Phoenix had been through Hell and had called it quits on wrestling entirely. He walked out on a lucrative contract with PRIME (a contract he claims isn't his anyway, it is Ember's) as well as all PTC tournament appearances, Phoenix seemed pretty set to quietly fade into retirement.
Best laid plans, and all that ... he got an invitation to take part in the NFW Grand Prix - a tournament which had one of his personal heroes taking part - and he got a gleam of desire back in his eye. A gleam that turned into even more when he found out that his best friend - his soul mate and the one man that stood beside him throughout the whole Ember ordeal - Rick James had accepted on his behalf.
Phoenix may have been done with wrestling but it seemed that wrestling wasn't done with him.
... and, to add to any other problems, someone has been emailing Phoenix with 'allegations' that there may be more to his relationship with his 'friend' Rick James than is public knowledge. Dealing with your sexuality is confusing enough when you KNOW what you are doing - in this case it seems that others want to make it their concern before Phoenix himself has come to terms with where his and Rick's journey is taking them.
Oy vey!
Titles
Let's just say that there have been more than a few. This includes six World titles in six different PTC feds (two feds in which he was a grand slam champion and three in which he is in the Hall of Fame). On top of that he is the only six time entrant in the PTC GTT tournaments and the only man to reach two different finals. He has had the honour of holding the CSWA Presidential Championship too.
.... he never, ever, managed to hold the fWo Cruiserweight Title. He really wanted to!
DICE-ROLL STRATEGY INFORMATION
Divide 120 Points between:
POWER: 11
AGILITY: (Leaping, Air-Strike/Defense) 29
STAMINA: 33
SCIENTIFIC: (Technical/Amateur/Martial Arts Background) 21
SPEED: (Quickness in/out of the ring, moving around) 23
BRAWLING: 3
Anyhoo - here goes:
MEMBER INFORMATION:
Name: Jay
Email Address: phoenixjay@gmail.com
AIM: flamebyrd
Preferred Method of Handling: (FW Promo, Freestyle RP, Angle/Storyline, Hybrid) - Well I currently (or last time I RPd) went with the freestyle (PTC) narrative RP with relevence ... that said I can mix it up so will go with 'hybrid'
Best Way to Contact you: (PM/Email/IM) Email, PM here or PTC, or by leaving a coded note under the third tree from the left - you know the place.
WRESTLER INFORMATION:
Wrestler Name: Jay Phoenix
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 215 lbs
Hailing From: Flagstaff, Arizona
Handedness: Right, but years of martial arts makes him nearly as good with his left.
Disposition: Ladi back, easy going and one of the 'good guys' .. oh, and a complete and utter 'baby face'
Gimmick: He lives the gimmick in that Phoenix is a Native American with a Shaman for a Grandfather - what you see is what you get. He is both highly focused, and highly spiritual. Looks towards the Native American spirits to guide him ... very open and trusting, with an attitude of seeing the best in everyone until proved otherwise.
Ring Attire / Looks:
Ring Entrance: Well, this was the fed based one last time -
Announcer … from Flagstaff, Arizona, weighing in at 215lbs, standing 5'11", this is the HOTTEST star in wrestling … JAY PHOENIX!!
