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Username : Str8Shooter
Character Name : Shane Evans
Height/Weight : 6'2", 237 lbs
Hometown : Chicago, Illinois
Wrestling Style : Brawling/Technical
Finishing Moves : Brain Freeze (Butterfly Brainbuster) Menace To Society (Hammerlock Legsweep DDT)
Signature Moves: Ankle Lock Windy City Stretch (Border City Stretch) Blunt Force Trauma (Half Nelson Suplex) Butterfly Suplex Triple Russian Leg Sweeps Double Knee Gutbuster (From Firemans Carry)
Entrance Theme : A Place For My Head - Linkin Park
Entrance Style : Walks out from the back and briefly stands and looks into the crowd, then slowly makes his way down the aisle stopping occasionally to glare at a fan deriding him. He then rolls under the bottom rope and waits for his opponent.
Background : From and early age, Shave Evans knew he was different. He never got along with other children and kept to himself. As he got older his lack of social skills provided the perfect fodder for people to mock and insult him, unfortunately for the aggressors, they always found themselves hurt due to the loner Evans violent temper. After a particularly brutal assault on a fellow student that ended with Evans throwing him down a flight of stairs, Evans was expelled from high school and arrested for assault.
After being released Evans realized that he should channel his rage into professional wrestling and began training tirelessly. He embraced his status as an outcast and set his sights on gaining revenge on conventional society for his past treatment.
Rampage[]
Shane Evans made his WCSF Debut on the Rampage brand on the September 9th, 2008, edition of Rampage, losing in an impressive showing against WCSF veteran Anthony Blake. Evans was pinned following a Screwdriver from Blake. Evans may have failed in picking up his first victory, but he didn't fail in grabbing the attention of fans and wrestlers alike with his showing.
Evans would find himself with his hand raised for the first time on the October 9th edition of Rampage, defeating Rodney Redneck his finisher, the Menace To Society. Evans would find himself in another match with a longtime veteran, this time coming out on the losing end on the October 22nd Rampage to Tristagi after the Samsara.
Evans would get the biggest win of his short career on November 2, 2008 at Wednesday Night Warzone, defeating "The Aerial" Craig Bell after the Menace To Society in an impressive match from both young men. This win impressed enough to get Evans into the Battlefield tournament, unfortunately for him, he lost in the first round to Tomohiro Matsuda after tapping out to the Wrath of Matsuda. On the December 23rd edition of Rampage, Evans made his tag team debut teaming with Muntari Mebah to defeat the team of Craig Bell & Johnny Briggs after Evans distraction allowed Mebah to hit the Africaslam on Bell.
On the February 10th Rampage, Evans continued his run of tag teaming with various partners, this time Sean Knight, against Matsuda & Bell. Evans got another pinfall after rolling up Matsuda for the 1-2-3. On the March 14th edition of Rampage, Evans teamed with Nick Foster against Johnny Briggs & Sean Knight. Evans got the pin on Briggs after hitting the Career Killer.
Evans made his PPV debut at Battlefield, once again victorious against Craig Bell after hitting the Menace To Society again. On the April 2nd edition of Rampage, Evans teamed with Sean Knight against Johnny Briggs & Nick Foster and came out on the losing end after Knight was pinned by Briggs.
At Nothing to Lose on April 23, 2009, Evans participated in a 4 Way, Contract on A Pole Match with Johnny Briggs, Sean Knight, and Nick Foster, where the person to climb the corner and retrieve the envelope with the contract, would be added to the Gold Rush Ladder Match at Revolution IV. Evans would come up short though, as Briggs used his as a stepping stool to jump up and grab the envelope.
Joining The Mafia[]
On the first Mayhem of the new WCSF Era on May 28, 2009, Evans interfered in the Matsuda/Devine match and hit Matsuda with a steel chair, then helped in the Mafia's beatdown of Matsuda, apparently joining the Mafia.
