Perhaps the toughest part of e-wrestling is creating an e-wrestler. Some people don't take the time they need in creating e-wrestlers...they pick out a generic name like "Deathwish" or "Ice", slap together a height, weight, and a cool finisher like a Top Rope DVD, and start RPing. With no depth to the character, you will not go far in e-wrestling. Think of it like this:
Go and watch your favorite movie. Look at the characters in that movie...unless you're watching a porno (in which case you're REALLY sick if that is your favorite movie), the characters have a lot of depth to them: Hair color, eye color, likes and dislikes, wants and desires, troubles, strengths and weaknesses, a family, etc. If you didn't know all that about the character, they'd
be 2 dimensional...and you wouldn't be as interested in them. The same rules apply in creating an e-wrestler. If you don't add depth to your character, don't ever expect to see your character's name written across the front page of a major web page, or to ever be considered a legend by anyone's standards in e-wrestling.
Let's take a little time and create an e-wrestler, shall we? We shall, since this is MY web page you're reading. :-) Let's start with the very basics...a name, height, weight, etc. We'll add more to him later. I'll start by picking a name that is kinda catchy, yet something you really wouldn't expect to see. We'll call this guy "Radio Takeover". I don't want him to be seriously large,
but I want him to be considered a heavyweight. Remember, in the world of wrestling you're talking over 200 pounds easily to be considered a heavyweight. So...we'll go with 6'4", 246 pounds.
Name: Radio Takeover
Height: 6'4"
Weight: 246 lbs.
Let's add some major details now. People will want to know what your character looks like...and unless you have a fed using Poser (a program which can create 3d wrestlers) or you happen to be an artist, you'll want to make up hair and eye color, as well as the wrestling attire your e-wrestler will wear to the ring. In this case, let's give Radio Takeover a light complextion, with wavey blonde hair, parted in the center, and hazel eyes. He'll be
built like Chris Benoit...very well cut. Clean shaven is my preferance. He'll wear a black tank top with the words "Radio Takeover" written across in white and red. I think wrestlers look best with long tights, so we'll give him that as well. Here's how we stand, along with a few extra things I threw in. You should be getting the idea of how this works by now:
Name: Radio Takeover
Height: 6'4"
Weight: 246 lbs.
Skin Color: White
Hair: Wavey blonde, center part
Eyes: Hazel
Face: Clean shaven.
Build: Cut, very muscular
Scars, Tatoos, Etc: None
Attire: White wristbands. Black tank top with his name written across the front top in white and red. Black long tights, with red lightning bolts running down the sides. Black kneepads, red boots with black shoelaces. The boots reach up halfway to his knees.
Now is the time to come up with a finisher. Keep in mind that if your finisher sounds like something EXTREMELY extreme, it's probably being used by 4000 other e-wrestlers right now. Top Rope DVDs, Inverted Powerbombs, and the like are very overused. You should be creative with your finisher. The finisher should also have a name to it that goes along with your character. This finisher should also be the pinnacle of the style of wrestling you want your wrestler to be. Should he be an all out brawler, technical specialist, high flyer, what? You decide.
Name: Radio Takeover
Height: 6'4"
Weight: 246 lbs.
Skin Color: White
Hair: Wavey blonde, center part
Eyes: Hazel
Face: Clean shaven.
Build: Cut, very muscular
Scars, Tatoos, Etc: None
Attire: Black tank top with his name written across the front top in white and red. Black long tights, with red lightning bolts running down the sides. Black kneepads, red boots with black shoelaces. The boots reach up halfway to his knees.
Finisher: Dead Air (Radio Takeover gets his opponent in a sleeperhold, then flips himself over their shoulder and into a Stone Cold Stunner type move.)
Wrestling Style: Technical/Brawler. Likes to use clotheslines, haymakers, and the like often, but has a wide array of suplexes, which he studied extensively in wrestling school.
Now comes the extremely important part to your e-wrestler: His background. What was his childhood like? Are his parents still alive, and if they are, where are they? What inspired him to become a pro wrestler? Answer all the questions that you would tell a person about yourself if they asked you to describe yourself for them...just do it for your e-wrestler instead.
Name: Radio Takeover
Height: 6'4"
Weight: 246 lbs.
Status: Face
Skin Color: White
Hair: Wavey blonde, center part
Eyes: Hazel
Face: Clean shaven.
Build: Cut, very muscular
Scars, Tatoos, Etc: None
Attire: Black tank top with his name written across the front top in white and red. Black long tights, with red lightning bolts running down the sides. Black kneepads, red boots with black shoelaces. The boots reach up halfway to his knees.
Finisher: Dead Air (Radio Takeover gets his opponent in a sleeperhold, then flips himself over their shoulder and into a Stone Cold Stunner type move.)
Wrestling Style: Technical/Brawler. Likes to use clotheslines, haymakers, and the like often, but has a wide array of suplexes, which he studied extensively in wrestling school.
Biography: Born Charles Retts, Radio Takeover had a childhood one could only envy and dream about. His father became wealthy through ruthless investing in stocks; his mother stayed at home and tended to normal household duties. Charlie was your typical child,
with typical friends, leading a typical life.
By the time he was 12, Charlie had become avidly involved in soccer. He took a liking to the sport the moment he had first seen it as a boy, and became as dedicated as any to the sport. He practiced every free minute he had, and thus became quite the player. Along with three or four
other friends, Charlie lead his middle school team to countless newspaper articles and mini-championships.
In high school, Charlie continued his passion for soccer while attending to his grades. He maintained a 3.0, straight B, average through high school...something his parents weren't neccessarily proud of, but weren't worried as his financial future was secure. Charlie also found himself vastly attracted to radio and how it worked. He hoped one day to become either a famous soccer star or a disc jockey...whichever came first.
However, Charlie's fate would soon be turned when he turned on the TV one night and saw a sport that peaked his interest more than soccer: pro wrestling. He stumbled onto an indy program late one night and was instantly hooked. From then on, soccer and DJing became a hobby; wrestling meant everything. Being a senior in high school, Charlie's future was now hung in the balance of the world of sports entertainment, a very risky business, or the things he had prided himself in excelling at for years.
When he decided to drop out of senior year of high school to go to wrestling school, his parents were VERY disappointed and concerned. The last thing they wanted was their only child to come home to them in a body bag because of some fake sport. They refused to support Charlie, and so he went on his own to become a pro wrestler.
Upon entering wrestling school, Charlie spent months...years training in wrestling. He focused on what he felt was the most damaging moves: suplexes. All the while, he continued to build up, in hopes that he would have the technical ability and the stamina to make an instant rise to the top.
Upon the second year of his training, his teacher, a retired unknown indy star, told Charlie the only way he would succeed would be by donning a new name and a new attitude. Thus, he dubbed himself Radio Takeover, based after his childhood passion. Now ready to enter the ring, he hopes to use his finisher, the paralyzing Dead Air, to climb to the very top of the wrestling world!
A bio such as the one I just wrote is fairly short...but it's enough to give you an idea of what you have to do. If you really want to become something in e-wrestling, you should spend at least an hour just envisioning your character and where he comes from. You should be even more detailed than what I have been in this tutorial.
