Post by styg on Apr 22, 2013 12:54:12 GMT -6
Wrestler Info[/b]
Real Name: Laurel Saiko Yunokawa
Ring Name: Laurel Anne Hardy
Nickname: The Living, Breathing Installation Event of the Century
General Information[/b]
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Height: 5'4
Weight: 140lbs
Hometown: Rhyl
Billed From: No Fixed Abode
Alignment: Face
Pic Base: Lovefoxxx
Ring Attire: Strappy top, long tights, boots, choker and full length armbands, all in black with vibrant, multicoloured paint spatter effect. The armbands have coloured ribbons hanging from them which stream out like wings when she performs a high flying move.
Her hair hangs loose and has wildflowers entwined in it. Her makeup is extensive and outlandish, taking in airbrushing, sequins, glitter and other fancy effects. She often wrestles with a feather boa.
She has the Welsh flag painted on the heel of her left boot, and small versions of the flags of Japan, Portugal, England, the Republic of Ireland, Russia, South Korea, Spain, the Romani people, Canada and Scotland around the inner side of the welt of her right boot.
Style: Laurel is physically very capable, but her fighting lacks coherence, as her primary aim with her moves is to be visually spectacular. She mainly considers herself a performance artist rather than a fighter. She'll waste time adding unnecessary flash to moves, and is willing to go for broke and risk crashing and burning. She's great at finding the big moves which turn a match around, though, and she has a particular knack for deathmatch wrestling. She is absurdly flexible and agile, has a very high pain threshold, and a strong frame for her size. She's very good at getting the crowd behind her or Leanne. However she doesn't really strategise in a match. Thanks to a congenital bronchial disorder, plus she fact she smokes, she doesn't have a ton of stamina for long matches.
Preferred Weapon: Custard pie full of tacks.
Preferred Match: Anything deathmatchy.
Move Set[/b]
Finisher 1
Name: Stronger Than Dirt
Description: Corkscrew shooting star elbow drop.
Finisher 2
Name: Flower Plower Mk.III: Terror From Beneath!
Description: Straightjacket front flip piledriver. It starts with the opponent doubled over. Laurel puts the opponent’s head between her legs then reaches under the opponent and straightjackets their arms across their front (i.e., under them, from a spectator perspective).
Clasping the opponent’s hands, Laurel jumps into a front flip, going forward over the opponent as in a sunset flip. Using the straightjacket plus the fact she has the opponent’s head wedged between her thighs, she pulls the opponent off their feet and over Laurel, and as she lands in a sitout position, the opponent’s head gets spiked into the mat. Due to the straightjacket, the opponent can’t protect themselves with their arms.
Finisher 3
Name: Flower Plower Mk.I
Description: Cross-arm somersault neckbreaker.
Signature Move 1
Name: Mass Queraid
Description: Slingshot front flip split kick to two opponents.
Signature Move 2
Name: Party Hardy: The Hangover
Description: Fisherman suplex lift flipped into sitout powerbomb.
Signature Move 3
Name: The Poseidon Misadventure
Description: Diving or springboard front flip leg drop bulldog.
Common Moves
Capoiera kicks
Cartwheel roundoff leap into dropkick to seated opponent
Dragon suplex
Hadouken
Labai throw
Lady of the Lake
No hands somersault plancha
Octopus stretch
Pantsing or wedgie (as the situation warrants)
Pele kick
Rolling thunder
Running cartwheel roundoff into leaping leg lariat
Sack of potatoes lift [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkLYCk0MYrI] into sidewalk slam
Springboard phoenix dragonrana
Tornado armdrag
Entrance Info[/b]
Theme Music: Glass Candy - "Candy Castle"
Entrance Description: The opening notes to Glass Candy's "Candy Castle" hit the speakers and Laurel Anne Hardy dances onstage, being trailed by Evangelista. She runs back and forth on her way to the ring, high fiving and hugging fans, then leaps onto the apron and vaults over the top rope. She continues dancing in the ring, while Evangelista takes her place at ringside.
Background Info
Years of Experience: 3
Biography: Born in a gypsy caravan park to a half-Welsh, half-Portuguese hippy mother and an itinerant Japanese musician father, Laurel Yunokawa was raised in a commune which travelled around North Wales. She never went to school, and never really learned how to function in polite society, not seeing the problem in - for example - walking around barefoot, or the fact she views the law as optional extra, especially with regards to theft.
Laurel has the soul of an artist, and loves nothing more than to show off; she cites her job as 'performance artist' rather than 'professional wrestler.' The whole reason she got into wrestling was to combine the adrenaline rush of creating art with that of fighting.
