Post by styg on Aug 17, 2020 21:17:53 GMT
WRESTLER INFO
Real Name: Laurel Saiko Guerra Yunokawa.
Ring Name: Laurel Anne Hardy.
In Japan, she's billed as Saiko Yunokawa.
Nicknames:
* The Five Star Match Machine.
* Your Favourite Wrestler's Favourite Wrestler.
* The Inventor of Wrestling.
* The Mat Matriarch.
* The Living, Breathing Most Must-See Installation Event of the Millennium.
* Off-White Trash.
* Saint Yeeter of the Hurly Gates.
* The Democratically Elected Chairperson of the Air.
* Sweet as a Five-Dollar Shake, Tough as a Three-Dollar Steak.
* The Professional Wrestler With Several Nicknames.
Height: 5'4" / 1.63m.
Weight: 149lbs / 67kg.
Billed From: No Fixed Abode.
Originally From: Rhyl, Wales.
Current Residence: Manchester, England.
Gender: Nonbinary-genderfluid female.
Date of Birth: 02/09/1989.
Physical Description: Broad-shouldered, athletic and quite muscular build although not very well toned. Indeterminate ethnicity. Long black hair with a fringe, sometimes shaved down to a #2 on one side. Cold grey eyes. A couple of large, fairly prominent scars by her right eye, and a faint silvery line around her left ear where it was reattached. Heavily pierced ears and a stud in her left eyebrow.
* A primary coloured abstract geometric design on her lower back.
* A candle with a bursting water droplet instead of a flame on her left hip.
* Three Doric pillars on the back of her neck - coloured, from left to right, in pink, purple and orange.
* A small black heart behind each ear.
* The Barthes quote "I dream about her; I do not dream her" in a scroll on her right thigh.
* The Wordsworth quote "A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears" in a scroll on her left thigh.
* A banner winding down around her left calf depicting the Mon of several clans from the game Legend of the Five Rings.
* A rainbow tiger face on her right thigh, based on the rainbow tiger facepaint she and Annie Zellor have been known to wear when tagging together; Annie has a matching tattoo on her own leg.
Picture Base: Lovefoxxx.
Ring Attire: For regular matches, she tends to wear either long tights and a strappy top, usually holographic, in cheerful colours with kawaii designs (happy suns/clouds/flowers/foodstuffs etc), or a full length neck-to-ankle bodysuit in a lurid, psychedelic print.
For hardcore matches, she favours brightly coloured jeans with pretty embroidery (butterflies, flowers, suns, etc) and a sleeveless T-shirt, usually for an indie band, over a sports bra.
For special occasions (or sometimes, just because she feels like it), she's been known to rock other outfits. One of her particular favourites is a tuxedo, complete with bow tie and cummerbund.
She wrestles barefoot more often than not, though if she is wearing boots, they'll at least somewhat match her attire. She usually wears expansive, colourful, glittery makeup or facepaint, and may or may not have flowers braided into her hair. She has a feather boa during her entrance, which she tosses into the crowd.
Regular Attire: Could be anything from jeans and a T-shirt (usually for a band or one of her wrestler friends), to a kimono over hot pants and a patterned button-up, to a three piece suit and tie. Regardless, it will usually be eye-catchingly flamboyant and heavily accessorised.
Manager: Savannah Lyons.
Character's Twitter: @sugarhardy
BIOGRAPHY
Personality: Laurel has the soul of an artist and lives to show off; she considers herself as much a performance artist as a professional athlete, with physical motion and raw violence as her media. She's exceptionally flashy and theatrical, always acting as if there's a spotlight on her, even when she's alone - it's just who she is, and she can't turn it off. She's expressive, creative, flamboyant and gregarious, but also mercurial, volatile, impulsive and selfish. She likes to think of herself as enigmatic, but in truth she can be something of a loudmouthed gobshite.
She definitely has a pronounced manipulative streak, and doesn't always realise she's doing it. She also has essentially limitless confidence - her ego is so large that she doesn't even feel the need to talk trash. She knows she's the best in the world, and she knows everyone else knows it, so why bang on about it? Bragging is for insecure people. As the self-appointed defender of her art form's integrity she tries to do the right thing, but she struggles with boundaries and will readily get into arms races of depravity with wrestling's monsters. She is fiercely matriarchal and often sadistically brutal in the defence of her loved ones.
Personal History: Laurel was born within a community of new age travellers in North Wales to a Romani mother and an itinerant Japanese musician father. She never went to school and never really learned how to function in polite society, not seeing the problem in - for example - walking around barefoot, or the fact she views the law as optional extra, especially with regards to theft. She has admitted to a youth spent largely engaged in criminal activity, including fighting unsanctioned on the local amateur circuit from the age of 14 (without her mother's consent; her father had moved back to Japan by this point). Once she was old enough she moved to Liverpool and later Manchester to get professional training, working variously as a waitress, bartender and stripper to pay her fees. She spent some of this period homeless, and some of it in a dingy squat, until she was taken in by her fellow trainee Leanne Evangelista. Although they didn't have much in common superficially, the two young women understood each other well on a deeper level and quickly became close friends. Laurel slept on Leanne's parents' sofa for a few months during which time Leanne helped her learn how to function as a citizen within society, while she in turn helped the shy, depressive Leanne come out of her shell.
After graduating from The Superstar Factory in Manchester, the girls moved to Ottawa to study further at Shane Tallin's Battlegrounds Academy thanks to a referral from Leanne's friend Mark Chapman. They remained in Canada after debuting professionally, until after the fall of GEW (in which they played a significant part). During a collective year out to deal with mounting injuries and some emotional fallout from the rigours of the business and their own mistakes, Laurel, Leanne, Leanne's friend Jay Pride and Jay's business partner Jackie Boy Warner moved back to Manchester to take over The Superstar Factory, rebranding it Caledonian - the name of the gym Jay and Jackie Boy had owned in New York State. The new Caledonian was much more successful, and in time would become the nexus of a thriving wrestling community. After returning to the UK, she got into theatre and performance art too.
Laurel's in-ring career took off as well, and she became one of the hottest young names in the country and beyond, racking up titles and establishing herself as both a dangerous fighter and a singular creative force. But the period had its own challenges: she and Leanne had a big falling out spurred by Laurel's selfishness, and only reconciled following a bloody deathmatch; Laurel grudgingly underwent the Hare PCL-R and was eventually determined to suffer from borderline ASPD and psychopathy, for which she still receives CBT and mood stabilisers; her brother Matty was assaulted by James Ronie, an associate of AbominationZ, the same faction also being responsible for breaking into their house and kidnapping Leanne's sister Lily. Driven by her self-appointed role as wrestling's protector, compounded by constant international travel and multiple deathmatches per week as well as the pressures mentioned above, Laurel's physical and mental health suffered badly until she finally had a breakdown over the Christmas 2014 period which included what was widely reported as a suicide attempt (it wasn't, but you know how dirtsheets are) as well as stabbing someone live on air.
