Post by Job on Jan 27, 2023 17:08:37 GMT
WRESTLER NAME
Paul Freedom Deranian!
RING NAME
Paul Freedom!
NICK NAME(S)
Paul Free-dumb, but it's mean to call him that!
Jommy's Cousin, but Jommy isn't exactly a household name!
PIC BASE
Irakli Kvirikadze!
HEIGHT
6'1"!
WEIGHT
191 lbs!
D.O.B
12/21/2004!
HOMETOWN
Arlington, Massachusetts, USA!
BILLED FROM
Boston!
ALIGNMENT
Be his reaction pop or heat, his attitude is pure white meat!
MANAGER(S)
He has an agent and a trainer, but no manager!
AFFILIATION(S)
Paul is, much to his credit, the other half of BFFS with Jack(ie) Sullivan!
Amanda "Grapple Princess" Davis, Paul's trainer, is a scion of a Canadian wrestling family and a former wrestler herself. Though she is retired from active competition, she left her gig writing for the dirt sheets to try her damnedest to teach the kid how to wrestle. She did so despite/due to her complicated history with Paul's father at the behest of Paul's agent, Cousin Jommy!
Cousin Jommy is Paul's first cousin twice removed, his agent, and the only family member he's currently in contact with!
Ever since taking Charity White and her six identical sisters to prom at the behest of their father Crusader (the youth minister of the First Church of Christ, Scientific Wrestler), Paul has been pursuing a long-distance relationship with her as his life on the road permits, including having gotten his first kiss during a short-distance interlude!
PAST AFFILIATION(S)
Just a makeshift alliance in Level Up Wrestling that formed to oppose the Game Changers in a losing effort!
PERSONALITY
Paul is a cheerful guy, in large part because he puts substantial effort into keeping his negative emotions from showing, and an optimist, in large part because he lacks the experience to recognize how bad things are or could be!
CURRENT ACCOLADE(S)
None to speak of, or even any of an unspeakable nature!
ENTRANCE THEME
"Summerholidays vs. Punkroutine" - by Refused
ENTRANCE DESCRIPTION
The arena sound system abruptly bombards the audience with the distinctive opening of "Summerholidays vs. Punkroutine" by Refused, a signature track from what is arguably one of the top five punk bands in Swedish history. The intro riff, with its jarring interplay between the full voicing and palm muting of a single guitar note at a vivace tempo, has barely gotten through the first bar by the time Paul Freedom bursts out from backstage to stand at the top of the entrance ramp, his posture visibly tense and the big smile plastered across his face failing to reach his russet eyes. As the modest applause washes over him, his demeanor softens in response, from core to countenance.
While the black pads on his elbows and knees appear to have been bought off the rack at a sporting goods store, the white tights he wears, accented with red and blue flames, bear the marks of expert craftmanship, if not a particularly inspired artistic vision. His ensemble is completed by taped wrists and black pull-on boots that appear to have been intended more for working industrial construction than working the leg. All told, while it's a motley assortment of gear, it has the dubious honor of looking more like something a wrestler would wear than the guy wearing it looks like someone who would wrestle. He's taller than average, but only barely. His upper body has a level of muscle tone that is atypical in how typical it is. Even that, however, is difficult to fully discern through his body hair, which is matted with sweat to his swarthy skin in several places. The look is, arguably, completed by dark hair cropped to a short fade.
As the song continues to play out, the vocalist lamenting the eternal conflict between doing something for love or for money, the ways those lines can become blurred, something in the distorted guitars and driving rhythm finally seems to galvanize Paul into action. He takes a deep breath, his shoulders heaving, and begins a deliberate plod to the ring. He extends his hands for high fives from those in attendance but, after largely being left hanging, shrugs and dashes the rest of the way to the ring to slide in under the bottom rope. He looks for his first opportunity to offer his opponent a handshake!
WRESTLING STYLE
Gradually transitioning from a brawler who can fly into a flier who can brawl!
