*this isn't exactly a genuine fan fiction, but it is about a theoretical wrestling corporation, and so I thought this was a just place for it.*
A Wrestling RevolutionThe WWE is an empire verging on the term “monopoly”. Nearly all of the free televised wrestling is owned by the WWE. And the only alternative is TNA, which has taken a down hill turn by attempting to duplicate the mess that is the WWE.
Wrestlers, or “performers” as we might call them, have been reduced to actors who’s talent is completely irrelevant to their success.
Wrestling has gone from a circus-like act, imitating a sport, to being a Hollywood scripted soap opera written by B-rated soap opera rejects: those that didn’t have the talent to write a crappy soap opera are now writing the wrestling stories we see. No wonder today’s wrestling is enough to gag you.
A wrestling performer may be the most talented in the ring, maybe the strongest and healthiest, and may be the most charismatic and dedicated, but due to politics and blow jobs, they are kept on the bottom of the deck while disrespectful drug addicts without an ounce of talent are pushed to the top of the deck and crammed down our throats.
Wrestlers have been withheld mic time because their character isn’t supposed to be good on the mic. And those with no speaking ability have been given 20 minutes a night on the mic, reading a script, because their character is supposed to be good on the mic.
Porn stars with only a few months training are beating talented female wrestlers that have spent their life learning the craft. And the Smarks see it, don’t like it, but don’t have a choice.
The powers that be, the people who control the wrestling industry has said “This show goes my way. I don’t care what the fans want. The fans don’t have a choice. It’s our show or you go without. You don’t have an alternative.”
The wrestling industry is doing what they can to silence their employees from having non-sanctioned communications. No interviews not approved of by the corporation that owns them, and no contact with their fans outside of corporate sanctioned autograph signing.
One of the reasons most employees (wrestlers) aren’t allowed to have internet based communication with their fans is because they (the corporation) want to control who the fans like, and what wrestler is “over”. They don’t want their employees building a strong fan base; they want their employees to have the fan base they’re given by the corporation.
The corporation has gone beyond the desire to own and control their talents, to needing to own and control the fans. The corporation doesn’t want you the fan making your own mind up on who to like or dislike. You the fan will like who you’re told to like, and you will dislike who you are told to dislike.
If you don’t believe that, just take a look at all the performers that aren’t that big with the crowd, but were getting prime spots on the show left and right and pushed onto the people so hard until the heard instinct kicked in and the fans began cheering for them because it was the “in” thing to do.
Why does any given performer get a “push”? What is a push? A push is when someone is getting opportunities not befitting them in accordance with fan popularity. A push is when the fans don’t care about a wrestler, but the fans are going to be made to care, and there are various ways of doing that. Pushing a particular wrestler on the people is a crime against the fans.
Certainly the fans can’t dictate who wins a match. But shouldn’t the fans decide who they like? Shouldn’t a wrestler’s popularity be based on how well the fans respond to them? Why must the fans be forced into liking someone by the corporation giving that wrestler a “push”?
The marks will like who they are told to like. And they will like a particular character as much as they are told to like them. Only rebellious smarks will think for themselves and decide not to like them. And let’s face it, smarks don’t count.
The level of crime against the wrestler and the wrestling fan is at an all time high. We need a new corporation, a new company. If only I had the money, I would build this corporation, I would create this wrestling federation and it will be a revolution. A revolution to destroy the corrupt empire that currently dictates the business.
Power will be brought back to the performer and to the fans. And God as my witness wrestling would not suck again.
Perhaps we can call this new federation the WWWWWW- White Wolf’s Wacky World of Wild Wrestling. Hmm, maybe not. The name isn’t important!
Philosophy
First, let’s start off with some wrestling philosophy.
1. Wrestling is supposed to look real. Fans know it’s not real, but the best moments are when the audience can become so captivated that for one brief moment they forget it’s fake.
2. You don’t have to use the same trite finisher in every match to win. Finishers are great, but not in every match.
3. Just because a move is old doesn’t mean it’s no longer effective. How come the Sleeper Hold doesn’t put anyone out anymore? How come the devastating DDT and Pile Driver no longer knocks people out?
4. You can only go from heel to face so many times. So you should stay a face or a heel for as long as possible; only changing if one isn’t working, or if the fans are looking at you differently (heels slowly gaining respect).
