Infamous

[Syren]

Tag Team Name:
Infamous

Members:


Mentor:


Manager:


Alignment:
Heel

Gimmick:
Formed in 2010 by a group of up-and-coming names in SCW - most of whom already had established themselves on the independent scene prior to signing for the company - the original incarnation of Infamous were a group of individuals willing to do whatever it took to get their names on the lips of the world. While collectively known as Infamous and becoming infamous in their own right for the tactics they employed to help each other out, the group was more a collection of individuals than an actual cohesive team. What made them stand out however were the rules they lived by and acknowledged, which primarily focused on the good of the whole rather than the betterment of one individual. A few years later the group would eventually implode, causing the departure of two members, and with a long-term injury sustained to a third the group eventually ended, with their legacy being continued by Dark Fantasy and their association with CHBK.
 
In early 2018, after a devious turn by Ravyn Taylor and CHBK, those two went out of their way to recruit the embittered Christy Matthews into the fold once again to help with their plans. While not made public for several months, with Christy conning the entire roster into believing she held a hatred of both Ravyn Taylor and CHBK, the ruse would eventually be revealed after Christy helped Ravyn to complete one of her long-term goals, and then helped Syren capture her seventh World Championship. Now officially reunited, and once again using the Infamous banner, the three former World Champions once again embark on a mission to reassert their status across the professional wrestling landscape, as Christy Matthews especially looks to use her new association with her former allies to overcome the belief that she is merely a name from the past.

In-Ring Tendencies
Each of the members of the group wears an armband with the Infamous logo on it. Prior to matches they tend to point to these armbands, often tapping them with two fingers to play up to the camera. At the end of matches they also tend to make use the armband in celebrations or in taunts prior to victories.

Tag Team Combinations:

• Ravyn Taylor & Christy Matthews
  
• Christy Matthews & Syren
  
• Ravyn Taylor & Syren (see: Dark Fantasy)
  

Entrance Music:
"Indestructible" by Disturbed (Infamous Remix)

Entrance Description:

The camera cuts to the crowd where we see a group of red-shirted security walking in through one of the ground-level entrances. They line up in front of the fans for a moment and seem to be holding them back. There’s then a loud click as the lights around the building flick off and darkness consumes the arena, with nothing but a few flashes from cameras in the crowd lighting the arena. Without warning we see black and white footage spring to life on the screen of Winston Churchill giving one of his most famous speeches, all the while the chilling sound of air raid sirens and war can be heard in the background...
 
"We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets. We shall fight in the hills. We shall NEVER surrender!"
 
The video suddenly burns away to reveal a second hidden image of the devious ex-president George H. W. Bush giving a speech of his own...
 
"When we are successful, and we will be, we'll have a real chance at this new world order..."
 
“Indestructible” By Disturbed hits over the P.A system causing the crowd to erupt into a sea of boos as they know who is about to make their presence felt. We cut to the back where we see Christy Matthews with taped fists flexing her wrists. On either side of her we see Ravyn Taylor and Syren joining her as the three of them, all in matching ring-jackets bar the different colour on Christy’s, begin to walk the corridor. As they do, we see CHBK, Alexander Crowe and Christopher Richter behind them. The fans continue booing as the camera angle cuts and we see the doorway that security opened earlier as the three members of Infamous make their way through. None of them stop to do any grandstanding, instead making a beeline straight to the ring as we hear Phillips in the ring with the introduction.
 
Phillips: “Making their way to the ring at this time, being accompanied by CHBK, Christopher Richter and Alexander Crowe, first, from the City of Angels, weighing one hundred and thirty-seven pounds, CHRISTY MATTHEWS!”
 
The camera pans to Christy Matthews who’s still making her way to the ring. She doesn’t even acknowledge this however, vaulting over the guardrail as she approaches it.
 
Phillips: “Next, from Hell, Michigan, she is an SCW Hall of Famer, an SCW Supreme Champion, and a BAD, BAD GIRL, this is RAVYN TAYLOR!”
 
The camera pans to Ravyn Taylor who’s already at ringside and begins to make her way up the ring steps. We follow Ravyn as she walks up the ring steps and vaults over the top rope.
 