After some initial backyard exposure in North Wales, she moved to Liverpool to get professional training, working as a waitress and barmaid to make ends meet. She was one of the standouts in her class, along with another young woman named Leanne Evangelista. Although they didn't have much in common superficially, they understood each other well on a deeper level and quickly became close friends. Leanne was a friend of rock star, pro wrestler and ex-MMA talent Mark Chapman, and through Mark, introduced Laurel to a number of current and former wrestling stars including Sarah "Baby Dogg" Warner, Amy Ngoudje and Damien Synn. With the backing of these individuals, Laurel and Leanne landed tryouts with Global Extreme Wrestling, and were referred to the Battlegrounds Academy in Ontario, run by former World Champion Shane Tallin and his wife Nikki.
The girls eventually made their pro debut in GEW as a tag team, aligned with the mysterious new Asylum faction, courtesy of their friend and fellow trainee Serena Raine. The Asylum waged war on GEW, declaring that the company had become soft and decadent, and that The Asylum would save it from itself by destroying it. Laurel also appeared with the Baltimore indie Death Company Wrestling, and the British comedy promotion Super Combat Discount Megamart.
Laurel's biggest success to date came in early 2011 when she won the second Nasty 8 tournament, representing SCDM. After successively defeating veterans Max Static, V and Kaji Fireson in a hardcore tournament, she went onto face multi-time World Champion Brad Jackson in an electricity-based deathmatch to crown the inaugural Nasty National Champion. Although Laurel came up short, the young rookie's performance against the wrestling legend Jackson impressed many. Later the same year she repeated her success in a hardcore environment by winning the 2011 GEW Torneo Extremo, a 16-person elimination deathmatch.
Thanks in part to The Asylum's efforts, GEW closed down in summer 2011. Laurel moved to Helter Skelter Wrestling and started to make a name for herself with an undefeated streak until she was sidelined with an injury. She returned in January 2013, signing with the GFC's promotions FRONTIER and FRONTLINE. She and Leanne answered an open challenge by The CarnEvil Connection in WARPED, and that initially professional rivalry soon turned bitterly personal. Leanne and Laurel managed to upset the veterans for the WARPED Tag Team Championship, their first title together. Shortly after this, they were selected as FRONTIER's representatives in the inaugural HEW T3 event.
Real Name: Laurel Saiko Yunokawa
Ring Name: Laurel Anne Hardy
Nickname: The Living, Breathing Installation Event of the Century
General Information[/b]
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Height: 5'4
Weight: 140lbs
Hometown: Rhyl
Billed From: No Fixed Abode
Alignment: Face
Pic Base: Lovefoxxx
Ring Attire: Strappy top, long tights, boots, choker and full length armbands, all in black with vibrant, multicoloured paint spatter effect. The armbands have coloured ribbons hanging from them which stream out like wings when she performs a high flying move.
Her hair hangs loose and has wildflowers entwined in it. Her makeup is extensive and outlandish, taking in airbrushing, sequins, glitter and other fancy effects. She often wrestles with a feather boa.
She has the Welsh flag painted on the heel of her left boot, and small versions of the flags of Japan, Portugal, England, the Republic of Ireland, Russia, South Korea, Spain, the Romani people, Canada and Scotland around the inner side of the welt of her right boot.
Style: Laurel is physically very capable, but her fighting lacks coherence, as her primary aim with her moves is to be visually spectacular. She mainly considers herself a performance artist rather than a fighter. She'll waste time adding unnecessary flash to moves, and is willing to go for broke and risk crashing and burning. She's great at finding the big moves which turn a match around, though, and she has a particular knack for deathmatch wrestling. She is absurdly flexible and agile, has a very high pain threshold, and a strong frame for her size. She's very good at getting the crowd behind her or Leanne. However she doesn't really strategise in a match. Thanks to a congenital bronchial disorder, plus she fact she smokes, she doesn't have a ton of stamina for long matches.
Preferred Weapon: Custard pie full of tacks.
Preferred Match: Anything deathmatchy.
Move Set[/b]
Finisher 1
Name: Stronger Than Dirt
Description: Corkscrew shooting star elbow drop.
Finisher 2
Name: Flower Plower Mk.III: Terror From Beneath!
Description: Straightjacket front flip piledriver. It starts with the opponent doubled over. Laurel puts the opponent’s head between her legs then reaches under the opponent and straightjackets their arms across their front (i.e., under them, from a spectator perspective).
