Wrestler's Name: "The Peoples Choice" August Joyce
Hometown: Vancouver, Canada
Date of Birth: August 14, 1979
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 220lbs
Alignment: Tweener
Picbase: Nathan Fillion
Entrance Music: "Ok, time for Plan B" by Enter Shikari
Appearance: August always comes to the ring wearing his trademark long brown coat. For wrestling he's a man of simplicity. Black tights, white boots, black elbow pads. Nothing more. Joyce is currently a little under his usual weight and his muscle tone has been lost. (due to almost two years away from the gym). Usually he's a relatively lean and toned guy.
Wrestling Style: Technical
Finisher: The Qing Ri (Wrist clutch sitout side powerslam (FTX))
Signature Moves: Canadian Backbreaker Piledriver
Tong Ku (Pumphandle sitout side powerslam aka EVO)
Tong Ku Xian (Top Rope Pumphandle sitout side powerslam aka Avalanche EVO)
Tong Ku Zhuan (Suplex dropped into a sitout side powerslam aka EVOP)
Background: August Joyce is Vancouver born and raised, only child of a run of the mill couple. At least, they were run of the mill from the outside looking in. His mother led a double life, having an affair with a neighbour which went on for many years. His father had a history of mental health issues, and when he found out about his wife’s cheating ways, it was the final straw. Augusts' father had a breakdown and killed his wife in a fit of rage before ending his own life. August came home from school at age 7 to find both his parents dead.
He spent the few years following this going from care home to care home, behavioural problems hampering him at school and in his social life. Eventually he found an outlet in wrestling, having been shown the ropes by an ex pro, plying his trade as a gym teacher in a local high school. His teacher, Eddie Jensen, saw potential in the young August and helped him get into a prestigious wrestling school in the area. It was while honing his skills here that August first met Zhen Xu, who went on to become his agent, and also Benjamin Doi.
Joyce and Doi formed a tag-team called The Omega Choice and began to compete all over Canada. Eventually, as the Children of Xu grew in numbers, they decided it was time to move on to bigger and better things. The group arrived in the Millennium Wrestling Alliance, revolving around August as the one man who got a full time contract with the company.
August suffered a string of early defeats and people started to comment on his credentials, whether he was really cut out for the MWA. Some even said that the MWA must have been bribed to take August on as a talent.
However, against the odds, August went on to capture the MWA Millennium Championship. His reign was relatively short but it cemented his place on the MWA roster and started to silence some of his critics.
The Children of Xu expanded, DeAngelo Castillo was added to their ranks and the ZX Agency signed a new client, MWA World Champion, CJ Osborne. Things seemed to be on the up.
But things change quickly, especially in the MWA. August lost the Millennium Championship and vanished in May 2009. With the disappearance of August the Children of Xu withdrew from the MWA and The ZX Agency severed it’s ties with Osborne.
For over 18 months no-one saw or heard from August Joyce. There were sightings from the Rockie Mountains to Las Vegas, but none of them were ever confirmed.
And then, on the 13th December 2010, August reappeared at an MWA event. Looking bloodied, beaten and malnourished August was a surprise entrant in the Any Given Night match, an open invitation battle royal. August slapped long time friend, Benjamin Doi, before being eliminated.
Over the following weeks August made brief appearances for the MWA, never giving any hint as to where he'd been or what had happened to him.
And then things turned sour for the MWA. One of their referees was kidnapped, as was one of their directors. And then a failed kidnap attempt on one of their wrestlers. Finally a clue as to who was behind the abductions, and that clue pointed right at August.
August was then hunted down by a band of MWA stars before being captured, questioned and used as bait to lure out the person he had been working for. At long last, almost two whole years since his disappearance, August was a free man.
But August's reputation was left in tatters. No-one believed he was being forced to act out against the MWA. On the April 4th edition of BattleZone August Joyce faught his last MWA match and announced his decision to step away from the company.
August has since been reunited with his family, and the son he never knew existed, and has decided to go back to his roots. He wants to get back to pro wrestling, away from the glitz and glamour of the MWA, and back into the small venues where he can re-learn his trade.