On the next week's Rampage, Johnny Devine officially announced Shane Evans as the newest member of the Mafia handpicked by himself to help Devine's quest to gain the WCSF World Championship. Evans was chosen to participate in the tournament to gain an opportunity to be in the Revolution IV main event for the World Title, at Rampage on June 7, in the first round, he got arguably the biggest win of his career, defeating Daz with the Menace to Society in the middle of the ring. The next week on Mayhem he advanced to the final with a win over Jack "The Cyclone" Douglas after fellow Mafia member Nick Foster interfered on his behalf. Evans would therefore move on to the Revolution main event to face Mafia leader Johnny Devine, or would he? On the June 30th edition of Rampage Evans came to ther ring for the contract signing and announced he would be happy to forfeit the match at Revolution and hand the belt to Johnny Devine, but CEO Ralph Pierce interrupted and announced that that wouldn't be happening on his watch, and that someone would be taking his place in the main event, none other than Anthony Blake, thought to be gone forever after failing a questionable drug test. Blake then ran through the crowd and attacked, Evans and Devine scurried to the outside as Blake took out his anger on Foster and Amen.
Tag Team with Foster, Feud with Gangsta Nation[]
During all this, Evans along with fellow Mafia member Nick Foster began having problems with the Gangsta Nation of Jay and Jamal Kraus. One incident had the Gangstas taunting Foster backstage and calling the Mafia "fake gangstas". The following week, Foster would get revenge after being pranked by GN backstage, Foster enlisted the help of Evans, viciously attacking Jay Kraus backstage, smashing him in the head with a steel chair. After this, Pierce decreed that The Gangsta Nation would put the WCSf Tag Team Championships on the line at Revolution IV against the team of Evans and Foster.
Tag Team Champion[]
At Revolution IV, the team of Evans and Foster won their first tag team championship, when Foster low blowed Jamal Kraus and hit the Fosterfication for the 1-2-3, beginning his first reign as a champion.
After Revolution, Foster and Evans became embroiled in a feud with The newly formed Yakuzas of Rage Mishima and his cousinKenshiro Murakami. The feud became so intense, and Evans and Foster used their Mafia connection, and the fact that Devine was GM, to make The Yakuzas run a tag team gauntlet on Carnage, facing two teams before losing to The Mafia. Just a week later, during Mishima's match with Anthony Blake, Evans and Foster kidnapped Murakami and Mishima's girlfriend Kuri backstage. And after the match, as Blake was fighting with Amen and Johnny Devine, Evans and Foster appeared on the screen over an unconscious Murakami, and then appeared to hit Kuri with a steel chair to the head, putting her out of action for weeks, and then attacking Mishima when he came backstage to help.
The two teams would meet in the ring at Meltdown 2009, in a match that turned into a brawl, with Mishima and Foster fighting in the crowd, and Mishima eventually losing his cool and attacking Evans and Foster with a steel chair symphony, leaving both men lying back to back in the ring, bloody and battered, but still champions.
Evans and Foster would continue to wage war along with their Mafia brethren with the newly formed Yakuzas stable. At the next WCSF PPV, Hacked, the fans voted for Rage Mishima to get a World title shot, leaving the two other Yakuza members who lost the vote to get a Tag Team Title shot. Evans and Foster would once again manage to escape with their belts with a victory.
Their next challenge would come from new #1 Contenders Team Catwalk at Wednesday Night Warzone. Evans and Foster finally met their match in a team that had no qualms about cheatijg just like themselves, as the upstart challengers managed to get the pinfall and shock the Champions, becoming the new champions.
End of the Yakuzas Rivalry, Trouble in Mafia Camp?[]
After the loss, the Mafia didn't have time to worry about regaining the titles, as their war with the Yakuzas threatened to take apart the entire company. Both factions attacked each other and battled tooth and nail in the weeks leading up to Annihilation. The only way to settle it once and for all was an 8-Man Elimination Tag in the flagship Annihilation main event between the two sides. It came down to Muntari Mebah and Rage Mishima against Johnny Devine & Nick Foster. In one of the most shocking moments in WCSF history, the beloved Mishima turned his back on his own friends and fans, attacking Mebah and allowing the Mafia to get the win.
Following the PPV, Evans and Foster began to develop some problems, after Evans caught Foster on the phone mocking and deriding Evans and his quick elimination in the tag match. The two would have problems in the following weeks, with Foster accidentally costing Evans a Battlefield qualifying match, and Foster angrily purposely getting the team DQ'd on Mayhem. At Battlefield, Evans attempted to help Foster win his Q-Final match with Daz, but Foster ended up being ran into Evans and pinned. This caused even more arguing between the two cohorts.
