Carter Hayes

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STATS

Wrestler's Name:
Carter Hayes    

Wrestler's Nickname:
"Crybaby"; "Goofball"

Height:

6'2"

Weight:
220 lbs

Alignment:
Heel

Hometown:
Ridgewood, New Jersey

Pro Debut:
2004

MOVESET

Grappling Style:

Technical

Amateur Wrestling Base

Finishing Moves:
(1) Temper Tantrum (Inverted Russian Leg Sweep)
(2) Time Out (Hotshot into Turnbuckle off of Irish Whip)

Trademark Moves:
(1) Rock-a-bye baby (Slingshot suplex converted into cradle suplex)

Common Moves:
1. Chop
2. Rollup
3. Small Package
4. Sunset Flip
5. High Cross Body Block
8. Slingshot Suplex
9. Sleeper
10. Swinging Neckbreaker
11. Dropkick
12. Flying Knee
13. DDT
14. Triangle Choke
15. Crucifix

ENTRANCE & ATTIRE

Entrance Music:
"Envy" by 116 Clique

Ring Attire:
Red and white candy-striped spandex; red boots

Ring Entrance:
"Anything you can do I can do better; I can do anything better than you!" The opening chorus of the 116 Cliques's "Envy" echoes through the arena and the crowd rise to their feet, and Carter Hayes emerges. He takes a moment to soak in the atmosphere. After a moment, Carter stuts toward the ring, his eyes fixed on the ring.

CHARACTER BACKGROUND

Pic Base:
Edge

Manager:
Mort Goodman, Esq. (Pic Base of Harvey Keitel)

Gimmick:
Carter Hayes is a goofball. He's irrational, spontaneous, and often hotheaded, prone to temper tantrums. He's the Wile E. Coyote of wrestling, with stupid, hair-brained schemes that will often backfire, and left to his own devices he is own worse enemy. Thankfully, Carter has the backing of his lifelong mentor, Mort Goodman, Esq., in his corner, who serves as not only Carter's moral compass, but his voice of reason.

Bio:

Early Years

Carter Hayes was born June 18, 1984 to Walter and Dorothy Hayes at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Carter proved to be a difficult and obstinate child from an early age, pone to outbursts and temper tantrums. In many ways, his parents, teachers, and any other people of authority could not handle his tantrums, and would often give in to his demands just to avoid having to deal with him. Carter was an only child; his parents always wanted a second child, but when they asked Carter at a young age if he wanted a brother or sister, he adamantly insisted that he did not, and he held his breath until his parents promised him that there would be no sibling. Ultimately, Carter proved too much for his father, and by the age of six, his parents divorced, with his mother maintaining primary residential custody of Carter, and his father seeing him on alternate weekends.

Carter was a very gifted athlete from an early age, possessing natural athletic ability. He was quick, he was strong, he had tremendous reflexes, and he was very aggressive. The problem was that he did not play well with others. He was a poor sport, a gloating winner, and a very sore loser. He tried out for baseball, football and soccer at an early age, but team sports did not prove workable, as not of the other parents would let their children play with Carter. It was around this time, at the age of six, that Carter's mother signed him up for wrestling.

Meeting Mort Goodman

It was then that Carter Hayes met Mort Goodman.

Mort was a distinguished gentlemen within the Ridgewood Community. He had his own law firm in Hackensack, New Jersey, specializing in criminal and divorce law; many said that he would one day be nominated to the bench of the New Jersey Superior Court-- and they were right-- but that would come later, and he would ultimately decline the nominations. However, Mort Goodman's number one passion was always wrestling. Mort was an accomplished high school wrestler, the only state champion from Bergen County during the days when south and west Jersey just dominated the states in Atlantic City year by year. He had coached hundreds of kids through the rec league, but when he met a six year old Carter Hayes at the Ridgewood recreation center, he saw something special in the child, and both their lives would change forever.

Under Mort's wing, Carter was a dominating wrestler. He never lost. It just wasn't in him. On his feet, Carter had such an array of go-to moves in his toolbox: his lateral drop, even as a toddler, was unstoppable; his double leg takedown worked like a charm, even when his opponents knew it was coming; and his ankle pick was so deceptive, his opponents never saw it coming. On bottom, nobody could hold him down; it got to the point where, when he was on bottom, opponents would just let him up, and not waste the energy in something as futile as trying to turn him to his back.

