Johnny Maverick

Name: Johnny Maverick

Height: 6’4

Weight: 225 lbs.

Hometown: Washington D.C.

Alignment: Face

Entrance Music: ‘X-Ray Visions' by Clutch

Fighting Style: MMA, Technical/Submission, Striker, God of Suplexes

Basic Moves:

1. Suplexes. Any of them that strike his fancy at any moment. Here's the short list of his favorites
Vertical suplex
German suplex
Snap suplex
Hammerlock suplex
Slingshot suplex
Turnbuckle suplex
Belly to belly suplex
Tbone suplex
Dragon suplex
Straightjacket suplex
Northern lights suplex
Fisherman suplex
Tornado suplex
Inverted suplex
Rolling release suplex
Capture suplex
Underhook suplex
Double underhook suplex
Back suplex
Half and half suplex
Leg hook belly-to back suplex
Cobra Clutch suplex
Crossface Chickenwing suplex
Pumphandle suplex
Tiger suplex
Gutwrench suplex
Saito suplex

2. Powerbomb to turnbuckle
3. Stiff kicks, knees, and elbows
4. Rear Naked Choke
5. Japanese arm drag
6. Frankensteiner
7. Lou Thesz Press followed by mounted punches and elbow strikes
8. Cobra Clutch
9. Dragon Sleeper
10. Guillotine choke

Signature Moves:
OFMF (Running palm strike (shotei) to the face)
Prelude to Perfection (Jumping double knee armbreaker [Used to set up the Perfect Armbar])
The Johnny Special (German Suplex rolled into a Dragon Suplex rolled into a Half-and-half Suplex)
Drain Bramage (Jumping Brainbuster)

Finishing Moves:
Third Eye Opener (Ripcord Bicycle Knee Strike)
Perfect Armbar (Double Underhook Suplex into cross armbreaker)

Quote: 'Never give up. Never surrender. Never relent.'

Superstar History: Johnny Maverick is a possibly insane yet very sound fighterwith a reputation for causing trouble wherever he goes. That reputation makes management a little wary of him but fans have a soft spot for his often bizarre overly confident attitude (dubbed once in BWF as 'Schizo Swagger') and his desire to have a good time at all costs. Johnny is highly offensive, violent, sexual, so really just about perfect for the wrestling industry. Johnny has competed in more companies than he can bother counting and has a history of feuds with authority figures (at one point beating David Blazenwing for control of the BWF and then selling the company to the competition in exchange for a dollar for the soda machine. It ate his dollar). Johnny has had a rocky past filled with drug abuse and addiction but he has been clean and sober for 3 years now and is open and frank about his past with his fans, even sharing with them that he was briefly legally dead. Johnny's dual mantras are 'Never Give Up, Never Surrender, Never Relent' and 'Fuck Subtlety' and he does his best to live up to both of them. After the closing of IPW, Johnny was briefly blacklisted from performing due to Devlin Scott openly describing him as 'mentally unstable' but Johnny was able to annoy Devlin into hiring him on the condition they face each other in a match.

The first match never happened after Johnny spit in Devlin's face and they fought but Johnny won the second match and focused on rising to the top of the ranks of the singles division, culminating in his winning the NGW Championship. Johnny lost the title on the night his contract was up and he chose not to resign with the company. Johnny believes himself to be a ‘Wrestling Revolutionary’ challenging the status quo and often uses imagery associated with revolution, conspiracy theories, and modern ‘anonymous’ swarm and hacker culture through the use of his Hoodie Ninjas. Johnny has arrived in Empire Wrestling as he believed he had unfinished business in the BWF and this is the closest to it he is going to get.

Title History:

- NGW Champion
- BWF Crisis World Champion (1)
- BWF Sovereign Champion (1)
- BWF Chaos Theory Champion (1)
- PWA World Heavyweight Champion (1)
- PWA Television Champion (1)
- PWA Tag Team Champion (6; 2 w/ Jacob Figgins, 1 w/ Gary Maverick, 1 w/ Spyke Gein, 1 w/ Simon Kalis, 1 w/ Ash Nukem)
- PWA Grizzly Beer Champion (2)
- REBEL Pro Number One Contender's Trophy (1)
- REBEL Pro Carolinas Champion (1)
- REBEL Pro Aggression Champion (2)
- REBEL Pro Tag Team Champion (2; w/ Jacob Venar)
- REBEL Pro World Champion (1)
- Victory Wrestling World Champion (1)
- AoWF Television Champion (1)
- AoWF Tag Team Champion (1; w/ Anna Mathews)
- IPW Spotlight Champion (1, final)
- Current and Only 'I'm Johnny Maverick' World Heavyweight Champion (It's a long story)
- PWA 2010 Wrestler of the Year