Blyss Lockhart

Wrestler Name
Blyss Lockhart

Real Name
Melyssa Faye Lockhart

Nicknames
The Bodacious Blonde (past)
One Woman Wrecking Crew

Age
25

Hometown
Chicago, IL

Height
5’8”

Weight
122 lbs

Twitter
@BlyssLockhart

Picture Base
Amber Heard


Favorite Specialty Match
None.

Specialty Weapons
None.

Entrance Music
“Dead to Me” by All for Nothing

Alignment
Neutral

Years Wrestling
6

Finishers


Blyzzard
Shooting Star Press that is performed after blowing a kiss either from the top of the turnbuckle or the top rope to the outside opponent.


Hart Attack!
Straight Jacket Neckbreaker that is either performed as a quick surprise anywhere or done when the opponent is sitting on the turnbuckle facing the crowd.

Signature Moves


BKO aka Blyss KnockOut (Running Busaiku Knee Kick)


Oh Sweet Bliss! (Inverted STF)

In-Ring Attire
Black caged back crop top, lace panelled faux leather tights and mid-calf wrestling boots with red-taped fists.

Fighting Style
High flying/technical/martial arts (Muay Thai)

Wrestler's Favourite Moves
Front Moves: Slap, multiple punch variations (including spinning backfist and uppercut), multiple elbow strike variations (including uppercut elbow and reverse horizontal elbow) multiple kick variations (including roundhouse kick and axe heel kick), multiple knee strike variations (including straight knee strike and curving knee strike) , multiple foot-thrust (including slapping foot-thrust and jumping foot-thrust), split-legged hangman’s neckbreaker, inverted leg drop bulldog, Gory neckbreaker, multiple suplex variations, DDTs, arm drags

Behind Moves: Russian leg sweep, sitout full nelson atomic drop, face crusher, slam opponent’s head down to mat, sleeper slam, schoolboy pin, back body drop, reverse bulldog, half nelson slam, hip toss, pumphandle slam, falling head kick, neckbreaker, overhead kick

Running Moves: Headscissors takedown, running high knee strike, hurricanrana, DDT, neckbreaker, tilt-a-whirl headscissors armbar, arm-trapped neckbreaker, crossbody (including corner Gail Kim style), lou thesz press with punches, leaping reverse STO, crucifix to pin, handspring back elbow, dropkick to knee

Aerial Moves: Diving double knee drop, crossbody, suicide dive (sometimes transitioning into a DDT), diving moonsault, 450 splash, diving leg drop, frog splash, front missile dropkick, diving hurricanrana, diving knee drop, tope con giro, no hands space flying tigersault, flying double foot stomp, suicide somersault senton

Submission Moves: Sleeper hold (jumping on the back with bodyscissors), rear naked choke, head scissors, butterfly lock, STS, flying cross armbar, headscissors armbar (sometimes tilt-a-whirl version), kimura to armbar, abdominal stretch, bow and arrow hold, surfboard, Damascus head-leglock, straight jacket, rope hung boston crab

Career Accomplishments
Rising Phoenix championship (126 days)
High Impact championship (48 days)

Ring Entrance
The arena lights dim as “Dead to Me” by All For Nothing comes on the PA system. A lone spotlight shines upon a figure that appears on stage looking up with arms spread out to the sides, hands open, back turned, red jacket hood up and long dirty blonde hair covering the sides of her face. Upon hearing the familiar music, the crowd bursts into surprised excitement mixed with some jeers.

Hope Cassidy
Introducing [first or his/her challenger] from Chicago, Illinois… Weighing in at 122 pounds…

As the music picks up in volume, the lights also begin to flash like crazy throughout the arena here, revealing the person to be Blyss Lockhart. The lights then stop flashing and she opens her eyes before spinning around on her heels. She surveys the crowd, taking her own sweet time, with a smile slowly forming on her face. She then takes off down the ramp.

Hope Cassidy
She is the One Woman Wrecking Crew…

When Blyss reaches the ring, she slides through from under the bottom rope. Then she climbs to her feet and sprints up the far corner onto the middle ropes. She stays bent and looking down, her hands resting on the turnbuckle.

Hope Cassidy
…Blyss Lockhart!

I won’t bow to weakness
I won’t bow to weakness
I won’t bow to weakness
So I will never bow to YOU!!!

Slowly, she looks up and straightens herself with a smile and somewhat mischievous glint in her eyes. She takes one final look at the crowd before taking off her jacket and dropping it onto the floor outside. She then jumps back down in the ring and stays in her corner as she waits for [her opponent/the match to start].

Biography
Blyss Lockhart is a 25-year-old girl from Chicago whose dream is to leave her mark on the wrestling world as one of the all-time greatest females to ever step in the ring. Easily excitable but she can be quite reserved with people, even her friends. She tries to keep her personal life away from the ring as much as possible.

