Eric Herrera

[Bondic]

Handler Info

Name

Eric

Age

33

Efed Experience in Years

15 Years

Emails and IMs

Skype - drowningcurrent
Email - [e-mail]

Wrestler Info

Wrestlers Name

Eric Herrera

Nicknames

Rain (Primary), The Toad Prince, The Hardcore Messiah, Extreme Redefined, The Sensational (Prefix), The King of the Underclass, The Prince of Punk

Hometown

Chicago, Illinois

Gender

Male

Age

37 (September 23, 1985)

Height

6'0"

Weight

225 Lbs.

Pic Base (With Picture)

Rey Mysterio Jr.

Entrance Music

Thoughtless by Korn

Entrance Description

“Thoughtless” hits the speakers as aqua colored pyro rains down on a hooded figure with his back to the cameras. He stretches his arms out to the side to the roar of the crowd. He stands in the pyro momentarily before walking down the entrance to take part in slapping hands with the fans that stretch out their hands towards him.

"Thumbing through the pages of my fantasies
Pushing all my mercy down, down, down
I want to see you try to take a swing at me, come on!
Gonna put you on the ground, ground, ground

Why are you trying to make fun of me?!
You think it's funny
What the fuck you think it's doing to me?!
You take your turn lashing out at me
I want you crying when you're dirty in the front of me"

He pauses at the end of the ramp, takes a long look at the surrounding crowd around him with a smirk on his face. He nods his head and runs forward towards the ring, belly first.

“All, all my hate cannot be bound (Hate cannot be bound)
I will not be drowned (I will not be drowned)
By your thoughtless scheming
So you can try to tear me down (Try to tear me down)
Beat me to the ground (Beat me to the ground)
I will see you screaming”

He places one foot on the bottom rope and the other on the second rope dangling up and down on it with a raised fist. He goes to the opposite rope and does the same much to the delight of the roaring crowd. He then takes off his hoodie and gives it to the referee as he stretches against the ropes.

Alignment

Tweener

Wrestling Style

Balanced, recently added MMA to his arsenal. Started as a luchador, then branched out to technical, then hardcore, then MMA.

General Moves

1) Various kicks to the legs / thighs
2) Jumping spin kick to the face
3) Various counters into hurricanrana
4) Arm Drag into
5) Arm Bar
6) Dragon Screw into
7) Spinning Leg Lock
8) Grapevine Sleeper Hold
9) Pendulum Back Submission
10) Camel Clutch
11) Boston Crab
12) Rope Walk Hurricanra
13) Missile Dropkick
14) Rope aided bulldog
15) Springboard Clothesline

Signature Moves

1) False Hope - Electric Chair Facebuster
2) Last Rites - Romero Special into Dragon Sleeper
3) Doomsday - Springboard Moonsault
4) Bite of the Dragon - Tiger Feint Kick
5) Eye of the Storm -Running tilt a whirl headscissor, transitioned into arm bar (Mistica by Mistico), transitioned into a Crippler Crossface (basically right after the arm bar takedown, hooks it with the leg and grips the face).

Finishers

Drowning Current - Modified Leg Hook Reverse STO. He hooks the leg with his leg while grabbing onto the face. He leans back forward torquing the face with it, onto an extended knee backbreaker. he then jumps and lands the traditional STO landing.

Believe the Hype - Figure Four into STF.

The Rising Sensation - Shooting Star Press

Biography

Eric Herrera is the youngest of three siblings. Born to a handicapped mother who is confined to a wheelchair for the majority of his life. He never knew who his father was growing up. Was born in the crime filled streets of South Side Chicago. Grew up jumping from school to school in special ed because no one understood him. With that came lots and lots of bullying that he would experience all of his school life.

At the age of nine, he was forced to move to El Centro, Baja California. The crime had become too much for his family to bear. With that came a lot of anti social issues and the moving would not stop. By time he would graduated high school, he would have been at three to four schools each time. He found it hard to make friends because he was constantly on the move, constantly in special ed, constantly being picked on.

