Caine Marik

Caine Marik
Marik ECWF Promo shot
Birth name Edward Marion Marik Junior Born 07/22/1994 Salem, MA, USA Resides Salem, MA Family Marik Alma mater Berklee College of Music Professional wrestling career Ring name(s) James Deacon Caine Marik Vance Archer Height 6'2 Weight 225 lbs. Billed from Lost Hills, CA Trained By Eddie Maim Johnny Crash Kevin Blanchard Alex Marik Brian Hoyt Randy "Bonesaw" McGraw Debut 2/22/2012

Edward Marion Marik Junior (July 22nd, 1994) is an American professional wrestler and actor presently known as Caine Marik and formerly known as James Deacon in the Frontier Wrestling Alliance and Vance Archer in the Universal Wrestling Corporation and National Wrestling Federation. 

In the FWA, he is a former three time World Tag Team champion with the "Scottish Savage" Jordan Blaze as the "Hellfire Express" as well as Zell Hunter as well as being a former two time world champion in that promotion. In the NWF he is a former North American heavyweight, three time Junior heavyweight, and four time world tag team champion with three different partners.

He is also known for his highly intelligent and innovative offensive style and general disregard for his own well being during matches. He is currently signed with the Extreme Championship Wrestling Federation (ECWF) as well as having a "Mystery Draw" contract with Pro Wrestling Nova.

Early Life:

Caine was born in Salem Massachusetts as the second child of Edward Marion and Tara Lynne Marik with his older brother Alexander James being born only three years earlier.

Initially Caine had no inclination to become a professional wrestler, instead wanting to focus on possibly becoming a photographer or something more creative but nonetheless eventually found himself drawn into his family's chosen profession.

Training and the FWA:

Caine's initial training was done by his father and godfather in the infamous "Kings of Pro Wrestling" tandem of Eddie Maim and Johnny Crash with his training expanded upon by the likes of his father's own trainer in the equally as infamous Randy "Bonesaw" McGraw, "Too Sexy" Brian Hoyt, the "American Wild Child" Kevin Blanchard, and Caine's own brother Alex.

Eventually Caine completed his training before being signed to the promotion that his father worked for in the Frontier Wrestling Alliance where he chose to not fall upon his family's name and legacy by becoming "James Deacon" and he was placed in the last incarnation of the Rogue Horsemen stable to learn under a group of established wrestlers including veterans such as Zell Hunter and Chris Morton while working with journeyman wrestlers such as Reno Dumont, Devon Slayton, Garrison Cade, and Jessica Perkins. During his first six months with the Horsemen, he would win his first of two tag team titles with the "Scottish Savage" Jordan Blaze as one half of the "Hellfire Express", a pairing that would go onto win the title a total of two times with the stable before Jordan's brief retirement due to personal reasons.

The Hellfire Express prior to their fifth title defense at FWA's "Monday Nitro".

Caine learned a lot as a member of the final incarnation of the Horsemen as he had several very unique people helping him understand and keep his attention more on the sport than the "perks" of being a pro-wrestler (such as drugs, booze, etc) as well as the unusual innovative style that he would use in the ring all the way to the present.

However it was during this time that the FWA championship was being held by the "Butcher" Doug Rollins and the General Manager of Monday Nitro, Rick Vercetti, was extremely keen to take the title off of Rollins and bring it back to Monday nights and to this extent, Vercetti created the "Zero Hour" rumble in which the entire roster of Monday Nitro would wrestle with the final four people in the ring wrestling the next week on Nitro to become the new number one contender with Caine being one of the final four on the night of the rumble alongside Daniel Satan, Nick Vorpal, and Jericho Morton and in a moment that nobody was expecting the next week on Nitro when Caine hit the "Last Crusade" onto Morton to claim the top contenders spot which ended with the entire Horsemen stable celebrating in the middle of the ring as that week's Nitro went off of the air.

The next month at the final FWA pay per view of the 2012 year, Zero Hour, Caine entered into perhaps the most physically insane match of his young career as he took on the much more experienced Rollins and even with everyone from Rollins' tag team partner in "Frantic" Frank Gein to the debuting masked "luchadore" Ramses attempting to stop him, eventually Caine was able to hit the "Last Crusade" followed by what would become known as the "Black Swan Splash" onto Rollins for the three count victory to become the new Frontier Wrestling Alliance World's Heavyweight champion!

