Post by DGX on May 25, 2021 18:32:04 GMT -5
DGX
Status
Debatably the Greatest of All Time, undeniably gifted and acclaimed wrestling superstar back from retirement for one final run. Rumors swirl that he either needs the money…or he’s tying up loose ends.
Aliases
Sovereign
Titles Won
XWA World Heavyweight Championship (x9)
WFWF World Heavyweight Championship
XWA Lord of the Ring (2010)
XWA Tag Team Championship(x8)
WFWF Tag Team Championship (x5)
PRW Tag Team Championship
XWA National Championship
XWA United States Championship
XWA Television Championship
XWA Hardcore Championship
XWA Gladiatorial Championship
Heel/Face/Tweener
Heel
Residence
Anaheim, California
Weight
215 lbs
Height
6'1
Entrance Music
"Amazing" – Kanye West
Entrance
In-Ring Attire
His ring gear for his return is a kind of amalgam of his two most iconic looks. From his most recent run in the business he’s kept his wrestling boots as well as his kick pads that are color schemed to match the format of the Anaheim Ducks jersey colors (black, gold, white and orange) however rather than complete the ensemble with his short trunks also following his team’s color scheme he has dusted off the long pants style tights he wore early in his career that had a black and neon green Xs down the leg pattern (think the tights worn by Chris Jericho during his feud with the Rock during the Invasion year as well as his early Undisputed Champion run) and black knee pads. He also wears white wrist tape and a single elbow pad on his right arm.
Style
As time has progressed through DGX’s near twenty-year career a distinctive evolution has occurred with his wrestling style. When he started at the turn of the millennium his style was flashy, reckless, high risk, high reward, and in allot of ways devil may care. Come his run in the 10s he was older, wiser, more grounded and calculating in the chances he took and was a bit more ruthless and less scrupulous than he had been in his youth. A humbling if simple truth he’s come to face is he’s not a young man anymore, he can’t take the kind of chances he used to and play with youth’s house money anymore.
More pragmatic in his elder years DGX takes a more cautious and cerebral approach in the ring. He’s not going to flourish to entertain fans with an asai moonsault when a simple driving knee will accomplish the same thing. Much like the 10s iteration of his offense DGX leans on MMA strikes however he is less about bobbing and weaving and more about baiting the opponent into frustration and a match turning mistake. He’ll lean on rope breaks, exiting the ring, manipulating the referee everything he can do to frustrate his opposition and maneuver them into a position of disadvantage. Also, if at any point opportunity knocks for him to get an unfair advantage outside those same rules he’s manipulating? Believe he’s going to open that door and slide right through it.
A key point to this style? Opponents can be lulled into believing he does these things because if they can finally get him and force him to face the music it’s going to be over. That is seldom the case. An accomplished grappler, submissions technician, and a respectable brawler with that combined skillset honed to a point of instinct over two decades? When it’s time to go, DGX can GO. His opponents not recognizing this is possibly the greatest weapon DGX has on this run.
Moves
Finishers
01. Breakdown
Often imitated, never duplicated the Breakdown is DGX’s interpretation of Shawn Michaels Sweet Chin Music. Explained in its simplest terms it is a kick to the face of an opponent usually preceded by theatrics. However what truly sets DGX’s superkick apart from all the imitators is the time he’s spent performing and perfecting the move. DGX has the maneuver dissected to the smallest detail and years of use have allowed him to perfect the technique meaning he knows better than almost anyone how to land the kick to maximum effect. The most dangerous part of DGX’s use of this move is repeated use has instilled instincts which cause DGX to simply react in situations where others may have to think about it to throw it. When it comes to DGX the move can be thrown anywhere, anytime and from any directionality to devastating effect. Typically DGX will ode Shawn Michaels by emulating his foot tapping routine that precedes the maneuver however it’s not always necessary. One drawback to DGX’s instinctive throwing of the move however is he does this heedless of position in the ring or his own condition meaning between ring position and endurance play factor into whether or not he secures the win in those instances.
