Lion Merteuil

''Lion Merteuil (born June 11, 1985) is an American Professional Wrestler who competes presently in the Professional RPG Wrestling federation under his real name. To date this is Lion's second federation, as he broke in with the now defunct Xtreme Wrestling Alliance. Born into the ultra rich Merteuil family, Lion enjoyed and still enjoys the best of everything in his life. However haveing everything has one unfortunate side effect: boredom. To remedy this, Lion took to various sports, things like golf, tennis, and other assorted leisure activities before he began to visit the gym at only 15 years of age, where he fell in love with the physical and mental challenge of weight lifting, allowing him over the next seven years to carve his body into the impecable specimen it is today. Also at this time Lion began to take an interest in professional wrestling, and subsequently hired former XWA megastar "Alex Showtime" (Alex Sean) to train him.

Early Career
Lion trained under Alex Sean and occasionally under active at the time XWA superstar "Easy" EBR. Both men taught Lion the fundamentals and were paid handsomely for their services. When at last after months and months of training, Lion was graduated from their program, and Alex Sean contacted XWA CEO Dave "Vestal" Vaghn and put in a good word for Lion. Lion was signed to an XWA contract a month later, and his career as an XWA superstar officially, began.

Xtreme Wrestling Alliance
Lion was instantly typecast as the rich kid heel by the boys in the back, and haveing no other ideas of how to go but to be true to himself, Lion ran with this true portrayal of himself. He debuted in vignetts where he did various things to crash the progressive healing efforts of less fortunate than he people, includeing an intervention, a charity auction and an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. He made his in ring debut in a two match going on at the same time format, where useing his superior insticts, and brains, managed to outsmart everyone and win both matches. It was at the conclusion of this match Lion snapped and viciously assaulted his second opponent, Chris Angel, with a steel chair giving birth to his first XWA feud. This fued lasted several weeks, and in it's duration Lion useing the other type of persuasion he was good at (Read: $$$) managed to "convince" the wrestler then known as Squeaks to leave the midcard and become a main eventer, perhaps being the catalyst for the transformation into "The Next One" Calvin Lee. Lion's first fued ended badly for Chris Angel, as Lion put him out of action for months with a botched shooting star knee drop Lion had dubbed the "High Roller".

On the aftermath of his fued Lion was still undefeated, but knew he was quickly gathering enemies, and as such sought to hedge his bets with personal protection. To this end Lion joined forces with the reigning National Champion at the time, the Bulldog and formed a tag team with him. A mountain of a man, Bulldog's intimidateing physique and unstable mentality was an effective deterrant to those who had quarrel with Lion. In a mere months time, the two would capture Lion's first taste of XWA gold when they defeated the legendary Satine X and Kanemagus for the XWA Tag Team Championship. Lion's singles success flourished as well, and General Manager Alex Sean (yes the one who trained him) saw fit to test his pupil by putting him in line for a shot at his tag team partner's National gold. In an epic confrontation on pay per view, Lion managed to narrowly upset his partner with a Chapter 11 to pick up his first singles title, the National Championship. Rather than see the team implode as many fans had hoped it would, Bulldog embraced his partner, and hoisted him to his shoulders and paraded him around the ring in celebration of his victory. But the night was just getting started for the pair, but this no one would suspect at the time.

Calvin Lee had taken the money Lion had given him and cleaned himself up, new name, new look, and new success. Calvin Lee had been on such a roll he had been awarded by Alex Sean that which he had set out to attain, a shot at the XWA Undisputed Championship, and it's dominant title holder. The XWA Champion Damien had been the champion for well over a year, and not many gave Calvin Lee a shot of winning this contest. He suprised many fans with a strong showing, but in the end it was his insurance policy that was the X factor he needed. Lion and Bulldog returned to everyone's shock, and helped Calvin Lee take apart Damien with a systematic assault while the referee was down. A three count later, Calvin Lee was the new and eventually the last, XWA Undisputed Champion. It appeared now Lion Merteuil, Bulldog and Calvin Lee now sat atop the XWA holding all her gold. It was the birth of one of the most dominateing factions to come through the XWA's ranks, the Triumvirate.

And so the Triumvirate reigned. Lion turned back the challenges for his national gold, he and Bulldog defended their tag team championships, and Calvin Lee dodged many loaded bullets looking to take his first XWA world title from him. But while Lee was the champion, it was obvious to anyone who watched that Lion Merteuil was the true head and leader of the Triumvirate, and as he continued his singles success, and remained undefeated, that damnable downfall of haveing everything returned. This time Lion changed and decided to do something extraordinary. He challenged the General Manager and his trainer, Alex Sean, to a match. Sean accepted, and the two put on one of the most brutal contests in XWA history. Lion for the first time in his career got beat up, and nearly tasted defeat, but managed to rise to the occasion himself and defeat his old mentor. This triggered a transformation in Lion, one that would eventually lead to him takeing another huge step in his career.

