TCW: La Revolución Total

Mr. Jones · March 11, 2018

Joshua Taylor and Sammy Bach vs. Wolf Hawkins and Bryan Vessey (series tied 1-1)

Jay Chord vs. Giant Tana

Freddy Huggins and The Behemoths vs. Benny Benson and The New Wave

International Championship Open Challenge: Marc Speed © w/Venus Angeletti vs. Chance Fortune

Rocky Golden and Mighty Mo vs. Eddie Peak and Troy Tornado

w4lru5 · March 12, 2018

I want to say thank you again to Southside Hitmen for all the TCW graphics (s)he's been making recently, and especially for agreeing to do a couple custom event logos for this diary.

The show will go up tomorrow evening Japan time.

Thanks for reading.

WilburTrey · March 12, 2018

Joshua Taylor and Sammy Bach vs. Wolf Hawkins and Bryan Vessey (series tied 1-1)

Jay Chord vs. Giant Tana

Freddy Huggins and The Behemoths vs. Benny Benson and The New Wave

International Championship Open Challenge: Marc Speed © w/Venus Angeletti vs. Chance Fortune

Rocky Golden and Mighty Mo vs. Eddie Peak and Troy Tornado

I love the story and flow, I wouldn't change anything from my perspective keep up the good work.

batsnumbereleven · March 12, 2018

Main Event, Best-of-7 Series Match 3—Joshua Taylor and Sammy Bach vs. Wolf Hawkins and Bryan Vessey (series tied 1-1)

Time for Hawkins to take the lead again and give Taylor something to chase

Jay Chord vs. Giant Tana

Chord has had promo time. Tana hasn't. Tana's not really been pushed since about 1996, and he shouldn't be starting now...

Freddy Huggins and The Behemoths vs. Benny Benson and The New Wave

Some re-building needed for the New Wave

International Championship Open Challenge: Marc Speed © w/Lisa Bowenvs. Nate Johnson

Rocky Golden and Mighty Mo vs. Eddie Peak and Troy Tornado

More character building for Eddie Peak - plus Tornado needs an initial victory over Mo

Theheel · March 12, 2018

Looks like I missed a show in there somewhere last week. Let's see if I can make up some predictions to catch up.

Joshua Taylor and Sammy Bach vs. Wolf Hawkins and Bryan Vessey (series tied 1-1)

Jay Chord vs. Giant Tana

Freddy Huggins and The Behemoths vs. Benny Benson and The New Wave

International Championship Open Challenge: Marc Speed © W/Lisa Bowen vs. Chance Fortune

Rocky Golden and Mighty Mo vs. Eddie Peak and Troy Tornado

(OOC: Bonus points for each ??? predicted correctly.)

Cro Cop Rules · March 13, 2018

Main Event, Best-of-7 Series Match 3—Joshua Taylor and Sammy Bach vs. Wolf Hawkins and Bryan Vessey (series tied 1-1)

Jay Chord vs. Giant Tana

Freddy Huggins and The Behemoths vs. Benny Benson and The New Wave

International Championship Open Challenge: Marc Speed © w/??? vs. ???

