Roger Finesse

Roger Cole (born May 30th, 1995) is an American professional wrestler and former basketball player, he is currently signed to CWL, where he appears on the Nemesis brand.

A trust-fund kid turned NBA drop-out, Roger's life has been full of twists and turns. Now with him finally establishing his footing as a dominant submission specialist on the Nemesis brand, Roger has finally lived up to the hype that came with his CWL signing, but where to from here, after he loses the Twitch title?

## Early life

Roger Cole was born on May 30th, 1995 to businessman Raymond Cole, a man who struck it rich with a Boston start-up company, who came to settle down in Hartford with his wife, Karen Cole, (née Richards) a talented soccer player. Roger lived a life of luxury, with nothing to deal with except petty issues that the less well-off would dream to deal with. He met with influential people and wore the most expensive clothes.

Roger got into sports from seeing his mother succeed in the world of soccer. It inspired him to one day reach those goals, and prove his mother that he was worth all the money poured his way. Such aspirations grew him to train and succeed in multiple sports throughout his middle and high school days. He was never good at soccer, but was a welcomed asset in the football, basketball and ice hockey teams of the J.P.M.H.S Growlers. He had scholarships from a multitude of universities to play numerous sports, (some financed by his father, and some offered due to the influence and potential donation money of his parents) but eventually decided on playing basketball for the University of Connecticut.

His scholarship boosted his ego massively. After all, all his fellow peers (despite him going to a private school) were doing jack shit, sitting around at home, but Roger was getting his entire tuition paid for, pursuing a hobby he loved, and lining up a job that could score him additional millions of dollars he could use to finance numerous things Roger held dear to his heart. Roger was a solid player, but while scoring consistently good numbers, and being genuinely useful to the Huskies' March Madness push, his ego rubbed scouts the wrong way, and his draft position slipped down. What was a solid mid-first round pick eventually slipped to the end of the second, eventually getting snapped up by the Boston Celtics, who made it very clear that any sort of personality-related fuck up from Roger would cause them to cut him from the roster.

Roger got his Summer League career off to a start very well, with 18 points netted against the Phoenix Suns, but the fifth game against the Utah Jazz was what screwed his career. In the 3rd quarter, while trying to go up for a rebound, Roger came down awkwardly on his right knee, and tore his ACL. He hopped on his left leg to the bench, but succumbed to the nagging pain about halfway there. He laid down on the floor, knowing that his NBA career had just ended before it even began. After the game, he phoned up the GM of the Celtics and asked (and then was granted) his release.

## After Basketball

The coming weeks and ensuing physiotherapy was very difficult for Roger. He was without a job, and had to search elsewhere for work. He knew he could just sit on his ass and be set for life, but Roger didn't strive for that, he wanted to prove the haters wrong, and he wanted to make his parents proud. However, his personality, even when toned down and in private, had driven his friends away. He had nobody to go to. He went through physio almost robotically. The fiery, confident spirit of Roger Cole, the jock you loved to hate, seemed to have vanished. He was always one for interviews, where his lack of filter often bit him in the ass but got the respect of his fans, but during this phase, he just responded kind of blankly. His fans were confused, what happened to Roger? Was he not training to make his triumphant basketball re-debut? He was officially a NBA flop. Roger knew this, and it took a toll on his mental well-being. He was now an example of the trust fund kid failing to do anything. His father could never tell him face-to-face, but he knew deep down that he was letting his father, his mother, and his fans down. At first, it ruined him, but eventually it fueled him. Roger Cole was going to prove the doubters wrong. Maybe not in the NBA, maybe not even in basketball, or any of the sports he played in high school. He was going to pick up something new and excel at it.

## Becoming Roger Finesse

He had always been sort of enamored with the world of professional wrestling, yet always had his hands full and could never pursue it. It wasn't a varsity sport, after all, and if there wasn't any opportunity for scholarships, he wasn't interested. As some sort of an in-between that he could be content with, Roger joined the amateur wrestling team, but was too tired out by his schedule to really put in the time and excel at it. After he was fully healed, and and few day's worth of critical thinking, he decided that professional wrestling was going to be his next profession.