Mort taught Carter many things; and more than anything, Mort taught Carter respect. To this day, Mort Goodman remained the one person who could discipline Carter Hayes command his respect. While every other adult figure in Carter's life gave up on him and conceded to his demands, Mort would not have any of it. Mort Goodman cared too much for this young child to just write him off out of fear of a challenge.

Carter's High School Wrestling Career; the Damian Cole Match

Carter's dominance in wrestling continued as he moved through the rec program and into high school, where he truly shined. Carter Hayes remained one of the most dominant wrestlers in high school history. Going into the final bout of his senior your, Carter Hayes was 124-0, with four state championships to his name. The events of his final bout are the things of legend, still talked about in wrestling circles throughout the state. Carter Hayes was wrestling his nemesis, Damian Cole, in the most anticipated match in memory. Damian Cole was a transfer from Pennsylvania. He wrestled Carter only one time previously, in a team dual between Ridgewood Catholic and Jersey City High School. Damian bumped up a weight class to meet Carter in that match, and Carter won a hard fought victory, 1-0, with an escape in the last seconds of the third period. After that match, Damian went on to win the state title at a different weight that year, transferred to Paulsboro high school and won a state title in his junior year, and then found himself in the state finals with Carter in his senior year.

Suffice to say, their state final match in their respective senior years has a great deal of hype going into. Much like their first match, neither was able to secure a significant advantage, and once again, the difference maker was a 1-point escape by Carter late in the third period. Damian struggled aggressively to get the takedown in the third, but time ran out, and Carter was declared the champion.

But then something happened.

Carter began to gloat-- very aggressively. Still aggravated that Damian had the audacity a year earlier to actually bump up in weight to challenge him, Carter made sure to pour every ounce of salt into Damian Cole's wound as he waited for his hand to be raised. Carter's victory taunts were so bad that the ref deducted a point from him for unsportsmanlike conduct, which tied the match 1-1, and sent it into overtime. Carter was livid. He stomped his feet and cursed and yelled, and was arguing with the ref when the ref blew the whistle to restart the match; Carter was so engaged in his argument with the ref that he did not even see Damian's power double coming. Carter was taken down, and Damian was declared the champion.

The story of the aftermath of this match was as gripping of the match itself. It started with the temper tantrum that Carter threw on the mat in front of fifteen hundred spectators and a television crew. It was on this evening that Carter Hayes earned the title "Crybaby"-- a name that sticks with him to this day. Carter's tantrum was so bad that it cost him his full scholarship to Michigan State. New offers came in, but they were few and far between, as this was during the time that many schools were cutting their wrestling programs. Those few offers that did come in were conditioned upon an interview, and suffice to say, Carter Hayes was not the best interviewer. After two rejections from Iowa and Penn State, a petulant Carter Hayes decided that his amateur wrestling career was over. He enrolled in community college, and secured a job as assistant wrestling coach at Ridgewood Catholic-- alongside his mentor, Mort Goodman.

Carter Goes Pro - The Early Years

It was approximately a year later that Mort and Carter began to toy with the idea of Carter going professional. Carter pushed for it. Mort declined to manage him, as by this time he was in fact up for a seat on the bench. Carter persisted, and Mort saw the regression that was taking place within Carter without wrestling as an outlet. Mort declined the judgeship, agreed to manage Carter Hayes, and he made his debut in an independent organization called East Coast Championship Wrestling in 2004.

Immediately, Carter's amateur wrestling background translated well on a professional level as he tore through the competition and immediately found himself winning the ECCW title off of "Troy Boy" Troy Knight. With Mort in his corner, Carter held the title until it folded in late 2005.