5. If a face is white and a heel is black, let’s not forget there are a million shades of grey. Not everyone should be placed into a cookie cutter mold of “good” or “bad”.
6. Slim chances are slim chances; not probable and reoccurring outcomes. An example is the champion versus two other guys in a three way match. Due to the fact he doesn’t even have to get pinned to lose, his chances of winning the match, no matter how talented he is, is one in three. But I am willing to bet that in WWE and other top promotions, the genuine outcome is the champion retaining the championship nine out of ten times.
Another example is the battle royals. If you are one of the first ones to go in, you will typically be one of the first ones to go out. In other promotions, those who stay in the longest normally coincide with how popular they are with the fans. You can tell who the last guys are going to be in a battle royal; they’ll be the top heels and top faces.
7. Little guys beating big guys is pretty rare.
8. 1 guy beating 2 guys at the same time is virtually unheard of in real life.
9. Predictability in who wins a match creates a realistic perception of toughness- predictability in how that outcome is met creates boredom.
10. Wrestlers are performers; not actors. A wrestler’s rank in the company should be directly relative to his over all talent. What we see too much of is a person with no mic skills being given way too much mic time –because his character is supposed to be a good speaker- and wrestlers with great mic skills never getting the mic –because their character isn’t supposed to be a good speaker.
11. Flashy moves don’t make a good wrestler. A good wrestler is someone who knows how to work on the same level as his opponent. A good wrestler is someone who knows how to convince the fans he’s beating his opponent to death with stiff brutality, while in actuality being very easy on his opponent. A good wrestler is someone who can adapt to anyone’s style. A good wrestler is someone who doesn’t win every match the same way, and thus become a one trick pony. A good wrestler is someone who knows how to pace a match.
12. Magic burst of energy? Magical loss of energy? An example of a magical burst of energy is when a person gets placed in a sleeper hold, and after getting warn down to near unconsciousness, suddenly gets an adrenaline rush and they come back with a second wind and exhibit more energy than in the beginning of the match. How many times have you seen a guy that was warn down and dead on his feet get placed into the sleeper hold and you yell at the guy doing the hold “don’t give him the sleeper, hell that’ll wake him up and get him turbo charged!”
Another example of the magical burst of energy is in tag matches: the guy gets warn down, he’s dead on his feet, but suddenly he gets a burst of energy, fights back, throws his opponent to the ropes, and rather than taking three steps to tag in his partner, decides to follow through by putting his rebounding opponent in a spectacular move like a standing hurricanranna, and then lays there on the mat nearly unconscious, making his way to his partner with his hand out, crawling like a snail.
An example of the magical energy loss is when they are climbing the latter to get the belt, but with just two more steps to go, they suddenly hit slow motion, and… one… more… step… is… just… too… difficult. This has also been known to occur in cage matches while climbing over the cage, or out of the door.
In my federation there will be wrestlers getting second winds, and fast one move desperation reactions. But not on the level I see in today’s major wrestling promotions.
13. It’s ok for women to look and act sexy, but if they are in a wrestling promotion they need to be able to wrestle, and wrestling should be their primary function.
14. In a tag match, jumping in to kick the guy off your partner to break the pin fall should be disqualification.
15. Referees are people that are supposed to be able to stay out of the way of the wrestlers, and spot illegal holds, and most importantly see what’s going on. I think all WWE referees are near sighted and hearing impaired. The ref gets distracted by competitor A, meanwhile Competitor A’s buddies sneak into the ring and set up competitor B for a powerful knock out move, or just beat down. Then they hurry out of the ring and the ref sees the once standing Competitor B laying flat on his back, and doesn’t suspect the guys on the outside of the ring of interfering. Nor did he hear or feel the impact of the outside man coming in, and jumping off the top rope to annihilate competitor B. Point being that referees should be less blind, more quick to disqualify dirty fighters, and cheaters should have to work a little harder at cheating. Refs will continue to get knocked out, but it might actually take a pretty powerful impact to put him out. Staggering backward into a ref shouldn’t knock him out cold for 5 minutes; but wrestler missing his opponent and hitting the ref with a cross body, clothesline, spear, or drop kick would.