Leading to her departure from IWF, her sudden unhinged behavior has caused problems both socially and professionally. She had isolated herself from most friends and family and cared little for them and even herself. Her issues eventually got the best of her despite beating Jay Halc at From The Ashes 2014. She has now returned for the final IWF show, seemingly like her old self.

During her leave from the ring, Blyss has kept herself active and maintains her athleticism and technical skills. However, she may have slight ring rust and her approach and style may be a lot more aggressive than before. She now takes high risks often, always hoping and aiming for high rewards. This allows room for spontaneous creativity and innovation but also a 50% chance for failure. Since the beginning of her career, her biggest strength has always been resilience. Her downfall may be her being over-ambitious.

[the following is not public fact]
It may already be known that she constantly struggles with her inner demon when dealing with certain issues. It is the sole reason why she would unnecessarily retaliate hard at times, always feeding her with negative thoughts and attempting to make her break relations with people she care and who care for her in return. It first became apparent to her when dealing with her mother’s death and feeling neglected by the rest of the family for sending her to therapy. It has now been “called back” in a desperate attempt to be stronger mentally which is actually a call for help but she’s so far gone that she’s unable to communicate that. People who aren’t close to her would not know or be able to tell that she’s fighting this “other personality” that’s slowly taking over her. It has always been a psychological issue. It has never been treated medically or in any other way either. Previously, she has ceased to care for consequences and does what she pleases. Now, her behavior and personality may still seem unclear.

IWF Career History

Current W/L Record: 30-21-2

‘First Lady of the Empire’
Lockhart first entered the IWF divas division when looking for more competition outside of World Elite Wrestling. Right off the bat, she made a shocking first appearance when she attacked Tiffani Michaels whom the then Queen of Wrestling champion Angelica Monroe had already hit with the title belt. Despite losing her debut match the next week against Michaels, Lockhart continues to put herself in the middle of the championship rivalry. At New Year’s Evil, following Monroe’s unfortunate accident, Corey Casey presented Lockhart with the Queen of Wrestling championship title after announcing that she’s the newest member of the Empire. However, that was short-lived as Monroe attacked her from behind which meant that the triple threat title match with Michaels was back on. Casey’s plan to bring home the title to the stable didn’t fall through as Lockhart was knocked out by Michaels’ California Dreamin’ finisher and lost the match.

Since NYE, Lockhart has been given poor match bookings as she faced the newest Insurgency signees and was tormented by Ruby Winters who claimed to be the true First Lady of the Empire. This frustrated Lockhart to no end, had even gone on to declare a “Bitch Hunt” where she vowed to decimate every diva who got in her way until she would meet Michaels once again for the championship at Rising Monarchy. It seemed to go well for Lockhart, wrestling-wise. Then Chuck Matthews came along to warn her about Casey’s hidden agenda in which Winters would be thrown into the title mix at the PPV. Lockhart refused to believe but the week before the PPV came the announcement by Casey where he added Winters into her match with Michaels. This obviously didn’t go over so well as Lockhart refused to work with the person who’s made her life in the Insurgency like hell. However, during the match, the two women worked together despite their hatred towards each other. Just as Casey’s second attempt to bring home the title into the Empire seemed to be working, Winters accidentally knocked her out with her Beauty Sleep finisher and then was in turn knocked out herself after Michaels delivered her finisher. This was a double blow for the Empire as two members couldn’t even win the triple threat in which they had seemed to be dominating at first.

‘Leaving the Empire’
Lockhart was more furious than ever and believed that she had been betrayed by her own stable mate, to which Winters denied it to be on purpose. On the following Battle Grounds episode, Lockhart went on to lose to Philip Joseph, a fellow Empire member, who ridiculed her by knocking her out with a foreign object given by another Empire member Axle Vengeance. Believing that she was being punished by Casey for two failed title matches, she secretly decided to take up on Matthews’ offer. On the same night when she lost the match against Cage and Walker, she wreaked havoc as she trespassed Casey’s office and attacked Joseph and Winters after their match with a kick to the head and her Blyzzard finisher respectively. She even had Winters taken away on a stretcher. Having had enough, Casey called her out to the ring and fired her from the Empire but Lockhart only laughed in response. It turned out that when she had given him a manila folder containing her letter of grievances and resignation from the stable which he just threw away. The Matthews siblings entered to back her up and handed her a new contract with The Order, granting her a winners-take-all mixed tag match (High Impact and Queen of Wrestling championship titles) at Ascension in March and for something closer to date, a payback singles main event match against Winters which she won despite an interference by The Empire.