STRENGTHS
Thanks to his disproportionately strong lower body, Paul kicks like an ornery mule and gets impressive elevation with his acrobatics!
Paul continues the family tradition of having a Dexterity score of at least 18, allowing him to move gracefully, flexibly, and all while hardly ever losing his balance!
Whether through instinct, conditioning, or sheer dumb luck, when Paul wrestles he frequently finds himself benefiting from being in the exact right place at nearly the right time!
WEAKNESSES
Despite Amanda's best efforts, Paul's technical skill, what one might call his "ability to wrestle," falls somewhere between mediocre and nonexistent!
Paul has a lot of unfounded confidence but little regard for his health, leading him to impulsively make decisions that are likely to lead to defeat and/or injury!
Paul has yet to figure out who he is as a person or a wrestler, so almost everything he does is an attempt to follow in what he believes his father's footsteps to have been based on anecdotes and highlight reels. This means he is not only easy to manipulate, but his "style" is based around emulating high spots that he doesn't understand the greater context of!
BASIC MOVES
Moonsault stuff. Paul does backflips for any move he can figure out a way to combine with one of those bad boys!
Basically any kick Satoru Sayama was known to use. If you're not a puroresu nerd, that translates to basically any kick!
A whole range of punches. The range spans from wild haymakers to wild jabs!
The drop toe hold. Paul busts this one out in defiance of those who criticize his scientific wrestling prowess!
The bulldog. If Paul is lucky enough to get someone in a side headlock, chances are he's going to capitalize by running, jumping, or springboarding and hoping they fall down in the process!
The snap suplex. It's about as crisp as you'd expect for someone who's attempting a vertical suplex but has his core give out approximately a third of the way through!
The DDT. A DDT!
The tope suicida. When it comes time to attack someone outside the ring from inside the ring, Paul typically uses his head!
While he's certainly willing to give anything a try twice in case the first bad experience was a fluke, Paul isn't proficient with many moves!
SIGNATURE MOVE(S)
The Svoboda Sleeper is a variant of the cavernaria that uses an inverted facelock instead of the traditional chinlock. This is more likely to result in a pinfall loss than a submission or knockout until Paul gets better at this stuff, so at its current peak it's more of a Svoboda Breather!
The Svoboda Special is a cartwheel or, ideally, a roundoff into a suicide moonsault over the top rope. What will be truly special is if Paul ever successfully executes it against a live opponent!
FINISHING MOVE(S)- limited to 2 please -
The Impressive Display of Agility is much like an imploding 450 degree splash, but is executed no-look style to be maximally impressive and lands with the knee rather than the torso. It's from the top turnbuckle, so you know it's got to be good!
The USA Drop is a Death Valley driver executed from a position in which Paul is standing on the ever popular top turnbuckle. This is at best a secondary finisher, as it is unlikely to be something Paul can manage against any opponent who is significantly taller or heavier, but that doesn't mean he won't try!
WEAPONS:
Paul tries to take advantage of his environment within the rules of whatever match he's in, but rarely seeks out weapons and has no particular attachment to any specific one!
PAST ACCOLADES
The This Is Awesome wrestler rankings for April 2022 placed Paul as number 117 in the world!
OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Paul was the first wrestler to be the first to pin Buster Gloves!
Paul is currently preparing to look back fondly on his first major accomplishment as a wrestler!
NOTABLE FEUDS
In a relatively short time, Paul has racked up a substantial streak of losing every single match that features Mac Bane!
NOTABLE MATCHES
In Paul's debut match at Level Up Wrestling's The Last Of Us Part 2, he not only sustained the first head trauma of his career, but finished the signature thirty-wrestler match in fourth place!
At Level Up Wrestling's DOOM, he got to live many a wrestler's dream by participating in a War Games match, albeit on the losing team!