Some say the best gimmicks are the beholder's personality cranked to 11. Roger decided that was going to be his gimmick. He asked JPMHS if he use it as the backdrop for his promos, and the gimmick of Roger Finesse was born. He was the guy you hated to succeed, loved to see beat, and just couldn't resist hating. His basketball personality of outspoken jock was cranked up a notch, and for the first time since his days in the NBA, Roger felt happy.

There was an issue, however.

Where was Roger going to wrestle? He was sure that the offers would come flowing in, but he only got one or two big money contracts, and the money being offered wasn't even to his liking. He was Roger Cole, after all, and Roger Cole was a name that deserved the big boy contracts in his eyes. After getting frustrated about all the offers he got, he took a gig for a Hawaiian promotion named the CWL. The CWL was where Roger Finesse would be born, and Roger Finesse was going to succeed.

## Ups and Downs

Roger Finesse signed the contract, and took off to Hawaii for his first match, but there was a massive problem awaiting him; he didn't know how to wrestle. While he cheesed his way through his first match, the subsequent matches were some awfully rocky roads for Roger. He might of faced a fellow rookie and got the win, but he was being booked against more experienced people. Size isn't everything in professional wrestling, and while Roger's 6'7 frame was nothing to scoff at, his general lack of knowledge on how to beat his opponents left the Headmaster of Finesse University more and more frustrated internally. Of course, his gimmick wouldn't allow him to show weakness in his promos. He was Roger Finesse, the most cocky bastard to ever walk into the squared circle, he had to keep up the facade of these losses, despite the number of them growing higher and higher, not meaning anything to Roger. It reached the climax when Roger, angry in himself and the company for not being good enough to ascend past the curtain jerker spot on the Vindication card, stormed into the CWL offices and requested his release. He was granted it, of course. The money they paid for him wasn't worth the results he was putting out, and the training wasn't working for him because he didn't believe in the CWL Performance Center trainers, and thus was training by himself in his home gym in the house he bought originally when he first signed. What was the purpose of keeping him on the roster? Roger Finesse would have to decide what he was going to do after this.

## Where to from here?

Roger faced the same predicament he had after requesting his release, but to a smaller extent. What was he to do? Pursue basketball again? He had received some offers from teams from all across the world, from places like China, Korea, the Philippines, and much more. He had decided to take a job offer from the Xinjiang Flying Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association, but a call from one of Roger's friends stopped him in his tracks. He met up with him, and after some serious discussion, a few drinks and a round of karaoke, Roger was eventually convinced to stay in wrestling, as he was told that his outspoken nature and no-filter interviews would "probably end up in jail time, torture or even death for you, bro."

His heart was set, and he was set on his trail to train, and eventually return to the CWL. He started training with a few pro wrestlers, including with his running buddy Ryan Quinn, and started to learn various forms of martial arts. Previously he had decided to become a submission specialist, but without the skills of knowing how to accurately pull of one of the submission moves he was trying to learn, his attempts were eventually fruitless. He decided to put his heart into studying and learning how to do submissions accurately, hoping that when he came back, he'd be able to pull off winning titles, and finally be taken seriously in the CWL. He was formerly a guy who couldn't back up his words, a dog that's all bark and no bite. That was to change. Roger Finesse was finally going to back up his words.

## A Chance at Redemption

Eventually, through long talks and negotiation, Roger signed a new contract with the company he slighted. He was quickly put to work on the Nemesis roster, eventually rising up the ranks, and provoking enough people to get the Twitch Champion to notice him. When those two were in the room, you could sense the animosity. He was as cocky as Roger was, and Roger didn't take kindly to who he deemed "imitators". However, as they were separated by brands, they never got the chance to clash. With Roger resigning, the fog stopping him from proceeding with kicking that man a new one had cleared out, His opponent was already baked, so Roger decided that he might as well provide a side-dish of whoopass soup and show this man how Finesse University dishes out their culinary degrees. They went to war, and this war eventually ended in Roger Finesse's first title victory.