In 2015, Laurel scaled back her schedule, focusing primarily on XWA Battlezone and testing her own psychological boundaries. Over the following couple of years she would grow into the position of XWA's ace, as well as found her own promotion, Filthy Bazaar, dedicated to the twin pillars of theatrical high-concept matches and gruesome ultraviolence. She also experimented with other wrestling-as-theatre concepts including a scripted sci-fi wrestling show, made her TV acting debut in Evolve Network's The Heir, having already been an amateur stage actor for many years, and opened her own nightclub in Manchester, Omnes. After her XWA career ended in a messy and relatively acrimonious fashion, she once again took a break from the public eye. When she returned it was as a fully free agent, working under an exaggerated slapstick cartoon character gimmick, and was generally quite picky about what matches she'd take, focusing on ones with some personal interest to her. Fortunately, she seems to have regained her love of wrestling, and is now a lot more discerning about maintaining that love, very much focused on indulging her creativity and bloodlust and shunning traditional competition. Outside of wrestling, she continues to act on stage and pursue other artistic interests.
Laurel is pansexual, and came out as nonbinary and genderfluid in 2020. She dated Molly Reid for around six months, and is currently in a relationship with Christina King.
Career History: The reason Laurel got into wrestling was to combine the adrenaline rush of creating art with that of fighting, inspired by attending a puroresu show with her dad aged twelve while visiting him in Japan and getting blown away by the likes of Arata Tanaka and Dragon Takeshi. After spending her adolescence backyarding and then fighting in the unsanctioned circuit of North Wales (typically wearing a mask or facepaint to hide her identity), she moved to England to get proper professional training once she was old enough. She was one of the standouts in her class along with another young woman named Leanne Evangelista, with whom she quickly formed a close friendship which remains to this day. Leanne was a friend of rock star, pro wrestler and ex-MMA talent Mark Chapman, and through Mark, introduced Laurel to a number of current and former wrestling stars including Sarah "Baby Dogg" Warner, Amy Ngoudje and Damien Synn. With the backing of these individuals, Laurel and Leanne landed tryouts with Global Extreme Wrestling (shortly after Laurel wrestled her first sanctioned pro match after years as a fighter, around Christmas 2009, with Super Combat Discount Megamart), and after graduating from The Superstar Factory, they were referred to the Battlegrounds Academy in Ontario run by former GEW World Champion Shane Tallin and his wife Nikki Song.
Many of the group around Battlegrounds at that time would become the stable known as The Asylum, and Laurel and Leanne (along with Matt Kail) made their TV debut in summer 2010 as entrants in GEW's trios gauntlet. The stable waged war on GEW, declaring that the company had become soft and decadent, and that The Asylum would save it from itself by destroying it and rebuilding it in the old image. This, naturally, meant turning against the friends who'd helped them into GEW in the first place - some of whom Laurel and Leanne have since mended bridges with, some of whom they have not. During this time, Laurel won the second Nasty 8 tournament and GEW's Torneo Extremo, marking her out as a deathmatch star in the ascendancy. The Asylum succeeded in its goal of breaking down GEW but not in its goal of rebuilding it, and GEW closed its doors in summer 2011. Laurel moved to other promotions and started to make a name for herself until she was sidelined with an injury. She returned in January 2013, having moved back to the UK, signing with the GFC's promotions FRONTIER (based in England) and FRONTLINE (based in Japan). She and Leanne - now competing as The UK Dragons - also answered an open challenge by The CarnEvil Connection, which brought them to the USA's WARPED and thence into conflict with The Carnies' stable AbominationZ, which was trying to destroy WARPED. In time Laurel found herself leading the WARPED seikigun against AbominationZ. To help combat AbominationZ' resources, she reformed The Asylum, now contrite over GEW's demise and vowing to protect wrestling companies from villainous stables trying to make the same mistake they themselves had made. The Asylum's return was capped off by Laurel branding AbombinationZ member Alexander StarrZoë live on air. In retribution, Starr kidnapped Leanne's sister Lily. A brutal, bloody war ensued between the two camps; The Asylum were a presence in various other threatened companies during this period too, such as FGA and FRONTIER. Laurel also signed with Future Wrestling Association, forging successful partnerships with Isabella Sanchez-Raye and later Allison Lorraine, the latter of which would extend into other promotions over the years. Her rise to the top of the FWA card was sealed when she won the right to choose her entry position in a 30-person timed entry battle royale. She chose #1, and lasted until almost the very end.
However Leanne, pushed beyond breaking point by Laurel's habit of getting them into feuds with wrestling's biggest monsters, snapped and turned on her longtime best friend. Each feeling betrayed by the other, the two women aired each other's demons in vicious promos before meeting in a hardcore match at FRONTIER's 50th anniversary show. The match was 45-minute bloodbath as they exorcised the frustrations that had been building for many months, and it ended in a draw when they finally reconciled and left the arena together in floods of tears. A couple of months later it was named FRONTIER's match of the year, something Laurel and Leanne still have mixed feelings about. Despite their relationship being rocked the pair renamed themselves Dragons Unleashed and decided to continue teaming together, but found themselves having mixed results with both major successes and major losses, and split to focus on their singles careers before 2015 was out.
A hectic, ultraviolent schedule and wars on multiple fronts against numerous dangerous stables (as well as individuals like Malcolm Drake and Jared Buxton) took their toll, and five years after her debut, Laurel suffered a breakdown, culminating in her stabbing a man live on air on an EXODUS broadcast. When she returned in 2015 after a brief sabbatical, Laurel - once known for working for up to 5 or 6 companies at once - was now contracted as full time competitor only to XWA Battlezone and Global Championship Wrestling, initially establishing herself in their hardcore and tag team divisions respectively. When XWA World Heavyweight Champion Jericho Shaw stole and burned her belt along with the Gladiatorial Championship and declared his title the only one that mattered, Laurel responded by crafting a new symbol for her own title - a jagged and twisted metal circlet colourfully and glitterfully painted, a proverbial crown of thorns designed to hurt the wearer. She was ultimately the only person to wear it as she proved to be the final Hardcore Champion of the era. At Winner Takes All, Laurel defeated Gladiatorial Champion Razer and World Champion Shaw to unify both titles with her own Hardcore Championship (in the process ending the latter's 23-0 undefeated streak in XWA and handing him his first pinfall loss in over two years). The fans were ecstatic about Laurel becoming unified Supreme Champion; less so were XWA management, as the network favoured Jericho, while the general manager's office favoured Razer. Laurel herself was known as a reluctant champion who derived little personal satisfaction from holding the title, and she continued to refer to herself as the Hardcore Champion for some time after unifying the titles into the Supreme Championship. The same year, she won GCW's annual Best of the Best tournament, but chose to turn her prize of a world title match over to her tag team partner Allison Lorraine.
