Dakota Kai

**Cheree Crowley** (May 6) is a New Zealander professional wrestler currently signed to Humiliating Pro Wrestling (HPW) under the ring name **Dakota Kai**. Before HPW she has wrestled in World Wrestling Entertainment, Shimmer Women Athletes, Shine Wrestling, and also for Pro Wrestling Alliance in Sydney, Australia. She also worked for Impact Pro Wrestling in New Zealand.

## **Character Description**

Having officially debuted in the sport in the year 2007, Dakota (FKA. Evie) has wrestled all around the world giving her opponents kicks to remember her by while also sticking to her code of honor she carries with her every place she visits. Most people know her by the nickname "The Captain of Team Kick" (Nowadays she only goes by "The Captain") from her extended arsenal of kicking offense. Ranging from simple Front and Side kicks all the way up to Spinning Roundhouse kicks, Axe Kicks and her infamous Scorpion Kick, Dakota has come from humble beginnings to being a profound Striker.

Inside the squared circle, Kai is very explosive in her offence. Using her speed to generate momentum, she comes at her opponent delivering either lethal strikes or a impactful grapple. If she decides she wishes to go to the Top Rope, her opponent must be prepared at any moment for a Diving Double Foot Stomp. Besides her wrestling style, she possesses an impressive amount of stamina and endurance showing fans all around the world how she's able to stay in the match for longer than the usual competitor.

Once she had signed with World Wrestling Entertainment she was quick to form Team Kick with her best friend Tegan Nox where they would shortly become friends with Candice LeRae and Kairi Sane. Though they wouldn't get the chance to wrestle in televised tag team matches from both of them having suffered knee injuries. Once they were both cleared, the NXT Pay Per View WarGames had approached and that's when the world was shocked when Dakota Kai turned her back on her best friend, leaving LeRae in the cage to fend with Rhea Ripley. Soon after the event, Dakota would leave the company to pursue other goals.

## **HPW Career**

### **2020**

It's of no surprise that her new attitude quickly got her a lot of attention when she came to HPW. She made her intentions very clearly known, she was not here for titles or the approval of the HPW Universe, she was here to in her words "Put Wrestling back on track." Her detest for the humiliation aspect of the company was shown each and every time she went out into the squared circle where each and every time she would try and "Regain the honor in Women's Wrestling." In her debut match against Paige, Dakota successfully picked up the victory which then lead to a feud between them, as well as Sasha Banks, Liv Morgan and Allie. The rivalry between Sasha Banks and Dakota Kai versus The Prophecy had shown the fans of the product who Dakota had turned into after betraying her friends. She was ruthless, brutal and in most of the people's eyes didn't stick to the honor she claimed to have. During this feud, Dakota's knee injury came back to surface and while it only being a very slight injury, it put her out for a few. When she returned to the company, she attacked and seriously injured her long time friend Kairi Sane, so much so that she ended her career on the spot by putting her head in between a steel chair and stomping down on it. In the end, Dakota and her then tag partner had failed in putting down Paige and the returning Allie in a No Disqualification Tornado Tag Team Match after Dakota took a Superkick/Ram-Paige combination onto a steel chair to grant the two a three count.

This did not end there, when Dakota had gone missing once more from the company, she returned with a vengeance by challenging Allie to a match where no other Prophecy members could interject themselves, an Asylum Match. And even with Paige and Liv Morgan entering the cage to help Allie fight off Dakota, she managed to crawl away with the victory.

Not long after her run in with the Prophecy, Dakota Kai had went onto pick a fight with Jordynne Grace, ambushing her in the hallway and almost ending her on the spot if it weren't for her small showing of mercy. That would come out to haunt her as after the loss Dakota suffered against Becky Lynch, she'd get assaulted by the hands of Jordynne, sending her right to the hospital after the multiple stops she suffered while her neck was in between a steel chair. This lead to two matches that both ended with a draw, after countless assaults, they both had quite enough of each other. Finally the two would meet in a Hell In A Cell Match to settle their differences. After a spectacular showing, Dakota was ultimately put to sleep and pinned for the three count, the two exchanging a handshake after the match, even if nowadays their respect for each other is very much questionable.

Approaching the end of 2020, there would be renewed hostilities between Dakota Kai and the then HPW World Champion Sasha Banks. The two women seemingly had something against the other from the first time they saw each other. Confronting her multiple times about getting a title match, Dakota was denied each and every time. It wasn't until Dakota picked up a victory against Bayley and proceeded to hold her hostage with a chair to her neck, giving Sasha the ultimatum of either giving her a World Championship match, or seeing her friend and lover's career end then and there. Sasha gave into Dakota's demands, only to get laid out in the middle of the ring shortly after where in that moment Dakota would declare that their match would have the stipulation of being an I Quit Match. In one of the most brutal matches in HPW history, Sasha Banks would pick up the victory against Dakota by locking her into a Handcuff assisted Banks Statement, forcing Dakota to quit.

