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RING OF PRESTIGECLASS OF 2006
Chris Casino CLASS of 2007
Evan Cartwright CLASS of 2008
Stylin' Kyle Roberts "The Nexus One" Rex Caliber
HEIGHT & WEIGHT: 6'3", 245 lbs BIO: Rex Caliber was born into a rich family. His dream was always to be a pro wrestler. His family set him up with a house and a vehicle and at age 18 he was set free. He would no longer be dependent on his family's wealth again. In January 2004, Rex flew to Tokyo, Japan to be trained in a Japanese Dojo by the legendary Mr. Rodo Mitsawa. After a year of training and 5 months of wrestling as a jobber/opener Rex came back to the US to try and become a superstar. He wrestled for a large federation, GWA. After being a top attraction, he suffered several losses in title matches. After being pushed down the card, in favor of some returning GWA legends, Rex left the fed. It turned out to be a smart decision because in October of 2005, GWA folded. Rex went on a brief sabbatical from wrestling and decided to return in November 2005. Opting not to be held down under a contract to one fed, Rex Caliber travels the territories on the Indy Circuit, making a name for himself. On rare occasions (when his usual arsenal isn't quite enough to put an opponent away), Rex utilizes the Planetary Collision maneuver (Styles Clash). APPEARANCE: Bald, muscled, covered in tattoos. Big beard. Black boots and black leather pants with 'Nexus One' on one side in red, one elbow pad on the right arm and red tape on the wrists. ACCOMPLISHMENTS: NAPW Champion (2), Tag Team Champion, winner of the 1st ever Canada Cup Invitational, making suckers tap out, REBEL Pro World Heavyweight Champion NOTES: At first hated, then slowly accepted by the NAPW fans as one of their most popular wrestlers, Rex Caliber used to love working for as many feds as possible until he, too, fell in love with NAPW. His departure was part political--his career jeapordized by the controversial R. Joseph Winchell III--and part personal--as he chose to spend more time with his new-found son. Of course, then Rex returned as owner, lost his mind and became worse than the man who cost him his job, until finally Caliber was evicted from NAPW in August 2007. Yeesh.
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Static
HEIGHT & WEIGHT: 5'6", 175 lbs BIO: Little is known about this charasmatic enigma, besides that he was trained in Mexico by the late great Art Barr. He appears to be somewhat of a drifter, being chewed up in various areas and wrestling promotions all over North America before they spit him out. Likes to incorporate weapons into matches, especially the steel chair. APPEARANCE: The most striking feature about Static is the three-quarter mask he wears. It's solid black, with gray-and-blue decor on it in abstract shapes of lightning bolts, and his dark brown hair pokes out the bottom. The mask stops below his eyes, allowing his greasy hair to spill out the top and showcase a scarred forehead. On his way to the ring, he wears a hood of the same design. He's quite small, but built fairly well for his size. He has a few noticable scars and tattoos on his chest and arms, reminders of where he's been and where he's going. He's got a decent tan. He wears blue tape on his wrists, but otherwise wears nothing on his upper body. He wears wrestling pants/tights and boots, in the same color and design as his mask. ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Tag Team Championship, NAPW Championship, Provincial Championship, Operation: Kill Mother(BLEEP)ers Dead. Also, using a screwdriver. On foreheads. VIOLENT.
NOTES: One of the original NAPW wrestlers, Static's career trajectory led him to become one of the few Triple Crown champion winners. His partnership with Rex Caliber as The Crimes (crimes crimes crimes crimes) brought about an unlikely face turn. Until Static's jealousy of partner Rex Caliber's success led to him gouging a screwdriver in his partner's face. Static was outed from NAPW after losing a thrilling Career ladder match against rising star Patrick Bickle. He returned as part of The New Crimes to help Rex Caliber rule over NAPW with an iron fist. Following Complete Control II, Static was once again out of NAPW.
