Post by Mallard on Dec 20, 2013 0:58:07 GMT -6
Name: Gerald P. Malley
Nicknames: For much of his career in the late '70s and early to mid '80s, he's been called a large number of things, none of them respectful in the least. From 'Mallard' as a play on his last name, to 'Baby Killer' and 'Murderer' protesting his service in Vietnam, an experience he has never spoken publically about. One promoter by the name of Edwin Schultz, arguably one of Gerald's only friends before Edwin's untimely death in 2002, had likened Malley to the Titanic in one candid interview. "It's like he could go anywhere he wanted if he weren't so goddamned determined to crash and sink down to the dark." Another had called him "The Saddest Face I'd Ever Fucking Seen".
One name that's stuck, however, is 'The Stone Man', referencing his face which does not change emotion. Not very much, anyway.
Picbase: Ray Stevenson, preferably pics of him from his stint as The Punisher in the abomination that was War Zone. Jesus fucking christ, could you believe the dialogue in that thing? That someone got paid to write that shit?
Anyway. If you want to crop out the skull on his chest, cool, if not, ehhh, not a big deal. Oh yeah. I'm not so great with actors and faces, but I wanted someone who exuded that sort of grizzled tough guy kind of vibe, but who was also kind of beaten down as well. Honestly, older clint Eastwood I wish I could use, but he's just too small for this guy's build. If any of you have ideas, or would like to give suggestions, I'd love to hear 'em.
Attire: All black. Black BDU pants, black wrestling boots that they're tucked into. Black wifebeater/tanktop thing, also tucked into his pants, with black elbow pads, and a black kneebrace around his left leg. Completing the outfit is a pair of black leather gloves that end at the wrist. They protect his knuckles and hands during a match.
Hometown: When asked, he has always said he is from 'Nowhere'. He has forgotten who he feels betrayed him.
Height: 6'6 and a half.
Weight: 277 lbs. Mainly muscle, that. He's just built like a grizzly bear.
Wrestling Style: Superficially, he's had wrestling experience, and is trained in CQC as well as boxing. Nothing great, though his experience makes up for his lack of pure technical expertise. He might not be performing tiger spins and hammerlocks with the best of them, but he's learned how to fight dirty at the right moments, and he's rather clever with what he does know.
His real style, however, is taking it. Pour nails, gasoline, concrete and gunpowder into a blender, then set it on fire while it blends, the stuff that poured out wouldn't be half as tough as Gerald. He especially likes to take whatever you give when he's on fire, when he's got the match won. He wants you to know that you can't hurt him, that it doesn't matter. It never did, and it never will.
Alignment: This is a tough one. In his heyday, he was absolutely hated by the crowd, but nobody really boos an old heel anymore. He might actually have fans who find it hip to cheer for 'the bad guy', who find an appreciation for his mean, old man tactics in the ring, and it's likely he'd find more sympathy from a modern crowd over what he went through. There'd certainly people who claim to understand. They watch Platoon on DVD and decide they understand the war, they know what happened. People say a lot of things.
Entrance Theme: Morrissey. "November Spawned A Monster"
Entrance: He just walks in. No pomp, no frills, nothing like that. He slides into the ring quietly, and prepares for the match.
Moves: Gerald is an old school wrestler. These are the guys who considered DDTs and legdrops big deals, and simply jumping off the top rope could make forty thousand people lose their goddamn minds. He's not going to be landing any 450 splashes, or inverted gutwrench whatevers. He keeps it simple, he keeps it basic, and he uses what he has to make it hurt. Bad. So, here's a small list:
Chops
Kitchen Sinks
Sleeper Holds(He can use the regular version, or he can use the crook of his elbow to block their nose and mouth when the ref isn't looking. This gives him less control of the move, but usually causes the opponent to panic more and stop thinking.)
Clotheslines
Back Body Drops
Vertical Suplexes
Scoop Slams
Piledrivers
Backdrops(the deadlift Japanese variety)
Side Headlock. He can even go into a Judo-like thing, to slam them on the mat. He likes to save this for when they almost fight out of it, though. Cuts off their momentum, tires them out.
Standard DDT
Trademark Moves:
Big Body Splash. This is pretty mean coming from him, though it usually isn't a match ender.
The Descent (This is differentiated from the regular DDTs he'll employ, because first he uses what can only be called a standing Guillotine, sometimes even standing on his tippy toes to apply more leverage. It's blatantly illegal, and he'll let the ref count. When said ref gets to four and is about to DQ him, that's when Gerald drops down in a sick, sick DDT. Definitely a more modern addition to his moveset. Can 1993 be called modern anymore?)