### **2021**

It wasn't until 2021 when we saw Dakota return to the company with various promo packages where she claimed that she was the one that had brought honor to the World Championship and that from that moment going forwards, she won't be showing any kind of mercy in her matches and in wanting to complete her goal in HPW of ridding humiliation and restoring honor. That would be clear when she would return to the company and face the debuting Konami in what many called a traditional Japanese Wrestling match. With Dakota picking up the victory against the woman that had no respect for her, she commended her that she was the first actual wrestling match she had in a while.

In the coming months, Dakota went on to face Kay Lee Ray in the woman's return match. That return was short lived as Dakota had once again ended someone's career on the spot, completely shattering her knee and rendering her unable to continue competing. And she was about to end the career of another superstar, that being Taynara Conti only to have her plans thwarted by Feisty Vee.

### **HPW Requiem: The Beginning Of The End**

At HPW's first ever Pay Per View, we would witness Kai go up against her former friend Candice LeRae. In the month leading up to Requiem, LeRae had thrown down a challenge to Dakota, to settle their long rivalry once and for all, to which Kai didn't even pay attention to by the looks of it. From there things only escalated when The Captain was closing in on ending another career, this time being Liv Morgan, only to be thrown to the ground by Candice, making the save. Kai followed up by using the same strategy that she used against Sasha Banks, to which LeRae had an answer by going to the Executive Enforcer Sonya Deville where the match would be set for Requiem. In the next match Dakota participated in, she would have to compete against Velvet Sky in a Wet Tee Shirt Contest, but just when the match was about to start, it would be turned into a First Orgasm Match. However that wouldn't be how the match would go down as The Captain beat down Sky into a literal pool of her own blood, ending her career on the spot. The pair of Dakota Kai and Candice LeRae would see each other one last time in the middle of the ring before they went on to fight in the opening match of HPW Requiem: TBOTE where after a 40 minute match Kai was unable to pick up the victory against her former friend.

After the match she would give LeRae her hand and shake it, but the heartwarming ending would be short lived as Kai smashed her knee into Candice's nose and was prepared to Punt the side of her head. That was not how it went down as Dakota's former best friend and tag partner would show herself in HPW for the first time, Tegan Nox had arrived and talked Kai out of injuring her friend. Without words, Dakota would take her leave from the ring while Nox tended to her friend LeRae.

## **In Wrestling**

### Finishing Move

* Kairopractor (Inverted Flipping Backstabber)
* GTK (Go To Kick)
* Spider Twist

### Signature Move

* Kaio Kick to a cornered opponent
* Finger Snap
* Diving Double Foot Stomp
* X-Plex
* Brainbuster

### Notable Moves

* Scorpion Kick
* Switchblade Kick
* Superplex Roll-Through into a Bicycle Kick
* Roundhouse Kick
* Penalty Kick (Occasionally followed up by a Double Foot Stomp)
* Tree of Woe Double Foot Stomp
* Knee Brace Bicycle Knee Strike
* Punt Kick

### **Entrance**

Theme Song : Kombat by def. Rebel

When the HPW Universe hear the base drop of Dakota's theme, it is with no hesitation that they almost boo her out of the building, that being amplified once Dakota steps out from behind the curtains. Skipping onto the center of the stage, Kai usually squats down and sways side to side while looking out into the crowd with disdain etched all over her face. Setting herself down onto one knee, she extends one of her hands forwards and forms her fingers into a chakra to show her Samoan heritage, while the other arm supports the other. Walking down the stage she pays no attention to the crowd only occasionally giving glances of disgust to fans who scream explicit content at her. Once she reaches the apron, she wipes the bottom of her boots there, before entering in the ring and once more extending her hand out to the crowd to show her ancestry.

### **Championships/Accolades**

* 2021 Anniversary Awards
	+ Move of The Year (Nominee)
	+ Heel of The Year (Nominee)
	+ Shocking Moment of The Year (Nominee)
	+ Feud of The Year (Nominee)
	+ Humiliating Moment of The Year (Nominee)
	+ Match of The Year (Winner - With Bayley)
	+ Woman of The Year (Nominee)

## **Personal Life**

Dakota is very much a private person outside her job ever since she had turned on her best friends, not appearing at any major signings or gyms. She however has been seen to be attending various independent wrestling shows on her own as a fan. Her current relationship status is unknown, but there were rumors in the tail end of 2020 that Kai had been dating fellow wrestler and 2020 Heel of The Year Winner Paige, but those rumors were proven false not long after.

She has a tattoo on her right forearm of her Pitbull named Puppy and has a degree in Graphical Design.