Luchador Name: Academius

Luchador Nicknames:

The Professor, Mister Academia(pronounced "Missssterrrrr Acadeeemia), Sir, The Scholar.

Height: 6 feet

Weight: 215 Pounds

Hometown:  The School of Hard Knocks

Gimmick / Persona:

Academius is a teacher, hell bent on teaching some manners and respect to those who need it. Every moment is a teachable moment, and nobody is above being taught a lesson.

Catchphrase:

“Sit down and shut up… class is in session.”

“You’ve failed… and failure has consequences.”

“You will address me as SIR… or MISSSTER Academius."

“Respect is not given, it is taught… and you need a lesson.”

Moveset & Wrestling Style: Technician with high flying abilities

Finishing Move: 

A-Plus - Leg-hook Belly to Back Suplex / Regal Plex (can be with or without bridge)

Class Dismissed - Top Rope Diving Knee Drop  (alternate finisher)

Signature Moves:

Detention - Tilt-a-whirl Backbreaker into Seated Stretch Muffler

Expulsion - Running Knee Strike to the temple (Knee Trembler Style)

Lecture Lock - Cross face Submission 

Punctuation Mark - Dragon Twist Cutter (usually rope-assisted)

Chalk Dust - Butterfly Suplex, he then dusts his hands off after executing it.

Taunts/gestures: 

Brandishing his trademark wooden ruler.

The “teacher's look” glare style stare down.

Shushing people.

Entrance Song Title: "The Lesson Plan"

Ring Entrance:

The soft, yet sinister piano line hits and the Temple’s lights begin to scan about. Beat by beat, the spotlights converge into one singular beam focused on the entranceway as the piano line builds.

There, standing in the light, wooden ruler slapping against his palm smirks the figure of Academius. He trains his eyes on the ring like it’s his classroom and the crowd, they’re not here to be entertained… they’re here to be taught.

Each footstep lands with the rhythm - no wasted movement, no theatrics, just inevitably.

The music swells as he approaches the ring, wiping his boots on the ring apron before stepping inside. Class is in session.

Backstory:

Academius is a fully trained and qualified teacher, or he was. His teaching methodology was deemed too ‘old-school’ for the modern classroom, with multiple complaints following him into every classroom he stepped into. He demanded respect from his students, and he got it… usually the hard way.

He's undeniably intelligent, a natural scholar, but with an attitude that causes him to turn his nose up at the pleebs that he has the misfortune to have been thrust into his classroom. Now, having to hone his craft elsewhere in OSW, he's come to continue his lessons with all those that get in his way.

Class is in session, and your grades are slipping.