## Fly High

However, Roger soon found out that his title victory was indeed the fluke his opponent had stated occurred that night, and he let his ego take over him. He issued a stipulation to his next opponent; He got 3 matches, if he loses any of them, Roger walks off with the belt. Roger, however, underestimated his opponent dearly, and those subsequent 3 losses did not look good on his record.

Roger's ego was soaring towards the Andromeda galaxy by then, and his title loss brought him down to Earth in a fiery crash. Roger was going to have to train more and more to get up to the level he had gotten to previously. Now, Roger was on the lazy side usually, not being assed to do things he didn't feel like he needed any improvement on, but Roger had taken the hint. He began changing his schedule from going out frequently drinking, to secluding himself in the gym. His focus was exclusively on getting back his title, and any parties and other fun excursions could wait until the celebrations. He looked back for answers on who to face, and like typical Roger Finesse, he challenged the current Twitch Title holder outright.

The title had changed hands to a man Roger had beef with. It had changed hands to the man who viciously assaulted him on his way back home to Boston after a Nemesis taping. Roger was hellbent on getting his title back, and while he was initially going to settle on building himself back up and earning a title shot from his excellent results, he decided that an attack and subsequent match was the logical next step.

He decided to get his revenge on his enemy by force, attacking him after bumping shoulders, then proceeding to write his signature on his forehead and dump some old bottle of Gatorade that he was intending to throw out on the defenseless man. His actions were inexcusable, and he spent the night in jail feeling that he had crossed the line.

However, Roger Finesse is not a man who crosses the line, Roger Cole might feel bad for what he's done, but Roger Finesse feels like it's his comeuppance for the unprovoked attack he suffered at the hands of his new, more formidable enemy. After he was released, he got on his plane and back to training.

When it came time for the rivals to fight, the result was one that was not expected. It ended swiftly by Roger tapping out Jacob with his new, much powerful Cross Armbar. While the cocky nature of his promos, while toned down a little bit, had stuck around for this new Roger, his style of wrestling had drastically changed. Gone was the Rock Bottoms and the Shoutens, and in were the cerebral arm-breaking submissions. Roger's style change had proven worthy of his time, and he received his Twitch title belt.

Roger's next opponent has called him out, but only time will tell whether the Headmaster will receive his next student, or if Roger will himself be schooled.

## Personality

Roger is an enigma of a man, whose personality can change based off his surroundings. If you're a friend of his, he'll be a chill dude in private, but will remain the same arrogant, effervescent man that the press know him as when he's in public. His drive is to make himself feel accomplished in life. He'll never tell you it personally, but he seeks deep down just to make his parents proud of him. He seeks to remove the stigma given to him by dropping out of the NBA, and seeks to prove that he isn't just some meathead trust fund kid who's way too successful for his own good. His drive to be the best is infectious to some, but annoying to others, but the sheer lengths he'll go to once motivated to reach the top of the mountain is worthy of some respect by his peers.

## Outside of Wrestling

Roger comes from a rich family, and as such, can fund many of the things he's passionate about. One of his hobbies is modifying vehicles of many kinds. Despite being anxious about high speeds due to some past experiences, Roger has a multitude of pimped-out rides scattered across the garages of his 3 mansions, located in Hartford, Boston and Honolulu respectively.

Roger is single at the moment, although it's due to a lack of trying more than a lack of women being attracted to him. He simply can't be assed to maintain a relationship when he's got more important matters at hand.

## Epilogue

The Headmaster of Finesse University is a complicated cocktail of confidence, passion and money that many don't understand. In two years of wrestling, he has won a title a total of two times. Will he move on to become the Ace of Nemesis? Will he go for the triple crown, teaming with Ryan Quinn then winning the Nemesis Heavyweight Championship? Or will he explosively bow out of the CWL for a third time? Only time will tell.