"The Paladin" Chris Hartt

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PERSONAL INFO:
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Your real name: Dean Stahl
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WRESTLER INFO:
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Wrestler's Name: "The Paladin" Chris Hartt

Height: 5' 11"

Weight: 245 lbs.

Age: 29

Orientation: (Face, Heel, Tweener) Super Face

Hometown: Minneapolis, Minnesota

Appearance and ring attire: Lean, but with a very strong build (think between AJ Styles and Chris Benoit) and an intricate cross tattoo on his left shoulder. Shoulder length dark brown hair in a rough, unkempt style, blue eyes and gold hoop earring in his left ear. Black kneepads and boots, white long tights with a gothic winged cross on each side.

Wrestler's personality: Super face. He's cocky and arrogant, but aims it towards those who fight only for themselves. He revels in the crowd's cheers and hopes to be their true life paragon of virtue.

Primary Wrestling Style: Technical/Aerial/Mat Worker

['Unbreakable' by Fireflight yells out over the speakers, as 'The Paladin' Chris Hartt makes his way out from the back, while video images of Hartt's past matches and victories play in time with the music. Hartt greets fans on is way down to the ring, climbs inside and mounts a turnbuckle, holding his arms out straight in a cross gesture.]

RA:...from Minneapolis, Minnesota, standing 5' 11" and weighing in at 245 lbs., 'The Paladin' Chris Hartt!!

Commonly used moves:
Punch
Kick
Chop
Dropkick
Snapmare
Armbar
Wristlock
Clothesline
Spinning Heel Kick
Missile Dropkick
DDT
STF
Hurricanrana
Suplex (Regular, German, Snap, Belly To Back, T-Bone)
Irish Whip
Texas Cloverleaf
Boston Crab
Mexican Surfboard
Springboard Moonsault
Armdrag Takedown
Wheelbarrow DDT
Tilt A Whirl Backbreaker
Sidewalk Slam
Abdominal Stretch
Reverse Crossed Arm Powerbomb ("Japanese Ocean Bomb")
Flying Fireman's Carry Gutbuster Drop from the Top Turnbuckle
Jumping Spin Kick
Crossed Arms Powerbomb ("Pyramid Driver")
Baseball Slide DDT
Death Valley Driver
Inside Cradle
Rolling Inside Cradle Stretch
Backbreaker Drop
Running Scissors Kick
Missile Drop Kick
Asai Moonsault
Running Liger Bomb
Flying Arm Scissor
Fireman's Carry Armbreaker
Frog splash
Spiral Tap (Somersault corkscrew leg drop or somersault corkscrew senton)
Styles Clash (Belly to back inverted mat slam, sometimes from the second rope)
Cliffhanger (Inverted sitout side powerslam)
Dropkick
Fosbury Flop (Over the top rope no-handed plancha)
Enzuigiri
German suplex
Kip-up Frankensteiner
Inverted STF
Pelé Kick (Backflip kick)
Phenomenon / Stylin' DDT (Springboard moonsault onto a standing opponent quickly followed into a reverse DDT)
Rack Bomb (Torture rack powerbomb)
Shooting Styles Press (Springboard shooting star plancha)
Spine Breaker (Backbreaker followed into a gutbuster)
Spinebuster
Springboard forearm strike
Starmaker (Belly to back brainbuster)
Styles Buster (Belly to back wheelbarrow facebuster)
Styles Suplex Special (Vertical suplex dropped into a neckbreaker slam)
Superman Splash (Springboard 450° splash)
Tornado DDT

2-5 Signature Moves:
Crucifix Backslide Pin
Crossed-Arm Suplex (Opponent's arms crossed in front of him, then suplexed back overhead)
Single Arm DDT
Senton Splash

Main Finishing move:
Crossface Chickenwing (The Avenger)
Set up move for Main Finisher: Single Arm DDT

Characters Biography and Sample Roleplay if you have one:
Chris Hartt was an active kid in Minneapolis. He used to run on the streets with the tough kids. Pulling pranks and causing trouble, Hartt got himself into real hot water after stealing a car and crashing it into an old couple. After this, the police kept him on a tether. Home and school only. His father, fearing any further violent aggression, allowed Chris to join the wrestling team as a personal release. Chris took to it very well and totally turned his life around from there. He managed to win a state final and acquired a scholarship to University of Wisconsin. After 2 years there, Hartt went to a wrestling show on a lark and decided this was for him. He secretly took up training while attending school, not looking to disappoint his family. After 2 more years, 2 jobs and wrestling on weekends, Hartt was a graduate with full training. He sought out a promoter some friends knew of and begged for a try-out. The promoter relented, but was greatly impressed at the young man's charisma and ability. He signed Hartt and let him wrestle, but poor management led to the fed's closing.

