"The Blessed One" Travis Roberts is a member of the Unified Global Wrestling Coalition. He is a 3-Time former Global Champion as a member of Global Impact Wrestling.
Career[]
TWiSTeD Fight Club[]
Travis made his debut in Professional Wrestling in 2002 in the then known Human Tortures Fight Club. In his two years with the company he was instrumental in reviving the name of TWiSTeD, a faction representing a former company Travis Roberts watched before it closed in 2000, The World Wrestling for the TWiSTeD. Travis Roberts was undoubtedly Fight Clubs most charismatic and entertaining superstar, and was Fight Club world Champion on no less than three occasions, and his influence was directly responsible for the company becoming known as TWiSTeD Fight Club in 2003.
In January 2004 Travis made a foray into Hollywood in the film “Now You’re a Man”, but despite positive reviews of his performance he missed the squared circle. He started private discussions to return to TFC, the place that made him famous, and was set to sign a groundbreaking exclusivity deal that would make him richer than he already was, and giving himself a 49% Stake in the company. But on the night he planned to reveal the news to the world during a televised show, Travis was attacked by his long term ally GWAR. An attack so vicious that it plunged “the Blessed one” into a coma.
He awoke from his slumber in Summer 2006, but was in no shape to even think about wrestling. On awaking he learned from his long time agent, eD cASe, that TFC closed down 4 months after he went into his coma due to dwindling crowds and in fighting. Moreover, not only did Travis awake to find the place he held so dear extinct, his wife Mary-Joanna had decided she wanted to pursue her own acting career, and had fallen in love with a Producer. “The Headliners” life was in pieces.
After two years of hard partying to dull the pain he felt inside, a precarious financial position forced him to return to the ring in May 2008 with Global Impact Wrestling.
Global Impact Wrestling[]
Travis Roberts made his debut with GIW during the May 17th edition of Sentinel in 2008. He was paired with Randy Boolzian, a man who himself had only had one previous match with the company, in an impromptu Tag team match up against Savage and Donovan Hastings, two members of a heel stable created on that very night by Cara Costello fiancé of the owner of the company, Declan Prescott (who was hospitalised after a brutal match weeks earlier). To the surprise of many in the arena, Travis hit his finisher The White Out on Savage picking up the win for BoolZ and himself on his debut. However, little did Travis know at this time that the two men he didn’t pin were to have a great bearing in his life of the coming years.
Over the next couple of weeks Cara Costello tried to recruit Travis Roberts into Global Domination, telling him to crush Randy Boolzian during their match at Toxic Intent that month. Despite losing to Randy Boolzian in his first GIW PPV, after the match he levelled him with a White Out, seemingly accepting Cara’s offer, before turning on Savage who had accompanied her to ringside. In this macth Travis Roberts put himself in the middle of a war that was brewing inside GIW, and as an enemy of both sides.
The next month Travis Roberts was placed in a triple threat match against two members of Global Domination, Donovan Hastings and Komosube. The fact the members of GD could not work together, and both wanted to victory for their own glory rather than that of their stable, meant Travis Roberts was able to capitalize on their miscommunication to get the win by pinning Hastings.
That same night GIW owner returned after Brandon Brown had defeated Gloal Dominations Lord Deathman to reclaim the Global heavyweight Title, and viciously attacked him with a sledgehammer.
The following month of July was the lead up to In Your Hands, a Pay-Per-View thats matches were entirely decided by the GIW fans. Travis Roberts was one of a number of competitors that fans could add to the Global heavyweight Championship match between Brandon brown and Lord Deathman.
Travis Roberts did not win this vote, the eventual winner was Komosube, who had earlier that month progressed by refusing to bow down to Declan Prescott in a qualifier to become eligible for the vote. Declan Prescott was now in charge of Global Domination, and this act ended Komosube’s membership. Travis Roberts spent the next month declaring he would win the vote, and end Global Dominations pathetic run. He declared a Revolution was on the way, he was Phase I and Phase II would be introduced at In Your Hands.
In the triple threat match at In Your Hands between Global Dominations Lord Deathman, Komosube and the Global Heavyweight Champion Brandon Brown, Declan Prescott interfered by attacking Brandon Brown, and moments later ‘The Blessed One’ rushed to the ring to attempt to stop a GD screw job, only to be taken out by Lord Deathman. Declan ended u[p on the floor moments later after an attack from Komosube, who is temporarily blinded by an eye rake from the Champion.
