Chris Snyder

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''"I'm not like those one-dimensional psychopaths that just love to break bones for the sake of breaking bones, you see, i break bones because i have to. I'm not saying i don't enjoy it though, I enjoy it because i get payed to do it, I get payed a lot of money to beat people down and beat them completely stupid. You want to know why i enjoy it so much? I'll be able to pay my bills, put food on my table, buy stuff that i want and need, and have a nice, maintained place that i call home, Something that i've not been able to do in my early adult life." -'' Chris Snyder, 2018

Chris Snyder (born June 10, 1994) is a professional wrestler, mixed martial artist, and former powerlifter. He is currently signed with professional wrestling promotion WWE, where he performs under the Raw brand. He is the current Universal Champion in his first reign.

Chris had an early and brief career in Powerlifting before training to have an even more brief career in Boxing and in MMA. During his Powerlifting career, he was training in Judo, Kickboxing, Cage-Fighting (purple belt in each respective styles) and, prior to his retirement in professional powerlifting, nearly breaking Mark Henry's deadlifting record with 896 lbs.

Despite his small-but-stellar career in Boxing and MMA, having lost only a few fights, he was training for a career in Professional Wrestling, training with WWE Superstar Samoa Joe, and began wrestling in homestate venues as well as in other states which gathered local social media attention, Eventually, Snyder signed with Defiant Wrestling and moved to England for a short time, where he continued his training.

Independent Promotions
After retiring from Powerlifting, MMA, and Boxing, as well as managing to save up enough money to receive several months of training from WWE Wrestler Samoa Joe, Snyder made his in-ring debut, as Sasquatch, in Revolt Pro Wrestling defeating Jack Swagger in his first match. Sasquatch wrestled for Revolt Pro Wrestling and in various independent promotions across the southern U.S., During this early stage of his career, Sasquatch won the Revolt Pro Wrestling World Heavyweight Championship before dropping the title to sign with Defiant Wrestling.

Defiant Wrestling
Under the Sasquatch gimmick and ringname, Sasquatch made his in-ring debut at the Road to Destruction event, assaulting Primate and Joe Hendry by throwing Hendry out of the ring and brutalizing Primate, establishing himself as a heel and putting Primate out of action for a couple of months. Throughout much of his Defiant Wrestling tenure, Sasquatch went on an undefeated streak for a couple of months, won the Defiant World Championship from Austin Aries, and then began a feud with Primate after winning the belt.

Their feud culminated at No Regrets in a championship match. Sasquatch dominated Primate throughout the match, eventually retaining the title. After the match, Sasquatch assaulted Primate, the official, and security with a steel chair. Cody Rhodes made his way to the ring and offered Sasquatch a membership in the Bullet Club, Sasquatch agrees and relinquishes the title on the spot, presumably to sign with New Japan Pro Wrestling.

New Japan Pro Wrestling/Ring of Honor
After graduating from the NJPW Dojo and during the Team Cody/Team Kenny storyline, Sasquatch was introduced into the Bullet Club as "The Minigunner" Chris Snyder, wrestling matches with the Guerrillas of Destiny while also getting involved in matches to turn them to Cody's favor, During a 10-man tag match, Snyder debuted the Whiplash finisher. Snyder made appearances in Ring of Honor as well, his most memorable match in ROH was a Defiant Wrestling rematch with Will Osperay, his first televised wrestling match in the United States.

After refusing to assault Kenny during a backstage segment, Cody got into Snyder's face and reprimanded him for his decision, Snyder retorted by calling the infighting petty and that he's not gonna get involved, which caused Cody to threaten to fire Snyder. After the first episode of the G1 Climax, Snyder, along with Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, and King Haku, assaulted Kenny and the rest of the Bullet Club, declaring themselves as the Firing Squad and, later, Bullet Club OG. Snyder's last match in New Japan was with Cody, where he would go on to win that match. Snyder celebrated with Bullet Club O.G. backstage where they wished him good luck.

Lucha Underground
Snyder made his debut at Lucha Underground as the Temple's Bouncer, a few weeks later, Dario Cueto grants him an opportunity at the Gift of the Gods Championship. He traded his Bouncer look for more of a Punisher look, going back to his Minigunner persona, often being paired with Matanza Cueto, to kayfabe injure wrestlers that go against management. After weeks of frustration with Dario Queto only using him as a punishment tool, Snyder turned face against Dario and Matanza by delivering the Whiplash to both fighters, going on a small undefeated streak after. His final match in Lucha Underground was against Matanza Queto for the Gift of the Gods Championship, where Matanza retained by DQ after Dario kayfabe broke Snyder's leg with a crowbar, departing from the company and signing a contract with WWE's developmental territory, NXT.