Phillips: “And, from Los Angeles, California, weighing one hundred and twenty-nine pounds, she is a seven-time SCW World Champion, she is ‘The Alpha Female’, this is SYREN! Collectively, they are… INFAMOUS!”
 
We cut to Syren who’s standing on the ropes on the camera side as Ravyn Taylor stands beside her and Christy Matthews stands up on the turnbuckles with her arms outstretched. After a few moments the trio all join together in the corner of the ring. They each remove their ring jackets and toss them into the corner where Crowe and Richter collect them, each revealing their Infamous skull-logo armbands. They point to the bands, tapping them with two fingers as the camera focuses on the logos.

Entrance Modifications:
Above you can find a base for the entrance, be it as a tag team or a group. Dark Fantasy (Ravyn Taylor/Syren) have their own entrance, but for any group activities they'll use this one. The introductions will need to be tweaked slightly for tag team matches to remove whichever member isn't competing.

Primary Finishers:
Happily Nevermore (Christy/Ravyn combination)
Elevated Double-Knee Facebreaker, with Christy lifting the opponent, normally following a rope whip, and Ravyn delivering her famous Double-Knee Facebreaker to the falling opponent

Dark Domination (Ravyn/Syren combination - see Dark Fantasy for more)
Ravyn leaps up on to an opponent and nails a double-knee facebuster ("Evolutionary Synthesis"). With the opponent then down on the mat Ravyn drags them in to position and holds down their legs while Syren grabs the top rope, springboarding up and flipping in mid-air, crashing down on top of the opponent with a modified High-Angle Senton Bomb ("Blondeton Bomb")

Beautiful Never After (Christy/Syren combination)
Syren hooks both the arms of an opponent, sometimes in a double-chicken-wing. She then twists around so that she's in position to drop them with an Inverted Double Underhook Facebuster ("Syren Symphony"). With the opponent prone, Christy leaps from the top rope and connects with a Double Stomp ("End Of The Yellow Brick Road") to the back as Syren drops down, forcing the opponent hard into the mat

Bittersweet Symphony
Tribute to CHBK, both members of the team deliver a Superkick to either side of a prone opponents head. Can become triple-team attack if including all three members

Signature Moves:
1) Aided Whiplash Neckbreaker
2) Wheelbarrow facebuster, Cutter combination
3) Superplex (Ravyn) followed by a Top Rope Splash (Syren/Christy)
4) Lariat, Running Chop Block combination
5) Wishbone
6) Double Straight-Jacket Sit-Out Sleeper Slam

Biography:
The group that would become known as the Infamous started back in 2010 thanks to an association between the group known as the Dark Triad – Ravyn Taylor, Brittany Lohan and Syren – and Lucas Knight, who at the time was Syren’s boyfriend. The four of them wanted to make trouble for the established SCW stars given that Lucas Knight, Brittany Lohan and Ravyn Taylor were all established names on the independent circuit before signing their SCW deals, and all had a history together from other promotions. To do this, they publicly made an enemy of SCW Commissioner CHBK, going out of their way to cause him trouble and engaging in a war of words with him that involved the revelation of the affair that Lucas Knight and Syren were having. This, of course, was not something that Lucas’s then-wife, Christy Matthews, took kindly to, and during a match that saw the four core members of the group that would become Infamous, along with another ally, taking on five established SCW stars in an elimination match, Christy turned her anger toward CHBK while he was engaged in a backstage fight with Ravyn Taylor, which left the commissioner beaten and bloodied.

The following week, accompanied by Christy’s husband, the group officially hit the ring and announced their union, with the original line-up of the group now becoming Lucas Knight, Christy Matthews, Brittany Lohan, Ravyn Taylor and Syren. Over the course of the next several months the majority of that group – all minus Syren, who mostly kept out of the more devious parts of the group’s activities – would make a name for themselves disrupting the established stars, resulting in a blood feud beginning between the group and many of SCW’s prominent stars at the time, which included Greg Cherry, Jake Starr, Thomas “Thorn” Valentine, David Helms and CHBK. Those individuals traded wins and losses, and championships, for several months, while CHBK engaged in very personal rivalries first with Christy Matthews and then with Ravyn Taylor. However, prior to what would have been the group’s first Pay Per View main event as a team, Lucas Knight went AWOL and the group lost their control over the SCW World Championship. Following this, it seemed as those Infamous were on a downward turn before Ravyn Taylor and CHBK shocked everyone when CHBK turned on his allies on the final Breakdown of 2010 in the incident that would become known as ‘the kiss heard around the world’.