As Declan Prescott and Travis Roberts lay on the ground, their allies approached them to help them to their feet, only for Declan Prescott to hit the Significant Impact on Deathman and Roberts to hit the White Out on Brandon Brown, before both men retreated up the ramp to watch Komosube win the title, and then realise that he’d done so with no honour. It was revealed that night Declan Prescott was Phase II of the Revolution. Global Domination was dead, but a new more cunning alignment had taken its place.
The Revolution[]
Declan and Travis wasted no time in reminded Komosube how he had been given the title as part of their masterplan that had surprised the entire world. And as Travis Roberts prepared for his Number 1 Contendership against Lord Deathman, the two men showed their strength as a team, and continued to belittle the entire GIW roster. At the PPV Eight with help from Declan and a Steel Chair, Travis Roberts made himself the Number 1 Contender to the Global heavyweight Championship, which had been successfully retained by Komosube on that same night.
In the run up to their match at the Battleground Pay-Per-View ‘The Headliner’ used any excuse to remind Komosube that he was merely The Revolutions Puppet, he had been granted the honour of being Champion only because Travis and Declan allowed it to be so. He expanded over the month to explain that Komosube would be a far superior opponent for ‘The Headliner’ to defeat than Brandon brown or Lord Deathman, because ‘The Revolution’ had built him into a monster.
One week before the Battleground Match, a letter from The Office of The Revolution was delivered to Komosube, a letter he has been seen with on many occasions since, and rumours suggests it was a few thousand words on why Komosube was unsuitable to be champion, and why Travis Roberts was a far better choice. During the match Komosube finally succumbed to defeat when Travis Roberts used The Significant Impact, Declan Prescott’s finisher, to make the pin. How much the letter played in this result is unknown, but is widely debated.
However this title reign proved to be a false dawn, as only a month later in a Triple Cage Match against for Champion Brandon Brown and Relative newcomer Alex Kiseragi at the Distant Whispers PPV held in London, England, a plan involving Declan Prescott and a water balloon rocket launcher backfired and Travis Roberts lost his title to ‘The Dragon’ Alex Kiseragi. After this show Declan Prescott also lost his power to a a board appointed Enforcer known as Boss Penguin.
This meant the anticipated matchup between Battleground Match winner Randy Boolzian and Travis Roberts at GIW’s flagship show Horizons looked like it would no longer happen. But in the months previous, it had been revealed that Randy Boolzian had a deep seated hatred of Travis Roberts, and blamed him for the death of his best friend Ashton, who died in a car accident on the way to seeing ‘The Blessed One’ wrestle in TFC. Travis’ agent eD cASe used this knowledge, and the offer of putting the now deactivated TWiSTeD Fight Club World Championship ont he line, to get Travis Roberts into the main event at Horizons, against the Global heavyweight Champion, Alex Kiseragi and Undefeated Hardcore Champion, Randy Boolzian. Travis Roberts successfully reclaimed The Global Heavyweight Title, and in doing so merged it with The GIW Hardcore Title, to become GIW’s first ever Unified Global Champion, after a Shooting Star Press off the top of the cage onto Alex Kiseragi sealed his victory.
2009: The year of The Blessed One[]
After GIW’s customary winter break, travis Roberts returned to start his second reign at the top in good spirits. But this was soon to change, within the first month his partner and friend Declan Prescott upped and disappeared from the company leaving Travis on his own. Not only that, it had been revealed that his estranged wife, Mary-Joanna, had begun a relationship with Randy Boolzian, a man who over the course of 2008 became Travis Roberts’ number 1 nemesis. It was clear to everyone that Randy and MJ were using one another for their own purposes, but it doubtless caused ‘The Headliner’ some unwanted issues.