NXT
Snyder made his in-ring debut against Kassius Ohno in very dominant fashion and continued to run through NXT talent, during this time, Snyder developed a small backstage feud with Lars Sullivan, with Lars claiming that Snyder's cutting into his business too much and Snyder consistently ignoring him. His backstage feud with Lars became a full fledged feud when Lars had enough of Snyder ignoring him by smashing a chair on Snyder's head, managing to break the chair over Snyder's head.

On the following NXT, Snyder interferes in Lars' match against EC3, turning face in the process. Their feud culminated at a match at Takeover, where Snyder won. During the Takeover PPV, Brock Lesnar was surprisingly in the crowd and at ringside, After his match with Lars, Snyder noticed him and the two had a staredown before both smirking and shaking hands. teasing Snyder's call up to the main roster.

Raw
During the main event of Raw, which was a #1 Contender's Triple Threat match between Seth Rollins, Drew McIntyre, and Finn Balor, Snyder, Lesnar, and Heyman made their way through the crowd with Snyder, in a similar fashion to Brock Lesnar's WWE debut, sliding into the ring to confront Balor while Rollins and McIntyre was down, destroying them all with ease, establishing himself as a heel. At the next Raw, Heyman, during a promo, described Snyder as "Brock's Minigun" and that he has the makings of Universal Champion in the future.

For a couple of months, Snyder ran through the Raw roster, with Lesnar and Heyman in his corner, beginning another undefeated streak and managing to win the Intercontinential Championship. Throughout his early career in WWE, Snyder visibly grows frustrated with everyone in the WWE Universe calling him "Baby Brock" and wrestlers backstage often commenting that he's only here because of Lesnar and that he's merely under Brock's shadow, Weeks of this saw him arguing with fans at ringside and getting into backstage brawls with those that comment about it. At the Raw preceeding Elimination Chamber, Snyder wrestled in an Elimination Chamber Qualifier Fatal Four Way match with the same wrestlers that he brutalized in his Raw debut, going on to win the match and becoming the sixth entrant in the Elimination Chamber.

At Elimination Chamber, Snyder impatiently broke the pod open after the buzzer rang for him to get into the match, All the other participants attempted to gang up on him, instead, Snyder dominated the match, a la Goldberg, and won the match by eliminating everyone. Lesnar and Heyman came out to celebrate with Snyder only for Snyder to hit the Whiplash on Lesnar and on Heyman, turning Lesnar face in the process. On the following Raw, Snyder vacates the Intercontinential Title while, at the same time, vents his frustrations concerning the WWE Universe, his colleagues in the back, and how Lesnar consistently told him that although he's molding him in his image, he'll never be Brock Lesnar. Lesnar interrupts the promo and attacks Snyder only for Snyder to swiftly retaliate and send him outside of the ring, Snyder continued to wrestle matches weekly, often talking crap about Lesnar during his matches. At Fastlane, Brock attempted to get involved in Snyder's match against Bobby Lashley, who was challenging for the #1 Contender spot, Snyder dropkicked Lesnar out of the ring and went on to win the match.

At Wrestlemania, Snyder debuted a new theme, military-inspired in-ring gear, and challenged Lesnar in a No DQ match for the Universal Title, where Heyman tried to get involved on a couple occasions. During the match, Snyder kayfabe injured Lesnar by breaking his arms and legs and won the match by F5ing Lesnar and delivering a knockout punch for good measure. On the Raw after Wrestlemania, Snyder walked into a room with the entire Raw roster in and everyone went silent, Snyder held up the title, stared down with practically everyone in there, and then walked out just before punching Curt Hawkins who happened to be in front of him at the door.

On the same night, Snyder entered a feud with Roman Reigns for the Universal Championship when Reigns confronted Snyder, after a non-title squash match with Jinder Mahal, and Snyder delivering a stand-still superman punch to Reigns.

In-Ring Persona
The Chris Snyder gimmick has been influenced by real life wrestlers like Brock Lesnar, Steve Austin, The Rock, Triple H, Kevin Nash, Sycho Sid, Randy Orton, Brian Cage, etc. as well as a heavy personality influence from Doom Slayer of the DOOM Franchise.

