Jack Steele

Jackson "Jack" Steele (born July 13, 2000) is a professional wrestler currently signed to CWL, where he competes on the Vindication brand.

## Background

Little is known of Jack Steele's past. He was born to Jacob and Anne Steele in New York City and grew up with a love of wrestling and desire to become a famous wrestler. Although Steele reportedly rejected religion from an early age, his father, Jacob Steele, was a well-known Baptist minister. It is unknown as to why, but the Steele family moved from Brooklyn to Westchester County at some point in the late 2000s as his father transferred between churches. According to a New York News article in the April 17, 2014 edition, "Minister Jacob Steele, his wife Anne, and their son Jack were involved in a car accident just outside of their Westchester home. Anne was tragically killed in the accident, while Jacob received only minor injuries. Their son Jack was rushed to the hospital following the incident with a head wound, but ultimately survived." In the months following this accident, Jacob Steele abruptly quit his job and was rarely heard from afterwards. Nothing else is known of Jack Steele's childhood or teenage years.

## CWL (2020-present)

In the days following CWL's Supremacy 3 event, vignettes would begin to air signaling the arrival of a new wrestler, Jack Steele, now calling himself "The Savior". All of Steele's subsequent promos would feature Steele in a dark room that appeared to be his home, but the location is not currently known.

It was soon announced that Steele would be a part of CWL's Vindication brand, and that he would debut in the Three Stages of Princess tournament, an eight-man event that would determine the challenger for Vindication Champion Chris Princess' title at Endgame 3. Steele would debut on episode 3.41 of Vindication on May 30 against Xistro Horror. Steele would attempt to break the arm of Horror during the match, but would eventually be pinned following two Rocket Kicks.

After the match, Steele would offer partnership to Jack Thunderheart, who had lost a tournament match the same night. Thunderheart would reject Steele's offer and challenge him to a match. This angered Steele, but his booking in an eight-man battle royal alongside Thunderheart would allow Steele and Thunderheart to settle their differences. Steele would place fourth in the battle royal (taking place on Vindication Episode 3.42), being eliminated by Bryan Azrael, and Thunderheart would go on to win. This loss would cause Steele to smash a mirror and scrawl Thunderheart's name across the walls of his home. Steele would then challenge Thunderheart to accept his previous offer for a final time.

At the Vindication Supershow (Vindication 3.43) Jack Thunderheart would defeat Jack Steele in a very hard-fought match, becoming the first to kick out of the Original Sin. After the match, Steele would attack a backstage interviewer when he was asked about his loss.

Steele picked up his first win in CWL by defeating Bryan Azrael on Vindication 3.46 following a series of finishing moves. At this time, Steele was announced for the Strange Bedfellows challenge match for the CWL Tag Team Titles at Endgame 3, where he was paired with Fabulous Furious Freaks member Isaac against Pistolero & Ziro To'a, Jay Mamba & Jacob Nitro, and the defending champions The War Boys.

Ahead of that match, Steele and Isaac would show impressive tag team cohesion in a victory over Pistolero and Toa (Vindication 3.47). Steele would again offer permanent partnership to Isaac, encouraging him to abandon the FFF. At Endgame 3, Pistolero and To'a would win the tag team titles when Pistolero pinned Jacob Nitro, with Isaac and Steele able to reach the pin and break it up at the exact same time as the three-count (therefore the pin counted).

Steele would challenge PistoZiro to a rematch. After FFF attacked the CWL Chairman (Vindication 4.1), they were suspended for the following week's show, but Steele demanded that Isaac be allowed to compete alongside him again. The request was granted and Steele and Isaac would defeat PistoZiro again in a non-title match, this time in far more dominant fashion than before (Vindication 4.2). After the match, Steele and Isaac attacked the tag team champions, but when Flapjack Carter appeared and gave Isaac a chair to use in the assault, Steele pulled the chair out of Isaac's hands and laid out Carter with a right hand, leaving the arena with Isaac.