Clasping the opponent’s hands, Laurel jumps into a front flip, going forward over the opponent as in a sunset flip. Using the straightjacket plus the fact she has the opponent’s head wedged between her thighs, she pulls the opponent off their feet and over Laurel, and as she lands in a sitout position, the opponent’s head gets spiked into the mat. Due to the straightjacket, the opponent can’t protect themselves with their arms.
Finisher 3
Name: Flower Plower Mk.I
Description: Cross-arm somersault neckbreaker.
Signature Move 1
Name: Mass Queraid
Description: Slingshot front flip split kick to two opponents.
Signature Move 2
Name: Party Hardy: The Hangover
Description: Fisherman suplex lift flipped into sitout powerbomb.
Signature Move 3
Name: The Poseidon Misadventure
Description: Diving or springboard front flip leg drop bulldog.
Common Moves
Capoiera kicks
Cartwheel roundoff leap into dropkick to seated opponent
Dragon suplex
Hadouken
Labai throw
Lady of the Lake
No hands somersault plancha
Octopus stretch
Pantsing or wedgie (as the situation warrants)
Pele kick
Rolling thunder
Running cartwheel roundoff into leaping leg lariat
Sack of potatoes lift [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkLYCk0MYrI] into sidewalk slam
Springboard phoenix dragonrana
Tornado armdrag
Entrance Info[/b]
Theme Music: Glass Candy - "Candy Castle"
Entrance Description: The opening notes to Glass Candy's "Candy Castle" hit the speakers and Laurel Anne Hardy dances onstage, being trailed by Evangelista. She runs back and forth on her way to the ring, high fiving and hugging fans, then leaps onto the apron and vaults over the top rope. She continues dancing in the ring, while Evangelista takes her place at ringside.
Background Info
Years of Experience: 3
Biography: Born in a gypsy caravan park to a half-Welsh, half-Portuguese hippy mother and an itinerant Japanese musician father, Laurel Yunokawa was raised in a commune which travelled around North Wales. She never went to school, and never really learned how to function in polite society, not seeing the problem in - for example - walking around barefoot, or the fact she views the law as optional extra, especially with regards to theft.
Laurel has the soul of an artist, and loves nothing more than to show off; she cites her job as 'performance artist' rather than 'professional wrestler.' The whole reason she got into wrestling was to combine the adrenaline rush of creating art with that of fighting.
After some initial backyard exposure in North Wales, she moved to Liverpool to get professional training, working as a waitress and barmaid to make ends meet. She was one of the standouts in her class, along with another young woman named Leanne Evangelista. Although they didn't have much in common superficially, they understood each other well on a deeper level and quickly became close friends. Leanne was a friend of rock star, pro wrestler and ex-MMA talent Mark Chapman, and through Mark, introduced Laurel to a number of current and former wrestling stars including Sarah "Baby Dogg" Warner, Amy Ngoudje and Damien Synn. With the backing of these individuals, Laurel and Leanne landed tryouts with Global Extreme Wrestling, and were referred to the Battlegrounds Academy in Ontario, run by former World Champion Shane Tallin and his wife Nikki.
The girls eventually made their pro debut in GEW as a tag team, aligned with the mysterious new Asylum faction, courtesy of their friend and fellow trainee Serena Raine. The Asylum waged war on GEW, declaring that the company had become soft and decadent, and that The Asylum would save it from itself by destroying it. Laurel also appeared with the Baltimore indie Death Company Wrestling, and the British comedy promotion Super Combat Discount Megamart.
Laurel's biggest success to date came in early 2011 when she won the second Nasty 8 tournament, representing SCDM. After successively defeating veterans Max Static, V and Kaji Fireson in a hardcore tournament, she went onto face multi-time World Champion Brad Jackson in an electricity-based deathmatch to crown the inaugural Nasty National Champion. Although Laurel came up short, the young rookie's performance against the wrestling legend Jackson impressed many. Later the same year she repeated her success in a hardcore environment by winning the 2011 GEW Torneo Extremo, a 16-person elimination deathmatch.
Thanks in part to The Asylum's efforts, GEW closed down in summer 2011. Laurel moved to Helter Skelter Wrestling and started to make a name for herself with an undefeated streak until she was sidelined with an injury. She returned in January 2013, signing with the GFC's promotions FRONTIER and FRONTLINE. She and Leanne answered an open challenge by The CarnEvil Connection in WARPED, and that initially professional rivalry soon turned bitterly personal. Leanne and Laurel managed to upset the veterans for the WARPED Tag Team Championship, their first title together. Shortly after this, they were selected as FRONTIER's representatives in the inaugural HEW T3 event.