Occupation: Head of Talent Relations and Assistant General Manager of LAW
Basic Info:Age: 44
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Blonde
Height: 5’7”
Weight: 169 lbs
Alignment: Heel
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Personality: Angie is a very calculating and very perceptive businesswoman. She owes this to having worked several years as both a wrestler and a general manager in her own wrestling promotion years back. While Angie does ultimately work for the benefit of the company, she is almost always pushing her own agenda, and she will not hesitate to ally with, or even use others to do so.
While Angie conducts herself like a professional when she's out and about, the truth is that she longs to be in control. Of her own life, of those around her, of LAW. If she can find a way to get someone or something to work as a means toward her ends, she absolutely will. Preferably without them knowing. This trait stems from her missing her glory days running/wrestling in her own promotion.
History - Spoilered for long
Angie was raised by a middle-class family in The States. As a child, she aspired to succeed in life financially so that she could retire wealthy and establish her family and future generations as a part of high society. While Angie excelled in her studies throughout her childhood and young adulthood, she found little success in the way of relationships.
She graduated with a master's degree in business administration and communications, and worked her way up the corporate ladder. But as she did, she earned a reputation for romantic exploits. She regularly made moves on men and women higher up the ladder, and to great effect. Angie saw more promotions at her fortune 500 employers in just a few short years than most women in her line of work would see in a decade or two, and quite a few more romantic partners and scandals as well.
By her late 20's, all of this had finally caught up to her. Before she could close in on a position as Executive Vice President and join the Board of Directors Proper, one of her scorned ex-lovers retaliated. Somehow, some way, one of her exes managed to find a sole straight man on the board, and after gathering accounts from many an employee, Angie was laid off without warning. Lawsuits ensued and as a result. Despite coming out of them many of the cases virtually unscathed, Angie was quickly blacklisted by several employers. Word had spread quickly. She was now unable to find work and unable to make progress toward her goal of getting rich and living lavishly.
Soured and depressed by the whole ordeal, Angie skipped town and moved to the midwest. In her efforts to find work, she happened upon a job listing for an administrative position that needed filling at a wrestling company: Pewter Wrestling Association. It was a mid-sized indie company with a surprisingly long history, run by an older gentleman by the name of Elliot Pewter. Having picked up the job at 28 years of age, it was the first time Angie was able to leverage her business skills to influence the marketing and the success of something like an athlete wrestling career. Defoe was surprised and how much influence and control she could exert here. When she was first hired, it was simple things that her decisions affected. How wrestlers and the PWA were depicted in ads, merchandise, how their target audience's perception was affected by their business strategies, how she could affect ticket sales, and in turn, wrestlers' paydays.
Angie fell deeply in love with the inner workings of the business. She took her time learning what makes a wrestling company successful and what makes a wrestler the complete package. By watching talent come and go, by seeing who had the makings of a star able to carry the promotion forward and who didn't, she became an expert in assessing prospective talent. This knowledge combined with her experience and talents in business operations saw her take over as head of both the marketing departments and the head of talent relations. A year or so after this promotion, the commissioner, Elliot Pewter, stepped down and retired, leaving his responsibilities to Angie Defoe, naming her his most capable employee.
This decision marked an age of racketeering and scheming for PWA. Now that she was the number one woman in charge, she began training. Not just as a wrestler, but also as a mastermind. She used bribes, blackmail, and every trick she learned to dateto rig things in her favor and push anyone willing to ally with her to the top. At age 31, she chose to enter the world of wrestling for the first time as a wrestler.
Despite getting such a late start in wrestling, Defoe was surprisingly quite capable for a woman of her age. Being skilled at assessing other wrestlers meant that she knew how to play to her own strengths better than anyone. But more importantly, she was quite capable of zeroing in on her foe's weaknesses. She worked her way up the lower card and even the mid-card easily. The entire time, the attraction of a GM that turned wrestler helped her become the most popular star in PWA and helped the company see more financial success than it ever had before. Angie was now richer than she ever had been in the past. But there was a problem: she hit a wall.
Wrestlers who either really came into their own or were naturally physically capable and fantastic wrestlers at a young age would come in and out of her indie promotion. Big fish often left small ponds. And Angie knew better than to tango with them. Instead, she relied on her other talents and on her connections. Angie greased palms and stabbed backs wherever and however she needed to in order to arrange victories in main events and matches at the top of the card. Angie knew she didn't have the raw skill, toughness, and ability to beat the very best wrestlers coming into and out of PWA. She masterminded her way to becoming champion of PWA at age 35 and went on to have a "reign of terror" spanning many years. She had a small cult following in the midwest. For fans that followed PWA, there was a novelty and a sense of intrigue behind this turn of events. The sight of a General Manager/businesswoman becoming a wrestling champion was very well-received at first. She exclusively employed underhanded tactics, cheating, outside interference, weapons, etc to retain and overcome match after match, month after month, year after year. After 5 straight years of dominance, PWA saw its first-ever meaningful decline in profits and viewership in its 6th year with Defoe as champion. In her own way, Angie loved her promotion, but even she acknowledged that her time in the sun there had run its course. She gave a public speech and retired as both wrestler and General Manager, citing that the growth and success of the promotion and younger stars was more important than her desire to be the center of attention. Angie's body of work and her contributions were acknowledged in many corners of the world. After seeing her retirement announcement, an entrepreneur by the name of Dan DeFranco contacted her with the promise of a lucrative work opportunity in an up-and-coming wrestling promotion: LAW.
