Real Name: Benjamin W. Agathon
Name: Locke Helms
Height: 6'3
Weight: 235 lbs.
Age: 24
Hometown: New Orleans, LA
Alignment: Tweener
Picbase: Shawn Spears (AEW look)
Wrestling Style: Fusion of Japanese/British Strong Styles with minor elements of European Catch wrestling and Japanese Junior Heavyweight mixed in.
Entrance Theme: "Gimme the Prize" by Queen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqgV6KARzWA
Finishers:
1. The "Downfall" (Hammerlock DDT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL1yQir9yQo
2. "Avada Kedavra" (Go 2 Sleep followed by a soccer kick to the Opponent's chest)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVbMbIdmgBU
3. The "Witching Hour" (Locke hits Full nelson legsweep facebuster but he keeps the full nelson locked in as he flips himself over his opponent's body and transitions the move into a bridging arm triangle choke)
Signature Moves:
1. The "Gallows Tree" (Locke puts his opponent into the tree of woe, hits a superkick to the gut, then follows it up with a running dropkick to the face)
2. "Blood Fall" (Backbreaker rack dropped into a sitout facebuster)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wndssOT8UDU
3. The "Death Proof" (Presses both knees onto a facedown opponent's arm before applying a fish hook)
4. "Gravity Kills" (Back suplex double knee backbreaker)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrTPpdizbw4
5. "Shadows over Heck" (Exploder suplex lifted and dropped into a modified scoop powerslam)
6. "Concussion on Delivery" (Dropkick, sometimes to a cornered opponent)
7. "Death Standing" (Vertical suplex lifted and dropped into a double knee backbreaker)-can also be used as a finisher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igpWIZXxvIY
8. "Tilt-A-Whirl" (Top Rope Angle Slam)
9. "Diamond Rain" (Standing Moonsault Slam/C4)-original finisher/signature since 2016
10. Multiple backbreaker variations
Argentine, sometimes while dropping to a kneeling position
Canadian, sometimes while dropping to a seated position
Capture suplex onto the knee
Double underhook
Half nelson
Pendulum; sometimes onto the top turnbuckle
Power-Breaker (Powerbomb onto the knee)
11. “Ruffin Kick” (Sick Kick)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AkeM05gahY
Common Moves:
Clothesline; sometimes multiple.
Cutter
Superkick
Bulldog
Back Body Drop
Sidewalk Slam
Side Effect
Figure Four Leg Lock
DDT
Lariat
Full Nelson Facebuster
Knife Edge Chops
Backhand chops
Fireman's Carry Slam
Multiple Suplex variations;
-German Release
-Northern Lights Bridge
-Snap
-Delayed Vertical
-Back
-Double underhook
Multiple rib breakers
Superplex
Clawholds
Powerbomb
Spinning backbreaker
Hangman's Neckbreaker
Running Death Valley Driver
Entrance Description:
(A slight wall of smoke clouds the entrance way against a dark purple light as hard guitar riff starts to play as a man slowly appears in the smoke, slowly emerging through it with his face covered by a black hood)
[News reporter:]
The garage is watered from the sprinklers. It also left a man's decapitated body laying on the floor next to his own severed head. The head, which at this time, has no name.
(He moves to the top of the entrance way, slowly and with purpose before using his left hand to pull away his hood as the crowds erupt in a solid mixture of boos and cheers as the "Chairman of Chaos" himself, Locke Helms, reveals himself)
[The Kurgan:] I know his name.
(Queen's "Gimme the Prize" starts to play in earnest as the self-proclaimed "Demolition Man" starts to make his way down to the ring at a slow and steady pace, removing his outer ring gear as he goes before he steps between the ropes, a confident look on his face)
Appearance:
Locke is a handsome young man, toned and defined but not in a massive way-slender yet defined. He has a sleeve tattoo on his right arm that incorporates some of his beliefs and his New Orleans heritage as well. He keeps his black beard very neatly trimmed and when he speaks, his voice has a deep resonant voice.