With the folding of ECCW, Carter Hayes floundered as Mort was compelled to devote more and more attention to his practice and his family. Carter tried his hand in a variety of activities-- mixed martial arts, unsanctioned bareknuckle brawls, and some underground and obscure wrestling promotions, where he found mild success, but nothing rivaling his glory days at ECCW with Mort at his side. Carter would continue to pursue Mort's guidance for many years-- and on one occasion, was able to talk Mort into returning as his manager for the now defunct EHW-- Extreme Hardcore Wrestling. The reunion, however, was short lived, as Mort could not contend with the hardcore nature of the organization, and in 2010, after taking one too many chair shots that had been intended for Carter, Mort Goodman again parted ways with Carter Hayes on a professional level (although the two remained in contact).


Founding Purple Hayes Gym


It was around this time that Carter Hayes, with the financial backing of his parents, opened up Purple Hayes Gym in his hometown, a Gym / Wrestling School. The gym was a bust. After a huge opening, its membership began to trickle down, little by little, as Carter's childlike demeanor made him unbearable to be around for long periods of time. Still, it put some money in Carter's pocket, gave him something to do, and kept him in shape.


Carter's Return - Force One Wrestling



In April 2014, Carter Hayes returned to wrestling when he was introduced to Force One Wrestling during an autograph session. Incensed that he could not generate any interest in his autograph, Carter decided it was time to return to the limelight. The first step was to reassemble his team. He hired film school graduate Vinny Metro to accompany him for the purpose of filming his life: the idea was that once Carter became big, his rare "behind the scenes footage" from his earlier years would be quite a commodity.

Next up, Carter hired a trainer, Silent Caesar Dominguez, who was always working out at Purple Hayes Gym. As far as Carter knows, Silent Caesar doesn't talk, and doesn't speak a word of English. (In actuality, Caesar speaks English, but finds it easier to tolerate Carter if he does not have to speak with him).

Finally, Carter sought to reassemble the most important piece of the puzzle-- Mort Goodman. Showing up at his office on tax day, Carter begged, pleaded, and held his breath until Mort gave in and agreed to return as his manager.

Carter, with Mort by his side, had a relatively successful run in F1W, winning his first match-- a triple threat match against Michael Harrison and Bradyn Saint-- rather decisively. Carter lost his next match, a scaffold match against Triple J, when Carter voluntarily dove off the scaffold to save Mallory Costas-- a female wrestler with whom he was enamored at the time-- at the hands of Dakota Smith. This led to a streetfight with Dakota Smith that Carter lost. Carter's next event was in a 30 man battle royal at the PPV Overkill; Carter finished sixth, again getting eliminated after saving Malory Costas.

Following his elimination from the battle royal, Mort, who had warned Carter about not losing his focus to a woman, terminated Carter Hayes as a client. Carter's first match without Mort by his side was a triple threat match with Briana Casablancas and Kris Halich, which Halich won when he pinned Casablancas. Carter rebounded by pinning Mark Storm in a four way match that also included Kris Halich and Owl Man. At this same event, Carter Hayes was involved in the Zero Gravity title match between defending champion Frank Washington and challenger Will Levon. Washington, was in the last match on his F1W contract, and had made his intentions known that he would not be re-signing with the organization; and he intended on taking the title with him. During his match with Levon, Washington attempted to walk out of the match, but as he reached the dressing area, Carter attacked Washington and led him back to the ring, where Levon pinned him to win the title. This put Carter Hayes in line for a title shot. Unfortunately, the organization closed before that title shot could be realized.


Carter's Relationship with Grace Taylor

Following his parting of ways with Mort Goodman, Carter Hayes met a woman named Grace Taylor at Purple Hayes Gym. The gym had experienced a resurgence following a favorable endorsement from reputable wrestler Ash Scion. Grace Taylor turned out to not only be the object of Carter's serious affection, but she turned out to be a wrestling prodigy. Unfortunately, she also turned out to be Mort Goodman's daughter, which Carter did not discover until after he reconciled with Mort and got him back in his good Graces. Following the closing of Force One Wrestling, both Carter Hayes and Grace Taylor-Goodman were set to sign with New York-based Uncensored, Inc. However, just before signing, Grace Taylor was deceived by her father's bitter, unscrupulous old law partner, Marty Sunshine, Esq., into signing a contract to wrestle in Spain, which led to the end of her relationship with Carter.