Finally, at Level Up Wrestling's Combat Evolved 2: The Revenge, he participated in a Pool of Cheese battle royal, during which El Paso wrestling fans erupted in cheers for his elimination early in the match!
BIOGRAPHY
Paul Freedom is one of those legacy wrestler types. You know the sort I'm talking about. Pretty much everything about him as a wrestler is defined by a characteristic drawn from another wrestler. Which wrestler? Well, that's probably worth getting into a bit.
So, first of all, Paul technically comes from a professional wrestling family, or more accurately a professional wrestling bloodline. Let's talk about what that means, though. When it comes down to it, what it means is that his biological father got paid specifically to wrestle but not generally to win. He wasn't throwing his matches or anything, mind you, though whether he was actually trying to win is also, admittedly, up for debate. Before his untimely demise and without ever being aware of his son's existence, though, one of the ways he made money was by wrestling.
So, if a professional wrestler is what he was, who was Paul's father, then? Some dude called Piter Svoboda. While the man wasn't entirely unknown in his day, it's the sort of name you can drop and watch flutter around due to its lack of gravity.
Where did Paul's father wrestle? Here and there. Most of the promotions desperate enough to take a risk on him or risky enough to cater to his desperation are long since defunct. It's a big, bad industry and maybe it's dog-eat-dog, but it's to be expected that most of the dogs in that expression are bait dogs. Quite honestly, you are practically a cryptid if you have fond memories, or really any memories at all, of promotions like the American Smackdown Society, Psycho Network Wrestling Federation, International Wrestling Federation, Extremely Hardcore Xtreme Championship Wrestling Federation, Smackdown Championship Wrestling, Meaningless Violence Wrestling, Lone Star Wrestling, Ultimate Hardcore Wrestling, Vegas Stakes Wrestling, All Star Wrestling, Empire State Wrestling, and... well, while the list goes on for quite a while its enumeration will, mercifully, not.
When did Paul's father wrestle? The bloodlessly objective answer to that is that his wrestling career began in the early 1990s and naturally wound down throughout the first decade of the 21st century. Another way to establish the timeline would be that he made his debut the weekend after he dropped out of high school and hadn't yet had the good sense to officially retire before his sudden death at age 38.
Why did Paul's father wrestle? That's not exactly rocket surgery. He needed the money and it was the most lucrative job anyone was willing to give him. He also worked several odd jobs to keep some money trickling in between tours or within suspensions. Yes, I really do mean jobs that are odd even compared to being a professional wrestler. Stuff like rodeo clown, bartender, or emu wrangler.
But the thing is, Paul Freedom doesn't know almost any of that. Not yet. He never met the man and has filled in the blanks between what sketchy scraps of information he has with ideals and fantasies of whom he would have wanted his father to be, which has now spurred him on to try to do with his life what he believes that romanticized caricature would have wanted him to do.
Why does Paul Freedom wrestle? To follow in the imagined footsteps of a man who never truly existed until he steps out of a shadow that never reached as far as he believes it to have.
When does Paul Freedom wrestle? Whenever he gets the opportunity to, which has thus far been just about every couple weeks in the year 2022.
Where does Paul Freedom wrestle? Again, in pretty much any venue where he can get cleared by event security. The place where he's made the most appearances and enjoyed the most success is Level Up Wrestling, which leads by a wide margin with a tally of "some" to other promotions' "zero."
Who is Paul Freedom? Well, that's not quite his real name, so in essence it's the nom de guerre of a troubled young man chosen as an homage to a dead relative whose real life Paul wishes to emulate but does not yet know, let alone understand, most of the details of. Paul Freedom is a persona formed by taking liberties with his own identity to reflect the liberties he's taken with someone else's.
What is Paul Freedom? Apart from a teenage runaway, a high school dropout, and a self-styled poet, Paul Freedom is one of those legacy wrestler types. If you don't know the sort I'm talking about, well, I guess we'll find out together!
HANDLER
Job!
