Gimmicks/Finishers you gave yourself

[sdoyle7798]

OK, so I am pretty sure I cannot be the only one here who did this, but even still, this may be a bit embarrassing...

Growing up, I used to imagine what my gimmick/finisher would be if I became a wrestler.

My gimmick was a masked wrestler called The Stranger. And, no, it was not names after Marcus Bagwell's GWF character. I came up with it because I am a huge Billy Joel fan and thought his songe The Stranger would be a kick ass entrance theme (I was a kid...don't judge). For the gimmick, this would require a mask, especially since the openeing lyric to the song is "Well we all have a face that we hide away forever".

Anyway, at the time I thought I invented these two moves (I invented neither, of course). The first was an abdominal stretch taken down into a pin (I was a kid, so of course I named that Stranger Danger... ). Then I came up with a reverse DDT paired with a Russian Leg Sweep I called The Bump In The Night, after the phrase "things that go bump in the night."

Now, I am an oldhed (do...do people still use the term oldhead?), so this was pre eFeds and pre CAW's so I never got to create this guy. And by the time that stuff came out, I was old enough to know that gimmick and the move names were super cringe worthy.

Have any of you all dreamed up a gimmick and/or finishing moves? Hopefully not a cringe as mine...

[auph10imitated]

OMG eFed's they were awesome.

I was "The Superstar" (and my real name) not very creative in retrospect! haha

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

I did backyard wrestling. There were only like 5 or 6 of us in my fed so we had lots of characters. By character.....

Biohazard (camo or pleather pants, black wife beater) - Toxic Drop (Killswitch)

Azrael (pentagram shirt, black fishnet, hot topic pants heel turned Biohazard) - Catalepsy (Black Tiger Bomb)

YAK MAN (Custom ordered mask from highspots - Green Hayabusa mask with Liger horns, green karate gi) - YAK Plex (Can't remember if it was a Tiger Suplex 85' or a Regal Plex). Also would sometimes use an STO or Gannosuke Clutch

Deus Hex (Inverted LA Parka mask, white gi) - Hammerlock DDT, or a pumphandle gourdbuster (but landed on my knees instead of a sitout)

El Jobbero (Costume bin special - Ski mask, yellow Rikishi glasses, a Zorro hat from 2nd grade, and my brother's Mom-made Great Saiyaman costume) - Jalapeno Scoop Slam

[Push R Truth]

I was Mr Dough, a 400+lb (King Mabel style build) evil masseur that would use "forbidden and deadly" massage moves to submit opponents. Catch phrase was "I WILL KNEAD YOU!"

Main non-submission finisher was sorta like a skull crushing finale, except the hands were on the neck/upper shoulders doing a "paralysis nerve hold". Called the Pinched Nerve.
Main submission was a double kidney "rub/grab" sorta thing called the Urine Trouble. Basically come from behind the target and slap an ancient forbidden deep tissue kidney massage that makes the opponent act like they got tazed.
Then the ultimate insult move was the Unhappy Ending, a double titty twister and a kick in the dick.

God I was a strange kid. Even back in the 90's I was obviously obsessed with the super wacky shit in wrestling.

[sdoyle7798]

Apr 26, 2022 8:41:50 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

I was Mr Dough, a 400+lb (King Mabel style build) evil masseur that would use "forbidden and deadly" massage moves to submit opponents. Catch phrase was "I WILL KNEAD YOU!"

Main non-submission finisher was sorta like a skull crushing finale, except the hands were on the neck/upper shoulders doing a "paralysis nerve hold".
Main submission was a double kidney "rub/grab" sorta time called the Urine Trouble. Basically come from behind the target and slap an ancient forbidden deep tissue kidney massage that make the opponent act like they got tazed.


god I was a strange kid

We could team our two characters together and call them The Registry...

["Sweet & Sour" ImSoFudginGreat]

I always wanted to be an MMA fighter coming to wrestling character that bragged about my undefeated record in some country that blatantly doesn’t have an MMA league (like Norway where I think it is still banned). I would be dressed like a UFC fighter and attempt to use strikes and submissions to win. The caveat was that I sucked big time and would get my ass kicked for most of a match. The only way I could win would be by putting a steel foreign object into my glove and knocking out my opponent. I would then celebrate like Owen Hart and proclaim I was the best.

