"The Executioner" Edward Samson

Edward Samson is an American professional wrestler who is currently a member of TWOstars. He was, for a long time, managed by “The Lord Justice” Lucas Thorp but currently is the partner and general bodyguard of Johnny Rockefeller. Since their debut in mid 2008 the self proclaimed "Lord Justice" and his Executioner have taken it upon themselves to punish those within the world that they see as having done wrong.

=Background=

Edward Samson
Unsurprisingly he wears an old fashioned executioner’s hood which is kept in place by a strap under his chin. The mask is black and leather.

He wears leather-type trousers (much like Alex Shane used to) and wears nothing on his body except two straps that start from his waist band, cross at his chest in an ‘X’ shape and over his shoulders, sort of like dungaree suspender things (Haha, hope that makes sense). He wears simply black boots, and long fingerless gloves – stopping just before his elbow (the gloves, not his boots). Unsurprisingly, they are of a black nature as well. His chin is stubbly and his teeth are yellowish, a rough and gruff guy who isn’t a muscle man. Rather stocky in build, he’s not particularly toned.

He is a silent monster, having never spoken a word since his debut. With his manager doing all the talking and decision making for him, Edward is more than content to let his actions express what’s going on inside. The Lord Justice is his guider; from how Edward wins matches to what he has for breakfast, Lucas has a say in all of it. The Executioner seems to depend of Lucas, finding it incredibly hard to do anything without his manager instructing him to one degree or another. If Lucas is suddenly removed and Edward has been given no guidance then, rather becoming an angry psychopath, he becomes almost harmless... a lost puppy.

There have times where he adds two and two together and makes five, where he has decided that punishment is necessary when really there is nothing wrong – sometimes his own twisted views take over and cause him to act in irrational ways.

The Executioner believes that people must learn through pain, only through that will they realise that their crimes were not worth committing and will help them in their future actions. Only through spilled blood will the wrong truly reach redemption. This unfortunately does mean that executioner feels weapons are a necessary part of his arsenal. He is a violent man, and although some might try to claim sadistic, that would be completely wrong – he simply believes in retribution; an eye for an eye.

Lucas Thorp
The self proclaimed 'Lord Justice' has good faith that he is a necessary good. He believes that the world is guilty and so each will pay through his decision. It is his morality that Edward acts under.

He is a qualified philosopher, having specialised in Hume and ethics - although his knowledge goes much further than that. He is fairly well respected in general philosophical circles for being a brilliant debater, even if many of the ideas he comes out with are questionable.

When declaring someone guilty, Lucas carries a rolled parchment on which is the punishment. He has trouble with his eye sight and so owns a pair of bent spectacles that he keeps in the breast pocket of his jacket.

He wears a suit, old and well worn. It never quite seems to be completely clean but it suits his general demeanour.

Lucas will happily sacrifice Edward for a greater good, only caring about his own gain. Many question how dedicated he is to his morality (some wonder if it even makes coherent sense) – or if it is instead a veil hiding his desire for personal wealth.

=Career=

Debut & First Title Reign
When XTV4.12 was interrupted by black and white strobe lighting and the TWOtron showed nothing but a blank white screen accompanied by a threatening voice promising a new age of equality, most ignored it as nothing but idle threats. What these people didn't realise is that Lucas Thorp, and his Executioner Edward Samson, had arrived.

Making a huge impact on the first ever Wednesday Night's Main Event, debuting against Keith Jaxx, Lucas came out and told everyone that the opponent had been found guilty of sexual assault. After the match was won, the punishment was carried out and Jaxx was hung by Edward.

Immediately people started to sit up and take notice; the next step for the combo was when Edward won a title shot at the TWOstars Television title at Endgame 2008. The Executioner went on to win the title from CVD - Craig was going for his 5-Star-Frog-Splash when Lucas climbed onto the apron, hooking the noose round the champion’s ankle and so stopped him from being able to fly...

What should have been a glorious victory and fantastic title reign came to a very sudden stop. During XTV4.17 Lucas Thorp filmed himself out in the middle of nowhere. He cursed the TV Title as a distraction to those whose goal it is win it, and felt the only way to attain the equality he so desperately searched for was to get rid of the belt. With that, he threw the title into a bin and promised that Arron Winter would never find it.

Elsewhere on the show, due to the Draw of Death theme throughout the night, Edward Samson and Joseph Helms were to meet in a Hair VS Hair match. Edward entered the match alone, Lucas still in the middle of wherever, and seemed somehow lost. Refusing to let go of his noose, the match ended in a DQ after Edward went insane and severely attacked the vampire. Fortunately Joseph escaped without much damage but felt incredibly cheated when Edward removed his mask to reveal he was bald - the loss meant nothing to him. To such a degree did Joseph feel screwed that, later in the night, he attacked the still-mask-less Executioner. Tearing at his head it has been since reported that Edward now has a permanent scar due to the vampire - things between these two men are yet to be resolved.

