Medium: Anime
Title: Wanna be the Strongest in the World
Bio: The former lead vocalist for pop group, Sweet Divas, is determined to prove that she is the strongest in the world by consistently losing every wrestling match, but showing lots of heart. Eventually, she’s able to string together a few notable wins here and there.
Signature Move: Sakura Special
Tag: WWE 2K16
The Masked Mabels
Medium: Television
Title: Mama’s Family
Bio: The Masked Mabels were once the most dominant tag team in the women’s wrestling division. Despite their size and years of wrestling experience, they were easily defeated by a wrestling grannie on the biggest show in the history of Raytown.
Signature Move: Jobbing to an older lady who has never wrestled.
The Green Bastard
Medium: Television
Title: Trailer Park Boys
Bio: The Green Bastard roams the Sunnyvale Trailer Park looking to take on all comers. As long as they take off their shirts. Has only had one professional backyard wrestling bout, which was a tag team match that saw him on the losing end due to a disqualification.
Signature Move: Hammerin’ people.
“The Electric” Shawn Harley
Medium: Television
Title: Supernatural
Bio: Top Notch Wrestling’s brash, young, up and comer. Complains about having to wrestle drunken wrestlers, and apparently is against jobbing to Crazy D. Rumored to have backstage heat with booker, Gunner Lawless.
Signature Move: Refusing to job.
Gunner Lawless
Medium: Television
Title: Supernatural
Bio: Gunner Lawless once sold his soul for a world title shot and a lifetime supply of wrestling gear decorated with tassels. Now, he’s the main booker of Top Notch Wrestling, which means he’ll occasionally put himself over the younger talent.
Signature Move: Chokeslam and selling his soul to the devil.
“The Hangman” Larry Lee
Medium: Television
Title: Supernatural
Bio: When not endangering the safety of his opponents by wrestling drunk, The Hangman likes to live up to his moniker by choking out his opponents with a magical noose that drops from the ceiling.
Signature Move: Hanging wrestlers.
Booking WrestleMania (The Video Game)
The Internet Wrestling Community (IWC) A.K.A. wrestling fans in general, usually celebrate the month leading up to WrestleMania by posting up on forums and complaining about the current WrestleMania card and booking their own dream WrestleMania. It’s nothing but an exercise in futility. Then again, being a wrestling fan usually is. So instead of booking a card that I feel WWE should’ve put together for this year’s WrestleMania and disappointing myself further, I figured I’d book a completely fictitious WrestleMania card inspired by wrestling characters from different pop culture mediums (film, comic books, and video games), starting with video games.
The Ninja
Medium: Film
Title: Backyard Dogs
Bio: A backyard wrestler with dreams of going pro. The Ninja mixes martial arts with wrestling, like a less successful Steve Blackman. When not getting overshadowed by his tag team partner, Cole Davis, The Ninja and Cole are consistently overcoming the odds as the Backyard Warriors.
Signature Move: Mighty morphing into a cruiserweight wrestler.
Cole “The Outlaw” Davis
Medium: Film
Title: Backyard Dogs
Bio: The Shawn Michaels of the Backyard Warriors. If Shawn Michaels was less talented than Marty Jannetty, but won the heart of the same girl they were after. He’s the guy who gets the hot tag and the glory.
Signature Move: Dropkicks and double-crossing.
The Naked Man
Medium: Film
Title: The Naked Man
Bio: The Naked Man will go down in cinematic wrestling history for going off-script and legitimately hurting the entire locker room of wrestlers before cutting one of the most heartfelt, confusing promos. Was rumored to be Slim Goodbody’s evil twin brother.
Signature Move: Cracking backs.
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