Throughout his tenure in WWE, Chris Snyder has been billed as the evolution of the "big man" in professional wrestling for his power, agility, intensity, brutality, speed, and skill, making him one of the most intimidating competitors to step foot in a WWE ring, always looking to throw the first hit. He has good in-ring chemistry with almost everyone he wrestles, making both parties look like one million dollars. His hard working style has made critics claim that he's an unsafe worker.

Off Camera, however, Chris Snyder is a completely different person, When he's not in the ring, He's a very laid back down to earth guy who is also a very hard worker, antisocial at work, but, very social around close friends and family. He's shown to be a caring person because he uses the money, that he earns injuring his fellow competitors, to support his own family and help friends out when he can, giving a reason for the various injuries on his resume. This side of Chris Snyder is rarely ever seen on camera.

His in-ring gear is supposed to be what a gladiator would potentially wear nowadays, although critics panned it for resembling the outfits worn by The Shield and the Authors of Pain. Snyder responded to critics by saying that he just likes that kind of stuff, so, he's gonna wear what he likes.

Championships and Accomplishments

 * Independent Promotions
 * Revolt Pro Wrestling World Championship (1 time, Lost the title before departure)
 * No other records of any championship reign available
 * Defiant Wrestling
 * Defiant Hardcore Championship (1 time)
 * New Japan Pro Wrestling/Ring of Honor
 * ROH World Television Championship (1 time, Vacated after company departure)
 * Lucha Underground
 * Gift of the Gods Championship (1 time, Lost due to outside interference)
 * World Wrestling Entertainment
 * WWE Intercontinental Championship (1 time, Vacated after becoming #1 contender for Universal Championship
 * WWE Universal Championship (1 time, Current)

Finishers and Signatures

 * Finishers
 * Whiplash - Jumping Facebreaker
 * Spear
 * Signatures
 * Superman Punch
 * Magnitude 10 - Fireman's carry cutter, Used as Sasquatch and as a signature thereafter.
 * Kimura Lock
 * Triangle Choke
 * Topa Con Kilo
 * Multiple Moonsault Variations - Standing Moonsault, Springboard Moonsault, etc.
 * Shooting Star Press
 * Military-Press Backbreaker
 * Chimera-Plex - German suplex followed by a dragon suplex followed by a bridging straight jacket suplex, Adopted from Samoa Joe.
 * F5 - Fireman's carry facebuster, Adopted from Brock Lesnar (used rarely after Lesnar feud).

Managers

 * Kenny Omega
 * Cody Rhodes
 * Tama Tonga
 * Tanga Loa
 * Bad Luck Fale
 * Dario Queto
 * Matanza Queto
 * Brock Lesnar
 * Paul Heyman

Nicknames

 * The Minigunner (WWE/NJPW/ROH/NXT)
 * The Man with the Steel Fists (NJPW/ROH)
 * El Jefe's Watchdog (Heel)/The Watchdog (Face) (Lucha Underground)
 * Brock's/The Beast's Minigun" (WWE)
 * (The) Metahuman (NXT)
 * (The) Chimera (WWE)

Entrance Themes

 * Sasquatch - Ice Cube (Independent Promotions, NJPW/ROH, Used as a member of Bullet Club during solo matches)
 * Shot'Em by [QBrick]] (NJPW/ROH, Used as a member of Bullet Club during full stable entrances)
 * Guerrilla Tactics by Yonosuke Kitamura (NJPW/ROH, Used as a member of Bullet Club OG/Firing Squad)
 * Giger Effect by The Enigma TNG (Lucha Underground)
 * Kill 'Em All by Audiomachine (NXT/WWE, Used while managed by Brock Lesnar)
 * Next Big Thing (Remix) by Jim Johnston (WWE, Used while managing and teaming with Brock Lesnar)
 * Titans in Desolation by The Enigma TNG (WWE, Full Intro sometimes used during Major PPV Events)

Notes from the Creator

 * Chris Snyder is the product of how i feel a heavily athletic wrestler should be billed as well as how a modern powerhouse should be. He's essentially an old school style wrestler with an upgraded moveset. He is available for download on WWE 2K18 on the Xbox One and will be updated frequently.
 * Everything in this wikia page is based off of ideas thrown together and throw together matches on WWE 2K18.