Post by The Greater Evil on Feb 11, 2014 1:20:46 GMT -5
Name: Dirge
Full Name: Robert David Markham
Avatar: Andrew Divoff
Former Avatars: Anson Mount, Brodie Lee
Moniker: "The Greater Evil"
Others: "The Momentum Killer", "The Cross-Hobo Champion", "The Big Bastard", "Big Nasty", "The Big Nasty Bastard"
Height: 6'9"
Weight: 275 lbs (He's lost weight from being a hobo and walking nearly everywhere).
Hometown: Chicago, Ill. (He's originally from Las Vegas, Nevada)
Alignment: Heel
Music: "I Am The Warlock" by Probot
Entrance:
Former Entrances: "The One You Love to Hate" by Rob Halford and Bruce Dickinson, "Resurrection" by Droid, "Stigmata" by Ministry and "El Cu Cuy" by Coal Chamber.
Manager: None. He's usually seen with David Damarest, but Damarest doesn't "Manage" him.
Friends/ Cohorts: David Damarest and "Grandfather". His recent reconciliations with his daughter Amy and his best friend Erik Drugonov have helped him make large strides in regaining his sanity.
Allies/Stables: None.
Former Stables: The Elite Establishment (Founder), The Icons, The Covenant and The Puppet Masters (Co-founder)
Style: His style is largely power based with some submission and a lot of transition holds. Surprisingly for a man who's as much of a first rate prick as he is, he doesn't waste time mocking his opponents. He waits until after he's beaten them to do that.
Move Set (10+ moves):
1. Cobra Clutch (He lifts the person off the ground when possible and violently whips the person back and forth).
2. Knockout Punch
3. Discus Forearm Smash
4. Forearm strikes to the back of the neck
5. STF (he uses it to wear down the neck)
6. Running Lariat/ Short Arm Lariat
7. Chop block
8. Cross Armed Chickenwing Piledriver
9. Powerbomb/ Turnbuckle Powerbomb
10. Head Vice
11. Regal Stretch (he uses it as a wear down hold on the neck)
12. Stomp to the Head (sometimes done as a one person curb stomp)
13. Overhead throw
14. Turnbuckle smash
15. Airplane spin throw
16. Cravate. To those he really doesn’t like he’ll use this hold to pick the person up by his or her neck.
17. Running kick to the temple (Randy Orton's "Skull Punt")
18. Over the back Cut-throat choke
19. Various Suplex variations, focusing on high impact and painful landings
20. Arm trap neckbreaker
Non Wrestling Moves:
1. Chair shot
2. Wrap arm, leg or shoulder in chair and stomp on it.
3. Throw opponent shoulder first into the turnbuckle
4. Stomp on hand, elbow, knee or ankle/foot
5. Eye Rake/ Eye Gouge/ Eye Press (He'll stick his thumbs into the person's eyes and press down down on them as hard as he can).
6. Mule Kick
7. Low Blow
8. Punch to the throat
9. Chop Block
10. Weapon strike (whatever is handy)
11. Solar Plexus strike
12. Choke
Trademark move(s): The Spinebreaker, T M Y L T H, Respect is Earned, The Momentum Killer, No Remorse, The Assertion of Dominance
The Spinebreaker: A gore to the back.
T M Y L T H (The Move You Love to Hate): Lifting Chokeslam into a vicious ace crusher/stunner: Dirge grabs the poor sap by the throat and hoists them up as if to execute the "Assertion of Dominance", but instead leaves them hanging there as he crushes their windpipe with his hand (obviously he's not trying to kill them, but people who can't breathe don't fight back nearly as well). This usually takes a few seconds (upwards of 15 to 30 depending on his mood) before he throws the person into the air with one hand, spins around, grabs them on the way down and tries to shatter their jaw on his shoulder with a vicious Stunner/Ace Crusher. Sometimes he'll execute the move more like a Diamond Cutter and lay out as he drops to the mat, but he prefers the first version because it hurts a hell of a lot more.
Respect is Earned: He delivers a package piledriver, then stands up and launches the victim into the corner with an overhead release throw into the corner from the package piledriver hold. (He uses this on smaller opponents, not usually on the heavyweights).
The Momentum Killer: The Momentum Killer: He lifts the person up as if to do a Kryptonite Krunch (Emerald Fusion) and holds them there for a few moments. When he finally releases the person he spins the person out and wraps his arms around the legs and neck, using them to direct the person downward so that their neck slams into his thigh.
No Remorse: Sit out, over the shoulder backbreaker.
The Assertion of Dominance: A high impact choke slam.
Finishing Moves: The Death In Vegas, The Momentum Killer, History Made, The Soul Auctioneer and (I and II)
The Death in Vegas: A stiff, sit out brainbuster.
History Made: Dirge's version of the "Go to Sleep". Dirge picks the person up into the standard Fireman's Carry just like the normal move. Instead of dropping the person forward and kneeing them in the jaw, Dirge throws the person up as hard as he can, takes a step back and then lashes out and kicks the person flush in the face or the side of the head, depending on which way they drop.
The Soul Auctioneer: It's a gorilla press into the Michinoku Driver II
The Pain Amplifier I: Dirge grabs a person with his hand and applies the "Iron Claw", violently squeezing the person's face and temples with it. He does this until the tap out or pass out. (The tap out doesn't always guarantee that he'll let go. He doesn't care about being disqualified or losing anymore. He just wants to inflict as much pain as possible.)
The Pain Amplifier: II: Dirge applies the claw and squeezes their head and temples as hard as he can. Once the person is in genuine agony, he lifts the person up by their head with his hand and holds the person in that position for a few moments before he swings out with with his other hand and spikes the person in the throat. (Think of the "Samoan Spike" or "Icepick").
History/ Bio: Dirge. "The Greater Evil". A man who has struck fear into both the worlds of international business and wrestling for three decades. Whether it's his company "Elite Enterprises" or his many acts in wrestling, "The Greater Evil" has established a lineage of success matched by few, if any at all. He came into wrestling at the age of 19 in a company called ICW, where he was the only two-time Television Champion and was so dominant that it took backstage politics and the mechanations of two other wrestlers to cost him the championship that he'd held for nearly a year. Dirge was a different person at that point. He was young and angry with something to prove. He learned a lot from ICW.
Personality: Supremely confident, supremely arrogant, tactically brilliant and thoroughly devoid of conscience. Dirge earned his nickname of "The Greater Evil". He's utterly fearless and all business in the ring. He'll tear you apart like you're nothing in his promo and then treat you like a potential Hall of Fame inductee in the ring because he doesn't take chances. If he can beat you quickly, great. If not, he's perfectly happy to pound you into the mat before he puts his foot on your chest and pins you.
If you're one of the few who earns his respect, you'll have it until you do something to lose it. If you lose it, especially if you do something that he takes personally, God help you. He'll do everything in his power to ruin you.
He'll never turn on someone he considers family or a friend. In spite of how evil he is, he's also honorable.
Championships Held:
UGWC: Co-Operative Championship (1, w/ "Vain" Alan Wallace), Cross-Hemisphere Championship (1), Hall of Fame Member
GIW: Tag Team Champion (w/Raenius- "The Covenant")
gCw: Tag Team Championship (1 w/ Erik Dugonov), Extreme Championship (1)
PPW: All State Champion (1x, only ever), Hall of Fame Member
PTIW: World Heavyweight Championship (1), Hall of Fame Member
Impact Wrestling (IW): Universal Championship (1)
RAWF: World Heavyweight Champion (1), Hall of Fame Member
ICW: Television Champion (2, longest reigning)
