Nicholas Adams

Adams has brown-black hair that is relatively long-cut, albeit not shoulder-length. Think the hair style that Keanu Reeves had in the movie "The Replacements", but with lighter hair. He has a tatoo on his right wrist that is just a bracelet shape, made of different swirls and geometric diamonds. His face is clean-cut, and rounded. His cheeks are full. His eyebrows are even, but darker than his hair by a shade. He is toned, but not overly muscular, and is well-proportioned for his size.

He wears some pretty simple clothing. A white, red, or forest green tee-shirt, potentially a black or blue long sleeve shirt underneath, comprises his upper body attire, and he always tucks his shirts in. His pants are usually loose-fitting jeans held up by a simple belt, although they vary in color from dark black to acid-washed light blue. He wears either black sneakers or black wrestling boots to the ring, mostly depending on whether the match will be more fast-paced or more technical and hard-hitting.

On his face, just for the Harrington cup, he has also added face paint back to his getup. It is inspired by the mask which Dick Grayson wore as Nightwing, with black ovals around his eyes, and then a thick pointed line on each side of these ovals, as well as two small triangular shapes above and below the bridge of his nose.

Adams is just an average kind of person. He likes the occasional joke. He's personable when he feels like it, stand-offish when he doesn't want to talk with people, glad and upset at intervals, angry and content - pretty much, he's human. His life hasn't really given him any quirks, albeit he does have the odd habit of choosing people that are complete opposites as friends - and adversaries.

Born in Portland, moved to Seattle when he was three years old, Texan mother, Russian father. One sibling, who is currently 25. Grew up attempting sports, but failed miserably, especially in high school, when he bombed football tryouts. Post-freshman year, he went into the performing arts as a high baritone in the choirs, and a participant in the school plays and musicals. Went to WSU wanting to try out for sports once again, only to discover that all the positions on the football team were taken by scholarship holders. This final rejection made him choose to become a Journalism major with a Broadcast Journalism minor.

During his college tenure, he picked up Tae Kwon Do. Became a second degree Black Belt right after graduating. Also picked up wrestling training Sophomore year of college. After graduation, went into the independent wrestling circiut. For one month during an injury when he was 26, he acted as the commissioner of a small Washington federation with unknown talents that ran weekly house shows. He toured with many other small federations, never getting noticed by any of the larger companies, including any of the NWA regional groups.

He came into the WWA in 2002, appearing on the scene just after the 2002 Labor Day Brawl. In his second televised WWA match, he won a shot for the TV title. He failed in his first title shot, but came out the victor in a No DQ TV Title match. He defended the title at the Birthday Brawl, but on his first show on PTC, he lost the title to Christyan Payne due to interference from a tag team called Mack Tenn. From that point up until Rage in the Cage 6, Adams fought to regain the title, but never got a shot. At RITC, he barely lost a fatal-four-way cage TV title match to Grunge.

From that point until that May's Revolution, these two had a heated rivalry, fighting back and forth over the TV title. There were other competitors, but Grunge was Nick's main target. It eventually blew up into a full-out All Wrestlers Banned From Ringside No DQ Submission match for the United States title. While Grunge won the match, Adams was suddenly tossed to the forefront of the fans' minds. He wound up joining Grunge in the stable known as Youth United, working his way around the WWA with no real accolades of which to speak, until the Independence Day Rumble. He won that match, and hoped to get the World Title. To do so, he reinvented himself, making a "New and Improved" Nicholas Adams. But after losing the World title shot and being taken out of the WWA on the following Meltdown by an injury, Adams went to the sidelines.

