AAFW: Ain't No Sunshine When He's "Gone"

TLLK · October 4, 2010

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AAFW: Ain't No Sunshine When He's "Gone"

How Insanity Changed Southern Wrestling Forever

Introduction

Episode 1

Chapter 1.1: New Beginnings, Mental Health Endings

Episode 2 - Episode 3

Chapter 1.2: The Next Generation of Insane

TLLK · October 4, 2010

<div style="text-align:center;">PRO WRESTLING HITS PRESENTS... http://www5.picturepush.com/photo/a/4303738/640/%2777/RGEbanner.jpg Return To The Golden Era DVD Series http://www3.picturepush.com/photo/a/4303736/640/%2777/AAFW.jpg AAFW: Ain't No Sunshine When He's "Gone" How Insanity Changed Southern Wrestling Forever </div> The documentary starts with "heroic" WWII-era music in the background...trumpets playing, fanfare all around. After a few seconds, the All American Florida Wrestling logo brilliantly comes to life on screen. A vintage radio announcer's voice fades in. Radio Guy: That's right, folks. Wrasslin' will have a new home here in the Sunshine state...young upstart Dick The Devastator will start All American Florida Wrestling, set to come to life early next year...fans will get to see classic wrasslin' action with a true Southern style when AAFW debuts... The radio guy and triumphant music fade out, and the AAFW logo does as well. The screen is entirely black when the real narrator starts to speak, a deeper tone with a hint of sarcasm in the dialect. That was back then. Mid-60's. All American Florida Wrestling started up with all of its traditional wrestling glory...classic mat action...heroic faces..."evil" heels...father and son, watching perfectly together in the crowd...nothing could go wrong, right? Wrong. You're not watching this documentary because it's about another generic 70's wrestling promotion, right? Right. You're watching this because you know as well as I do...something's about to go terribly wrong. And it does. See, all of you "modern" fans of wrestling love your crazy daredevils who will do anything for a dollar. Some of the all-time greatest DAVE clips start to roll on the screen: Chris Caulfield getting put through two glass coffee tables by Acid, Eddie Peak's classic New Year's Eve bloodbath with Eric Tyler, and the famous Jim Force invasion. Shots from 2010 start to come in to view, too, since DAVE is out of business. Their spiritual successor, PSW, has shots from their shows in the montage. CZCW's Fox Mask and Remmy Skye's insane ladder match from late 2009 show up to, climaxing at Skye's suicidal Skye Driver off the top of the ladder onto the lifeless Fox. Canada gets some love, too. 4C's Jacob Jett leaps from a turnbuckle to spear Frankie Dee off some overhead wires in a match. Japan's Warrior Engine XXV, with garbage action that no one can quite describe, shows up, too. Even the fun-loving WLW comes on, with Hell Monkey and Emerald Angel flailing about in a House of Fun match. See, all of these guys will do whatever it takes to get the fans out of their seats. Well, I mean...standing up. Not leaving the arena. Even though that did happen a bit in our tale down South. You know what I mean. Anyway, in the mid-70's, things started changing in AAFW. Real bad. We all knew The Devastator was a crazy brawler, alright. So, he did what any other owner would do: get people around him that would support his style. Guys like Mark "The Lariat" Krogan. His Power Lariat move would decapitate most men, and folks knew he was the greatest brawler of all time. But, then, despite concerns from friend Big Al Wallace, The Devastator started getting real crazy. Saioji Omura, the Japanese mad man, came to town. His spike to the forehead assault on The Devastator raised a few eyebrows besides the bleeding ones in the ring. And we all remember R.J. Danzig's broken arm due to Mad Man McMannus' guardrail stomp a few years earlier. It seemed like the beloved owner had taken too many shots to the head. The fans? Some walked away, thought it was too violent to be classic wrestling anymore. And we're not saying they strayed away from wrestling action. Crippler Ray Kingman signed a written deal with the company, and collegiate wrestling standout Mitch Haggans was there, too. Jimmy Power...well, maybe he's not the best wrestling machine example in the world. Anyway, this all changed on New Year's Day in January of 1977. Sign #1 that The Devastator was losing it: he moved AAFW's HQ from a building outside of Jacksonville to the middle of the Everglades. A rickety old shack on the swamps with an ancient wrestling ring next to it. Apparently, that's where he "had grown up". So that's where the company was going. They were still gonna do shows in Jacksonville, but if you had to talk to the head of the company, you had to pack your mosquito repellent and ride the fan boat down to the shack. Sign #2: He ordered everyone to come there on New Year's Day, or they were fired. Sign #3: He handed everyone his "New World Order" on variously colored pieces of construction paper with crayon markings. Here's what they said:<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="29235" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">1. My new best friend is the head booker. 2. Folks thought things have been crazy, they ain't seen nothing yet. 3. I love these swamps. 4. To stay in this company, you must wrestle my pet alligator Willie on the family ring outside. Stay in there for half an hour, and you stay. 5. A mosquito bit me on the eye lid. It's swelling up real bad. 6. Them Yankees up in the S-W-F think they can destroy what we've got, they better not come down here. I'll sic Omura on them. That'll teach them. We won't back down to anyone. Especially not some kid from Rhode Island. RHODE ISLAND!??!!?!?!? What the diddly has ever came from there...</div> </div></blockquote>The rest of the paper was filled with random scribbles and drawings, non-comprehensible to most. But this was the owner's new order, and everyone must follow them. As the tag team division started to file out for gator wrestling and as Big Al Wallace continued to scream in The Devastator's ear, while The Devastator continued to work on a coloring book, it was obvious. Down here in Florida, there ain't no sunshine when he's gone...his mind, that is.

TLLK · October 4, 2010

<div style="text-align:center;">http://www3.picturepush.com/photo/a/4303736/640/%2777/AAFW.jpg AAFW Wrestling Night LIVE On Channel 9 Regional, This Thursday Night! (But We Could Only Get One Hour) TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE AT THE JACKSONVILLE CIVIC CENTER BOX OFFICE <div style="text-align:left;"><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="29235" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div> http://www5.picturepush.com/photo/a/4303898/640/%2777/Buddy-Hollar.jpg<div style="text-align:center;"></div> Buddy Hollar The Silver-Tongued (and Penned) Voice (and Preview Writer) of AAFW It's a new year, wrasslin' fans! Buddy Hollar here. What, you thought I could only talk? No way, Jose. The pen's mightier than the sword, but the tongue is a double-edged sword as well, according to my daddy Reverend Hollar...well, I don't know where I was gonna go with this. Dang. Anyway! The new year of All American Florida Wrestling kicks off Thursday night on Channel 9! That's right, turn that dial a few clicks up and you've got LIVE wrasslin' action, the only way AAFW can bring it! YEEHAW!!! And have we got a humdinger for y'all Thursday! In our first match, the most powerful man south of the Mason-Dixon line Mark "The Lariat" Krogan takes on the Maine mat specialist Jimmy Power! Can the Southern legend defend his title against a man who's so powerful, his last name matches it?!? Tune in! Also, we'll have tag team title action with The Mighty Giants Mighty Thor and Giant Grimsley...wonder how they got that team name...defend their titles against Athens, Georgia's most famous frat boy wrasslers Chase Allen and Dirk Bonell...The Party Animals! Two supporting members of the Kingman vs. Devastator feud, Kenzo Isozaki and The Masked Patriot, will do battle in the ring. Which one of these allies of the big guns will win, giving their team an advantage in the current barnstormer between two wrasslin' legends? And, in our main event, the Crippler Ray Kingman will take on collegiate wrestling star Mitch Haggans in a submission match! Who says this company's all about senseless violence anymore?!? Oh. Sorry...just had a talking-to from the Mothers of the Sunshine State Against Senseless, Non-Technical Wrestling Violence. And they acted like I had any control in the matter! I just call the matches, folks. Whatever mess Dick...I mean, matches our fine roster is involved in...man, there I go ramblin' again. Anywho, tune in to Channel 9! That's six more clicks than normal, fans! That's one more finger than you've got on your hand...well, never mind. Forgot our fanbase for a second there. Just keep clicking until you see that beautiful star-spangled ring and the hootin' and hollerin' fans inside the Jacksonville Civic Center! Be there, y'all hear?</div></blockquote> AAFW Wrestling Night Quick Picks, brought to you by the Quicky Pick Mart #27 in Mayo: Jimmy Power vs. Mark "The Lariat" Krogan AAFW Tag Team Championship Match: The Mighty Giants © vs. The Party Animals Kenzo Isozaki vs. The Masked Patriot Submission Match: Crippler Ray Kingman vs. Mitch Haggans </div> </div>