Backhand (This move doesn't have any fancy name, it's just a hard backhand to the side of the opponent's face, when said opponent is against the turnbuckle. In his heyday, this move would cause the entire stadium to rain boos down on him. Nowadays, given what crowds are like nowadays, it's probably more likely to get a cheap nostalgia pop.
Two funny stories about this move. One was in Tennessee back in '82. He gets "Golden Boy" Bob Roscoe in the turnbuckle, backhands him so hard he spits blood out to the mat. Not only did the arena nearly riot, but Bob's dear old grandmother nearly pulled a gun before quickly being restrained by the rest of Roscoe's family, who were at ringside during all of the Golden Boy's matches. It was a good thing Gerald lost that one, otherwise SWAT would have had to get involved after.
The other is in South Korea. Gerald has their wrestling hero Kim Twon Cho in the turnbuckle, backhands the taste out of his mouth, and the outcry of horror nearly drowns out the match for almost a full minute. And when Cho loses that match, it was rumored that it gave more elderly viewers heart attacks, seeing their champion so disrespected and defeated. To this day, Malley has not been welcomed back to the small country.)
Knockout Uppercut (Nothing fancy, a mean, powerful uppercut that nearly takes your damn head off. He's also great at feinting this move, and generally using his punches smartly.)
Finishers:
Dropping Napalm (When the opponent is dropped, probably from the uppercut but really from anything, the Stone Man will climb out to the ring apron. From there, measuring his opponent up, he leaps up on the ropes and springboards off with a rolling kneedrop, right across their chest or throat area. Note, that I said the ropes and not the turnbuckle. Also, he lands this with his right knee. His left knee is brace'd up.)
The Abyss Gazes Also (This strange move has both of Gerald's hands on either side of the opponent's head, his palms against their temples. With his thumbs, he places them just above the eyes, pressing up on the sockets. This causes excruciating pain while also not letting the opponent blink. He stares at them, stares into their eyes, really, stares right through them with that implacable expression of his while keeping up the pressure. Sometimes he falls to slam them on their back while he straddles them for the pin, sometimes he keeps them on their feet, or on their knees until they tap or pass out. He never blinks during this move either.)
Nicknames: For much of his career in the late '70s and early to mid '80s, he's been called a large number of things, none of them respectful in the least. From 'Mallard' as a play on his last name, to 'Baby Killer' and 'Murderer' protesting his service in Vietnam, an experience he has never spoken publically about. One promoter by the name of Edwin Schultz, arguably one of Gerald's only friends before Edwin's untimely death in 2002, had likened Malley to the Titanic in one candid interview. "It's like he could go anywhere he wanted if he weren't so goddamned determined to crash and sink down to the dark." Another had called him "The Saddest Face I'd Ever Fucking Seen".
One name that's stuck, however, is 'The Stone Man', referencing his face which does not change emotion. Not very much, anyway.
Picbase: Ray Stevenson, preferably pics of him from his stint as The Punisher in the abomination that was War Zone. Jesus fucking christ, could you believe the dialogue in that thing? That someone got paid to write that shit?
Anyway. If you want to crop out the skull on his chest, cool, if not, ehhh, not a big deal. Oh yeah. I'm not so great with actors and faces, but I wanted someone who exuded that sort of grizzled tough guy kind of vibe, but who was also kind of beaten down as well. Honestly, older clint Eastwood I wish I could use, but he's just too small for this guy's build. If any of you have ideas, or would like to give suggestions, I'd love to hear 'em.
Attire: All black. Black BDU pants, black wrestling boots that they're tucked into. Black wifebeater/tanktop thing, also tucked into his pants, with black elbow pads, and a black kneebrace around his left leg. Completing the outfit is a pair of black leather gloves that end at the wrist. They protect his knuckles and hands during a match.
Hometown: When asked, he has always said he is from 'Nowhere'. He has forgotten who he feels betrayed him.
Height: 6'6 and a half.
Weight: 277 lbs. Mainly muscle, that. He's just built like a grizzly bear.
Wrestling Style: Superficially, he's had wrestling experience, and is trained in CQC as well as boxing. Nothing great, though his experience makes up for his lack of pure technical expertise. He might not be performing tiger spins and hammerlocks with the best of them, but he's learned how to fight dirty at the right moments, and he's rather clever with what he does know.
