Post by kylie on Sept 4, 2024 1:02:02 GMT
Wrestler's Name: CJ Perry
Nicknames: "Hot & Flexible"
Hometown: Gainesville, Florida
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 130 lbs.
Alignment: Face
Wrestling Style: Inexperienced Striker/Diva (Not incredibly athletic or sharp in the ring, CJ relies on scrappy bursts of offense that more closely resemble a catfight from a soap opera than martial arts or mat wrestling. CJ is often naturally at a disadvantage against her opponents, but benefits from having a natural flexibility developed through years of dance training that pay off in beautiful high kicks and dextrous ways of using her legs to apply chokes and performing transitional moves. On her best day, a match where CJ is dominating her offense features a display of pointe movements and high kicks. She believes it's akin to the Black Swan mixed with The Rockettes. We're not as certain of that comparison.)
Manager/Valet: N/A
Entrance Music: “Show Stopping - Hot & Flexible” by AEW Music
5 Favorite Moves: Sit-out facebuster, figure four necklock, headscissors choke, bodyscissors, spinning heel kick
Finisher(s): Bombshell (Jumping high kick)
Biography: CJ is kind of a disaster. A boisterous, passionate and histrionic woman, CJ lives unapologetically, until she feels it's affecting the way she's perceived: then she's incredibly apologetic. A beautiful, but deeply insecure and often rambling woman, she loves hard and wants affirmation and validation from her community. Life for her has been full of false starts, redirections and with little clarity to be parsed from literally anything. She grew up Soviet Latvia where her father was a Christian missionary, aspiring to be a ballet dancer like her mother. The training was strict and made her incredibly sensitive to criticism, making her a bit of a perfectionist to varying degrees of success. She came back to the states for college, continued training in dance before eventually trying her hand at modeling and acting.
She floated around for a few years in Los Angeles, booking a few extra gigs and bit parts here and there, literally having no idea where her life was going or if she'd ever get her big break. Somewhere down the line, she met and fell in love with a man who was a professional wrestler, and naturally, she developed an interest into getting into the industry. She began as a valet for her boyfriend, who eventually became her husband, and they experienced success on the national circuit as he portrayed a brutal, foreign monster alongside her choice of character, a svelte Russian businesswoman.
Eventually, his career began to slow down and it took a toll on his mental health and their relationship. Soon, she began to love professional wrestling more than the man that introduced her from it. Their separation was painful and devastating and while she swore she was fine by the end of it... she and everyone else around her knew it wasn't true. Yet, she persisted, wanting to find a sense of security and solidarity in the industry she'd found herself a part of, aspirations and opportunities in Hollywood becoming more and more sparse the older that she became.
Now, after dedicating herself to training and rebranding herself as a business manager for hire, CJ's setting her sights on a new chapter. Pursuing the spotlight and championship glory, whether that's as a manager or... by some miracle... on her own as a wrestler. What's driving her to go outside of her comfort zone as an in-ring competitor and pursuing something that may be well outside her grasp in EWA? White wine, delusion and a genuine desire to find herself new happiness.
