Jason Natas Inks DEFIANCE Contract
Posted by Jason Natas on 6 Jul 2014
DEFIANCE has today confirmed the signing of Jason Natas to the active roster. Natas, 31, is best known for his 2008-09 PRIME run, and follows in Lindsay Troy, Tyler Rayne and Wade Elliott's footsteps to become DEF's fourth former PRIMEate.
Though less-heralded than the Big Damn Heroes, Natas comes into DEFIANCE amidst a career revival. Once better known for his fierce demeanour and disruptive backstage attitude than his wrestling chops, Natas' PRIME tenture was bumpy to say the least. In the ring, he struggled for consistency and bounced back-and-forth from win to loss on a near-weekly basis. Outside of it, he collected more enemies and caused more problems than his standing justified.
Debuting in 2008, it was clear that Natas was inadequately prepared to compete at the highest level. His response to this was to throw a first or hurl insults and anyone who dared occupy his breathing space. Stepping into the ring with the likes of Jason Snow, Chandler Tsonda and Jonathan Rhine saw his stock rise and skills sharpen, yet he vanished little over a week after his one signature victory (a 2009 battering of PTC legend Jay Phoenix), with PRIME sources citing "backstage difficulties" as the reason for separation.
Natas re-emerged for PRIME's farewell tour in 2012, though it was a weathered, beaten-down grappler that stepped into the ring with Lindsay Troy. Visibly out-of-shape and tired, Natas was dispatched by the women's wrestling standard-setter and had the remaining appearances on his contract cancelled by PRIME's furious management team.
Since 2012, however, Jason Natas has rebuilt himself. With his last PRIME appearance serving as a huge wake-up call, the New Yorker cast his vices aside and retreated to the North American and Japanese indy scenes. Fans were typically wary of the big-league drop-out's arrival at first, but Jason's spirited, gritty performances, ever-improving skillset and newfound quietly focused mindstate slowly one them over. By 2013's end he'd become one of the hottest tickets on the indy scene, though skepticism remained amoung the sport's biggest promoters.
Now, "The Anti-Superstar" finds himself presented with the unlikeliest of second chances. Whether he's able to continue this wave of momentum through DEFIANCE remains to be seen, but if he isn't? Well, who doesn't love a good car crash.
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