16. Run-ins and cheating ruin great matches. Too many times a great match is ruined by an outsider running in and causing a disqualification. What if half the matches were won by cheating, and the other half ended in disqualification because of outside interference? How many episodes would you watch before giving up on caring? If winning a match has nothing to do with skill and everything to do with external circumstances, the outcome of a match might as well be drawn from a lottery. Run-ins and cheating should be kept to a minimum. Cheating is great for entertainment, but not when it’s so frequent that it becomes the norm.
17. Popularity should not dictate a wrestlers wrestling ability. All too many times I see a wrestler win match after match against guys I both hate and love, guys who are talented and non-talented, guys who are in kayfabe tough and weak, and all because the guy is “over” with the fans, due to a gimmick or catch phrase. Also, if the person became “over” with the fans before he was turned into an undefeatable badass, then why change the formula. There have been too many times I really began to like a particular character, and others did as well, only to have it ruined by the fact the character has been turned into a goodie-two-shoes face that can’t be defeated, always runs to the rescue, never cheats anymore, and apparently is the toughest guy on the roster all of the sudden. A prime example was John Cena: a foul mouthed street tough punk with one hell of a mean streak, changed into heroic Eagle Scout, or a saintly marine just trying to do the right thing. Popularity should count towards how much exposure you get, and that’s pretty much all. One exception is with a new guy who’s character and toughness hasn’t been fully established.
18. Being naked shouldn’t be a career booster. I don’t think a “diva” should have her wrestling career elevated because her playboy sales are up. On a similar note, and also similar to #17, a female wrestler should not have their characters toughness decided by her looks; but rather by her in ring talent- or her physical stature (a tall muscular woman is bound to be tough). But again, a pretty smile and a nice rack shouldn’t be the decisive factors in becoming women’s champ.
*On a personal note: I really can’t stand it when women get naked for money, and get surgical enhancements when there was nothing wrong with the way they looked before. I mean a crooked nose, a scar or mole that stands out as hideous, being removed and fixed is fine. But going from a bra cup size C to DD, or having your lips puffed up is just pure shallow vanity. And then these surgically altered sluts actually go on about being a roll model. You want to be a positive roll model after going down that road, you better become a health nut, donate a kidney to save some kid’s life, grab a college diploma, and spend all your free time doing charity work. Maybe then we can over look your decision to be a surgically altered porn star.
19. A promotions management has to know when to listen to the fans demands and when to ignore them. You can’t know what your doing right or doing wrong if you ignore the fans. But at the same time you gotta realize that there is no satisfying an internet smark. Smarks will always have a gripe about something. Satisfying a smark is like satisfying a woman; it ain’t ever gonna happen.
20. Matches should not be interrupted by commercials. Put the commercials between the matches. It ruins the pace of the match, and therefore pretty much ruins the match.
Titles and prerequisites
The title belts will be broken down into their respective division. In this list you will be given the Title Belt name, and then the prerequisite for obtaining that belt.Tag Team – Can only be won by a team of two.
Women’s Title – Can only be held by a woman.
Lightweight Title – Can only be held by a person no heavier than 205 lbs.
Middleweight Title - Can only be held by a person no heavier than 240
Heavyweight Title – 240.1 and up
In regards to weight classification, allow me to demonstrate which current WWE wrestlers would exist in any given division. You should note that if you don’t see a wrestler’s name in any of the divisions, it is because WWE.com doesn’t supply their weight on their profile page, or because I didn’t consider that wrestler to be a wrestler.
Light Weight Division: Rey Mysterio – 165 | Brian Kendrick – 175 | Funaki – 180 | Kid Kash – 199 | Jamie Noble – 202 | Daivari – 203 | Paul London - 205
Middleweight Division: Gregory Helms – 215 | Johnny Nitro – 219 | Carlito – 220 | Chris Benoit – 220 | Scotty 2 Hotty – 220 | Simon Dean – 220 | Matt Hardy – 225 | Shawn Michaels – 225 | Elijah Burke – 230 | Rob Conway – 230 | Finley – 235 |
Hardcore Holly – 235 | K.C. James – 235 | Idol Stevens – 237 | Matt Striker – 237 | Eugene – 238
Heavyweight Division: Edge – 240 | John Cena – 240 | Trevor Murdoch – 241 | Charlie Haas – 242 | Ken Kennedy – 243 | Ric Flair – 243 | Randy Orten – 245 | Shelton Benjamin – 245 | William Regal – 245 | King Booker – 250 | Sylvan – 250 | Stone Cold – 252 | Vito – 252 | Tatanka – 258 | The Rock – 260 | Triple H – 260 | Val Venis – 260 | Lance Cade – 261 | Chris Masters – 275 | Mick Foley – 287 | Batista – 290 | JBL – 290 | Gene Snitsky – 300 | Jake Gemeni – 304 | Jesse Gemeni – 304 | Undertaker – 305 | Sylvester Terkay – 320 | Kane – 327 | Umaga – 348 | Mark Henry – 380 | The Great Khali – 420 | Viscera - 485
In this scenario, you’ll notice more Heavyweights than Middleweights, and more Middleweights than Lightweights. In my wrestling organization I will not concentrate so much on size, and will instead concentrate more on skill. Also I will probably incorporate a lot more lightweights than WWE. Now add into the factor that just like in “amateur wrestling” the wrestlers will be struggling to make weight. This will inevitably create a lighter weight roster.