Stylin' Kyle Roberts
HEIGHT & WEIGHT: 6'3", 257 lbs BIO: Raised in the most urban part of Saskatchewan, Kyle Roberts grew up under the tutelage of his high school gym coach, Gordon Jago. Roberts knew from an early age that wrestling federations all over the world would desire his talents as a wrestler and showman, and was determined to make sure that everyone was aware of this fact. He started off his wrestling career in Medicine Hat's Gastown Wrestling Alliance, where he would eventually team up with the Beast to with the GWA Tag Team Titles. As Bruce Richards is fond of saying, The New and Improved DX is a "mutually beneficial partnership," and they're ready to take on all comers in the NAPW. Well, they were. Until Kyle bashed a ring bell into The Beast's face. APPEARANCE: Outside the Squared Circle, Kyle Roberts is always very well-dressed, wearing a green silk shirt underneath a pin-striped suit. In the ring, he wears green tights with "Stylin'" in gold lettering written down the side. He's always got a very subtle five o'clock shadow, and has brown hair and blue eyes.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: NAPW Tag Team Championship (5), 2006 ENN Tag Team of the Year, REBEL Pro World Heavyweight Champion (2)
The Plague
HEIGHT & WEIGHT: 6'5", 261 lbs BIO: The Plague's history is largely in shadow. He has wrestled for the better part of the past 12 years around the world with varying degrees of success. Why he has come to Edmonton & NAPW, and what his goals are, remains a mystery. The first NAPW Champion, The Plague retired from professional wrestling after losing a Title vs Career match against D!. Despite the intensity of their feud, in the end D! won Plague's respect and the two men shook hands after the third and deciding match in their series. He's known for both his intense respect and passion for the business, trademark smirk, and closing lines of "There's no cure for The Plague" or the longer variant, "There's no antidote, vaccination or quarantine that can stop The Plague!" After spending nearly a year on the sidelines letting his body heal, The Plague returned at NAPW Anniversary Assault with revenge on his mind... APPEARANCE: The Plague is very strong, so he's a built guy. Kinda pale, scars on his forehead, always angry looking. Shaved head, fearsome looking chin beard and mustache. A traditionalist, Plague wears long black tights with "PLAGUE" written on the back in red and white. "BLACK" runs up one leg, "DEATH" down the other. Standard black boots, knee pads under the tights, elbow pads, wrist tape. ACCOMPLISHMENTS: The first NAPW Champion, feud with D! made D!'s career
NOTES: The grizzled veteran was the 1st NAPW Champion, and his feud with D! over that title helped NAPW establish itself in 2005. Plague would later return in an attempt to destroy Ravager. Though he seemed to have Ravager's number, he would be defeated in a First Blood match and disappear from NAPW shortly afterwards, while Ravager embarked on his Epic Title Reign.
Patrick Bickle
HEIGHT & WEIGHT: 5'11" 175 lbs
BIO: Patrick Bickle was raised in a nuclear family and was brought up with all of the values that come therein. He was never beaten to become a monster, he was never the champion athlete that is now extending his competitive edge, and he is not a colourful friend of the fans. There is no mystery to where Patrick has been, as everything can be found in his records, but somewhere along the lines he seemed to develop an indifference to those around him and his own personal health. His wrestling style is largely improvisation driven, often with the instinct to throw everything, including himself, forwards to win. APPEARANCE: Patrick wears generic black wrestling shorts, with generic wrestling boots to go along with it. He has hair that just about reaches his shoulders and a moderately kept beard, but it appears he doesn't concentrate too much on self-image.