He returned with a fury only a month and a half later, but was still feeling the effects of the damage. He fought his way through it, suffering wins and losses along the way. During this time, he had an intense battle with Tracer Bullet, mostly fueled by Adams's pranks and threats. Finally, Tracer struck back, and it began a downward spiral for Adams. Eventually, the feud went to a 60-minute Iron Man match inside a modified Elimination Chamber. Though intense, Tracer managed to win by only one pin right as the match ended. Tracer then managed to defeat Adams in a match at the Bourbon Street Brawl, forcing Nick to leave the NWC, but not the WWA. Using this loophole, Adams managed to get back in to WWA competition. Unfortunately, he also suffered a concussion that gave him amnesia.

He eventually came to believe that he was a vigilante crime fighter like Batman. As he had the nickname "The Rainmaker", it made sense. Eventually, he suffered an injury at the hands of the Devil's Own, forcing him out of active competition. Upon returning, he said farewell to the gimmicks of the past, and tried to gain himself a spot. But after countless losses, finally culminating in losing to Brian Calvin in a cage match for the TV title, Adams snapped, and brutally assaulted Brian. On the next Meltdown, Adams revealed his "good guy" image to be a total sham, and revealed that he had become part of the Devil's Own.

Eventually, though, after months and months of destruction, Adams decided that he wanted to get out of the little war raging between the Extreme Corporation and the Devil's Own, and eventually became a member in X-Corp, along with DO. When both groups disbanded, Adams lost his direction for a while, and in fact retreated into relative obscurity. When he returned, he made a slight impact, but no great accolades. Finally, in a match against Jack Griffiths at Day of the Dead, he came to the match dressed as the modern-day hero, The Rainmaker, and found that he preferred that persona to simply being himself. However, after failing to find his place in the company as The Rainmaker, Damian Thorne called him in and forced him to drop the "gimmick". Adams proceeded to go out to the ring as himself and win a match against the World Heavyweight champion, Eddie Van Dorn. Following this, Adams let himself fall into obscurity and drunkenness.

After conquering this with a few random and undisclosed solutions, Adams came back swinging, firing on all cylinders. He eventually won a tournament that got him the number one contender's spot for the WWA World Heavyweight championship. Though Adams can't remember who he fought, he knew that after losing via some very dubious means, Nick continued to pursue the belt. After a lengthy process that involved trumped-up arrest charges, Mal Somers intervening, and a few other things, Nick once again failed to win the belt, but was more focused than ever. Eventually, he entered in to some random competition against anybody and everybody.

Finally, after going in to Ultimate Glory II as the second least likely to win - unfortunately for Jaymz Watkins, everybody correctly anticipated that the Destroyer would become involved - Adams came out victorious after putting away both Copeland and Lucas Black in a brutal fight. Adams was champion when the WWA closed, and came back as champion when the WWA re-opened. He successfully defended the belt twice, but eventually succumbed to Lucas Black.

Adams was injured at the 2010 Bourbon Street Brawl following a brutal beating from Dave Harley, and was recuperating. However, he was cleared to wrestle on a limited basis starting in July, and so is making an appearance in the Harrington Cup.

- WWA (World Heavyweight) Championship (1)
- WWA Television Title (4 - Most times held by anyone)

-Winner of Fiesta Anniversary battle royal
-Winner of the 2003 Independence Day Rumble 
- Winner of Ultimate Glory II
-Major degree in Journalism from WSU
- Minor degree in Broadcast Journalism from WSU
-Third Degree Black Belt in (WTF) Tae Kwon Do
-Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training (10 years as a student)

TrademarkSoul Crusher (Stunner)
TrademarkLightning Strike (A superkick that comes out of Nowhere, Parts Unknown)
TrademarkThunder Lock (Texas Cloverleaf)
Flying Lariat
Suplexes (e.g. Brainbuster, Vertical, Double Underhook; can do overhead suplexes on people up to 265 pounds)
Leg locks
Springboard DDT
Bulldog
Martial Arts Kicks
Snake Eyes Drop
Slams (e.g. Body slam, Oklahoma slam, Uranage, etc.)
Top Rope Leg Drop
Arm bars

Top Rope Springboard Moonsault