At GIW’s first Pay-Per-View of 2009, Travis Roberts defended the title against Randy Boolzian, who despite not winning at Horizons, had yet to been made to submit or been pinned in his entire time in GIW. GIW Enforcer boss Penguin also insisted that Mary-Joanna Roberts would be the Special guest Referee in this one. This proved that an intense match was amplified by the presence of a woman who had grown to care for both men in different ways. Due to her heightened emotional state she made a rather quick count, and Travis Roberts became the first man to pin Randy Boolzian in a GIW ring and retained the Title. But only moments after Alex Kiseragi charged into the ring with referee Glenn Burke, and hit Travis with a Yari Kick, exploiting a loophole in his own rematch clause and becoming a two time Global Champion.
This reign however did not last long, and Travis regained the title a week later during a ladder match on Sentinel, after Randy Boolzian interfered. At the next Pay-Per-View he was scheduled to face Alex Kiseragi in a rematch for the title, and inexplicably Randy Boolzian chose to further his own hatred for Alex Kiseragi over the month, in doing so weakening him for Travis, who retained his title at the Pay-Per-View.
Over the following weeks GIW’s actions became more and more risqué, and they were eventually forced from the country, and their next Pay-Per-View was held in Japan, No Holds Barred: Rising Sun. Travis Roberts defeated Gabrielle Montgomery, the first woman to hold the title in a gruelling Deathmatch of Doom.
Donovan Hastings intriguing back story[]
During Travis Roberts’ impressive start to the year, an interesting sidestory was developing. Donovan Hastings had become his Number 1 Contender after a match with ‘the Monster’ Dredd at No Holds Barred. Donovan had manoeuvred himself into this position with a series of statements that had refused to accept reality, yet GIW in general accepted these as truth.
Despite being eliminated by the eventual winner of the Search for the Chief Nigga Tournament by Gabrielle in the Semi-Finals, Donovan went on to proclaim himself the True Lord Chief Nigga, and general consensus agreed. When he beat Gabrielle at Affirmative Action, he then proclaimed himself Number 1 contender, and was handed a match in which he proved himself to be just that. After No Holds Barred, Donovan Hastings was supported by Boss Penguin,a nd allowed to pick his own stipulation for his title match in Mexico at the Break for the Border PPV. He chose an Ultimate Submission Match.
During this month Donovan reminded Travis constantly that he was a fine adversary, and he was proud that he would be defeating him in his final step to becoming an immortalised legend. The week before their title match, a Spoof Obituary for The Lord Chief appeared in his home town newspaper, it is believed to have been the work of Travis Roberts.
‘The Headliner’ was ultimately victorious in the Ultimate Submission match, snatching a 3-2 victory in the dying seconds. The next week, true to form, Donovan Hastings declared the match should have ended a draw, and crowned himself co-Undisputed Global Champion.
The following month at Toxic Intent, Travis Roberts was initially scheduled to defend against Randy Boolzian, Jack Severino and Moss Edwards. This however was not meant to be. In Donovan’s continued quest to prove himself co-Undisputed Champion he felt it was his duty to protect the title from it’s challengers, and ended up forcing Jack Severino’s retirement after an attack on Sentinel. This in turn led to Moss Edwards deferring his shot to take care of Hastings.
This meant Toxic Intent became Travis Roberts and Randy Boolzian’s third PPV Singles Encounter in just over a year, and fourth including the Horizons Main Event. Once again Travis Roberts managed to triumph in a typically hard fought battle after a White Out from the top rope.
At GIW’s next Pay-Per-View, battlegrounds, Travis successfully defended against Moss Edwards, who had arguably been distracted by a feud with Randy Boolzian which had just ended upon The Red Bull icons mysterious disappearance (well his first) from GIW. On the same night Donovan Hastings won the Battleground Match, and the chance for the match of his choosing at Horizons at the end of the year.
Hastings very clearly stated that his wish was to face Travis Roberts in a Last Man Standing Match for the Unified Global Championship, and due to this he made it impossible for anyone to challenge for the title until this point, remembering the previous year’s Distant Whispers when Alex Kiseragi shocked the world. Travis ended up being drawn into Donovan’s own feud with members of the Covenant, Raenius and Dirge who had been screwed by the Lord Chief at one point in the preceding months. Donovan and Travis teamed at Distant Whispers to defeat the duo in a tight contest.