XTV4.18 saw Arron Winter stripping Edward Samson of the TV title, but as far as Lucas is concerned they are still the rightful champion.

He has made it a new aim to rid TWOstars of the gold that blinds the journey of so many innocents.

Sickness
XTV4.19 - the single biggest match of these two men's careers at that point. They were part of a tag match that saw Draven Cage and Sickness teaming up against Edward and Apollo Chambers. Sickness and Draven Cage, both tag team specialists who had never been on the same side before, fighting against DC's former partner and an unknown newcomer. To say the least, emotion was running incredibly high and it ended with Edward Samson winning the match by pinning Sickness; after taking advantage of the concussion the Mini Monster had suffered the week before.

Coming out the next week (XTV4.20), after a match involving Sickness and Angus McDonald, The Executioner laid both of them out along with the manager and long time friend of Sickness, Boyo. Later in the night he lost to Twiggie, the final member of the Dark Alliance, but only after failed interference from Lucas Thorp thanks to Boyo stopping the Lord Justice.

Lucas went on to declare his new mission was to rid TWOstars of all the titles in the company - one at a time. Meanwhile, Sickness had gone on a journey of self-rediscovery... but when Edward was booked to face him, someone was going to pay. And so during XTV4.22 Boyo was assaulted by the Executioner and since 'the old Sickness' returned the two men have been caught up in a horrific war of epic proportions. At Genocide 2008 they competed in a triple threat match for the United States title (where defending champion Famous retained) and Sickness left Edward bleeding terribly.

During this, on XTV4.26 Lucas explained that in the interest of punishing each opponent Samson was going to begin utilising submission moves and forcing opponents to tap out.

With Edward's mask stolen by Sickness the battle was quickly becoming incredibly personal. When both men were entered into the Submission-Only Elimination Chamber at End of Days 2008, many hoped this would be the deciding contest. Edward won, forcing Sickness into a state of unconscious rather than making him submit and in the process became the Triple Crown champion (earlier in the match, Edward had eliminated then-champion Barry Gower first, showing an incredible and unpredicted brutality).

Due to Sickness falling unconscious Lucas and Edward's title win has been questioned. Many feel he didn't legitimately make Sickness submit so a rematch was made for World War 2008.

In the lead up to their big clash Edward and Lucas repeatedly attempted to make Sickness submit - not seeing any sense in waiting until the PPV. However each time Edward's numerous submission holds just could not finish him off.

Everything seemed to be in the court of the Dark Alliance member and never more so than during XTV4.33, when Boyo returned to the shock of all the fans bringing with him The Judge. It was revealed that Lucas and Edward had kidnapped the Law Enforcer months earlier and a match was made to settle the score. Unfortunately Edward won using a new move, The Texas Cloverleaf - a favourite move of Boyo's. It was later revealed that Lucas, knowing that Edward couldn't make Sickness submit under his own power, visited Twiggie in rehab and got him high in a clever plan to learn the secret of Boyo's feared finisher.

So at World War in a Barbed-Wire-Rope-Submission-ONLY match, after both men bled and collapsed before being revived to fight on, history was MADE as Edward Samson forced Sickness to tap with his newly acquired Texas Cloverleaf.

Kool Kontroversy
During XTV4.38 Edward was booked to fight a newcomer in the shape of Stuie Kool. Making his debut, many didn't expect much from the youngster but whatever they were hoping for certainly wasn't what they got. Edward brutalised the young man - delivering big move after big move. After earlier in the night Lucas had grown angry at his monster for seemingly showing signs of weakness, he demanded that the match against Kool was his one chance to re-impress the manager. And by goodness he did that. Finally finishing off the match, a now-happy Lucas Thorp demanded that Edward hung Stuie over the top rope.

However it appears that Kool suffered some serious damage during the match and the hanging was something too far. His lungs couldn't handle it and as of today no one quite knows what kind of condition the young man ended up in. All that is known is he hasn't wrestled another match.

A Bad Christmas Treat...
After the absolutely history making victory at World War, Edward Samson and Lucas Thorp were on top of the world. However, in heading towards Season’s Beatings the General Manager Arron Winter called the worth of TWOstars Triple Crown champion into question. Week in and week out he had the Executioner jump through hoops to prove that he was the ‘real deal’.

Winter forced Samson to partner with him so he could get an up-close and personal look at Edward before, on XTV4.37, facing the champ off against Angus McDonald.

In a thrilling bout that saw the Were-train and Edward battle backwards and forwards it finally ended with the Dead-Eyed Killer submitting for the first ever time to a Cobra Clutch. Unsurprisingly Lucas was outrage by this loss and stripped Edward of his noose and mask, warning that he should earn it back. Earn it back he did through his battle with Stuie Kool (check “Kool Kontroversy”).