At LAW, Angie's ability to garner the approvals, ordinances, permits, and means needed to get all the resources needed to keep things running has been invaluable. General Manager DeFranco values her for her skill set but detests her attitude toward booking wrestlers. While Angie is tremendous when it comes to appraising prospective talent and identifying progress in contracted talent, she believes that weaker wrestlers exist to be crushed under the strong. Behind the scenes, she works tirelessly to ensure that hapless wrestlers with jobber-level talent maintain their jobber status by being booked against wrestlers that can and will defeat them. Even with mid-card and upper-card talent, Angie exerts her influence. While Angie believes that the public will never tire of seeing jobbers squashed, she has an agenda to see certain successful face wreslters brought to heel. She's pitched many ideas, match-ups, and business decisions pushing this agenda to DeFranco, but she's consistently shot down. It's said that less than 10 percent of her proposals have earned his blessing - a testament to how much more she's longed to do in the public eye. But with LAW's rapid expansion and with the introduction of "The Board", Angie longs no longer.
During her time at LAW, Angie had lamented Dan's policy of keeping management as far from the action and the cameras as possible. But now that she can assert power in his absence, she can enact her many plans. If Angie can no longer be the focal point of her promotion...maybe she can control who is...
She graduated with a master's degree in business administration and communications, and worked her way up the corporate ladder. But as she did, she earned a reputation for romantic exploits. She regularly made moves on men and women higher up the ladder, and to great effect. Angie saw more promotions at her fortune 500 employers in just a few short years than most women in her line of work would see in a decade or two, and quite a few more romantic partners and scandals as well.
By her late 20's, all of this had finally caught up to her. Before she could close in on a position as Executive Vice President and join the Board of Directors Proper, one of her scorned ex-lovers retaliated. Somehow, some way, one of her exes managed to find a sole straight man on the board, and after gathering accounts from many an employee, Angie was laid off without warning. Lawsuits ensued and as a result. Despite coming out of them many of the cases virtually unscathed, Angie was quickly blacklisted by several employers. Word had spread quickly. She was now unable to find work and unable to make progress toward her goal of getting rich and living lavishly.
Soured and depressed by the whole ordeal, Angie skipped town and moved to the midwest. In her efforts to find work, she happened upon a job listing for an administrative position that needed filling at a wrestling company: Pewter Wrestling Association. It was a mid-sized indie company with a surprisingly long history, run by an older gentleman by the name of Elliot Pewter. Having picked up the job at 28 years of age, it was the first time Angie was able to leverage her business skills to influence the marketing and the success of something like an athlete wrestling career. Defoe was surprised and how much influence and control she could exert here. When she was first hired, it was simple things that her decisions affected. How wrestlers and the PWA were depicted in ads, merchandise, how their target audience's perception was affected by their business strategies, how she could affect ticket sales, and in turn, wrestlers' paydays.
Angie fell deeply in love with the inner workings of the business. She took her time learning what makes a wrestling company successful and what makes a wrestler the complete package. By watching talent come and go, by seeing who had the makings of a star able to carry the promotion forward and who didn't, she became an expert in assessing prospective talent. This knowledge combined with her experience and talents in business operations saw her take over as head of both the marketing departments and the head of talent relations. A year or so after this promotion, the commissioner, Elliot Pewter, stepped down and retired, leaving his responsibilities to Angie Defoe, naming her his most capable employee.
This decision marked an age of racketeering and scheming for PWA. Now that she was the number one woman in charge, she began training. Not just as a wrestler, but also as a mastermind. She used bribes, blackmail, and every trick she learned to dateto rig things in her favor and push anyone willing to ally with her to the top. At age 31, she chose to enter the world of wrestling for the first time as a wrestler.
Despite getting such a late start in wrestling, Defoe was surprisingly quite capable for a woman of her age. Being skilled at assessing other wrestlers meant that she knew how to play to her own strengths better than anyone. But more importantly, she was quite capable of zeroing in on her foe's weaknesses. She worked her way up the lower card and even the mid-card easily. The entire time, the attraction of a GM that turned wrestler helped her become the most popular star in PWA and helped the company see more financial success than it ever had before. Angie was now richer than she ever had been in the past. But there was a problem: she hit a wall.