‘On Her Own’
Lockhart had already begun exchanging bitter words on Twitter with Molly Reid some time back before both even joined The Order. The animosity between them grew even more when Reid beat Michaels for the Queen of Wrestling title at Nowhere To Run, meaning they would face off at Ascension. Gearing up for Ascension, Lockhart trained with Gordon Fury and they had a successful first tag match against the team of Steel Angel and Jaxx Ryder, The Human Highlight Reels. She then went on to beat Baron Blaze single-handedly the week before the PPV (while Fury made an open challenge to his title and won), adding good momentum to her team for the title match. This proved well against their opponents Reid and Blaze after weeks of heated verbal exchange on Twitter and in promos as Lockhart secured the winning pin for her team, winning the championship title she’s been chasing for since her debut in the Insurgency (and allowing Fury to retain his title). Celebrating the victory with them were her friends Tim Patrick, Jacob Figgins, Brandon Macdonald and Chuck Matthews singing Backstreet Boys “I Want It That Way”.

The world tour started the week after in Tokyo, Japan where Lockhart made the announcement of retiring the Queen of Wrestling title and renaming it the Phoenix championship, allowing competition from both male and female challengers. Afterwards, she extended the challenge to rookie Cassidy Smith at the upcoming PPV ‘Homecoming’. Later that night, she and Fury continued to pair up against new tag team champions GrandSlam in a title match. It resulted in a draw when Lockhart pinned Steel Angel while Parker Wayde did the same to Fury at the same time so the champions retained their titles. The following week in Brisbane, Australia, Lockhart did not compete but was booked in a random tag match with partner Figgins against Aries Armadaist and Ethan Cage in Belfast, Ireland where her team lost. In the final stop of the tour in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, it was announced that Smith had been stripped of his title match opportunity with her and was to be replaced with her friend Storming Raven. Later that night, she beat Wayde in a singles match, shocking everyone and proving her worth as champion.

Fast forward, Lockhart went on to successfully defend the Phoenix title against Storming Raven, Diana Logan and Megan Andrews on two different occasions and then face Sah’ta Thor in a huge title-unifying match. The Empire of Blood came to assist their leader and ambushed Lockhart in a 3-on-1 assault, prompting her friends to help even the odds. With everyone else out of the way again, Lockhart won and became the new Rising Phoenix champion.

‘New Era, New Opportunities’
At this point, it’s clear that IWF was entering a new era with Corey Casey gone, Alex Dillinger taking over, Tim Patrick resigning then becoming the Head of Talent Relations and the new crop of talents mixed with old faces who still remain. IWF has become bigger than ever, running two shows per week; its flagship show Battlegrounds and the starting-out Underground. Among the old faces was one that hadn’t been seen in long while. Tiffani Michaels made her return and the two still exchanged nothing but bitter words to each other. Lockhart put the Rising Phoenix title on the line against Aries Armadaist later on and lost. But with Ragnarok approaching, she shook off the great upset and focused on winning a shot at the IWF championship at From The Ashes by outlasting all other competitors in the Path to Valhalla match. Here, the two rivals met and Michaels eliminated Lockhart which sparked an even deeper hatred.

But after Ragnarok, Lockhart was given a special opportunity to face the High Impact champion Flex Johnson whereby a win would get her a title match with him at From The Ashes. Riding high on hope to the grandest IWF pay-per-view of the year, Lockhart and Johnson fought in a great battle to the finish which resulted in a loss for her. As if luck had come back on her side, she was quickly granted a rematch on the next Battlegrounds where she finally won her second gold in IWF. This became a significant turning point in her career where her professional image was concerned.

Meanwhile, a storm has been brewing as new signee Dean Vandal challenges Dillinger’s management methods. His claims are backed up by Underground General Manager Vinnie Paulos. They both joined forces to expose and take down Dillinger. Their cause caused more and more rumblings within the rest of the Underground roster and soon its members began invading Battlegrounds. This forces Dillinger to finally stand up against Vandal and Paulos at the next PPV aptly named Uprising. Lockhart was one of the six wrestlers handpicked by Dillinger to represent their brand against Paulos’ own chosen six. For Lockhart personally, it proved to be a great pickup for her career as she helped her team win, defeating Armadaist who had turned his back to be on the Underground team instead.

Following the PPV, the two brands became equal in terms of show standards. Lockhart began feuding with Tiffani Michaels again, this time for the High Impact championship. With their storied rivalry, the stakes were placed even higher in hopes to finally put an end to it as they faced off in a House of Mirrors match later at Pick Your Poison. Michaels beat Lockhart and left with the title, sending the former champion on a temporary downward spiral. She went on to face a fellow former Empire member Jack Savage which convinced her that life’s taking her backwards.

‘Gaining Ground’
Determined to revive her career now, she focused on a new opportunity given to the entire roster in a special huge handicap IWF title match against Gordon Fury. Newcomer Jason Halich won that one and became the new champion. By this time, there’s a lot of talks about Lockhart not being the same dominant wrestler she used to be and the accusations of being biased thrown at Tim Patrick had also extended to her as if her getting past title opportunities was only thanks to him. Lockhart pushed them all aside to focus on her career while helping her friend to cope with the stresses at the same time. But due to her also dealing with trying to fix her career again and other personal issues, the pressure finally got to her. She eventually ended their friendship and moved back to Chicago.