Rocky Golden and Mighty Mo vs. Eddie Peak and Troy Tornado

w4lru5 · March 13, 2018

<div style="text-align:center;">Total Recap by Mickey Silver, totalextremewrestling.com <img alt="Suit_1.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/6gcsleiaf/Suit_1.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> This week, we’re live from Virginia Park Fields in Virginia Beach. Last week’s show closed with Rocky Golden and Triple A unconscious on the canvas with Marat Khoklov standing over them. There’s yet another new announcer this week, as Kyle Rhodes is replaced by ex-CWC man Adrian Garcia. It’s not a surprising change, since Rhodes seemed unwilling to work with Peter Michaels last week. Alright--onto the show! <img alt="Total_Wrestling.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/8z18u8pwn/Total_Wrestling.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>The announcers tell us that Triple A is in no condition to be here this week' date=' but Rocky Golden is in Virginia Beach. “He’d never let the fans down,” Michaels says. “After all, a lot of them pay to see him.”[/quote'] <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Wolf_Hawkins_alt3.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/rm05wtkuf/Wolf_Hawkins_alt3.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> w/<img alt="Heather_B_small.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/yioewwmtz/Heather_B_small.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>The show’s opening pyro ends with Wolf Hawkins’ music hitting. “The Big Dog” makes his way down to the ring. Heather, the redhead who accompanied him last week, wears a “BDW” baseball cap to go with her “Big Dog’s Yard” crop top. Waiting in the ring is Haley Blackwell, who has a microphone and a couple of seats set up. Blackwell asks Hawkins if he regrets his actions against Josh Taylor last week. Hawkins says that he doesn’t—he’s only sorry that he got caught. He says that he couldn’t care less if Josh Taylor is disappointed in him. The Big Dog understands what it takes to win—Taylor clearly doesn’t. Hawkins says he’s got a friend who also knows how to win and dares Taylor to come face the two of them tonight. “Find yourself a friend, Josh, if you can. Let’s do it. You can’t use the excuse that I cheated if you’ve got someone else there to help you out. Call this our third match, I dare you. You could bring one friend or twenty—you still can’t beat The Big Dog in his own yard.” We’ve got a commercial break after Hawkins’ five-minute interview.</div></blockquote> <img alt="83.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/piw683o3b/83.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Eddie_Peak_2.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/71vby6kh3/Eddie_Peak_2.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Troy_Tornado.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/s06jtivtz/Troy_Tornado.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> w/<img alt="FG_Small.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/vz54ygrkn/FG_Small.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Versus.png" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/bnrg6oiwn/Versus.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Rocky_Golden.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ql4z4uzwn/Rocky_Golden.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Mighty_Mo_alt.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/nvulrneqf/Mighty_Mo_alt.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> w/<img alt="Addie_Alexander_small.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/cw9efvgjr/Addie_Alexander_small.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>We return from commercial to “IT’S FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDING TIME!” Eddie Peak and Troy Tornado make their way to the ring. Peak is talking to himself, giggling, and even occasionally starting to turn around and walk the wrong direction. Walking several feet behind Tornado, who wears an “F.O.G. Sports, LLC.” t-shirt is Floyd Goldworthy, the manager of American Buffalo (and, maybe, of Tornado and Peak now). Goldworthy looks terrified out of his mind to be accompanying the ever-unpredictable “Land Shark” to ringside, and even the crowd isn’t quite sure what to make of this possible new partnership. They’re much more certain about the other team in the matchup. When Rocky Golden’s music hits and he comes out accompanied by a caped, masked Mighty Mo, the crowd goes nuts. It’s not often that “The Kosher Colossus” has a match on free TV, and these Virginia Beach fans want to make sure they spur him on to victory. Golden walks to the ring soaking in the adulation of the fans. Next to him walks Addie Alexander, who we met last week. In addition to the top matching Golden's, this week she's got a cape like Mo's. Suddenly, to no music and little fanfare, Triple A shows up at the announcers’ desk. He pulls up a chair without saying a word, tosses the belt on the floor next to him and grabs Jason Azaria’s headset. The match begins fairly uneventfully with Golden and Peak. Eddie keeps selling his unpredictability—at one point, he yanks a turnbuckle cover off, then laughs and kisses the exposed steel instead of throwing Golden into it. There’s actually not a lot of fighting at first since Peak is so busy