The following week (Vindication 4.3) Steele officially challenged Carter to a match at the Exiled pay-per-view. He also demanded that Isaac make his decision at that show, while Carter warned Isaac not to follow Steele. At Exiled, Flapjack Carter defeated Jack Steele following two Romper Fes. After the match, though, Isaac would come to the ring and, following an apparent glimpse inside the head of Isaac showing a battle between his split personalities, attack Flapjack Carter, cheering Steele on as he locked in a Liontamer on Carter and officially joining the Church of Steele.

On Vindication 4.5, Steele and Isaac got their first win as an official team, as they defeated Xander Woods and Sgt. Scott Smith following the Original Sin. At this time, Steele began to expand the Church, recruiting lost souls and a variety of people willing to blindly follow him. On the Vindication Supershow (4.7), Steele and Isaac challenged Pistolero (who had abandoned Ziro To'a and was now defending the tag team titles by himself) to a handicap match for the CWL Tag Team Championships. After a match many called the best of the season at the time, Pistolero did the impossible, kicking out of numerous finishing moves including the debut of the CoS' new tag team finisher, The Rapture, and hit four Cruiserweight Killers on Steele, as well as a chop to the throat that would shatter Steele's trachea. Pistolero defied the odds to retain the titles, and the Church's future was left in uncertainty.

Despite their loss, Steele and Isaac would continue to recruit new members. Ahead of the Gold in the Bank qualifiers, Steele would invite Amber Arcade to join the Church. After the triple threat match between Arcade, Valencia, and Olivia Mistral, through, Steele and Isaac would come to the ring and distract Arcade while Mistral attacked her from behind, officially joining the Church of Steele (Vindication 4.10). The following week, after Max Shearman was eliminated from the YouTube Title Number One Contender's Battle Royal, the Church of Steele would appear on the stage and welcome him into the group as well (4.11).

Later that night, Vindication Women's Champion Roxx issued an open challenge, which was answered by Olivia Mistral with the Church of Steele by her side. After interference from all members of the Church, especially Isaac, and a referee distraction that led to a brutal chairshot from Mistral, Mistral would pin Roxx to win her first Vindication Women's Title and the first championship for the group. She would credit her win (and the subsequent defense of that title against Amber Arcade at Zero Hour, which was the blatant result of Isaac's interference) to her new allegiance with the Church of Steele. On the Gold in the Bank pre-show (4.12), Church members Max Shearman and Isaac would lose to GPU when Ebak pinned Shearman. Steele, discarding his neck brace, would threaten Shearman and warn him not to lose again.

The following week, Phil X would call out Steele, leading to an in-ring confrontation between the two. Steele threatened Phil, claiming that Phil's rock'n'roll lifestyle was a "poison" to the CWL Universe and that Phil had to choose: join the Church of Steele or be forced to change his ways. Phil attempted to attack Isaac, but would be laid out in the ring (Vindication 4.13). During Phil's match with Yamashita, Steele would join the commentary team for the first time, explaining why he doesn't respect Phil's lifestyle. After Phil lost the match, Steele would attempt to rush the ring but would be taken out with a Coffin Drop to the outside. Phil X would then put Steele through the announcer's table with a suplex powerbomb (Vindication 4.14). The next week, cameras would catch Steele and Phil brawling backstage, with Steele suffering a chairshot to the face and Phil taking a brutal suplex on the floor. The brawl would spill out to the stage, where Steele would powerbomb Phil on the pyrotechnics rig. To the horror of the commentators and fans, Steele would then go down to ringside and set of Phil's signature pyro display, severely burning Phil X (Vindication 4.15).

At Zero Hour (4.16), after a back and forth match, Jack Steele defeated Phil X, targeting the arm throughout the match and finishing Phil with the Steele Trap. After the match, Steele offered Phil a handshake, but before Phil could decide whether to accept it, Steele laid him out with a right hand and brutally beat him down in the ring. Max Shearman then came to the ringside area and continued the attack, eventually dragging Phil backstage.