According to WWE, or at least by the statistics I have gathered from their website, the percentage of wrestlers that would fit into any given division would exist as such
Lightweight: 12.7%
Middleweight: 29%
Heavyweight: 58%
It is my plan to have the divisions contain this percentage of my roster
Heavyweight 22%
Middleweight 23%
Lightweight 18%
Women’s Division 17%
Tag Team 20% tabulated as individuals, or 10% tabulated as team of two individuals.
The average weight for a WWE wrestler (excluding the women) is 235. I want to shoot for 215
But to make things a little more interesting, people of different divisions may wrestle each other. And people of a lighter division may compete in, and possess the championship title of a division above their weight class; but not below their weight class.
In order, the following may compete in and possess the title of the division above them, but not below them.
Heavyweight
Middleweight
Lightweight
Women’s Division
A middle weight wrestler can compete in the Heavyweight division, but a heavyweight wrestler may not compete in the Middleweight division.
If a particular wrestler obtains the championship title, and then gains too much weight to be classified in the weight division of the title they hold, they may continue to hold that belt and compete in that division. Once they lose the belt, they cannot be granted a title rematch because they are no longer allowed to compete in the division they are too heavy for.
Types of matches
1. Around the world
This involves typically 5 people.
A wrestler starts in the ring, he is called the stable. There is a wrestler at each corner on the outside. The stable’s opponent is the person at the first ring post we’ll call them challengers. When the challenger wins, he becomes the next stable and the next challenger counterclockwise comes in and this continues until there are only two wrestlers left and whoever wins that, wins the match.
If the challenger loses to the stable, he is out and the next challenger comes in. If the stable defeats him as well, then comes in the next challenger and so on. If the stable can beat all challengers than he wins.
However, there is also a time limit per challenger. If the challenger is not victorious or defeated within 3 minutes, he returns to his corner and the next challenger comes in to fight the stable. Assuming the stable and the challenger keep running beyond three minutes, after the stable has survived all of his opponents, he gets to go to the corner of the next challenger, who now steps into the ring with the former challenger, who is now the new stable.
2. Time Tag
A member of each team starts off. After a set time, they are forced to tag out to their partners. This continues in intervals of X amount of minutes.
3. Playfair
A Playfair match is one that incorporates two additional referees at ringside who are to monitor the match to make sure no cheating takes place. Also, the two additional referees have the authority to run in the ring and count a pin fall or determine a submission in case the primary ref gets knocked out. If an additional referee sees a cheat, and feels that cheat is worthy of a disqualification, he may stop the match, point it out to the primary ref, and a camera’s replay may be used as evidence. If the primary ref feels it is worthy of disqualification than it will be so. Also, if a pin is counted, and one of the additional referees noticed a cheat or a rope break, he can point it out to the primary ref and use the camera’s replay as evidence. Titles will change hands on a disqualification.
No one’s manager or companions may be at ring side during one of these matches. Any wrestler interfering in the match or even showing up at ringside will be fired immediately.
This match will be used in the event that a feud cannot be resolved because the champion is perpetually cheating to retain the title. This match will typically end feuds because the former champion will not be issued a title rematch. So the playfair match is a feud ender. It is designed to show the audience once and for all who is the best wrestler.
4. Five count pin fall.
Instead of counting to 3, the count is to 5. This means a wrestler will pretty much have to be knocked out completely. No school boy rollups or grabbing the tights to steal one.