In-Ring Attire:
Black ring pants with a Canadian Maple leaf in black-outlined in gold on his right leg and a stylized Papa Legba skull on the left leg-outlined in gold as well with gold bands that encircle the legs at specific points as well.
He normally wears one of his signature shirts to the ring along with a hood and a unique "scarf" as well.
Out-of-Ring Attire:
Locke wears respectful suits done usually in dark colors (purples, grays, blacks) with no tie usually (unless the situation calls for it) but most of the time he will be dressed for comfort-jeans and a t-shirt (usually of some old school metal band or something from Blackcraft Cult clothing).
Gimmick:
In the ring, kind of a voodoo influenced version of Minoru Suzuki or Johnny Kidd-he has confidence in himself and his abilities that is hard to shake, he doesn’t like to waste his time and while he is known for putting on some exciting matches in the past-he also understands the value of the pace, to tell a great story you don’t need to be all flippy and be a spot machine.
Outside of the ring, he is a little bit more personable...unless you’ve done something to earn his ire at which point things tend to become a little bit...interesting to say the least.
He is seen by some to be almost as a “sadist” in the ring due to his perverse joy of seeing how much an opponent can take via one of his submission holds or backbreakers, he also enjoys the thrill of the chase-often times making a choice to throw a match just to fuck with an opponent in order to further his own desires...in short, he is in his own mind the Raymond Reddington of Professional Wrestling.
Biography:
The young man who would become Locke Helms was visiting family in Toronto, Ontario, Canada when he was dragged to a Frontier Wrestling Alliance show that was going on there and started to look into how he could become a wrestler, finding a school shortly there after.
Problem is the school he found was the “Dojo”.
The Dojo was the wrestling school ran by semi-retired international wrestler Marcus Slayton in Cameron North Carolina and alongside several other wrestlers such as David Gibson, Matthew Graves, Angela Dante, Amy Slayton, and several others-he discovered that he was quickly able to adapt himself to the hard hitting style that Slayton used which was a fusion of different styles of wrestling he himself had used over the years with a strong bases in Japanense Pureresu.
Shortly after graduating from the “Dojo”, Locke quickly became apart of the roster for the Frontier Wrestling Alliance’s “Nexus” brand where he would go onto win the FWA World Television heavyweight title on three occasions as well as being one fourth of the FWA World Tag Team champion twice (under the Freebird rule) and the World Six Man Tag Team champion once as a member of the Doom Patrol, he would normally tag with fellow Dojo graduate in Garrison Cade.
Locke would go onto wrestle for the National Wrestling Federation and help with Canadian Championship Wrestling occasionally but not signing full time to either promotion but instead after hearing about GCW from a friend, Locke is always on the lookout for new experiences.
Despite being a “practical man”, Locke has a firm belief in the “Loa”-the spirits that make up the spiritual host of Louisiana Voodoo and he incorporates this belief into various aspects of his life-including his own ring gear.
However since the parting of his old stable, Locke has been seen in the company of some of the darker aspects of the Dojo-namely a group known only as the “Crucible”...and who knows what kind of things are forged in that fire.
Strengths: Locke is a dangerous and talented man in the ring, using a solid knowledge of biology and human anatomy, using this knowledge to methodically inflict pain upon his opponents. This young prodigy also has a very high pain tolerance and stamina which has been proven from past matches in the FWA. Locke views himself as an ever growing student of the wrestling game, although called a "prodigy", Locke views himself more as a "journeyman" even though he has sat at the feet of some of the truly twisted masters of the "Game"s past, he is constantly seeking to further his experiences.
Weaknesses: To sum it up in one word-Inexperience, for despite the fact that Locke has been wrestling for the past four years, he is still learning and can be prone to make rookie mistakes still-even though he prides himself on being an incredibly hard worker. He also has a willingness to take things to "another level"-which includes taking out anyone from managers to refs to people on commentary if they cross him or cause him "grief" of any sort, he is also known for pushing the rules to their limits in order to get the job done....but sometimes he'll simply say "fuck it" just for his own amusement.