Donny Octave

Donny Octave at AOW Prophecy III as the AOW Campion

### Theme Song

Numb by Linkin Park (In The Style of Killswitch Engage "Ten Second Songs Cover") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DxRko3ER4Q

### Accomplishments

1x OWA Alpha Heavyweight Champion1x EWE World Champion1x SWW World Champion1x AOW World Champion

## Donny Octave

**Darren "Donny" Underwood** (born November 13, 1992) is an American professional wrestler, promoter, commentator, and booker. He performs under the name **Donny Octave,** and is currently a free agent.

## Early Life

Donny Underwood was born in Paducah, Kentucky on November 13, 1990 to parents Gary Underwood and Victoria Moran. as the second of three children. Growing up in a wrestling family, his father went under the ring name "Glorious" Gary Octave, and his mother was Gary's on-screen and off-screen manager, going under the name Vivian Velvet. Wrestling was all Donny and his siblings ever knew, so it was seemingly destiny that they themselves would get involved in the business one day.

This desire hit Donny the most growing up, which led to him becoming somewhat of a social outcast in school. Due to a promise made by his father that he would train him when he turned 18, Donny always made sure to keep his grades up. He always struggled with social interaction, however, which kept him at a certain level throughout his middle school years, and his Freshman and Sophomore years of high school. It was in his Junior year of high school when personal problems began to rise up, as his parents would get divorced. This caused him to fall behind in school. Regardless, Donny graduated high school in 2008, and he went to college for film production. He would return to his wrestling ambitions in 2013.

## Professional Wrestling Career

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### Early Career

#### Training and Independents, Injury and Hiatus (2013-2015)

Donny began training with his father, "Glorious" Gary Octave. He would compete in various small independent promotions on the west coast under the name Donny Octave, a homage to his father. He would even work enhancement talent on house shows for some major promotions, although never got any offers or attention from his work. He wrestled in various independents trying to get noticed, until he suffered a devastating injury, tearing the ACL, MCL and medial meniscus in his right knee after a botched dive from the top rope to the outside of the ring. He underwent a successful surgery in March of 2014 and began his road to recovery. During this time, he would be discovered by British wrestler Blake Harnage, who would offer to help him get back into good health. With help from Harnage, Donny was ready to return to the ring in the year of 2015.

#### Outstanding Wrestling Alliance (2015-2017)

Upon being cleared for return, Donny signed with an upstart promotion called Outsanding Wrestling Alliance in 2015. He was a part of their debut event, OWA Kickoff, where he competed in the show's main event against Alex Silva for the OWA Alpha Championship, a match which he lost. He lost again to Silva at OWA's next PPV, Bloodsport. In 2016, on the debut episode of OWA Fallout, Octave finally defeated Silva for the Alpha Championship, after connecting with a Superkick to Silva, and pinning him. There was controversy surrounding this victory due to the former champion initiating a rope break that was never acknowledged by the Referee. However, shortly after becoming the OWA Alpha Champion, he was suspended after failing a wellness test. This put the championship up for grabs in a tournament, which was held at OWA Regenesis, and was won by Blake Harnage. Donny would return at OWA Summercrash, attacking Harnage with Elijah Rose, as well as attacking OWA General Manager Andrew Vice. This would be OWA's final show, as soon after it was closed down and rebranded.

#### ALPHA Domain Wrestling (2016-2017)

In late 2016, OWA was rebranded into ALPHA Domain Wrestling. Prior to the launch of ADW, Donny Octave would make an appearance at an independent show, attacking the returning Maxx Bell, who was coming out of retirement after a multi-year hiatus. In ADW, Donny competed in the ADW Championship tournament, losing in Round One to Chaz Storm. Donny would go on a losing streak, losing to Casey Walker on Episode 03, and Maxx Bell at ADW's Act On Instinct PPV. Donny would then enter a feud with Thayne Bell, which seemingly culminated at ADW's Blood Sport event, when Donny defeated Thayne with his Light Of Day finisher, after assistance from Crazy Wolf, a former rival of Thayne. ADW would shut down soon after, due to management conflictions.

#### Extreme Wrestling Entertainment-VERSUS THE WORLD Wrestling (2018-Present)

In 2018, Donny signed to Extreme Wrestling Entertainment. He competed in a 16-man tournament to crown a world champion at EWE Ground Zero. On this night, Donny would win the EWE World Championship in the finals against Casey Walker and go on to form the Paradigm Shift with Cyrus Crowe and Darien Dupre. He would never get a chance to defend his championship, as EWE would be purchased by Blade Myers and rebranded into Versus The World Wrestling. Donny was a part of a Triple Threat main event at VTW Insurgence to crown the VTW Global Champion. Also in this match were Alex King and Dylan Black, also former champions in EWE. Donny would suffer a graphic injury in this match after being hit in the head multiple times with a baseball bat. He would suffer a fractured skull and orbital bone, which the latter injury required surgery. During the time he spent away recovering, he was in a car accident which killed his older brother Gavin, and left him with re-aggravated issues with not only his recently operated on face, but his knee problems began to resurface as well as a result of this accident, and created a new injury in his elbow, halting his in-ring return by another year, although he has yet to make another appearance in VTW.

