David Slayton

Alias/Nicknames: Blazenwing, D-Blaze, The New Hotness, Vitamin TNH
Real Name: David Lee Slayton
Wrestling Style: All-Around (Focus on Technician)
Hometown: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Alignment: Somewhat Cocky Face (Think Shawn Michaels or Dolph Ziggler)
D.O.B.: September 24, 1980
Height: 6'4"
Weight: 245 Lbs.
Pro Debut: September 2002

Moveset:
- Double Underhook Backbreaker
- Reverse Neckbreaker
- Samoan Drop
- Short-Arm Clothesline
- Sit-Out Facebuster
- Standing Anklelock Submission
- Running Forearm Strike
- Crossface Chickenwing
- Dragon Sleeper
- Jumping Elbowdrop
- Assorted DDTs
- Various Sleeper Holds
- Mounted Punches
- Lou Thesz Press
- Death Valley Driver
- Fujiwara Armbar
- Triple Suplex (Normal or German)

Finishing Moves:
- End of Everything (One Winged Angel)
- The Full Effect (Sweet Chin Music)
- Firehawk Lock (Crippler Crossface)
- From the Ashes (Frog Splash [Desperation Finisher])

Biography: All his life, David Blazenwing had been an outcast. Whether it be in school, work, whatever, David never really found a place he really fit in. His only solace was a bouncer job he had taken at a local Milwaukee nightclub, at even that was just barely making ends meet. It was during this time that he made his only ever friend, a sweet girl by the name of Jen Corlen. Eventually, the two became an intimate couple. Anyhow, David found his solace taking out losers at the local nightclub. An avid wrestling fan, David had always aspired to one day make it into the business, but this too seemed like a dejected pipe dream that would never come to fruition.

However, on a cool September night in 2002, David and Jen scored tickets to a SmackDown Wrestling Federation show at the Bradley Center. In the main event, the SWF Champion, Dark Master (a hated heel) successfully defended his title against the company's top face at the time, The Xtreme One, or TxO (who has since wrestled for BWF as Grandtheft and Toxic). Seeing as how TxO was David's favorite wrestler, he and Jen decided that, before the night was over, David would have TxO's autograph. After asking around, David found no trace of TxO, for he had already left the building. Dejected once again, he dropped Jen off at home, and headed to the nightclub to do his nightly job. This was a particularly rowdy night, and after three 19-year-old college students were denied access to the club, they attacked David. However, as this was his job, David easily defeated all three of them and sent them packing. Little did he realize that TxO and Dark Master were standing in line, waiting for access into the club! TxO approached David and told him how impressed he was about how easily he handled the fight. TxO gave David his number and told David he'd put in a recommendation for a job after David mentioned how it had always been his dream to wrestle. A mere two weeks later, David got a call from the one and only Fusion, the Chairman of the SWF!

Fusion had heard only great things from TxO, and was going to fly David in to Miami, Florida to wrestle a dark match so Fusion could see for himself how good David was. David accepted and, in late September, the dark match against Viper took place. David won the match with no problem, and Fusion was so impressed, he offered David a contract on the spot! Finally, by October 2002, David had finally found a place he belonged... Xtreme Wrestling Encounter (originally known as the SmackDown Wrestling Federation). By the beginning of November, David had won the vacant XWE Television Championship in a fierce five-man Hellbound match, a horrid combo of Hell in a Cell and a ladder match. Shortly after that, a Pay-Per-View, XWE Retribution, was set to be held but, before it could be, the company went out of business. Again, David was dropped out of the loop and left not knowing what was to come of him.

Enter the SJL. The SmartMarks Junior League. David tried his best to fit in here in this fierce federation, but to no avail, as all the fed's top stars soon trampled over him and, as a result of his greenness in the ring, David was once again left out of the loop. After a few more failed ventures, David made his way to the AJWF.

His first few matches were shaky and, as a result, he lost. But, after his girlfriend Jen snapped him out of his funk, David regained his passion for the business and slowly began winning matches again. He was even inducted into the AJWF super-stable, The Asylum. His most impressive win at this point was against Kilroy Evans in the AJWF Title Tournament. He may have lost to The Huntress in the next round, but so what? Everyone in SJL told him he would never amount to anything in the wrestling business. Now, David had decided to prove them all wrong.