Lion called the Triumvirate together. He explained that while he was not leaveing the faction, he wouldn't be around it and them as much, and would not be as involved as he had been. He handed his half of the tag team championship to Calvin Lee and instructed him to do for the Bulldog what Lion had done for him. And so began the transformation of Bulldog to "The Bulldog" Luther Castle. Lion meanwhile kept his National gold, but did not defend it. Instead he audaciously called out one of the most celebrated wrestlers in XWA history, DGX! DGX was King around the XWA, he had been the XWA world champion more times than anyone on the roster in history! His championships were numerous, and his win/loss record daunting! Many fans thought that Lion Merteuil had finally lost his mind. DGX came from hiatus and answered Lion's request, but the wily veteran got inside Lion's head enroute to their match and goaded him into putting his national championship on the line! Their match was epic and held the fans in a pendulum of emotion, some fans even came around for Lion at one point! In the end, it was Lion's own overeagerness that got the better of him! He had tried to roll up DGX and grab the tights, but DGX managed to roll through and reverse the pin, and placeing his feet on the ropes for good measure, picked up the three and handed Lion the first loss of his professional wrestling career, and takeing Lion's national title for himself.

Lion went insane with rage, and demanded a rematch, but curiously waived his rematch clause for the national title. The two waged war again the very next night on XWA Massacre, but this time things ended up differantly as with the referee down DGX hit his Breakdown superkick on Lion knocking him out but Calvin Lee and Luther Castle hit the ring, and together the two of them dissected DGX leaveing him easy prey for Lion, who seemed completely unaware of the assist he had been given as he pinned DGX and picked up the victory, not really careing how. Lion got up and was welcomed back home to the Triumvirate with hugs and pats on the back, and Luther again picked up Lion to his shoulders and paraded him around the ring. The fans were irate, but nothing could prepare them for what happened next. Setting Lion down, Luther nodded to Calvin Lee who approached with a bottle of champeign. Lion smiled and signalled for some glasses, and turned to talk to Luther about how he'd been progressing. At this point, Calvin Lee shocked the world and mostly Lion by breaking the champeign bottle over the back of Lion's head! The crowd was stunned to silence as Luther and Calvin viciously assaulted their former stablemate, hitting him with their burning hammer variation finishing moves and with several belt shots to the head. Both men seemed intent on takeing Lion out entirely.

The following week Calvin Lee and Luther Castle explained that they had cut Lion out because he was getting "too big for his breeches". Lee explained that while Lion fighting with main event talent and former world champions may have just been Lion's intention to better himself, when he waived his rematch clause for the national title in Lee's mind Lion had declared his intent to go after Lee's world title. Lion came back, now a firm crowd favorate and declared that while he had no intentions of going for the world gold just yet, Lee and his actions had officially altered that course. Over the next couple of months Lion would fued with Lee and Casle, getting an occasional assist from his cousin Lilah who had come in to manage him, until it seemed he had a date set for the XWA world gold. But then the company went bankrupt, and shutdown, turning out the lights on Lion's world championship hopes with them.

Professional RPG Wrestling
Lion debuted in PRW in a match against Ronnie Cordova of the Saviors. Lion won that match and joined the faction known as the "Firm" which was run by his Uncle Bucks. Lion mainly participated as a bodyguard to his uncle, but also made time to make noise in the ring, picking up several impressive victories includeing one over the North American champion at the time Marcas Falco enroute to gaining the number 30 entrance in PRW's Superbattle!

Along the way Lion began fueding with another up and comer called Sniper, and the two of them have had one of the most unorthodox fueds in recent times. The two have attacked each other back and forth, Sniper even cost Lion Superbattle argueably, but whenever the two have been scheduled to face each other, neither man has been able to show up at the same time. After a much hyped Prison From Hell match which never happened, Lion disappeared from PRW shortly before the purported "death" of his Uncle Bucks.

What Lion has done in that time is a mystery, but now he has returned to PRW and if his performance at Apocalypse is any indication...he's here for gold.

Managers

 * Lilah Merteuil (Maternal Cousin)" XWA;

Current Theme Song(s)
Lion Merteuil has only had one entrance theme throughout his entire wrestling career. It was selected for him by his good friend Alex Sean. Prior to this songs selection Lion just came out to generic orchestra music.

"Perfection or Vanity" By Dimmu Borgir PRW & XWA

Championships and Accomplishments

 * XWA National Champion (x1)
 * XWA Tag Team Champion (x1)
 * Longest Undefeated Streak in XWA History (7 months)

Related Links
(Xtreme Wrestling Alliance boneyard)

Professional RPG Wrestling (PRW)