Mafia leader Johnny Devine was unhappy about the tension and demanded the two put their differences aside in an in-ring segment on Mayhem. They wouldn't have to wait long to test their loyalties, as they were given an opportunity to gain #1 Contendership to the WCSF Tag Team Championship that night in a 4 Way Tag Team contest against Supreme Thunder, Sin City Saints (WCSF), and South American Syndicate, which they would win, gaining a tag title shot at Nothing to Lose. The following weeks leading up to NTl were spent with the seemingly unified team terrorizing TC and attempting to prove they were still a dominant unit.
At Nothing to Lose though, their troubles would arise yet again, with Evans being shoved into Foster on the apron, allowing TC to retain their titles. After the match, Evans and Foster would finally bust apart at the seams, attacking each other until being pulled apart by Devine and Amen.
Split from the Mafia[]
The very next week, the entire Mafia was beckoned to the ring by Devine. In what was meant to be a clearing of the air and a renewed focus on winning, turned out to be a setup, as Foster attacked Evans, along with the rest of the Mafia, leaving Evans a bloodied and battered mess. Evans wouldn't be seen for several weeks after the attack, recovering from his injuries. But on an episode of Mayhem, made a triumphant return, interrupting a Mafia beatdown to get revenge on his former partners, attacking them with a kendo stick and clearing the ring, for the first time with the fans behind him.
Evans took aim first at former tag team partner Nick Foster. The two insulted each other and got physical in several altercations, until a Street Fight between the two was booked for the biggest WCSF PPV of the year, Revolution V. The two battered each other all over the huge stadium in Dallas, with both men bleeding throughout. Evans would eventually put away his former partner with a vicious Cyclone Lariat with a steel chain wrapped around his arm. This would put Foster out of action indefinitely.
Evans quest to end the Mafia wouldn't end there. As he quickly made it apparent after Revolution that he had his sights set on the Mafia leader, Johnny Devine. Devine dismissed Evans as a Mafia creation, a nobody without him. Evans countered that Devine had never proven anything on his own either. The two agreed to meet at the next WCSF PPV, Meltdown in a one on one contest. In what many called the match of the night, Evans proved he belonged with the big dogs in the WCSF, but came up short against the crafty Devine, who threw powder in Evans eyes and got the 1-2-3. To add insult to injury, Devine hit the Devine Valley Driver on Evans three times after the match was over for emphasis. The two's rivalry would continue to heat up leading into Hacked.
At Hacked, the first ever Dog Collar match in the WCSF was voted in by fans as the stipulation for the final contest between the two. The build up to the match was intense, with Devine using Evans signature kendo stick to bust him open and brutalize him on Mayhem. At the PPV, the two fought wildly, with Devine attacking Evans before the collar could be attached to Devine's neck. Both men would spill blood, with the chain linking them used many times to inflict pain on one another. In the end, Evans pulled Devine off the top rope via the chain through a wooden table, then tied him in the ropes and grabbed his trusty kendo stick. Devine begged his former Mafia cohort for mercy, even offering to reform the group with Evans as co-leader, but Evans saw through the charade, smashing the kendo stick into pieces over the head of Devine for the pin.
Rise Through the Ranks[]
Evans rise would continue after Hacked, with his confidence at an all time high after being free of the Mafia. He would get involved in the budding US vs UK war taking over the company. The Chicago native would join Team USA for their 4 on 4 elimination match at Annihilation. Evans has experience in the multi man match, and it showed, as he eliminated Sean O'Kane before being eliminated by Alex Morgan. Evans would attempt to gain entry into the prestigious Battlefield tournament, and would do so with a defeat of Spencer Miller on Mayhem. At Battlefield, Evans would defeat Hall of Famer and WCSF Legend Rage Mishima in a standout first round contest, then defeat high flying UK star Vincent Viazon in the second round, making it to the final. In the Finals, he faced rising star and Four Lions member Desmond Frazier. In what many called the Match of the Year, the two battled back and forth, but in the end Frazier submitted Evans for the victory.