"Cajun" Matt Caje

Matt Caje (born November 17, 1980) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, "Cajun" Matt Caje. He is the current Chairman of Professional RPG Wrestling.

Early Life
Caje had been a fan of wrestling for years before ever stepping into the ring. Prior to wrestling, Caje worked in a steel mill. In early 2001, at the age of 20, Caje joined Rampage Extreme Fighting. There, he would stay just long enough to learn the basics from the company's development program.

Ultimate Wrestling Federation (UWF)
Matt Caje's first official match occured after his departure from REF under his own banner in 2001. His federation, UWF, was an overnight success. In the first four weeks, UWF had gotten over thirty active members due to Caje's cut throat advertising methods(the same methods he would pass down to Chris Tomelin while training him to play the part of Bucks in PRW). It was here that Matt Caje met Hideki Nova, whom he would finish his training with.

The first UWF show occured in the spring of 2001. Caje (then Cajun), with partner, Steel Wall, took the tag team championship belts on the first night. They'd go on to win the belts one more time, a reign which would last fourteen months.

Caje, however, had singles sucess too. On the night exactly seven months after the federation opened, Caje won his very first World Championship. Around the same time, he started working with Total RPG Wrestling. Caje would go on to win the championship another three times, becoming the last person to hold the Championship when the company closed in early 2004.

Total RPG Wrestling (TRW)
Steel Caje entered with an impact in late 2001, winning the Tag Titles in their first match. They would lose them three months later in early 2002. The team wouldn't achieve tag team gold again in TRW afterward, but still remained high in the tag standings until leaving TRW. Both men would go on to gain the world championship at least once. However, almost a year and four months after they lost the tag team championship gold, the company folded, leaving Steel Caje to fight solely for UWF.

Razor's Championship Wrestling (RCW)
Caje and Steel Wall emerged in RCW in late 2003 as Steel Caje. In the five or six months they were there, Steel Caje won no tag team gold. However, Caje did have a short run as World Champion. Their relations with RCW went sour in early 2004. Steel Wall got in a fight with management, and he and then champion, Matt Caje left with a bad taste in their mouths. Steel Wall would go on to find success in XHW. Caje, however, retired for a little more than a year.

Advocate's Wrestling RPG (AWR)
In June of 2005, Matt Caje returned to the squared circle in AWR. Matt joined relative and AWR veteran, ["The Professional" Russ Bellinger], creating a tag team called "The Welcoming Committee." Their gimmick was composed of random beatings on other new superstars to the federation, most of what would later become the Anarchy Wrestling Association roster. This was the first time Caje had wrestled under the Matt Caje name, previously using just "Cajun." Caje's tenure with AWR would not last long however, as he was invited to join another federation, PRW. Caje would make one last appearance in AWR though, stealing the AWR World Championship.

Anarchy Wrestling Association (AWA)
Not long after Caje's joining of PRW, he joined a small promotion known as the Anarchy Wrestling Association. Caje's role throughout the duration of the company was that of a cocky wrestler from the "more financially stable" PRW. Caje remained a heel throughout his entire run with AWA, and despite putting on four and five star matches for the AWA title, never managed to win it.

2005
Matt Caje debuted in PRW on June 15, 2005 as its first member. For the first time in his career, Caje found himself playing a main event heel character. His first match was the first in PRW, an inferno match(his first inferno match in over two years) between himself and Nightmare. Caje just barely won the match, cementing himself as the first Net Champion. Caje would hold it for a little less than a month before his nemesis would win the title he hadn't won in their first match against one another.

Out of the Championship picture, Caje brought together three other men to create NC-17, a group which would spend the next few months battling Nightmare's Genocide. The group crumbled a little over a month after it's creation, although it is still regarded today as one of the greatest groups in PRW history.

Caje's next feud would be with Ice. After winning the first Superbattle in September of 2005, he fought Ice in a match at Uprising. Caje would win his second title the day before Halloween. His second reign would last two months, two months which he feuded with Wraith, a newer person in the company who had already established himself as a superheel. Their second match, which occured at Christmas Cage Carnage, is still regarded by some as the best Net Championship match of all time. Since December 27, Caje has not held the title again, but has been in a few main events for the title.

