Ronnie Long

[Old Line Jeff]

Ronnie Long

Height: 6' 5"

Weight: 254 lbs

Alignment: Face

Hometown: LaFayette, GA

DoB: July 13, 1986*

Voice Color: 497020

Description: Shoulder length black hair, cut a little shorter on the sides to keep it under control. Jeans - he switches between black, dark grey, and navy blue - along with a sleeveless leather vest with brass buttons that is taken off before he wrestles, along with black boots, black elbow pads, a black forearm pad on his right arm, and knee pads hidden under his jeans. The only difference between his wrestling and casual attire is (1) he usually wears a shirt when not wrestling, (2) doesn't wear pads in public, and (3) he sometimes brings back the trench coat he wore for 20 years when it's cold out.

Wrestler's Outlook: When Ronnie Long made his return to pro wrestling, it was in NPW and as a Face. Not too long afterwards, his old tag team partner Daeriq Damien showed back up and began trying to goad him into turning heel. When NPW jumped from the XHF to the CWA, Long followed. Considering himself a CWA loyalist, when NPW and the CWA folded at the same time and W:UK opened but as an XHF territory, Long used that as an excuse to finally start letting Damien manage him and turned Heel... to decidedly less success than he'd had as a Face, even after Damien built a stable called The Foundation with Long as the centerpiece.

After his own wife called him out on being a follower, Long decided it was time for some change. Suspicious that there was more to Damien's return than admitted, Long decided not to leave the Foundation, but to draw a line in the sand - he would be setting his own strategy, not allowing interference, and establishing certain lines he would not cross. Then the Foundation broke up when The Brothers Gluck turned on it, so Long not only finished turning face but dragged Damien into facedom as well.

Background: Ronnie Long has wrestled all over the wrestling world - CAL, PTC, WfWA, DEF, winning several different titles over the years, most prestigiously the WfWA World Heavyweight Championship. However, he's best known for being the tag team anchor of the interpromotional stable The Untouchables. Earlier in his career he was also known for deathmatches.

During his time in CWA, something weird involving a spaceship, time travel and prophecies happened to Ronnie's best friend Jeff Andrews. (Read the related RPs here and here). Andrews was supposedly de-aged by ten years, and it was discovered later that it affected everybody who 1) was in Andrews' general sphere of influence and 2) was born in 1994 or earlier. As Ronnie never suffered any severe injuries or male pattern baldness, the only thing that really changed for him was slightly unstiffened knees and neck.

Allies: On camera, Daeriq Damien. More behind the scenes, his old friends and stablemates Jeff Andrews and the rest of the IWA/OLW old guard. As for finding allies in W:UK he's not opposed to it but not actively looking.

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Entrance Info

Entrance Music: "Gonna Need a Grave" - Urban Country

Entrance Description:

[b][color=517cf7]Salazar:[/color][/b] Introducing first…! / And his opponent…!

[div align="center"]♫ Lord here I come I'm just holding on ♫
♫ A bullet is on its way ♫
♫ Tell the whole world that I'm comin' home ♫
♫ Someone's gonna need a grave ♫

[video size="small"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9chF9gYZqI[/video][/div]

[b][color=517cf7]Salazar:[/color][/b] Hailing from LaFayette, Georgia, and weighing in at 254 lbs! Accompanied to the ring by Daeriq Damien! This is ROOONNNNIEEE... LOOOOOOOOONNNNGGGGG!!!

As the combination of banjo picking and hip-hop drum line begins to blast, Daeriq Damien walks out of the back.  Adjusting his shades, he points and steps to the side.  As the lyrics kick in, a burst of gold pyro goes off as Ronnie Long walks out onto the stage.

[div align="center"]♫ Yeah I can never be timid, start to the finish ♫
♫ Even through the blemishes my heart is replenished ♫
♫ Violent images, was somethin' in store ♫
♫ It's kinda heavy, holdin' steady I'm ready for war ♫[/div]

Stepping to each side of the stage, Long pounds his fists into his chest twice and then throws his arms out to the sides, getting the fans cheering louder. He then spins and starts walking quickly down the ramp, slapping a few hands before sliding into the ring.

