Post by Cross Recoba on Oct 18, 2016 13:51:46 GMT
Cross Recoba
Wrestler Name: Santino Croccifixio Recoba
Ring Name: Cross Recoba
Nickname(s): The Fox, The Hammer, The Man Worth a Thousand Bullets
Gender: Male
Picbase: Chad Michael Murray
D. O. B.: 22nd July 1994
Height: 5'10
Weight: 230lbs
Years Pro: 2
Accolades/Accomplishments:
Hometown: Cicero, Illinois, US
Billed From: Las Vegas, Nevada
Entrance Theme: Turn to Stone - Joe Walsh
Entrance Description: The lights dim in the arena as Joe Walsh's 'Turn to Stone' sounds across the arena. The fans jeer and boo in disgust as they know what to expect when they hear the distinctive distorted power chords that start the song. The lights focus on the entrance to the ramp as Cross Recoba comes through the curtain.
He brushes his shag haircut off his eyes and looks at the crowd. He instinctively clutches the crucifix necklace that hangs from his neck. He walks to the ring with purpose; only looking away from the ring to answer hecklers in the crowd.
He leaps onto the apron and smiles as he sees his disapproving audience before stepping through the ropes and waiting for his opponent.
Personality (a brief description of your wrestler as a person and an athlete):
Cross Recoba is driven entirely by his ego, or more accurately - his self-perception of himself. He tends to be cool and calculating but could also be judged as cutting and sarcastic. His demeanour towards people could be entirely distilled to - what can they give me?
Alignment: Heel
Allies: Stella Chalmers-Blythe, Arcane, Ace Watson, Hunter Storms
Rivals: Valkyrie, Kincaid
Strengths (2 or more):
- Cross has been raised to be extremely streetwise, this was a lesson taught fro his grandfather, his father and uncles, through to his godfather and family friends. Therefore he is wary of anything offered to him that seems too good to be true.
- Thanks to his background in playing football at high school Cross has become very agile. A great though not outstanding wide receiver he learnt to never be caught off-balance and thus he has an excellent countering system.
- Cross knows the right way in which to intimidate people, he is subtle and polite however this has stead him well in times of pressure and looks to try and get under people’s skin.
- Throughout his tender years, he has learnt the art of picking his battles and delegation. If he feels that someone is not playing on a level playing-field he calls in his associate, Aspanu Guilano, who normally evens out the odds a little.
- Cross’ methods of retribution are…methodical to state it politely. A master of such retribution his ring style reflects a methodical dismantlement of his opponent however this may give way to brutality at times depending on his feelings towards his opponent.
Weaknesses:
- Cross isn’t the largest man in the world and sometimes forgets this.
- Cross also has a God complex in residence at times, this has meant that in conjunction with his mouth he has managed to get into situations beyond his control.
- Cross’ strong family ties work for and against him, his sister is an easy way to get into his head and his wariness of this weakness has meant that he sometimes displays paranoid fantasies about danger for her even when none is around.
- Cross’ temper isn’t stereotypically Sicilian but the capacity for it to turn like that is there if the other person knows how to enrage him. Once this happens it is not always clear in his head what to do in order to solve the problem at hand in a rational manner.