2006
Caje's next major storyline would involve rival Chris Roberts. The two would team up to capture the Tag Team Championship belts from Nightmare and Owen Slade. However, the very next month, Caje would turn against Roberts, causing them to lose the tag team championship belts, and a feud would ensue, which Roberts winning a "final showdown." After the Feud, Caje was onto other things.

After Roberts, Caje shifted around for a bit, re-creating NC-17 for a short period of time. After that, he moved onto Mr. Bucks, and feuded with him. The Caje/Bucks feud came to a head at Summerfest 2005, where Caje's ex-partner Steel Wall made his PRW debut, screwing over his former partner. The two are then jumped in a feud of their own. At Patriotism, Steel Wall defeated Matt Caje in a straight up technical classic. Caje evened up the score in their next match, a street fight which started at the Colosseum and ended a few blocks away.

After his match with Steel Wall, Caje would take another crack at the Superbattle in September, this time losing. Caje would take a shor break in October and re-debut as Panther Mask VII after being bestowed with the honor by his mentor, Hideki Nova, who at the time wrestled under the moniker of Panther Mask VI.

Panther Mask's first and only feud in PRW would be against Spite. They had one match at Christmas Carnage in December. Spite would win, but Panther Mask VII would soon get revenge. In an odd twist, top PRW heels Russ Bellinger and Nightmare would make their way to the ring. They assisted Panther Mask, who by now had demasked. Caje, Nightmare, and Bellinger assaulted Spite, setting him on fire before calling it a night. The Axis was born.

2007
January rung in a new beginning for Matt Caje. He was now a member of the Axis with two men whom he'd been feuding with since his PRW beginnings. Before too long, Caje found himself in a new feud. This time, his opponent would be Jake Burkin. Burkin, a member of an opposing stable would wrestle Caje to a victory in a steel cage submissions match at the January pay per view, Golden Opportunity.

In February, Caje would team with then protoge Ivan Kobach against Jason Sensation and Chaos the Clown. They would lose the match after Caje turned on Ivan Kobach, a near duplication of the same attack he had carried out on Chris Roberts almost a month earlier the previous year. In March, Caje and Bellinger made an appearance at the AWR nostalgia pay per view, Code Red, a match against the Carnival of Carnage which resulted in a loss.

After Ivan Kobach's departure from the Axis, Caje would stay away from the ring to work on not only his duties as the Chairman of PRW (a position he aquired by buying Mr. Bucks' shares of the company), but two new protoges: Graves and Ryan Stevens, whom he named the "Sons of the Axis."

Caje's retirement from in-ring action was looking like it might have ended up short lived, as Spite soon returned. He returned in search of revenge on the Axis, and Caje set a challenge before him. Caje created the Axis Series, a series of seven matches against long gone former PRW members. If Spite were to win all seven, he would be able to challenge any one member of the Axis to a one on one match. Spite would defeat six of the seven opponents before being fired by a fearful Matt Caje.

Early May brought expansion to the Axis, as Caje signed PRW veteran Vincenzo Savonarola and Lion Merteuil. Currently, Matt Caje is slated to partake in the Master's of the Mat Tournament, which will take place at Bitchslap.

Protoges
Despite his personal accomplishments over the years, Matt Caje is almost infamous for his protoges;
 * Nash: Matt Caje's first protoge, Nash and Caje would feud and align a number of times.
 * NC-17: Despite the fact that they had garnished some fame in PRW prior to teaming with Caje, it was under his wing in NC-17 where they truly blossomed into stardom with the company. Includes Spicy McHaggis, Ice, Monster, Heidi Amazon, Assassin, Souljah, and Chris Andrews.
 * Jason Sensation: Probably Caje's most famous project, Caje has been linked to Jason in a teacher/pupil manner until this very day. Jason was the first of Caje's pupils to adopt one of his finishers.
 * Ivan Kobach: Caje imported Kobach from Russia after seeing the potential in him, but turned on him a few months later.
 * Graves and Ryan Stevens: After being paired and coached by Caje, the team would go on to win the PRW Tag Team Championship belts.