So the end of 2008 was celebrated with Season’s Beatings. Edward was forced to team up with Arron Winter – who had finally conceded that the champion might be worth something – against Sickness and the returning legend Boyo (together better known as The Dark Alliance) for the TWOstars Tag Team titles that had been out of commission for more than a year. Sickness turned on his friend of more than five years, laid out Edward Samson and took the tag belts with the General Manager in one of the most controversial and heated betrayals ever seen in wrestling.

... & An Even Worse New Year
Into the New Year and Edward and Lucas just could not escape this new team of Sickness and Arron Winter – now calling themselves The Blood Alliance; at every turn they were taunting, chasing, hunting the Triple Crown champion and his manager.

It came to the first PPV of 2009, Battle Royal, and Edward was defending his titles against four other men. It ended when he was knocked cold out by Sickness before his long time enemy let Arron take the victory.

Later in the same night was the Battle Royal match – a thirty man over the top rope nightmare. Entering at number one, Edward a man on a mission; willing to do anything to get a title shot at WrestleNova. When it came down to the last three men – Sickness, Angus McDonald and himself it seemed like victory was within reaching distance... but unfortunately the man who cost him his titles also cost him his chance of redemption; Sickness was able to eliminate Edward from the Battle Royal.

On The Wrong Side Of The Tracks
The biggest wrestling event of the TWOstars calendar was coming in quickly and Lucas Thorp was nowhere near taking back the Triple Crown title.

Edward was granted a rematch against Arron Winter at XTV4.43 - but before the two men were able to square off, the General Manager came out and explained that due to Angus McDonald winning the Battle Royal the Scot was guaranteed a title shot at WrestleNova V and that meant that Winter was not willing to risk a repeat of the Television title fiasco. And so Edward and Lucas were refused the rematch in fear that the Lord Justice would throw away the belts again if they were to win.

Furious, Lucas decided to target Angus McDonald - the man stopping him from getting a rematch for the Triple Crown title. Promising to hunt the Tartan Spartan until he was put out of action, Angus quickly realised that this wasn't good in any shape, size or form for him.

Things only got worse when Edward lost a match against Drake Rush where the loser was banned from getting any Triple Crown title shot while Arron Winter was champion. Begging Angus, Lucas promised to do anything if, at No Remorse, the Scot put his WrestleNova title shot on the line. Angus being the kind old sod he is agreed to the match but revealed that if Edward loses then Lucas was to be servant to the Immortal Highlanders for a fortnight.

At No Remorse after an incredibly hard fought battle Edward lost to Angus after two Ranhei's (one of which was off the top rope).

The Man In A Hood Against The Man From The Hood
So for XTV4.47 Lucas was slave to the Immortal Highlanders. Lucian L. Jones, a friend of the Highlanders, decided to join in the fun and arguably took things too far by asking the manager to carry out incredibly humiliating tasks.

After Angus forbid his slave from seeing Edward on XTV4.48, because he wasn't getting all his work done, Lucian offered to pass on any message that Lucas had (a pang of guilt hitting him from the cruel jobs he forced Lucas to do). However this led to Lucian trying to fool Edward into taking a dive during a match between them on "Lucas' orders". Unfortunately it didn't quite work out but in this harmless prank Jones made a serious enemy with the Lord Justice.

A rematch was made for Hell To Pay between Edward and Lucian, the Lord Justice hoping to teach the youngster a lesson for his cheek.

Costing Lucian his chance at the Television title, Lucas led him into a trap where the King of Bling was hung from a hydraulic lift and whipped by Edward.

This led to, when a brawl broke out during XTV4.50, the three men involved in this feud being arrested and taken to a local jail where Lucian threw a number of serious home truths towards Lucas - claiming that the entire philosophy and judging was all just to make himself feel better as really he's a lonely, sad man.

At Hell To Pay Lucian threw everything he could but came up just short of a massive victory - even kicking out of the Death Penalty. Unfortunately you can’t prepare for what you didn’t know existed, and when Edward unleashed a new finisher (Retribution) there was nothing Lucian could do but stare at the lights.

Heading To Nova V
Lucas was determined that he was going to be involved in the WrestleNova main event – the biggest show TWOstars has ever ran WAS going to end with Edward and him regaining the Triple Crown title.

It was announced that XTV5.01, the beginning of the new wrestling year for TWOStars, was going to be a Night of Champions and see every title defended... not only that but it would be the only time the Triple Crown belts could be put on the line until WrestleNova. Lucas set up a plan to get himself this crucial shot, but during a triple threat match between Edward, Draven Cage and Evil Gringo (the winner going up against Sickness at Night of Champions), it was DC who ended up coming out the victor.