20LEgend · October 4, 2010

I don't really know the 77 Verse (not my era) but here are my guesses as I can't predict as such

Jimmy Power vs. Mark "The Lariat" Krogan

Nickname draws me to choose him

AAFW Tag Team Championship Match:

The Mighty Giants © vs. The Party Animals

Champs retain so they don't have a zero next to defenses

Kenzo Isozaki vs. The Masked Patriot

Patriots go over foreign worker (Sounds asian)

Submission Match:

Crippler Ray Kingman vs. Mitch Haggans

He is Mr. Submission

Midnightnick · October 5, 2010

Jimmy Power vs. Mark "The Lariat" Krogan

One of the things that bums me out about Hawaii? No Krogan. I've got plenty of Samoan Headbutts and Fuji Forearms though

AAFW Tag Team Championship Match:

The Mighty Giants © vs. The Party Animals

No tag team loses the title on the opening show. Ever.

Kenzo Isozaki vs. The Masked Patriot

USA. USA. USA.

Submission Match:

Crippler Ray Kingman vs. Mitch Haggans

More like Hackgans.

Bigpapa42 · October 5, 2010

Jimmy Power vs. Mark "The Lariat" Krogan

AAFW Tag Team Championship Match:

The Mighty Giants © vs. The Party Animals

Kenzo Isozaki vs. The Masked Patriot

Submission Match:

Crippler Ray Kingman vs. Mitch Haggans

doctorjones · October 5, 2010

I love playing as AAFW, they are my favorite promotion in the 70s CVerse.

Jimmy Power vs. Mark "The Lariat" Krogan

I don't know why, but Krogan is one of my faves.

AAFW Tag Team Championship Match:

The Mighty Giants © vs. The Party Animals

Kenzo Isozaki vs. The Masked Patriot

Probably wrong with this pick, but there needs to be one upset, right?

Submission Match:

Crippler Ray Kingman vs. Mitch Haggans

ajcrible · October 5, 2010

Jimmy Power vs. Mark "The Lariat" Krogan

Krogan better not lose to a fatty.

AAFW Tag Team Championship Match:

The Mighty Giants © vs. The Party Animals

No way the Animals go over Thor and Grimsley.

Kenzo Isozaki vs. The Masked Patriot

Could go either way, but I see a long-term feud here and putting Patriot over right up front could ruin that.

Submission Match:

Crippler Ray Kingman vs. Mitch Haggans

Kingman's your stud (at least until SWF steals him or he refuses to resign!)

Jingo · October 5, 2010

Jimmy Power vs. Mark "The Lariat" Krogan

Krogan loses and i riot!!!

AAFW Tag Team Championship Match:

The Mighty Giants © vs. The Party Animals

Kenzo Isozaki vs. The Masked Patriot

Submission Match:

Crippler Ray Kingman vs. Mitch Haggans

What the hell i'm going against everyone. I just see more upside in giving Mitch the win ... Kingman will go soon/be stolen so why not pass the torch!

Eisen-verse · October 5, 2010

<div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;">I absolutely love Dick's persona thus far; just all kinds of kooky. ha. I don't know very much about the 70's, especially in the Cornellverse, but I'm excited to see what you do with this one. So far, you've done a great job of sculpting your own feel for the diary as a whole. Great work!</div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;"> </div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;">

With that said, here are my predictions:</div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;"> </div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;">

</div></div><div style="text-align:center;"><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;">AAFW Wrestling Night Quick Picks, brought to you by the Quicky Pick Mart #27 in Mayo:</div></div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;"> </div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;">

Jimmy Power vs. </div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;">Mark "The Lariat" Krogan</div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;"> </div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;">

AAFW Tag Team Championship Match:</div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;">

</div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;">The Mighty Giants ©</div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;"> vs. The Party Animals</div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;"> </div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;">

</div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;">Kenzo Isozaki</div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;"> vs. The Masked Patriot</div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;"> </div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;">

Submission Match:</div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;">

</div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;">Crippler Ray Kingman</div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;"> vs. Mitch Haggans</div></div>

TLLK · October 6, 2010

This is just a heads up for all of you AAFW maniacs: first show will be up either tonight or Thursday. Deuces.

Boltinho · October 6, 2010

I'm getting more and more tempted to start playing with the UK promo in the 70s C-verse

Jimmy Power vs. Mark "The Lariat" Krogan

AAFW Tag Team Championship Match:

The Mighty Giants © vs. The Party Animals

Kenzo Isozaki vs. The Masked Patriot

Submission Match:

Crippler Ray Kingman vs. Mitch Haggans

TLLK · October 6, 2010

I'm getting more and more tempted to start playing with the UK promo in the 70s C-verse

Do it, Bolt. Don't know much about the RWA, but I know the '70's C-Verse is one of the best downloads I've ever...downloaded. (Sounded better in my head.)

Stennick · October 6, 2010

I've been pretty busy as of late but I wanted to get my predictions in here before you put the show up. Good luck with this

Jimmy Power vs. Mark "The Lariat" Krogan

AAFW Tag Team Championship Match:

The Mighty Giants © vs. The Party Animals

Kenzo Isozaki vs. The Masked Patriot

Submission Match:

Crippler Ray Kingman vs. Mitch Haggans

TLLK · October 6, 2010

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AAFW Wrestling Night

Thursday, Week 1, January 1977

LIVE FROM THE JACKSONVILLE CIVIC CENTER (2,440 In Attendance)

As Channel 9 Regional’s advertisements for Sun-Drop soda and fanboat tours down in the Everglades wind down, we are taken to a LIVE audience at the Jacksonville Civic Center. The floor seats and a good part of the lower stands are filled with hootin’ and hollerin’…the only type of fans that stayed around AAFW when the company shifted to a more wild style. But these rednecks love it.

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Buddy Hollar and Tyler Merrimore

"The Rootin' Redneck" and "The Baby-Faced Brainiac"

A Southern rock song, possibly Lynyrd Skynyrd of some kind, blares throughout the JCC and the TVs of the viewers at home. AAFW’s red, white, and blue logo pops abruptly on the TV screen (these are 1977 graphics, mind you) and Buddy Hollar and Tyler Merrimore welcome us to the first Wrestling Night of 1977.