Once joining PCW, Hartt found great success as both a singles contender and with his Outlaw Saints partner, Vinnie Vasquez. After a heated title contention spot and tag team success, Hartt welcomed the break from PCW’s hiatus. Travelling to Japan to hone more of his in-ring skills, Hartt made a solid name for himself in the Orient. He’s fashioned himself as one of the best and most sound technical wrestlers today. When contacted as to PCW’s reopening and Hartt’s held spot in the new company, he settled all of his debts at significant cost and flew back to the states, eager to find more glory in PCW’s 2nd run.

Both BSCW and IGA are looking for people. Check them both out...

I can at least vouch for IGA being a quality fed. My time there was sadly cut short, but Maltese is a good fed head, and there's some very underrated talent there.

I can also recommend Fighting Spirit, if you can see Hartt going the more indy route for a bit.

TSWF is always looking for new talent.

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Not to nitpick... but I'm going to nitpick.

How come Hartt has an amateur wrestling background, going as far as winning a state title and going to college on a scholarship for it... yet essentially has no mention of any mat wrestling in the moveset?

Why is the bulk of the arsenal made up of high flying tactics... leading to a submission for a finish?

My concern with apps is usually the moveset too. Look at his normal moves: torture rack powerbomb, frogsplash, Ocean Bomb, Pyramid Bomb, Spiral Tap, Springboard 450, backflip this, springboard that etc, etc.

But then he has a single arm ddt as a signature spot? No fan will care about a ddt after he goes through his normal moveset.

Also, no wrestler (especially in an AWA style fed) performs 30 moves a match plus 5 signatures. Movesets should really be limited to like 10 moves or so. Every wrestler knows how to punch, kick, chop, snapmare, suplex, bodyslam, etc. These should be givens. Stick to 10 of HIS moves, his finisher... good enough.

ESPECIALLY in big leagues. You see bullshti spotfests in front of 20 people in a gymnasium. The guys who make money and get signed by real companies have a smaller, much more solid set of moves and rely on good basics and psychology to get over.

There's nothing wrong with a single-arm DDT being a signature move. Give any move enough build and credibility and people will pop for it. Something as mundane as the Rock doing a scoop slam used to get a HUGE POP because it was the prelude to the People's Elbow. Etc etc.

If he does it like Jake Roberts, everyone would pop for it. I don't understand why nobody steals his mannerisms when doing a DDT...

It worked for the Rock because his next biggest move before that was a suplex. Same with Jake Roberts. A crowd simply is not gonna pop louder for a DDT after an entire ROH match.

I disagree that characters should only have ten moves in their set. Having more gives matchwriters more options to use in various situations. I'll admit I'm probably one of the few people who don't like indy spotfests, but I don't think that having a pile of moves in the moveset means they all have to be used in a single match. Hell, when I'm writing a match, I use maybe half of them only, and one or two signature moves out of five. Having more just makes it easier to maintain the flow of a match. And I know personally that I don't know all the fancy moves that are out there in wrestling, so having a choice means I can avoid the more complicated ones in favor of keeping things simple.

My thoughts are that whle signature moves are typically very effective, they dun really HAVE to be. IE, Cactus Jack used a double arm DDT very often, as well as Mankind and Dude Love. Wasn't typically a finisher, and wasn't always the most effective move.... btu it was a "SIGNATURE" move.

Also, Undertaker's rope walk with arm smash thang. It's not a finisher, it doesnt' end matches. But its a SIGNATURE move. It's something you expect to see.

Thus, I get why he has a certain version of a move as a signature move. It doesn't need to be a knock out blwo, but something he does at least once if not twice every match.

To spin off your point Ryan, I think signature moves should also be able to finish some matches. You shouldn't always have to use your finisher to win. But when you do use it, it should almost guarantee victory. I'm so sick and tired of every clean-shaven kid kicking out of finishers. It defeats the purpose.

However I agree with your point. A signature move might just be a certain gesture or whatnot. Doesn't even have to be a move. Rob Van Dam's double thumb gesture was a signature move. So was Steve Austin's middle finger. Or CM Punk's Muay Thai hand-rolling thing ala Wanderlei Silva.