PRW PPV Record

 * Summerfest 2005: Nightmare vs Ice vs Matt Caje ~ Loss
 * Patriotism 2005: Nightmare vs Matt Caje ~ Loss
 * Superbattle 2005: Superbattle Match ~ Win
 * Uprising 2005: Ice vs Matt Caje ~ Win
 * Bloodletting 2005: Wraith vs Matt Caje ~ Win
 * Christmas Cage Carnage 2005: Wraith vs Matt Caje ~ Loss
 * Genesis 2006: Nightmare and Slade vs Roberts and Caje ~ Win
 * Tough Love 2006: Jake Burkin and Andy Varsity vs Cordova and Burger vs Caje and Roberts ~ Loss
 * Tough Love 2006: Pimp vs Roberts vs Assassin vs No Fear vs Caje ~ Loss
 * Blackout 2006: Chris Roberts vs Matt Caje ~ Loss
 * Apocalypse 2006: Assassin vs Professional vs Roberts vs Caje ~ Loss
 * Bitchslap 2006: AWR vs AWA vs PRW ~ Win
 * Summerfest 2006: Mr. Bucks and Shane Bucks vs Matt Caje ~ Loss
 * Patriorism 2006: Steel Wall vs Matt Caje ~ Loss
 * Clash of the Titans II 2006: Steel Wall vs Matt Caje ~ Win
 * Superbattle 2006: Superbattle match ~ Loss
 * Christmas Carnage 2006: Spite vs Panther Mask VII ~ Loss
 * Golden Opportunity 2007: Jake Burkin vs Matt Caje ~ Loss
 * Tough Love 2007: Jason Sensation/Chaos the Clown vs Matt Caje/Ivan Kobach ~ Loss
 * Bitchslap 2007: Cardinal vs Matt Caje: Yet to happen.

Finishing and Signature Moves

 * STFU (Superkick)
 * Afterburn (Vertebreaker)
 * Apocalyptic Afterburn (Top rope vertebreaker)
 * Cajun Crab (Half crab)
 * Cajun Drop DDT (Double arm DDT)
 * Dragon Sleeper
 * Pantherplex (Tiger Suplex)
 * Vandalplex (Crash Landing)
 * Cajeplex (Uranage stance into a sambo suplex)
 * Cajun Flip (Last Rites)
 * Swinging Neckbreaker
 * Electric Chair Drop

Managers

 * G.W. Pimpshizzy
 * Crys Marie (Caje's wife)

Nicknames

 * CMC
 * The Burning
 * The Suplex Encyclopedia

Theme songs
From 2001-2003, Caje used "Wasting My Hate" by Metallica as a themesong. During his tenure with PRW, however, he has used five or six different themes. More notable ones include "The Mob Goes Wild" by Clutch (also his AWR theme) and "My Tortured Soul" by Probot. Throughout his stay with AWA, Caje's theme was "Superstition" Animal Filter. His current theme is a mixed version of "Confined" by As I Lay Dying.

Championships and Accomplishments

 * 2 time PRW Net Champion
 * 1 time PRW Tag Team Champion
 * 2005 Superbattle Winner
 * 1 time AWA(Anarchy Wrestling Association) Impact Champion
 * 4 time UWF(Ultimate Wrestling Federation) Champion
 * 2 time UWF(Ultimate Wrestling Federation) Tag Team Champion
 * 1 time UWF(Ultimate Wrestling Federation) Extreme Champion
 * 1 time TRW(Total RPG Wrestling) Tag Team Champion
 * 1 time TRW(Total RPG Wrestling) Heavyweight Champion
 * 1 time TRW(Total RPG Wrestling) Eurocontinental Champion
 * 2 time RCW(Razor's Championship Wrestling) World Champion