Buddy Hollar: Whoooooooo boy!!! It’s time for AAFW Wrasslin’ Night!!!

Tyler Merrimore: For the last time, Buddy. It’s WRESTLING Night. Wrestle-ing. Not “wrasslin’”.

Buddy Hollar: I say what I dern well please, Tyler! Forgive my young partner here. He’s too modern and civilized for gettin’ a little excited about some WRASSLIN’ tonight!!! Yeeeeeeehaw!!!

Tyler Merrimore: This is what I get for graduating in Gainesville with a broadcasting degree…this.

Buddy Hollar: If you don’t like it, T, you can just leave…I’ve got all the crazy fans I need to call this one!

Tyler Merrimore: …surrounded by rednecks…

Buddy Hollar: Hush up, boy. Respect your elders, and know when it’s time to shut your mouth! We’ve got wrasslin’ action ‘bout to go down, right now! Mark “The Lariat” Krogan is getting ready for tonight’s battle with the hated Jimmy Power.

Tyler Merrimore: You see, that’s where you and I differ, Buddy. Well, actually, we differ in a lot of aspects. But calling matches, it’s like this: you call Jimmy Power “hated”. I happen to like Jimmy a lot, and you don’t know WRESTLING talent when you see it.

Buddy Hollar: Y’all, I’ve got a Yankee-lover here at the desk with me! (fans close to the desk start to boo Merrimore, and some even throw trash at him) And you probably think that Krogan ain’t the most powerful man around, don’t you?

Tyler Merrimore: As I’m getting pelted with garbage, I still won’t change my view. Mark Krogan is getting too old for this, and he can only use his walker in weapons matches! (laughs at his own joke…what an arrogant heel) But you can’t disagree with a guy named Jimmy Power…if he says he’s the most powerful guy in the company today, I have to agree with him! His last name is Power, for crying out loud!

Buddy Hollar: Before my partner here can bore you all with bad jokes and Yankee-loving, let’s get to the match. Jimmy Power vs. Mark “The Lariat” Krogan is on right now, y’all!

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Jimmy Power vs. Mark “The Lariat” Krogan

This match was to help decide who the most powerful man in the company was, and these two show it in their match. Power used more of a technical approach, with mat work and submission holds all around. Well, more rest holds than anything. Power is a really chubby dude. But Krogan countered the fancy technical wrestling with straight brawling that has made him a legend “in wrestling rings and bar rooms all across the God-blessed South”, according to Hollar. Don’t know what’s so “God-blessed” about bars…anyway; Power started German suplexing, as if being a Yankee wasn’t bad enough. The traditional trio of suplexes was coming, and the veteran Krogan saw it coming. Playing like he was knocked out during the first two, he came to life and swiftly elbowed Power in the gut, sending the chubby Maine native back. With Power stunned in the ring, Krogan bounces off the ropes and decapitates him with his signature Power Lariat. He covers him quickly, and rookie referee Sam Sparrow delivers the three slaps to the mat.

Mark “The Lariat” Krogan wins at 8:21 via Power Lariat (Bulldog Lariat)

(D+)

Buddy Hollar: Take that, Jimmy Power! Krogan defends Southerners everywhere with a huge win to start this New Year. Who’s the most powerful man in the company now, Jimmy?!?

Tyler Merrimore: Settle down, there, Buddy. I mean, you act like YOU beat Jimmy Power. And I don’t even know if Mark Krogan did right there. He’s trying to prove that he’s powerful and all, but what does faking his way to a win prove? Nothing. Jimmy Power will prove eventually that he’s more powerful than Mark Krogan, mark my words.

Buddy Hollar: I would, T, but I ain’t got nothing I would waste my time on by writing that garbage down.

Tyler Merrimore: Well, it’s okay, Buddy. I’ll just be the educated sufferer among the throngs of uncivilized hicks.

Buddy Hollar: You’re outnumbered, Merrimore. I know what a bunch of these guys around here would like to do with your college-educated tail…besides, it’s time for an announcement from our favorite brawler…Dick The Devastator!

Tyler Merrimore: I’m actually interested to see what the boss has for us as we head into this new year. What’s in store for All American Florida Wrestling? Let’s find out, shall we?

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Dick The Devastator
The Craziest Owner In Wrestling

Dick The Devastator enters the JCC to pop of momentous proportions: he’s by far the most popular wrestler around these parts. Instead of acknowledging the screaming fans, though, he paces around the stage area around the ramp, staring holes through a piece of paper. Turning it over backwards and upside down over and over again, The Devastator has really got something interesting on his hands.

A backstage hand gives a microphone to The Devastator, but he just sticks it in his pocket and continues to study the paper. A look of confusion, curiosity, and hunger is plastered on our hero’s face. After minutes of waiting, The Devastator finally pulls out the microphone and addresses the faithful.

Dick The Devastator: Now, this here piece of paper told me to stand out here and wait for further instructions. But there ain’t any more cotton-pickin’ instructions on this thing! Stupid typewriters…I tell ya, we can’t trust them machines! They’re gonna take over our-

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Saionji Omura
The Japanese Mad Man Is Armed and Dangerous...

He’s interrupted by the wicked shot of a kendo stick across his back from Saionji Omura! The Japanese mad man lets out a bloodthirsty scream and continues his assault, whacking The Devastator in the face with the kendo stick and stomping on his right knee. The Devastator writhes in pain on the elevated stage, but Omura keeps on trucking. Finally, after a forehead-busting shot with the weapon, Omura screams another Japanese war cry and kicks The Devastator off the stage, landing knee-first on the hard floor below.

The medical staff, which consists of a lady still in nursing school and some sort of Seminole medicine man, arrive down below the stage and help The Devastator up. He immediately points at his right knee, and the nurse-to-be brings him some crutches while the medicine man begins going after it with a knife. To cut the tights off around the knee, of course. No surgery on live TV, mind you.

The crowd boos incessantly as Omura stares down at the bloodied and banged-up Devastator, who is clutching his right knee in agony. One more cry from the mad man, and he exits the JCC.

(B+)

Buddy Hollar: A tasteless, spineless, gutless, brainless…

Tyler Merrimore: Yeah, we know, Omura is the king of the “less” suffix.

Hollar stares at Merrimore in a “What are you talking about?” kind of way, and Merrimore quickly apologizes.

My apologies. “The Three R’s” in grade school didn’t go that far, didn’t it?

Buddy Hollar: We ain’t here to sit and talk about your fancy U of F education-in’. We’re here to talk about the…

Tyler Merrimore: (interrupting) I know, the tasteless, spineless, gutless, brainless, classless, un-American kendo stick beatdown on Dick The Devastator by Saionji Omura. Yeah. You’re pretty predictable there, buddy.

Buddy Hollar: Listen, you city boy numbskull. You make fun of me one more time, and we’re gonna go rounds! ROUNDS!!! You might have your degree from Gainesville, but I’ve got something the American people ain’t got no more…common sense! Naw, we got a bunch of slicked-up sissies comin’ into our wrasslin’ rings and thinkin’ they’ve got all the dang answers! You make me sick, with your constant bad-guy cheerin’ and blamin’ it on the “new modern movement” of fans everywhere! Ain’t nobody in pro wrasslin’ gonna ever cheer for the bad guy! EVER!!!

