Post by Melissa on Apr 18, 2017 8:24:58 GMT
OOC Info
Twitter: Melissa_Reaver
WILL CHARACTER BE COMPETING IN HARDCORE DIVISION: No
In Character Information
Name: Melissa Reeves
Nicknames(s): Reaver
Picbase(s): Kylie Rae
Age: 27
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 130 lbs.
Hometown/Billed from: Los Angeles, California (originally from Sydney, Australia)
Alignment: Tweener
On Camera / Off Camera Character Personality:
On Camera: Melissa is a focused, serious, professional athlete. She leaves her personal life at home and whilst working she is only interested in advancing her career. She aims to be a top star and believes that after so many years in the ring, she deserves more respect than she gets. She is currently disgruntled due to management interference against her in her last promotion and a general lack of stability in her career over the past year.
Off Camera: Away from the ring, Melissa tends to be far more relaxed. She's generally playful, friendly and caring - though in recent times she has grown frustrated with her career and aspects of her life, so isn't as cheery as she once was.
Gimmick: Consummate professional looking to make herself into a legitimate top tier star.
Strengths:
1) Extremely Driven - Melissa is driven to the point of it almost being an obsession.
2) Highly Aggressive - She is noted as being aggressive in the ring (can also be a weakness at time).
3) Technical Know-how - She has a good grasp of technical wrestling, which she combines with her well trained kicks and natural speed. She particularly favours counter-attack wrestling, using an opponent's own momentum or size against them.
4) Veterancy - Whilst much of her experience was in lesser known promotions, she is still highly experienced for her age.
5) Ring Psychology - She is well versed in in-ring psychology, using her mouth as a weapon as much as her fists.
Weaknesses:
1) Emotional - Melissa's aggression can, at times, lose her cool in the ring when her aggression overtakes her.
2) Empathy - Melissa's caring nature can be used against her by threatening those she cares about, causing her to lose her cool.
3) Size - She's not particularly well built or tall.
4) Previous Injuries - She can, at times, hesitate to put her own body on the line due to her past injuries.
5) Matter of Respect - When Melissa feels she is being disrespected she can lose her usual cool.
Entrance Music: "No End in Sight" - Killswitch Engage
Move Sets
Wrestling Styles: Primarily technical, mixed with kicking/striking.
In-Ring Personality: In the ring, Melissa is highly aggressive, focused and decisive. She primarily remains grounded, though has - in the past - used aerial moves (her main hesitation lies in the fact that using them is part of what got her injured previously). On the offensive, she relies on her quick feet, plenty o
Favorite Moves:
1) Forearm strike
2) Low kick
3) Mid kick
4) Toe kick
5) Elbow strike
6) Knee to the gut
7) Diving knee
8) Front dropkick
9) Snap suplex
10) Belly to back suplex
11) Hip toss
12 Arm drag
13) Drop toehold
14) Back body drop
15) Abdominal stretch
16) Floatover DDT
17) Scoop Slam (if she can lift the opponent)
18) Powerslam
19) Diving Elbow
20) Spinning Heel Kick
Trademark Moves:
1) Corner Dropkick (using the ropes, Jeff Hardy style)
2) Frankensteiner (not a move she'll use often)
Finishing Moves:
1) Facial Deconstructor (Jericho's Codebreaker)
2) Death From Above (Shooting Star Press) - very rarely used, it's her former primary finishing move.
Character Biography:
Melissa Emma Reeves is an 9 year veteran fighting out of Las Vegas. Originally from Sydney, Australia, Melissa moved to the USA to live with her boyfriend at the time, James Maxwell.
At the time James was part of a local wrestling organisation, and Melissa began working alongside him as his valet. When she decided to take up wrestling training, James helped and encouraged her. After year of training she made her debut, picking up her first win against a local jobber. Over the years Melissa developed a crazier and crazier ring style, risking more and more each time she fought.
The risk taking caught up with her, though, she when suffered multiple fractures to her leg and heavy neck and head injuries after a cage spot gone wrong. Melissa had to undergo multiple surgeries to repair her leg and to correct damage in her neck, and was given the prognosis of a six month stint on the sidelines. With her stuck at home, recovering, relations with her boyfriend began to strain and the pair parted two months into her recovery. The promotion which she had risked her life for turned their backs on her, casting her out because of her splitting with James. Alone, angry and hurt, Melissa severed ties with her former friends and found herself alone in the big city.
Seeing her mental state deteriorating, Melissa's close friend Becka White decided to step in and help. She set up interviews for Melissa with other, local organisations, with a view to Melissa returning to the ring after her recovery was complete. As well as that, Melissa also began to use social media in an attempt to network with others in her line or work, and build new friendships to replace what had been lost. She played a large role in the formation of a group of friends - many of whom had been outcasts or loners, much like herself - and the days of her being alone appeared to be behind her.
Melissa's career was reignited at SAP, and the desire to compete had truly returned to her. With members of her friendship group already at Honor Wrestling, as well as numerous people she either knew or knew of, it seemed a logical step that it should be her next place to call home.
Whilst at Honor, she managed to become the first (and only) Iron Maiden Champion.
Following its collapse, Melissa initially signed for Code Red Wrestling - a doomed promotion which never even held a show before closing. After that she set her sights on FSociety, where she arrived in early 2017. She scored three successive wins, seeing her tag team with Sarah Lacklan given a shot against the tag champs in a 4-way tag match, where the champions retained but Melissa's team did not take the fall. After that she scored another two wins, one as a tag and one individually, to earn a second shot against the tag champs.