Blazenwing slowly rose up the ladder in the AJWF. He defeated Intercontinental Champion Wild Chylde to capture her title (and David’s second in his career) only to lose it to Kilroy Evans two weeks later in a screw job perpetrated by the owner, Scott Sable. After this, Blazenwing had had enough and left the AJWF in a cloud of controversy, starting his own federation instead, the Blazenwing Wrestling Federation. Soon, David and Jen became married. All was going well until one day, when Blazenwing received a phone call that Scott Sable had stepped down as AJWF owner! Sensing that his chance at a true World Championship was finally near, Blazenwing was on the next plane to the AJWF Corporate Offices and five hours later, David was once again a part of the AJWF.

After being forced off of several shows due to family issues, Blazenwing finally got his AJWF World Title shot at their November 2003 pay-per-view Genocide. The champion, Darqness, failed to show for the match and Blazenwing was simply handed the belt. Not very prestigious, but a title win nonetheless. Blazenwing soon lost the belt to Randall Moran less than a month later, then the fed transformed into Premiere Championship Wrestling. Blazenwing soon left PCW as a result of backstage politics, but returned a few months later and eventually got a rematch for his title against Randall Moran, the stipulation being that if Blazenwing lost, he would be finished in PCW. Due to outside interference by Warwolf, Moran was able to get the pin and Blazenwing was effectively terminated from PCW.

After another failed venture in the SmartMarks Wrestling Federation (the SJL was no more at this point), David left and returned to the BWF, ending the brand extension and citing it as "a failed experiment". He soon aligned with Bam, however, in one of the most heinous heel turns of all time, when he threw Eliminator off the Hellbound Cell, costing him his World Championship in the process! Blazenwing went on to form a new BWF version of Sex & Violence, centered around himself, X and Bam. This soon went awry, however, when none other than The Executioner made his BWF return at the 2004 Gauntlet Run, eliminating himself and Blazenwing, who had been forced to enter at #1.

This re-opened all the wounds from a year prior, and all hell was about to break loose. After weeks of toying with one another, Blazenwing and Executioner finally locked up one on one at WrestleFest II in David's hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Executioner got the win that night, and it didn't end there, as X turned on S & V to re-create The X-Ecutionists with Executioner, a move the Epitome of Excellence showed more than a little disdain for.

Blazenwing and Bam teamed up to face X and Executioner at January 2005's Survival of the Sickest PPV. The match was a Tornado Tag Steel Cage Match and, by hook or crook, Sex & Violence managed to pick up the win over Executioner & X. On the official rematch later on Havok, Executioner looked to be much in danger, as his partner X never showed up to the arena! Just when things looked bleak, none other than former BWF superstar Timothy "Stench" Murphy, who had issues with both Blazenwing and Executioner, showed up! After rendering Bam unconscious, Murphy ordered Executioner and DB to fight it out once again, which saw Executioner come out on top yet again.

This set in motion a Triple-Threat Match between Blazenwing, Executioner and Murphy for the upcoming Verbal Warfare PPV in early March. Halfway through the match, Blazenwing left the match, leaving Executioner and Murphy alone. The ref got knocked out and Ghost made his in-ring return as he attacked Executioner and joined Tim. Executioner seemed screwed... until Blazenwing made his return and gave Ghost a taste of The Full Effect! Blazenwing turned fan favorite with one move and aided Executioner in picking up the pinfall victory over Murphy.

David went on to have a short feud with Spade before defeating him in a close Steel Cage Match at Danger Zone in April. International Champion Mark McNasty attacked him after the match, however, which led to Blazenwing returning the favor in McNasty's title match later in the night, allowing Eliminator to defeat him for the belt! This then led to a short feud with McNasty, which saw Blazenwing once again defeat his adversary, this time in a No DQ match, and with aid from Rob Torborg, at Tainted Twilight in May. Later that night, Blazenwing was revealed as Kimek's mystery partner in a match for the Tag Team Titles, and while they eventually lost, the point was clear... the Ass-Kicking Corporation, A.K.C., was here!

In other news during this period, Blazenwing finally ended his year and a half plus Championship drought, but not in BWF as expected. Instead, it was in UWW, as David bested Rabbit and Shadow in a Triple-Threat Last Man Standing Match for the UWW Television Championship! In fact, June 2005 was a really good month for ol’ DB, as he teamed with Rob Torborg at BWF Beta Test to capture the BWF Tag Team Championships from Tim Murphy and Ghost, which saw Ghost turn and join A.K.C. at the same time!

