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GWA Roster
Name
: Norberto Palenque
Age : 22
Hometown : Dangriga, Belize
D.O.B. :
July 3rd, 1980
Height : 5'9"
Weight : 197lbs
Affiliation : Face
Theme Music :
"As The Ruin Falls" - Thrice
Wrestling Style : High-flying
Favourite Moves :
Various high flying moves such as springboards, planchas, splashes, hurricanrannas, and whatnot. Norberto is skilled in the seemingly basic moves of wrestling, especially coming out of reversals. Moves usually taken for granted like hip tosses, back body drops, drop toe holds, and various takedowns are ones that he uses quite frequently coming out of a reversal. His quickness makes it easy for him to pull off a quick reversal. He attended various wrestling schools in Central America, where they tought him the basics along with many high risk maneuvers. His in-ring experience has also helped him learn to use moves like DDT's, suplexes, and body slams, along with more power moves... such as the powerbomb, but only in situational uses.
Trademark move : Creole-Up
It's an elaborate roll-up. It starts off as any other, where he hooks his opponent's leg and rolls back, but in the process he rolls over his opponent and into a bridge, where he holds both of their legs while arching his body over theirs.
Trademark move : Doublekick
It's a quickly executed dropkick/spinning heel kick variation. He jumps, and quickly plants his left foot into his opponents stomach, then turns his body and drills his opponent in their head with his right foot.
Trademark move : Missile Doublekick
It's the same as a Doublekick, but done off the top rope, or from a springboard.
Trademark move : Backtracking Piledriver
It begins as a sitdown piledriver, the old fashioned kind where you pull them up with the help of their tights. As he has his opponent into the air, he takes a few steps backwards, before sitting down.
Trademark move : Mucho Macho Elbow
An odd tribute to the Macho Man Randy Savage, it's the flying elbow drop. It's occasionally done off a moonsault for the purpose of showmanship.
Finishing Move : Pendulum Legdrop
It's a guillotine legdrop, executed off of a forward flip from the top rope.
Finishing Move : Mayan Tornado
It starts off like a Tornado DDT, he grabs a hold of his opponents head, and turns their body in mid-air, but in the process he rolls into a variation twist of fate, and comes down with his opponent in a Diamond cutter like position. It can be executed via a leaping springboard, or from a top rope jump as well.
Finishing Move : Serpent Choke
(Submission) It's like an STF, except rather than working over his opponent's arm as well as the leg, he applies a variation Dragon sleeper.
Biography :
Born in a hot July in Dangriga, Belize, Norberto Palenque was different from the start. His father is a pure Creole, as pure as one can be. His ancestry can be traced all the way back to both the slaves and the slaveholders of the area. His mother comes from a Mayan descent, and their hometown is at the point where the Maya mountains hit the Carribean. He was raised with many different cultures, and learned to speak English, Spanish, and Mayan, each of which served as a conversational language, depending on where in Belize he was.
His father worked as a middle man in the economy, carting imports to larger cities. Norberto frequently travelled with his father on these rides, and gained a greater understanding of the differences between people. In the same day he'd see a community of shanties and starving children, and then he'd see the larger mansions of the monarchs. His family belonged to a small middle class in the country, and they did all to provide him with the best education they could offer.
At age nine, after learning his father's trade, and the basics of farming, his parents sent him to a more sophisticated boarding school in the capital of Belmopan. There his education swelled, and he made several friends. One of his more memorable experiences in boarding school was watching television with the other children at night, tuned into the American wrestling broadcasts.
Norberto continued his education there for a few more years, until moving back home to help the family through a dry harvest. His mother preached mathematics and astronomy to the boy, the two more important contributions of the Mayan civilization served as important contributions to the furthering of his education. By age 14, Norberto was among the majority age group of his country. Nearly 60% of Belize's population was under 20. It meant tough times on a small job market, so as he travelled with his father, he took more notice on the growing trends of the time. One of them was the wrestling he watched in boarding school. Belize isn't too far from Mexico and Guatemala, and each have their own brand of wrestling schools, catering to the luchadore. Norberto began saving money as he worked several jobs, including a brief stint where he helped make wrestling t-shirts.
After two years, he had saved enough to attend wrestling school, and did such in neighboring Guatemala. It was the first of many different visits to wrestling school in the area. As he gained more experience, he would participate in local shows in the area, and make enough money to attend another. He learned a lot over the time, and by the time he was 20 he was extremely knowledgable and well renowned in Central America.
He toured the area as a member of a wrestling circuit that also included former IWF tag team champions Pez and Fez. In fact, his Mayan Tornado was taken from Fez's Mexican Tornado. He gained a reputation to not only being a risk taker, but also to be the quickest wrestler in the area. He'd mastered reversals to the point where he could roll an opponent up out of practically anything. His ability to contort his body helped him gain an increasing respect among a culture of luchadores. Along with his quickness, along with his ability to reverse moves, along with his ability to contort his body... He continued to set himself apart. He was referred to as "the Mutt" by several of the other wrestlers, not just for his culturally diverse background, but for his diverse wrestling style. He had remembered several uniquely American wrestling moves from his boarding school days, and offerered variations to the Central American public. A flipping elbow drop was something that wowed the fans in attendance, and even gained Palenque a reputation stateside. Eventually, Norberto recieved phone calls to do some shows in the United States.
He did shows in New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas, and amongst the American public he began being called both the Belizian Sensation, a nod of the hat to IWF performer the Latino Sensation, but also the Flying Mayan, a name which stuck in wrestling wrap sheets. Norberto had been offered contracts during his tenure, but homesickness kept him from taking up offers. Eventually the GWA called, and offered to give him a unique contract where his parents were given a residence in whatever city they were appearing in. The opportunity to also provide for his parents clinched it, and Norberto signed with the GWA just before its opening. He joins a cast of several other imports to help Globalise the company.
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