(Insert some commentary)

In the ring Long pulls his leather vest off and drops it, then jumps to the middle rope and throws his arms up in the crucifix again. Jumping down, he leans back in his corner and waits.

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In-Ring Info

Wrestling Style: Power Brawler/Counter Brawler. Ronnie Long debuted in wrestling a little bit too early, and spent the formative years of his career clobbering people with weapons instead of wrestling. As such, even now that he can actually wrestle, his moves always have a bit of an unpolished aura to them - his vertical suplex wobbles, his release german suplex is all throw no snap, and even his powerslam comes out lopsided. He's more comfortable brawling than wrestling, and he's more "immovable object" than "unstoppable force" - his chops are hard, but the reason you can't beat him in a chop battle is because he'll react to an opponent's chops with a stare of puzzled contempt. And don't hit him in the head with a chair, you'll just make him mad. Long's actual grappling skill could be called barely adequate, but he excels at getting back to his feet and/or brawling his way out of predicaments. He can't flip but he isn't afraid of the top rope and will dive on you.

Common Moves:

*Knife edge chop
*Headbutt
*Counter elbow
*Scoop slam
*Front powerslam
*Vertical suplex
*Gourdbuster
*Release German suplex
*Powerslam
*Manhattan drop

Trademark Moves:

1) Long Shot (Blue Thunder Powerbomb)
2) Tilt-a-whirl Gutbuster
3) Choke toss to corner then knife edge chop as opponent bounces out
4) Tope Suicido
5) Standing spinebuster

Finishers:

1) Western Lariat (Hansen style lariat)
2) Extension Powerbomb (The Last Ride without its' gimmick name)
3) Asiatic Spike submission (only used when he needs a submission hold to win a match)

Desperation/Big Match Finisher:

"Five Star" Guillotine (high jump guillotine legdrop. It was his finisher in his younger days, now rarely used due to putting a toll on his hips and back)

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Handler Info

Your Preferred Name: Jeff. If you're trying to differentiate me from another Jeff, call me Old Line Jeff, JeffOLW, or Long.

Contact Method: Discord, J E F F#0798

Email Address: no thanks

How did you hear about W:UK? Well, it all goes back to when the old CAL interfed closed in 2004 and the efed I was running, Old Line Wrestling, stayed open and moved over to the WfWA interfed, where I met Matt aka Oxford Osland. This was decades ago - I closed OLW in 2008 and the WfWA closed in 2009. Then what was left of the WfWA went off and became DEFIANCE, and stuff happened, and we all slowly went our separate ways over the next most-of-a-decade until we (Matt, me, Jay Stevens, LVZ, Dusty Griffith, Justin, and a couple guys you don't know named Damien and Evan) decided to get back together as a group and all do v-feds. NPW started as one of the v-feds, Matt wanted more interactivity so NPW became an actual efed and all the v-feds closed and some of us stuck around to RP in NPW and some didn't, and then the ones who did gradually trickled away over the next couple years. But I stuck with it. And when NPW basically changed name and ownership and became W:UK, I WAS THERE BRO.

[Old Line Jeff]

Updated post heel turn.

[Old Line Jeff]

Appendix A

Ronnie Long, Daeriq Damien, and The Foundation

Ronnie Long made his professional wrestling debut in what was then known as the Global Wrestling Federation (it would later become Global Wrestling, and then GLOBAL). He debuted in the fall of the year 2000.

At the time, Ronnie was an unknown signing. Twenty-four years of age, he refused to answer questions as to where he trained to wrestle, and won his first match with a high jump guillotine legdrop.

Daeriq Damien, on the other hand, had arrived a month or two before Long, and was a major signing - GWF President Jason Ayers believed that Damien had main event potential, and made him the original corner stone of what was, honestly, yet another Corporation ripoff, the Ayers Foundation. Young Ronnie was invited to join the Foundation, and moved into a team with Daeriq Damien. The idea was that Damien could teach a few things to the young rookie.

Damien and Long won the GWF Xtreme Tag Titles, a lower card gimmick tag team championship where matches took place exclusively under hardcore rules. More prestigously, Long defeated future multi-time GLOBAL champion Ben J. "Firestarter" Palethorpe to win the Television Title.

