Larry Tact [updated]
I've been out of the loop the past week, so I didn't see this until last night. heh. But that profile for Tact isn't really up-to-date, I'm sorry to say. I've repackaged him since then. Here's a better/newer/spiffier profile.
Name: Larry Tact
Ht: 6'6"
Wt: 265 lbs.
From: Manhattan, New York
Entrance Music: 'Karma Slave' by Splashdown
Ring Entrance:
(CUEUP: 'Karma Slave' by Splashdown. Green and blue spotlights shine onto the crowd, forming the word “TACT” as Larry Tact walks out onto the entryway, looking around and observing the crowd. He wears thigh length blue trunks with a jagged black stripe down each side, and black boots with blue laces. Tact focuses on the ring, proceeding at a steady pace as the spotlights strobe around the ring. He does a couple of stretches at ringside before climbing onto the apron and entering the ring.)
Image:
http://fwrestling.com/host/classicwrestling/larrytact.jpg
Basic Moveset [*indicates favorite move]
Submissions
Side Leg Lock
Neck Crank
Armbar
Indian Deathlock
Sleeper
Moves
*Kickswing DDT
*Jumping Knee Lift
*Dive to Blue- Top Rope Elbow Drop
*StretchPlex- Abdominal Strech into Side Slam
Backbreaker
Atomic Drop
Knee to Face
Eye rake
Running Knee to Abdomen
Shoulderbreaker
Powerbomb
Swinging Neckbreaker
German Suplex
Full Nelson Slam
Finisher Name:
Primary Submission- Tactful Surrender
Primary Pinfall- Humbling
Secondary Submission- Sky Lock
Seconday Pinfall- Point Blank
Finisher Description:
Tactful Surrender- A modified bow and arrow lock. Rather than lifting the opponent, Tact keeps them grounded. He grabs an arm and a leg, and reels back while digging a knee or boot into the opponent's spine. Tact uses his other leg for maintaining stability and control.
Humbling- Uranage Suplex
Sky Lock- Inverted STF
Point Blank- Superkick
Previous Feds: CWF, NEW, WFW, GLCW, EWF, WWL, CSWA, CWWF, RMWF, IWF
Relevant Titles Won:
New ERA of Wrestling World Champion
EWF World Champion
RMWF World Champion
CWF Unified Champion
WWL Tri-American Champion
IWF Unified Champion
2x RMWF Mile High Champion
IWF Entertainment Champion
History:
Tact enjoys a somewhat lavish lifestyle, and doesn't mind flaunting it from time to time. When it comes to wrestling, though, he's all business. He doesn't care much about other people's rank, nor about status, because he's thrown out respect for the wrestling 'system.' Politics and trust in wrestling are just a lot of BS to him. He paves his own paths, and gets his agenda across, whatever it may be, and whoever the opposition standing in his way.
Larry Tact grew up in a relatively good part of Long Island. The biggest worry he had was being criticized for his tendency to speak out about things he found wrong with his school or community, which he did with great fervor. However, once he got into college, Tact became a bouncer, making some extra money. He eventually took up training at a wrestling academy, and learned how to integrate his strength with the technical style his intructors taught him.
Upon completing college, Tact took up an entrepeneurship and invested in stocks, making a great deal of wealth. He lived comfortably in New York City, being in good connection with influential people. Tact continued to be the outspoken person from before, and became an excellent conversationalist and influential in his own right.
Once he had attained this great wealth, Tact relaxed his focus on business dealings, focusing more on hobbies and the good life. However, he always had the urge to go back to doing wrestling, and so Tact took up lessons at the wrestling academy again, while continuing to frequent the local gyms as he always had done. The business world, Tact found, was not his true passion, despite the success he had achieved. Wrestling was what he wanted to do, and so after training diligently in the academy, Tact broke into the indies with the NYWA. He eventually made it to more mainstream promotions, such as the IWF, RMWF, and WWL.
However, Tact's true calling of wrestling would also be his financial downfall. Tact's outspoken nature led him into trouble when he stepped on the toes of an IWF legend. Among other things, he was kidnapped by the mafia and framed for credit card fraud. In the end, Tact lost almost all of the fortune he had accumulated prior to entering wrestling, leaving him in shambles and dealing a great blow to his spirit and will. Tact went through a period of apathy, but finally managed to pull himself out of it. The ordeal ended up helping to toughen his will and make him mentally stronger, but also more apathetic towards wrestling and the people in its world.
Tact would continue on to other promotions and further successes, but also hit additional difficult times, and suffer some setbacks due to injury. During his recovery from injuries sustained, Tact always managed to improve himself and his technique. His will and spirit are both very strong, and added to his sharpened and refined in-ring technique, it makes Tact a formidable opponent.