All seemed lost, Angus was in the main event at WrestleNova V and Cage was getting the only title shot available... It looked like Lucas’ luck was completely out. However while the Lord Justice was desperately trying to get involved in the title picture another superstar had been working towards getting himself a career-making opportunity. Famous announced on XTV4.51 that, thanks to General Manager Darkstar, there was going to be a match at WrestleNova V for the Money in the Bank briefcase... and he was going to be in it against an unnamed opponent. The next week Famous was attacking a member of the audience when Lucian Jones interrupted the beating – saving the innocent from a one-man con-chair-to – and chased the A-lister of.

Finally XTV5.01 rolls round and somebody smiles down on Lucas and has handed his man a match against newcomer Jack Eastwood – the winner getting a place in the Money in the Bank match. Elsewhere though, after Lucian interfered in Famous’ business the Future Hall of Famer happily accepted the leader of the Jonestown Mafia into the MitB match, making it a triple threat. Edward entered his bout ready to destroy Eastwood... and didn’t even have to throw a punch. Jack was feuding with a Dirk Valentine at the time and so felt he had no time for anything else – he offered to just give the match to Lucas, and the Lord Justice happily accepted.

It’s sometimes amazing how quickly things turn around, in a week Lucas has went from the bottom of the barrel to heading towards his Nova main event. He revealed that he had a three-step plan. They completed step-one by defeating Eastwood, step-two was to win the briefcase and the third would come into play when Edward entered into the WrestleNova main event and won it. However more immediately his Executioner had two pesky Nova opponents to deal with; Famous had taken to carrying around a briefcase due to how sure he was... and when he used it to knock Lucian out cold in the middle of the ring during XTV5.02 the Justice Keepers of TWOstars couldn’t keep their noses out. Taking the beaten Lucian, they tried to handcuff him to the ropes... but in an amazing moment of Houdini-style quickness, Lucian was able to trap the Executioner, binding him to the ropes, before finally gaining his revenge on the Lord Justice who had been torturing him for close to two months. He delivered a very nasty b*tch slap, complete disrespect and gaining a huge ovation from everybody around the world.

The final week before WrestleNova... the world watched as Lucian Jones and Edward Samson started towards another fight. Lucas was in a neck brace from the attack the previous week by Jones, when security came to break everything up. The GM warned that he wasn’t going to lose control of everything and that he will send them back to jail if necessary. Lucas realised that it should wait for Nova and left... however when Famous skulked out of the shadows and provoked the King of Bling, a fist was thrown and Lucian was kicked out of the building... and that should have been the end of that. Unfortunately wrestling is never as simple as that – a camerawomen, Jodie, was told to follow Jones for the evening as it was suspected Edward would turn up at some point. Lucian used his cheeky charm on her and invited the young lady back to his hotel room... only to find Edward waiting inside it. They started to brawl but an end was never seen as they fell into Jodie and the camera cut out.

At WrestleNova V, in the triple threat match Famous was able to pin Lucian after Edward was tossed out the ring by the Sultan of Swagga and take the Money in the Bank briefcase for himself. After all the plotting and intensive planning... everything fell apart for Lucas at the very last hurdle...

The Race To Redemption
Unsurprisingly after the outcome to Nova V, Lucas Thorp was quick to blame Lucian L. Jones for his loss. As Edward and Lucian broke out into ANOTHER brawl on XTV5.04 they were stopped by the General Manager Darkstar. He revealed that he was prepared for this and so was booking the two men into a match at the next PPV, Redemption. Until the match, none of the three men involved (Darkstar wasn’t silly enough to overlook Lucas) are allowed to lay a fist on the other. Darkstar went on to reveal that, as an incentive to keeping their hands off of one another, he had created an idea that he called the Race to Redemption.

The rules to the race were:


 * The winner of the race would be given the right to name the stipulation to the match at Redemption.
 * To become the winner you had to earn points – these were earned with every victory in any sort of match either of the competitors was involved in.
 * The race ended on the last XTV before Redemption (5.07) and the stipulation must be named by the winner.

From this Darkstar pointed out that earlier in the night Lucian Jones had teamed with Randy Roko and got a victory over Edward Samson and Jason Bell – this put the King of Bling into the lead with 1-0.

XTV5.05 saw Edward win his match and Lucian lose his taking them to a 1-1 draw. Later in the evening Johnny Rockefeller was facing off against Sickness when suddenly the Rose of Rosedale revealed he had found a partner for his match. Out he brought the Executioner to everybody’s surprise, as he had already fought earlier in the night. Edward’s old foe couldn’t deal with the handicap and ended up losing the match – taking Samson up to a 2-1 lead in the Race. Later in the night Lucas was called into Darkstar’s office where a fuming Lucian was waiting. The Sultan of Swagga’ felt that the Lord Justice forcing himself into a match he wasn’t booked to compete in was cheating the rules of the race. Lucas argued that it was no more cheating than awarding the first point to Lucian when neither entrant knew they were taking part in the match.