However, despite undercard success, Damien did not develop into the main eventer Ayers was looking for, and new talent were added to the Foundation, including a tag team called Heavy Artillery. Damien and Long were pushed to the back end of the stable, with Ayers withholding a World Tag Title shot from the pair. A wrestler named Vegas was one of the various faces opposing The Foundation, and Ayers locked Damien and Long in a room with Vegas' valet Lady Luck (real first name Kyrsten, last name not on record). He ordered them to attack her in exchange for their tag title shot - Damien did willingly, Long reluctantly only when Ayers threatened to fire him.

Lady Luck subsequently suffered a miscarriage. Ayers actually apologized, settled with her out of court, allegedly for multi-millions, and left GWF. Long and Damien were not held liable - the room could not be unlocked from the inside and they were found to have been illegally coerced into the act.

Around this same time, Long's then-girlfriend Deanna D'aimore suffered an injury to her achilles tendon in her third and final match as a pro wrestler. Long departed GWF, and although he would make a few returns over the years, he wouldn't have any more sustained runs with the company.

In the spring of 2001, Jeff Andrews had opened the Innovative Wrestling Alliance, and successfully poached Damien and Long from GWF. He, like Ayers, had planned to build a heel stable. Damien immediately went non-compliant, Long didn't. The two drifted apart in IWA. Damien had more success, winning the IWA Heavyweight Title, but he was also suspended when he was caught doping during a shot at the CAL World Title (IWA was part of an interfed called the Coalition of Affiliated Leagues). Long would remain in the tag team ranks doing the heel stable thing. GWF and IWA briefly interpromoted - IWA backed out when it became obvious that GWF wasn't interested in an equal partnership and chose to treat IWA as a developmental promotion - and Long ended up in an IWA version of the same stable he was in in GWF, The Foundation. He won the IWA Tag Titles alongside stablemate Chris Wright.

It was during this period that Long began drifting towards friendship with Jeff Andrews, Heidi Christenson, and the other Untouchables, but that is not the focus of this history lesson. Long was kicked out of The Foundation after losing a match to Heidi on PPV. This is where he began working deathmatches, and although his performance in them due to pain tolerance and willingness to take punishment - notoriously taking a headshot from a chair wrapped in razor wire and kicking out of the ensuing pin - was well-regarded he also couldn't stay healthy long enough to build up a successful streak.

Long and Damien would not interact until IWA had closed and Old Line Wrestling opened. Daeriq Damien had been teaming with his then-girlfriend Gemma Lockhart, and when OLW abruptly switched from a traditional tag division to a trios tag division, Long was brought on as the third man of the team. Getting older and having developed a melancholic streak after his suspension from IWA, Damien was as interested in egging Long into being the person he was during their time in GWF than the person he had become. OLW, being a Maryland based regional fed, had a Chesapeake Title instead of a Television Title - Long won the Chesapeake Title and lost it in his first defense due to dirty tricks from Damien. Damien subsequently tried explaining to Long that the reason he'd lost is because he was willingly fighting with one hand tied behind his back - this was (and probably still is) how Daeriq Damien actually views following the rules.

Then Damien retired when OLW closed in 2008. Long jumped to the WfWA where his career finally truly took off - during the WfWA's dying days and its vain war against DEFIANCE, Long was arguably the only WfWA wrestler who struck blood in the feud, winning the WfWA World Championship off DEFIANCE's Cobra. The WfWA lost the war and Long was hired by DEFIANCE, but he was always seen as an outsider there and, after a disappointing Untouchables reunion, retired from wresting, married Deanna, and bought a farm in northwest Georgia.

That was until Andrews contacted him about returning to feud with Dane's stable in NPW. Long refused to get involved in that, pleading with Andrews to just let the Untouchables name rest in peace, but it did put NPW on his radar. When he heard Jay Stevens and Gordon Carlson needing a tag partner, he volunteered for a one off. A bit later he witnessed the simultaneous arrivals of the ReVenants, the Galactic Sex Pirates and the KGB, and decided to stick around.

Damien, who despite being quite the villain in some ways, couldn't handle the politically incorrect atmosphere of classic DEF and that was one place he never pestered Long in. But within the first month that Long was active in NPW, he had again begun to try to involve himself in his former tag partner's career...