However things would not remain that way for long as at the joint FWA/ICWA Supershow the very next month on January 15th, 2013-Caine would lose the FWA title back to Rollins following a very vicious attack by ousted members of the Dark Side Club stable lead by the "Roughneck" Kevin Ortiz which lead to a war between the members of the FWA-based Rogue Horsemen and the ICWA-based "World Elite" with Ortiz and Austin Starr winning the FWA World Tag Team titles from Jericho Morton and Kenta Tseng at which point Caine would team with his fellow Horseman Zell Hunter to take the FWA tag titles back from Ortiz and Starr at the ICWA's "Spring Stampede" PPV.

After the Horsemen's dissolution after the end of the Horsemen/Elite inter-promotional war, Caine would leave the FWA and his family's shadow for the newly opened Universal Wrestling Corporation in June twenty thirteen.

The Dominion and the UWC:

On the June 8th edition of UWC television, Carlos Armen announced that there would be a tournament to crown the first UWC International heavyweight champion at which point, "Personal Jesus" by Marilyn Manson started to play and out came Caine, much to the fans surprise and he announced that he wanted into the tournament that Armen was putting together to which Armen agreed wholeheartedly... especially since James' first round opponent was also there tonight..

At that point, "Little Crazy" by Fight began to play as the newly signed "Wild Thing" Kanaida Sharpe also walked onto the stage with the two men facing each other right there on the entrance way with their first round match being that night's main event!

During the rest of the show however, it was shown that the newly formed "Dominion" stable was watching the interactions of both Deacon and Sharpe with much interest and with good reason as during their match, Jamal Creed and his hired guns in the Karnage Krew showed up and started to attack the two men which lead to the Dominion themselves coming out and helping Deacon and Sharpe, after which Devon confronted Deacon on the entrance way which the last few moments of Nitro that week ended with a shot of James Deacon laying out the Dominion's chief assassin as the show went off the air.

The very next week opened with the Dominion in the ring and Devon demanding to speak with James Deacon, telling him that it was time for "James to stop lying to himself" which in turn lead to Deacon coming out and demanding to know what Devon was talking about and Devon then called for James to join them in the ring and he did, trying to force Devon and the Dominion to leave him alone but Devon in the end agreed to-but only if James agreed to at least consider the group's offer and he did.

However things would quickly escalate as both James and Creed would be the top leaders in their respective brackets for the International championship until finally it was the finals of tournament that was set for the UWC "Days of Thunder" pay per view the next month and Creed worked his hardest to get under the skin of James, digging at the fact that even though he was a former champion in the FWA-nothing was really actually known about him and how he was going to beat the answers out of Deacon by the time the pay per view was over, but James being James instead went after Creed as he was tired of the other man's comments of that nature and for the weeks leading up to the PPV, the two men were constantly being held back by security at each and every single one of the UWC shows.

Until the August 13th Days of the Thunder show at which point both men could barely hold back their hatred for each other as the moment that the bell was rung, both men flew at each other and in a sixteen minute classic from the "City of Brotherly Love" when Creed finally broke out a pair of handcuffs and secured James to the top turnbuckle due to the no-DQ rule put into place and Creed then proceeded to destroy a metal folding chair over the top of James' head, breaking it in half as the more experienced wrestler would then win the match via ref stoppage and Creed was awarded the title at which point Creed shoved the title into James' face and told him that he would amount to exactly nothing in this company.

Oh how things would change.

The very next night on Nitro, President Armen announced the creation of the Junior Heavyweight championship and due to the incredible effort that James had put into it, he was inserted into a one night tournament despite the fact that he'd gone through a war against Creed the very night before and over the course of the first three hour edition of Nitro, he beat down "Quicksilver" Timmy Rage and Ichabod Slayne before finally running into another member of the Karnage Krew in the "Sniper" Scott Reeves in the main event of the show, but right when it looked like it was going to be a repeat of the night before as the rest of the krew hit the ringside area and got ready to strike but then the lights went out and when they came back on, the Dominion was there to equal the odds.

Following a brilliant yet brutal series of moves before finally James was able to catch Reeves with a Muscle Buster lift that he spun into a Michinoku Driver II for the pin to become the very first Universal Wrestling Corporation Junior Heavyweight champion and as of the edition of Amped later that week, the newest member of the Dominion under his new name of "Vance Archer", complete with a new look and theme plus he gained Brenda Storm as a part-time manager and everything appeared to be going well for Vance for the next several weeks before he lost his title to Scott Reeves but he was entered by President Armen into the match to crown the very first Apex champion which he also won.