Tyler Merrimore: I’d hate to interrupt one of your thrilling rants against the future of America, but we’ve got a title match to call right about now, ok?

Hollar is silently fuming, tossing papers and glaring at Merrimore. Great announcing chemistry, I tell ya.

Not gonna talk, eh? Well, that’s alright. Coming up next, everyone, we’ll see The Party Animals, fresh off their improbable run at the end of last year, take on The Mighty Giants. Now, Grimsley and Thor have been on a rampage over the past few months, and they want to prove that they aren’t gonna let some punks from Georgia take their titles away.

Still nothing from Hollar. Just death glares.

Well, then, let’s get on with our match!

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The Mighty Giants (Giant Grimsley and Mighty Thor) © vs. The Party Animals (Chase Allen and Dirk Bonell)

AAFW Tag Team Championship Match

In this match we have two of the most fun-loving fan favorites on the roster go up against two beasts that the crowd would never dare to boo. They’re monsters, Grimsley and Thor, and there isn’t a single tag team on the entire planet that is as intimidating as these two. With Allen going more of a high-risk, high-impact game, it was up to Dirk Bonell to use his raw power from sneaking into the University of Georgia’s football team’s weight room countless times. Unfortunately, there was no was two giants were going to get beat at their own game. With every impact try from The Party Animals, The Mighty Giants were able to counter with a devastating power move. But, The Animals wouldn’t go down quietly. In fact, towards the middle of the match, they had seemed to turn the tide a bit with some quick teamwork and double strikes. After a crushing uppercut from Bonell, Mighty Thor was reeling in the ring. Bonell tagged Allen in, and the two use their “double team time” to hit their signature finisher: Party’s Over. With a smile and a laugh, Allen hops off the top the turnbuckle, bounces off the top rope, and grabs Thor’s head on his way down. His partner Bonell gets in a three-point stance, fires out of his stance, and “chop blocks” Thor in the legs. The result? Thor gets knocked off his feet by the block, and gets his face driven into the mat by Allen’s lock. A salute to the crowd from Allen, and he goes for the pin, putting one foot on Thor’s chest in a giant-slaying fashion. Referee Jerry Hanson starts the count…but Giant Grimsley interrupts with a terrible scream. Hanson and Allen look back to find…

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Buford T. Laramie
World-Class Manager, Confused "Father", Giant Hair-Puller

Citizen’s Arrest manager Buford T. Laramie, The Party Animals’ sworn enemies, pulling Grimsley’s long dark mane! Before he can turn and make Laramie a greasy spot on the canvas…

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Citizen's Arrest
Tex Montana and Warren Hampton

His illegitimate son (jury’s still out on that one…doesn’t even look like him at all) Tex “The Judge” Montana runs down the ramp and starts to brawl with Giant Grimsley! Allen, confused, turns around and finds his partner Dirk Bonell knocked out on the floor. Montana’s tag partner Warren Hampton has decked him with a large dictionary-like book labeled “Dirk Bonell’s High School Permanent Record”. The sheer size and thickness of the book, filled with Bonell’s exploits during his high school days, knocks him out cold! Hampton, with an evil smile on his face, chunks the book at Allen! Allen is out in the middle of the ring, too! And, of course, in classic wrestling tradition, Hanson hasn’t seen a thing.

Thor has enough energy to lay on top of the fallen Allen, and Hampton lets out a whistle. Somehow the referee Hanson hears that, but not the other commotion, and makes it official. Buddy Hollar, breaking the silent treatment after that chaos, starts another rant.

The Mighty Giants win at 6:05 via interference from Citizen’s Arrest and Buford T. Laramie

(D-)

Buddy Hollar: Dagnabbit! Them Citizen’s Arrest boys cost The Party Animals a shot at winning the title belts! They were THAT close, T!

Tyler Merrimore: (sighs) Come on, Buddy. This would have been an impossible win for those delinquents. That “Party’s Over” move wouldn’t have beaten an unbreakable giant like Thor. No, after all that The Animals have done to Citizen’s Arrest in the past, they deserved this. Tex and Warren have an amazing manager, and this was pure revenge.

Buddy Hollar: You must be one of them fools who think Buford is Tex’s real daddy.

Tyler Merrimore: Heck no! Don’t insult my intelligence like that, Bud. There’s no way that family tree is real…

Buddy Hollar: Well, I’m just sayin’…you seem to be pretty high on Citizen’s Arrest.

Tyler Merrimore: Buford’s got them going places, no doubt. But the immature thorns in their sides have always been Chase and Dirk. They were just trying to protect their future in the tag team division here in AAFW.

Buddy Hollar: One thing I’ll agree with you on, T: the feud between The Party Animals and Citizen’s Arrest is back up and running, y’all.

Tyler Merrimore: Speaking of managers, look who’s joining us at the booth right now. It’s Big Al Wallace!

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Big Al Wallace
Future Manager Extraordinaire

Buddy Hollar: Great to have you here behind the desk, Al.

Big Al Wallace: Well, thank y’all for letting me take a minute of your busy time. As many of y’all know, I’m heading into a new stage in my career. I’m tired of working backstage all the time. I wanna get back in the spotlight, be a part of matches…that sort of thing. And, to do that, I decided to get back into managing. After some tough discussions with Dick The Devastator, I’ve been fully cleared to go for managing.

Buddy Hollar: But just who will ya manage, Big Al?

Big Al Wallace: Well, it’s gonna go a little something like this: starting next Thursday night, I’m gonna interview any prospective clients. When I see one I want, I’ll sign a deal right then and there. For all of y’all backstage, there’s a signup sheet near my office. I’ll be happy to set up an appointment with you.

Tyler Merrimore: What kind of client will you be looking for during this process?

Big Al Wallace: I want a good, solid guy, preferably young, who wants to rise to the top here in AAFW. I’d like to lead a young grappler to the spotlight, to the AAFW Championship. Because, if you ask me, we NEED a change in who’s got that belt.

Buddy Hollar: Speakin’ of champions, I’ve just received word that the AAFW champion the Crippler Ray Kingman would like to say somethin’ right now. Big Al, thanks for your time here, and best of luck with the hunt.

Big Al Wallace: No, thank you, Buddy…Tyler…now, I’ve got some interview questions to take care of. You guys find out what that blowhard Kingman has to say.

Buddy Hollar: Will do, Big Al. Now, backstage to the AAFW champion.

(C-)

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Crippler Ray Kingman and Kenzo Isozaki
Because Everyone Needs A Personal Yakuza Member.

The Crippler is standing backstage next to his muscle, Kenzo Isozaki. The Yakuza boss lowers his shades to stare into the camera deeply as his current employer Kingman begins to speak.

Crippler Ray Kingman: Ladies and gentlemen, I am the AAFW champion. Some thought you couldn’t take the belt from Dick The Devastator is his company, but I did! So, now, I’ve demanded this time to talk, without a stinking backstage interviewer, to prove my worth as a champion!

You see this guy standing next to me? This, folks, is the greatest thing that’s ever happened to a champion. An insurance policy, if you will, on my title. You’ve got to get the toughest, the craziest, the meanest…so I got a member of the Yakuza! And Kenzo here is gonna help defend my belt from your beloved fool, Dick The Devastator. Tonight, he’ll shock everyone here and defeat Dick’s comrade, The Masked Patriot. It’ll be unbelievable.

