Pete Hook (RLS CAS)

Hook making his shock return at an MPW show.

**Peter Julian Hodgkinson** *(born 15th April 1987 in Birmingham, Midlands)* is a professional wrestler best known for his run in PRIZE Wrestling League, where he was a one-time Elite Champion.

He was the first full graduate of Australian wrestler Simon Lowe's School of Hard Knocks in Birmingham.

## Career

### Training (2016-2018)

Hodgkinson trained part-time under Simon Lowe at the School of Hard Knocks in in hometown of Birmingham, while also working as a courier. After around eighteen months of training, Lowe reportedly asked him if he was serious about being a professional wrestler, apparently frustrated with his pupil's lack of desire to seek out bookings**1**.

Lowe was able to get him booked with PRIZE shortly after, warning him that he'd "need a hook" to get him over, which indirectly inspired the name Hodgkinson would take**2**.

### PRIZE Wrestling League (2018-2021)

Pete Hook was confirmed as the first name, aside from Mikey Ace and Faye Spires, on the card of the PRIZE June Special 2018. He was, due to impressing during training for the event, pushed up to the main event to crown the first Elite Champion. At the event, he won the Elite Championship by taking out Chris Wayland and Sidewinder outside the ring and hitting Rafe Daniels with the *Line & Sinker* for a pin-fall victory.

He faced guest Freddie Ross (better known as Darren Young in WWE) in his first defence at the PRIZE July Special 2018, raising Ross to his feet and clapping him on the back after winning, establishing himself as a face for the time being.

At a live show in Birmingham in mid-July, Hook appeared following Chris Wayland's victory over jobber Hace el Trabajo to grant his request for a title shot, which eventually happened at the Bring Down The House Show in October 2018, with Hook tricking the tired Wayland into entering the ring, hitting the Line and Sinker, and retaining the title.

He'd main event the debut episode of PRIZE Fights, defeating 'Bad Boy' Brent Blake by pin-fall, before defeating Nick Logan on the next episode and injuring him in the process. While delivering a Sinker (deadlift powerbomb) outside the ring, both men were out of position and Logan hit the apron head first. Though Logan would brush it off as being a freak accident, Hook was apparently devastated that his lack of awareness led to him concussing an opponent, and sought more training with Simon Lowe**3**.

He'd lose the Elite Championship in a Tables Match at Eyes on the PRIZE 2018. He was fined, along with Wayland, Mikey Ace and The Trick, for what became known as the "Piledriver Incident", where Hook and Ace took Piledrivers- a banned move in the promotion- from their opponents. They were fined for the incident by PRIZE management**4**. He and Wayland would continue to feud from here, before Hook was once again defeated by his rival in an Anything Goes match at Walk The Talk 2018.

Following the WCE takeover, Hook was one of the men entered into the WCE Heavyweight Championship tourney, defeating Sergi Romero in the 1st Round before controversially losing in the Semis to a low-blow from Brent Blake. This would lead to a feud between the two, which would be amalgamated into the WCE Heavyweight Championship picture, with the two of them facing, and losing to, the champion Rafe Daniels at Up Front 2019.

After a month out with an unspecified injury, Hook would return to continue his feud with Blake, facing him on both Premier League Wrestling and Championship Wrestling across the next couple of months. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic would restrict his appearances, due to having family in the at-risk category, and he was granted an extended break by PRIZE in early 2020. This would be his last appearance before the company shut it's doors, which led to Hook announcing he would probably be retiring from the business altogether**5**.

### Midlands Pro Wrestling/Indy Wrestling Lives (2021)

Hook shockingly returned in July 2021, at a Midlands Pro Wrestling show in Dudley, where he confronted Brummy Heavyweight Champion Manny Hench. He was confirmed by MPW after the show to be a freelancer. Hook was confirmed to be appearing at the Indy Wrestling Lives shows expected to take place in August 2021**6**.

## In-Wrestling:

### Signatures:

**Line** *(Kitchen Sink) Performed together with finisher as "Line & Sinker"*

### Finishers:

**Sinker** *(Deadlift Powerbomb) Performed together with signature as "Line & Sinker"*

## Trivia:

* Hook was a "backyard" wrestler with his friends for several years, but only began taking it seriously when Simon Lowe invited him to the SoHK.
* Hook has hereditary baldness, and lost the majority of his hair in his late teens. He says he was surprised to find that nobody really bullied or teased him for it, finding his community "unnervingly supportive" at times.**7**

## Behind-the-Scenes/Notes:

1. This is just a narrative version of my own real frustration at designing parts of this CAW in the UNION days on PS4 and never getting around to using him.
2. The name actually did come from a similar situation to this, with me telling my wife I wasn't completely satisfied with his attire and adding that he needed a "hook", which stuck as his name and the theme of this logos
3. The powerbomb actually did bizarrely clash with the apron, and looked fairly painful, so I adapted it into a small storyline to add to the Universe diary's world building
4. Similarly to the above situation, I noticed the two Piledrivers and decided to use it to pad out the world a bit
5. Hook is one of the CAWs I didn't think I'd be carrying over to whatever I did on 2K20, and though that was initially what transpired, with the short-lived UWU promotion, he found his way back when I decided to do a reimagining of UNION Wrestling for fun
6. IWL shows are the scaled back, indy shows I'll be doing between now and 2K22, I think. It's all subject to change.
7. In truth, any hairstyle I attempted to add clashed for some reason with the face texture, so I contrived a good reason for his complete baldness that added to his overall fleshed-outtedness (not a word, I know). The positive note was simply because I think there's enough miserable backstories out there.