Everything was going fine until that day on June the 8th in 2017 when the "Iron Cowboy" Mike Maverick beat Devon Slayton in a sudden title match that happened backstage of a UWC event for the company's television title which started a series of downhill events for the stable when the new vice president of the company, David Wentz JR, started doing everything that he could to fuck with the Dominion which included causing them to lose their titles in matches that didn't make sense and overturning their victories.

Caine, who was still in his first reign as Apex champion, felt the sting as well when Gunner Scott of the Kartel was able to beat Caine in a "First Blood" match for the Apex title but only after the rest of the Kartel had practically smashed Caine's head into a bloody mess that allowed him to win the title.

It was after this "match" that the entire Dominion left the UWC for the Portland based "National Wrestling Federation" and helped change that fed from a UWC feeder promotion into an actual company with several members of the Dominion becoming the first champions of that company (IE-Devon Slayton as the first heavyweight champion, Brenda Storm as the first women's champion, and the combination of Karl von Eichmann and Thomas Bane as the first tag team champions), however Caine lost an iron man match to become the first junior heavyweight champion against former fellow Rogue Horseman member Jason Wrath and the two men even shook hands after the match in a sign of sportsmanship.

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Personal Life:

As stated previously, Caine is the second son of Edward Marion Marik Senior, who once wrestled as the "Taskmaster" Eddie Maim in promotions such as the Frontier Wrestling Alliance, Superior Championship Wrestling, and the World Internet Wrestling Federation who is currently known for his appearances in the World Wrestling Headquarters as the manager of David Gibson, and Tara Lynne Marik who is known as "Miss Tara" who was the manager (of sorts) to his cousin Celes Dumont in Lethal Angels of Wrestling, plus he is the brother-in-law of Marika Reimon of Joshi Extreme Takeover, she is married to his older brother AJ who wrestles on the indies as "Hardcore" Alex Marik. He also has three younger brothers in Gabriel, Scott, and TJ with Gabriel currently wrestling as the "Unchained Gorilla" Gabriel Marik and TJ is still in training. Caine is also first cousins with Devon and Amy Slayton via his Uncle Marcus, Mulan Slayton via his Uncle Chris, and David, Patrick Junior, and Ashley Slayton via his Uncle Patrick Senior. He is also related to Paul "Angelus" Dumont and his wife Jessica, as well as he was at one time the cousin-in-law to Lexi Gold while she was married to Caine's cousin Devon. He is also considers himself, by extension, the cousin of Devon's two half-sibs in Robert Dylan and Allison Marie Hobbs (the children of Devon's mother's second marriage to Detective Lieutenant L.J. Hobbs of the Honolulu Police Department).

Caine is a fan of horror and sci-fi movies which is reflected in his naming of several of his signature and finishing moves (Planet Terror, Death Machine, et all) as well he is a fan of classic metal and rock music-namely bands like Iron Maiden, Def Leopard, Classic Metallica, Ministry, and several others. He also enjoys a number of classical musical pieces. He also enjoys playing video games such as the older Castlevanias and Mega Mans, Final Fantasy, the Dead Space Trilogy (he however downright refuses to play the Wii editions of the game), and most games with a Supernatural/Horror bent to them. He once appeared on an episode of the Japanese show "Game Center CX" for a challenge for the chairman.

Aside from professional wrestling, Caine is also a skilled photographer and almost made it his chosen profession before becoming a professional wrestler. He also holds a degree from the Berklee College of Music with holding a Masters in Professional Studies in Music Business which was his fall back plan in case he didn't make it in professional wrestling.

Aside from being a professional wrestler, Caine also practices a number of other physical activities such as Rugby, European Rules Football, Mixed Martial Arts, Boxing, Free Runner, and Parkour as both hobbies and ways to stay in top physical shape.

Caine was in a brief relationship with fellow Dominion member Brenda Storm, in a strictly "friends with benefits" situation until they both desired something more and went their separate ways after UWC went out of business, however TMZ and several other dirt sheet sites have placed him in relationships with a number of other female wrestlers which was quickly shot due to lack of any kind of proof.