His real style, however, is taking it. Pour nails, gasoline, concrete and gunpowder into a blender, then set it on fire while it blends, the stuff that poured out wouldn't be half as tough as Gerald. He especially likes to take whatever you give when he's on fire, when he's got the match won. He wants you to know that you can't hurt him, that it doesn't matter. It never did, and it never will.
Alignment: This is a tough one. In his heyday, he was absolutely hated by the crowd, but nobody really boos an old heel anymore. He might actually have fans who find it hip to cheer for 'the bad guy', who find an appreciation for his mean, old man tactics in the ring, and it's likely he'd find more sympathy from a modern crowd over what he went through. There'd certainly people who claim to understand. They watch Platoon on DVD and decide they understand the war, they know what happened. People say a lot of things.
Entrance Theme: Morrissey. "November Spawned A Monster"
Entrance: He just walks in. No pomp, no frills, nothing like that. He slides into the ring quietly, and prepares for the match.
Moves: Gerald is an old school wrestler. These are the guys who considered DDTs and legdrops big deals, and simply jumping off the top rope could make forty thousand people lose their goddamn minds. He's not going to be landing any 450 splashes, or inverted gutwrench whatevers. He keeps it simple, he keeps it basic, and he uses what he has to make it hurt. Bad. So, here's a small list:
Chops
Kitchen Sinks
Sleeper Holds(He can use the regular version, or he can use the crook of his elbow to block their nose and mouth when the ref isn't looking. This gives him less control of the move, but usually causes the opponent to panic more and stop thinking.)
Clotheslines
Back Body Drops
Vertical Suplexes
Scoop Slams
Piledrivers
Backdrops(the deadlift Japanese variety)
Side Headlock. He can even go into a Judo-like thing, to slam them on the mat. He likes to save this for when they almost fight out of it, though. Cuts off their momentum, tires them out.
Standard DDT
Trademark Moves:
Big Body Splash. This is pretty mean coming from him, though it usually isn't a match ender.
The Descent (This is differentiated from the regular DDTs he'll employ, because first he uses what can only be called a standing Guillotine, sometimes even standing on his tippy toes to apply more leverage. It's blatantly illegal, and he'll let the ref count. When said ref gets to four and is about to DQ him, that's when Gerald drops down in a sick, sick DDT. Definitely a more modern addition to his moveset. Can 1993 be called modern anymore?)
Backhand (This move doesn't have any fancy name, it's just a hard backhand to the side of the opponent's face, when said opponent is against the turnbuckle. In his heyday, this move would cause the entire stadium to rain boos down on him. Nowadays, given what crowds are like nowadays, it's probably more likely to get a cheap nostalgia pop.
Two funny stories about this move. One was in Tennessee back in '82. He gets "Golden Boy" Bob Roscoe in the turnbuckle, backhands him so hard he spits blood out to the mat. Not only did the arena nearly riot, but Bob's dear old grandmother nearly pulled a gun before quickly being restrained by the rest of Roscoe's family, who were at ringside during all of the Golden Boy's matches. It was a good thing Gerald lost that one, otherwise SWAT would have had to get involved after.
The other is in South Korea. Gerald has their wrestling hero Kim Twon Cho in the turnbuckle, backhands the taste out of his mouth, and the outcry of horror nearly drowns out the match for almost a full minute. And when Cho loses that match, it was rumored that it gave more elderly viewers heart attacks, seeing their champion so disrespected and defeated. To this day, Malley has not been welcomed back to the small country.)
Knockout Uppercut (Nothing fancy, a mean, powerful uppercut that nearly takes your damn head off. He's also great at feinting this move, and generally using his punches smartly.)
Finishers:
Dropping Napalm (When the opponent is dropped, probably from the uppercut but really from anything, the Stone Man will climb out to the ring apron. From there, measuring his opponent up, he leaps up on the ropes and springboards off with a rolling kneedrop, right across their chest or throat area. Note, that I said the ropes and not the turnbuckle. Also, he lands this with his right knee. His left knee is brace'd up.)
The Abyss Gazes Also (This strange move has both of Gerald's hands on either side of the opponent's head, his palms against their temples. With his thumbs, he places them just above the eyes, pressing up on the sockets. This causes excruciating pain while also not letting the opponent blink. He stares at them, stares into their eyes, really, stares right through them with that implacable expression of his while keeping up the pressure. Sometimes he falls to slam them on their back while he straddles them for the pin, sometimes he keeps them on their feet, or on their knees until they tap or pass out. He never blinks during this move either.)