Zarya Volkov "The Iron Soldier"

Ring Name: Iron Soldier
Real Name: Zarya Volkov
Age: 29
Eyes:  Brown
Hair: Black
Height: 6'3
Weight: 205 lbs
Nationality: Russian
Alignment: Heel

Entrance Music:

Russian Victory March:

Combat Style: Style wise, Iron Soldier melds, brutal, high impact power moves with a strong grappling game fueled by her skill in Amateur Wrestling and Russian Sambo.
While her blows can do considerable damage if they land, she isn't a striker.



Finishing Moves:

Iron-lock:

A modified Kata-Ha-Jime choke-hold.

Iron Hammer:

An extension of the Iron Lock, usually reserved for the most troublesome opponents, hated rivals or when Soldier just feels like being extra cruel. Turning the Kata-Ha-Jime choke into a brutal suplex.

Russian Suplex:

Extremely basic in some respects, and yet Zarya's strength, height and the angle she uses combine to make this suplex a near certain knock-out blow to any opponent unlucky enough to get caught by it.

Appearance -

Ring Attire:

Personality - Coming across as the strong, stoic type at first glance, Soldier is something of a bully at her core with a lightening quick temper and a grim sense of humor. She's also highly mercenary by nature, more concerned with making money then with the thrill of victory. This has led to her reputation as a *bounty hunter*, that old school wrestling title given to competitors who are willing to take money under the table in exchange for hurting someone else's rival. All that said, she is fiercely loyal to what few friends or Allies she makes.

History - Zarya's path to her current profession has been a difficult one, to say the least. Growing up poor in Saint Petersburg, she was forever the awkward one,  taller then the other girls her age but too shy to use that advantage in her defense, her grades suffered as school became more about avoiding bullies then excelling in her studies. Eventually, one girl pushed her too far. Zarya was suspended for weeks and barely escaped expulsion. The would-be tormentor ended up in the hospital.

From that point onward Zarya threw herself into the one thing that gave her any solace, sports, amateur wrestling in particular. She thought she'd found her calling,  the thing she was born to excel in, and by the time she was a senior in high school she was being scouted to participate in the Russian Olympic wrestling team.
Zarya had made it.  Rags to riches. Poor kid from the streets to gold medal winner...or so she thought.

The Olympics came around,  only to see the entire Russian amateur wrestling team disqualified after Russian officials were caught trying to bribe referees,  among other violations. Her dream was taken from her, and the wrestlers themselves took the blame for their governments meddling. Unable to find a job, angry and embittered, Zarya joined the military, seeing it as her only real chance for employment and to erase the unjustified stain from her family nature.

She almost got through a single tour of service. In some ways Zarya was an excellent soldier, and quickly grew skilled enough in Sambo to instruct others. Her single-minded devotion to any given task and stead-fast loyalty to those she served with spoke well for her. In other ways she was becoming increasingly unstable, violent and utterly unable to control her dangerous temper, which was increasingly on a hair trigger. One particularly bad incident earned her a dishonorable discharge.

All said and done,  Zarya was even worse off then when she started, all but blacklisted from legitimate employment by her discharge. Seeking a way to make a living with the only real skills she had,  namely hurting people, she joined various underground wrestling leagues, working her way up from the most disreputable venues to the larger, national promotions, gaining a reputation for heelish showmanship and brutality in the ring along the way.

Now, she seeks to join the most high profile wrestling promotion yet.



Factoids -

Zarya will drink vodka in a pinch, but she much prefers Russian Tea.

AFW Stats

Wins -
Loses - 0
Draws - 0
Allies - Isa Kubota
Rivals - Linda Halloween

Timeline

1. Zarya destroys Yumi in her debut match (W)
2. Iron Soldier insults America in her first promo, starting a feud with Linda Halloween.
3.Komachi Hiroshima picks a fight with the Iron Soldier... and regrets it. (W)
4.Komachi becomes Zarya's POW after losing a match.
5.Russia vs America as Zarya Volkov takes on Linda Halloween (on-going)

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