Wrestler's Name: Alex Kendall
Nicknames: "The Dark Horse", "A.K."
Division: SCW World
Hometown: Woodbury, New Jersey
Where did you find us: You found me. You started this. I'm ending it.
Height: 5'11''
Weight: 210lbs
Hair Color: Brown.
Race: Caucasian.
Alignment: SCW[/size]
Wrestling Style: Technical Submissionist with puroresu striking influence. Alex tends to prioritise defense over offence, but if the opponent starts to get under his skin, he has a tendency to lash out. Alex does, however, have a very strict code of honour in the ring, and will under
no circumstances violate any of a match's standard set of rules - even if there are no rules to be broken. He obeys rope breaks, he backs off when told, and doesn't even so much as gouge an eye, no matter how tempting it may be. A straight wrestler through and through.
Manager/Valet: "Wildcard" Caitlyn Callahan - A fairly demure woman, practically a walking doll rather than a valet. Dressed in a full business suit, white gloves, hair brushed into an immaculate bobcut, the only thing that really stands out about her is her face - or lack thereof. Callahan has never been seen outside of her mask, porcelain like a china coll without even so much as eyeholes. She accompanies Alex to his matches, but does not interfere. She simply stands, watches, and makes notes on her little clipboard. If anything, Callahan is there to prevent interference rather than cause it, being a former SCW Champion herself and a competent luchadore in her own right. What makes Caitlyn most dangerous, however, is her mind for both business and strategy - wrapping people in legal and contractual bindings worse than any submission.
Entrance Music:"Missing Link" by Curve
Moves:Texas Cloverleaf.
Fujiwara Armbar.
European Uppercut.
Swinging Neckbreaker.
Northern Lights Suplex.
Calf Kick.
Multiple armdrag and other takedown variations.
Multiple Forearm Shots.
Roaring Elbow (usually the finisher to a rapid combination of forearm shots).
Finisher(s):
The Acid Test - A snap DDT into a guillotine choke with body scissors.
Vae Victis - A rolling cutter from the fireman's carry position. Alex lifts them up onto his shoulders and swings their legs out to the front, like one would for an F5, before swinging his right arm around in a european-uppercut like motion and catching the opponent midfall in a cutter.
Biography:Though only 28 years of age, Alex Kendall has done everything there is to do in the business. Wrestled, managed, even owned his own company. Yet never has anyone ever professed to both love and hate the business at the same time with the same passion and vigor as he does.
In 2004, Alex and his brother Shane were signed to their first independent federation, with Alex being used as the comic foil for his 'more marketable' brother. For the time, Alex smiled for the cameras and accepted it, until Shane began to blame him for his own lagging momentum and cut Alex loose. Whilst it turned out to be the correct move for Shane who, no longer having to rely on 'sharing the spotlight' to get a crowd reaction, Alex turned to more darker venues. Hardcore, ultraviolent wrestling promotions, with owners eager to hear trash talk about rival promoters. It was here that Alex became the Dark Horse, a man who claimed to not need to rely on flash or weaponry, or in fact anything other than his pure wrestling ability - setting the tone for his future career. Soon Alex was not just an advocate against 'hardcore' wrestling but all corruption in the entire industry.
Travelling from promotion to promotion, Alex finally found a home in Ring of Pride and Excellence. In ROPE, Alex fought some of the world's greatest competitors, and managed to set himself out among them, becoming one of the federations biggest stars in a company that already prided itself on its' high level of competition. Winning the Toukon Trial Submissionist Tournament 2007, defeating the Hardcore Champion without ever using a weapon, and going on a 15 win undefeated streak, Alex should have felt on top of the world. He would have, had he not met Scott Reave, a man who would forever poison Alex's opinion of the industry worse than it already was. Reave was a sick individual, twisting family members of opponents, executives, anyone he could in order to make a payday and escape. Circumstance led them to fight on the same side. It went without saying that it never lasted - although Alex regretted never having the chance to go one-on-one with Reave. Partly to test himself. Partly because he just wanted to choke the life out of him.
Drifting from company to company in the wake of his success, Alex soon began to realise there was nothing he could do as an individual competitor, and expanded his ideals. Purchasing the relic of a company in Nevada, Alex reopened Sin City Wrestling as 'Second Chances Wrestling' and remained hidden from the public eye. He implemented a tight ruleset, and saw fit that both he and his proxy General Manager, one Caitlyn Callahan - a wrestler and legal representative who insisted on performing behind a porcelain mask under the name 'Wildcard' - stayed out of sight, so that the talent could not influence their decisions.
It went well. For a month.
But soon, talent like Jonny Freeman was snatched up by larger companies like Thy WWE, whilst spurned roster members who felt they deserved more or had been wronged - particularly one Austin Starr - did their damndest to tear the company apart from the inside. Television deals fell through. Sponsorships withdrew. Investors lost interest. It seemed people did want hardcore, rampant bias, and 'flash'.
That would not do.
But anonymity worked in Alex's favour. Callahan and himself managed to negotiate a contract within Thy WWE for himself, making use of his reputation of a world class wrestler 'untapped' on the global stage. By going through a former rival and ally in Kenneth Walker, Callahan bypassed the usual screening processes the company bothered themselves with and secured Alex a lucrative deal as an independent contractor. All it took was a few hidden clauses in the small print, and the stage was set for their next move.
Thy WWE wasn't going to escape the initials 'S-C-W' so easily.[/center]
