Reece Hancock

Art Depiction of Reece

**Reece Hancock** is an original wrestling character made by me for use within wrestling games as part of my own wrestling universe with friends. He is mainly used within the WWE 2k games where he is called a CAW, after the Create A Wrestler mode.

He was made and created for fun and has been one of the main focuses in the universe. In the universe we follow him as he grows, trains, learns and becomes the mighty champion he knew he could be. His journey is a difficult one full of people doubting him and trying to prove he is nothing. He is a fairly complicated character overall but I enjoy telling his story, watching his career grow and proving even short wrestlers can make giant careers.

## Inspiration

Reece is for sure one of my newer wrestlers out of them all. He was originally created to be this short-heel character. For him, I took inspiration from Seth Rollins, The Miz and other sorts of confident heels that annoy you but are talented. His original attire was just put together as I created him in the game but his newest one leaned more into the whole scorpion theme, his mentor and making him generally less neon.

All my wrestlers have some part of me within them and this holds true for Reece. He has my short height, my confidence, my stubbornness, my love to mess with people as a joke and finally my long but bad temper. This as a whole helps create this good but annoying heel character and where his whole character is pretending to be this egotistical asshole that allows him to be a step ahead of people.

## Personality

Reece is a very manipulative sort of character. Where he plays a character within the ring and during events but in reality is much different. In the ring and such he is an egotistical man who is full of himself, thinks he is the best, no one can defeat him and people should bow at his feet. In reality, he plays this character to trick people into misjudging his capabilities and power, while he makes and executes numerous plans with his mentor to get what he believes he is owed and show he is capable of backing up words.

Reece has a rather bad temper that has required him to learn anger management from his mentor to avoid acting out of turn. Despite this, his temper is rather long and it takes a lot of effort to break him and put him on edge. Loyalty and respect are very important for Reece, despite his character and being a heel. Reece will disrespect any and everyone but not those he respects. His respect stays for years, even if one hasn’t been seen in five or more years. He will take the time to plan and train, even to go as far as risking himself harm in the process. All this has been refined by Reece over the years to make himself harder to predict as well as harder to throw off his game.

## Moveset

Below are all of the moves Reece has used as a Signature or Finisher within his career.

### Finishers

#### Main Finishers

* Hancock Lock (Asuka Lock)
* Fatal Glory (Sunset Flip Powerbomb)

#### Rare Finishers

* Sin Inside (Murphy's Law)
* Superkick

#### Old Finishers

* Insulin Shock (Renamed to Sin Inside in 2012)
* Go To Sleep ( 2012-2015)
* Pedigree (2015-2018)
* Monarch's Hold (Renamed to Hancock Lock in 2018)
* Skull Tap (Was moved down to a Signature in 2020/21)

### Signatures

#### Main Signatures

* Skull Tap (Temporarily a Finisher between 2018-2020)
* Middle Rope Hurricana

#### Old Signatures

* Superkick (2011-2012 and 2015-2018)
* Running Hurricanrana (2011-2015)
* Basement dropkick (2012-2015)
* Punt Kick ( 2015-2018, dropped due to being deemed too dangerous)

## Theme Songs

Here are all of the Theme Songs Reeece has had over his Career.

### Current Theme

His current theme is the song Notorious by Adelitas Way with the intro of Bad Reputation by the same Band mashed in.

### Previous Themes

His first theme was Let's Jump by Camellia, which he used all through HCW and while Face within ROH. His second theme was then Crystal Black by The Enigma TNG for his Heel Run in ROH and all through his time in NJPW. His final theme before his current one was Bad Reputation by Adelitas Way, that was used through his time in NXT.

## History

### Hollywood Championship Wrestling

Reece joined HCW as his first wrestling company back in 2011 when he was offered a place by then named Ryan Wolf. The Company was made by Wolf and Reece was soon trained for what he would need to know. He was taught the Pumphandle lift into the Samoan Drop that would become his finisher the Insulin Shock. Then would create with Wolf, the Fatal Glory as his second Finisher. Reece would spend around a few months getting ready before debuting as Reece Maples.

Ryan Wolf would put Reece through multiple Handicap matches and put him against giant men that could squash him. Reece due to his lack of experience and skill would lose many matches being ridiculed by Wolf each time. Reece, despite this, trained hard and would carry on trying to get better, prove Wolf wrong and win a match. When it finally looked like Reece would win a match at the end of 2011, he was attacked by Johnny Gargano. This would result in a rivalry with Reece getting a minor injury with no recovery time.