selling his insanity. Once Peak tags in Tornado (which he does by picking “The Real Rock’n’Roller” up and throwing him into the ring), everything changes. Tornado actually picks up a head of steam and hits a Blown Speaker DDT for a near-fall. Luckily for Golden fans, “The Kosher Colossus” kicks out at two. Andrews spends most of the match talking about how Golden simply isn't good enough, but he actually does a fairly good job when he tries to commentate. A couple minutes later, things turn around as Golden hits a Rocky Road and puts Tornado in The Rack—unfortunately, Peak breaks it up. Golden tags out to Mighty Mo as Tornado gets to the ropes and tags Peak in. The match is flowing well with lots of back-and-forth action when Peak suddenly seems to see Goldworthy for the first time. “YUMMY MAN! IT’S FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDING TIME!” He picks up the screaming and struggling manager, then walks through the ring with him, pushing past the frozen combatants and walking to the back. Suddenly, Mighty Mo starts to give chase. “This calls for….a hero!” The two guys left in the match eventually resume fighting, and Golden pretty quickly hits Tornado with the Hebrew Hammer for the pin and the win. Andrews lambasts Mo for leaving his partner and says that Mo is "on the list." Andrews stands up at the announcer's desk. We cut to commercial as he and Golden stare each other down.</div></blockquote> WINNER: Rocky Golden and Mighty Mo <img alt="78.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/611is4okn/78.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Marc_Speed.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/qd6cywbhj/Marc_Speed.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Lisa_Bowen.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/hjrv0jqlz/Lisa_Bowen.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>After the commercial break, Marc Speed stands backstage with the International Title around his waist. He wears a fluorescent pink t-shirt with the word “INTERESTING” written in teal on the front. It’s a pretty garish, unappealing combination. Noticeably, Dharma Gregg isn’t with him. Speed tells the crowd that she quit because apparently she was buying into everyone’s delusions that other people are more interesting than he is. He proceeds to be entirely ignored by all of the other wrestlers who walk past him, almost as if he weren’t there at all. Even when Speed says hello to people who pass him, they ignore him. As Speed stands around backstage, a very pretty young woman wearing quite possibly the world’s most revealing pantsuit comes up to him. She introduces herself as Lisa Bowen, then tells him that she wants a chance to manage him. She says that she doesn’t understand why he cares if people think he’s boring. “I don’t think that someone with that belt can be boring,” she says, then suggestively runs her hand slowly across the International Championship around Speed’s waist. They turn and walk towards the ring.</div></blockquote> <img alt="62.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/juktkkipj/62.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="TCW_International_alt.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/7wr2bnp2v/TCW_International_alt.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Marc_Speed.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/qd6cywbhj/Marc_Speed.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> w/<img alt="Lisa_Bowen_small.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/dls6s948n/Lisa_Bowen_small.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Versus.png" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/bnrg6oiwn/Versus.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Ricky_DeColt.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/lmhgqbodz/Ricky_DeColt.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> w/<img alt="Dharma_Gregg_small.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/c6qm3i8af/Dharma_Gregg_small.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Speed is out first, and the “SPEED IS BORING!” chants are maybe even louder than they were last week. Every time they start to seemingly bother him, Lisa Bowen puts her hand on Speed’s title belt and winks. He doesn't plug his ears this week. Next out is the challenger. “O Canada” begins to play, and Dharma Gregg walks out onto the tecnico entrance ramp. Speed immediately starts freaking out. It only gets worse when Ricky DeColt walks out behind Gregg with a Canadian flag wrapped around his shoulders. DeColt makes his way to the ring to a massive pop—somehow, in this era of online spoilers, TCW have managed to keep his signing a secret. What this means for the Canadian Wrestling Coalition is another story. DeColt and speed face off, then the bell rings and they go at it! At first, DeColt manages to get some offense going to stem Marc Speed’s tide of boring. About five minutes in, DeColt hits a big elbow off the top and then plants Speed with a DDT for a near-fall. “Wrestling’s Most Compelling Champion” rolls to the outside to recover. DeColt heads outside after him but Speed reverses him into the ringside wall. He brings DeColt back into the ring and begins a few minutes of entirely unnecessary rest holds punctuated by occasional Irish whips into the corners. At around the eleven-minute mark of the match, DeColt again starts to build up a head of steam. Lisa Bowen steps in front of Speed as DeColt goes up top! Ricky, being the good guy he is, won’t hit a non-wrestler, so he drops from the top rope. As the ref tells Bowen to get out of the ring, Speed kicks DeColt down low, then smashes him across the face with the International Championship! He locks on his cross armbreaker, which he has apparently told the announcers is now called Wrestling’s Most Fascinating Submission Maneuver, and a barely-conscious DeColt has to tap out. </div></blockquote> WINNER: Marc Speed <img alt="64.