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Johnny Karma
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Wrestler's Name:
Johnny Karma

Wrestler's Nickname:
Johnny K, J-to the-K-to the-ARMA, The King of New York, NYC's Finest, The Past The Present The Future of FWA, The Karmic Lion, The Battle Royal GOD, The Iron Man of the Gold Rush Rumble, The Leader of the Karmic Pride, Johnny "Ratings" Karma, The Mayor of Karmic County, The Frontier Wrestling Artist, The First Superstar of FWA, The Karmic One, The Reason You're Watching, The Hillcrest Hero, J-K (but only Cherry Baum is permitted to call him this)

D.O.B.:
November 21st, 1989

Height:
6'1"

Weight:
233 lbs

Alignment:
Heel Spectrum: (1 - 4) | Tweener: (5) | Face Spectrum (6 - 10)
8

Billed From:
Queens, NYC

Pro Debut:
July 16th, 2010

FGA Debut:
April 6th, 2013

MOVESET

Grappling Style:
1. Old School
2. Methodical

Finishing Moves:
1. Hard Times (wrist lock transitioned into a bionic elbow)
2. Dazed and Confused and All Messed Up (jumping piledriver)
3. Deep Karma (crossface chickenwing with body scissors)

Trademark Moves:
1. From The Stars Above (flying elbow drop)
2. Check Your Chicklets (super kick)
3. Instant Karma (hammerlock spun into DDT)
4. NYC Uppercut (Running European Uppercut)
5. Paris Journal (abdominal stretch into a full nelson slam)

Common Moves:
1. Bum Trip (Shoulder Neckbreaker)
2. Get Out Of My Ring (Karma hits a backbreaker and keeps hold of his opponent before dumping them through the ropes to the floor)
3. Macho Karma (Karma grabs the opponent’s head, then vaults over the top rope to snap their throat against the rope)
4. Sugar Ray Karma (three left jabs followed by a right hook)
5. Dynamite Karma (hammerlock suplex)
6. Kodak Moment (rope-assisted corner dropkick)
7. This is for the Front Row (baseball slide clothesline)
8. Karmic Stomp (Garvin Stomp)
9. Spinebuster
10. Running high knee
11. Diving double axe handle
12. Rolling neck snap
13. Jumping knee drop
14. Hammerlock scoop slam
15. Second rope fist drop
16. Multiple knife-edge chops in the corner
17. Figure four leglock
18. Top rope arm drag
19. Hammerlock belly-to-back suplex (can also be done from the top rope)
20. Snap scoop powerslam into a pin

ENTRANCE & ATTIRE

Entrance Music:
"When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin

Ring Attire:
Karma wears a pair of yellow trunks with black trim with "Karma" written across the tuches in black calligraphy script, a pair of yellow kneepads with black trim featuring a black star with a white calligraphed K in the centre of it, and a pair of old school white wrestling boots with black trim. He also wears white athletic tape around his wrists, and sometimes writes 718 on the inside of his left wrist, the area code for Hillcrest.

As alternates he also has...
* Blue attire with orange trim and lettering, aka the colours of the New York Mets
* Red attire with white trim and lettering, with the lettering looking as close to the Coca-Cola logo you can get without being sued
* Blue attire with white trim and lettering, reflecting his heritage

When making his way to the ring, Karma wears a black sequin ring jacket and a pair of dark sunglasses to show off just how darned cool he is while dazzling the fans in attendance with his sense of style and class. For some occasions, Karma will wear an extra-special jacket with LED letters spelling out "KARMA" across his back that flashes in multiple colours.

When he's not in the ring, Karma's usual attire is a crisp white short-sleeved shirt paired with either a waistcoat or a sports coat, a pair of jeans, and a pair of black Converse All-Stars. He'll sometimes wear an NY Mets track jacket or polo shirt if the show is in or around NYC.

