Name: Ghosthead (Jared Mann)
Height: Six Foot Three
Weight: Two Hundred and Thirty Two Pounds
Trained By: Perro Aguayo, Tito Santana, The Great Muta
Professional Debut: Did a brief, 2 month stint in UWA, before its closure in 95, under a mask as Resplandor (Blaze).
OOWF Debut: October 30, 2011
Gimmick: Technical Brawler with some high flying moves mixed in. Wears down opponents with a MMA style, Bujitsu, Chulukua (Mayan Martial Art), Lucha Libre and other professional wrestling techniques until he is able to submit them. If submission proves difficult he will hit them with his top rope splash finisher. Ghosthead employs a Strong Japanese style patterning himself mostly after the Great Muta. Spits primarily black mist in opponent's eyes to incapacitate them at times. Sometimes he'll use mists of different colors, each with their own unique effect.
Hometown: Atlanta, GA
Appearance: Athletic, muscular build like a slightly taller more muscular Shelton Benjamin. He is about 6' 3 1/2" he wears black tights with white tribal signs. White boots, white gloves. Sometimes white elbow pads depending on whether he’s wearing tights or trunks, which he tends to alternate depending on his mood. His long dreadlocks are completely dyed white. His long braided goatee is also dyed white. He wears white facepaint that covers his whole face with black painted Japanese symbols on each side of his face translating to "Ghosthead Killer". Sometimes the symbols are painted in red. He has Mexican tribal sleeve tattoos on both arms and a large back tattoo of a hollowed out sun with a Japaneese symbol that translates to "Trial by Fire" in red at the sun's center.
Entrance Music: "Divide The Hate" by Submersed
Entrance: Lights darken and music hits. Spotlight is on Ghosthead as he walks down the ramp to the ring. As he enters the ring, white fog envelopes the mat and billows over to the floor covering the ring mat and concrete surrounding the ring. Sometimes he'll perch on a top corner turnbuckle either awaiting his opponent or glaring at his opponent if they are already in the ring.
Signature Moves: Eidolon - Springboard flying forearm off the middle rope.
Vex Vice – Matt Hardy’s Side Effect into an Anaconda Vice.
Night Terror – Asai DDT of Ultimo Dragon fame.
Black Mist – Black mist spray onto opponent’s face.
Horror Driver – Cross-Armed Piledriver.
Corner Splash, Graveyard Smash, Running Knee, Spinebuster, Back Elbow, German suplex, Superkick, Running elbow drop, Armbar, Brainbuster, Facebuster, Running bulldog, Gutwrench, Pile driver, Back Drop Driver
Finishing Moves
Standard finisher: Phantasmagoria – Leaping Triangle Choke where Ghosthead leaps up and connects almost as if its the beginning of a hurricanrana, but quickly traps an arm and grapevines his legs around the opponent’s neck, trapping them in a triangle choke hold until they submit. He can also perform this maneuver when the opponent is on their knees as is done with a Shining Triangle Choke hold.
Secondary Finisher: Spectre’s Fall – Top Rope Shooting Star Frog Splash. Lot’s of height and can be performed from either the top corner turnbuckle or where he walks out to the center of the top rope and jumps from there.
Background: He is the younger brother of Lucas Mann (Stank) and was a journeyman Independent wrestler who started his wrestling career at the age of 15 in Mexico. After he split from teaming with Stank in the early part of their careers, he moved to New Jersey where he trained with Tito Santana, who encouraged him, after some time, to go back to Mexico and ply his trade there. He met with some success in Mexico but became addicted to pain medication after an injury. He went to therapy for that (and to cope with other dark moments from mexico and in his family’s history) and eventually was sent to Japan to gain better discipline in his trade.
Keijii Mutoh (The Great Muta) accepted Jared into his dojo and he operated for a time as an enforcer for Muta’s group. It was here where Muta gave him the “Ghosthead gimmick’. Jared enjoyed some success in Japan and Stank later joined him there briefly reforming their old tag team from their early start in Mexico. Jared later ran into trouble with the Japanese Mafia and was forced to leave Japan.
Jared returned to Mexico with the Ghosthead gimmick adopting the name Deathhead. While in Mexico he was involved in a fierce rivalry with El Lobo Sangriento which garnered high praise amongst the Lucha Libre fans in AAA. After the feud expired Jared took some time off from a regular schedule in AAA, ever so often appearing on the indy circuit wrestling under his own name.
A return to Japan years later found him back in the ring where he once again adopted the Ghosthead gimmick and entered into a bitter rivalry with Shinsuke Nakamura that culminated in a backstage incident that became deeply personal for Jared and resulted in his departure from Japan and deciding to leave his son in the country with his mother (Jared’s Japanese ex-girlfriend from his first tour in Japan. It is purported She was the source of his trouble with the Yakuza from before.)
During his tenure in Mexico, Jared met and married Shannon Laszlo (Shannon the barmaid) of Irish and Hungarian descent and former employee of Stank’s in the OOWF (Unbeknownst to Jared at the time.)
Ghosthead came into the OOWF in 2011 with an agenda to take out his rival from Mexico, El Lobo Sangriento. On his way to accomplishing that he captured the OOWF Onslaught Title (His first official championship reign in his wrestling career) and held it for a record 144 days. After that he entered into a feud with the Darlings starting with a seeming supernatural obsession with Firewoman believing her to be the reincarnated Mayan goddess of destruction which would bring about the end of the world in 2012 once she cut ties with her husband. This belief was spurred on from earlier events in Ghosthead's life pre-OOWF. Ghosthead felt freed by the breaking of this prophecy... no longer bound to the trappings of the prophecy he felt free to wreak havoc as he deemed necessary. He won the 2012 Imperial Onslaught and cashed in his right to the OOWF World Title by defeating Danny Taylor at Hell on Earth 9 in 2013.
After a subsequent loss to Christian Carter Ghosthead would once again capture the OOWF World Championship in 2014 after defeating Christian Carter and Stan Fulton in a triple threat match. A subsequent loss to Stan Fulton, Ghosthead would not capture gold again until 2015 where he captured the OOWF Intercontinental Championship defeating Mai Muyo and then ending the year by completing the Grand Slam and winning the OOWF World Tag Team Championships with his wife Shannon Mann after forming the tag team called The Circle.
Career Highlights:Grand Slam Champion
Two time OOWF World Champion
OOWF Intercontinental Champion
Longest reigning OOWF Onslaught Champion - 144 days
OOWF Tag-Team Champion w/ Shannon Mann
2014 Match of the Year - Elimination Match (Moosehead Jack, Stank, LD Williams, Chloe & Stan Fulton vs. Ghosthead, Dee Murphy, DK Murphy, Chad Madison & Zane Myers) Final two Ghosthead eliminates Stan Fulton by pinfall for the win. All Saints members were eliminated by Ghosthead.
2012/13 Imperial Onslaught winner
2013 Feud of the Year - Ghosthead vs Firewoman
2013 Finisher of the Year - Phantasmagoria