Jack Fry (RLS CAS)

Fry in the ring at UNION's BDTH event

**Jackie Fry** *(born 20th August 2001 in Coatbridge, Scotland)* is a Scottish professional wrestler currently signed to UNION Wrestling, where he performs under the name **Jack Fry**.

While still training, portrayed the masked jobber **Hace el Trabajo** on several occasions in PRIZE Wrestling League.

## Career

### Training under Maverick (2018-2020)

Fry initially wanted to break into the Fife Wrestling Kingdom setup as a teenager, and contacted FKW trainer Jamie Sharp, who was unable to spare the extra time to train him. After being impressed by his promo and training tapes, however, she contacted her brother Adam, better known as The Maverick, and asked the part-timer veteran to teach him the basics**1**.

Sharp and Fry had, by both men's admission, a contentious relationship during his training, with Sharp something of a consistent complainer and Fry being more of a laid back, carefree performer. The training was, despite this, a success, and in 2020, to mark the training's completion, Fry had Sharp's crescent moon tattoo adapted into his left arm sleeve**2**.

### Lucha Europa appearances (2018-2019)

In late 2018, Fry was added to the rotation of superstars sharing the mantle of Hace el Trabajo, the resident jobber of the Lucha Europa promotion in Bournemouth.

His longest spell as the character came in mid-2019, where he'd do the job to established stars like Almavacia, Azteka and Hijo del Padre in one prolonged spell as the character, before passing it back to more regular portrayer Paul Keegan.

He declined to return as the character in 2020, feeling it limited what he was able to do in the business, but thanking Lucha Europa for the opportunity nonetheless.

### PRIZE Wrestling League cameos (2019)

While portraying Hace el Trabajo, Fry would appear- completely uncredited- in PRIZE Wrestling League, taking over the role in the promotion from Keegan, who'd jobbed to Matsuda the previous month. With Fry in the role, he'd lose a prominent match on Premier League Wrestling to Foster, before appearing as part of a jobber-team with Lenroy Steede on the house shows, losing to the likes of Los Panteras and the Kings of Wrestling.**3**

### Indy scene (2019-2021)

While still training, Fry would finally get to work for Fife Wrestling Kingdom, albeit mainly in sparring matches before the crowd arrived. He would, however, get to perform in front of an audience at a November 2019 show in Dunfermline, losing to Ryan Fraser.

Fry would appear several times, on his trainer's recommendation, for the Indy Wrestling Lives shows in 2019 and 2020. Notably, he defeated former Exhibition Wrestling: Canada talent CJ Starr in a show in Wigan and then Doscara in Newcastle.

### UNION Wrestling (2022-*present*)

Having been teased as a potential signing several times in December 2021, Fry would debut for UNION Wrestling at the Touchdown '22 show, where his match with Tyrone Riske ended in a no-contest due to interference from the Invicta stable and their new member The Three, who beat both men down. Fry's trainer, and former UNION superstar and General Manager, Maverick was reportedly unhappy with Fry and the promotion, both for the former signing with them in the first place, and the latter for making his debut focus on their Invicta storyline.

Fry would team up with Riske at the Aberdeen show, against The Tree and Bane, with Riske losing it for them after being pinned by Bane, following some kind of chant from The Three rendering him almost hypnotised. Fry was, after The Three's eventual release, quick to defend the superstar portraying the gimmick, but admitted that he felt the storyline was "confusing, rushed and badly done".

At UNION's Bring Down The House event, Fry would defeat Ricky Cheng is a short match.

## In-Wrestling

### Signatures

Neckbreaker 3

Pendulum Backbreaker 1

### Nicknames

"Maverick"**4** *(in his appearance for FKW, as a nod to his mentor)*

## Trivia

* Fry was voted Squared Circle Insider's "One To Watch" in 2021, joining the ranks of wrestlers like Rafe Daniels, Mikey Ace, Wroe, Birdy, Amy J, Faye Spires and Foster.**5**

## Behind-the-Scenes/Notes

1. In reality, I'd wanted Maverick, as an aging, narratively injury-prone CAW, to have a protégé to pass the torch to since the UNION days.
2. This is kind of true, I did take the same tattoo to use as an homage.
3. Fry's base CAW (pre naming and gimmick assignment) was, indeed, one of the versions of Hace el Trabajo I had in PRIZE. I can't remember exactly why I started using multiple body types, but it's something I think I might revisit in future.
4. As previously stated; he's Mav's protege, and will hopefully take the mantle once Mav has fully retired.
5. This is just to put him in a particular class of CAWs, narratively, should he join whatever promotion(s) I run in 2K22.