After Blazenwing and Torborg lost the Tag Titles, A.K.C. split and Blazenwing desperately needed to make an impact... and did so by assaulting BWF Champion The Executioner and his fiancee Kitsune at the end of the 2005 Retribution PPV! The two feuded, culminating in a BWF Championship match at Over The Edge on September 25, 2005, where, with the aid of his wife Jen, David defeated The Executioner to claim his second BWF Championship (and fourth overall!)

Blazenwing would go on to lose the title in disappointing fashion at the Gauntlet Run the next month in an incredible 30 minute Ironman Match, where DB would tap with one second on the clock to Executioner's Last Rights to give up the deciding point. After the match, The Executioner brutalized David, turning DB face in the process and shelving him for a long time, or so it was thought...

Unfortunately, the tragic death of WWE's Eddie Guerrero on November 13, 2005 would bring Blazenwing back. He showed up and wrestled on the Eddie Guerrero Tribute Show the next night on Havok, defeating The Legend in the main event. David then laid low for the next few weeks, until an old friend popped up...

Toxic, the former TxO who got David into the business with SWF, had returned to BWF and won the International Championship. David, wanting a match with his former teacher and friend, had Jen sign a title match for WrestleFest III. Toxic was less than pleased, however, taking this as a sign that David was trying to make a name for himself off his old teacher. And thus, the two were off. At WrestleFest III, David returned to his SWF roots, showing up as the superhero, and after a fantastic four star match, would hit a Full Effect to get the three, win his first WrestleFest match, defeat his former teacher AND win his first International Championship all in one fell swoop!

David didn't have the International Championship for long, as he lost it in an impromptu match with Adriana Garcia at an untelevised show days before his PPV title defense against the same woman. David went into Broken Resolutions 2006 the challenger to the title he had held mere days before, but ultimately lost when The Executioner interfered on behalf of Garcia. David was dejected, but quickly bounced back with another title victory, this one over Cody Clark for the Primetime Championship in David's hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the 2/13 edition of Havok!

A few weeks later, David would lose the Primetime Championship to Samantha Cade on an edition of Reloaded, and soon after, his wife Jen was kidnapped! All signs pointed to The Legend being the culprit, and Blazenwing battled Legend in a classic Ultimate Submission Match at Happenstance 2006. Legend won 2-1, and after the match ended, Mark McNasty revealed himself as the man who kidnapped Jen! Over the next month, David furiously chased Mark, before finally getting him into the ring at Danger Zone 2006. Mark had an ace card, however, up his sleeve... the fact that Jen was in fact not kidnapped, but aligned with him! She cost David the win, and then stated moments after that she wanted a divorce!

David, though hurt deeply by this chain of events, found solace with an old flame who just happened to be working for BWF... the Amazon Princess Kirlia Gardevoir. She helped David get through this rough period in his life, and at Tainted Twilight 2006, David, along with Captain Marticus, gained a measure of revenge on Legend when they upended Legend and Mike Adams for the BWF Tag Team Championships!

They wouldn't have the titles for too long, however... a month later in the team's first title defense at Beta Test, they defended against a solo Toco (his partner, Nya Roux, had refused to wrestle earlier in the night) and when it seemed the two were on their way to a sure victory, The Legend's music hit and the distraction was enough for Toco to roll-up David and get the 3! Moments later, Legend walked out, accompanied by Jen, and made a startling announcement... Jen had just named Legend the new President of BWF, and his first official act... was to fire David Blazenwing!

But everyone should know by now... you can't keep Blazenwing down, and of course, this incident was no different. The following Havok after Beta Test, Legend officially renamed BWF the Legacy Wrestling Alliance, LWA. During the show, David Blazenwing (accompanied by Kid Flash) crashed the proceedings and announced the birth of Revolution X Wrestling, a new federation designed to counter LWA! Whereas the Legacy is about tradition, RXW would be about the extreme no rules atmosphere that made the old ECW famous, and the family that it helped meld the old ECW wrestlers into.

David then quickly worked at signing the LWA's top-tier talent away from them. "Ice" Hensley was the first, after Legend retired Hensley's Primetime Championship. Toco and Mark McNasty, the Tag Team Champions, followed, giving RXW their first title-holders and the lineage of the old BWF Tag Team Championships to boot! Cody Galle, Mad Dogg, Outlaw, Krystal Lyne and Serenity would all jump ship as well, in addition to the signing of many new wrestlers to round out the roster.

