Frank Lynn

Wrestler's Name: Frank Lynn

Nicknames: The Lethal Weapon

Manager: Daphne Velasquez

Tag Team: The Thunderbirds w/ Mike Jette (briefly in 2016)

Titles Won: International Champion (1x, 3/10/18 - 3/28/20)
     Golden Opportunity Champion (1x, 3/10/18 - 3/10/18)

Awards/Accolades: 2016 Rookie of the Year
     Longest Reigning International Champion in WFWF history (749 days)

Heel/Face/Tweener: face

Hometown: Boston

Weight: 232 lbs

Height: 6' 2"

Birthdate: 7/25/90

Biography: Frank Lynn was born in Boston to a single mother and grew up in a lower class neighborhood.  As a young boy his mother let him hang out at a local gym hoping he would find a male role model.  Frank spent every afternoon and most weekends at the gym learning many different fighting styles.  By the time he was a senior in high school he had become a state champion in wrestling and had minor success as a boxer.  He went to a local college on a wrestling scholarship where he continued to have success.  After graduating from college, he turned his attention to MMA fighting.  He fought in 16 fights over a 3 year period winning 12 of them.  In between his MMA fights, he tried some other activities and found great joy in parachuting, cliff diving, hang gliding, bungee jumping, and any other activity that involved jumping from great heights.

On his 25th birthday, after losing a fight which was three rounds of clinches, takedowns, and rolling around the mat avoiding submission holds, Frank realized that MMA wasn't what he wanted to do with his life.  He needed something that provided a real adrenaline rush and MMA fighting wasn't it.  One of his birthday presents was a pro wrestling DVD collection from his mother with a note reminding him how much fun they had watching pro wrestling when he was a little boy.  Frank put on one of the DVDs and it all came back to him.  He watched several matches featuring his favorite wrestler and thrilled at his high flying acrobatic moves.  Frank knew what he wanted to do.  He wanted to be a pro wrestler so he could combine his combat fighting experience with his adrenaline junkie need to fly.  He wanted to thrill audiences with high flying moves.

2016: In his debut match, Frank won a bloody street fight against Mike Jette.  The two developed a mutual respect after the match and at the suggestion of Lila Sleater formed a tag team: the Thunderbirds.  They had a very brief run of three matches highlighted by a valiant but losing effort against the reigning tag team champions Drakz & Joshua Dean.  The same night the Thunderbirds lost that tag title match Frank's mother, girlfriend, mentor/trainer, and two best friends were murdered under mysterious circumstances.  Their deaths sent Frank into a downward spiral of anger and violence which got worse when Mike Jette suffered a serious knee injury ending their partnership.  Despite the hardships he faced, Frank continued to have success as a singles wrestler against his fellow rookies, ending the year as the 2016 Rookie of the Year, signing a contract with Joshua Dean's talent agency, and almost winning the Golden Opportunity Championship in a ladder match at SuperBrawl IX.

2017: Frank's career went downhill in early 2017.  He was facing a higher level of competition and lost... a lot.  He participated in the Supreme Gauntlet 17 tournament but had a very poor showing.  He also lost a second chance to win the Golden Opportunity Championship.  Frank took offense at the cheating and ultra-violence of the WFWF, eventually allying with Joe Bishop to remake the WFWF as a place for pure athletic competition.  It made a difference as he started to get some victories over top stars and seasoned veterans including Ante Whitner and Trace Demon.  Frank ended the year with a good showing in the International Championship Gauntlet, beating three opponents but a vicious assault by Phillip Schneider eliminated him before he could face off with reigning champion David Brennan.

2018: The year started with a bang as Frank pushed his revolution to reform the WFWF to the limits, earning the right to be GM for a day.  But the show he ran, Back to Basics, turned into a nightmare of anarchy and chaos.  Frank gave up on the Revolution, abused his power as GM, and took the Golden Opportunity and International Championships from their rightful owners.  Frank spent the rest of the year trying to prove he deserved the International Championship that many rightfully claim he stole from David Brennan.  He assumed the role of fighting champion and successfully defended against many different challengers.

2019: Frank started the year as International Champion but guilt over how he won the title and doubts that he truly deserved it ate away at him so much so that he engineered his own potential downfall at the hands of Ante Whitner or Tyler Draven, building to a triple threat ladder match at SuperBrawl X.  It was a put up or shut up moment for Frank which he lived up to, retaining his title and continuing his march into the history books as one of the greatest International Champions in WFWF history.  Two months later he broke the record for longest International Championship title reign by successfully defending the title against the previous record holder, the returning veteran and living legend Thunder.  Riding a wave of success that may have gone to his head, Frank set his sights on the biggest prize of all - the WFWF World Heavyweight Championship.

2020: Frank got his shot at the World Champion Drakz at Survival of the Fittest in a title versus title match.  Due to a mistake by Daphne during the match, Frank suffered a knee injury, lost the match and his International title, and had to have surgery on his knee.  Nobody knows if/when he will return.

2021: At SuperBrawl Frank officially announced his retirement due to the knee injury.

Style: Frank has all the skills of an amateur wrestler and world ranked MMA fighter which means he is a strong style striker that can reverse holds and apply a variety of submission holds.  He gets bored by the MMA stuff though so he will try to include some high flying moves to excite the crowd, sometimes to his own detriment.




Entrance Music: "Anthem of the Space" by Acid Mothers Temple
(previous themes: "21st Century Schizoid Man" by King Crimson)




Finishers

Main. Dasuchoku (STO directly into a D'arce Choke)
Alternate 1. five star frog splash
Alternate 2. Canadian Destroyer

Impact Moves

01. springboard Thezs press followed immediately by a flurry of elbow smashes to the face
02. sling blade 
03. backstabber
04. baseball kick into opponent stuck in tree of woe (with a chair for hardcore matches)
05. tornado ddt
06. hurricanrana off the top turnbuckle

Off the ropes/Over the ropes

01. split legged moonsault
02. flying dropkick
03. springboard forearm
04. springboard backflip into an inverted DDT
05. over the top rope leg or elbow drop (done either from the apron into the ring or from in the ring over the apron to the floor)
06. suicide dive
07. triple jump moonsault
*08. van terminator (for hardcore matches)

Other

01. various suplexes (belly to belly, german, snap, t-bone, fishermans, etc.)
02. forearm smashes (instead of fists)
03. DDT
04. clothesline
05. pump handle slam
06. spinning heel kick
07. enziguri
08. standing moonsault
09. standing dropkick
*10. van daminator (for hardcore matches)

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Match History:
(wins in green, losses in red)

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Supporting Cast:

    Abraham "The Hammer" Templeton
co-owner of Legacy Pro Wrestling with Frank; retired boxer


    Daphne "La Pantera Negra" Velasquez
LPW wrestler; Frank's former mixed tag partner; current training partner and manager


    Sarah Fairchild
Business manager for Legacy Pro Wrestling; Frank's wife


    Laura Fairchild Lynn
Frank and Sarah's daughter (born 7/6/18)


    Scott Sanderson
Frank's agent (works for Joshua Dean's agency)
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