Darkstar, listening to both men argue backwards and forwards, finally intervened and said that the 2-1 stands. However he went on to say that to stop any more sort of cheating the final week of the competition was going to see neither Edward nor Lucian compete. Instead they were both going to choose someone to represent them in a match... they were going to Pick Their Poison, and whichever representative won the match earned their man 2 points. This way, with this one victory, the race was open to either of the men winning it.

So XTV5.06 rolls round and we started the night with Darkstar wanting to know who had been picked by both men. Lucas revealed that he hadn’t been able to find somebody and so was forced to pick a name out of the hat. After a failed attempt (choosing Willard, who had been put out with a broken neck), the Lord Justice picked Famous to be his representative for the Pick Your Poison match. Then it was time for Lucian to reveal his person... and it turned out to be Randy Roko. Unfortunately a kink was put in the plan when Darkstar explained Roko was already competing that night and he refused to have his wrestler risk injury due to overwork. So this left Lucian having to pick a name out of the hat, which he refused to do unless it was necessary. He promised to find somebody by the time the match rolled round. Finally scoring the assistance of Angus McDonald, Lucian went into the match confident that his man would try his hardest to score a victory over his hated enemy. After a heated battle, and failed interference from Lucas, Angus was able to come out the winner and earn Lucian a 3-2 victory in the Race To Redemption.

The week before Redemption and the world was desperate to know what the stipulation was going to be. XTV5.07 had Lucian revealing that, over the past month, he had grown tired of all the rules... of the race, and of all the stipulations he could have chosen for the PPV match. And so it was with this thought that he declared the first ever Jonestown Street Fight; where quite simply there were no rules. After he declared this he was blindsided by Edward and Lucas – where the manager explained that they had nothing to lose now they had lost the race... so now it was just about gaining an edge before the PPV.

Redemption finally arrived, after a hectic month of desperation and barrel scraping, and saw Edward Samson and Lucian L. Jones compete in a terrifying match which saw both men travel across the arena just trying to finish the other off. The finale came when they climbed to the roof of the arena – after throwing each other through doors and windows, and at one point down stairs – and falling off of it. Edward went to shove Lucian off but the King of Bling’s reflexes kicked in and he dragged his opponent off with him. The two men crashed down into a large production truck – it completely crumbling under their weight – with Lucian landing on top of Edward. The referee was ready to end the match when neither man was moving – medics were brought in and they started packing the men onto stretchers when, crawling, Lucian Jones was able to drag himself over to his opponent and finally score the victory over the man who had plagued him for nearly three months.

Chasing Belts Before Thinking Twice
After the horrific battle at Redemption, people were left disappointed that a “rubber-match” never took place between Samson and Jones; instead Lucas Thorp took a new direction and that was towards the United States championship. At that point Craig Van Dam was the champ, the same man who Edward had beaten for the Television title the year before... and the Lord Justice was looking to ruin another reign for the fan favourite. Unfortunately when it came to Zero Tolerance and a 5-way-dance Edward came up short, with Johnny Rockefeller instead taking the title and becoming the new US champion.

The loss wasn’t all bad though – Lucas was growing more and more irate by the continued loses and was becoming crueller and crueller towards Edward. The Lord Justice felt it was his monster’s fault that they weren’t taking the belts like his plans had said they should. But with the closing of a door at Zero Tolerance came a window in way of a tournament heading to the next PPV at Endgame. This tournament was building towards four men qualifying to take part in a King of the Mountain match for the Triple Crown championship at the PPV. Edward was able to get through his quarter final match by beating Iagan on XTV5:13. The monster showed great brutality, and Thorp seemed to be getting overly confident as the weeks went on... when the Executioner was paired up against Angus McDonald in the semi-final match, though, it is fair to say that the Lord Justice was worried. Having never beaten Angus McDonald, people didn’t know if an angry Edward would be enough to overcome the Tartan Spartan.

On the night of the PPV, as it turns out, Samson could not beat Angus and was eliminated from the tournament at the second last hurdle. As it turned out, the Flying Scotsman was having one hell of a night and went on to take the Triple Crown belts in the King of the Mountain match.

After the PPV, having been severely disappointed at the performance of his monster and the lack of gold around his person Lucas Thorp decided it was time to go back to basics and start judging people again. It was time to start heavy training to prepare for the day that Edward WAS ready to take back the gold, and until that day was definitely upon them there would be no other title shots.

The Tortoise Attacks
After taking out Harry Hart and Dante Mueller with ease over two months, Edward earned himself a chance at the Triple Crown championship and at his old enemy Angus McDonald. “The Flying Scotsman” was still on top of the world – although the same cannot be said for TWOstars as an overall company. The federation had been split in half as Matt Denton (the former owner of an enemy wrestling company that ended up out of business) started to round up disillusioned wrestlers to recreate Sin City Wrestling and form the consortium.

This was of no concern to Lucas Thorp or his monster – after the two were forced to resign with TWOstars (thanks to an embarrassing defeat in the cafeteria when Lucas was pinned by the massive female Lindy Rose in an impromptu match) they decided to let the company fight their own battle... and they would do the same thing.