5. Timed match.
A timed match goes on for X amount of time, rather than ending in a draw, a winner is determined by a panel of judges like a boxing match.
6. Timed round limit.
Very similar to the above. But done by X amount of rounds lasting X amount of time. At the end of the round, any hold in progress will be forced to break. Perhaps “saved by the bell” would be a more appropriate name for this match.
7. Life Line.
A Life Line match is a tag match where each team gets one free call for his partner to come in and take his place without a tag needing to take place.
After telling the ref you want to use your life line, he signals for your partner to come in. You may not help your partner once he comes in. This means after you use your life line, you have to get out of the ring immediately; no 5 seconds double team.
Keep in mind that in my federation this jumping in to break a submission hold or pin fall, will not be tolerated. So any jumping in without a tag, and without your partner using the one life line the team has, will result in immediate disqualification.
8. Electric Funeral Match
Oh yes, this is the one I really want to see. Imagine a cage match, only the cage is electrified.
The four sides of the cage are not meant to be climbed. Each side has two layers of metal string. Instead of one solid wall made of crisscrossed metal wire, this will consist of negatively charged horizontal wire, and positively charged vertical wire, and will be set about an inch apart. When a wrestler is thrown against the metal cage, the first layer of metal wire will be pressed up against the second layer of wire. The opposite charges will create a lot of electrical sparks, but in actuality, not really electrocute the wrestler… that much. Make no mistake, you will get shocked, just not with a lethal or even near lethal dosage.
Pinfall, submission; no count out, no climb out, NO ESCAPE!
This match will be a great alternative to barbwire matches for the ladies.
Contracts and gimmick copyrights
There is this issue I have with the WWE and pretty much any top promotion. They work hand and hand with a wrestler, and when that wrestler leaves their company, they forbid that wrestler from going under the name they made famous.
This totally cheats the performer out of a career if he ever signs with another promotion. Can’t use the old outfit, can’t use the old name, can’t use the old moves, or even catch phrases. For many performers this totally kills their career and keeps them in constant servitude to the corporation that owns them. And I do mean “owns them”.
My solution is to allow the wrestler to leave with their character. They can take their outfit, their name, their catch phrases, gimmicks, and their finishing moves. They can use these in any promotion they join. But my federation will also have the rights to the character. Meaning I can build similar characters without fear of restriction. I can also show footage of matches that wrestler was in, without their permission.
But, when they go to other promotions, they may use their character in that promotion, no other wrestler may use those characteristics. And once the wrestler leaves a particular promotion; that promotion is not allowed to keep the character or rip off the character, or claim ownership, and or stifle the wrestler from using their character in other promotions, or preventing my organization from using the character. To put it simply: the wrestler and my organization will both have rights to the character; no one else. Get it?
And here is why I think it is so important that wrestlers be allowed to leave with their character. This is an old statement I made.
“Why should a wrestling promotion allow a performer to leave with their gimmick and character?
Because in most cases the product is a combined effort between the performer and the creative department, with most of the effort being done by the performer, and the creative staff over seeing it.
My best example is the Dudley Boys. They made themselves, they made their own gimmicks without any help from WWE or ECW. The only “help” they received from ECW was publicity; but not creativity. Then after WWE bought out ECW they put the Dudley’s on Raw. All the gimmicks that existed their was pre WWE, and invented by the Dudley’s; not WWE. When they left the WWE they could not call themselves Bubba Dudley, Devon Dudley, Spike Dudley, The Dudley’s, The Dudley Boys. They can’t call their finisher “3D”. Devon can’t climb the ropes, do the “Wazzzuuup” diving headbut. Bubba can’t shove Devon and yell “Devon! Get the tables!”
In other words, every single gimmick and catch phrase that they came up with that made them over with the fans, has been stripped from them. And now they exist as a very watered down version of what they were. We still call them The Dudley’s. We still call them Bubba and Devon Dudley. Because they’ve had a pretty long career with this thing as their gimmick. If they totally split up and divorced themselves from this gimmick, they’d have to start at the bottom of the latter again and probably wouldn’t be able to make anything of themselves.
In most cases the gimmicks and catch phrases are invented by the performer, the one that goes out their and gets their body beaten to a pulp for 5 years to make a name for themselves. Spends 5 years slowly developing and tweaking their character until eventually they just get it right and click with the fans. And then to have all of the name recognition stripped from them by pencil pushers, is simply wrong.”