Throughout 2011 the group had varying levels of success, capturing a few more championships, and also beginning an association with Ryan Watson. Thanks to that association the group would also go on to win the returning Trios Tournament, with Ryan Watson proving his loyalty to his friends by turning against his teammates in the final of the tournament and siding with the Infamous. This, along with the high-profile feud between Thorn and CHBK, meant that the Infamous became a household name and a fixture on SCW television, with seemingly nothing being able to stop their rise and domination of the divisions in which they competed. Unlike other groups that would end up imploding over championships, the group – while still at its heart a collection of individuals with similar ambitions – lived by a set of rules that meant that they refused to fight one another for any championship, or impede the hopes of any other member who was in line for a championship. This did lead to interesting situations however, including the fact that the Order of Chaos (Christy Matthews & Lucas Knight) never got a match for the SCW World Tag Team Championships due to the domination of Dark Fantasy (Ravyn Taylor & Syren) in that division.

In 2012, things began to go wrong for the group. Despite the capturing of the SCW World Championship by Christy Matthews – a moment celebrated by the Infamous – it wouldn’t be long before CHBK and Lucas Knight had a disagreement which saw Lucas dispatched from the group. Before long, Christy Matthews chose her tag team partner over the collective as well, and with an injury to Ryan Watson caused in part by Lucas Knight and the rivalry they were developing, the group separated but never officially disbanded. However, with most of the membership now depleted, and with Brittany Lohan having gone her own way long before, the group eventually reduced to just Dark Fantasy and CHBK, and became known as such, with the Infamous name being left behind them despite a promise by the members at the time that they would ‘always be infamous’. The group was thought lost to time after that, with Ravyn, Syren and CHBK going on to associate with other groups over time, and that union also dissolving eventually, leaving Dark Fantasy as the only remaining members of the group that remained together.

Each member of the group went on to have much success in their careers outside of Infamous, however it could be argued that Syren and Ravyn Taylor had the most successful careers, with the former becoming a multi-time World Champion and fixture at the top of the card, and Ravyn going on to become one of the most talked about acts in the company. The union would eventually come back around however due to the embittered nature of Christy Matthews. In 2018, Christy was no longer where she believed she should be. Despite notable runs as both Women’s and Adrenaline Champion, Christy wanted things out of her career she believed she couldn’t get alone. CHBK initially approached her with an offer of a union, and that offer was then furthered by Ravyn Taylor, who promised the embittered former World Champion opportunities at the top of the card again, if she were willing to help Ravyn achieve her own ambitions. That led to a multi-month ‘rivalry’ between Christy and Ravyn which, as history has now shown us, was a ruse the entire time designed to place Ravyn where she wanted to be, and with Christy’s help, Ravyn became Adrenaline Champion in mid-2018. The depth of the union, however, remained hidden from the public.

In early 2019, with chaos unfolding all around them during a triple-threat match, Christy Matthews would officially make her union with Dark Fantasy known when she aided Syren in the capturing of the SCW World Championship. Ravyn, always one to be proud of her scheming, revealed the depth of the con a few weeks later, and revealed just how much of the ‘rivalry’ that she’d engaged in with Christy had been planned by the duo behind the scenes in order to manipulate situations to their benefit. However, Christy was no ‘minion’ of the now-Supreme Champion. Shortly after the deception was made public, the trio announced that their ambitions spread far beyond just Syren’s title success. After a failed coup alongside Katya D., Infamous – as they are now once again known – have embarked on battles on several fronts, as Christy Matthews and Ravyn Taylor have ambitions far beyond that which they’re willing to reveal.