With the return of Deadman (a wrestling legend in TWOstars – a man who single-handedly ran the company out of business two times before) and many of the men who belonged to his Ex-Rev company turning their backs and joining Denton’s Consortium... well things weren’t looking great for Darkstar and his allies. So it came on XTV5:25 that Edward Samson took on Angus McDonald in an incredible match where the little champ, even with all of this on his mind, fought with all the heart and soul we’ve come to expect from him. Unfortunately the Executioner hit back harder and faster and was eventually able to prove that he was ready and that taking the slow and steady path paid off. Lucas and Edward defeated Angus McDonald to claim their second Triple Crown title reign and the entire TWOstars universe was less than happy about it.

Leaders Collide
Well obviously with Lucas and Edward now as his top champion, Darkstar was looking towards them to lead his side into battle alongside his appointed Captain The Evil Gringo. Unfortunately Lucas’ greed was only interested in preserving his title reign and so showed no interest in battling the problematic Consortium. Gringo took great offence to this and so the two wrestlers were quickly forced into battle.

At XTV5:30 – just about a month after achieving his dream of getting the belt back, Lucas could do nothing but watch as Gringo pulled out every trick in the book to defeat the Executioner for his first ever Tripe Crown title reign. It was a huge day – the living legend had finally achieved his greatest dream and many a-tear were shed as he celebrated around the world. XTV5:31 gave us another incredible bout between the two as Edward was given a chance to reclaim the belts. Although he came up short, these two matches are still being talked about with both being highly recognised in the TWOstars Awards 2009 “Match of the Year” category.

But this wasn’t the end of Gringo’s success as he and TWOstars were able to rid the company of the evil Consortium... and with all this good luck happening, you just know that Lucas wasn’t happy about it.

A Star Is Born
Over the latter part of 2009, the Welsh Wonder Boyo had made a triumphant return to TWOstars and he was looking for a tag team partner. He had watched as the Tag division in the company had been heating up and wanted in on the action – so he came up with a reality-style elimination tournament called the Cage Series 2 where he found a number of possible partners and forced them through challenges week after week and eliminated them as he saw fit.

It came down to two guys – William Hunter and The Great Ken. They fought at World War to decide who would be the other Hot Critter (the name of the team Boyo was creating) and everyone was shocked when the Welshman himself got involved and cost Hunter the match. As it turned out – The Great Ken was actually Boyo’s son and the whole competition and result had been fixed from the start...

Some of you may be wondering exactly where Edward and Lucas come into this little story. Well, unsurprisingly, William wasn’t about to sit on the sidelines and be messed about like this. He attacked Ken and Boyo and demanded a chance to prove he should be hired by TWOstars. The Hot Critters offered him a tag match if he could find himself a partner... and boy did William Hunter find a partner. Somebody who just doesn’t like to see wrong committed, somebody who has a bit of a history with ol’ Boyo, somebody who likes to judge before being judged... Hunter’s partner came in the form of Lucas Thorp and Edward Samson.

So at Season’s Beatings 2009 we watched as William Hunter fought with a bitter hatred in his heart but was simply outclassed by the younger and quicker Great Ken. Even though both men had partners, they might as well not have been there because this match was all about the two Cage Series 2 finalists – and this time it was definitive that Ken was the better man.

The Briefcase
The first week into the New Year and Darkstar made a huge match. Due to a no-show at Season’s Beatings between Famous and Matt Denton, where the Money in the Bank briefcase was supposed to be defended, the main event of XTV5:38 were going to be a huge 6-man elimination match to decide the next holder of the briefcase.

As fate should have it the two last men were Edward Samson and The Great Ken. With feelings from the tag match at Season’s Beatings obviously still present, the two ended up getting counted out in dramatic fashion.

After listening to both men put forward their reasons for deserving the briefcase, Darkstar decided (to no-one’s surprise) that the best way to decide was a match at Battle Royale 2010. In the match Ken threw everything he had but it just wasn’t enough to overcome the much more experienced monster. Lucas was over the moon when Edward won – he now had access to any title shot any time he wanted for the next year.

Unfortunately he pounced too quickly. Later in the evening The Evil Gringo was defending the Triple Crown championship (that he took from Edward!) against his former partner Craig Van Dam in an hour long Iron Man match. At the end Craig achieved what many had called impossible and beat Gringo at his very own game, the match that the Sensation made famous. Celebrating with both the Triple Crown and Ex-Rev belt (which Craig had won earlier in the month), things were forced to a stop as Lucas came out and demanded his Triple Crown shot hoping to take advantage of a knackered champion. A cheeky roll up later, a handful of tights and the briefcase was gone, Craig was still the Quadruple champion and Lucas was very, very upset.