In the lead up to Horizons Travis Roberts life began to unfold, the very week of GIW’s flagship show he finally completed his divorce from Mary-Joanna, with her securing 50% of his worth, and 33% of future earnings. On the same day his former agent Tate Levene successfully sued him after an incident with a gun, and took Travis’ remaining fortune, leaving Travis penniless. The story got no better at Horizons as Donovan Hastings Finally reached the pinnacle of the industry in an epic encounter. Despite this defeat Travis had accomplished a truly remarkable reign as champion in 2009, but had nothing to show for it.
2010 and the Third Age of TWiSteD[]
Travis Roberts started 2010 reunited with former agent eD cASe, and sharing his apartment with him. He was surprisingly upbeat for a man without the title, but it soon became clear that a huge burden had been removed from his shoulders. He soon struck up a surprising alliance with Donovan Hastings, which was revealed to be a deep friendship they had built up after Donovan sent Travis a copy of the TWiSTeD Proverbs in the winter break.
He fully involved himself in Donovan’s feud with the Covenant, stepping in the path of the The Momentum Killer Dirge and challenging him to enter the Global Tournament at Infinity, the Search for GIW’s Heart and Soul. Dirge’s response was to deliver a ‘Death In Vegas’ so brutal to ‘The Headliner’ which left him bad condition for the rest of the month. Despite his rellucatnce to rest, and subsequent beatings Travis refused to withdraw from the Tournament.
The final Sentinel before Infinity, GIW’s elderly Senior Enforcer Old Lady Levene was brutally attacked in her office by the Covenant and was later hospitalised. In the wake of this Travis and Donovan reformed TWiSteD, and pledged to defeat The Covenant ‘the right way.’ Whilst Donovan just about managed his end of the bargain, Travis fell to Dirge in the final of the one night tournament, after interference from former agent and new temporary Senior Enforcer Tate Levene, who had aligned himself with The Covenant.
The following month Travis was barred from going anywhere near the arena on ‘health’ grounds, and only reappeared in GIW during its last Ever Show ‘Dark Days’ for a match with Randy Boolzian that never happened. In this time Travis had been a supporter of GIW’s Resistance which were rallying against The Covenant’s stranglehold on the company. At Dark Days Donovan Hastings managed to stave off the challenge of Dirge, whilst Jet Somers and Travis Roberts attempted to hold off the soldiers of the Covenant.
As the curtain closed on Global Impact Wrestling, Travis Roberts lay in his own blood surrounded by many others in the same predicament. He now awaits what the Unified Global Wrestling Coalition will bring forth.
Unified Global Wrestling Coalition[]
The Headliner and The Hobo[]
On the night of GIW's Dark Day's it was announced that Global Impact Wrestling and rival company Lock Wrestling federation were to merge, a move the changed the landscape of the industry. It was also announced that the upcoming No Holds Barred event the titles of each company would be unified to bring the history of each in line with the other.
This lead to a series of events in which Travis Roberts ended up teaming with the 'Hardcore Hobo' Tyvola and in a four team Prison break match they unified the Tag team titles of both companies and became the first ever UGWC Cooperative Champions. Tyvola was, arguably, the most mentally unstable individual to ever step foot in the squared circle, but he was also one of the toughest. Despite the obvious contrasts in both men they were a formidable tag team that dominated the division in a teaming popularly referred to as 'The Blessed Beards'.
Despite their dominance they would only have one successful PPV defence before Tyvola escaped from a dental surgery and went missing for much of the year. This left 'The Headliner' without a partner for their title defence at 'In Your Hands' against a team that Travis had history with.
The Return and Retirement of Declan Prescott[]
During the first months of UGWC Tyvola wasn't the only unkempt and unshaven individual Travis Roberts would take an interest in, a homeless man named Peter Damascus started to compete in UGWC and it was soon revealed that this was none other than Declan Prescott, the man who had stood beside Travis Roberts before vanishing from the industry. He returned holding many secrets.
Travis was pleased to see his friend back in UGWC, despite the misgivings of Donovan Hastings, and it was Declan Prescott and Andy Savana, wrestling as 'The Saints of Los Angeles' that defeated 'The Blessed One' in a handicap match to end the Cooperative Championship reign of 'The Blessed Beards'.
Whilst there was a respect between the two men, it was clear Travis was still hurting from being abandoned the previous year and the two began a feud that would stretch until Horizons of that year. At the PPV after In Your Hands, Declan Prescott beat a team including both Donovan Hastings and Travis Roberts to progress to the final match at Outlast where he became UGWC World Heavyweight Champion at the first time of asking.