[A haunting guitar melody plays over the PA system as on the VideoTron flames start to appear, curling up to completely cover the blackness of the screen. A drumbeat fills that air as words, sung in a powerful, pure voice can be heard mingling with the melody as a bass driven counter melody joins with an electric guitar to complete the music. ]
"Day by day, watching you disappear
Wishing that you were still here beside me
On my own, swimming against the tide
There's nobody on my side but your memory
Then I'll rise, right before your eyes
On wings that fill the sky
Like a Phoenix rising
Like a Phoenix rising
Wings of fire, tearing into the night
Screaming into the light of another day
Carry me out of the hurricane
Into the smoke and flame and we'll fly away
And I'll rise, right before their eyes
On wings that fill the sky
Like a Phoenix rising
Like a Phoenix rising
Higher, higher hear the thunder roar from above
Fire, fire, fire make me whole
And I'll rise, right before their eyes
On wings that fill the sky
Like a Phoenix rising
Like a Phoenix rising
Wings of fire, tearing into the night
And we'll fly away ... "
[As the music fades away, the flames on the VideoTron die down, leaving the screen completely black again … until suddenly with an explosion of light and noise the flames reappear, this time in the easily distinguishable form of a Phoenix that fills the whole screen. On either side of the ramp way two bursts of flame leap out, sending to fan shaped flares of fire across the entrance, through which a silhouetted figure walks through as on the screen, superimposed on the mystical flame bird symbol, two words appear … JAY PHOENIX]
[The crowd are on the feet, cheering and screaming as the realisation of just who it is hits them. Phoenix stands on the ramp way, the flame still bright behind him, as the music still plays. He is dressed in a black leather look body suit, flame motifs running up the side of both legs, meeting at the thigh where they join together to form almost a belt of fire. The arms are cut off at the shoulders exposing muscular biceps, the left one covered with a glistening tattoo of a stylised Phoenix in flight surrounding by bands of gold and red flames. Black and red elbow pads are met by taping that covers his forearms and wrists. A silver necklace hangs around his neck, falling down to his chest, and when the light catches it at the right angle it can be seen to be a disc containing thin interlocking strands, a bright purple amethyst at it's centre … a dreamcatcher. A smile plays across Phoenix's face as he pans his attention around the arena before slowly walking down towards the ring. When he gets to the ring, Phoenix, with a quick move, jumps to the ring apron and climbs the turnbuckle, holding an arm up to the fans, which resume their cheering in response, before vaulting over the ropes to land in the centre of the ring.]
"Day by day, watching you disappear
Wishing that you were still here beside me
On my own, swimming against the tide
There's nobody on my side but your memory
Then I'll rise, right before your eyes
On wings that fill the sky
Like a Phoenix rising
Like a Phoenix rising
Wings of fire, tearing into the night
Screaming into the light of another day
Carry me out of the hurricane
Into the smoke and flame and we'll fly away
And I'll rise, right before their eyes
On wings that fill the sky
Like a Phoenix rising
Like a Phoenix rising
Higher, higher hear the thunder roar from above
Fire, fire, fire make me whole
And I'll rise, right before their eyes
On wings that fill the sky
Like a Phoenix rising
Like a Phoenix rising
Wings of fire, tearing into the night
And we'll fly away ... "
[As the music fades away, the flames on the VideoTron die down, leaving the screen completely black again … until suddenly with an explosion of light and noise the flames reappear, this time in the easily distinguishable form of a Phoenix that fills the whole screen. On either side of the ramp way two bursts of flame leap out, sending to fan shaped flares of fire across the entrance, through which a silhouetted figure walks through as on the screen, superimposed on the mystical flame bird symbol, two words appear … JAY PHOENIX]
[The crowd are on the feet, cheering and screaming as the realisation of just who it is hits them. Phoenix stands on the ramp way, the flame still bright behind him, as the music still plays. He is dressed in a black leather look body suit, flame motifs running up the side of both legs, meeting at the thigh where they join together to form almost a belt of fire. The arms are cut off at the shoulders exposing muscular biceps, the left one covered with a glistening tattoo of a stylised Phoenix in flight surrounding by bands of gold and red flames. Black and red elbow pads are met by taping that covers his forearms and wrists. A silver necklace hangs around his neck, falling down to his chest, and when the light catches it at the right angle it can be seen to be a disc containing thin interlocking strands, a bright purple amethyst at it's centre … a dreamcatcher. A smile plays across Phoenix's face as he pans his attention around the arena before slowly walking down towards the ring. When he gets to the ring, Phoenix, with a quick move, jumps to the ring apron and climbs the turnbuckle, holding an arm up to the fans, which resume their cheering in response, before vaulting over the ropes to land in the centre of the ring.]