But that’s not the only Japanese insurance policy I’ve got…

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Saionji Omura
He's Back...

The wild man himself, Saionji Omura, flashes up on the screen, hopping around and mumbling insane Japanese to himself. He’s still got that bloody kendo stick, and Kingman’s face lights up when he sees it.

I’m sure you all have met Omura and seen what he has done for me tonight, huh? Best purchase I ever made…Dick didn’t even see that shot coming. The best thing about it all? He fell for my “stay on the stage” trick! What a fool!

Kingman starts laughing insanely as Isozaki continues his cold, hard stare and Omura starts to chew on the kendo stick. This Japanese-American lovefest quickly ends, and we’re sent to the ring for Isozaki vs. The Masked Patriot!

(B-)

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Kenzo Isozaki vs. The Masked Patriot

Patriot’s on the side of Dick The Devastator, and Kenzo is the hired Yakuza member of Crippler Ray Kingman. A little international confrontation commences. Isozaki can fly, no doubt, but he’s been showing more technical prowess since siding with Kingman. Patriot is the classic All-American boy, and he uses a sharp wrestling mind and what Buddy Hollar calls “the American Spirit” in the ring. It was a good match, a back and forth showcase of different styles of wrestling. While the more traveled and educated Merrimore raved about the puroresu and super junior influences on Isozaki’s craft, Hollar joined in with the masses in chanting “U-S-A! U-S-A!” during the match. They’re on a star-spangled mat, after all.

The ending of the match found Patriot gaining momentum by the second: with the crowd behind him, slam after slam, it seemed like Patriot was going for his finisher, the Patriot Slam. But Isozaki had other plans. It looked like he was about to get stuck in the canvas by Patriot’s famous sitout powerbomb, but he quickly raked Patriot’s eyes! He used the pause to try something really athletic: diving over the head of Patriot, he descended down to the mat and rolled Patriot up quickly, turning it to an out-of-the-blue pinfall. Before the crowd could fully grasp what happened, Isozaki had reversed the slam into a eye rake-to-dive-to-somersault rollup. Confusing in text form? Yes. Amazing if you actually saw it? Yes. Isozaki upsets The Masked Patriot.

Kenzo Isozaki wins at 9:55 via Eye Rake-to-Dive-to-Somersault Flash Pinfall (Seriously.)

(D+)

Buddy Hollar: …

Tyler Merrimore: …

Buddy Hollar: If you would have told me he would win off of that, I would’ve called you a bald-faced liar.

Tyler Merrimore: …

Buddy Hollar: Somethin’ wrong, T?

Tyler Merrimore: How…did…he…do that?!? That wouldn’t make sense if I wrote it down in a match recap form.

Buddy Hollar: Huh?

Tyler Merrimore: Never mind. But what a finish! Kenzo Isozaki proves, once again, that he’s one of the best in the business. The supreme athletic specimen in this company…what a win!

Buddy Hollar: Let’s not get carried away here, T. I mean, The Masked Patriot, but up one heck of a fight against that Japanese feller. He was about to crush him with the Patriot Slam before Kenzen or whatever his name is used his Asian voodoo stuff to win it.

Tyler Merrimore: First of all, Asians have nothing to do with voodoo. Second, his name is Kenzo. Kenzo Isozaki. And he’s about to explode in this industry. A very dangerous man with dangerous connections, aligning himself with the greatest grappler in North America today…and you don’t even know how to say his name?!? You’re the announcer, for crying out loud!

Buddy Hollar: Oh, look at the time! It’s the main event! Got no time for your young’un whinin’ over there, T.

Tyler Merrimore: Fair enough. But I’m not gonna pout like you did when I interrupted you. It is time for the main event, a great way to end this great night of action: a Crippler Ray Kingman win.

Buddy Hollar: No way, Jose. Mitch Haggans got real technical wrestlin’ trainin’, and what does the Crippler have?

Tyler Merrimore: The Crippler Clutch, the most feared submission hold of all-time, and Mitch Haggans will tap his tail out.

Buddy Hollar: Remember, this match must end with someone submittin’. Will it be the AAFW champion, or the mat specialist? Your main event for tonight’s Wrasslin’ Night…right now!

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Crippler Ray Kingman vs. Mitch Haggans
Non-Title Submission Match

The Crippler and Haggans would go at it for almost 20 minutes in one of the greatest matches in the AAFW televised era. Two of the greatest technical wrestlers of the generation went back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, constantly. Every time Haggans would get some momentum with a textbook slam, Kingman would even the odds with an underhanded move. And the “hootin’ and hollerin’ folks like me” (Buddy Hollar) would start chunking trash in to the ring every time. But, they would get a little revenge from time to time. Kingman would get overconfident, and Haggans would put him right back to earth with a classic takedown.

After minutes of wear and tear on each other, the two finally get to performing submissions. Kingman is the first to lock in a hold, the Crippler Cloverleaf. Shooting pain through every part of Haggans’ body, Kingman’s cloverleaf with armlock variation looked like it would seal the deal. The crowd, on their feet, urged Haggans to stay in the match. Using his one free hand, Haggans builds up the strength enough to get closer to the ropes…

Kingman locks in it harder…

Referee Jerry Hanson is waiting for either a submission or a rope break…

Haggans raises his hand and lets a powerful yell…

He gets the ropes! Slightly grazing the bottom one, Haggans forces a rope break. His hand slips off the rope in exhaustion. Kingman never sees the rope break, and when Hanson forces Kingman off of Haggans, Kingman goes ballistic. He argues with Hanson for several moments as the rowdy crowd is soaring, and Haggans builds up his energy. Kingman gets in Hanson’s face, screaming at his refereeing ability, never seeing Haggans trademark Sweep The Leg move!

Haggans salutes the crowd and tries a Figure Four Leglock…but Kingman connects with a low blow: a kick to the groin! Haggans doubles over in pain, setting up a Kingman DDT. In a split second, Kingman locks in his other move, to Tyler Merrimore’s delight: the Crippler Clutch!

The move is near the turnbuckle, but Kingman doesn’t care. Hanson runs over to see if Haggans will submit. At his angle, Hanson can’t see Haggans’ left arm and shoulder, and Kingman uses this to his advantage. After some really painful moments, Kingman starts to bite Haggans’ shoulder! Haggans screams in agony, waiting for Hanson to break the move up. But, the referee can’t see what’s really going on, and Kingman’s locking in his arm and teeth holds tighter!

Haggans can’t take the pain anymore. He submits to Kingman with trash filling the ring, and Hanson calls for the bell, unaware of what really happened.

Crippler Ray Kingman wins at 18:47 via Crippler Clutch (Cobra Clutch Variation) and illegally biting Mitch Haggans

(B-)

While Haggans is showing the bite marks in his shoulder to a confused Jerry Hanson, Kingman kneels in the ring, exhausted but arrogantly receiving the shower of empty Coke cups and popcorn bags as if he’s been showered with gifts. He gets up after a couple of minutes of “glory”, with Buddy Hollar on the verge of cussin’ and Tyler Merrimore oozing over the fact of Kingman “doing whatever it takes”. Receiving a microphone, he addresses the booing crowd.