Cherry's usual attire is a Ramones t-shirt cut off at the waist, a pair of scuffed boot cut jeans or a black plaid skirt, a pair of black Converse All-Star trainers, and her dyed-red hair usually tied into pigtails - although sometimes she will have black streaks dyed into it

Ring Entrance:

Code:
 
The arena lights flash in a myriad of different colours in time with John Bonham's quite remarkably epic drum intro that is filling the arena, and just as it reaches a crescendo Cherry Baum emerges at the top of the ramp, standing to one side to introduce the man they call Johnny Karma, to the Frontier [i]Wrestling[/i] Arts fanbase - at which point he walks out onto the ramp before coming to a halt and uses a couple of fingers to blow a kiss to the fans, pausing to hold his arm in the air for a couple of seconds to signal his arrival

As he and Cherry begin to walk down the ramp, Karma unfastens the cuffs of his ring jacket while also talking some last minute preparation with Cherry as they get ever closer to the ring

As the pair reach ringside, Cherry quickly climbs onto the ring apron and sits on the middle rope to hold it open, as Karma climbs the ring steps and walks along the apron, turning to face the audience and slowly raising an arm before raising his index finger to let everyone know that he is #1, before he steps through the ropes into the ring.

Once inside the ring, Karma unzips his ring jacket before he climbs onto the nearest turnbuckle and holds his arms out wide to soak in the crowd's cheers

[center][i][color=#CFB53B]If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
When The Levee Breaks I'll have no place to stay[/color][/i][/center]

Once he climbs down from the turnbuckles, Karma crosses the ring and climbs onto the opposite turnbuckle to salute the fans

[center][i][color=#CFB53B]Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan
It's got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home
Oh well, oh well, oh well[/color][/i][/center]

Climbing down once again, Karma saunters towards the centre of the ring and once again uses a couple of fingers to blow a kiss to the crowd before raising his arm high above his head with those two fingers still extended, and he holds the pose for a few seconds while Cherry approaches the centre of the ring with a mic in hand so she can give Karma his introduction.


Championship Entrance:

Code:
 
The arena lights flash in a myriad of different colours in time with John Bonham's quite remarkably epic drum intro that is filling the arena, and just as it reaches a crescendo Cherry Baum emerges at the top of the ramp, standing to one side to introduce the man they call Champion, or as the Frontier [i]Wrestling[/i] Arts fanbase more commonly know him, Johnny Karma - at which point he walks out onto the ramp with the title draped over his shoulder, before he comes to a halt and raising the title high in the air for a moment, before entrusting the belt to Cherry as he hands it to her to place over her shoulder as they begin their walk toward the ring

As he and Cherry begin to walk down the ramp, Karma unfastens the cuffs of his ring jacket while also talking some last minute preparation with Cherry as they get ever closer to the ring

As the pair reach ringside, Karma climbs the ring steps and walks along the apron as Cherry follows him and hands him the title, at which point Karma turns to face the audience and slowly raising the title high into the air once more to let everyone know who's the champ, before he steps through the ropes that Cherry has been perched upon to climb into the ring

Once inside the ring, Karma unzips his ring jacket and fixes the title around his waist before he climbs onto the nearest turnbuckle and stands there proudly with the title around his waist

[center][i][color=#CFB53B]If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
When The Levee Breaks I'll have no place to stay[/color][/i][/center]

Once he climbs down from the turnbuckles, Karma crosses the ring and climbs onto the opposite turnbuckle, pulling the title from around his waist to raise it high into the air once more

[center][i][color=#CFB53B]Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan
It's got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home
Oh well, oh well, oh well[/color][/i][/center]

Climbing down once again, Karma saunters towards the centre of the ring and places the title over his shoulder once more, holding the pose for a few seconds while Cherry approaches the centre of the ring with a mic in hand so she can give Karma his introduction.