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/mbwkrui1j/64.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Ricky_Dale_Johnson.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/3wfs5a33b/Ricky_Dale_Johnson.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Ricky Dale Johnson is backstage. He says that he’s known Rip Chord for over 20 years and that Chord would be disgusted with what his son Jay has become. RDJ points out that the early success Chord has had in the business is at least partially due to his name and the training his dad gave him. RDJ says it’s a shame that Chord is trying make his name in the business by stepping on the legacies of other people. “You can be Jay Chord and be a legend. You’ve got all the tools, kid. You don’t need to feel like you’re gonna be disrespected for being second generation. I mean, I respect you enough that I’ll give you as many matches as you want, whenever you want them.” RDJ adjusts his cowboy hat and turns away to tape his fists. We cut to commercial.</div></blockquote> <img alt="81.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/l9rg5x5ef/81.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="12_Gauge.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/91iew8eyf/12_Gauge.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Kirk_Jameson.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/xa6gnnrqv/Kirk_Jameson.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Haley_Blackwell_small.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/nvulreu3b/Haley_Blackwell_small.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Backstage, Haley Blackwell is standing near the arena door when two young men stroll in. One has ample five o’clock shadow, is heavily tattooed and wears an “Everybody’s Shufflin’” baseball cap to go with a Washington Nationals warm-up jacket. The crowd pops big for the jacket, and the camera then focuses on the other man. He wears a backwards Nationals cap (which also gets a pop), surfing board shorts, and a necklace made of shells and teeth. He’s shirtless and is thus having a hard time figuring out a place to put his sunglasses. Finally, he sticks them in the other man’s pocket. Blackwell takes a step back and then asks them if they need anything. The tattooed man responds—by rapping. “Yeah, is this where we’d find the powers that be? We want a match—tell me who we’ve gotta go see. We saw some fat, ugly posers as we walked over here They weigh five million pounds, or something near. 12 Gauge in the house, KJ over there No other tag team in the world can compare. Word life.” Blackwell looks utterly bemused, but turns to the other guy. He tells her that his name is KJ Marks, but that she can call him “The Super Slick, Ultra Sick, Massively Badical, Best Surfer This Side of Venice Beach (Unless You Actually Include Venice Beach in That)” if she wants to. Blackwell tells him that she’ll stick with KJ, if that’s okay. He agrees, looking disappointed, but looks somewhat surprised when she asks who they are. “We’re Your New Favorite Tag Team, babe. You just haven’t realized it yet." Then the rapping man breaks in. "C'mon, KJ. We out, yo." They walk away.</div></blockquote> <img alt="48.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/vjot8g1xj/48.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Benny_Benson.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/jkicy7knr/Benny_Benson.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Guide.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ll2gzmnwn/Guide.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Scout.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/61056emqf/Scout.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Versus.png" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/bnrg6oiwn/Versus.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Freddy_Huggins_alt2.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/e537dtkrr/Freddy_Huggins_alt2.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Titan.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ogkm3plef/Titan.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Killer_Shark_alt.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/47s6ktxrb/Killer_Shark_alt.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> w/<img alt="Shane_Sneer_small.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/j9yhj5gav/Shane_Sneer_small.