The Worst Death As Of Yet
After a terrifying worry of the Immortal Highlanders (Angus McDonald made a sensational return from his personal hell, Willard “The Immortal” was back from a neck injury and Randy Roko was just glad to have his friends alongside him) reuniting and then the first two disappearing into obscurity very quickly followed by a failed TV title shot... well to say that Lucas was getting angry at everything would be an understatement.

Johnny Rockefeller was a young brash arrogant rich-kid who believed he deserved to be in the main event of WrestleNova VI alongside Craig Van Dam (the Triple Crown champ) and Lucian L. Jones (the winner of the Battle Royale earlier in the year). Lucas Thorp approached Johnny about guiding him to this goal – that the Lord Justice had tried a similar venture the year before and failed... but he could keep Johnny from making the same mistakes.

There was something that certainly caught J-Rock’s eye in the offer and so he beat Lucas Thorp and sent him to hospital with a severely damaged knee. Without his manager, Edward went loco and started interfering in matches without warning... clearly unleashed and very, very dangerous. During XTV5:52 Edward came through the crowd and got into the ring with an unaware Johnny Rockefeller and Lucian L. Jones... to the world’s shock and horror the monster followed orders from the Billionaire Playboy and took out the number one contender. A new partnership was born.

The Ups, The Downs And The Betrayals
To prove to Edward that he was serious about their partnership, Johnny gave him a title shot at the ERE championship at WrestleNova VI – the biggest show in TWOstars calendar. With the crowd already furious at him for entering in a uniform incredibly similar to that of wrestling legend Mitsuharu Misawa, the thousands in attendance could only watch as the so-called partner lay down for his master and took the pin making it the shortest match in Nova history.

Johnny, however, has taken other fun in abusing Edward. He has forced the monster to carry his bags from arena to arena, sent him on pointless messages like getting drinks only to throw them over the monster and yet always, always claims to have the Executioner’s best interests at heart. He has called upon Edward to replace him in matches – often putting Samson on double duty for the night – and made the monster wrestle tag matches single-handedly when J-Rock couldn’t be bothered being tagged in.

=Judgements=


 * Keith Jaxx - Wednesday Night's Main Event before Zero Tolerance 2008 - charged with sexual harassment - sentenced to a hanging.
 * Chris Eagles - XTV4.14 - charged with being lazy and uninspired - sentenced to time in The Stocks to give him time to think about how to change.
 * Craig Van Dam - Endgame 2008 - charged with carrying the TV Title to further his ego - sentenced to lose his title to solve the problem.
 * The Judge - Was Never Openly Judged - charged with betraying the cause of 'justice' - sentenced to rehabilitation which led to his kidnapping; failure to see the light again ended with Judge leaving TWOstars.
 * Sickness - World War 2008 - charged with trying to avert the mission of equality while also threatening a Lord Justice - sentenced to submit to help him realise he was just 'another man'.
 * Lucian Jones - Hell To Pay 2009 - charged with high treason; claiming that Lucas was a hypocrite and that the philosophy wasn't sensical or effective - sentenced to a severe whipping & to lose his match to see that the philosophy was indeed very, very real.
 * Harry “Hardcore” Hart – Midsummer Night’s Destruction 2009 – charged with wasted potential – sentenced to a match with the Executioner to prove his worth, when unable to whip he suffered a hanging post-match.

=Title History=

TWOstars Television championship

 * VS Craig Van Dam at Endgame 2008 - won, after Lucas Thorp interfered causing CVD to fall from the turnbuckle before suffering The Death Penalty.
 * On the next episode of XTV(4.17) - Lucas threw the title away as part of his 'master plan'.
 * XTV4.18 saw Arron Winter stripping Edward of the title - having never defended the title.

TWOstars Triple Crown championship

 * VS Barry Gower (eliminated by ES) VS Craig Van Dam (DC) VS Evil Gringo (ES) VS Draven Cage (S) VS Sickness (ES) (Submission Only Elimination Chamber) at End of Days 2008 - won, after Sickness fell unconscious at the hands of Edward Samson.
 * Defence1 VS Draven Cage (w/ Sickness as Special Referee) at XTV4.30 - won, after pinning Cage following the CalCraft's Noose.
 * Defence2 VS Sickness (Barbed Wire Submissions Only) at World War 2008 - won, after making Sickness submit with his Texas Cloverleaf.
 * Defence3 VS Arron Winter VS Sickness VS Draven Cage VS Evil Gringo (First Pinfall To A Win) at Battle Royal 2009 - lost, after being pinned by Arron Winter after a Coma and Diamond Dust from Sickness.

TWOstars Triple Crown championship (x2)

 * VS Angus McDonald at XTV5:25 – won, after pinning McDonald following the Calcraft’s Noose.
 * Defence1 VS Christopher Ryan Eagles at XTV5:29 - won, after making Eagles submit with his Texas Cloverleaf.
 * Defence2 VS Evil Gringo at XTV5:30 - lost, after being pinned by Evil Gringo following a Black Hole Press.