Crippler Ray Kingman: And that’s why, ladies and gentlemen, I am the greatest AAFW champion of all-time! (laughs in the midst of the thunderous boos) But, no one’s anything without their partners. You already saw what Kenzo can do in the ring, and I’d like my other friend to come out right now!

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Saionji Omura
We Can't Get Enough of This Guy

The insane Saionji Omura flies out onto the ramp, still wielding the kendo stick. He raises it above his head and yells some more Japanese, so the fans definitely won’t understand. Omura continues his sadistic kendo stick ritual while Kingman applauds in the ring, not expecting…

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Dick The Devastator
A Faked Injury + Perfect Timing = Sweet Revenge

Dick The Devastator clotheslining Omura! He pulls out a microphone and explains the situation to the now-frenzied crowd and a stunned Kingman.

Dick The Devastator: Ya fell for it, Saion…Sai-o-nee…Say-un-j…whatever your name is. Kingman, you too! Faked that dang knee injury, just so y’all wouldn’t see this comin’! (he kicks Omura one good time in the ribs and holds up his crutches from earlier in the night) Well, ain’t got a use for these no more!

The Devastator busts Omura in the noggin with a crutch, and the violence is on! As bad as Omura’s kendo stick assault was earlier, this one was ten times worse. Dick beats the Japanese assailant senseless with his crutch, causing him to bleed profusely. After a few more moments of beatdown, The Devastator chunks the crutch in the stands, causing a full-scale riot between a section of fans.

Yeah, it ain’t feelin’ good, is it? Don’t like bleedin’, huh? How’s that for some payback! But it ain’t gonna end there, buddy. Because next week, it’ll be you and me in a match together…first one to bleed loses!!!

The crowd goes wild while Kingman is frozen in fear in the ring.

And as for you, Kingman…I saw what ya did to Mitch over there. And I promise ya, justice will be served! Because at The War To Settle The Score, I’m coming back for my belt!!! If I beat your wild boy over here next week, it’ll be me and you again for the AAFW title!

The fans explode in excitement. The Devastator is going back for his belt at the end of the month, if he can make Omura bleed again!

(B+)

Buddy Hollar: I cain’t believe it! Dick The Devastator was alright the whole time! That tough son-of-a-gun! And now he’ll face Kingman for the AAFW Championship at the end of the month!

Tyler Merrimore: Hold on there, Buddy. He’s still got to beat Omura in that First Blood match next week…and trust me, Kingman will have him psyched up for that one. He shouldn’t be worried at all about The Devastator coming back for the title.

Buddy Hollar: We’ll just agree to not agree, there, T. It’s been another rip-snortin’ good time down ehre in Jacksonville, for my partner Tyler “The Brainiac” Merrimore, I’m Buddy Hollar…y’all come back now, ya hear?

OVERALL SHOW RATING:

(C+)

Midnightnick · October 7, 2010

Your show blew away my show man.

I can't wait to see who Big Al gets to manage, and Devastator is in for quite a fight going against the Crippler Kingdom.

ajcrible · October 7, 2010

Excellent show. I really enjoyed the back and forth between the announcers. Had a real Gorilla Monsoon/Bobby the Brain (or Jesse Ventura) feel for me.

TLLK · October 7, 2010

Post-Show Thoughts:

-Dick The Devastator is pure gold in angles. We'll see more of that in the next show, with an ending that really blew me away.

-The Mighty Giants are pretty weak in the ring, but I believe it was The Party Animals that brought the match rating down.

-Even though it's sitting at E+ heat right now, I went with the default unchained storyline for The Party Animals and Citizen's Arrest feud. I love the writing capabilities for it, even if the ratings will be low.

-The crowd LOVES Omura. I mean, even with C+ overness, he's still churning out high angles. Can't get him on the mic any, though. Language barrier!

-A B- main event really stole the show for me. Both Kingman and Haggans were high technical workers, so I thought that a little break from the brawlin' chaos would be good. And I needed to put over the fact that Kingman's a cheatin' son-of-a-gun.

And now, for some feedback to the NINE (!!!) people who predicted:

I don't really know the 77 Verse (not my era) but here are my guesses as I can't predict as such

Jimmy Power vs. Mark "The Lariat" Krogan
Nickname draws me to choose him
AAFW Tag Team Championship Match:
The Mighty Giants © vs. The Party Animals
Champs retain so they don't have a zero next to defenses
Kenzo Isozaki vs. The Masked Patriot
Patriots go over foreign worker (Sounds asian)
Submission Match:
Crippler Ray Kingman vs. Mitch Haggans
He is Mr. Submission

3/4. Yes, 20, I also pull towards anyone who has their nickname in their "official" name. But, I have made the tag champs drop the titles in the first show before...won't ever do that again.

Jimmy Power vs. Mark "The Lariat" Krogan

One of the things that bums me out about Hawaii? No Krogan. I've got plenty of Samoan Headbutts and Fuji Forearms though

AAFW Tag Team Championship Match:
The Mighty Giants © vs. The Party Animals

No tag team loses the title on the opening show. Ever.

Kenzo Isozaki vs. The Masked Patriot

USA. USA. USA.

Submission Match:
Crippler Ray Kingman vs. Mitch Haggans

More like Hackgans.

3/4. I do say, every good '77 dynasty (except for the JWW one, I guess) should have The Lariat. But the Mt. Fuji Forearms are great replacements. As for the tag team title match, read the reply to 20LEgend above. And, your patriotism proved to fail you...this time.

Jimmy Power vs. Mark "The Lariat" Krogan

AAFW Tag Team Championship Match:
The Mighty Giants © vs. The Party Animals

Kenzo Isozaki vs. The Masked Patriot

Submission Match:
Crippler Ray Kingman vs. Mitch Haggans

3/4. BP, you don't know how psyched I am that you're in on this dynasty. Your TCW (I was too late for the SWF one) was awesome. And, you saved me on those links in the OP.

I love playing as AAFW, they are my favorite promotion in the 70s CVerse.

Jimmy Power vs. Mark "The Lariat" Krogan
I don't know why, but Krogan is one of my faves.

AAFW Tag Team Championship Match:
The Mighty Giants © vs. The Party Animals

Kenzo Isozaki vs. The Masked Patriot
Probably wrong with this pick, but there needs to be one upset, right?

Submission Match:
Crippler Ray Kingman vs. Mitch Haggans

4/4! "Dr. Jones! Dr. Jones!" A perfect 4/4. You were right, there's always room for a good upset. Stupid Japanese voodoo. And it's awesome to see another AAFW fan on the boards. Stick with this, won't you?

Jimmy Power vs. Mark "The Lariat" Krogan
Krogan better not lose to a fatty.

AAFW Tag Team Championship Match:
The Mighty Giants © vs. The Party Animals
No way the Animals go over Thor and Grimsley.

Kenzo Isozaki vs. The Masked Patriot
Could go either way, but I see a long-term feud here and putting Patriot over right up front could ruin that.

Submission Match:
Crippler Ray Kingman vs. Mitch Haggans
Kingman's your stud (at least until SWF steals him or he refuses to resign!)

4/4! Ah, my TWL partner in Club '77, you've picked perfectly too. I almost fell out of my chair laughing when I saw what you put for the Krogan/Power match. That was the main inspiration for the comment in the match that talked about rest holds and Power's chubby-ness.

