Nova

Alignment: face

Nickname: The Risen Star, Starchild

First Name: Nova

Date of Birth: 03/23/1979

Hometown: Parts Unknown

Height: 6'3"

Weight: 240

Manager(s):

Additional Information:

Gimmick: Nova is generally good-natured, at times even goofy, though the aloof slapstick stoner persona that accompanied him into PRIME as a young man has been tempered over time by life experience, trauma, and loss.

Bio: Nova arrived in PRIME in 2004 after several years of success in small independent promotions. He quickly moved up the ranks, twice capturing PRIME's 5-Star Championship in 2004-05, winning the 2005 Rising Star Award, and cementing his status as a main-eventer by fall of that year alongside others in the wave of new talent entering the company at that time. After return from an injury that derailed his progress in late 2005, Nova continued uppercard success in 2006, winning the Intense Championship and being named Face of the Year for 2006. The end of 2006 ushered in a period of both Nova's greatest success and personal turmoil, as a combination of factors driven principally by the death of his wife led him into a mental breakdown at the same time he captured PRIME's Universal Championship. As the face of the company, Nova formed a coalition with several other elite competitors to terrorize and sow chaos within the organization, while also constantly defending the top belt over the then-record six months that he held it. After a break following that tumultuous period, Nova returned in an administrative capacity as one of the members of PRIME's Cabinet to lead the company forward in 2008, reclaiming his status as a fan-favorite. That year he was induc

Theme Music: "Maggot Brain" by Funkadelic

Finishing Move: Bourbon for Breakfast

High angle Death Valley Driver (Nova hooks across the neck Death Drop-style w/ right arm, underneath left thigh w/ his left, hoists up, and spikes them down high-angle head-first into the mat)

General Moveset:

Common Moves: T-bone suplex, Texas cloverleaf, Kitchen sink, Multiple German suplexes, Double-arm DDT, Rising clothesline, Jumping calf kick, Body splash, Shooting star press

Trademark Moves: Dying Star Drop (leg drop bulldog), Novacaine (Spinning wheel kick to a steel chair held in front of the opponent's face), Horizontal Face-Pull Neck-Stretch Inverted Hurt-Plex Lock Bomb (Arm-trap crossface), In-NOVA-tor (Corkscrew cradle suplex), No Value (3/4-turn neckbreaker with 180* turn into a reverse DDT)