In-Wrestling:

Finishers:

• 1. The "Death Machine" (Rainmaker)
• 2. The "Planet Terror" (Kross Jacket/Bararnm Sleeper)
• 3. The "Heavy Rain" (Gotch-style Tombstone Piledriver)
• The "ULTRANumb" (Stu Hart Special)
• The "Doctor Sleep" (Bridging wheelbarrow dragon suplex)
• The "Art of Suffering" (Gravy Train)
• "Planet Terror" <v1> (Muscle Buster spun to Michinoku Driver II)
• "Down The Rabbit Hole" (Mandible claw)
• The "Last Crusade" (Argentine backbreaker rack dropped into a knee lift to the back of the opponent's head)
• The "Burning Times" (Springboard Cutter)
• The "Black Swan Splash" (Corkscrew 450° splash)
• The "Black Arrow" (Rolling Cutter)
• "Limit Break" (Double underhook sitout side powerslam)

Signature Moves:

• 1. The "Needful Things" (End of Days transitioned into a Koji Clutch)
• 2. "Wicker Man" (Modified Dragon Sleeper, sometimes preceded by a cutter)
• 3. The "Burning Times" (Running high-impact front dropkick, sometimes to an opponent against the ropes or knocking the opponent into the turnbuckles)
• 4. The "Burn Knuckle" (Superman Punch)
• 5. The "Phantom Pain" (Hammerlock Legsweep DDT)
• 6. "Death Note" (Springboard European Uppercut)
• 7. "The Cloverfield Paradox" (Cross-Legged Tombstone Stretch)"The Cloverfield Paradox" (Cross-Legged Tombstone Stretch)
• 8. "The Arrow from the Depths of Hell" (Tope Suicida)-adopted from Reno Dumont
• 9. "Perfect Dark" (Reverse piledriver hold transitioned into a double knee facebreaker)
• 10. "Caine Driver" (High-angle Michinoku Driver II)
• 11. "Voodoo Dawn" (Bicycle high knee to the face of a kneeling opponent)

Nicknames:

• The "Black Swan"
• The "Diamond Dog"
• The "Man who sold the world"
• "The American Nightmare"
• "El Arquitecto del Mal" (The Architect of Evil)
• "The Last of a Dying Breed"
• The "American Psycho"
• "The Godfather of Anarchy"
• "The Oddity"
• The "Black Prince of the FWA"
• The "GDU's Round Eye Samurai"

Managers:

• Reno Dumont
• Devon Slayton
• Jenna Rhodes
• Natasha Booth
• Korra Farron
• Ezra Rosenberg
• Jamal Rockworthy
• Thomas Bane

Wrestlers Managed:

• Jordan Blaze
• Akane Tanahashi

Themes:

• "Hellraiser" (30th edition version) by Ozzy and Lemmy
• "Electric Head (pt 2-the Ectasy)" by White Zombie (1st ECWF theme)
• "Kaze Ni Nare" (Become the Wind) by Ayumi Nakamura (NFW/PWN/2nd GZWA theme)
• "Awaken" by Dethklok (1st GZWA theme)
• "Cult of Personality" by Gears and Corey Glover (3rd NWF theme)
• "Gangsters Paradise" by Like A Storm (2nd NWF theme)
• "The Nobodies" (w/Boondock Saints intro) by Marilyn Manson (2nd UWC theme/1st NWF theme)
• "Personal Jesus" by Marilyn Manson (2nd FWA/1 UWC theme)
• "My Direction" by Sum 41 (1st FWA theme)
• "Puritania" by Dimmu Borgir (BNLL theme)
• "Ichiban" by Yonosuke Kitamura (Dominion Special FPV theme)
• "Hell" by Disturbed (Dominion 2nd stable theme)
• "Hybrid Stigmata-the Apostasy" by Dimmu Borgir (Dominion 1st stable theme)
• "Death March" by Motionless in White (2nd SJPW theme)
• "Bad Medicine" by Bon Jovi (1st SJPW theme)
• "Battle without Honor or Humanity" by Tomoyasu Hotei (Rogue Horsemen 6th theme)

Promotions Worked For:

• Extreme Championship Wrestling Federation/ECWF
• Pro Wrestling Nova/PWN
• Ground Zero Wrestling Association/GZWA
• New Frontiers Wrestling/NFW
• National Wrestling Federation/NWF
• Frontier Wrestling Alliance/FWA
• Super Japan Pro Wrestling/SJPW
• Universal Wrestling Corporation/UWC
• Brujah Nationale Lucha Libre/BNLL

The "Many Faces of a Nightmare":