Theme Music: "Phoenix Rising" by Annihilator
Tactics/Style: Phoenix's overall style is that of a fast-paced, risk-taker. He knows that he isn't the biggest or strongest man in wrestling so normally tries to dictate the pace of the match. As he is well versed in different styles of wrestling he isn't averse to playing wrestlers at their own game to try to keep them off balance so will move from high-flying, to submission based, to martial arts, to mat based wrestling and back again. Phoenix prefers to stick to the rules and will rarely ever cheat - he is very honourable - even when this is to his disadvantage.
Movelist:
Strikes
Basic forearms
Basic elbow smashes
Open-handed palm strikes
Knife-edge chops
Dropkick
Rolling kick
Roundhouse kicks to legs, body, and head.
Shining Wizards of all sorts and sizes.
Jumping knee, HHH style.
Missile dropkick
Somersault dropkick
Flying forearm smash
Submissions
Cross armbreaker
Fujiwara armbar
Triangle choke
Texas Cloverleaf
Figure Four Leglock
Sharpshooter
Anklelock
Grapevine Anklelock
Other Moves
Huracanranas of all sorts.
DDT
Double-Arm DDT
Senton
Tiger Suplex Hold
Russian Legsweep
Tornado DDT
Super Frankensteiner
Diamond Cutter
Diving shoulderbarge
Victory roll (springboard from outside)
Various martial arts moves
Signature Moves
Calm before the storm - sleeperhold/legscissored armbar submission, held till either a tap out or the opponent goes to sleep.
Thunderstorm – twisting corckscrew moonsault from the top rope
Electric Chair – Hurricinrana from the top-rope
Lights Out - side thrust kick to the face
Burn Out - Mysterio’s 619
Fade Out – Sharpshooter
Finishing Moves
From the ashes
Short arm clothesline into two round kicks first to the stomach and then to the face. As opponents falls to the canvas Ember runs up the turnbuckle and without pausing performs a shooting star press.
Phoenix Rising
To setup the finishing move, a butterfly powerbomb (pedigree set up … both arms behind back while head is lowered, into a short power-bomb,if the opponent is too big, then just the pedigree is used instead of the powerbomb) leaving them on the mat. After the set up move, Phoenix springboards from the middle of the top rope, into a somersault leg drop, landing across the opponents chest.
Strengths
Experience, Resilience, and Versatility.
Phoenix is a veteran of the business and, because of that, is both extremely experienced and has built up a high level of resilience. There is little that he hasn't seen - or been faced with - inside the ring so not only has great ring awareness but little rattles him and just when you think that you have him beaten, just when you think that he has to be finished, is normally the time when he surprise you with one last burst of energy or a move that he doesn't normally do.
Weakness
Trusting, Injury Prone and Mental Stability.
Despite all of his experience, despite what has been done to him in the past, Phoenix tries to see the best in everyone, even his opponents. This means that he can be lulled into a false sense of security quite easily. On top of that it won't matter if someone is using a steel-chair and a cattle-prod against him Phoenix refuses to use weapons - or cheat - to win a match unless there really is no other recourse ... and even if he is forced to defend himself by using a weapon he won't take a win that way.
His body has ben batterred and broken over the years and some people in the know have even targeted certain areas deliberately (his knee, for example). On top of that there is a 'question' about his mental stability (see BIOGRAPHY for details).
Biography
Phoenix was brought up by his grandfather after his parents were killed while he was still a small child. His grandfather wanted him to follow in his own steps and become a both a shaman for their tribe and a political/business player with the Native American community. Phoenix had other ideas. Well, actually, he had three:
1 - stay best friends forever with Rick James his (obviously) best friend. Promises made, even before reaching double figures in age, are still promises after all.
2 - go to college and and get a couple of degrees - one in social anthropology and one in pyschology.