02. The Decline
This submission maneuver is a new weapon DGX has perfected since including various Mixed Martial Arts disciplines in his training regiments and in ring style due strongly to Alex Sean’s influence. Fascinated by shoulder locks especially DGX has over the recent years perfected a very nasty omoplata which serves as a primary element of this new submission. Whilst learning to block an opponent from rolling to escape the aforementioned hold DGX realized it would be simple to add in a professional wrestling submission the Crippler Cross Face popularized by the late Chris Benoit. In many ways at the outset of this submissions application it closely resembles a submission hold used by Daniel Bryan, what would become popularly known as the Yes Lock. And while that hold is fully capable of garnering a submission all on its own the Decline is not truly applied until from the Yes Lock DGX figure fours his legs and forces the entrapped arm flat to the canvas. This moves the hold back to an omoplata primarily and since that hold is the one that can break your arm/shoulder that is where the most damage can be done. At that point, the opponent either must tap or deal with a broken arm.
Trademark Moves
01
Anaheim Angel Dust
A combination maneuver, this sequence is begun when an opponent walks in to DGX usually with aid of a rope rebound. Snatching his opponent up quickly and swinging them out DGX turns his own body as he does so and as he goes down positions his own right knee to serve as the canvas for his opponents landing as opposed to that mat ALA a regular swinging sidewalk slam finish performed by the late Ray Traylor. Off his unorthodox backbreaker DGX will stand pulling his jarred opponent up with him and upon finding his footing perform a vertical leap grabbing a reverse bulldog in the styling of Dolph Ziggler’s “Zig Zag” maneuver.
02
The Clay Matthews
Based strongly off Alex Sean’s “Ray Lewis” maneuver, this move begins in the same fashion where DGX will line himself up behind his opponent as they near a corner, rush toward them, and connect with a Flying Knee to the middle of their spine ala Randy Savage. As his opponent collides chest-first with the turnbuckles and stumbles backward, DGX runs past them and leaps with one foot to the second turnbuckle slightly turning as he does so. DGX kicks off the buckle however instead of doing the flipping neckbreaker Sean finishes with DGX instead kicks his opponent in the face off the rebound in the styling of Cody Rhodes “Disaster Kick.”
03
Golden State Crown
To view an animation of this move, click the text above. DGX will theatrically remove his elbow pads to show business is serious and then saunters over to a mount or side crucifix position (Salaverry) and proceeds to maul the face/back of the opponents head depending if they are on back or stomach with vicious elbows usually resulting in the opponent busted open.
04
Golden Gate Plunge (1 & 2 - 3)
To view animations of the attacks in this combination, click the numbered text above. This is another combination attack of DGX whereby he hooks up his opponent into a fisherman’s suplex position usually preceded a flying forearm smash and kip up followed by a boot to the gut. He then hits not one but two swinging neckbreakers but holds the hold each time and spins his hips in the styling of the late Eddie Guerrero’s triple vertical suplexes the “Three Amigos.” Finally on the third time DGX plants his feet and lifts is opponent up and then drops them straight south in a fisherman’s buster completing the maneuver. DGX usually follows this with his top rope elbow to setup his Breakdown finish.
05
California Screamin’
To view an animation of this move, click the text above. DGX will rush an opponent emitting a banshee like scream as he does so before leaping and connecting with the reverse STO. Often used to turn the momentum of a match that’s been swaying against him.
06
DGenerated
This submission maneuver is DGX’s interpretation of Chris Jericho’s lion tamer variant of the Boston crab submission. While DGX is capable of applying the traditional crab commonly referred to today as the “Walls of Jericho” the hold is not at its most effective when applied in that form and typically usually only serves to wear down his opponent until they inevitably reach the ropes to force the break. When D sets in the lion tamer version, whereby he straightens the body of the holds victim and then sinks in the knee by their head/shoulder the pressure put on both the spine and knee ligaments is so intense opponents have to tap out in order to spare themselves permanent injury.