After that rivalry Reece’s matches would come together, basically becoming a jobber, getting matches with highly established names just to lose to them. Reece would become increasingly frustrated and would come to hate Ryan Wolf. Despite this frustration and hate he kept on in hopes something would change. During one of the pay-per-view events of 2012, Reece would be approached by a man offering real training and a chance to be more than a jobber. Reece accepted the offer and a month later in June 2012, would leave HCW for good. Upon leaving Reece gave up the name Maples, the Insulin Shock and the Superkick to try something new and leave his past behind him.

### Ring Of Honor

A month after his departure from HCW, Reece would be seen debuting on Ring Of Honor under the name Reece Hancock. Reece would have a new and improved Signature and Finisher lineup, with the GTS and Basement dropkick in place of his previous Insulin Shock and Superkick. Reece would start off in the company as a Face, slowly improving his mic and ring skills before earning a shot at the ROH Television Title in September. He would lose this match against Adam Cole before losing another shot against him in February of the following year.

Reece wouldn’t get another chance towards a title until March 2013 when ROH told Reece to find a partner and try Tag Matches. Reece took his time considering the roster carefully before learning about Karl Anderson’s success off seas at New Japan Pro Wrestling. Reece would ask Karl for a team up, with them soon after becoming the Thunder Scorpions. With Karl’s help, Reece would quickly learn and get used to Tag matches, earning the team a title shot in July.

Reece would win the ROH Tag Team Championship with Karl from reDRagon, holding onto it for 7 months. Thunder Scorpions would lose the championship from the same team they won it from in February 2014. A month later the Thunder Scorpions would disband on good terms due to Karl winning a championship in NJPW. Reece would stay in ROH and wrestle further until leaving in May 2014.

### New Japan Pro Wrestling

#### Young Lion

In June 2014 Reece was found in Japan as a Young Lion. He would spend months training and proving himself in matches on the show. Later, in August he would be one of the first Young Lions to receive a shot at the NEVER Openweight Title. Reece would successfully defeat Yujiro Takahashi for the title, earning his first singles title. He would hold onto this title until December when he would lose it to Togi Makabe. Despite this defeat, Reece kept on strong, defeating numerous members of the official NJPW roster.

#### Bullet Club

In February 2015, Reece would officially graduate from being a Young lion and join the Bullet Club as the Monarch Scorpion. Within Bullet Club Reece would serve as general support for other members and even take on singles matches with Bullet Club support. By August Reece was proving himself to be a fast-learning and rapidly improving member, earning himself a shot at the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title. He would defeat Kushida for the title, claiming his second title within NJPW.

However, Kenny Omega would judge Reece on his win, deeming him unworthy of such a grand title. Kenny and Reece would continue having a dispute about Reece’s worthiness before Kenny would defeat Reece for the title in September after a long hard-fought match. This match earned Reece Kenny’s Respect where The Young Bucks would be ordered to work with Reece. Reece would have many matches with the Young Bucks through October and most of November where the Young Bucks would persuade him to go for the previously unobtainable ROH Television Title.

Reece would successfully win the title from Roderick Strong at the end of November before then winning the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team title with the Young Bucks in February 2016. A month later Reece would lose his ROH title to Tomohiro Ishii, before losing his tag title to Hiroshi Tanahashi, Michael Elgin and Yoshitatsu in April. At this time Kenny had lost the Junior Heavyweight title to the same man Reece won it from, Kushida. This caused Bullet Club to encourage Reece to win the Best Of The Super Juniors Tournament, and then bring the title back to the club. Reece would take the Tournament on as asked, defeating Ryusuke Taguchi to be the winner of Block A, before defeating the winner of Block B Will Ospreay in June.

In the following Domination Reece would challenge Kushida for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title as expected by his Bullet Club peers. Reece would win this match, securing this second reign with the title. Reece would continuously defend and keep his title until January 2017, when Kushida would once again win it. Reece would take a break from titles and focus on supporting the club before being constantly bugged by Kenny about the G1 Climax Tournament. Reece would give in to Kenny and take part in it from July, reaching the finals in August where he lost to Kenny himself.

At the start of 2018, Reece would once again try and win the Intercontinental Title but would just fall short. With this loss Reece would work even harder, pressing multiple Bullet Club members to teach and train him, not wanting another title loss. In March Reece would win the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship from Jay White, making his fifth NJPW title win. He would hold the title until July when he would lose to Juice Robinson. Following this Reece would leave the Bullet Club on good terms and leave the company to return to America.

### NXT

His return to America started with Reece debuting at NXT in August 2018 as The Dream Guy, Reece Hancock. Reece would grow his heel personality in this brand, being more full of himself, less aggressive and more concerned about himself. In October he would try to take the NXT Championship from Tomossa Ciampa. Despite Reece’s efforts though, he would lose the match. Later in March 2019, Reece would be highly surprised when he found out he would be in the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic with Kassius Ohno.

