In 1973, Pierre Delacroix was born. The youngest of three children to a wealthy and politically connected French family, he never wanted for anything growing up. This did not spoil him. Rather, it made him appreciate everything that he did for himself. Unlike his shiftless siblings, Pierre took to spending more and more time outside of the house and his parents' reach growing up. By the time he was 20, he'd taken up the hobby of screwing with tourists. Street games like 3-card monty drew the real money, but Pierre wasn't above picking someone's pocket from time to time. It wasn't for the money, though. He did it just to prove that he could.
It was on the streets that he met the single most important person in his life, Jasmin L'Oiseau. The daughter of the legendary French wrestler, James L'Oiseau, Jasmin had just begun training wrestlers herself, as her own in ring career was winding down. The two instantly took to each other, and Jasmin quickly became both his teacher and lover. For the next two years, Pierre learned everything that Jasmin knew, including the spectacular 810 splash, a staple of her father's. In 1995, Pierre began his career as a pro wrestler, having short, uninteresting runs in several European federations. 1995 also marked the first time Pierre travelled to the US, wrestling in a Las Vegas-based promotion as a masked Japanese wrestler named Shi-Tsu. Several months and one rather interesting story later, Pierre returned to France, to continue his career under his own name.
In 1997, Pierre finally found a permanent home in the ALFI, a popular French wrestling federation. Here was the first time that Pierre found a stable working environment, and he excelled artistically there. Still, he never rose above the low midcard level, so it was with much surprise to everyone involved that a talent scout signed Pierre to a devlopmental deal to work with a new federation back in the States, something called the Fans Wrestling Organization. They asked but two things. First, that he take a name more appealing than his own, and second, that he work under a mask. Thus The Flying Frenchie was born.
His career there almost stopped before it really started. During the summer of 1998, Jasmin L'Oiseau married long-time flame Thomas Desjardin, much to Pierre's chagrin. His sudden departure back to France to talk Jasmin out of it didn't please the officials back in Redmond, nor was it successful. Fortunately, he was taken back, though not before being removed from the Cruiserweight Title scene. This turned out to be the best thing that could happen to Frenchie, as a run in the Hardcore division showed the higher-ups how versatile he could be, and that he was so much more than just another little guy. By the end of '98, he had runs with the Hardcore Title, formed the heel stable The French Foundation, and won the fWo's second-tier strap, the Internet Title. On the fWo's first show of 1999, Frenchie won his first of four World Titles.
From January 1999 to the end of 2000, Frenchie had been a main-stay in the fWo's main event scene, feuding with such memorable opponents as Machina and Ultra-Violet, as well as Scott Slugger, The Boston Strangler, Mike Bear, and original French Foundation members Primetime and Mitch Wilson.
Of particular note in the year 2000 was the loss of his mask to the fore-mentioned Ultra-Violet, his long-time arch-rival, and his retirement from the fWo at the hands of his former ally Primetime.
Frenchie lost a retirement match at Twilight 2000 to Primetime, and a week later was working in the Champions Wrestling League. His most notable feud there was with midget wrestler "Big" Little Italy. Frenchie left the CWL when they became a European Fed, and was brought back into the FWO as an ally of Primetime and Ric Chronos in 3vil.
After the FWO's short shutdown, Frenchie was brought back in by Jon Crisp, though their alliance was short-lived, and was responsible for the dislike between them to this day.
In 2003, Frenchie began teaming with former CWL commissioner and ally Danny Culligan as The Elitists. Their biggest achievement as a team was at Cyberslam VI, where they faced WTF~! and Team EQ for the World Tag Team Championships in a War of Attrition match. They lost, which lead to Frenchie turning on Culligan and teaming once more with long time ally Ric Chronos, as the World Peace Organization.
At Meltdown 2003, The WPO took the titles from WTF~!.
2003 ended poorly for Frenchie, as he was shot by Fallen during Countdown 1, effectively trapping him in the area where a subsequent fire broke out. He sufferred some minor burning, and smoke inhalation, as well as a completely destroyed left knee, which has since been surgically reconstructed.
2004 was all in all a much better year. Having recovered from the events of Countdown 1, Frenchie came back, intent to once more capture the FWO World Title. His first few attempts were unsuccessful, but his attempt to win the Wrestler of the Year tournament seemed to be heading his way. In the finals against Brand Frontier, a recent ally, nameless, revealed himself to be Spyder, and cost Frenchie the match. The tensions between the two foreign legends exploded, leading to several violent encounters, with Frenchie winning a grudge match at Twilight. At Countdown 2, Frenchie wrested the FWO title from Eli Flair, and defended it against Ric Chronos the next night.
His reign was short lived, losing the belt back to Eli Flair at BodyCount. After that, Spyder once more sprung upon Frenchie, and a Career vs. Career match was made for Cyberslam 2005. Frenchie won the match, but when Spyder failed to live up to the stipulations of the match, Frenchie walked out of the FWO in frustration.
After negotiations with the FWO to remove Spyder from the roster fell through, Pierre returned to Europe in the fall of 2005, and after taking a month-long honeymoon with his new bride, Jasmin Delacroix, started working various small European federations to re-establish his value overseas. In the beginning of 2006, he was once more signed on with the CWL, primarily as a backstage character, only stepping into the ring a few times a year. The schedule suited his new married life-style, and kept him off the road during touring, only having to show up on the weekly television broadcasts.
With the relaunch of the FWO, Pierre has returned to the place where his legend began, looking to expand upon it. But can the 36-year-old Frenchie have the same impact that he did at 26, when he won his first FWO World Title, or even 31, when he won his last?
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