In November 2015, during the shutdown of XWA at the hands of its TV network, Laurel kept the XWA name alive and went rogue with the title, defending it in Mexico's HELL, Britain's SSWA and Japan's GFP. XWA successfully clung to life and in 2016, exploded back onto the scene with XWA Lives; at the event, Laurel lost the championship to her longtime rival Razer. And yet, in a shocking turn of events, Laurel and Razer - despite their own rivalry being far from settled - found themselves forced to stand united against the huge new threat of the stable known as The Survivors. Laurel fully embraced her position as the most popular star in XWA, the ace and self-proclaimed "Final Boss" of the company, and became the de facto leader of the charge against The Survivors. In February 2016 she ended the career of the feared Whisper by breaking his leg in a deathmatch, in the process also severely concussing crooked authority figure Richard J Maxwell and getting herself banned for life from competing in Arena Cuidad de México due to the property damage that match caused.
Throughout 2016 and 2017, Laurel continued to spearhead the war against The Survivors, but she stretched herself thin with different commitments (including founding her own company, Filthy Bazaar) and refused to rest or heal properly. She seemed to be buckling under the strain, once again succumbing to her old habits; she apparently became increasingly distanced from both the war and XWA as a whole, lost some high profile matches, and in the first ever edition of Unbound with Laura Stark, went into candid detail about the strain she'd put herself under as well as some revelations regarding her past that were less than pleasant. Finally, at Legends 2017 - where she wasn't even supposed to be booked - Survivors leader and XWA co-owner Ace Andrews ordered a bonus match at short notice, bringing in one of Laurel's oldest enemies from the UK, Jared Buxton, to take her out for good. When that backfired and Laurel broke the shoulder of interfering Survivors member Alice Harris, Ace terminated Laurel's contract on the spot. Nonetheless, later that night, the unified force of Adam Fenric, A.J. Morales and Emery Layton beat The Survivors' elite squad of Diamond Jack Sabbath, Trace Demon and Ace himself to expunge them from the company and make their ally Bella Quinn sole owner. Certain exchanges Laurel engaged in with other anti-Survivors figures following the event suggested that there was more to the events of that year than anyone had been letting on, but before the real story could come out, Laurel announced that she was taking an indefinite sabbatical from competition (and all other onscreen roles) to rest up and focus on other projects.
She returned in summer 2018 with a new persona - that of a silent, black and white slapstick cartoon character nicknamed The Silent Killer. She steadfastly remained a free agent, now picking and choosing only the matches with some kind of hook to interest her. At present she focuses on Filthy Bazaar, indulging her twin loves of theatrical gimmick matches and raw ultraviolence.
Associates:
* Her extensive household, colloquially known as The 4077, which includes her half-brother and business partner, Matty Graves; her girlfriend, Christina King; her best friend, Leanne Evangelista; Leanne's husband Kickass Smurf, and their son; plus Mia Scott, Roz Davies, Ai Han, as well as others not connected to wrestling. Jay Pride and Emi Yamamoto are also former residents of the household and remain close friends with them.
* Her fellow staff and their trainees at Caledonian, as well as the circle of other wrestlers who train there. Laurel prides herself on being the motherly figure of the gym.
* The rest of The Asylum. Laurel is the stable's de facto second-in-command after Shane Tallin.
* Her manager, Savannah Lyons, and by extension The Natural Ones.
* Over the years she's been part of numerous other tag teams and factions, and can still call on some of her associates from those groups if need be.
Title History:
* XWA Hall of Fame
* GCW Hall of Fame
* GCW Best of the Best 2015
* GCW World Tag Team Championship Contenders' Tournament 2014 (with Allison Lorraine & Jessica Lasiewicz)
* 1 x EXODUS Pro Tag Team Champion (with Evangelista)
* 2 x FGA World Tag Team Champion (with Annie Zellor)
* 3 x GCW World Tag Team Champion (with Allison Lorraine)
* 1 x FWA World Tag Team Champion (with Allison Lorraine)
* 1 x FWA Xtreme Champion
* 3 x XWA Hardcore Champion
* 1 x Supreme XWA Champion
* 1 x XWA Gladiatorial Champion
* 1 x XWA World Heavyweight Champion
* 1 x After Dark Tanoshii Champion
* 1 x DWF Blood Diamond Champion
* 1 x MHMD Boozerweight Champion
* 1 x MHMD Boozerweight Tag Team Champion (with Princess Christina)
* 2 x G/P Most Brutal Champion
* 11 x IGNITE 24/7 Extreme Champion
* 6 x GFP World Extreme Champion
MATCH-WRITING INFO
Entrance Theme: Heartsrevolution feat. Spank Rock - "Ultraviolence"
Entrance Description: The crowd goes crazy for the opening of Heartsrevolution and Spank Rock's "Ultraviolence" as multicoloured spotlights swirl the entrance. Although the noise dies down a little for a few seconds, it quickly swells again as the beat kicks in properly and Laurel Anne Hardy dances out! She pulls shapes around her head with a colourful feather boa, then begins her journey to the ring, taking her time and slapping outstretched hands all the way. Many of the fans who want to hug her, take a picture with her, or share their drink with her get their wish, while a couple of those jeering her receive smug taunts right back. Once Laurel gets in the ring she climbs to the top of a post, bouncing to the beat and hyping the fans up more. She flings her boa into the stands, prompting a scrum to catch it, then she backflips down to her feet and takes a deep stage bow.
Fighting Style & Mindset: Hybrid of lucharesu, joshi, British technical grappling and high flying. Originally very much a flier, she moved towards a stiffer and relatively more grounded moveset over the course of 2015, and now favours chain wrestling into big throws and head drops (though she's still ready to take to the air when need be). She trains towards versatility over consistency, and tries to pull out something new and unorthodox every match. She doesn't always go in with much of a game plan, preferring to wing things on the fly; fortunately, she's deceptively savvy and great with counters. She likes to switch it up from match to match, both to keep herself fresh and to keep opponents guessing. With her versatility and her varied, piecemeal moveset, she's excellent at adapting to opponents of all styles and sizes; the flipside of that is that she's a proverbial jack of all trades, master of none, and has to find ways to answer her opponent's style because she often struggles to match it.