With little to no choice in the making and unable to force a loss Reece would progress through the Tournament, winning it later that month. Reece would give Kassius a chance due to the win and go after the Tag Team titles with him in April. They would together win the title off the War Raiders, getting on well before starting to argue due to their different morals. This led to losing the title in August where Kassius had to defend the titles alone against the Undisputed Era. The betrayal was not taken lightly by Kassius causing the team to disband and a rivalry that would end in October with Reece winning the final match.

With Kassius finally out of the way, Reece would continue fighting in singles matches once more, carefully watching The Undisputed Era, led by his former Bullet Club ally Adam Cole. At this time the Era had in Reece’s opinion weakened Cole and made him unworthy of being called an ex-Bullet Club Member. As such Reece would climb the ranks of the NXT North American Championship ladder, becoming the number one contender by early January 2020. Later that month he would fight Undisputed Era member Roderick Strong for the title.

Reece would win that match, breaking the truce he had privately made with Cole upon his arrival to NXT. Cole and he would have minor disputes over it, Reece brushing off Cole and his team as ‘worthless peasants’, successfully defending his title multiple times. By August Cole had enough and would interfere with Reece’s match against Damian Priest, resulting in Reece losing the title. Reece, now furious at Cole’s actions, would go into a ruthless long two-month rivalry with him, getting the final win in October. Reece would stand around in NXT for another month before getting tired of the ‘lack of competition’, joining his mentor on Smackdown soon after.

### Smackdown

Reece would not be in wrestling for the rest of November and most of December. In this RANIK had secured himself as the ruling body of Smackdown alongside Darin, making Nick Black pay for his defiance. At the end of December 2020, RANIK would debut Reece, ripping Nick’s contract, giving him the WWE Intercontinental Championship and forcing Nick to lay down for Reece. Reece would of course win the title, making him one of few to win a title on his debut. He would be placed inside Betrayal alongside 2 Twisted Merk and Casey Winters.

Reece would continue to follow orders from RANIK, keeping hold of his title until July 2021, when he would lose it to Bane at Money In The Bank. Later that night Reece would win RAW’s Money In the Bank Match with help from Mach Bear. With Smackdown’s own Briefcase won by Merk, the two would focus on Stitch’s WWE World Heavyweight Championship due to Stitch’s interference with RANIK and Betrayal. RANIK by early August would have enough of Stitch and disseminate him with Reece taking advantage and cashing in. This marked Reece’s first win of a heavyweight singles title. In the past months, Johnny Gargano had been constantly in Reece’s face. This would result in the two having a match at Summerslam 2021. If Reece won, he could get an Intercontinental Title shot and if Gargano won he would get the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.

Reece without any help would destroy Gargano, keeping his title and getting the title shot. The following month Reece would take his title shot and fail due to interference from a Jay 2 Key.  J2K would be revealed to be Reece’s old boss Ryan Wolf.  Reece would do his best to ignore J2K as he continued to defend his title before reaching his limit. With orders from a furious RANIK Reece would begin a rivalry with J2K in November. The rivalry would last for three months, Reece successfully defending his title twice, in January and then February.

With J2K long behind Reece he would move on to Wrestlemania 38 and defend his title from the Royal Rumble winner Stitch. Later in June Reece would lose the title to Terry Mason thanks to Ciampa. Unhappy with an old enemy ruining his title reign, Reece would have a ruthless but short rivalry with Ciampa. Reece would win the rivalry overall in July, earning a title shot for the title Ciampa made him lose.

Later that month, Reece would successfully win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship back, starting his second reign with the title. Reece’s second reign would last until November 2022 when he would be suddenly challenged by his own mentor RANIK and lose the title once more.  2TM would follow suit by removing Reece from Betrayal, deeming Reece too powerful and dangerous. Reece would brush off the removal from Betrayal, having known Merk’s crazy and egotistical ways and stay aligned with RANIK despite the loss.

Reece would at the start of 2023 win the Intercontinental Championship from Gargano before a jealous Merk would defeat Reece and finally claim a title for himself. In this match, Reece was nearly put out of Commission for good if not for unlikely aid from his most hated enemy J2K. Reece would fight Merk for the title back in March, with J2K fighting a furious RANIK. Both Reece and J2K would win their matches, resulting in Betrayal and ALL their allies unable to touch Reece ever again. Reece would go to defend his title, cutting full ties with RANIK and creating the Golden Monarchs with newfound friend J2K in June.