CHARACTER BACKGROUND

Picbase:
Eli Drake (aka Slate Randall/Shaun Ricker)

Manager:
Cherry Baum (Picbase: Scarlett Bordeaux)

Gimmick:
Loudmouthed, self-absorbed Old School purist who somehow became the heart and soul of Frontier Wrestling Arts

Strengths:
1. Wrestling Brain: Karma is smart and efficient when he's in the ring, and his quick thinking allows him to counter or evade his opponents' maneuvers at the best possible moment for him to take advantage.

2. Resilient: Karma has always had opponents overlook or underrate him, be it when he was starting out at the bottom of the card or as he rose through the ranks to his current place on the roster, but time and again he's proven he can take his opponent's best shots and keep coming.

3. Big Match Mentality: When the stakes are at their highest, Karma can find another gear.

Weaknesses:
1. Insecurity: Karma may be extremely confident, but there are times where things don't go the way that he had hoped and he doubts himself to the point of being barely able to perform.

2. Lone Wolf: As has happened more times than he'd like to admit, Karma has found himself outnumbered and outgunned, yet he adopts the mentality that he needs to overcome the odds himself - and this has cost him many times.

3. Armed & Dangerous: A lot of Karma's signature maneuvers, notably Hard Times, Deep Karma and Instant Karma, require the opponent's arm to be worn down enough to give Karma that split second needed to get the opponent where he wants them - so if the opponent has done a good job protecting their arm, they have a better chance of countering the attempt.

Taunts/Mannerisms:
1. If he's facing an opponent who has got under his skin, Sugar Ray Karma consists of a left jab followed by an almost immediate right hook
2. When aiming to hit From The Stars Above, Karma will literally point to the stars above

Bio:
There was a time a few years ago where the fans of FWA were asking "Who is Johnny Karma?", because they were either ignorant or merely complacent with what was being served up to them - while a few of them were spouting some interweb mumbo jumbo about him looking remarkably like some cookie cutter indie wrestler named John Carmichael who mysteriously vanished from the NYC wrestling scene at the same time that Johnny Karma first strutted into the ring and rocked the world of everyone who saw him. Anyone who brings this ludicrous theory up to Karma will receive a swift dressing down for parroting such unsubstantiated nonsense.

What is known about his early days is that it was like he stepped out of a time machine built in 1978 to teach his opponents the one thing they clearly knew nothing about: wrestling. In a world where flips and twists and whirling twirlixers are the norm, Karma took a stand to demonstrate that any hack can copy the "cool" moves from a Japanese or Mexican compilation tape, but that will never be superior with a superior talent when it comes to actually knowing how to wrestle. And with him swiftly dominating the NYC indies, this is how Karma came onto FWA's radar in 2013, and walked through the door with a confidence and a swagger of someone who knows they truly belong.

On his path to FWA, Karma picked up a colleague and confidante in the shape of Cherry Baum, Karma's #1 Fan who is both his muse and that little extra boost at ringside who will take Karma to victory, who also aids Karma as the editor of his weekly show, Karmic TV.

Since making his debut, Karma has proven he is more than capable in the ring and on the microphone when going against just about anybody. At first he was a little brash, plenty cocky, and often at the risk of biting off more than he could chew, although a head-turning performance in the very-first Gold Rush Rumble indicated that maybe there was something there to back up his bravado, something confirmed when he defeated Chris Bond to lift the Pride Championship a few months after he made his debut

As he became more established on the roster, Karma came into his own and proved that he belonged on the roster, proving himself against all comers as he slowly but surely moved up the ranks, until he came up short in his first-ever match for the FWA Championship at 2015: A New Odyssey, a result which saw him question himself as he had felt he was well within a shot of winning that match

However, the biggest change to Karma's career came later that year when he turned over a new leaf, as he couldn't stand by and allow the company to be overrun with wrestlers who would stoop to lower and lower depths to succeed, and he decided he would prove that the high road would win out - a move which, rather than see him fail horribly, actually led to his ascension into the upper echelon of the company, although one thing still eludes him: the title.
Edited by FGA Office, Aug 15 2017, 08:14 PM.
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