### ROX Wrestling (2016-2018)

Donny Octave signed with ROX Wrestling in 2016, and was a part of their World Championship tournament. The tournament was ran in a series of tag team matches, in which the final team standing would go on to face each other for the championship. Donny teamed up with Mike Enston, and his team was eliminated in the first round by the team of Victor Spades and Arlen Lanigan. Later in the show, Donny would be seen assaulting Enston after failing to convince General Manager Joshua Alston to reinstate him in the tournament. Donny would temporarily align with Seth Blake, but the pairing was short lived after Blake left the company. ROX would then introduce a new show called ROX Burnout, where Donny would become one of the two men who would compete for the ROX Undisputed Championship, the other being Desmond Cruise. Donny and Cruise would fight at Victory Lane for the championship, which Cruise won. After this, Donny wouldn't appear again until Episode 09 of Burnout, where he lost to Will Steele while trying to qualify for the Elimination Chamber match at ROX Maximum Conviction. After a lengthy absence from Burnout, Donny Octave requested and was granted his release from ROX Wrestling.

### Art Of Wrestling (2018-2020)

Donny Octave signed with Art of Wrestling, debuting in a Money In The Bank match in 2018, taking the place of Juan Santos. Donny would go on to win the Money In The Bank match. He remained relatively quiet for awhile, despite siding with AOW Champion Zack Sanchez and AOW owner Skylar Matthews for an alliance, but in the end Donny double-crossed both of them when he cashed in on Sanchez to win the AOW World Championship. Donny has since gone on to defend the championship once against Sanchez, and in a Championship Scramble match featuring Zack Sanchez, Matt Bailey, O'Ryan James, and Jerod Bowden. It would be announced ahead of AOW's Prophecy III event that win or lose, Donny would be parting ways with the company. Donny would go on to win the match against Bowden, after utilizing brass knuckles, then putting Bowden away with the Tragedy Ending/Octavian Rhapsody combination. Octave would then announce his free agency, leaving AOW with the championship. AOW would eventually close it's doors for other reasons, making Octave the final World Champion of the promotion until the promotion relaunched in 2021.

### Supremacy World Wrestling (2019-2020)

Donny signed with Supremacy World Wrestling in late 2019, making his in-ring debut as part of the SWW Championship Chase, taking the place of Ruki, who had pulled out of the Chase for separate reasons. Donny made it to the finals after surviving Episode 01 of Adrenaline's Fatal 4 Way, featuring Garfield Wenworth, Desmond Cruise, and Shogun, and Episode 02's triple threat match, in which Donny pinned Shogun. At the SWW CPV event, Dead Man's Hand, Donny would defeat Wenworth in the finals of the Elimination Chase, however would come up short in a match against Ruki that immediately followed, just barely losing his opportunity to become SWW's inaugural Heavyweight Champion. Donny would then be slated to face Ruki in a rematch at SWW Isolation, however he among others would leave the company in a mass exodus due to controversy surrounding certain members of the company's creative staff. His last appearance for the promotion was in a controversial match which saw Ruki go into business for himself and purposely sabotage the match, robbing the fans of what was meant to be Donny's last great match with the company in an attempt to embarrass him. Donny ended up taking a multi-year hiatus after this, and has openly spoken out against SWW ever since these events occured.

## Personal Life

Very little is known about Donny's personal life outside of wrestling, as he's always kept things about his life outside of the ring very close to the vest. It has been suggested that Donny has struggled with addiction for much of his career, however nobody has been able to 100% confirm this. In 2020, it appears that Donny Octave is looking to change the direction of his life, becoming more open and welcoming to the fanbase that he has rejected for much of his career upon returning to action in 2015.

## In wrestling

* **Finishing Moves**
	+ *Rules Of Nature* (Single Underhook Facebuster)
	+ *Tragedy Ending*(Go To Sleep)
* **Signature Moves**
	+ *Octavian Rhapsody* (Claymore Kick/Last Shot)
	+ *Swan Song* (Clothesline)
* **Tag Teams**
	+ *Paradigm Shift* (with Cyrus Crowe and Darien Dupre : 2018-2019)
* **Nicknames**
	+ *"Dashing"* (2011-2014)
	+ *The Octavian Mastermind* (2015-2016)
	+ *The American Tragedy* (2016-Current)
* **Entrance Themes**
	+ *Skid Row - Youth Gone Wild* (2011-2013)
	+ *Moleman - Rush* (2014)
	+ *Darthduba - Story Of Life* (2015)
	+ *The Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings* (OWA)
	+ *Grand Analog - I Play My Kazoo* (ROX)
	+ *Dead Sara - Heart-Shaped Box* (EWE)
	+ *Septogram - Bullet With Butterfly Wings* (VTW)
	+ *Falling In Reverse - Wait And See* (SWW)
	+ *Anthony Vincent - Numb (Current)*

## Championships and accomplishments

* **Outstanding Wrestling Alliance**
	+ 1x OWA Alpha Champion
* **Extreme Wrestling Entertainment**
	+ 1x EWE World Champion

**Art Of Wrestling**

* 1x AOW Champion (Current)
* 1x AOW Money In The Bank Winner
* **Supremacy World Wrestling**
	+ 1x SWW Champion