Preferred Match Type(s): Ladder
Least Favourite Match Type(s): Extreme Rules
Wrestling Style: Japanese Junior
Finisher(s) (max. 2 + desperation/big match finisher):
1. Up All Night in Dakota - Jumping Spinning Inverted Piledriver
2. Garibaldi's Guillotine (Standing Boston Crab) [Set-Up: Piledriver lift, steps over arms and wrenches back on legs) - NOTE: CURRENTLY NO-ONE HAS BROKEN OUT OF IT
3. The Fall of Valachi - Top Rope Tiger Driver (Desperation/Big Match)
Signature Moves (at least 1):
1. A Million Lira (Over the top rope dropkick (Jumps over the top rope to the outside for a dropkick))
2. The Skim (Osaka Street Stunner)
3. Staten Island Drop (Lifting sitout DDT to the apron)
4. Ranhei ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHOpuJ8q0mw"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHOpuJ8q0mw)
5. An Offer You Can't Refuse (Crossface w/ Body Scissors)
6. The Sicilian Typewriter (Sit-Out Shiranui )
Moveset:
[1] Legdrop Bulldog
[2]Knife Edge Chop
[3] Snap Suplex
[4] Vertical Suplex
[5] Roundhouse Kick
[6] Spinning Back Kick
[7] Enzuiguri
[8] Elbow Smash
[9] Dropkick
[10] Running Elbow Drop
[11] Facebuster
[12] Swinging Neckbreaker
[13] Hangman's Neckbreaker
[14] Saito Suplex
[15] German Suplex
[16] Side Slam w/Elbow Drop
[17] Running Knee Lift (with opponent in corner)
[18] Slingshot Elbow Drop
[19] Missile Dropkick
[20] Turnaround Springboard Dropkick
[21] Top Rope Elbow Drop
[22] Top Rope Reverse Hurrancanrana
[23] Shoulder Jawbreaker -> Leaping Reverse STO
[24] Crucifix lift to neckbreaker
[25] Inverted DDT -> Grounded Dragon Sleeper w/ Body Scissors
Biography (extended background on your character):
The Recoba’s came across from Sicily in the seventies. With the Chicago Outfit breathing it’s last breath and Momo Giancama too Hollywood and too public to be calling the shots the hit was out. He fled to Mexico, Paul Ricca called upon his old village to provide the soldatos for their next move and with this came Pippi Recoba. A skilled wheel-man he brought with him a wife and a baby boy, Turi. His wife, Sophia, was left to raise Turi as Pippi found his way within the Chicago family. Rising up to head his own regime he was shipped off to New York to the "Dapper Don" John Gotti and worked for his number two, Sammy "The Bull" Gravano.
Santino barely knew his father because at the age of three he watched his father leave the house for the last time. Setting off to meet associates at a nearby diner he never made the meeting and theories around his disappearance hinge on whether or not he fled an unknown danger or he knew his fate before starting the engine.
Santino attended a state elementary school and was a generally happy-go-lucky child. The apple of his family’s eye he looked forward to visits from his Uncle Bruno, his missing father’s brother. Bruno would indulge the child in all his worst habits - junk food, music and, even at his tender age, an appreciation of the female form.
At Junior High Aspanu Guilano came into the life of Cross. A fellow son of an immigrant family they bonded over their disparate roots and lack of acceptance from the large majority of students. His seemingly ‘All-American’ appearance could not detract from his distinctive name and so would often be met with slurs about the Mafia and nicknamed the ‘Albino Guinea’ by his peers. Aspanu saved Cross from a sure beating at the hands of a student who took exception to Cross' possession of a face with an intent to use it. With this came a friendship that has lasted to this day.
A varsity wide-receiver at high school, off the field he was an above average student, displaying a great aptitude towards figures and business and was seen by his teachers as a good all-round prospect. A high-school injury quickly put any dreams of a football scholarship to rest.Without an outlet with which to forget about his troubles Cross floundered for a while and messed up his SAT exams which put paid to dreams of an Ivy League college.
He was sent to Las Vegas to join up with Alberto Costello, who had been friends with Cross’ family back to the times in Sicily. Having come to America in the fifties as a teenager he had established a wide reach of power that swept from California to Nevada, the once neutral state having been awarded to Costello in the late eighties after the whole mess with Gotti. At first he simply worked at the hotel and in the casino. He was fast-tracked from dealer to the floor manager within eight months and although this caused unrest upon his work colleagues he managed to always make money for Costello; at times underpaying himself in order to look better, and thus the promotion seemed legitimate. At the age of nineteen he was making the kind of money a college graduate would make within in their first five years of working and life seemed good. It was at the juncture that Costello started to ask Cross to supervise ‘ancillary’ jobs , as he put it.
Now listed as VP of Operations and Communications at The Sands Hotel, he has combined his employment with stints wrestling in promotions around America. Those with a keen eye will recognize him appear frequently with high-profile visitors to the hotel. Rumors of what his title actually means have led several people to believe that all is not above board at the Las Vegas hotel.
