Victor Ortega

**Victor Ortega** is an American professional wrestler and a playable character from *Slam Masters*/*Muscle Bomber* series as the main antagonist of the second game.

## Victor Ortega

### Occupation

* Professional Wrestler
* Leader of CWA

## Profile

### First Appearance

* *Saturday Night Slam Masters* (debut)
* *Super Muscle Bomber* (playable)

## Story

Victor Ortega is the leader of the Capcom Wrestling Association company and the first Muscle Bomber World Champion. He is known to be the most unbeatable champion who defeated several opponents of his company until he came to feel dissatisfied by the experience of facing his peers.

A year before the events of *Saturday Night Slam Masters*, Ortega suddenly disappeared, leaving his followers worried and unsure about the company's progress, therefore, his absence resulted in the validation of the vacant belt and an invasion of some wrestlers who came from another wrestling company. to take advantage of the disappearance of the leader of the CWA and finally take control of the company as a way to unify it with the other. Scorpion (or The Astro), the leader of the Blood Wrestling Association, wants to unify the CWA to be one wrestling company, but this was never accomplished thanks to Biff Slamkovich defeating the antagonist in the first game.

In the sequel to the first game of *Slam Masters*, Victor Ortega reappears being playable for the first time and introducing himself as the one who confronted Biff Slamkovich claiming to return to being the CWA champion, and was informed that the head of the company would have beaten the CWA champion and regained the title. It is revealed the reason for Ortega's absence was that he was looking for a worthy opponent outside of the CWA, but he was unsuccessful in finding one. After regaining the title of champion of the CWA, Victor Ortega holds a world tournament event among all wrestling companies, and he decided to partner with The Astro's Blood Wrestling Association, and he then entered the top position of the wrestlers table only to get to face Ortega as his last opponent in the finals, and Biff Slamkovich was the one who passed the tournament to face again the first champion as a rematch. The Muscle Bomber World Tournament is successively ended after Victor Ortega lost in a singles match against Biff Slamkovich and declared himself again as CWA Champion.

## In wrestling

* **Finishing moves**
	+ Jumping sitout powerbomb
	+ *Muscle Bomb* (Sunset flip powerbomb)
* **Signature moves**
	+ Air Headbutt (Diving headbutt)
	+ Back body drop
	+ Backdrop suplex
	+ Backhand chop
	+ Discus elbow smash
	+ Diving splash
	+ Facebreaker knee smash
	+ *Knuckle Big Bang* (High-impact double axe handle)
	+ Lariat
	+ Multiple kick variations
		- Axe
		- Big boot
		- Drop
	+ Running shoulder block

## Trivia

* According to the character's concept art, Victor Ortega's appearance is inspired by real-life American professional wrestler Billy Graham.
	+ The character's win pose is inspired by a real-life legendary American professional wrestler, Hulk Hogan.
* Victor Ortega's outfit is a color reference to the Capcom logo.

* Although he appeared in the opening of the first game of *Slam Masters*, Victor Ortega is not playable on this game.

* Victor Ortega's appearance and wrestling moves are similar to Mike Haggar.

* Darun Mister, one of the playable characters from the *Street Fighter EX* series, wants to challenge him.