On Vindication 4.18, Steele came to the ring to introduce what he called "the new Phillip X". Phil X came to the ring dressed in cowboy-esque attire, and shook hands with Steele. The commentators gasped as Phil X appeared to be joining the group, but as Steele turned to the crowd to celebrate this apparent development, Phil charged at Steele and laid him out with a right hand and a Twist of Fate. Isaac ran down the ramp to attack Phil, but was attacked by the Youtube Champion, MD. Backstage, Max Shearman would be seen attempting to leave Gorilla Position, but he too was laid out by Jack Thunderheart, who attacked Shearman with a chair. Phil, MD, and Thunderheart celebrated in the ring. The following week (Vindication 4.19), MD and Thunderheart would take on Isaac and Shearman with Steele and Phil X both at ringside. Thunderheart would shockingly submit Isaac with a Boston Crab to win the match, but it was after the bell that all hell broke loose. MD and Isaac brawled at ringside, Shearman and Thunderheart brawled inside the ring, and Phil X chased Steele up the stage where they scrapped until security was forced to separate them. It was announced that these teams of three would fight the following week at Merry Mayhem in a Warfare Match, where there are no disqualifications and falls count anywhere.

At Merry Mayhem, The Church of Steele would suffer an embarrassing clean sweep. Olivia Mistral lost her Vindication Women's Championship back to Roxx when she was forced to defend it without the Church at ringside, inside a steel cage in a triple threat match that also included Amber Arcade. In the Warfare Match, Phil X's team would come out on top when Jack Thunderheart miraculously defeated all three members of the Church by himself. He first submitted Isaac once again with a Boston Crab, then submitted Steele with a Boston Crab as well, and finally pinned Max Shearman at ringside following Phil X's package piledriver. Steele would blame this loss on Max Shearman, who he claimed did not pull his weight when the Church relied on him.

On Vindication 4.21, The Church got its revenge. Jack Thunderheart, celebrating his huge win, made his way to the ring to cut a promo. He would be attacked from behind by Max Shearman, then brutalized by all the members of the Church of Steele. Steele took the mic, saying that this loss meant nothing because "there is no escaping the truth." He would suddenly be interrupted by the theme music of MD, who ran down the ramp, taking out both Isaac and Shearman on his way to the ring. As he entered the ring, though, Steele would meet him with a chairshot to the face. Shearman lifted MD up and forced him to watch as Steele wrapped the chair around the neck of Thunderheart and brutally stomped on his throat. Thunderheart was taken out on a stretcher, but MD broke free of Shearman and rushed into the ring. He was met again by Steele, who locked on the Steele Trap, dislocating MD's arm.

After the match, The Church of Steele were confronted backstage by MD, who was held off by security. The Church, not content with their actions, followed the ambulance to the hospital Jack Thunderheart was being taken to. When MD was informed of this, he drove to the hospital and attacked the Church in the hospital hallway. He was able to singlehandedly fight them off before they could get inside Thunderheart's room, but the police would arrive and arrest MD. MD was bailed out by his father later that night and would go to management to demand a match with Max Shearman after he had forced MD to watch Thunderheart's injury.

At this time, Xistro Horror began to call out the Church of Steele. He said that since he had previously defeated Steele and Shearman (for the Youtube title at the Vindication Supershow 4.7), he had to defeat Isaac to prove that he was better than the Church. On Vindication 4.22, though, Isaac defeated Horror in dominant fashion. Later that night, MD defeated Max Shearman, thwarting interference from Jack Steele. After the match, Steele assaulted MD from behind with a chair, then laid him out with the Original Sin. As the Church of Steele retreated up the ramp, MD would get to his feet, grabbing a microphone, demanding a Submission Match against Jack Steele with the Youtube Title on the line for the following week.

## In Wrestling

Signatures:

* Steele Trap (Butterfly Armbar/Danielson Special)
* King James Drop (Reverse STO)
* Butterfly Piledriver

Finishers:

* Original Sin (Burning Hammer variation)
* The Rapture (Total Elimination variation, tag finisher with Isaac)

Nicknames:

* "Saint"
* "Your Savior"