COMPLETE MOVE LIST
Impact Moves
1. 3.0 (Orton Back/Neck Breaker move)
2. Belly to Belly Suplex (overhead)
3. STO
4. Running bulldog takedown
5. Canadian Backbreaker to Falling Neckbreaker
6. German Suplex Variations
7. DDT
8. Double underhook driver/backbreaker
9. Leaping reverse bulldog ALA Ziggler's Zig Zag
10. Swinging neckbreaker
Top Rope/Standing Attacks
1A. Missile Dropkick
2A. Diving Crossbody Block
3A. Flying Back Elbow Smash
1B. Standing dropkick ALA Orton
2B. Forearm shiver
3B. European uppercut
Top Rope/Standing Ground Attacks
1A. Senton bomb
2A. Flying elbow drop (Aerial Elbow)
3A. Moonsault
1B. Basic Stomps
2B. Elbow drop
3B. Straight kick to the face sometimes preceded by a running start (ALA Valentine’s Thunder Road)
Offensive Submissions
1. Rear-naked choke
2. Single leg Boston crab
3. Sharpshooter
4. Shoulder Lock (Usually follows Crown trademark)
5. Fujiwara armbar
Leg/Arm Strikes
1A. Dropkick to knee
2A. Stiff/targeted leg kicks
3A. Front kick to stomach
1B. Forearm and Elbow strikes
2B. Right and Left punches (boxing style)
3B. Knife Edge Chops
Offensive/Defensive Rebound Attacks
1A. Clothesline (both regular and corner ALA Miz variants)
2A. Flying Forearm Smash (/w kip up)
3A. Running knee lift ALA HHH/Race
1B. Back Elbow
2B. Spinebuster ALA HHH
3B. Standing Dropkick
Retired Moves
01. Centripetal Force
To view an animation of this move, click the text above. This is a rarely used finishing maneuver of DGX from his infamous time as a “vampire.” Drawing on his then partner Angelus’ finishing maneuver the Blessing (a modified Alabama Slam), DGX begins this maneuver in much the same way. He lifts his opponent up and at the height of the move allows them to slide down his back during which time he adjusts his grip. He then pushes down on the heels of his dangling adversary and sits out quickly as they come up and over creating the effect of whiplash in a sit out powerbomb variant. Discontinued from his repertoire in a public gesture due to a track record of injuring opponents in light of recent revelations regarding the seriousness of head trauma post career.
Status
Debatably the Greatest of All Time, undeniably gifted and acclaimed wrestling superstar back from retirement for one final run. Rumors swirl that he either needs the money…or he’s tying up loose ends.
Aliases
Sovereign
Titles Won
XWA World Heavyweight Championship (x9)
WFWF World Heavyweight Championship
XWA Lord of the Ring (2010)
XWA Tag Team Championship(x8)
WFWF Tag Team Championship (x5)
PRW Tag Team Championship
XWA National Championship
XWA United States Championship
XWA Television Championship
XWA Hardcore Championship
XWA Gladiatorial Championship
Heel/Face/Tweener
Heel
Residence
Anaheim, California
Weight
215 lbs
Height
6'1
Entrance Music
"Amazing" – Kanye West
Entrance
The rhythmic opening drum beat to Kanye West’s “Amazing” elicits a murmuring of discontent from the crowd. In the Diva fashion that has come to define his wrestling tenure DGX sees fit to force the live audience to wait hammering home that no matter how much time passes or things change they will always be on HIS time, not on theirs. When the first round of amazing chants from Kanye finally brings him to the stage the crowd lets him know how they feel about it (they jeer voraciously). Seemingly unbothered by his reception the Sovereign surveys his masses before proceeding down to the ring in a considerably less frills and pomp entrance than has come to define him. Climbing the stairs and taking the ring post he climbs to the second rope and looks out on the fans but does not deign to pose for them. General abuse and a few short lived “you suck” chants meet his disapproving gaze before he finally looks down into his ring and takes stock of what is in it. After a few moments he climbs down, again doing nothing to acknowledge the fans before finding his way to a corner and affecting a nonchalant lean as he awaits his adversary.
In-Ring Attire
His ring gear for his return is a kind of amalgam of his two most iconic looks. From his most recent run in the business he’s kept his wrestling boots as well as his kick pads that are color schemed to match the format of the Anaheim Ducks jersey colors (black, gold, white and orange) however rather than complete the ensemble with his short trunks also following his team’s color scheme he has dusted off the long pants style tights he wore early in his career that had a black and neon green Xs down the leg pattern (think the tights worn by Chris Jericho during his feud with the Rock during the Invasion year as well as his early Undisputed Champion run) and black knee pads. He also wears white wrist tape and a single elbow pad on his right arm.
Style
As time has progressed through DGX’s near twenty-year career a distinctive evolution has occurred with his wrestling style. When he started at the turn of the millennium his style was flashy, reckless, high risk, high reward, and in allot of ways devil may care. Come his run in the 10s he was older, wiser, more grounded and calculating in the chances he took and was a bit more ruthless and less scrupulous than he had been in his youth. A humbling if simple truth he’s come to face is he’s not a young man anymore, he can’t take the kind of chances he used to and play with youth’s house money anymore.
