REAL NAME: Cassius Reed GENDER: Male PICBASE: Austin Creed/Xavier Woods RACE: Afro-American NATIONALITY: American D.O.B./AGE: 4th July, 1992 HOMETOWN: Atlanta, Georgia, USA RESIDES: New York City, New York, USA
PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION
RING NAME(S): Cassius Reed NICKNAME(S): “Mister Punch-Yo-Face”, “Plan C”, “Snake Eater”, “The Cassius Reed Experience”, “The Devil-Slayer”, “The Funky Dragon”, “The King of Air”, “The Puppet Master”, “The True Iron King”, “Vanilla Thrilla” BILLED FROM: Funkytown, USA HEIGHT: 6’ WEIGHT: 205lbs TRAINED BY: South Street Gym, Toronto CROWD AFFILIATION: CASSIUS REED PROFESSIONAL DEBUT: July, 2015 DIVISION: RP
WRESTLING INFORMATION
WRESTLING STYLE: Showboating Funky American Junior Heavyweight, with Boxing inspired strikes (think Amasis mixed with The Human Tornado, with a generous dusting of Muhammad Ali) MATCH TACTICS: Cassius is a chronic showboater, seeking to frustrate and infuriate an opponent with his antics as much as entertain the crowd. He is not afraid to cheat in the slightest, and is often gratuitous with it, cheating when he doesn’t even have to. CHARACTER PERSONALITY: The personality he displays to the crowd and camera is one of a carefree joker and attention seeker, with very little care about how he achieves either. CHARACTER ANALYSIS: Ultimately, Cassius is a good guy. Yes, he cheats. Yes, he plays to win. But ultimately he’s no machiavellian genius, he doesn’t wish his opponents harm. He’s just very driven to prove himself. GIMMICK DESCRIPTION: Cassius presents himself as a parody of a 70s Blaxploitation character, equal parts Shaft and Black Dynamite.
EXPERIENCE: 3 years experience pro. Previously a decorated amateur boxer, of Olympic standard. PAST ACCOLADES: 2015 HELL Torneo de las Legiones winner, 2016 NKP Passion of the Juniors Cup winner, 2017 Phoenix Wrestling Iron King Tournament winner, 2018 FGA Rey del Aire winner, EXODUS Pro Pacific Coast champion, Legión del HELL champion, Phoenix Wrestling Rebirth Champion
MOVESET INFORMATION
FINISHERS
(Preferably, a submission finisher or signature needs to be added.) PRIMARY FINISHER:Funkensteiner - Springboard Huracanrana. The Funkensteiner range of moves are Cassius’ big signature, and come with a range of variants, each uniquely named. The following variants are the ones so far debuted. a) Bride Of Funkenstein - Springboard Somersault Huracanrana. (Mascara Dorada’s Springboard Dragonrana). Relatively rare. b) Son of Funkenstein - Springboard Reverse Huracanrana (Samuray Del Sol’s Rising Sun). Even rarer. SECONDARY FINISHER:Plan C - Split-Legged Corkscrew Moonsault DESPERATION FINISHER:Southpaw - Left-Handed Knockout Punch. Cassius’ ultimate get out of jail card. He dislikes using it, as it’s not flashy or suave at all, but it remains possibly the most devastating move in his arsenal. SUBMISSION FINISHER:Death Penalty - Bridging Arm Trap Triangle Choke. Cassius is not a technical wrestler by any stretch of the imagination, but he briefly went through a period of using this move to prove his “versatility”. It remains in his arsenal as an ultimate back up.
SIGNATURES
1. Pimp Slap Symposium - Quick Right Handed slap to opponent’s face to get opponent to drop their guard, into a quick Right Jab - Right Jab - Left Hook Boxing Combo, dazing the opponent, and ending with a Michael Jackson style spin straight into a (Left Handed) Spinning Backhand Slap to opponent’s face WITH AUTHORITY. 2. Johnny Cage - Split-Legged Punch.either to a bent over opponent, or as an Illegal Move/Low Blow. Think JCVD in Bloodsport or, you know, Johnny Cage. 3. What Da Funk? - Handstand Handspring Headscissors Takedown or Kip-Up Huracanrana or Skin The Cat Headscissors Takedown, or any similar nonsense you can think of. 4. Pussy On The Chainwax - Corner Springboard Handstand Sunset Flip (example: Super Shisa's SAITO Special V) 5. Funky Knee, Funky Do - Standing Moonsault Knee Drop (example: Frightmare's Kneecolepsy) 6. SWEET CHRISTMAS! - Sunset Flip Powerbomb (Rolling, Springboard, Corner, FROM EVERYWHERE)
REGULAR MOVESET
(15 is the minimum; you can keep past the 20. 1. Pimp Slap - Backhand Slap to opponent’s face 2. Spanish Archer - 12-6 Elbow/Bionic Elbow. Sometimes with a loaded right elbow pad for an Illegal Move 3. Punches (Jabs, Hooks, Body Blows, Straights, Discus) 4. Split-Legged Stunner 5. (Left) Elbow Drop (Diving, Springboard, Slingshot, Standing and Running) 6. Leg Drop (Diving, Diving Somersault, Handstand, Standing and Running) 7. Huracanrana (Standing, Diving, Slingshot) 8. MMA-Style Mounted Punches 9. Suplex (Belly to Back, Northern Lights, Snap) 10. Neckbreaker 11. DDT (Snap, Reverse, Reverse Tornado, Tornado) 12. Inverted Facelock Backbreaker 13. European Uppercut 14. Leg Grapevine 15. Armbar 16. Indian Deathlock 17: Jawbreaker 18: Skin The Cat 19: Kip-Up 20: Handstands
ENTRANCE INFORMATION
ENTRANCE THEME: “You Suck” by Pour Habit ANNOUNCER INTRODUCTION:ERIN LAMBERT: Fighting out of Funkytown, USA, and tipping the scales tonight at 205lbs… he is “Mister Punch-Yo-Face”, Plan C, the Snake Eater, The Puppet Master, The Devil-Slayer, The Funky Dragon, The True Iron King, The King of Air, the Vanilla Thrilla, Mister Punch-yo-Face… CASSIUS! REED!
