Blaze

Real Name:  Nadine Sinclair
Ring Name: Blaze
Age: 24
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Brown, sometimes dyed black.
Height: 5”10’
Weight: 160 pounds

Home: Orlando, Florida

Theme Song: Burning in the Third Degree by Tahnee Caine and Tryanglz

Wrestling Information

Strategy: Blaze likes to get up close and personal with her attacks, taking the fight straight to her opponents and hammering at them with crushing kicks, deep punches, and elbows aimed at the vital spots. Once they’re down, she goes to work with submissions, preferring the simple and effective over the big and flashy, preferring chokes. For all the glitz and glamour of her in-ring persona, it’s a rather brutal, basic kind of combat.
Style: Mixed Martial Arts
Type: Striking Submissions

Preferred Attacks: Axe Kick, Mounted Punches, Rear-Naked Choke, Headscissors, Running Knee
Preferred Matches: Standard Cage Matches, Last Man Standing, Submissions-Only, Knockout-Only, Hardcore. Is discreetly looking to try out more intimate matches, like hentai or oil-wrestling, but wants to start those in a private setting first.

Physical Stats

Endurance:★★★ - Is fairly tough, but most of her success comes from mitigating the damage.
Strength:★★★  - Not weak, but not a bruiser.
Speed:★★★★ - Light on her feet, can practically dance about the ring.
Defense:★★★★ - Is good at maintaining her guard, making her opponent work hard to do their damage.
Technique:★★★ - Still trying to get a good grip on wrestling, but has a fair library of strikes and submissions to choose from as she does.

Wrestling Stats

Strikes: ★★★★★ - A gifted, quick striker.
Submissions: ★★★★ - Ties opponents up on the ground.
Powerhouse: ★★ - Is reasonably strong, but only has a few suplexes and simple moves to work with.
Aerial: ★★ - Not her strong suit, but she does have a couple of surprises.
Counters: ★★★ - More of a straight up fighter, tends to try and outstrike her opponents instead of turning their attacks against them.

Signature Move

Buzzsaw Kick:

With a kneeling or sitting opponent, Blaze hits them with a few shoot kicks to chest to warm them up, then finishes them off with a strong roundhouse kick to the side of the head. In the event that someone manages to dodge that roundhouse kick, she just swings her leg back around and hits them with a hook kick instead.

Guillotine Choke:

After getting her opponent into a tight headlock, Blaze softens her foe up with a few knees, then leaps up and wraps her legs around their body to secure the choke, cranking it hard and wearing them down.

Finishing Moves:

Red Streak:

Blaze hits her opponent with a low kick to the lower body to distract them, then spins around fast and nails them with a Spinning Heel Kick to the face.

Third Degree:

Blaze hits her opponent with a backstabber, but instead of moving away after they bounce up, she opens her legs and arms to pull them into a Coquina Clutch, locking it in tight for the submission or knockout.

Appearance

Album Cover:

From her teenage years…:

Practicing her high kicks.:

Getting ready for a hardcore match.:

Personality:

Blaze is, for the most part, a fun-loving, happy-go-lucky party girl, refusing to put her roots down for too long and always eager to try out new things. Life is short, and she tries to maximize her time with it, so she takes a ‘I’ll try anything once’ approach to life. While that can be a plus, making her open and willing to take on new ideas, it can also make her a bit flighty and unfocused - the list of things she’s started and quit is a lot longer than the list of things she’s seen through to the end.

When she’s in the ring, however, things change a bit. A natural competitor, she’s good at maintaining her focus once she’s between the ropes, and can get quite intense when she’s on her game. While she isn’t sadistic and doesn’t get off on pain, she won’t hold back, either.

History:

Nadine’s life could’ve been boring, if she’d let it. Growing up in Miami, her parents weren’t anything too special, working at various jobs within Disney World. Her and her elder sister lived a mediocre life, decent grades, didn’t get into much trouble, and it looked like she was on the way to a safe, if somewhat boring, existence.

But Nadine found herself craving a bit more out of life than that. She had three great interests in her life - 80s music, videogames, and combat sports, and lot of her free time growing up was spent indulging those interests and trying to find ways to further them in her life. She took up martial arts, namely jujitsu and karate, became something of a gaming aficionado, and even started her own on-and-off band with some friends from high school: Bare Knuckle, named after one of her favorite games of all time.

After she left high school, she was still trying to focus her time into a more meaningful path, and got into MMA as a way to earn some good cash and tide things over. It was fun, sure, and she made some decent success, in large part to her knack for marketing herself and getting a solid fanbase, but the sport itself kind of bored her. It had the action, but not the style she wanted. Was missing the flare that she craved.

That was around the time she heard about the AFW. While she wasn’t the biggest wrestling fan per se, she did like the idea of the AFW, the idea of a place where she could fight who she wanted, how she wanted, when she wanted, experiment with a few things, and put a spotlight on her band and Youtube ventures.

Time for a trip.