David ran RXW successfully for two months, even putting Legend's LWA out of business, but when attempting to buy the LWA rights, everything fell apart. It was widely believed that, following the demise of LWA, Jen Corlen sold all her stock to Legend, who sold all his stock to a private investor. However, it was the other way around, and there WAS no private investor... it was Jen all along! She appeared at Over The Edge 2006 and helped cost David a match against Mad Dogg, then announced that as a result of the purchase, she was 50% owner of RXW, and her first act was to suspend Blazenwing for 90 days and name Mad Dogg acting commissioner! After one show, though, MDogg had had enough and left, leaving RXW all but dead in the wake. Jen then decided to take her earnings and restart BWF, plotting to make her name off the federation that bore her ex-husband's namesake.

That didn’t last long, as the two made up shortly after 2007 began and took time off to reconcile their relationship. Cody Clark was given the helm of BWF, but instead used it as a launching pad to revive the long-dead Epic Wrestling Organization. David and Jen returned to BWF to run damage control, closing the fed down for several months before reopening in the end of 2007. With WrestleFest V, the Blazenwings made the decision to close the BWF for good and go out on top. (During this time period, Blazenwing had brief stays in both the eWo and Pure Glory Wrestling, winning the TV Title in eWo and retiring the World Championship in PGW).

In mid-2008, Blazenwing attempted to resurrect another of his pet-projects, Revolution X Wrestling, and was met with significantly less success then with BWF. After a few months (and a short RXW Tag Team Title reign with close friend X), RXW was closed and Blazenwing decided to take the opportunity to get some well-deserved rest… but it wasn’t long before he was needed yet again. In mid-August of 2008, his good friend Katie James - better known to EWS fans as Starla Gardevoir - was injured during an eWo event. With surgery pending, David agreed to enter the squared circle again and take her place on the eWo roster. As per most his stints in eWo, however, it was not to last, and David once again took his leave from the wrestling world, though not before briefly capturing the eWo World Tag Team Titles alongside Gabe Shelley as Tru ReVolution.

Aside from a handful of fan interaction appearances and signings, Blazenwing had effectively retired from the ring. But, like most wrestlers, he began to get the itch once again, and when his old partner, Gabe Shelley, sent him information regarding True Glory Wrestling, David signed up. He struggled initially, but after turning heel, he made heads turn and within two months of joining the federation, David had won his seventh World Championship when he defeated Russell Franchise and Champion AJ Adams at TGW Retribution on October 26, 2009.

Mere weeks after winning the title, however, controversy ended DB’s reign, as he was ambushed backstage by Teresa Quaranta upon entering the arena and fell victim to an apparent impromptu title match in which he was double teamed and cost his title. Blazenwing left the company as a result. After making some appearances with PWA, Blazenwing returned to the company full time, alongside his pupil Emily Corlen and his old friends the James sisters in late 2010.

After defeating Chamelion in a memorable match six years in the making at PWA Genesis XI, Blazenwing set his sights on the PWA Intercontinental Title, defeating then-Champion Duff Cote D'voire at the following pay-per-view, Who's The Man?!. His first title reign in nearly two years didn't last long, however; a few weeks after winning the Intercontinental Title, Blazenwing defended the title against former ally Simon Kalis. An ill-timed attempted chair shot from Emily Corlen hit Blazenwing instead of Kalis, though, which allowed Kalis to defeat Blazenwing and gain the title. At the next PWA pay-per-view, High Stakes, Blazenwing fought Corlen in a memorable TLC Match with a single PWA contract on the line. Corlen won, ending Blazenwing's PWA tenure with a whimper.

A few months passed with no word from the seven-time World Champion, until he suddenly resurfaced in the resurrected eWo as D.L. Slayton, the tag team partner of Gabe Shelley. The regenerated Tru ReVolution would defeat the Carolina Wrecking Crew at Grindhouse on November 27, 2011 to regain the eWo World Tag Team Titles they had held years prior. Their reign didn't last long, as they lost the titles back to the CWC in January after Slayton and Shelley began feuding over a shot at the eWo World Championship. Slayton won the right to face Champion Micah Castille at There Will Be Blood on February 19, 2012, but Castille held Slayton at bay, refusing Slayton his eighth World Title reign. Before Slayton could gain another shot at the title, eWo closed down, leaving Slayton at a crossroads.

While his protégé, Emily Corlen, was rocking PWA as their World Champion, Slayton returned to the AoWF, but this time, as a member of the Victory Wrestling roster. Dropping the D.L. and simply going by 'David Slayton', the self-professed New Hotness racked up several big victories, eventually finding himself a part of a Triple Threat Match for the VW World Championship between himself, "The Phoenix" Rob Robinson and Teresa Quaranta, the woman who had ended Slayton's last World Title reign back in TGW in 2009. Before the match could take place, however, Victory Wrestling closed up shop, again leaving Slayton without a company to call home.