Laurel is an ultraviolence specialist, which she claims is due to the style's creative freedom. That's true, but she also has a brutal sadism in her, which she can switch on and off at will like a light. She can callously slit someone open one minute, and then be all smiles and jokes with someone else the next. She doesn't get why people find this unsettling. That said, she's not a cheater by nature, and even in no-DQ matches she still won't go for the eyes or crotch outside of a major personal feud.
Laurel is a good physical specimen, almost inhumanly flexible and acrobatic, capable of mind-bending feats of agility. Thanks to her broad frame, she is also surprisingly strong for her size and can lift cruisers without too much trouble, while those of a similar size to her or smaller, she'll yeet around with abandon. However, she has poor conditioning - especially given her high energy style - and her lungs give out quicker than most people's. She'll try to push herself through it but will be slowed. Her pain threshold, by contrast, is through the roof, and getting busted open just energises her. Some people mistake this for "heart" but the truth is darker: Laurel pathologically lacks a functioning fear response. She simply cannot process the idea of anyone or anything being a genuine, lasting threat to her safety.
She's partially deaf in her left ear, ever since Jimmy Page almost tore it off by dragging her through some barbed wire. She's managed to relearn her balance, but having lessened hearing remains an obvious weakness. Laurel normally wears a discreet hearing aid day-to-day but she finds it uncomfortable to wrestle with, especially when it starts getting sweaty, so she may or may not fight with it in depending on a number of factors including the type of match, its importance, and how long she expects it to be.
Laurel is left-handed and usually fights with a southpaw stance.
Primary Finisher:
01. "The Doors of Perception" - With the opponent lying face-down on the mat, Laurel sits straddling their shoulderblades, planting her feet either side of their head. She grabs their arms and wraps them into a straightjacket, around both the opponent's face and her own calves, putting pressure on the opponent's head from all sides. In deathmatches she likes to enhance it with something like a length of barbed wire or a bicycle chain.
Alternative Finishers:
01. "Stronger Than Dirt" - Corkscrew shooting star elbow drop.
02. "Flower Plower Mk.I" - Cross-arm somersault neckbreaker. Rarely used these days.
03. "Flower Plower Mk.III: Terror From Beneath!" - Straightjacket front flip piledriver. Rarely used these days, as it's extremely hard to execute on anyone of even the same weight as Laurel, never mind heavier.
04. Death Valley bomb. Usually a signature, but doubles as an alternative finisher in deathmatches if she does it off something elevated and through something violent.
Limit Break Finishers:
01. "Glitterbomb" - Double rotation sunset flip powerbomb. Incredibly hard to pull off - she's only hit it successfully twice in her entire career - and can only be done off something elevated, but a guaranteed match-ender if it actually connects.
02. "Tsunami Wildfire" - Double rotation corkscrew shooting star press.
Signature Moves / Spots:
01. "Gáe Buide" - Spear. Laurel's most important weapon. She can hit it in a heartbeat and is an expert at gauging when to catch an opponent off balance, making it an effective way to down even much heavier opponents.
02. "Punctum" - Knee strike to the side of the head, from any setup. A key momentum-shifting move in her arsenal.
03. "Anus Horriblis" - Step-off seated senton to the back of the head of an opponent on all fours. Frequent setup for The Doors of Perception.
04. "Battlegrounds Uppercut" - European uppercut, pushing the opponent's head down with her other hand.
08. "Mass Queraid" – Slingshot front flip split kick to two opponents.
09. "Party Hardy: The Hangover" - Fisherman suplex lift flipped into sitout powerbomb.
10. "Party Hardy: The Melancholy of Sunday Afternoon" - Fisherman suplex lift flipped into powerbomb lungblower.
11. "Rest on Your Groovy Beats in Vogue" - Inverted suplex lift flipped into sitout facebuster.
12. "Rest on Your Laurels" - Half nelson lift flipped into sitout fisherman driver.
13. "Super Duper Acid Party" - Labai throw followed by shining enzuigiri.
14. "The Poseidon Misadventure" - Diving front flip leg drop to a doubled over opponent's neck.
15. "Winter Garden Photograph" - Sitout butterfly throatbreaker.
16. Sack of potatoes lift spun into a sidewalk slam, particularly as a counter to running opponents.
Common Moves:
01. "Legitimate Haafu Businesswoman Kick" - Running high kick.
02. Cartwheel roundoff into dropkick to the face of an opponent sitting on the mat.
03. Headbutts.
04. Kicks, especially capoeira kicks.
15. Flipping wheelbarrow facebuster.
24. Rolling thunder.
25. Running bulldog.
26. Russ Abbot Special.
27. Sunset flip powerbomb.
28. Whisper in the wind.
29. Diving back elbow to standing opponent.
30. No hands somersault plancha.
31. Rebound tornado into armdrag, DDT or rana.
32. Powerbomb variants not already listed, against light opponents only.
Weapon of Choice: She's been known to bring a bin, shopping trolley or sports bag down to the ring, full of assorted typical wrestling weapons all painted in cheerful colours and liberally decorated with glitter (along with the receptacle itself). She also sometimes employs custard pies filled with tacks or barbed wire.
Match of Choice: Anything crazy and inventive that nobody's done before, and the more violent the better. Also the Laurel Anne Hardy Deathmatch Invitiational, a multiway free-for-all, usually with a mininum of at least six people and no rules - a match which, to date, she's never lost. She's also undefeated in matches which involve drinking alcohol.
Real Name: Laurel Saiko Guerra Yunokawa.
Ring Name: Laurel Anne Hardy.
In Japan, she's billed as Saiko Yunokawa.
Nicknames:
* The Five Star Match Machine.
* Your Favourite Wrestler's Favourite Wrestler.
* The Inventor of Wrestling.
* The Mat Matriarch.
* The Final Boss.
* The Unreallest.
* The Main Event of All Space and Time.* The Living, Breathing Most Must-See Installation Event of the Millennium.
* Off-White Trash.
* Saint Yeeter of the Hurly Gates.
* The Democratically Elected Chairperson of the Air.
* Sweet as a Five-Dollar Shake, Tough as a Three-Dollar Steak.
* The Professional Wrestler With Several Nicknames.
Height: 5'4" / 1.63m.
Weight: 149lbs / 67kg.
Billed From: No Fixed Abode.
Originally From: Rhyl, Wales.
Current Residence: Manchester, England.
Gender: Nonbinary-genderfluid female.
Date of Birth: 02/09/1989.
Physical Description: Broad-shouldered, athletic and quite muscular build although not very well toned. Indeterminate ethnicity. Long black hair with a fringe, sometimes shaved down to a #2 on one side. Cold grey eyes. A couple of large, fairly prominent scars by her right eye, and a faint silvery line around her left ear where it was reattached. Heavily pierced ears and a stud in her left eyebrow.