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Back in the ring, it’s time for the next match. The New Wave’s music hits and the military men come out trailed by Benny Benson, who is wearing a camouflage-print headband. The lights go green for The Behemoths, but “Ladies’ Choice” hits instead of their regular music. It’s a virtual entourage coming to the ring. Titan, Killer Shark, Freddy Huggins with his sister Laura, and finally a polo shirt-clad, clipboard-carrying Shane Sneer make their way down the rudo ramp. Benson and Huggins start out. The two high-flyers are evenly matched, but the rudos do a better job of keeping one of the good guys isolated in the middle of the ring and tagging in and out constantly. The big story here is the focus on Shane Sneer, who’s pretty clearly calling the shots for The Behemoths. Sneer spends much of the match frantically writing things down at ringside. When Killer Shark sends Benson to the outside, Sneer grabs the former SWF man. Though Scout runs over to help Benson, Sneer manages to hold him long enough for Shark and Titan to hit the Big Bang on an isolated Guide for the three. After the match, the tag team from earlier, who a name card introduces as Your New Favorite Tag Team, come out to the top of the ramp. They start sarcastically applauding. Suddenly, Danny Fonzarelli comes out and stands behind the pair, applauding as well. The Behemoths, Huggins and hangers-on make their way up the ramp and the two groups face off as we cut to commercial. </div></blockquote> WINNER: Freddy Huggins and The Behemoths <img alt="70.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ot8bz5c8n/70.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Danny_Fonzarelli.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/xmxutox47/Danny_Fonzarelli.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="12_Gauge.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/91iew8eyf/12_Gauge.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Kirk_Jameson.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/xa6gnnrqv/Kirk_Jameson.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Haley_Blackwell_small.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/nvulreu3b/Haley_Blackwell_small.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Back from commercial, we join Danny Fonzarelli and Your New Favorite tag team backstage. Fonzy tells 12 Gauge and KJ that he’s not scared of Freddy Huggins. He thanks them for their help earlier and says that Huggins is a no-life bad dude who thinks that everyone has to do things his way or the highway. When he says “highway,” KJ giggles and says, “High.” Haley Blackwell walks up and asks Fonzarelli what was up with the staredown earlier. He says that he wanted to show Huggins that not everyone appreciates his antics and that the Smooth Operator really isn’t so smooth after all. He says that the Love Chunk is more the Ladies’ Choice than Huggins will ever be. “You’re a lady, Haley. Is Freddy Huggins your choice? Or am I?” Fonzarelli starts disco dancing with Your New Favorite Tag Team, and Haley looks pensive but walks off without answering.</div></blockquote> <img alt="67.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/3wc3ugbmv/67.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Giant_Tana.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/otc09vvyf/Giant_Tana.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Versus.png" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/bnrg6oiwn/Versus.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Jay_Chord.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/845igsnvr/Jay_Chord.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Back in the ring, it’s time for the next match. Giant Tana comes out first accompanied by Flying Jimmy Foxx. They dance their way to the ring, high-fiving fans and throwing heart-shaped confetti. Jay Chord, Tana’s opponent, is a different story. He’s all business as he storms to the ring. The match is delayed for a minute when Chord insists that ring announcer Jasmine Saunders re-announce him simply as “Jay,” without the Chord name. He doesn’t lay a hand on her—that would mean a suspension—but he gets into the small ring announcer’s personal space. “I’m better than a name!” Saunders looks somewhat intimidated and does as Chord demands. Once the match starts, the hard-hitting Chord is on the front foot from the beginning. Tana tries his best to use his size to his advantage and certainly gets some offense in, but this match is a lot less open than many of the matches tonight have been. Chord peppers the big man with stiff-looking strikes before finally dropping Tana with an Irish whip into a huge bodyslam. He goes for a submission, but Tana manages to wriggle to the ropes and escape. For much of the match, the story is paramount. Chord is clearly prioritizing strike- and suplex-based offense and is avoiding any of the moves his dad was famous for. While Jay is winning for much of the match, Tana is tough and there are only a couple near falls. At around the sixteen-minute mark, with Tana downed from a huge belly-to-back suplex, Chord peels the fabric cover off the turnbuckle. When Flying Jimmy Foxx comes over to object, Chord grabs him and slams his head into the exposed metal. Foxx drops like a stone. Chord turns around to see Tana just getting up. He picks the big man up and Irish whips him into the hard metal! Tana drops, but begins to get up. With his opponent on all fours, Chord backs into the corner and Punts him in the head! The three is just a formality. We cut to commercial as Chord demands that Jasmine Saunders announce him as simply “Jay” from now on.