Travis clearly spurred on by this result went on to win the Battleground match at the show of the same name. On that same night both Donovan Hastings and Declan Prescott were declared winners of a triple threat for the UGWC World Heavyweight Championship, and were to face in a rematch on an episode of Synergy before Horizons. Without waiting for the result Travis Roberts declared he would choose to fight Declan Prescott with his Battleground pick at Horizons regardless of the title being on the line. Declan Prescott subsequently lost the title to Donovan Hastings.
The Vigilante Match between 'The Blessed One' and Prescott arguably stole the show at Horizons and is one of the grandest matches the flagship show has ever seen. It raged on throughout the entire show, interupting an awards ceremony, taking in all manner of backstage area's at Madison Square Garden, and even included a mass battle with Boss P and his legion of famous jobbers where The Revolution briefly reformed to protect Horizons from the masses of oxygen thieves who wished to disrupt the show.
The match finally ended before the final contest of the year, and Declan Prescott grabbed the win with hsi finishing move 'White Light' off the stage. Before the match Declan had said he would retire if he lost, yet much to Robert Ooley's annoyance he decided he would do so anyway to spend time with his wife and child.
Shortly afterwards Travis Roberts announced he too was leaving the industry, seeing the likes of Jet Somers, an individual he had no respect for headlining Horizons, and others such as Phrixus Deimos and Travis Pierce gaining the spotlight were thought to be among the reasons, the subsequent assassination attempt of Somers to close out Horizons that year was also seen as another.
Time Off[]
Travis Roberts spent much of his time spending the money he had earned during his successful few years in GIW and UGWC, he was a regular at such events as The Gumball Rally, The Cannes Film Festival and numerous festivals.
He didn't completely cut ties with the industry however, he could often be spotted spending time with Donovan Hastings, their friendship growing stronger over the years. He was also on hand to host the third and final day of the first ever WrestleStock Festival, introducing the world to GameShowlapalooza, a format seemingly designed to help Donovan Hastings wrestle the title from the dominant hands of ROberts' former Cooperative Partner Tyvola. It was not successful.
WrestleStock was Travis Roberts last official appearance on UGWC Bandwidth for over two years.
The Inevitable Return[]
At the end of August 2013 Travis Roberts returned to UGWC to captain an Outlast team put together by Robert Ooley for Outlast. However it came to be revealed tthat Roberts had been behind the formation of the team including Victoria Jensen, NBK and Forewell Boding as a way to make a surprise return to competitive action. He refused to step into the ring in the matches prior to the Outlast event, stating they were beneath a star of his calibre to make his in ring debut at.
However his return at outlast was somewhat underwhelming, brawling to the back with Ichabod relatively early into the match and being eliminated by count out.
'The Headliner' stated he had returned to his 'home' because he was distressed at just how well his predictions had come to fruition, he accused the roster of a lack of originality or risk, and pointed to the impressive successes of Jet Somers and Travis Pierce in his absence as highlighting the problems the company had.
Despite the anti-climatic nature of his in-ring return at Outlast the next major event proved to be the polar opposite as 'The Most Influential icon in Sports Entertainment this Millennia' defeated recently deposed World Champion Eden Morgan, Alan 'Vain' Wallace, Alex Stein, Jezebel Saint and Phrixus Deimos to win the second Battleground match of his career.
For the second time 'The Blessed One' chose not to use his pick to challenge the World Heavyweight Champion, he reasoned that both Zane Scott and Eden Morgan had deserved to end the year they had both dominated in the Main Event, instead he said he would make someone relevant again and take them to heights their careers had never seen before. He chose to face Phrixus Deimos.
A few years earlier this would have been touted as a dream match, one of GIW's most recognisable stars facing off against one of LWF's. However the roster had defied Travis' earlier claims of un-originality and lack of risk takers, the card for Horizons 2013 arguably hand a handful of matches that could be deemed 'Main Events' and the announcement was relatively underwhelming.
