'The Aviator' Graham Baker

BASIC INFORMATION



Wrestling Name: Graham Baker.
Picture Base: El Phantasmo.
Current Nicknames: The Aviator, The Savior.
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 215 lb.
Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by way of London, England.

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Disposition/Alignment: Choose from these options: | Face |
Gimmick: Disgraced due to actions that cost him many people that he cared for and loved whilst pursuing worldwide fame, former three-time world heavyweight champion Graham Baker looks to return to his roots and, using his hybrid style of wrestling, wow the crowds and punch back up to redeem some of the damage that he's done. Strong willed, resilient, and brash, Baker's talents usually speak for him, and his hot-shot cockiness is backed up in the ring by vicious submissions and stiff strikes. 'The Aviator' looks to put any company he wrestles for on his back and put his body and talent on the line to bring himself-and the reputation of his company-into the stars.

RINGSIDE INFORMATION
Theme Music: 'blood//water' (Tom Morello mix) by Grandson.

Special Entrance [Optional]: N/A or TBA.

MOTIVATIONS
What are your character’s motivations for competing?: Gold, glory, and bringing his own reputation back up while raising that of his company, as well.

Tendency to Cheat: Choose from these options: | Never |

IN-RING INFORMATION
-Wrestling Debut [Optional]: January 10th, 2017.

-Favorite Match Types [Optional]: No Holds Barred, Submission, Hybrid Rules (Knockout or Submission)

-Least Favorite Match Types [Optional]: Iron Man, 2/3 Falls, etc.

-Favorite Weapon: The Apron, The Ring, occasionally a steel chair or table.

-In-Ring Achievements [Optional]:
-1x Freedom Pro Wrestling Hardcore(now Freedom) Champion - 92 days, 1 defense.
-2x Freedom Pro Wrestling Free-1 Finalist (2018, B Block, won. 2019, A Block, lost)
-1x Freedom Pro Wrestling Free-1 Victory (2018, d. Jerry Bishop)
-1x Freedom Pro Wrestling World Heavyweight Champion (210 days, 7 defenses)
-1x ALPHA Wrestling Tag Team Champion (w/ Zachary Bates as 'The Aviators', 56 days, 1 defense.)
-1x Ragnarok Royale Victory (2019, d. Aaron Arkham)
-1x ICW World Heavyweight Champion (97 days, 2 defenses)
-1x ALPHA World Heavyweight Champion (84 days, 2 defenses)
-1x IBW FNC Champion (10 days, 0 defenses, Current.)

Common Moves: Minimum ten (10)
1. Various kicks, including dropkicks, superkicks, enziguris, pele kicks, hook kicks, etc. Baker favors dropkicks to do more damage.
2. Variety of suplexes, including but not limited to German, Exploder, Dragon, Tiger suplexes. Baker can execute most of these in snap, bridging, and top rope variations as well, giving him a ton of methods of attack.
3. High-flying moves to confuse and disorient his opponents, preventing them from doing more damage and hammering them down to the ground.
4. Variety of knees, including running shotgun knees (to a corner or kneeling opponent), ripcord knees, and jumping knee strikes. Baker uses these when an opponent is too close to use a dropkick.
5. Elbow and forearm strikes to the head and chest, to keep opponents away or to break up finishers/holds on himself.
6. Variety of roll-ups to secure a pinfall if no other means can seal the deal. Baker favors the O'Connor Roll, Schoolboy roll, and the small package as his top three, but will use whatever is most easily accessible.
7. Various submission maneuvers, primarily armbars and armbreakers in order to weaken the arm targeted for a final Emergency Landing that would seal the deal for the opponent's loss. Baker is willing to go to many, many lengths to ensure that his enemies can barely respond to any attacks he puts forth on them.
8. Variety of takedowns, mainly legsweeps and two-leg wrestling takedowns to counter moves like powerbombs and counter anything that would put the opponent off-balance.
9. Baker will often use machine gun chops, close range knee strikes, brutal kicks and other strikes to do grave, visible damage to the body, wearing them down and weakening them for a finishing maneuver.
10. Arm-targeted maneuvers, including shoulder-breakers, arm-breakers, simple armbars, arm-wrench moves and others to weaken an opponent's arm for Baker's signature Emergency Landing submission.

Signature Moves: Minimum of two (2), maximum of five (5)
1. Full Rotation - Either a Dragon Suplex, Butterfly Suplex, or Tiger Suplex dropped back into a Cross Armbar or Cattle Mutilation, Baker will use this to great impact, usually in an attempt to end a match.
2. NightFall - Wrist-Clutch Brainbuster either dropped to the knee, or dropped down to the canvas in a sheer-drop variant.
3. Fall From Heaven - Avalanche Frankensteiner, often done to the outside or through a table. One of Baker's old finishers.
4. CMD - Rolling Death Valley Bomb.
5. Various Strike Combinations including kick combinations, lariats, chops, and so on. Baker will most commonly blast his opponent with repeated kicks and knees to stun them long enough to get them up for a Brainbuster or Death Valley Driver.

Finishing Moves: Maximum three (3) and one (1) optional ultra-finisher (UF)
1. EL '19 - Baker's standard submission finisher, a rotating variation armbar that depends on the opponent's knowledge of Baker and his counters. Often starts as a Fujiwara Armbar with north-to-south elbows to the head of an opponent, before transitioning to a dis-arm-her variant where Baker rolls the opponent forward and traps their torso with his legs and body before pulling their arm back. Baker also uses the classic cross armbar variant as a snap out of nowhere, although this has lost its potency over time.
2. Psalm Twenty-Knee/23 - A running Busaiku Knee to either a standing or kneeling opponent, Baker adapted this finisher while facing off against Aaron Taylor. It is his 'out of nowhere' finisher and is LETHAL against a kneeling opponent, often resulting in a knockout. Baker will often transition this into an Emergency Landing or use it to finish a sequence with the Mustang Driver III to put down an especially resilient opponent.
3. Flak Cannon - Detonation Kick.

UF. 'Baker-Breaker' - Rolling Death Valley Bomb toward the corner followed up by a double jump Shooting Star Kneedrop.