Wrestling was his release. He found out about wrestling through watching AAA and CMLL growing up. He vowed that that’s what he wanted to do. Of course, that came with lots of laughter. But Eric would not be deterred. He was always known for his toughness, his high tolerance for pain. Hell, they even tried to place him at goalie at soccer games to pick on him. That didn’t turn out the way they wanted to. They formed their own little monster, as Eric in ten years would finish second in their equivalent of the gold glove seven times. A very determined and athletic young man who learned the hard way that anything he wanted, if he worked hard for it, he could absolutely get.

After years of working in carnivals, local callouts, school, dozens more wrestling events trying to get his name out there, he was able to save up money to go down to Mexico and ask CMLL and AAA people to train him. He would go on the bus and do anything for them. Dark matches, referee, setup the ring, answer phones, absolutely anything to pay his dues. That hard work would lead to his first call. Hardcore Championship Wrestling in Maidstone, England. He would make his professional debut March 2005 nearly a year after graduating from high school and the rest as they say is history.

The most influential time for Eric however was his time in the Pro Wrestling Central network that consists of FTWO, FTW, WOF, HVW, EWA. Within that network Eric would learn the true meaning of paying his dues. In four years, he would amount a combined record of about 8-60. Lots and lots of missed opportunities, but most importantly lots of lessons. Eric holds on to those years as his equivalent of going to college. Eric learned so much about the business asking questions from everyone in the backstage area soaking up knowledge as much as he can. He still to this day says that had he not gone through the ringer, he would not be the man he is today. He would return to those feds later on after having grown mentally and physically to achieve success in each company avenging his losses effectively winning Most Improved and Cruiserweight of the Year two times in a row cementing his legacy for being a mentally tough son of a bitch.

Eric’s legacy will always be that when he is mentally committed to something, he always achieves success having won a championship in an astonishing 80% of federations joined over his career. Love him or hate him, you will respect him. Through hard work and sacrifice, Eric has earned his way into the main event at least once in each company he’s been in. He has his detractors, but his work ethic speaks for itself. Eric shows up to work focused on one thing and one thing only. Making his words be spoken in the ring. One of the hardest workers in the business. Teacher to nearly 50 students that have gone on to win championships across wrestling.

Titles

HCW UK

4x HCW World Champion – Main Event
4x HCW Tag Team Champion – Also defended in Main Event
1x HCW United Kingdom Champion
2x HCW Hall of Fame (Singles and Tag)

FTWO (WOF and FTW merged)

FTWO Alternative Champion

HVW

HVW Full Throttle Champion
3x Tag Team Champion with 2 separate partners
Most Improved

EWA

EWA Tri State Champion
Most Improved

UHW

Cruiserweight Champion – Defended in the main event a couple times
2x Platinum Champion- Main Event
Hall of Fame

SWAT

SWAT Mid South Heavyweight Champion – Main Event
SWAT Mid South National Champion – Defended in the main event a couple times

HDW

HDW Titan Champion (Merged into SWAT Caribbean)

UCW

UCW Television Champion
Hall of Fame
Managed pupils to nearly 25 combined championships and 5 World Titles

MCW

Hardcore Champion
Cruiserweight Champion

TWI

Tag Team Champion
Supernova Champion – Defended in the main event a couple times

XPW

King of the Cage Champion – Defended in the main event a couple times
Hall of Fame

PWP

3x Extreme Champion
Shared record with Y2Jericho upon retiring

PWE

Tag Team Champion

WIA

Destination Champion – Defended in the main event a couple times
Tag Team Champion – Defended in the main event a couple times

WWI

Tag Team Champion

ASE

Ultra Violence Champion – Main Event
5150 Champion
3x Tag Team Champion - Longest Reigning - Society of Destruction
Circle of Legends / Hall of Fame

HCW USA

HCW Tag Team Champion – Defended in the main event a couple times

Interfed Awards

2x Cruiserweight of the Year (2006 EWRT, 2007 EWN)
2x Most Improved (2006 HVW, 2007 EWA)