• John Morrison/Johnny Mundo/Johnny Impact/Johnny Underground
• Jax Teller/Charlie Hunnam (Promo)
• Shane Haste/Thorne (Wrestler)
• Kyle O'Reily <ROH/NJPW> (FWA/UWC/SJPW)
• Stevie Boy <Bucky Boys era> (FWA)
• Trent Seven (BNLL/NWF)

Tag Teams:

• The "Hellfire Express" with Jordan Blaze (FWA)
• The "Pale Riders" with Zell Hunter (FWA)
• The "Main Event Mafia" with Robert Garcia (BNLL)
• The "Maverick Express" with Kien Lun (NWF)
• The "Heavenly Bodies" with Eric Gibson (NWF)
• The "Pale Riders" with Thomas Bane (NWF)
• The "Rumblebees" with Nora Valkyrie (NWF)
• The "Nightmare Brotherhood" with Alex Marik (SJPW)

Stables:

• The Rogue Horsemen <Slayton Wrestling Office> (w/Ryo Sakazaki, Robert Armstrong, Kain Reyes, Kevin Renzor, David Slayton, Patrick Slayton, Zack Rhodes, David Gibson, Thomas Bane, ????,???, & ????, with Chris Slayton & Reno Dumont)
• The "Rogue Horsemen" <"Bastards"/ECWF branch> (w/David Slayton, Patrick Slayton, & Robert Armstrong w/Reno Dumont)
• The "Rogue Horsemen <Frontier Wrestling Alliance> (w/Zell Hunter, Reno Dumont, Chris Morton, Jenna Rhodes, Natasha Booth, Jamal Rockworthy, Garrison Cade, Jason Wrath, Ken Mischief, Jessica Perkins, Manu Dakota, Jordan Blaze, and James Deacon)
• The Dominion <Universal Wrestling Corporation> (w/Ethan Stryfe, Colt Kawaii, Angela Dante, Talia Yamahara, Kanaida Sharpe, Karl von Eichmann, Jamal Rockworthy, Tidus Hunter, Brenda Storm, Thomas Bane, Korra Farron, Celes Dumont, Amy Slayton, Athena Asamiya, Vance Archer, and "Dragonfire" Kien Lun with Ezra Rosenberg)
• La Legión Extranjera <Brujah Nationale Lucha Libre> (w/Robert Garcia, Eric Gibson, Goro Daimon, Gabriel Reyes, Kyle Morrison, Zach Hunter, Thomas Bane, Korra Farron)
• Global Destruction Unit/GDU <Super Japan Pro Wrestling> (w/Alex Marik, Marika Reimon, Kevin Renzor, Eiji Kisaragi, Jericho Morton, Kien Lun)

Wrestlers Trained:

• Yuri Sakazaki
• Kasumi Todoh
• Akane Tanahashi

Championships and other accomplishments:

Frontier Wrestling Alliance:

• World Heavyweight championship (x2)
• World Tag Team championship (x3/x2 w/ Jordan Blaze, x1 w/ Zell Hunter)
• Rookie of the Year 2012
• Feud of the Year 2012 (vs. Doug Rollins/FWA World title)
• WTFO Moment of the Year 2012 (winning the "Zero Hour Challenge")

National Wrestling Federation:

• North American Heavyweight championship
• Junior Heavyweight championship (x3)
• World Tag Team championships (x4/x2 w/Kien Lun, x1 w/Eric Gibson, x1 w/Nora Valkyrie)

Super Japan Pro Wrestling:

• All-Asia Heavyweight championship (x2)
• AeWA International Junior Heavyweight championship
• World Tag Team championships (x2 w/Alex Marik)
• All-Asia Tag Team championships (w/Alex Marik)
• F-Zero Tag Team championships (w/Alex Marik/see notes)
• Notes: The "F-Zero Tag Team championships" were more of a trophy won at the end of the 2017 "Super Japan Pro Wrestling F-Zero Tag Team Challenge" event.

Brujah Nationale Lucha Libre:

• World Heavyweight championship
• Mexican National Heavyweight championship
• World Trios championship (x2 w/Thomas Bane & Goro Daimon)

Universal Wrestling Corporation:

• Junior Heavyweight championship: x2 (Inaugural)
• Next-Gen championship (Inaugural)
• Television Openweight championship: x2
• Apex Championship: x2 (Inaugural)
• Longest running Apex Champion at 174 days
• Longest running TV Openweight Champion at 396 days
• UWC Hall of Fame 2018