3 - represent his Country in the Olympics at Archery.
One and two were easy to do but it was while at College with Rick that number three changed; so did his whole life. Rick James got an internship with Vanilla Networks, a multi-media agency that just so happened to have a TV station that owned a wrestling franchise. Always athletic Phoenix was immediately hooked on the sport and even though it meant giving up his Olympic dream (one thing that his grandfather - grudginly - admitted was a worthwhile goal ... he wasn't too sure about the other goals) he started training to be a wrestler. Training hard.
Fast forward a few years - ok, more than a few, but you know what I mean ... we don't have time to to an autobiograhpy here folks! - and goals one and two were still firmly established plus his new and improved goal of 'making it in wrestling' was pretty much a success too: six World level titles in six different PTC federations with Phoenix also being the only wrestler to appear in all six GTTs, plus the only man to ever reach the finals twice (losing - controversially - to Vampir Nosferatu in GTT1 and Dave Snow in GTT6) meant that Phoenix was a household name whereever he went.
The only problem was that - currently and since the end of GTT6 - the only place that Phoenix wanted to be was ANYWHERE outside of wrestling. The sport that he had once loved, the business that had been his life, had broken him. For nearly two years he had lost himself under the mask of a wrestler known only as Ember - everything that Phoenix was Ember was the opposite; vain, eogmaniacal; viscious; selfish; evil. A strong word, perhaps, but to Phoenix himself he believed - totally - that Ember was nothing more than evil personified. Obviously, to his 'doctors' Ember was just a personality Phoenix's pysche had come up with as the result of a psychotic break - a completely seperate personality that allowed Phoenix to play out his repressed desires. To Phoenix himself, though - and to his grandfather, the mystical shaman - they knew better. Ember was the non-born soul of Phoenix's own twin brother who had died in the womb ... someone who had never managed to have a life of his own and so, bitter and twisted in the spirit World of the Native Ancestors, Ember had possessed Phoenix's body and trapped his mind in a small, dark, corner of his own psyche.
... still with me? Well done!
Either way - medically and emotionally boorken with a pyschotic break induced split personality or spiritually possessed by the soul of his never born twin - Phoenix had been through Hell and had called it quits on wrestling entirely. He walked out on a lucrative contract with PRIME (a contract he claims isn't his anyway, it is Ember's) as well as all PTC tournament appearances, Phoenix seemed pretty set to quietly fade into retirement.
Best laid plans, and all that ... he got an invitation to take part in the NFW Grand Prix - a tournament which had one of his personal heroes taking part - and he got a gleam of desire back in his eye. A gleam that turned into even more when he found out that his best friend - his soul mate and the one man that stood beside him throughout the whole Ember ordeal - Rick James had accepted on his behalf.
Phoenix may have been done with wrestling but it seemed that wrestling wasn't done with him.
... and, to add to any other problems, someone has been emailing Phoenix with 'allegations' that there may be more to his relationship with his 'friend' Rick James than is public knowledge. Dealing with your sexuality is confusing enough when you KNOW what you are doing - in this case it seems that others want to make it their concern before Phoenix himself has come to terms with where his and Rick's journey is taking them.
Oy vey!
Titles
Let's just say that there have been more than a few. This includes six World titles in six different PTC feds (two feds in which he was a grand slam champion and three in which he is in the Hall of Fame). On top of that he is the only six time entrant in the PTC GTT tournaments and the only man to reach two different finals. He has had the honour of holding the CSWA Presidential Championship too.
.... he never, ever, managed to hold the fWo Cruiserweight Title. He really wanted to!
DICE-ROLL STRATEGY INFORMATION
Divide 120 Points between:
POWER: 11
AGILITY: (Leaping, Air-Strike/Defense) 29
STAMINA: 33
SCIENTIFIC: (Technical/Amateur/Martial Arts Background) 21
SPEED: (Quickness in/out of the ring, moving around) 23
BRAWLING: 3