Any social media accounts?
Paul Freedom Deranian!
RING NAME
Paul Freedom!
NICK NAME(S)
Paul Free-dumb, but it's mean to call him that!
Jommy's Cousin, but Jommy isn't exactly a household name!
PIC BASE
Irakli Kvirikadze!
HEIGHT
6'1"!
WEIGHT
191 lbs!
D.O.B
12/21/2004!
HOMETOWN
Arlington, Massachusetts, USA!
BILLED FROM
Boston!
ALIGNMENT
Be his reaction pop or heat, his attitude is pure white meat!
MANAGER(S)
He has an agent and a trainer, but no manager!
AFFILIATION(S)
Paul is, much to his credit, the other half of BFFS with Jack(ie) Sullivan!
Amanda "Grapple Princess" Davis, Paul's trainer, is a scion of a Canadian wrestling family and a former wrestler herself. Though she is retired from active competition, she left her gig writing for the dirt sheets to try her damnedest to teach the kid how to wrestle. She did so despite/due to her complicated history with Paul's father at the behest of Paul's agent, Cousin Jommy!
Cousin Jommy is Paul's first cousin twice removed, his agent, and the only family member he's currently in contact with!
Ever since taking Charity White and her six identical sisters to prom at the behest of their father Crusader (the youth minister of the First Church of Christ, Scientific Wrestler), Paul has been pursuing a long-distance relationship with her as his life on the road permits, including having gotten his first kiss during a short-distance interlude!
PAST AFFILIATION(S)
Just a makeshift alliance in Level Up Wrestling that formed to oppose the Game Changers in a losing effort!
PERSONALITY
Paul is a cheerful guy, in large part because he puts substantial effort into keeping his negative emotions from showing, and an optimist, in large part because he lacks the experience to recognize how bad things are or could be!
CURRENT ACCOLADE(S)
None to speak of, or even any of an unspeakable nature!
ENTRANCE THEME
"Summerholidays vs. Punkroutine" - by Refused
ENTRANCE DESCRIPTION
The arena sound system abruptly bombards the audience with the distinctive opening of "Summerholidays vs. Punkroutine" by Refused, a signature track from what is arguably one of the top five punk bands in Swedish history. The intro riff, with its jarring interplay between the full voicing and palm muting of a single guitar note at a vivace tempo, has barely gotten through the first bar by the time Paul Freedom bursts out from backstage to stand at the top of the entrance ramp, his posture visibly tense and the big smile plastered across his face failing to reach his russet eyes. As the modest applause washes over him, his demeanor softens in response, from core to countenance.
While the black pads on his elbows and knees appear to have been bought off the rack at a sporting goods store, the white tights he wears, accented with red and blue flames, bear the marks of expert craftmanship, if not a particularly inspired artistic vision. His ensemble is completed by taped wrists and black pull-on boots that appear to have been intended more for working industrial construction than working the leg. All told, while it's a motley assortment of gear, it has the dubious honor of looking more like something a wrestler would wear than the guy wearing it looks like someone who would wrestle. He's taller than average, but only barely. His upper body has a level of muscle tone that is atypical in how typical it is. Even that, however, is difficult to fully discern through his body hair, which is matted with sweat to his swarthy skin in several places. The look is, arguably, completed by dark hair cropped to a short fade.
As the song continues to play out, the vocalist lamenting the eternal conflict between doing something for love or for money, the ways those lines can become blurred, something in the distorted guitars and driving rhythm finally seems to galvanize Paul into action. He takes a deep breath, his shoulders heaving, and begins a deliberate plod to the ring. He extends his hands for high fives from those in attendance but, after largely being left hanging, shrugs and dashes the rest of the way to the ring to slide in under the bottom rope. He looks for his first opportunity to offer his opponent a handshake!
WRESTLING STYLE
Gradually transitioning from a brawler who can fly into a flier who can brawl!