[sdoyle7798]

Apr 26, 2022 9:02:40 GMT -5 "Sweet & Sour" ImSoFudginGreat said:

I always wanted to be an MMA fighter coming to wrestling character that bragged about my undefeated record in some country that blatantly doesn’t have an MMA league (like Norway where I think it is still banned). I would be dressed like a UFC fighter and attempt to use strikes and submissions to win. The caveat was that I sucked big time and would get my ass kicked for most of a match. The only way I could win would be by putting a steel foreign object into my glove and knocking out my opponent. I would then celebrate like Owen Hart and proclaim I was the best.

That could work as a comedy character today.

Let it evolve like Santino did, and you could parlay that into a fine career...

...assuming you actually wanted to become a wrestler, and had the skill to do so.

[drjayphd (feat. Pitbull)]

Apr 26, 2022 8:20:42 GMT -5 auph10imitated said:

OMG eFed's they were awesome.

I was "The Superstar" (and my real name) not very creative in retrospect! haha

Hooooo boy, I had a couple of winners. I forget the names at this point but they were shameless rip-offs of Tuxedo Mask and Goku (can you tell I'd just discovered anime?) called the Orochi Knights, my big innovation was recording an audio promo and posting it in 1999. That and coming up with what turned out to be the Death Rider when Moxley puts extra You Sauce on it (like the initiation into BCC match against Wheeler YUTA) but not knowing how to describe it.

[Hit Girl]

The crossface chickenwing is still my finisher.

[Deleted]

I've always been a straight up dork for submission finishers, which is why I loved Dean Malenko and the like growing up.

I never gave any names or anything but in SVR I'd always make myself as a character who had pretty shitty stats otherwise, but was an absolute demon at chain wrestling and submissions.

Couldn't put it in the game, but I always wanted my finisher to be something like Punk's Anaconda Vice, but more of an arm triangle choke.

[DSR]

In my 20s, when me and a bunch of friends were super into CHIKARA, I had the idea to become a wrestler named Sega Jonas S. (said out loud like "Sega Jo-nesis", a play on my actual first name being Joe). My ring attire and moveset would be inspired by Sega games, like a big running uppercut where I shout "BARE KNUCKLE" as I hit it, like Axel from Streets of Rage.

I actually used that on my Myspace at the time, but then my friends and I all realized that "Sega Jonas S." without capitalization or spaces was segajonass, or "Sega Jon Ass". Also, I saw Player Uno and thought the gimmicks were too similar. Also also, I'm really lazy and not athletic at all, so I never actually became a wrestler. *shrug*

[Deleted]

The Wrestling Professional. I was a businessman. I took care of business.

[Psicofreak667]

When I was like 6 or 7, I had never actually watched more than 15 seconds of pro wrestling at the time (and as I didn't have cable, no capability to watch it), but one of my friends was super into it. He had all the WWF Wrestling Buddies. I didn't know any real wrestlers aside from Hulk Hogan and the Macho Man so I couldn't pretend to be them, so I invented one...

The Rabid Possum.

His original finisher was some completely impossible nonsense where he dug his feet into the edge of the ring while pushing back against the ropes for ULTRALEVERAGE and then... I think just splashed them. And it was called the "crescendoom" for some reason.

A decade later when I actually got into pro wrestling, I decided to try and revamp Rabid Possum into something not completely ridiculous and came up with a kind of hillbilly Ultimate Warrior who hung from the ropes by his knees, foamed at the mouth, and often won by playing dead followed by a rollup. When me and a couple buddies were booking a fake WCW that quasi followed canon and then acting the matches out in my basement in a ring made of barstools, binders twine and my dad's exercise mats, he turned heel, changed his name to Roadkyll and became the 2nd in command of Raven's Flock - this was right when Saturn and Raven were on the outs and before Kanyon had showed up. For some reason I'm totally blanking on what his finisher was

My main efedding dude was just a twist on my own name. After a short stint with an impossible finisher - a reverse full nelson STO - he started using a normal finisher (top rope senton).