TITLES HELD: NAPW Championship (2), Pure Honor Championship
Donovan Astros
HEIGHT & WEIGHT: 6'3, 227 lbs
BIO: Since 1997, Donovan Astros has been working off and on as a professional wrestler as well as a film stunt coordinator. Astros began his career in Pacific Coast Championship Wrestling (later Pro-Continental Championship Wrestling) as Devon Steele, one half of the Steele Machine with Derrick Steele, who helped train him and still operates a wrestling school in Reno. The Steele Machine's high flying style and brash attitudes caught the attention of promoters all over the West Coast, but the aerial attack also cost the team their big break when Derrick Steele tore his knee to shreds landing awkwardly on a dive from the top rope to the floor. Astros went back to his stuntwork, while helping train at the newly opened Steele Dojo, Derrick's wrestling school. 3 years later, Astros stepped back in the ring, this time in the World Street Wrestling Federation (later Western States Wrestling). Astros saw his greatest fame here, claiming the WSW World Heavyweight Championship before leaving the promotion a few months later due to political differences. Some of the business relationships formed in PCCW carried over to WSW, as Astros teamed with former PCCW World Champion Sean Southward to wreak havoc on the company until it's closing in 2001. A revival in 2003 with Astros as promoter and head trainer was shortlived, and Astros returned to Los Angeles. But the bug always bites, and Donovan Astros isn't ready to give it up. The former World Heavyweight Champion wants one more shot to prove to as many people as he can that he can be the cornerstone, the foundation, the best wrestler on God's green Earth. Don't believe him? Just ask him. APPEARANCE: Astros wears full length black tights with a stylized Walk of Fame Star in a second color on one outer leg and ASTROS down the outside of the other leg. The color can vary from match to match, but it's usually blue, red, or gold. Astros has a single elbowpad on his left arm, simple black with no design, and kneepads under the gear. He has shoulder length black hair with a prominent scar across his forehead, caused by a flawed chairshot a few years back. Black boots with the Walk of Fame Star insignia in the same color as the gear complete the outfit. Astros is developed, but not overly muscular. His strongest part is his legs, where he draws the power to suplex larger opponents and apply pressure in holds like his Astrolock and the Bow and Arrow.
TITLES HELD: NAPW World Championship (2), Tag Team Championship
Mystic Ninja
HEIGHT & WEIGHT: 5'8", 200 lbs
BIO: Part of a large extended family with roots in the old country, the man who would become the Mystic Ninja was raised on North American pop culture, poor quality VHS rips of bad-audio Hong Kong action films, badly translated Malaysian soap operas, incomplete Bollywood musicals, Italian-dubbed anime and thousands of snippets of Japanese puroresu matches. After leaving a promising university career at 19 to train at Lumberjesus' independent Achtung Academy, the Mystic Ninja traveled the world--Japan, Mexico, United States, Australia and even Ukraine--trying to make a living wrestling in numerous independent promotions, never stopping in any one place for more than a year. Never, that is, until his big break at Moose Jaw Pro, where he played both with and against fellow Achtung Academy graduate, Expositioner. They soon teamed up and the rest, as they say, is history. APPEARANCE: Blue sleeveless tunic (pattern resembling light flak vest or armour plates), silver belt, blue tights with thin silver lightning down the sides, black boots with blue trim, blue mask covering the lower half of his face, blue bracers with silver trim. Brown eyes and frosted blue hair.
TAG TEAM NAME: Mystic Exposition
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Tag Team Championship (4)
HEIGHT & WEIGHT: 6'1", 240 lbs
BIO: Trademark: when possible, shouts out names of spot moves! A graduate of the famed Achtung Academy, Expositioner wrestled in several Canadian independent pro wrestling promotions, including Moose Jaw Pro Wrestling, Kananaskis Wrestling Circuit (K-Dub), Canadian Territories Wrestling, and a short stint as commissioner of Maritime Extreme Pro Wrestling (MEXpro). It was at Moose Jaw Pro where he was reunited with his friend from Achtung Academy, the Mystic Ninja, and whether in singles or paired matches, whether competing with or against Ninja, they found they worked very well together. They soon found great success as Mystic Exposition and hope to continue that success in NAPW. When not actively wrestling, Expositioner is one of the founders of the Canadian Independent Professional Wrestlers' Combine, a new non-profit collective that provides support and contacts for independent wrestlers working in Canada. He is currently dating independent wrestler Canadian Elmo. APPEARANCE: Burgundy mask covering top half of his face, black sleeveless shirt with large burgundy exclamation mark on front and KAYFABE! on back, dark pants with red stripe down side, black boots. Blue eyes, blond hair.