Wrestlers who either really came into their own or were naturally physically capable and fantastic wrestlers at a young age would come in and out of her indie promotion. Big fish often left small ponds. And Angie knew better than to tango with them. Instead, she relied on her other talents and on her connections. Angie greased palms and stabbed backs wherever and however she needed to in order to arrange victories in main events and matches at the top of the card. Angie knew she didn't have the raw skill, toughness, and ability to beat the very best wrestlers coming into and out of PWA. She masterminded her way to becoming champion of PWA at age 35 and went on to have a "reign of terror" spanning many years. She had a small cult following in the midwest. For fans that followed PWA, there was a novelty and a sense of intrigue behind this turn of events. The sight of a General Manager/businesswoman becoming a wrestling champion was very well-received at first. She exclusively employed underhanded tactics, cheating, outside interference, weapons, etc to retain and overcome match after match, month after month, year after year. After 5 straight years of dominance, PWA saw its first-ever meaningful decline in profits and viewership in its 6th year with Defoe as champion. In her own way, Angie loved her promotion, but even she acknowledged that her time in the sun there had run its course. She gave a public speech and retired as both wrestler and General Manager, citing that the growth and success of the promotion and younger stars was more important than her desire to be the center of attention. Angie's body of work and her contributions were acknowledged in many corners of the world. After seeing her retirement announcement, an entrepreneur by the name of Dan DeFranco contacted her with the promise of a lucrative work opportunity in an up-and-coming wrestling promotion: LAW.
At LAW, Angie's ability to garner the approvals, ordinances, permits, and means needed to get all the resources needed to keep things running has been invaluable. General Manager DeFranco values her for her skill set but detests her attitude toward booking wrestlers. While Angie is tremendous when it comes to appraising prospective talent and identifying progress in contracted talent, she believes that weaker wrestlers exist to be crushed under the strong. Behind the scenes, she works tirelessly to ensure that hapless wrestlers with jobber-level talent maintain their jobber status by being booked against wrestlers that can and will defeat them. Even with mid-card and upper-card talent, Angie exerts her influence. While Angie believes that the public will never tire of seeing jobbers squashed, she has an agenda to see certain successful face wreslters brought to heel. She's pitched many ideas, match-ups, and business decisions pushing this agenda to DeFranco, but she's consistently shot down. It's said that less than 10 percent of her proposals have earned his blessing - a testament to how much more she's longed to do in the public eye. But with LAW's rapid expansion and with the introduction of "The Board", Angie longs no longer.
During her time at LAW, Angie had lamented Dan's policy of keeping management as far from the action and the cameras as possible. But now that she can assert power in his absence, she can enact her many plans. If Angie can no longer be the focal point of her promotion...maybe she can control who is...
Public Statement on her Vision for LAW: "You know, DeFranco does love to tout those big, blockbuster matches, doesn't he? The five-star matches, the career-defining moments, the star-making performances. The main events...haha"
"Tell me, has this thought ever crossed your mind? If you look at the rest of the contests and the content we normally put out at this company, the taped shows, the dark matches, the weekly, regularly scheduled shows...for every single one of those highly-anticipated showdowns on pay-per-view or on the big events, you'll find two, maybe even three total mismatches in your typical LAW booking. Have you ever wondered why that might be? It's because of me~"
"It's because there's money in seeing these cute boys and girls worked over...laid out...put in rather..."compromising" positions as they take their lumps and suffer their defeats."
"You might not like what I'm saying, but that doesn't make it any less true. A lot of you wrestlers didn't get hired because you're good at this. Some of you were offered LAW contracts because you look good getting squashed inside and outside of the ring."
"Some of you get hired because you look good doing the squashing. Some of you are lucky enough to look good on either side of it. And it's my job to give the people what they want."
Major Contributions LAW
• Credited as the one to make the pitch behind the scenes for the introduction of the Loser Title
• Credited with the handling/booking/organizing of the Wildcard Tag Events (as well as the punishments for losing/refusing to work with the tag partner in these events)
• Has had a hand in signing a great deal of lower-card LAW talent and actively works to book them in matches to see them lose
• She has the most rejected ideas and proposals pitched to the board of directors by far
Trivia:
- Despite being willing to resort to less than savory means to get what she wants, Angie is a highly efficient office worker at all levels, and probably would have been very successful in the business world on her own merits if she was patient and didn't look for shortcuts
- Angie longs to indulge herself in wealth and riches, but she knows very little about how rich folks live and how they pass the time
- Unlike DeFranco, Angie is very open about who her favorites are (and about her not-so-favorites)
- In her mind, she can get the most mileage out of low-skilled/jobber wrestlers because people will always want to see them defeated. But fans can grow weary of established stars (some more than others)
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