Tattoos:
* The stylised 'A' symbol of The Asylum on her right wrist.
* A vibrant, colourful manta ray on her upper back.* A primary coloured abstract geometric design on her lower back.
* A candle with a bursting water droplet instead of a flame on her left hip.
* Three Doric pillars on the back of her neck - coloured, from left to right, in pink, purple and orange.
* A small black heart behind each ear.
* The Barthes quote "I dream about her; I do not dream her" in a scroll on her right thigh.
* The Wordsworth quote "A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears" in a scroll on her left thigh.
* A banner winding down around her left calf depicting the Mon of several clans from the game Legend of the Five Rings.
* A rainbow tiger face on her right thigh, based on the rainbow tiger facepaint she and Annie Zellor have been known to wear when tagging together; Annie has a matching tattoo on her own leg.
* A DNA helix around the pinky on her left hand.
* "I am an architect / they call me a butcher" on her inner right bicep, coiling in the shape of a 6.
* "I am a pioneer / they call me primitive" on her inner left bicep, in the shape of a Chinese or Japanese 6, 六.
* "I am a pioneer / they call me primitive" on her inner left bicep, in the shape of a Chinese or Japanese 6, 六.
* Bomberman, wearing one of Laurel's own trademark psychedelic bodysuits and matching facepaint, on the right hand side of her ribcage.
* A tri-spoked wheel on her right palm.
Picture Base: Lovefoxxx.
Ring Attire: For regular matches, she tends to wear either long tights and a strappy top, usually holographic, in cheerful colours with kawaii designs (happy suns/clouds/flowers/foodstuffs etc), or a full length neck-to-ankle bodysuit in a lurid, psychedelic print.
For hardcore matches, she favours brightly coloured jeans with pretty embroidery (butterflies, flowers, suns, etc) and a sleeveless T-shirt, usually for an indie band, over a sports bra.
For special occasions (or sometimes, just because she feels like it), she's been known to rock other outfits. One of her particular favourites is a tuxedo, complete with bow tie and cummerbund.
She wrestles barefoot more often than not, though if she is wearing boots, they'll at least somewhat match her attire. She usually wears expansive, colourful, glittery makeup or facepaint, and may or may not have flowers braided into her hair. She has a feather boa during her entrance, which she tosses into the crowd.
Regular Attire: Could be anything from jeans and a T-shirt (usually for a band or one of her wrestler friends), to a kimono over hot pants and a patterned button-up, to a three piece suit and tie. Regardless, it will usually be eye-catchingly flamboyant and heavily accessorised.
Manager: Savannah Lyons.
Character's Twitter: @sugarhardy
BIOGRAPHY
Personality: Laurel has the soul of an artist and lives to show off; she considers herself as much a performance artist as a professional athlete, with physical motion and raw violence as her media. She's exceptionally flashy and theatrical, always acting as if there's a spotlight on her, even when she's alone - it's just who she is, and she can't turn it off. She's expressive, creative, flamboyant and gregarious, but also mercurial, volatile, impulsive and selfish. She likes to think of herself as enigmatic, but in truth she can be something of a loudmouthed gobshite.
She definitely has a pronounced manipulative streak, and doesn't always realise she's doing it. She also has essentially limitless confidence - her ego is so large that she doesn't even feel the need to talk trash. She knows she's the best in the world, and she knows everyone else knows it, so why bang on about it? Bragging is for insecure people. As the self-appointed defender of her art form's integrity she tries to do the right thing, but she struggles with boundaries and will readily get into arms races of depravity with wrestling's monsters. She is fiercely matriarchal and often sadistically brutal in the defence of her loved ones.
Although uneducated, Laurel is not stupid. She's perceptive and cunning, and has a surprisingly large vocabulary. She has a gift for spoken languages; she speaks five fluently and several more conversationally. However she struggles with written language - she can read and write in English and Welsh but it takes a lot out of her. She was functionally illiterate until around 19-20. She's not great with academic subjects, but she's good at practical things. If you need someone to catch, skin and cook a rabbit or strip a motorbike engine, she's your woman.
Personal History: Laurel was born within a community of new age travellers in North Wales to a Romani mother and an itinerant Japanese musician father. She never went to school and never really learned how to function in polite society, not seeing the problem in - for example - walking around barefoot, or the fact she views the law as optional extra, especially with regards to theft. She has admitted to a youth spent largely engaged in criminal activity, including fighting unsanctioned on the local amateur circuit from the age of 14 (without her mother's consent; her father had moved back to Japan by this point). Once she was old enough she moved to Liverpool and later Manchester to get professional training, working variously as a waitress, bartender and stripper to pay her fees. She spent some of this period homeless, and some of it in a dingy squat, until she was taken in by her fellow trainee Leanne Evangelista. Although they didn't have much in common superficially, the two young women understood each other well on a deeper level and quickly became close friends. Laurel slept on Leanne's parents' sofa for a few months during which time Leanne helped her learn how to function as a citizen within society, while she in turn helped the shy, depressive Leanne come out of her shell.
After graduating from The Superstar Factory in Manchester, the girls moved to Ottawa to study further at Shane Tallin's Battlegrounds Academy thanks to a referral from Leanne's friend Mark Chapman. They remained in Canada after debuting professionally, until after the fall of GEW (in which they played a significant part). During a collective year out to deal with mounting injuries and some emotional fallout from the rigours of the business and their own mistakes, Laurel, Leanne, Leanne's friend Jay Pride and Jay's business partner Jackie Boy Warner moved back to Manchester to take over The Superstar Factory, rebranding it Caledonian - the name of the gym Jay and Jackie Boy had owned in New York State. The new Caledonian was much more successful, and in time would become the nexus of a thriving wrestling community. After returning to the UK, she got into theatre and performance art too.
Laurel's in-ring career took off as well, and she became one of the hottest young names in the country and beyond, racking up titles and establishing herself as both a dangerous fighter and a singular creative force. But the period had its own challenges: she and Leanne had a big falling out spurred by Laurel's selfishness, and only reconciled following a bloody deathmatch; Laurel grudgingly underwent the Hare PCL-R and was eventually determined to suffer from borderline ASPD and psychopathy, for which she still receives CBT and mood stabilisers; her brother Matty was assaulted by James Ronie, an associate of AbominationZ, the same faction also being responsible for breaking into their house and kidnapping Leanne's sister Lily. Driven by her self-appointed role as wrestling's protector, compounded by constant international travel and multiple deathmatches per week as well as the pressures mentioned above, Laurel's physical and mental health suffered badly until she finally had a breakdown over the Christmas 2014 period which included what was widely reported as a suicide attempt (it wasn't, but you know how dirtsheets are) as well as stabbing someone live on air.