</div></blockquote> WINNER: Jay [Chord] <img alt="55.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/t2d21801j/55.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Eddie_Peak_2.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/71vby6kh3/Eddie_Peak_2.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Mighty_Mo_alt.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/nvulrneqf/Mighty_Mo_alt.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Benny_Benson.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/jkicy7knr/Benny_Benson.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Floyd_Goldworthy.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/eulzq65vr/Floyd_Goldworthy.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>We return from commercial backstage, where it appears that Mighty Mo has finally caught up to Eddie Peak—and Mo has backup, in the form of Benny Benson! The pair of heroes see “The Land Shark” still carrying a screaming Floyd Goldworthy through the backstage area, and periodically stopping to lick Goldworthy and say, “YUMMY!” Benson asks Mo what they should do, and Mo tells the ex-SWF man to let the Mighty One deal with it and prevent Peak from getting away. The Caped Crusader approaches the insane Peak and asks him politely to set Goldworthy down. Peak goes as still as a board. Still holding Goldworthy, who’s now silent, Peak turns towards Mo. Benson walks up in support. “The Land Shark” screams “END IT!” and throws Goldworthy into the pair of heroes! They’re all down, and Peak leans over and licks The Mighty One. “IT’S FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDING TIME!” He picks up Benson and hits the PME on the hard backstage floor! He walks away, muttering and giggling to himself.</div></blockquote> <img alt="76.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/d49e7qekn/76.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Joshua_Taylor.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ll2gzolcn/Joshua_Taylor.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Sammy_Bach_alt6.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/wm2o1yhdz/Sammy_Bach_alt6.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> w/<img alt="Terri_Sunshine_small.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/qpxr4ybpz/Terri_Sunshine_small.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Versus.png" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/bnrg6oiwn/Versus.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Bryan_Vessey.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/jt9i4nc8n/Bryan_Vessey.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Wolf_Hawkins_alt3.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/rm05wtkuf/Wolf_Hawkins_alt3.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> w/<img alt="Heather_B_small.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/yioewwmtz/Heather_B_small.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Back to the ring and it’s time for the main event! Josh Taylor and Sammy Bach are out first. Taylor has a bandage under his eye and the announcers tell us that the doctors didn’t clear him to be here until yesterday. Peter Michaels says that Taylor passed concussion protocol and should be fine long-term' date=' but AK Garcia questions whether or not it’ll have a negative effect on his ring work tonight. Seemingly fitting a TCW trend, there's a gorgeous woman out with Taylor and Bach. She's taller than Addie or Heather and she wears a pair of shades and some torn-up-vaguely-rock-looking "clothes". I hate to break my live blog and I'm sure some of my readers will say I'm being non-PC, but DAMN.[/quote'] Anyway. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Wolf Hawkins and Bryan Vessey both come out in Vessey fashion—without any entrance music. Wolf’s new manager, Heather, has her fists taped like Vessey and is somehow wearing even less than last week. AK Garcia giggles about Heather’s “Property of Big Dog Wrestling” shirt. Hawkins draws massive boos from the crowd when he shows off a pair of brass knuckles on each hand. The match starts out with Bach and Vessey. Like so many of the matches we’ve seen between the two, there’s a lot of flowing action—Vessey focuses on trying to keep Bach grounded, while the rock god wants to push the pace and keep “Mr. Wrestling” off-balance as much as he can. At one point about five minutes in, Bach and Vessey each counter the other’s submission finisher five or six times. The announcers express surprise that Bach is playing Vessey’s game, and the big man himself seems stunned as well. In the middle of a great striking exchange, Bach suddenly grins at Vessey and tags out to Taylor. Vessey tries to tag Hawkins, but Taylor pulls him away from the ropes. A brutal seven-minute series of some of the stiffest ring work you’ll see in the US follows as a pair of guys who made their names in Japan go at it. Neither shows any interest in tagging out. After landing a huge scoop slam off the ropes, Vessey picks Josh Taylor up—brainbuster! Vessey turns as Hawkins calls his name. Wolf grins and tosses him the brass knuckles. “Mr. Wrestling” catches them, shakes his head and tosses them over his shoulder before picking up Taylor and Irish whipping him into the turnbuckle Jay Chord exposed in the last match. Somehow, