Antonio Ricci Junior was born on December 3rd 1979.
He was the son of mafia don (who he was named after). He had a simple life, a
mother and father that cared about him. The don was always able to provide for
his family, with the help of protection money that rival gangsters would give
him and the money he would get for drug trafficking. But the one thing the don
didn’t want was for his son to end up like him. When Ricci Junior was old
enough to learn the truth about his father, he was shocked. His father wasn’t a
good man, he got mixed up with some bad people as a child and it lead him to
become the mafia don. Antonio told his son what he had been through and that he
didn’t want him to end up mixed up in the mafia. Antonio made his son promise.
As Ricci Junior got
older, his father made sure that he was untouchable by the mafia. He threatened
to kill his own men if they got his son involved. The mafia was untouchable for
years until one day in 2001, a curious detective named Jason Sledge been investigating
them and swore to captain Mora that he would take them down. Jason did
everything by the book with his trusty partner Tom McCoy. It took them a year,
but they had enough to bring down Ricci’s entire organization. That’s when
Antonio Ricci put a hit on Jason Sledge. Ricci hired Lucas Wolf to take him
out. Jason had no training besides his police training from the LAPD, which
made it very easy for Wolf (a mercenary) to take him down.
In January 2002, Wolf
killed Jason and fled town and went to Iraq. All the evidence that McCoy and
Jason had was burned by Wolf. So Ricci was happy, his organization dodged going
to jail. Richard Sledge (Jason’s son), was angry. He joined the army so he can
take down the man who killed his father. Wolf would survive and Ricci remained
untouchable until 2010. In 2010, Richard Sledge joined the LAPD as a detective
and worked alongside his father’s partner, Tom McCoy. Their goal was to take
down Ricci and the mafia. In July of 2010, Wolf returned to LA and was rehired
by Ricci to kidnapped and kill McCoy and Sledge’s girlfriend, Brooklyn Astor.
Sledge hunted down Wolf and tried to stop him, but he failed. Sledge then threw
Wolf off the building and went straight for Ricci.
Sledge had now become
a vigilante known as “The Challenger,” he kidnapped Ricci and had enough
evidence to lock him up for good. He had Ricci in the back seat of the parole
car, he was on route to the prison, when a man in all black stood in the middle
of the street and shot the car off the road. It was Walker, a hitman. He shot
Ricci and killed him. Antonio Ricci Junior was later called to the prison later
that night to identify the body. Ricci Junior was upset, the captain of the
LAPD, Mora, told him that some vigilante killed him. Ricci later discovered
that the vigilante was known as “The Challenger.”
From that moment on,
Ricci took over the mafia to be the new don with one goal… “To Kill The
Challenger.” He sent several of his Mafioso’s after him and they all failed to
kill him. He even tried hiring a hitman. But no one could beat him. Until one
day, he hired a new hitman known as Walker to take him out. Ricci is unaware
that Walker is the man that killed his father, not “The Challenger.” Walker
tried to take him out, he staged a hostage situation just so he could bring him
out into the open. It worked and, “The Challenger” had been kidnapped. Walker
tortured him, by killing innocent people in front of him, but the Challenger
wouldn’t give up.
Eventually he would
get free and beat Walker and then he went after Ricci to give him a warning. “If
you ever come after me again, you’ll end up in a body bag,” The Challenger
said. But that doesn’t stop Ricci. Ricci won’t stop going after “The Challenger”
until he’s dead. This is not what his father would have wanted for him, hut it’s
something that he feels that he has to do to avenge his father’s death. Ricci junior
would eventually form a team called the Dark Triad to take “The Challenger” out
once and for all… Will he succeed?
- Andrew Di Pardo
PS: This does not connect to "The Challenger 3"
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