In 2015, Laurel scaled back her schedule, focusing primarily on XWA Battlezone and testing her own psychological boundaries. Over the following couple of years she would grow into the position of XWA's ace, as well as found her own promotion, Filthy Bazaar, dedicated to the twin pillars of theatrical high-concept matches and gruesome ultraviolence. She also experimented with other wrestling-as-theatre concepts including a scripted sci-fi wrestling show, made her TV acting debut in Evolve Network's The Heir, having already been an amateur stage actor for many years, and opened her own nightclub in Manchester, Omnes. After her XWA career ended in a messy and relatively acrimonious fashion, she once again took a break from the public eye. When she returned it was as a fully free agent, working under an exaggerated slapstick cartoon character gimmick, and was generally quite picky about what matches she'd take, focusing on ones with some personal interest to her. Fortunately, she seems to have regained her love of wrestling, and is now a lot more discerning about maintaining that love, very much focused on indulging her creativity and bloodlust and shunning traditional competition. Outside of wrestling, she continues to act on stage and pursue other artistic interests.
Laurel is pansexual, and came out as nonbinary and genderfluid in 2020. She dated Molly Reid for around six months, and is currently in a relationship with Christina King.
Career History: The reason Laurel got into wrestling was to combine the adrenaline rush of creating art with that of fighting, inspired by attending a puroresu show with her dad aged twelve while visiting him in Japan and getting blown away by the likes of Arata Tanaka and Dragon Takeshi. After spending her adolescence backyarding and then fighting in the unsanctioned circuit of North Wales (typically wearing a mask or facepaint to hide her identity), she moved to England to get proper professional training once she was old enough. She was one of the standouts in her class along with another young woman named Leanne Evangelista, with whom she quickly formed a close friendship which remains to this day. Leanne was a friend of rock star, pro wrestler and ex-MMA talent Mark Chapman, and through Mark, introduced Laurel to a number of current and former wrestling stars including Sarah "Baby Dogg" Warner, Amy Ngoudje and Damien Synn. With the backing of these individuals, Laurel and Leanne landed tryouts with Global Extreme Wrestling (shortly after Laurel wrestled her first sanctioned pro match after years as a fighter, around Christmas 2009, with Super Combat Discount Megamart), and after graduating from The Superstar Factory, they were referred to the Battlegrounds Academy in Ontario run by former GEW World Champion Shane Tallin and his wife Nikki Song.
Many of the group around Battlegrounds at that time would become the stable known as The Asylum, and Laurel and Leanne (along with Matt Kail) made their TV debut in summer 2010 as entrants in GEW's trios gauntlet. The stable waged war on GEW, declaring that the company had become soft and decadent, and that The Asylum would save it from itself by destroying it and rebuilding it in the old image. This, naturally, meant turning against the friends who'd helped them into GEW in the first place - some of whom Laurel and Leanne have since mended bridges with, some of whom they have not. During this time, Laurel won the second Nasty 8 tournament and GEW's Torneo Extremo, marking her out as a deathmatch star in the ascendancy. The Asylum succeeded in its goal of breaking down GEW but not in its goal of rebuilding it, and GEW closed its doors in summer 2011. Laurel moved to other promotions and started to make a name for herself until she was sidelined with an injury. She returned in January 2013, having moved back to the UK, signing with the GFC's promotions FRONTIER (based in England) and FRONTLINE (based in Japan). She and Leanne - now competing as The UK Dragons - also answered an open challenge by The CarnEvil Connection, which brought them to the USA's WARPED and thence into conflict with The Carnies' stable AbominationZ, which was trying to destroy WARPED. In time Laurel found herself leading the WARPED seikigun against AbominationZ. To help combat AbominationZ' resources, she reformed The Asylum, now contrite over GEW's demise and vowing to protect wrestling companies from villainous stables trying to make the same mistake they themselves had made. The Asylum's return was capped off by Laurel branding AbombinationZ member Alexander StarrZoë live on air. In retribution, Starr kidnapped Leanne's sister Lily. A brutal, bloody war ensued between the two camps; The Asylum were a presence in various other threatened companies during this period too, such as FGA and FRONTIER. Laurel also signed with Future Wrestling Association, forging successful partnerships with Isabella Sanchez-Raye and later Allison Lorraine, the latter of which would extend into other promotions over the years. Her rise to the top of the FWA card was sealed when she won the right to choose her entry position in a 30-person timed entry battle royale. She chose #1, and lasted until almost the very end.
However Leanne, pushed beyond breaking point by Laurel's habit of getting them into feuds with wrestling's biggest monsters, snapped and turned on her longtime best friend. Each feeling betrayed by the other, the two women aired each other's demons in vicious promos before meeting in a hardcore match at FRONTIER's 50th anniversary show. The match was 45-minute bloodbath as they exorcised the frustrations that had been building for many months, and it ended in a draw when they finally reconciled and left the arena together in floods of tears. A couple of months later it was named FRONTIER's match of the year, something Laurel and Leanne still have mixed feelings about. Despite their relationship being rocked the pair renamed themselves Dragons Unleashed and decided to continue teaming together, but found themselves having mixed results with both major successes and major losses, and split to focus on their singles careers before 2015 was out.
A hectic, ultraviolent schedule and wars on multiple fronts against numerous dangerous stables (as well as individuals like Malcolm Drake and Jared Buxton) took their toll, and five years after her debut, Laurel suffered a breakdown, culminating in her stabbing a man live on air on an EXODUS broadcast. When she returned in 2015 after a brief sabbatical, Laurel - once known for working for up to 5 or 6 companies at once - was now contracted as full time competitor only to XWA Battlezone and Global Championship Wrestling, initially establishing herself in their hardcore and tag team divisions respectively. When XWA World Heavyweight Champion Jericho Shaw stole and burned her belt along with the Gladiatorial Championship and declared his title the only one that mattered, Laurel responded by crafting a new symbol for her own title - a jagged and twisted metal circlet colourfully and glitterfully painted, a proverbial crown of thorns designed to hurt the wearer. She was ultimately the only person to wear it as she proved to be the final Hardcore Champion of the era. At Winner Takes All, Laurel defeated Gladiatorial Champion Razer and World Champion Shaw to unify both titles with her own Hardcore Championship (in the process ending the latter's 23-0 undefeated streak in XWA and handing him his first pinfall loss in over two years). The fans were ecstatic about Laurel becoming unified Supreme Champion; less so were XWA management, as the network favoured Jericho, while the general manager's office favoured Razer. Laurel herself was known as a reluctant champion who derived little personal satisfaction from holding the title, and she continued to refer to herself as the Hardcore Champion for some time after unifying the titles into the Supreme Championship. The same year, she won GCW's annual Best of the Best tournament, but chose to turn her prize of a world title match over to her tag team partner Allison Lorraine.
