NOTE: This tag team is currently disbanded. For individual information, see the Women's Middleweight pages for Gemma Faraday and Holly Matheson
Team Name: The British Bombshells
Members: Gemma Faraday & Holly Matheson
Combined Weight: 284 lbs.
Wrestling Information
Style: Gemma is a high flyer who loves brawling, while Holly is more focused on mat grappling
Strategy: To try and shore up one another's weaknesses, wear down opponents and try to set them up for the other girl to finish off.
Type: Babyface tag team odd couple.
Preferred Match Types: Gemma loves hardcore matches and weird concepts, and Holly is currently willing to take on almost anything that gives her a chance to prove herself.
Specialied Team Moves: Holly will trap an opponent with an arm wringer to set up Gemma for a superkick; Holly will lock an opponent in a Boston crab or camel clutch to give Gemma a shot at a kick to the belly or face;
Tag Team Finisher: Bit of Up & Down- After placing an opponent in the corner, Holly will tag in Gemma. She then hoists the opponent up for a suplex, as Gemma comes down off the top rope with a lairat to finish their victim off.
Team History:
Gemma and Holly first started tag teaming in another promotion, where the two were less than successful as a duo. Despite garnering a great deal of vocal fan support, the two girls seemed painfully incapable of winning matches together. In fact, as a duo, their losses were often spectacularly humiliating, with not a single match in the fed going their way. Despite this, the two remained dedicated to making things work ... at least, until Holly took time off with an unexpected pregnancy.
Once Holly had given birth, however, the British Bombshells began training for a comeback. Deciding to start life anew in a brand new promotion, the popular duo announced plans to join LAW and finally fulfill the promise of hard-fought competition they had promised their fans, their families and one another!
LAW Tag Team Match Record:
Matches- 6
Wins- 0/Losses- 6
1. British Bombshells defeated by The Jailbirds
2. British Bombshells defeated by The Thundergirls
3. British Bombshells defeated by Upper Echelon
4. British Bombshells defeated by the Temptations/url]
5. [url=viewtopic.php?f=67&t=3193]British Bombshells defeated by Killer King
6. British Bombshells defeated by DDT
GEMMA FARADAY
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Hometown: Blackpool, England
Age: 26
Height & Weight: 5'5" & 129 lbs
Personality & History:
Gemma's adventurous, both in and out of the ring. She's eager to prove herself in the ring, but also can't resist a chance to show off a bit as she does so. Gemma gets frustrated when things don't go to plan, but nothing seems to get her down for too long.
Gemma grew up in the wrestling business, daughter of legendary British grappler Mickey Faraday. When her father passed, Gemma decided to strike out on her own and develop her skills by wrestling in Japan. Her time in the ring has brought her friends, fans and even the occasional lover, but the success she craves still seems to elude her.
Wrestling Style: Gemma has strong legs, and tries to wear down her opponents with hard kicks and leg scissors in the opening moments of any given match. From there, she'll move into the riskier stuff, such as diving moves and complex submission holds to wear her opponents down.
Signature Moves:
Bomber Jacket- Gemma mounts an opponent stunned on the ropes, straddling them with her feet resting on the middle rope. From there, she hooks both arms and locks her fingers behind their back. From there, she pushed off the ropes to spike their head against the mat with a springboard butterfly DDT.
Air Raid Siren- With an opponent downed on the mat, Gemma will mount the top turnbuckle. She licks a finger, raises it into the air to "test the wind," then leaps off to hit the victim with a punishing 630 splash.
LAW Singles Match Record
1. Gemma defeated by Alaina Saunders via pinfall
Fun Facts:
Gemma's home promotion had a "Wrasslin Cow" that she loved. Ever since then, the Brit has been a dedicated vegetarian, unable to touch meat.
Gemma learned all aspects of putting on a wrestling show while growing up, from organizing a card to setting up and taking down the ring
Gemma also sews her own ring gear, and is willing to do so for others.
Gemma has a fascination with early "weird fiction" and parlour entertainment of the Victorian era, ranging from mentalism to exorcism to vaudeville camp
HOLLY MATHESON
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Hometown: London, England
Age: 29
Height & Weight: 5'5" & 155 lbs.
Personality & History:
Holly works hard to be respected in the ring, even if her abilities fall short of backing that up. Returning to active competition after her first child was born has only heightened the Brit's desire to show she can still compete, making her a focused competitor. Serious-minded and competitive, Holly hates nothing more than losing, and gets flustered in the ring easily.
Part of this is because she got into wrestling initially to impress her partner, the world-traveling luchador Sombre Blanco. Holly began training to impress him, and kept wrestling to prove that this wasn't her only reason to compete. Now, as she laces up the boots once more, the British Bombshell is looking for a new start, and looking to create a legacy that her growing family can someday take a bit of pride in.
Wrestling Style: Holly's focus is on solid fundamentals, so she likes to grapple with opponents early and often. As a hippier girl, Holly hopes to have a solid enough base to easily lift most women she goes up against, favoring suplexes, back body drops and the like. She also likes to settle her weight onto opponents for punishing submission holds, such as the camel clutch or boston crab.
Signature Moves:
Rana Vivaz- Holly will catch an opponent who is coming back her way after an Irish whip rebound by jumping and wrapping her legs around their waist. From there, the Bombshell flips over, slamming their back to the mat and hooking both of their legs. She leans in, usually pressing her chest against their face to secure the pinfall.
Singles Match Record
Matches- 3/Wins- 1/Losses- 2
Holly Matheson defeated Hikaru Sawazaki via pinfall
Holly Matheson defeated by Lauren Fredericks via pinfall
Holly Matheson defeated byAllen Riley via pinfall
Trivia & Fun Facts:
Holly has a highly posh accent and composed attitude, despite her geeky interests and easily flustered nature
Holly's partner, El Sombre Blanco, is part of a long masked wrestler legacy. He currently stars in an ongoing wrestling series on an obscure American cable network, combining modern production values with the cheesy monster movies of his father
Holly used to be avid on Twitch as a gamer; since refocusing on wrestling, she's had a popular series on wrestling training, through the platform
Holly maintains a semi-popular webomic on Tumblr called "Busty Fighter Problems, based on her own experiences and inability to shed as much of her body fat as she'd like, despite being in ring shape