ENTRANCE DESCRIPTION:[align=center][i]It’s not my fault your girlfriend like me, I do her hard like fucking warp speed, Your Dad’s mad, it’s not my fucking fault, That your Mom wants to fucking fuck me![/i][/align]
As the intro to “You Suck” by Pour Habit blasts throughout the arena, out from the back bursts Cassius Reed! Slowly rotating in his gold lined black ring robe Cassius soaks in the atmosphere for just a moment. Spinning to face the ring, he shadow boxes at the top of the ramp a short time more, before posing, spreading his arms wide, and sprinting down to the ring at full pace!
Sliding in under the bottom rope, he quickly rolls onto his back before kipping up! Giving a quick smirk and raised eyebrow to the referee, he turns and leaps to the top of the nearest turnbuckle, before whipping off his ring robe with a flourish. He poses just a moment at the top of the turnbuckle, smug grin on his face, robe hanging from his hand, before dropping back to the mat, consigning his entrance gear to the outside whilst he finishes warming up for the match with more shadow boxing.
CHAMPIONSHIP ENTRANCE DESCRIPTION:[align=center][i]It’s not my fault your girlfriend like me, I do her hard like fucking warp speed, Your Dad’s mad, it’s not my fucking fault, That your Mom wants to fucking fuck me![/i][/align]
As the intro to “You Suck” by Pour Habit blasts throughout the arena, out from the back bursts Cassius Reed! Slowly rotating in his black lined gold ring robe Cassius soaks in the atmosphere for just a moment. Spinning to face the ring, he shadow boxes at the top of the ramp a short time more, before posing, pulling his robe open to expose the championship belt about his waist. He takes his pace down to the ring slow, jogging as he steps, waving his arms like a championship boxer!
As he reaches the ring, he slides in under the bottom rope, quickly rolling onto his back before kipping up! Giving a quick smirk and raised eyebrow to the referee, he turns and leaps to the top of the nearest turnbuckle, before whipping off his ring robe with a flourish. Unstrapping his belt, he holds it up above his head for just a moment at the top of the turnbuckle, smug grin on his face, before dropping back to the mat. After kissing the faceplate, he hands it over to the referee before finishing warming up for the match with more shadow boxing.
BIOGRAPHY
The middle child of the Reed clan. A good few years younger than big brother Darius, but uncomfortably close to younger brother Aries, Cassius has always thought himself better than his lot in life. His whole childhood was spent competing with his younger brother for favour, in school, in Pee Wee leagues, with girls, their childhood was one long feud.
When Aries declared he'd follow Darius into boxing, Cassius stepped straight up too, and found an environment he could excel in. In his own weight category, he outstripped both of his brothers' accomplishments, and when Darius went to prison, Cassius moved away to pursue his boxing career, the only tie keeping him around being severed.
But then Darius came back. Aries reached out to their older brother, and pulled him back into the world of wrestling. And Aries was good at wrestling. Very good.
Cassius couldn't have his little brother outperforming him, now, could he?
So Cassius trained, and trained hard, in secret, to enter their world. Quietly, slowly, he trained, moving up to Canada to do so away from prying eyes. He greased palms. Met people. And finally, he secured a deal with a new, fledgling Lucha organisation, a company he'd heard was soon to make a massive splash, and join up with the companies his brothers worked for. And so he assumed his disguise, that of the Funky Dragon, and started wrestling around Mexico. Building a rep, building a style, and just preparing himself for the day his new contract would put himself back in contact with his brothers.
He's had a rollercoaster of a time so far. He was EXODUS' final Pacific Coast champion before that company closed, and joined HKW briefly, before being sidelined with injury, and opting not to return. He wrestled for PPW consistently since they lifted "the ban", until their legal issues in May 2016. At some point in early 2017, Cassius became the Vice-President of Talent Relations for HKW, a post he relinquished in early 2018 to become more active in the ring. A recent controversial end to his reign as Phoenix Wrestling’s Rebirth Champion has seen him take some time out of competition, the Rey del Aire tournament being his first engagement since that match.