In November 2015, during the shutdown of XWA at the hands of its TV network, Laurel kept the XWA name alive and went rogue with the title, defending it in Mexico's HELL, Britain's SSWA and Japan's GFP. XWA successfully clung to life and in 2016, exploded back onto the scene with XWA Lives; at the event, Laurel lost the championship to her longtime rival Razer. And yet, in a shocking turn of events, Laurel and Razer - despite their own rivalry being far from settled - found themselves forced to stand united against the huge new threat of the stable known as The Survivors. Laurel fully embraced her position as the most popular star in XWA, the ace and self-proclaimed "Final Boss" of the company, and became the de facto leader of the charge against The Survivors. In February 2016 she ended the career of the feared Whisper by breaking his leg in a deathmatch, in the process also severely concussing crooked authority figure Richard J Maxwell and getting herself banned for life from competing in Arena Cuidad de México due to the property damage that match caused.
Throughout 2016 and 2017, Laurel continued to spearhead the war against The Survivors, but she stretched herself thin with different commitments (including founding her own company, Filthy Bazaar) and refused to rest or heal properly. She seemed to be buckling under the strain, once again succumbing to her old habits; she apparently became increasingly distanced from both the war and XWA as a whole, lost some high profile matches, and in the first ever edition of Unbound with Laura Stark, went into candid detail about the strain she'd put herself under as well as some revelations regarding her past that were less than pleasant. Finally, at Legends 2017 - where she wasn't even supposed to be booked - Survivors leader and XWA co-owner Ace Andrews ordered a bonus match at short notice, bringing in one of Laurel's oldest enemies from the UK, Jared Buxton, to take her out for good. When that backfired and Laurel broke the shoulder of interfering Survivors member Alice Harris, Ace terminated Laurel's contract on the spot. Nonetheless, later that night, the unified force of Adam Fenric, A.J. Morales and Emery Layton beat The Survivors' elite squad of Diamond Jack Sabbath, Trace Demon and Ace himself to expunge them from the company and make their ally Bella Quinn sole owner. Certain exchanges Laurel engaged in with other anti-Survivors figures following the event suggested that there was more to the events of that year than anyone had been letting on, but before the real story could come out, Laurel announced that she was taking an indefinite sabbatical from competition (and all other onscreen roles) to rest up and focus on other projects.
She returned in summer 2018 with a new persona - that of a silent, black and white slapstick cartoon character nicknamed The Silent Killer. She steadfastly remained a free agent, now picking and choosing only the matches with some kind of hook to interest her. At present she focuses on Filthy Bazaar, indulging her twin loves of theatrical gimmick matches and raw ultraviolence.
Associates:
* Her extensive household, colloquially known as The 4077, which includes her half-brother and business partner, Matty Graves; her girlfriend, Christina King; her best friend, Leanne Evangelista; Leanne's husband Kickass Smurf, and their son; plus Mia Scott, Roz Davies, Ai Han, as well as others not connected to wrestling. Jay Pride and Emi Yamamoto are also former residents of the household and remain close friends with them.
* Her fellow staff and their trainees at Caledonian, as well as the circle of other wrestlers who train there. Laurel prides herself on being the motherly figure of the gym.
* The rest of The Asylum. Laurel is the stable's de facto second-in-command after Shane Tallin.
* Her manager, Savannah Lyons, and by extension The Natural Ones.
* Over the years she's been part of numerous other tag teams and factions, and can still call on some of her associates from those groups if need be.
Title History:
* XWA Hall of Fame
* GCW Hall of Fame
* Love Power POWER TEAM Cup (with Evangelista)
* FGA Rey del Aire 2017
* Fight Club UK Elements Cup 2015* GCW Best of the Best 2015
* GCW World Tag Team Championship Contenders' Tournament 2014 (with Allison Lorraine & Jessica Lasiewicz)
* GEW Torneo Extremo 2011
* Nasty 8 II
* 2 x GFC World Tag Team Champion (with Evangelista)
* 1 x WARPED Tag Team Champion (with Evangelista)* 1 x EXODUS Pro Tag Team Champion (with Evangelista)
* 2 x FGA World Tag Team Champion (with Annie Zellor)
* 3 x GCW World Tag Team Champion (with Allison Lorraine)
* 1 x FWA World Tag Team Champion (with Allison Lorraine)
* 1 x FWA Xtreme Champion
* 3 x XWA Hardcore Champion
* 1 x Supreme XWA Champion
* 1 x XWA Gladiatorial Champion
* 1 x XWA World Heavyweight Champion
* 1 x After Dark Tanoshii Champion
* 1 x DWF Blood Diamond Champion
* 1 x MHMD Boozerweight Champion
* 1 x MHMD Boozerweight Tag Team Champion (with Princess Christina)
* 2 x G/P Most Brutal Champion
* 11 x IGNITE 24/7 Extreme Champion
* 6 x GFP World Extreme Champion
MATCH-WRITING INFO
Entrance Theme: Heartsrevolution feat. Spank Rock - "Ultraviolence"
Entrance Description: The crowd goes crazy for the opening of Heartsrevolution and Spank Rock's "Ultraviolence" as multicoloured spotlights swirl the entrance. Although the noise dies down a little for a few seconds, it quickly swells again as the beat kicks in properly and Laurel Anne Hardy dances out! She pulls shapes around her head with a colourful feather boa, then begins her journey to the ring, taking her time and slapping outstretched hands all the way. Many of the fans who want to hug her, take a picture with her, or share their drink with her get their wish, while a couple of those jeering her receive smug taunts right back. Once Laurel gets in the ring she climbs to the top of a post, bouncing to the beat and hyping the fans up more. She flings her boa into the stands, prompting a scrum to catch it, then she backflips down to her feet and takes a deep stage bow.
Fighting Style & Mindset: Hybrid of lucharesu, joshi, British technical grappling and high flying. Originally very much a flier, she moved towards a stiffer and relatively more grounded moveset over the course of 2015, and now favours chain wrestling into big throws and head drops (though she's still ready to take to the air when need be). She trains towards versatility over consistency, and tries to pull out something new and unorthodox every match. She doesn't always go in with much of a game plan, preferring to wing things on the fly; fortunately, she's deceptively savvy and great with counters. She likes to switch it up from match to match, both to keep herself fresh and to keep opponents guessing. With her versatility and her varied, piecemeal moveset, she's excellent at adapting to opponents of all styles and sizes; the flipside of that is that she's a proverbial jack of all trades, master of none, and has to find ways to answer her opponent's style because she often struggles to match it.