TAG TEAM NAME: Mystic Exposition
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Tag Team Championship (4)
MEMBERS: Mystic Ninja & The Expositioner
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Tag Team Championship (4)
Stein
HEIGHT & WEIGHT: 5'9", 180 lbs
BIO: A man with a complicated past, Stein was once controlled by a man called Dr. Morgoth, before being broken away by the storied Delivery Men, eventually becoming one of their number (#100, to be precise). He disappeared from the face of the earth in mid 2006, only to reappear at NAPW's Anniversary Assault II. Recently, he has become associated with NAPW's other resident misfits: the WGA. APPEARANCE: Stein is a slim man of average height dressed in the tattered remnants of a Delivery Man uniform. His hair is coal black and stands out at crazed angles. What attracts the most attention when looking at Stein are this his eyes, which seem to flow from color to color, and possess no whites at all. The skin visible through his ruined clothes is dead white for the most part, but criss-crossed with vivid red scars that always look fresh.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Tag Team Championship, Provincial Championship
OTHER NOTABLE WRESTLERS
THE DUDES (Cameron Scott & Michael K. Johnston)
NOTES: When they weren't playing video games or slacking, The Dudes were having fun at the expense of their rivals The New & Improved D-X. They were exasperating to manager Tiffany Macintyre, irritating to their opponents, and almost shockingly NAPW Tag Team Champions.
NOTES: No delivery too small, no delivery too large! Delivery Man #1 and #2 will see it through!
NOTES: The "T" stands for "Thunder." North started in NAPW teamed with Tempest in the team Storm, becoming the fan-favorite North Gunderson later in his career. He randomly appears at NAPW events wearing no pants to this day.
NOTES: Carter Owens couldn't buy a win in NAPW. After weeks of being called "chicken" by "The Moose" Mark Millar, Carter emerged from hiding to shut The Moose up, only to lose and be humilated with a crate of chickens. Something inside Owens snapped and he re-emerged as THE YELLOW CHICKEN - and embarked on a record-breaking undefeated streak scooping up both the TV and Provincial titles! Ba-KAW!
NOTES: "Outlaw" Patrick Kidd's first-ever singles title win in professional wrestling came right here in NAPW when he dethroned The Yellow Chicken as Provincial Champion. NAPW is very proud to have been the promotion where this occured for such a veteran of the ring wars.
NOTES: Jeff James, younger brother and flunky of The Foundation's Thomas Young, changed when he wrestled The Yellow Chicken. That defeat sent him on a path of intense training and developed his sense of honor. James finally won the TV title from Chicken, clean, and proceeded to defend it more successfully than ANY title in NAPW. A series of injures derailed his momentum later in 2007, but for a while Jeff James was the hottest thing going in NAPW.
NOTES: FULL OF HATE. CHARISMATIC COLOSSUS. BEYOND BELIEF. Basically, he's your frinkin' hero!
NOTES: The Decapitators were one of NAPW's most popular and enduring teams, until a family tragedy shook things up forever. Axe, the older brother, jealous of his little brother Diamond's success and easier life, decided to dish out some "tough love." After weeks of insults and assaults, Axe & Diamond met at SOLE SURVIVOR. Axe cheated to win the match and then left Diamond a bloody mess. The story did not end there, however: In the Sole Survivor match itself, Diamond came in and eliminated Axe, then put him through the timekeepers table with DiamondSault! Axe returned to NAPW one last time, challenging Patrick Bickle for the Pure Honor title. He came up short, but the reunited Decapitators were given a rousing ovation from an appreciative crowd.
NOTES: Lobo was an NAPW mainstay from day one, engaging in a classic three-way feud with Ravager & Static over the Provincial Title for months. Afterwards, Lobo reconnected with his father Terry Brandon. Brandon's split loyalties between Lobo and Chris Casino eventually led to Lobo & Casino competing for Brandon's contract... a match which Lobo won. Lobo tasted NAPW gold around the same time, winning the Television Championship from reigning champ Don Travelli.
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