TWOstars Money in the Bank Briefcase Holder

 * VS The Great Ken VS Lucian L. Jones VS Crash VS Famous VS Matt Denton (Six-man Survival Match) at XTV5:38 - drew, after the two remaining men (The Great Ken and Edward Samson) were both counted out.
 * VS The Great Ken at Battle Royal 2010 - won, after pinning Ken following the Last Mile.
 * Cashed in the briefcase later on during Battle Royal 2010 against Craig Van Dam, demanding a Triple Crown championship shot - lost, after being pinned by CVD who rolled up Edward, grabbing the tights and using the ropes for leverage.

=Entrance Music & Style=

Current Music
"The Line Begins To Blur" by Nine Inch Nails

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAU0bBuBXMA

Former Entrance Music
"March Of The Pigs" by Nine Inch Nails

Current Entrance Style
Black and white strobe lighting flashes as the music plays over the PA system. Lucas always comes out first - more often than not waiting for Edward to finally step out onto the stage as well. The Lord Justice leads his man down to the ring. Edward always has his noose with him - brandishing it to the audience as a threat and promise of what is to come.

It is not uncommon for Lucas to come out alone, before the music begins, and announce a judgement from one of his infamous parchments. This does not happen often - only on very special occasions when the opponent in question has done something seriously wrong.

=Finishing, Signature & General Moves=

General Moves
Body Slams - Back Drops - Knee Clips - Reverse DDT – Forearm Strikes - Mounted Punches – Stomps When Opponent Down – Delayed Suplex – Samoan Drop – Leg Take Down Into A Mounted Position – Good Ol’ Fashioned Powerbomb – Torture Rack – Fish Hooking His Opponent - When Opponent Is Seated In Turnbuckle 'Face Washing' With His Boot Before Following Up With A Running Kick To The Face (don't know a technical name) - The Shock Treatment (there must be a better name than that...) - Lifts Opponent For Normal Suplex, Springs Their Legs Off Top Rope & Takes Them Over Normally (dunno technical name again...) - The Dominator - Spinning Toe Hold - Steiner Recliner (often used early in the match, just as a warm up for The Stocks) - Standing Dragon Sleeper - Polish Hammers – Gutwrench Powerbomb - General Use Of Knees

Signature Moves

 * The Lethal Injection (Triple Fisherman Suplex - 3-Amigos but with the leg hooked. Sometimes will deliver two then go straight into The Death Penalty)
 * The Guillotine (Tornado Polish Hammer)
 * The Stocks (Camel Clutch – proper old fashioned, both arms over Executioner’s knees type one. He is known to get the opponent trapped before using forearm attacks instead, just to cause pain and embarrassment)
 * The Incapacitator (Northern Lariat: clothesline to the back of the opponent's head - a version he likes to do is when his opponent tries to run, he grabs onto the back of their trunks/trousers, pulls them back and knocks them cold with the lariat)
 * The Gallows (opponent is in the turnbuckle. Edward goes to whip them out of it and across the ring, but as he pulls them out he turns and sends them back into the turnbuckle they were just in. He repeats this before pulling them out [as if for a third time] but this time round into a clothesline)
 * The Death Penalty (Hooked Arm Fisherman Suplex To Pin)
 * The Kaibosh (Regal-plex - never bridges into the pin though)

Finishers

 * The Calcraft Noose (Black Dragon DDT – crossing the opponent’s arms over their chest and their head in a DDT position, Executioner hoists his opponent into the air and drops them onto their head. It’s basically a fancy implant DDT. It appears in one of the Smackdown games, I’m not sure which one, sorry)
 * Retribution (Blue Thunder Bomb)
 * The Boyoleaf Lock (Texas Cloverleaf)
 * The Last Mile (with opponent on shoulder as if for a running powerslam, Edward runs and drops them into a sit-out tombstone. Called as a running [inverted] piledriver - FAIRLY LAST RESORT)

=Fighting Style Summary=

Edward is slow and calculating. He isn't one for emotion, instead all his energy going into gaining victory in the match. Although not specifically a powerhouse in the classical sense, his unwillingness to stay down no matter what is thrown at him makes the masked man a serious threat to whoever is fighting against him. Once likened to a bulldozer - the idea works very well; although slow, there is a lot of power behind him. Tricky to stop, once he captures even the smallest moment you are trapped and he will not give you a moment. He is a surprisingly handy submission wrestler who also uses brawling abilities to his advantage along with a general power-based move set.

=Awards=

TWOstars Awards of the Year 2008

 * Best Heel
 * Best Newcomer
 * (half of the) Best Feud
 * (self proclaimed) MVP
 * Best Triple Crown Champion

TWOstars Awards of the Year 2009

 * Best Match (The Battle Royale match from Battle Royale 2009 - written by the handler of Edward Samson, so put here because it's rocked so hard)
 * MVP