Laurel is an ultraviolence specialist, which she claims is due to the style's creative freedom. That's true, but she also has a brutal sadism in her, which she can switch on and off at will like a light. She can callously slit someone open one minute, and then be all smiles and jokes with someone else the next. She doesn't get why people find this unsettling. That said, she's not a cheater by nature, and even in no-DQ matches she still won't go for the eyes or crotch outside of a major personal feud.
Laurel is a good physical specimen, almost inhumanly flexible and acrobatic, capable of mind-bending feats of agility. Thanks to her broad frame, she is also surprisingly strong for her size and can lift cruisers without too much trouble, while those of a similar size to her or smaller, she'll yeet around with abandon. However, she has poor conditioning - especially given her high energy style - and her lungs give out quicker than most people's. She'll try to push herself through it but will be slowed. Her pain threshold, by contrast, is through the roof, and getting busted open just energises her. Some people mistake this for "heart" but the truth is darker: Laurel pathologically lacks a functioning fear response. She simply cannot process the idea of anyone or anything being a genuine, lasting threat to her safety.
She's partially deaf in her left ear, ever since Jimmy Page almost tore it off by dragging her through some barbed wire. She's managed to relearn her balance, but having lessened hearing remains an obvious weakness. Laurel normally wears a discreet hearing aid day-to-day but she finds it uncomfortable to wrestle with, especially when it starts getting sweaty, so she may or may not fight with it in depending on a number of factors including the type of match, its importance, and how long she expects it to be.
Laurel is left-handed and usually fights with a southpaw stance.
Primary Finisher:
01. "The Doors of Perception" - With the opponent lying face-down on the mat, Laurel sits straddling their shoulderblades, planting her feet either side of their head. She grabs their arms and wraps them into a straightjacket, around both the opponent's face and her own calves, putting pressure on the opponent's head from all sides. In deathmatches she likes to enhance it with something like a length of barbed wire or a bicycle chain.
Alternative Finishers:
01. "Stronger Than Dirt" - Corkscrew shooting star elbow drop.
02. "Flower Plower Mk.I" - Cross-arm somersault neckbreaker. Rarely used these days.
03. "Flower Plower Mk.III: Terror From Beneath!" - Straightjacket front flip piledriver. Rarely used these days, as it's extremely hard to execute on anyone of even the same weight as Laurel, never mind heavier.
04. Death Valley bomb. Usually a signature, but doubles as an alternative finisher in deathmatches if she does it off something elevated and through something violent.
Limit Break Finishers:
01. "Glitterbomb" - Double rotation sunset flip powerbomb. Incredibly hard to pull off - she's only hit it successfully twice in her entire career - and can only be done off something elevated, but a guaranteed match-ender if it actually connects.
02. "Tsunami Wildfire" - Double rotation corkscrew shooting star press.
Signature Moves / Spots:
01. "Gáe Buide" - Spear. Laurel's most important weapon. She can hit it in a heartbeat and is an expert at gauging when to catch an opponent off balance, making it an effective way to down even much heavier opponents.
02. "Punctum" - Knee strike to the side of the head, from any setup. A key momentum-shifting move in her arsenal.
03. "Anus Horriblis" - Step-off seated senton to the back of the head of an opponent on all fours. Frequent setup for The Doors of Perception.
04. "Battlegrounds Uppercut" - European uppercut, pushing the opponent's head down with her other hand.
05. "Berlin Trilogy" - Triple backrolling German suplex. The last one is often into the turnbuckle.
06. "Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes" - Inverted sitout side slam.
07. "L.A.H.O.O.Q." - Roundoff backflip headscissors takedown.08. "Mass Queraid" – Slingshot front flip split kick to two opponents.
09. "Party Hardy: The Hangover" - Fisherman suplex lift flipped into sitout powerbomb.
10. "Party Hardy: The Melancholy of Sunday Afternoon" - Fisherman suplex lift flipped into powerbomb lungblower.
11. "Rest on Your Groovy Beats in Vogue" - Inverted suplex lift flipped into sitout facebuster.
12. "Rest on Your Laurels" - Half nelson lift flipped into sitout fisherman driver.
13. "Super Duper Acid Party" - Labai throw followed by shining enzuigiri.
14. "The Poseidon Misadventure" - Diving front flip leg drop to a doubled over opponent's neck.
15. "Winter Garden Photograph" - Sitout butterfly throatbreaker.
16. Sack of potatoes lift spun into a sidewalk slam, particularly as a counter to running opponents.
Common Moves:
01. "Legitimate Haafu Businesswoman Kick" - Running high kick.
02. Cartwheel roundoff into dropkick to the face of an opponent sitting on the mat.
03. Headbutts.
04. Kicks, especially capoeira kicks.
05. Punches - pretty basic in technique, but delivered with force.
06. Suplexes - armtrap, brainbuster, butterfly, dragon (she likes showing off with bridging/deadlift/spider versions of this in particular), German (she prefers using a dragon suplex, will go for a German if need be), half nelson, northern lights
07. Double palm thrust.08. Arabian press.
09. Argentine facebuster.
10. Blue thunder bomb.
11. Bow and arrow stretch.
12. Butterfly piledriver (no stall - this is a snap move out of grapples).
13. Double ankle neck twist, standing over a grounded opponent (a la Zack Sabre Jr / Melina Perez).
14. Dragon sleeper, including a kneeling variant where she grapevines one of the opponent's ankles with her own.15. Flipping wheelbarrow facebuster.
16. Grounded headscissors, sometimes into a headscissors driver.
17. Half nelson backbreaker.
18. Hammerlock DDT.
19. Inverted facelock backbreaker.20. Lady of the Lake.
21. Octopus stretch.
22. Poison rana.
23. Rolling elbow, as a follow-through response to strikes.24. Rolling thunder.
25. Running bulldog.
26. Russ Abbot Special.
27. Sunset flip powerbomb.
28. Whisper in the wind.
29. Diving back elbow to standing opponent.
30. No hands somersault plancha.
31. Rebound tornado into armdrag, DDT or rana.
32. Powerbomb variants not already listed, against light opponents only.
Weapon of Choice: She's been known to bring a bin, shopping trolley or sports bag down to the ring, full of assorted typical wrestling weapons all painted in cheerful colours and liberally decorated with glitter (along with the receptacle itself). She also sometimes employs custard pies filled with tacks or barbed wire.
Match of Choice: Anything crazy and inventive that nobody's done before, and the more violent the better. Also the Laurel Anne Hardy Deathmatch Invitiational, a multiway free-for-all, usually with a mininum of at least six people and no rules - a match which, to date, she's never lost. She's also undefeated in matches which involve drinking alcohol.