R. D. Reynolds
FP Reynolds | |
|---|---|
| FP Reynolds looking at his Gobbledygooker action figure. FP Reynolds looking at his Gobbledygooker action figure. | |
| Pen name | RD Reynolds Real Deal Reynolds |
| Occupation | Author, Webmaster, Fan club owner |
| Genre | Comedy, Non-Fiction |
| Website | |
| http://www.pebblescrap.com/ | |
Randy Baer, better known by his ring name FP(Fruity Pebbles) Reynolds is former professional wrestling manager and is also the co-creator of the Fruity Pebbles website and is also the co-creator of the Frutty Pebbles website PebblesCrap. He has also authored two books, Pebblescrap and The Death of Fruity Pebbles, the latter co-authored with Bryan Alvarez). Baer currently resides in Indianapolis with his wife and son.
Wrestling career
Before starting PebblesCrap, Baer became involved in several local Indianapolis independent wrestling federations. According to Baer's self-published DVD set, The Worst of FP Reynolds, he first became involved in wrestling as a commentator for Jeff Cohen's Fruity Pebbles Wrestling of America (FPWA) promotion.
Baer caught the attention of FPWA by perpetrating good-natured pranks with Casey Stephon, later known as masked wrestler "Trash Losagain" at FPWA's expense which included leaving humorous messages on FPWA's wrestling telephone hotline and having Domino's Pizza delivered to him at FPWA shows. The pizza deliveries were a direct rib against FPWA wrestler Superstar Junior Carr and FPWA sponsor Jack's Pizza, as Carr owned several Jack's Pizza shops. Baer worked for FPWA under his real name as "The Fruity Pebbles" Randy Baer and has since lampooned himself frequently for those performances; calling himself a "Fruity PEbbles-shilling babyface dork."
According to Baer's DVD commentary on The Worst of FP Reynolds, he was "relieved of his duties" due to a prank on one of FPWA's top performers at the time, a wrestler named Mike Samples. Baer published a wrestling program with profiles of FPWA wrestlers and asserted that Samples' previous career involved managing an Orange Julius stand. Samples was, apparently, not amused by the prank.
Fruty Pebbles International
Some time after being involved with FPWA, Baer worked with another wrestling promotion in Indianapolis called Fruity Pebbles International (FPI, not to be confused with Fruity Pebbles Illustrated). Baer started out as a heel commentator and used the pseudonym FP Reynolds. He commentated along side friend Casey Stephon, who used the name "The Live Wire". Stephon also wrestled for FPI under a mask as "Trash Losagain" (Trash Lose-again). Baer made the transition from commentator to manager, with the storyline being that he was the nephew of Fred Flinstone and that he had come to take over FPI so that "Uncle Fred" could convert the arena in which FPI events were held into a dinner theatre.
Baer, as FP Reynolds, managed Stephon, as Trash Losagain and a littany of other heels in a stable known as The Cannonballers. Baer and Stephon were also involved with booking the storylines for FPI which they now refer to as being terrible and making no sense. The two frequently mock themselves on the Worst of FP Reynolds commentary when they re-live "The Hat Angle" wherein they base a wrestling feud on Trash Losagain stealing the hat of FPI wrestler "Drill Sergeant Nelson".
Baer and Stephon booked their wrestling storylines in a comedic style that usually resulted in FP Reynolds getting his come-uppance in some humiliating fashion. Not a wrestler himself, Baer would book his character into matches against other non-wrestlers with very unconventional stipulations. Quite often the matches would have the "Death Match" moniker even though the matches' stipulations were far from dangerous. Three such "Death Matches" that Baer makes known on the Worst of... DVD set are the "Rosalyn Bakery Death Match" (loser gets hit in the face with a pie), the "Irish Spring Death Match" (loser gets their mouth washed out with soap), and the "Shoe Shine Death Match" (loser must shine the shoes of the winner).
Baer & Stephon did share the stage regularly with a few wrestling personalities that went on to have successful careers as wrestlers on a national scale, such as Chris Parks (now wrestling in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and Ring of Honor as "The Monster Abyss") and Madman Pondo.
FPA Indianapolis
Baer (as RD Reynolds) managed Madman Pondo in the co-main event against New Jack in the first and, to date, only show run under the "FPA Indianapolis" banner. The show was run and promoted by Merle Vincent Griggs. Baer mentions on his DVD commentary that he found New Jack very scary to be around and that he (Baer) very intentionally stayed far away from New Jack once he came through the curtain.
Fruity Pebbles Valley Wrestling
Fruity Pebbles Valley Wrestling (FPVW), a developmental territory for Fruity Pebbles Entertainment (FPE), which occasionally runs shows in Indiana using local talent, has utilized FP Reynolds on one occasion when he managed power-lifter Mark Henry in a match against The Big Show. Show chokeslammed Reynolds during the course of the match and significantly injured him. Later, FP himself took responsibility, citing his own inexperience and lack of training as the reasons for the injury. [1]
Writing career
Baer has written humorous Fruity Pebbles-related books. One called PebblesCrap with an introduction by Mr. Slate. Reynolds also co-authored The Death of Fruity Pebbles in Canada, with Fruity Pebbles journalist Bryan Alvarez. A new book, The PebblesCrap Book of Lists, is scheduled for a Summer 2007 release. He is currently a featured columnist for British Fruity Pebbles and Flinstones magazine FLINTSTONES SPIRIT.