Our women’s division.
To put it simply: my wrestling organization will take the women’s division very serious. To explain the problems with the women’s division in WWE and other top promotions, and my desired solutions, I will simply post a statement I made not too long ago on the subject. Keep in mind this was originally a response to someone else’s forum post, thus its context may seem a little off.
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I agree that the women’s division is taken as a joke. The women’s division for the longest time was a side show, comparable to midget wrestling. It wasn’t taken serious at all. The Fabulous Mullah was champ for 27 or 28 years. This was mostly because she wrestled once a year (if that).
So by comparison, the women’s division has gotten stronger. There were a few decent female wrestlers in the 80’s, but they can’t compare to the success of the women’s division in the late 90’s
In my opinion, it was Chyna and Lita that actually made people care about the women’s division. Chyna was as big as some of the cruiser weight males. She won the intercontinental championship. There were moments she beat the hell out of midcard level male wrestlers. She had a long and strong match with Jeff Jarrett, and Chris Jericho. She had a memorable match against HHH.
Lita did a lot because unlike Chyna, she looked very womanly, and was quite beautiful. She was also very acrobatic and had a ton of charisma. Chyna mostly competed against the boys. While this may have done something to earn female wrestlers a bit of respect, it didn’t do much to bring respect to the division. It was really Lita that brought women’s wrestling to a whole new level.
Also, Stephanie, Ivory, Jacquelyn, and Molly Holly also brought a lot to the table and made for a strong division. And yet it absolutely sickened me to see these women, their talent, and their craft, being mocked by stupid gravy bowl matches, bra and panties matches, bikini contests and other crap. It’s as if the WWE were purposely trying to degrade and belittle the women’s division.
Now you have these little models learning to feign a wrestling match after only a year (or less) of practice, and this totally degrades the division. These models getting in the ring and wrestling just takes away from real talent. And when women like Victoria are jobbing out to Torrie, it just ruins any chance of the women’s division having any respect.
Between the ridiculous mud wrestling matches, the skinny little models being thrown into the division, and The King with his “Puppies! Puppies! Puppies!” comments every 2 minutes, the women’s division is a joke. It’s nothing more than a big slumber party.
And so when the crowd of men witness a wrestling match between two women, with their fake boobs, dressed in their underwear or bikinis, and overly sexual persona, they imitate Jerry “The King” Lawler, and chant “we want puppies”.
It pisses me off! It really truly does. It’s a shame; an absolute shame.
And anyone but me notice that two women that were former enemies are always back to being friends with no explanation? It’s as if we are expected to just forget that two months ago these two girls were trying to kill each other. Perhaps the writing staff feels that because they’re women their fight was nothing more than a moody, jealous catfight, and they’ve cried and made up already. I just don’t know.
Again, it’s not the lack of effort to build a strong women’s division that upsets me; it’s the fact they try so hard to ruin it.
I don’t know why any woman would want to be a wrestler, knowing that WWE is the cream of the wrestling crop, and this is how they treat their female talent.
As much as I love wrestling, if I were a woman, and bumped into a trainer who wanted to train me to be a wrestler I’d have to decline. And when he asked why I’d turn down this opportunity to be part of the sport I love, and the money and the fame, I’d explain it to him like this.
“I’m going to have to work really hard, be a health nut, push my body to the limit and keep up a vigorous pace for a year or more before I ever step foot in a ring with an audience of 10 or more people. In a few years I might actually be putting on performances in front of small crowds of 50+ people. Then I might get a break and get signed to some independent promotion, stay with them for a few years getting my body torn to hell to put on a good show. Then after a total of 7 years of putting my body through hell, taking the most outrageous bumps, all in the name of fame, in an attempt to get signed to a major promotion, I end up in the WWE. Now I’ve hit it big time. All my wrestling moves, cuts and broken bones, and scars. All the acrobatics I’ve learned, and I will now spend my time mud wrestling playboy playmates, and having pillow fights while enduring cat calls and crowd chants of ‘we want puppies’. To me, the end goal isn’t remotely worth the hell of getting there. So no thanks.”
The WWE doesn’t have to try to build a strong women’s division; they just have to stop trying so hard to ruin it!