[sdoyle7798]

Apr 26, 2022 15:07:11 GMT -5 DSR said:

In my 20s, when me and a bunch of friends were super into CHIKARA, I had the idea to become a wrestler named Sega Jonas S. (said out loud like "Sega Jo-nesis", a play on my actual first name being Joe). My ring attire and moveset would be inspired by Sega games, like a big running uppercut where I shout "BARE KNUCKLE" as I hit it, like Axel from Streets of Rage.

I actually used that on my Myspace at the time, but then my friends and I all realized that "Sega Jonas S." without capitalization or spaces was segajonass, or "Sega Jon Ass". Also, I saw Player Uno and thought the gimmicks were too similar. Also also, I'm really lazy and not athletic at all, so I never actually became a wrestler. *shrug*

But it woulda been a built in rivalry with Uno.

[DSR]

Apr 27, 2022 14:32:14 GMT -5 sdoyle7798 said:

Apr 26, 2022 15:07:11 GMT -5 DSR said:

In my 20s, when me and a bunch of friends were super into CHIKARA, I had the idea to become a wrestler named Sega Jonas S. (said out loud like "Sega Jo-nesis", a play on my actual first name being Joe). My ring attire and moveset would be inspired by Sega games, like a big running uppercut where I shout "BARE KNUCKLE" as I hit it, like Axel from Streets of Rage.

I actually used that on my Myspace at the time, but then my friends and I all realized that "Sega Jonas S." without capitalization or spaces was segajonass, or "Sega Jon Ass". Also, I saw Player Uno and thought the gimmicks were too similar. Also also, I'm really lazy and not athletic at all, so I never actually became a wrestler. *shrug*

But it woulda been a built in rivalry with Uno.

Sure, that could have worked. And, outside of CHIKARA, "Sega Jon Ass" could work as a taunt against me as a heel. Mostly it was the "really lazy and not athletic" thing that prevented this from happening.

[drjayphd (feat. Pitbull)]

Apr 27, 2022 14:32:14 GMT -5 sdoyle7798 said:

Apr 26, 2022 15:07:11 GMT -5 DSR said:

In my 20s, when me and a bunch of friends were super into CHIKARA, I had the idea to become a wrestler named Sega Jonas S. (said out loud like "Sega Jo-nesis", a play on my actual first name being Joe). My ring attire and moveset would be inspired by Sega games, like a big running uppercut where I shout "BARE KNUCKLE" as I hit it, like Axel from Streets of Rage.

I actually used that on my Myspace at the time, but then my friends and I all realized that "Sega Jonas S." without capitalization or spaces was segajonass, or "Sega Jon Ass". Also, I saw Player Uno and thought the gimmicks were too similar. Also also, I'm really lazy and not athletic at all, so I never actually became a wrestler. *shrug*

But it woulda been a built in rivalry with Uno.

PRINCESS PEACH IS A TRAMP.

[David-Arquette was in WCW 2000]

Me and my mate used to do backyard wrestling. My character was 'Cactus Adam'.. very original, I know. Complete with flying elbow and double arm DDT. I later actually created an original character, Inferno. Though I still used a lot of the same moves.

When I co-owned a small fed, and actually trained and wrestled I used a couple different personas. Trent Adams was my main character. El Acosador was a masked Mexican legend and later I debuted the Golden Bee, who was unmasked to reveal Trent Adams. Good stuff.

I was away from there for a few years but have gotten back into training and hope to be on their forthcoming shows. Trent Adams lives.

[BorneAgain]

I invented a submission move where in the Boston Crab position, you drive your knee into the back of someone's calf, with the super variation being where the knee is driven in while both calves are in cross shape.

[J. Hova]

Back in the efed days, I always wanted my character to get an honorary doctorate from some university and then go around acting like he was medical doctor one week, a veterinarian another week, a PHD another week, etc.

[Fade]

In my e-fedding days, the gimmick was a dark gothic loner obsessed with silence. Finisher was a reverse hip toss into a cutter & moonsault leg drop. I dread to reveal my gimmick name but it was a popular characters name on Gargoyles - _ -