Jimmy Power vs. Mark "The Lariat" Krogan
Krogan loses and i riot!!!
AAFW Tag Team Championship Match:
The Mighty Giants © vs. The Party Animals
Kenzo Isozaki vs. The Masked Patriot
Submission Match:
Crippler Ray Kingman vs. Mitch Haggans
What the hell i'm going against everyone. I just see more upside in giving Mitch the win ... Kingman will go soon/be stolen so why not pass the torch!

2/4. Put the torch and pitchfork down, Jingo. No need for rioting...this week. And I applaud you for going against the grain and picking Haggans. You've got guts, sir.

I absolutely love Dick's persona thus far; just all kinds of kooky. ha. I don't know very much about the 70's, especially in the Cornellverse, but I'm excited to see what you do with this one. So far, you've done a great job of sculpting your own feel for the diary as a whole. Great work!

With that said, here are my predictions:

AAFW Wrestling Night Quick Picks, brought to you by the Quicky Pick Mart #27 in Mayo:

Jimmy Power vs.
Mark "The Lariat" Krogan

AAFW Tag Team Championship Match:

The Mighty Giants ©
vs. The Party Animals

Kenzo Isozaki
vs. The Masked Patriot

Submission Match:

Crippler Ray Kingman
vs. Mitch Haggans

4/4! E-V, spot on. Like BP, I'm psyched that an amazing dynasty writer like you is following my stuff. And Dick The Devastator's persona is just getting cranked up. Just wait until you meet the head booker...and, even with a limited knowledge of the '77 C-Verse, you got a perfect score. Awesome.

I'm getting more and more tempted to start playing with the UK promo in the 70s C-verse

Jimmy Power vs. Mark "The Lariat" Krogan

AAFW Tag Team Championship Match:
The Mighty Giants © vs. The Party Animals

Kenzo Isozaki vs. The Masked Patriot

Submission Match:
Crippler Ray Kingman vs. Mitch Haggans

3/4. Like I told you earlier, Bolt, you should check out the UK promo. It be kinda like building the whole scene out there yourself. Tripped you up on the Isozaki upset, though.

I've been pretty busy as of late but I wanted to get my predictions in here before you put the show up. Good luck with this

Jimmy Power vs. Mark "The Lariat" Krogan

AAFW Tag Team Championship Match:
The Mighty Giants © vs. The Party Animals

Kenzo Isozaki vs. The Masked Patriot

Submission Match:
Crippler Ray Kingman vs. Mitch Haggans

3/4. You picked the Isozaki upset, Stennick, but picking Power over Krogan?!? That's pretty bold. I like it. Stay strong, my fellow '77er.

For our three winners this week: doctorjones, ajcrible, and Eisen-verse, you all get to send in a question to ask a AAFW roster member. You know, to keep up the old-school kayfabe and flesh out the characters more. I'll PM you with a reminder.

And, for some very special fan mail...

Your show blew away my show man.

I can't wait to see who Big Al gets to manage, and Devastator is in for quite a fight going against the Crippler Kingdom.

Wow. I wouldn't say blow away, Midnightnick. The great thing about your WIW dynasty is the conciseness of it. I just usually have too much to say in my dynasties, and I'm trying to make my stuff shorter, so I won't get burnt out too quick. Thanks for the comment, though.

Excellent show. I really enjoyed the back and forth between the announcers. Had a real Gorilla Monsoon/Bobby the Brain (or Jesse Ventura) feel for me.

Whew. *wipes sweat from brow* Looking back, the back and forth between Buddy and Tyler was a little long-ish for me, but it seems someone liked it. What does everyone else thing about our announcer and color guy?

Going to be out of town from Saturday to either Wednesday or Thursday, so I'll be out of commission then. But, I hope to get another documentary segment in, and possibly the next card preview. If the three winners get their questions in, maybe they'll be placed into Buddy Hollar's Preview. If they're lucky.

Thanks to all who made my first venture in this dynasty a great one. I have a good feeling about this one...

-TLLK3

TLLK · October 8, 2010

AAFW: Ain't No Sunshine When He's "Gone"

Part of Pro Wrestling Hits' "Return To The Golden Era" DVD Series

Chapter 1.1: New Beginnings, Mental Health Endings

As AAFW prepared for their first show in the new year, the first after the roster found out that Dick The Devastator had really lost it...

Wait. What?

You've already seen the first episode?

Well, that breaks the documentary code a bit. We just won't have the traditional post-intro segment before the first episode. Ah, who am I kidding? It's not like this place was "traditional" and "normal" anyway...

Okay, so it's AFTER the first episode. Well, that's okay too. It'll make for a good story.

Back down in the 'Glades, Dick The Devastator returned to the office after a great opening show to the 1977 campaign. But a group of roster members made their way back down to the new HQ to seek the answer to the question everyone was thinking...

Just who booked that show?

It was running through the mind of Big Al Wallace that day. Here's his side of the story:

The camera cuts to a Wallace interview from a few years back. You know it was a painful recollection for him, as he's already sighing loudly and placing his fingers to his temples in a "Please shoot me now" manner.

"If the 'New World Order' wasn't bad enough, a few of us headed back down there, by choice, to figure out what was really going on with The Devastator. It was me, Kingman, Alex Pierce...and I think we talked Jimmy (Power) into coming along...I think we promised him a couple of free meals if he came along.

The interviewer asks Wallace why they brought Power along.

"Not sure, looking back. Maybe some muscle if Dick went crazy and had an attack? Heck, I'd rather have had that then what DID happen...

So, the interviewer asks Wallace what really happened that day.

"Well, we walked in to the 'office', if you could call it that...just a room in a rundown shack. It was odd, though. Dick was always collecting the weirdest things, and after the Order it got even stranger. I remember vividly that during this phase, he was into collecting the prizes in Cracker Jack boxes. There must have been hundreds of flattened boxes all in there...

"Anyway, we walked in, and he was doing what we would later call his normal morning routine...drinking chocolate milk through a straw while playing with his favorite GI Joe action figure. Sitting on a splintering stool that he had made by hand out of random pieces of wood floating in the swamps. So, we approached the situation cautiously. I think Kingman broke the ice.

"I asked him where the heck his mind was."

-Crippler Ray Kingman

"We were all thinking the same thing. Well, Dick looked up from his 'important business practices' and addressed the four of us finally. He told us that 'The feedback was awesome, it seems the show had went down very well,' in a robot-like voice. I said, 'That's great, Dick, but we'd like to know...what Ray said, and, well...who booked the show last night?

"He looked up at me with a crazed look in his eye...no, wait, he did that all the time...well, he looked up at me normally and said, 'I done told y'all that my best friend booked it.' Well, I was considered his closest friend backstage, so I cautiously said that I didn't book the show. He said 'Naw, it wasn't you! We hadn't seen eye-to-eye for months now, Al! Heck, it says we were BOTH the head booker in our bios!'

"'What are you talking about?!?!?' I asked him. 'What in the world are these bios you speak of?'

"'The wrestling gods write them, tell everyone who everything is...can shape the entire future of someone with just a couple of clicks...I mean, these were the same folk who are responsible for the numbering confusion for that stable down in Mexico!' he screamed. I just ignored that. This was just crazy talk now. I mean, people up above us, controlling our destinies as if what some sort of sick game? Dick The Devastator had indeed lost it."