(Will update after FSociety's last show)
Championship History / Previous Feds:
SAP
Honor (1x Iron Maiden Champion)
FSociety
Twitter: Melissa_Reaver
WILL CHARACTER BE COMPETING IN HARDCORE DIVISION: No
In Character Information
Name: Melissa Reeves
Nicknames(s): Reaver
Picbase(s): Kylie Rae
Age: 27
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 130 lbs.
Hometown/Billed from: Los Angeles, California (originally from Sydney, Australia)
Alignment: Tweener
On Camera / Off Camera Character Personality:
On Camera: Melissa is a focused, serious, professional athlete. She leaves her personal life at home and whilst working she is only interested in advancing her career. She aims to be a top star and believes that after so many years in the ring, she deserves more respect than she gets. She is currently disgruntled due to management interference against her in her last promotion and a general lack of stability in her career over the past year.
Off Camera: Away from the ring, Melissa tends to be far more relaxed. She's generally playful, friendly and caring - though in recent times she has grown frustrated with her career and aspects of her life, so isn't as cheery as she once was.
Gimmick: Consummate professional looking to make herself into a legitimate top tier star.
Strengths:
1) Extremely Driven - Melissa is driven to the point of it almost being an obsession.
2) Highly Aggressive - She is noted as being aggressive in the ring (can also be a weakness at time).
3) Technical Know-how - She has a good grasp of technical wrestling, which she combines with her well trained kicks and natural speed. She particularly favours counter-attack wrestling, using an opponent's own momentum or size against them.
4) Veterancy - Whilst much of her experience was in lesser known promotions, she is still highly experienced for her age.
5) Ring Psychology - She is well versed in in-ring psychology, using her mouth as a weapon as much as her fists.
Weaknesses:
1) Emotional - Melissa's aggression can, at times, lose her cool in the ring when her aggression overtakes her.
2) Empathy - Melissa's caring nature can be used against her by threatening those she cares about, causing her to lose her cool.
3) Size - She's not particularly well built or tall.
4) Previous Injuries - She can, at times, hesitate to put her own body on the line due to her past injuries.
5) Matter of Respect - When Melissa feels she is being disrespected she can lose her usual cool.
Entrance Music: "No End in Sight" - Killswitch Engage
Move Sets
Wrestling Styles: Primarily technical, mixed with kicking/striking.
In-Ring Personality: In the ring, Melissa is highly aggressive, focused and decisive. She primarily remains grounded, though has - in the past - used aerial moves (her main hesitation lies in the fact that using them is part of what got her injured previously). On the offensive, she relies on her quick feet, plenty o
Favorite Moves:
1) Forearm strike
2) Low kick
3) Mid kick
4) Toe kick
5) Elbow strike
6) Knee to the gut
7) Diving knee
8) Front dropkick
9) Snap suplex
10) Belly to back suplex
11) Hip toss
12 Arm drag
13) Drop toehold
14) Back body drop
15) Abdominal stretch
16) Floatover DDT
17) Scoop Slam (if she can lift the opponent)
18) Powerslam
19) Diving Elbow
20) Spinning Heel Kick
Trademark Moves:
1) Corner Dropkick (using the ropes, Jeff Hardy style)
2) Frankensteiner (not a move she'll use often)
Finishing Moves:
1) Facial Deconstructor (Jericho's Codebreaker)
2) Death From Above (Shooting Star Press) - very rarely used, it's her former primary finishing move.
Character Biography:
Melissa Emma Reeves is an 9 year veteran fighting out of Las Vegas. Originally from Sydney, Australia, Melissa moved to the USA to live with her boyfriend at the time, James Maxwell.
At the time James was part of a local wrestling organisation, and Melissa began working alongside him as his valet. When she decided to take up wrestling training, James helped and encouraged her. After year of training she made her debut, picking up her first win against a local jobber. Over the years Melissa developed a crazier and crazier ring style, risking more and more each time she fought.
The risk taking caught up with her, though, she when suffered multiple fractures to her leg and heavy neck and head injuries after a cage spot gone wrong. Melissa had to undergo multiple surgeries to repair her leg and to correct damage in her neck, and was given the prognosis of a six month stint on the sidelines. With her stuck at home, recovering, relations with her boyfriend began to strain and the pair parted two months into her recovery. The promotion which she had risked her life for turned their backs on her, casting her out because of her splitting with James. Alone, angry and hurt, Melissa severed ties with her former friends and found herself alone in the big city.
Seeing her mental state deteriorating, Melissa's close friend Becka White decided to step in and help. She set up interviews for Melissa with other, local organisations, with a view to Melissa returning to the ring after her recovery was complete. As well as that, Melissa also began to use social media in an attempt to network with others in her line or work, and build new friendships to replace what had been lost. She played a large role in the formation of a group of friends - many of whom had been outcasts or loners, much like herself - and the days of her being alone appeared to be behind her.
Melissa's career was reignited at SAP, and the desire to compete had truly returned to her. With members of her friendship group already at Honor Wrestling, as well as numerous people she either knew or knew of, it seemed a logical step that it should be her next place to call home.
Whilst at Honor, she managed to become the first (and only) Iron Maiden Champion.
Following its collapse, Melissa initially signed for Code Red Wrestling - a doomed promotion which never even held a show before closing. After that she set her sights on FSociety, where she arrived in early 2017. She scored three successive wins, seeing her tag team with Sarah Lacklan given a shot against the tag champs in a 4-way tag match, where the champions retained but Melissa's team did not take the fall. After that she scored another two wins, one as a tag and one individually, to earn a second shot against the tag champs.
(Will update after FSociety's last show)
Championship History / Previous Feds:
SAP
Honor (1x Iron Maiden Champion)
FSociety