Curtis Young

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**Caleb Young** (otherwise known by his ring name ***Curtis Young***) is a fictional Australian professional wrestler who is

currently signed with AWL, Young is also well known for his time in Australian pro-wrestling and is considered a household name, adopting the nickname "Australia's Finest".

Curtis Young is also the current AWL World Champion.

## Professional Wrestling Career

### Revolution Wrestling Adelaide

Young made his pro wrestling debut at the age of 18 in his birth place of Adelaide, South Australia wrestling for the RWA. He debuted alongside Shane Stockman as one half of a tag team. The two only went by their last names of Young and Stockman. The two would team up and have a championship run with the RWA Tag Team Championships, before a neck injury caused Stockman to retire from professional wrestling only at the age of 20. Young would continue on as a singles competitor using his real name Caleb Young. Young would continue a main event status run throughout RWA until the promotion folded in 2011, Young would capture the RWA Heavyweight Championship from Rick Fulton at RWA's last ever show.

### Strong Style Championship Wrestling

Young would end moving to Melbourne at the age of 22 to join Melbourne based promotion SSCW. Young would also at this time change his ring name to "Curtis Young", in honour of former wrestler "Mr. Perfect" Curt Henning. Young would compete once again as a singles competitor in SSCW, capturing it's Interstate Championship 3 times.

### Blade Championship Wrestling

Young would also participate in American based promotion BCW in sporadic appearances. Wrestling in a Scrap Trap match against "Buzz" in a losing effort. And having multiple matches against other talents such as El Mago and Cole Quinn.

### Perth Wrestling Federation

Young would become a part of the PWF roster in 2014, becoming friends with Amber McQueen, Steven Slick and Shane Haste. Young would participate in PWF's "King Of Australia" Tournament defeating Nick Reese but losing to Steven Slick in the semi-finals. Young would also be a 1 Time PWF Tag Team Champion alongside Ashlee Ling, being the first time in PWF history that both a male and female competitor had held both titles at once.

### Ruthless Pro Wrestling Brisbane

By 2015, Young had gained popularity from Australian Pro Wrestling fans, and signed a deal with RPWB. Young would capture it's world title within 3 months of joining the promotion, defeating Paul Garcia in the process. Young would continue to wrestle RPWB until it, SSCW and PWF were merged to form the AWL.

### **Australian Wrestling League**

Young was announced on the first AWL show, Revenge in 2017. Where he confronted general manager Tyler Slater about earning a spot on AWL Defiance's card. Slater would argue with Young, however Slater eventually gave in and gave Young a match against Jake Jackson. If Young won, he would be able to wrestle at Defiance. Young would go on to defeat Jackson to earn a spot on the card.

#### Road to Defiance, Pursuit of the AWL World Championship

After Young had confirmed his place on Defiance's card. Tyler Slater would come out on the following night of Revenge to announce a tournament to find 2 competitors who would face each other at Defiance to be crowned as the first ever AWL Champion. Slater stated that 2 matches were to happen, those being Shane Haste VS Buzzsaw Black and Lance Mercer VS Jake Jackson. Young took offence to this and confronted Slater, requesting that he be inserted into the tournement. Slater initially refused before accept Young's request on one condition, he had to defeat Black in a one on one match. Young was victorious and later added into the match, making it a triple threat against Black and Mercer, who had won their respective matches. On the go home episode of Revenge, Mercer had challenged Young to a one on one match, to which Young accepted. However, the match ended in a no contest after Black interfered and attacked both men.

Young would end up defeating both Black and Mercer in Defiance's main event to become the promotion's first World Champion.

#### Early Title Reign

Upon winning the AWL World Championship, Young would be put into a feud with the recently debuted Pac. Pac would make his debut at Defiance calling out whoever won the Championship on the night, that man would be Young. Both Lance Mercer and Pac had made cases to be the rightful Number 1 Contender for the title, so a match was made the following week between Mercer and Pac, where Pac was victorious. This confirmed the match between Pac and Young at the upcoming PPV, Do Or Die. Young and Pac both had a high flying encounter against each other in the match, but Young eventually defeated Pac, and retained the World Championship. Pac and Young shook hands after the match.

Young's next feud was against Fulton, who had attacked Young after having a match against Steven Slick. Fulton had said referred to Young as a "hero" but also says that they don't exist and says that he's a "lie". Young accepted Fulton's challenge for the AWL Championship and the two faced off at Bad Intentions in an Extreme Rules match, where Young would struggle to put away Fulton, however. Young retained the title after finally defeating Fulton, despite being speared through a table during the match.

#### Feud with Lance Mercer, Part 1

After Bad Intentions, Tyler Slater had booked a match at Terminal Velocity where Young would have to defend his title against the returning Lance Mercer. Young would come to the ring later on in the night and confront Mercer where the two had an exchange of words. The following night, he and Mercer would be put in a tag team match for the Terminal Velocity Tag Team Championship Tournament against Andrew Fletcher and Travis Archer. Mercer and Young would be defeated after Archer pinned Mercer, after the match Mercer and Young had another altercation, where Mercer shoved Young away.

## Private Life

Young is currently in a relationship. Young also stated in an interview that he was a "car guy" stating that once he retired from professional wrestling, that he wanted to open up a garage to fix cars up for people.

## Championships and Accomplishments

* 1x RWA Tag Team Champion (with Shane Stockman)
* 1x RWA World Champion
* 3x SSCW Interstate Champion
* 1x PWF Tag Team Champion (with Ashlee Ling)
* 1x RPWB World Champion
* 1x AWL World Champion

## Signature Moves

### Finishers

* This is Adelaide, Bitch (Tag Team finisher w/ Shane Stockman)

(Stockman would hit a spinebuster as Young performs an elbow drop)

* Stunner (would later become a signature move)
* Fall from Greatness (Diving Rotating Stunner)
* Hammerlock DDT (AWL Season 2)
* Flapjack Facebuster (AWL Season 3 - Present)

### Signatures

* Church City Cutter
* Stunner
* Elbow Drop (Post 2017)
* Superkick (Post 2017)