More pragmatic in his elder years DGX takes a more cautious and cerebral approach in the ring. He’s not going to flourish to entertain fans with an asai moonsault when a simple driving knee will accomplish the same thing. Much like the 10s iteration of his offense DGX leans on MMA strikes however he is less about bobbing and weaving and more about baiting the opponent into frustration and a match turning mistake. He’ll lean on rope breaks, exiting the ring, manipulating the referee everything he can do to frustrate his opposition and maneuver them into a position of disadvantage. Also, if at any point opportunity knocks for him to get an unfair advantage outside those same rules he’s manipulating? Believe he’s going to open that door and slide right through it.
A key point to this style? Opponents can be lulled into believing he does these things because if they can finally get him and force him to face the music it’s going to be over. That is seldom the case. An accomplished grappler, submissions technician, and a respectable brawler with that combined skillset honed to a point of instinct over two decades? When it’s time to go, DGX can GO. His opponents not recognizing this is possibly the greatest weapon DGX has on this run.
Moves
Finishers
01. Breakdown
Often imitated, never duplicated the Breakdown is DGX’s interpretation of Shawn Michaels Sweet Chin Music. Explained in its simplest terms it is a kick to the face of an opponent usually preceded by theatrics. However what truly sets DGX’s superkick apart from all the imitators is the time he’s spent performing and perfecting the move. DGX has the maneuver dissected to the smallest detail and years of use have allowed him to perfect the technique meaning he knows better than almost anyone how to land the kick to maximum effect. The most dangerous part of DGX’s use of this move is repeated use has instilled instincts which cause DGX to simply react in situations where others may have to think about it to throw it. When it comes to DGX the move can be thrown anywhere, anytime and from any directionality to devastating effect. Typically DGX will ode Shawn Michaels by emulating his foot tapping routine that precedes the maneuver however it’s not always necessary. One drawback to DGX’s instinctive throwing of the move however is he does this heedless of position in the ring or his own condition meaning between ring position and endurance play factor into whether or not he secures the win in those instances.
02. The Decline
This submission maneuver is a new weapon DGX has perfected since including various Mixed Martial Arts disciplines in his training regiments and in ring style due strongly to Alex Sean’s influence. Fascinated by shoulder locks especially DGX has over the recent years perfected a very nasty omoplata which serves as a primary element of this new submission. Whilst learning to block an opponent from rolling to escape the aforementioned hold DGX realized it would be simple to add in a professional wrestling submission the Crippler Cross Face popularized by the late Chris Benoit. In many ways at the outset of this submissions application it closely resembles a submission hold used by Daniel Bryan, what would become popularly known as the Yes Lock. And while that hold is fully capable of garnering a submission all on its own the Decline is not truly applied until from the Yes Lock DGX figure fours his legs and forces the entrapped arm flat to the canvas. This moves the hold back to an omoplata primarily and since that hold is the one that can break your arm/shoulder that is where the most damage can be done. At that point, the opponent either must tap or deal with a broken arm.
Trademark Moves
01
Anaheim Angel Dust
A combination maneuver, this sequence is begun when an opponent walks in to DGX usually with aid of a rope rebound. Snatching his opponent up quickly and swinging them out DGX turns his own body as he does so and as he goes down positions his own right knee to serve as the canvas for his opponents landing as opposed to that mat ALA a regular swinging sidewalk slam finish performed by the late Ray Traylor. Off his unorthodox backbreaker DGX will stand pulling his jarred opponent up with him and upon finding his footing perform a vertical leap grabbing a reverse bulldog in the styling of Dolph Ziggler’s “Zig Zag” maneuver.
02
The Clay Matthews
Based strongly off Alex Sean’s “Ray Lewis” maneuver, this move begins in the same fashion where DGX will line himself up behind his opponent as they near a corner, rush toward them, and connect with a Flying Knee to the middle of their spine ala Randy Savage. As his opponent collides chest-first with the turnbuckles and stumbles backward, DGX runs past them and leaps with one foot to the second turnbuckle slightly turning as he does so. DGX kicks off the buckle however instead of doing the flipping neckbreaker Sean finishes with DGX instead kicks his opponent in the face off the rebound in the styling of Cody Rhodes “Disaster Kick.”