STRENGTHS
Thanks to his disproportionately strong lower body, Paul kicks like an ornery mule and gets impressive elevation with his acrobatics!
Paul continues the family tradition of having a Dexterity score of at least 18, allowing him to move gracefully, flexibly, and all while hardly ever losing his balance!
Whether through instinct, conditioning, or sheer dumb luck, when Paul wrestles he frequently finds himself benefiting from being in the exact right place at nearly the right time!
WEAKNESSES
Despite Amanda's best efforts, Paul's technical skill, what one might call his "ability to wrestle," falls somewhere between mediocre and nonexistent!
Paul has a lot of unfounded confidence but little regard for his health, leading him to impulsively make decisions that are likely to lead to defeat and/or injury!
Paul has yet to figure out who he is as a person or a wrestler, so almost everything he does is an attempt to follow in what he believes his father's footsteps to have been based on anecdotes and highlight reels. This means he is not only easy to manipulate, but his "style" is based around emulating high spots that he doesn't understand the greater context of!
BASIC MOVES
Moonsault stuff. Paul does backflips for any move he can figure out a way to combine with one of those bad boys!
Basically any kick Satoru Sayama was known to use. If you're not a puroresu nerd, that translates to basically any kick!
A whole range of punches. The range spans from wild haymakers to wild jabs!
The drop toe hold. Paul busts this one out in defiance of those who criticize his scientific wrestling prowess!
The bulldog. If Paul is lucky enough to get someone in a side headlock, chances are he's going to capitalize by running, jumping, or springboarding and hoping they fall down in the process!
The snap suplex. It's about as crisp as you'd expect for someone who's attempting a vertical suplex but has his core give out approximately a third of the way through!
The DDT. A DDT!
The tope suicida. When it comes time to attack someone outside the ring from inside the ring, Paul typically uses his head!
While he's certainly willing to give anything a try twice in case the first bad experience was a fluke, Paul isn't proficient with many moves!
SIGNATURE MOVE(S)
The Svoboda Sleeper is a variant of the cavernaria that uses an inverted facelock instead of the traditional chinlock. This is more likely to result in a pinfall loss than a submission or knockout until Paul gets better at this stuff, so at its current peak it's more of a Svoboda Breather!
The Svoboda Special is a cartwheel or, ideally, a roundoff into a suicide moonsault over the top rope. What will be truly special is if Paul ever successfully executes it against a live opponent!
FINISHING MOVE(S)- limited to 2 please -
The Impressive Display of Agility is much like an imploding 450 degree splash, but is executed no-look style to be maximally impressive and lands with the knee rather than the torso. It's from the top turnbuckle, so you know it's got to be good!
The USA Drop is a Death Valley driver executed from a position in which Paul is standing on the ever popular top turnbuckle. This is at best a secondary finisher, as it is unlikely to be something Paul can manage against any opponent who is significantly taller or heavier, but that doesn't mean he won't try!
WEAPONS:
Paul tries to take advantage of his environment within the rules of whatever match he's in, but rarely seeks out weapons and has no particular attachment to any specific one!
PAST ACCOLADES
The This Is Awesome wrestler rankings for April 2022 placed Paul as number 117 in the world!
OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Paul was the first wrestler to be the first to pin Buster Gloves!
Paul is currently preparing to look back fondly on his first major accomplishment as a wrestler!
NOTABLE FEUDS
In a relatively short time, Paul has racked up a substantial streak of losing every single match that features Mac Bane!
NOTABLE MATCHES
In Paul's debut match at Level Up Wrestling's The Last Of Us Part 2, he not only sustained the first head trauma of his career, but finished the signature thirty-wrestler match in fourth place!
At Level Up Wrestling's DOOM, he got to live many a wrestler's dream by participating in a War Games match, albeit on the losing team!
Finally, at Level Up Wrestling's Combat Evolved 2: The Revenge, he participated in a Pool of Cheese battle royal, during which El Paso wrestling fans erupted in cheers for his elimination early in the match!