However Phrixus Deimos is one of the sports most enigmatic characters and when placed in a feud with purpose he often brings the best out of himself and his opponents.This was the case during their run to Horizons, with Deimos trying to get under the Headliner's skin, and Travis Roberts no-selling the shit out of Deimos' mind games leading to an enthralling battle of wills. Whilst Roberts emerged victorious in their match at Horizons, reports were that during the feud he was restless and having trouble sleeping, a sign that maybe the victory had been Deimos' after all?
Following Horizons 'The Blessed One' declared his desire to enter and win the annual Infinity Global Challenge tournament, he had unfinished business following his defeat to Dirge four years earlier that left a blemish on his history that he wanted to erase. He was successful in a field comprising of 'The Cyclone' JK, Gian Jones, Remi Monroe, Phrixus Deimos, Eden Morgan and Klaus vonKnorre, the final two of which he defeated in the semi-finals and final (with help from a distraction from Alan Wallace) respectively.
The prize for winning the Gloabl Challenge in 2014 was to name the new UGWC Creative Director.
The Puppet Masters[]
After the Main Event of Infinity, in which Cypress Morgan retained the UGWC World Heavyweight Championship against Donovan Hastings and Zane Scott, Travis Roberts announced that he had chosen long term Dirge associate, David Damarest as UGWC's Creative Director, and at that moment the faction known as The Puppet Masters was born as Donovan Hastings won a façade of an impromptu match.
The alignment of The Puppet Masters (Dirge, Alan 'Vain' Wallace, Donovan Hastings and Travis Roberts) was unimaginable to many due to the history between Dirge and the two also known as 'Blessed Immortality', but was revealed to have been in motion since Roberts' return at Outlast, his brawl with Ichabod merely a cover for a clandestine meeting with Dirge.
As expected they immediately became the most hated grouping in the company, no small part due to the way they crowned Donovan Hastings as champion (despite the fact similar methods had been employed by Cypress Morgan, which included screwing over his own sister, to initially become Champion at Horizons) added to the fact they had the Creative Director in their pocket. Many picked up on the fact the name could be linked to a bad 90's Horror Film, despite the fact no-one criticizes the WWE stable Evolution for having the same name as a bad 2001 Sci-Fi comedy. Fewer people however picked up on the fact the name was also once used by UGWC Director of Human Resources Robert Ooley, and the potential that as well as being an accurate description of four men who had pulled everyone else's strings it was also designed to be an insult to the current 'authority' of the company.
The hatred that swelled against The Puppet Masters displayed just how successful their alliance had been, but with almost the entire company gunning for them the four men had to scrape and struggle for any kind of success, over the following 3 PPV's, Massive Mellee, No Holds Barred and Seven Deadly Sins, saw moderate success for the group but the repeated close escapes for Donovan Hastings in World Title matches told the story of the difficulties the group found themselves.
During this time Travis gradually found himself feeling marginalised, he was opening shows and competing in matches he deemed to be beneath him, many felt he was envious of the position Donovan Hastings was in despite the fact he was a key reason he held such status. Following disappointing defeats to Cypress Morgan and Phrixus Deimos and No Holds Barred and Seven Deadly Sins he became more and more resentful of his allies.
This did not go unnoticed by the rest of The Puppet Masters and following his failure to defeat Remi Monroe for the Chaos Championship on the June 23rd edition of Synergy they decided to cast Roberts from the group he had founded in brutal fashion (leaving him unable to compete at the upcoming WrestleStock), before revealing Remi Monroe was taking 'The Blessed Ones' place. The image of his long time friend Donovan Hastings nodding and approving the beat down is one that will remain in the minds of many fans for a long time.
After The Puppet Masters.[]
On the July 21st 2014 edition of Synergy it was announced that 'The Headliner' would be returning to captain a team at outlast against a team captained by Dirge.
Moveset and Theme[]
Finisher
- The White Out - Crossed-Arm DDT
- The TWiSTeD Tourniquet - Crucifix Armbar (submission)
Signature Moves
- Full Nelson Slam
- Diamond Dust
- TRLAOCIAFSOS
Theme Music
- "Bummer" by Monster Magnet
- "Cochise" by Audioslave
Championships and Accompishments[]
Global Impact Wrestling
- 3-Time GIW Global Heavyweight Champion
Unified Global Wrestling Coalition
- 1-Time UGWC Co-Operative Champion
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