03
Golden State Crown
To view an animation of this move, click the text above. DGX will theatrically remove his elbow pads to show business is serious and then saunters over to a mount or side crucifix position (Salaverry) and proceeds to maul the face/back of the opponents head depending if they are on back or stomach with vicious elbows usually resulting in the opponent busted open.
04
Golden Gate Plunge (1 & 2 - 3)
To view animations of the attacks in this combination, click the numbered text above. This is another combination attack of DGX whereby he hooks up his opponent into a fisherman’s suplex position usually preceded a flying forearm smash and kip up followed by a boot to the gut. He then hits not one but two swinging neckbreakers but holds the hold each time and spins his hips in the styling of the late Eddie Guerrero’s triple vertical suplexes the “Three Amigos.” Finally on the third time DGX plants his feet and lifts is opponent up and then drops them straight south in a fisherman’s buster completing the maneuver. DGX usually follows this with his top rope elbow to setup his Breakdown finish.
05
California Screamin’
To view an animation of this move, click the text above. DGX will rush an opponent emitting a banshee like scream as he does so before leaping and connecting with the reverse STO. Often used to turn the momentum of a match that’s been swaying against him.
06
DGenerated
This submission maneuver is DGX’s interpretation of Chris Jericho’s lion tamer variant of the Boston crab submission. While DGX is capable of applying the traditional crab commonly referred to today as the “Walls of Jericho” the hold is not at its most effective when applied in that form and typically usually only serves to wear down his opponent until they inevitably reach the ropes to force the break. When D sets in the lion tamer version, whereby he straightens the body of the holds victim and then sinks in the knee by their head/shoulder the pressure put on both the spine and knee ligaments is so intense opponents have to tap out in order to spare themselves permanent injury.
COMPLETE MOVE LIST
Impact Moves
1. 3.0 (Orton Back/Neck Breaker move)
2. Belly to Belly Suplex (overhead)
3. STO
4. Running bulldog takedown
5. Canadian Backbreaker to Falling Neckbreaker
6. German Suplex Variations
7. DDT
8. Double underhook driver/backbreaker
9. Leaping reverse bulldog ALA Ziggler's Zig Zag
10. Swinging neckbreaker
Top Rope/Standing Attacks
1A. Missile Dropkick
2A. Diving Crossbody Block
3A. Flying Back Elbow Smash
1B. Standing dropkick ALA Orton
2B. Forearm shiver
3B. European uppercut
Top Rope/Standing Ground Attacks
1A. Senton bomb
2A. Flying elbow drop (Aerial Elbow)
3A. Moonsault
1B. Basic Stomps
2B. Elbow drop
3B. Straight kick to the face sometimes preceded by a running start (ALA Valentine’s Thunder Road)
Offensive Submissions
1. Rear-naked choke
2. Single leg Boston crab
3. Sharpshooter
4. Shoulder Lock (Usually follows Crown trademark)
5. Fujiwara armbar
Leg/Arm Strikes
1A. Dropkick to knee
2A. Stiff/targeted leg kicks
3A. Front kick to stomach
1B. Forearm and Elbow strikes
2B. Right and Left punches (boxing style)
3B. Knife Edge Chops
Offensive/Defensive Rebound Attacks
1A. Clothesline (both regular and corner ALA Miz variants)
2A. Flying Forearm Smash (/w kip up)
3A. Running knee lift ALA HHH/Race
1B. Back Elbow
2B. Spinebuster ALA HHH
3B. Standing Dropkick
Retired Moves
01. Centripetal Force
To view an animation of this move, click the text above. This is a rarely used finishing maneuver of DGX from his infamous time as a “vampire.” Drawing on his then partner Angelus’ finishing maneuver the Blessing (a modified Alabama Slam), DGX begins this maneuver in much the same way. He lifts his opponent up and at the height of the move allows them to slide down his back during which time he adjusts his grip. He then pushes down on the heels of his dangling adversary and sits out quickly as they come up and over creating the effect of whiplash in a sit out powerbomb variant. Discontinued from his repertoire in a public gesture due to a track record of injuring opponents in light of recent revelations regarding the seriousness of head trauma post career.