-Big Al Wallace

After several hours of random talk about destiny stats and something called "Perfect Show Theory", the four finally got the truth out of The Devastator. In this rare footage, previously unreleased to the public, Dick The Devastator reveals who the real head booker is...caught on tape by Alex Pierce's camera.

We are shown footage of a shaky camera in that old rickety office. Alex Pierce is trying to handle the massive technology, while Big Al Wallace can be heard in the background.

Big Al Wallace: (off-camera) Okay, Dick, just say what you told us in that camera.

Dick The Devastator: That thing ain't gonna shoot lasers in my eyes and fry my brain out or nothin', ain't it?

Big Al Wallace: Honestly, I'd think it be an improvement from what your mind is like now. Alex, is that thing ready now?

Pierce holds up a thumbs-up in front of the camera and adjusts it to The Devastator.

Alex Pierce: Rolling...

Dick The Devastator: After conspiring with my closest inspirations, I have decided that I would give the head booker job to my new best friend. He came to me last month, right after I got sandwiched by those steel chairs from Omura. He decided to stay right beside me from here on out, in case anything else happens again.

Turns out, he's a real genius at the wrestling business. Smarter than most folks in the company. And, since the bio confusion and Big Al Wallace a-whinin' to be a manager, I decided to give it to my new best friend...

He spins around in his stool. When he circles back to the camera, he has a finger above his upper lip as if to have a false mustache.

Name's Richard Wilson. I am the new head booker of All American Florida Wrestling, the greatest company in the entire universe.

The camera fades out slowly, focusing on the "new booker".

Medical experts have told us after years of studying The Devastator's behavior, he appeared to have brain damage from his wild brawling ways. With that "never give up" attitude and willingness to get his head slammed onto anything, he had indeed gone insane.

So insane, he gave the head booker role to his new split personality, a side effect of his head trauma.

And so began the "Richard Wilson" era.

TLLK · October 8, 2010

Headed to vacation until Thursday night. I'll be back then with Episode 2's preview and some questions for the roster from our first episode's winners.

Later.

-TLLK3

Eisen-verse · October 9, 2010

Turns out, he's a real genius at the wrestling business. Smarter than most folks in the company. And, since the bio confusion and Big Al Wallace a-whinin' to be a manager, I decided to give it to my new best friend...

He spins around in his stool. When he circles back to the camera, he has a finger above his upper lip as if to have a false mustache.

Name's Richard Wilson. I am the new head booker of All American Florida Wrestling, the greatest company in the entire universe.

The camera fades out slowly, focusing on the "new booker".

Medical experts have told us after years of studying The Devastator's behavior, he appeared to have brain damage from his wild brawling ways. With that "never give up" attitude and willingness to get his head slammed onto anything, he had indeed gone insane.

So insane, he gave the head booker role to his new split personality, a side effect of his head trauma.

And so began the "Richard Wilson" era.

This is absolutely brilliant, Levitical! Honestly, just really great stuff. I can imagine Dick spinning around in his chair, possibly grunting like a mad-man, and then proclaiming his 'alter personality' as the headbooker of the company. Good God, I hope that we have some Dick/Richard scenarios where they end up yelling at eachother over a booking decision.. haha. That would just be... wow.

I can't say this enough but wow... I love the idea; so much so I wish I had thought of it first. You've got me locked into this diary now (even with limited knowledge of the time-frame in which it takes place). Anyone willing to take such a creative leap is certainly someone I'm willing to read.

Cheers.

E-V

TLLK · October 15, 2010

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AAFW Wrestling Night

LIVE on Channel 9 Regional (Episode #2)

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"The Rootin' Redneck"

Whoo boy! What a wrasslin' night we had last Thursday! The Lariat's vict'ry over Jimmy Power, the re-ignitin' of The Party Animals and Citizen's Arrest's rivalry, whatever the heck Kenzo Isozaki did to beat the Patriot, and a bitin' submission win for that stinkin' cheater Ray Kingman. And, after a vicious kendo stick assault from Omura, our beloved hero Dick The Devastator got some good, ol' fashioned payback! Man, I love my job!

Wrasslin' Night is gonna amazin' again this Thursday night, as the JCC will get filled with wrasslin' action that is uniquely AAFW!

We'll get started on your televisions Thursday with that new-fangled "ladder match" between the two best high-flyin' boys in the company: Alex Pierce and Ramon de los Santos. For those of ya who don't know what this kinda match is like, let me break it down for ya: these two will be battlin' and brawlin' until one can climb a tall ladder to retrieve the...well, I don't what in tarnation they'll be goin' for. Huh. Guess we ain't got everything worked out yet. This is what these new "modern" technologies'll do to wrasslin'. Whatever. It'll be a ladder match between Pierce and RDLS. Just know that.

Also, we've just received word that Jimmy Power has called out Mark "The Lariat" Krogan's protege Johnny Boy Tucker. Apparently Power wants to get his revenge on Krogan for taking his "Most Powerful Wrassler in AAFW" namesake last week with that Power Lariat. Will the chubby Maine boy get his revenge on the young upstart Texan?

There's been talk of the return of Professor Nero and his disciple of evilness Rampage this Thursday night. If this happens, AAFW's resident healer The Shaman has vowed to "cleanse the Jacksonville Civic Center of all evil invaders"...and he won't be alone! If Nero and his disciple do come like rumor has it, then who will The Shaman bring?!?!?

And, in our main event, it'll be the high profile meetin' between Dick The Devastator and Saionji Omura in a First Blood match! First one to bleed, loses! And if The Devastator takes down Kingman's Japanese wild man, he'll face the Crippler Ray Kingman at The War To Settle The Score for the AAFW Championship! YEEEEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So be there Thursday night with your popcorn or frog legs or whatever you folks chow down on...in front of your telly for Wrasslin' Night! I'll be back in a day or two for some AAFW Questionin' and Answerin' with the roster, questions sent in by you! See y'all then!

AAFW Wrestling Night Quick Picks, brought to you by the Quicky Pick Mart #55 in Marianna:

Ladder Match:

Alex Pierce vs. Ramon de los Santos

Jimmy Power vs. Johnny Boy Tucker

Professor Nero and Rampage vs. The Shaman and ???

First Blood Match:

Dick The Devastator vs. Saionji Omura

ajcrible · October 15, 2010

Ladder Match:

Alex Pierce vs. Ramon de los Santos

Oooh, Pierce and Rampage in the same company? Gutsy!

Jimmy Power vs. Johnny Boy Tucker

I love me some JBT and think Jimmy's a no-talent fatty.

Professor Nero and Rampage vs. The Shaman and ???

Team Texas is gonna whoop on the Shaman and whoever he digs up.

First Blood Match:

Dick The Devastator vs. Saionji Omura

Could go either way, particularly if one of these bat-**** crazy guys makes himself bleed.

Midnightnick · October 15, 2010

Ladder Match:

Alex Pierce vs. Ramon de los Santos

Jimmy Power vs. Johnny Boy Tucker

Professor Nero and Rampage vs. The Shaman and ???

First Blood Match:

Dick The Devastator vs. Saionji Omura

Jingo · October 15, 2010

Ladder Match:

Alex Pierce vs. Ramon de los Santos

Jimmy Power vs. Johnny Boy Tucker

Professor Nero and Rampage vs. The Shaman and ???

First Blood Match:

Dick The Devastator vs. Saionji Omura

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