BIOGRAPHY
Paul Freedom is one of those legacy wrestler types. You know the sort I'm talking about. Pretty much everything about him as a wrestler is defined by a characteristic drawn from another wrestler. Which wrestler? Well, that's probably worth getting into a bit.
So, first of all, Paul technically comes from a professional wrestling family, or more accurately a professional wrestling bloodline. Let's talk about what that means, though. When it comes down to it, what it means is that his biological father got paid specifically to wrestle but not generally to win. He wasn't throwing his matches or anything, mind you, though whether he was actually trying to win is also, admittedly, up for debate. Before his untimely demise and without ever being aware of his son's existence, though, one of the ways he made money was by wrestling.
So, if a professional wrestler is what he was, who was Paul's father, then? Some dude called Piter Svoboda. While the man wasn't entirely unknown in his day, it's the sort of name you can drop and watch flutter around due to its lack of gravity.
Where did Paul's father wrestle? Here and there. Most of the promotions desperate enough to take a risk on him or risky enough to cater to his desperation are long since defunct. It's a big, bad industry and maybe it's dog-eat-dog, but it's to be expected that most of the dogs in that expression are bait dogs. Quite honestly, you are practically a cryptid if you have fond memories, or really any memories at all, of promotions like the American Smackdown Society, Psycho Network Wrestling Federation, International Wrestling Federation, Extremely Hardcore Xtreme Championship Wrestling Federation, Smackdown Championship Wrestling, Meaningless Violence Wrestling, Lone Star Wrestling, Ultimate Hardcore Wrestling, Vegas Stakes Wrestling, All Star Wrestling, Empire State Wrestling, and... well, while the list goes on for quite a while its enumeration will, mercifully, not.
When did Paul's father wrestle? The bloodlessly objective answer to that is that his wrestling career began in the early 1990s and naturally wound down throughout the first decade of the 21st century. Another way to establish the timeline would be that he made his debut the weekend after he dropped out of high school and hadn't yet had the good sense to officially retire before his sudden death at age 38.
Why did Paul's father wrestle? That's not exactly rocket surgery. He needed the money and it was the most lucrative job anyone was willing to give him. He also worked several odd jobs to keep some money trickling in between tours or within suspensions. Yes, I really do mean jobs that are odd even compared to being a professional wrestler. Stuff like rodeo clown, bartender, or emu wrangler.
But the thing is, Paul Freedom doesn't know almost any of that. Not yet. He never met the man and has filled in the blanks between what sketchy scraps of information he has with ideals and fantasies of whom he would have wanted his father to be, which has now spurred him on to try to do with his life what he believes that romanticized caricature would have wanted him to do.
Why does Paul Freedom wrestle? To follow in the imagined footsteps of a man who never truly existed until he steps out of a shadow that never reached as far as he believes it to have.
When does Paul Freedom wrestle? Whenever he gets the opportunity to, which has thus far been just about every couple weeks in the year 2022.
Where does Paul Freedom wrestle? Again, in pretty much any venue where he can get cleared by event security. The place where he's made the most appearances and enjoyed the most success is Level Up Wrestling, which leads by a wide margin with a tally of "some" to other promotions' "zero."
Who is Paul Freedom? Well, that's not quite his real name, so in essence it's the nom de guerre of a troubled young man chosen as an homage to a dead relative whose real life Paul wishes to emulate but does not yet know, let alone understand, most of the details of. Paul Freedom is a persona formed by taking liberties with his own identity to reflect the liberties he's taken with someone else's.
What is Paul Freedom? Apart from a teenage runaway, a high school dropout, and a self-styled poet, Paul Freedom is one of those legacy wrestler types. If you don't know the sort I'm talking about, well, I guess we'll find out together!
HANDLER
Job!
Any social media accounts?
Twitter handle: @jommyscousin