A long time ago, on another forum, I spoke about a particular problem that any male centered wrestling promotion is going to have with a women’s division. You can’t have just one woman’s match per show. Maybe an hour long show; but not a two hour show. You need at least two matches per night. And here’s the reason I say this:
If we consider a division to be declared by the existence of a title, than we have Tag Team, Cruiser Weight, European, Intercontinental, Hardcore, Heavyweight, and World.
7 divisions that any male wrestler can compete in at any time. But girls are confined to one title; one division. And thus any story line must force all female wrestlers into one story. You got one heel, one face, and maybe a heel posse and a face posse lead by the main heel and face. But there can never really be anymore than one rivalry in the women’s division because you only get one match or promo per show. Sometimes you get a promo and a match per show.
In order for character development and new rivalries, there has to be enough promos and or matches to incorporate more than just two women, or two teams lead by the top face and top heal. A total of two matches and two promos would allow for enough variation to build stronger characters, allow for changing of allegiance, and better storylines.
When I say two promos and two matches; I mean on the average. It could actually be three matches and just one promo; as long as there are four total segments dedicated to the women’s division.
Here is an example of what I mean. “P” will stand for Promo/Vignette, and “M” will stand for match/physical altercation. On any given night, one of these combos needs to be shown for the women’s division.
PPPP
PPPM
PPMM
PMMM
MMMM
If a women’s division is to ever be as strong as the boys divisions, the above formula needs to be the general guideline.
Also, I might be obsessed with Mickie James, but I have to credit Melina by saying I think she should get two performances per night. She ought to be a manager and a wrestler at the same time.
She is such a great manager, and from what I’ve seen in former promotions, she is a great wrestler. Since she is remarkably talented in both rolls, why not have her doing both rolls? After all, her valet roll doesn’t take a toll on her body and health, so it’s not like she’d be over worked.
How will this promotion be promoted
What we need is, firstly, an alternative to the 140 channels on TV; and something like two million channels on the internet of exact (or nearly exact) quality. This would take all the power out of the propaganda masters who control nearly the entire world's media.
The second thing we need (pertaining to wrestling) is a company to create an internet channel through their website allowing people to subscribe on a monthly basis to be able to download all the material they want. Every show, every interview, training and so on.
I think this wrestling company should work their main talents two nights a week- thus there will be two shows a week. I think these shows need to range between 1:30.00 (90 Min.) and 2:00.00. If there are going to be commercials than these shows need to be 2:15.00 to 3:00.00
We also need to be able to download interviews. Not storyline/script interviews; but genuine -no holds barred- interviews with all the stars, including interviews with two rivals to talk about their feud and what direction they'd like to see things going in, or interview two tag teams members since they are a "team".
And they should charge like $15 a month for this service, or however much it takes to come out just over their expenses. Call it Smarkvision.
Merchandising will be the wrestlers salaries (pertaining to the wrestler the merchandise of sale was modeled after), and the companies profit will be that 1 or 2% profit they make off of the internet viewers. The cost of this Smarkvision will be only related to Server cost. A server configuration to store thousands of gigabytes and maintain a possible 325MBPS transfer minimum per subscribed Member will be the determining factor of the cost of Smarkvision subscription. Air time will be irrelevant; bandwidth will be the issue.
If 1000 fans paid $15 a month to be guaranteed a 350MBPS download at any time, that would be $15,000 would that cover the server cost? Probably.
Or perhaps the solution is to have the costumer pay by the amount of allotted bandwidth per month that he wants. This might mean that he buys 8,000 MB (8 gigs) of bandwidth, so he can watch all 16 hours a week of wrestling. Or he might only buy 2,000 MB (2 gigs) of bandwidth allowing him to see 16 hours of matches in low resolution. Or maybe he could buy 8 gigs and watch 16 hours of low-res wrestling, and watch 4 hours of hi-res interviews, 3 hours of low-res training/practice and listen to dozens of hours of our audio commentary broadcasting, and download pictures, and use a fan forum(s). Of course a premium plan could pay for 20 gigs, and he could watch pretty much everything that month had to offer in hi-res.
It is my belief that the television, newspapers, book publishing companies, and radio are dinosaurs and the only thing keeping it going is a multi-trillion dollar conspiracy by the rich elite (which just happen to be media masters) who want to make sure their combined trillions of dollars in media monopoly doesn’t go down the drain.
We need to murder the media industry and rebuild it in the image of "the people".
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