Over the next year, Slayton would make a few appearances in the reborn Blazenwing Wrestling Federation, now being run by Emily Corlen. He even made a power play to get the company back, but the effort ended in a losing effort for Slayton when his chosen representative, Casey Campbell, fell to Corlen's chosen representative, Gabe Shelley, at WrestleFest VII on November 25, 2013. Following this, Slayton disappeared again from the wrestling scene, leading many to believe the man who once tried to revolutionize the wrestling business had finally hung up his boots once and for all.

That is, until 2014 rolled around... and a place called Alternative Xperience Wrestling opened its doors. Is David Slayton gearing up for one more run at glory? Can the 12-year veteran still get it done between the ropes, despite his relatively young age of 34? Only one thing is certain. This time, David Slayton is going out on his own terms. His story is only done when HE says it's done - and you can take THAT... to the bank.

Entrance Theme: "The Phoenix" - Fall Out Boy

Entrance Description: "... weighing 245 pounds, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin... here is The New Hotness.... DAVID SLAYTON!"

PUT ON YOUR WAR PAINT!

The lights in the arena all cut to black and the Tron comes to life, pulsating with a green light as a quiet beat gets louder with every flash. It gets faster and faster, and louder with each pulse, until the pulsating light explodes into the words "Blazenwing Rises" and “The Phoenix” by Fall Out Boy blares across the arena sound system.

You are a brick tied to me that's dragging me down
Strike a match and I'll burn you to the ground
We are the jack-o-lanterns in July
Setting fire to the sky
He-here comes this rising tide
So come on

PUT ON YOUR WAR PAINT!

The stage fills with smoke and the crowd rises to their feet, cheering loudly, as the smoke clears on the stage and a man in a dark green trenchcoat stands, head down, facing the Tron. He raises his hands and snaps his fingers, causing four loud bursts of pyro to ignite, two on each side of him, before spinning around Y2J style to reveal David Slayton!

Cross walks and crossed hearts and hope-to-dies
Silver clouds with grey linings
So we can take the world back from the heart-attacked
One maniac at a time we will take it back
You know time crawls on when you're waiting for the song to start
So dance alone to the beat of your heart

His sunglasses shining with the glare from the arena lights, David looks to the left, then to the right, nodding towards the crowd before walking down the ramp. After stopping to slap hands with a few fans, David moves towards the ring steps and hops up and down a few times in front of them before quickly racing up the steps to the apron side facing the stage. He stops and pulls his sunglasses off, then tosses them behind his head into the crowd before leaning down and stepping through the ropes to enter the ring.

Hey young blood
Doesn't it feel like our time is running out?
I'm gonna change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix
You're wearing our vintage misery
No, I think it looked a little better on me
I'm gonna change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix

David walks across the ring and leaps up onto the second rope in the corner nearest the timekeeper, then pulls off his green trenchcoat and tosses it towards the timekeeper. David smirks and points to the fans, then slaps his chest a few times and points up towards the sky, closing his eyes and saying a short prayer. David leaps down from the corner and immediately turns to sit down in the same corner, ala Raven. David then rests his head on the second turnbuckle pad as his theme fades and the crowd continues cheering.

Title History:
-EW National Championship (1)
- BWF World Champion (2)
- BWF International Champion (1)
- BWF Primetime Champion (1)
- BWF Tag Team Champion (2; 1 w/ Rob Torborg, 1 w/ Captain Marticus)
- BWF Hall of Fame Inductee (Class of 2013)
- RXW Tag Team Champion (1; w/ X)
- eWo Television Champion (1)
- eWo World Tag Team Champion (2; w/ Gabe Shelley)
- ESW Ultimate World Champion (1)
- TGW World Champion (1)
- PGW World Champion (1)
- PWA Intercontinental Champion (1)
- AJWF World Heavyweight Champion (1)
- AJWF Intercontinental Champion (1)
- AJWF Hall of Fame Inductee (Class of 2003)
- JWF World Heavyweight Champion (1)
- UWW Television Champion (1)
- XWE Television Champion (1)
- AXW Adrenaline Champion (2)
- AXW Xperience Champion (1)
- AXW Champion (2)
- AXW Triple Crown (1)
- AXW 2015 Male Wrestler of the Year
- AXW 2015 Overall Wrestler of the Year