With this new fire in her, she teamed up with Nathan Propaganda to beat James Shark and Jay Halich in the main event of the Underground show in her hometown of Chicago. At Ascension, she went on to face Adorabelle, Savannah, James Betterman, Jack Savage, Johnny Cage, John Tolly and Mag Launcher in a huge ladder match. The women and Cage won the cases that contain the ticket to a championship match. Lockhart got the one for the IWF undisputed title which Halich won after beating Propaganda in the main event that same night.

After a shaky month of wins and losses, Lockhart finally met with Halich to cash in her title opportunity on the last Battlegrounds before Homecoming. It was such an intense battle that after Lockhart knocked out the champion with the BKO, she too fell and the match was ruled as a draw. This clearly frustrated her and shades of her old self were seen in the three weeks leading up to the PPV. The fight almost ended the same way but Halich managed to roll his shoulder over just in time and win the match with his championship successfully retained.

‘Rebuilding What Was Lost’
Following Homecoming, she was seen stalking Halich as he walked through the building all the way to his locker room. She seemed to want something from him but then quickly left. On the following Battlegrounds show, she continued to chase after him talking about strange things like hearing voices in her head and playing games. Since then, she’s been harassing him on Twitter about them and even went so far as to track him down at his own home. This clearly upset his girlfriend Haley Duncan but she brushed it off each time she was accused, seemingly without any care.

On the 100th episode of Battlegrounds, Lockhart was scheduled to face an opponent who fled the company one week before the match. The sudden news agitated her immensely as she went on a rant rampage both on Twitter and the show itself. This was becoming a pattern of behavior lately. She even mentioned how he had injured Fury, landing him in the hospital, and “stolen” the No. 1 Contender’s spot for the IWF Undisputed title. So with the lack of a match opponent, she made a public apology for not being able to put on a main event. However, her friend Shiloh Chapman volunteered to wrestle her for the sake of the show and the fans despite having already been in a tag match earlier that night. She eventually accepted and won.

With the IWF Undisputed championship title vacated due to a horrible sneak attack on Jason Halich, the new President and CEO Maeve MacGowan issued a Beat The Clock Qualifiers Tournament where 12 would become 6 participants in a huge title scramble match at Heroes Also Die PPV. After defeating Cynthia Cross the following week, Lockhart was given the opportunity to fight for her spot in the scramble against IWF newcomer Zack Jones. The two put on an amazing fight to the finish, clocking in at 22:16. However at Heroes Also Die, Lockhart was taken out of the match by a masked attacker after only just managed to secure a pinfall to be the interim champion. A medical crew had to attend to her backstage and she didn’t return to the match. She only broke her silence a few days after the PPV, still in denial about what happened.


‘Conquering Demons’
Completely obsessed to find out who had attacked her, Lockhart began accusing everyone including her friends. Soon she turned her sights onto Halich and confronted him without being too obvious because she had been the one who had injured him, forcing him to lose his title. Halich apparently already knew but decided to play along to get a confession out of her. Neither wouldn’t give in and so the hunt continued. Eventually, the masked attacker struck again following her match with the current undisputed champion Dexter Jacobs. That night served her a double blow with a huge loss against Jacobs as well as finding out that the attacker had been Parker Wayde all along.

There had always been bad blood between the two and currently a storm is brewing. Despite Lockhart’s twisted admiration for Halich in the beginning, the story has now changed to one of pure jealousy, hatred and revenge. The epic showdown happened in a sanctioned street fight at the biggest IWF pay-per-view of the year, From The Ashes. The match became a 3-on-1 assault when the Halich brothers intervened but Lockhart managed to hold her own. All hell broke loose when Lockhart delivered Wayde the BKO (running busaiku knee kick) before going on a rampage of chair attacks onto him outside the ring. Seizing the opportunity, Lockhart even got to successfully get her hands on the older Halich. The intense match finally finished with a DDT onto a chair and the Blyzzard, marking the end to a disturbing rivalry between Lockhart and Halich.

‘Road to Redemption’
Following the PPV, the IWF website issued a shocking statement that announced the release of Lockhart’s contract. According to an outside news source, Lockhart had refused to renew her contract or even answer when management tried to contact her. Ever since then, she has gone into hiding with no attempts for communication whatsoever.

When IWF announces its final show, Lockhart surprisingly answers the call for a match. Teaming once again with Molly Reid against the duo of Cynthia Cross and Beth Keaton, Blyss hopes to put the past behind and ensure nothing but the best display of in-ring skills and sportsmanship at One Last Stand.