Post by starkweather on Jan 13, 2007 16:39:08 GMT -5
Name: Geoffrey “Mr.” Jones
Sex: Male
Alignment: Tweener
Rank: Lower Midcard
Age: 32
Height: 6’ 5”
Weight: 120 kilos (265 lbs.)
Photobase: Jason Statham
Hometown: Manchester, England
Wrestling Style: Brawler/Grappler with light Technical undertones
Entrance Music: “Song 2” by Blur
Physical Description: Even without the muscles he’s imposing, mostly due to his body language being constantly set on “intimidate.” He stands at six foot five and has the look of a bodybuilder about him, He wearing his hair close to his head in a light buzz cut and his face is dusted with a somewhat bristly five o’clock shadow. He is usually seen wearing a plain black suit he probably got from a dime store bargain bin, but it fits him pretty well and he even wears a black tie that hangs over his white undershirt.
Ring Gear: Business casual. He wears a black muscle shirt that clings to him like a drowning man, and a somewhat worn-in looking pair of black pants with a pair of heavy black army surplus boots on. He wears black athletic tape covering his fists and his forearms for several inches as makeshift gauntlets.
Entrance (On the off chance he has a singles match): The start to Song 2 goes off without a hitch, and Mr. Jones walks out of the entryway before taking a final drag of his cigarette and flicking it off somewhere before making his way to the stage. He climbs into the ring and raises his arms for the fans before pointing at himself and saying something that is no doubt cocky and/or confident before waiting for the bell to ring.
Gimmick: Wideboy. In other words, a reformed small-time English gangster-slash-soccer hooligan turned semi-legit albeit still somewhat dodgy gun for hire. He works for Flamingo as long as he’s paid what he’s supposed to be paid, and he’ll headbutt the holy bejesus out of anyone who crosses him.
Match Notes: It should be noted that Jones is frighteningly powerful. He’s a former bodybuilder among many other various professions, and as such is capable of lifting nearly anyone on the current roster to some degree, and overpowering all but the most physically powerful of the wrestlers he faces. He often catches larger wrestlers by surprise with this.
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Awards:
Rookie of the Year (Official TNA eFed)
Accomplishments:
NWA World Heavyweight Champion (Official TNA eFed) x1
History:
Growing up in one of the poorer sections of Manchester, he was born to a father that worked as a security guard and a homemaking mother. His father was a religious Manchester United fan and his son walked in his footsteps, by the time Geoffrey Jones was 16 he was getting into scraps at footy matches and pilfering booze from his old man like any precocious youngster was wont to do.
He and his family moved to London when he was 18, his father getting a new job that required them to relocate. He fell in with a bad crowd during his rebellious years, a gang called the Longsight Crew. When his father found out (after the grand melee that turned their living room into a war zone, of course), he pushed Jones rather firmly in the direction of taking himself in a new direction. He had him sign up for wrestling school in London, and by the age of 21 he was winning quite regularly under the dubious moniker of “The Hoodlum.” He’d had quite enough of that, and during one show he intimidated another wrestler trying to take him down a peg by making him refer to him as “MISTAH Jones.” And, with the promoter nearby to hear the exchange, the name stuck.
He never strayed out of the England indy circuit for the most part, but an injury at a big show by a jealous opponent that stiffed him left him unable to wrestle for a couple of months. So, he took up bodybuilding. He eventually went full-on into it, winning a handful of local awards but never going higher due to his hesitance to really bulk up. So, after he quit that, he went back to wrestling. But this time he decided to head to America. He acquired his visa and took a one-way ride over with what little things he had, and began working the indy circuit there. In the short time that he wrestled in the US, he caught the attention of the bigger names: the boys in Stamford due to his size and TNA wrestling due to his talent. He signed with TNA in the Fall of 2004, and within the course of 1 year he managed to capture the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. He held it for a grand total of approximately 2 months before losing it, and upon his contract’s expiration he took his leave of the company and moved back to England after the death of his father to take care of his mother and wrestle in the UK and parts of western Europe.
Jones met Adrian Flamingo in a record store in London picking up a Beatles album, and the flamboyant lightweight immediately recognized him from his days on American television.
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Finisher 1:
The 5th of November (***) - Jones whips his opponent or catches them while running, lifting them up as if to deliver an Oklahoma Slam. But at the peak of their movement he switches his stance and sits out, bouncing their face off the mat from a high angle. Contrary to the name, most people don’t remember having this move done to them. (Example)
Finisher 2:
Combo Breaker (***) - Not totally unlike your standard Shellshock, the technical name of which is a Swinging Inverted Russian Legsweep. But Jones does it more deliberately, winding the move up and adding a nice snap to the finish to land them hard and fast. (Example)
The "I'm Gonna Kill You" Finisher:
The Assassination Attempt (*) - Half-Nelson Snap Backdrop Driver. It's... Pretty much what the name implies. No one walks away from this.
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Trademark Moves:
1. Back-To-Back Full Nelson into 2x Armbreaker (****)
2. GOAL Kick (***) - Jones lifts the opponent up and leaves them hanging on the top rope, feet over the apron. He then rebounds off the opposite ropes and boots them in the face Mafia Kick-style, and as they fall to the outside he yells “GOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!”
3. Russian Roulette (***) - Airplane Spin Release Crucifix Powerbomb
4. Splash Mountain Bomb (***) - Sit-Down Crucifix Powerbomb
5. Flapjack into Powerslam (****)
6. Stalling Vertical Suplex into Gutbuster (***)
7. Gutwrench Alley-Oop (**) (Occasionally done into the turnbuckles, usually after #3)
8. Second-Rope Diving Headbutt (**)
9. Torture Rack into tossing Backbreaker (while flexing) (***)
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Normal Moves:
1. Wind-Up Headbutt
2. Trapping Headbutts
3. Body Punches (Rocky style)
4. Double-Arm Suplex
5. Short-Arm Clothesline
6. Stiff Shoulderblock
7. Knee-Mounted Facebreaker
8. Back Body Drop (Jones enjoys tossing the smaller wrestlers really high with this)
9. Standing Spinebuster (Farooq style)
10. Samoan Drop
11. Hip Toss
12. Half-Nelson Slam
13. Overhead Axehandle
14. Standing Headlock into Bionic Elbow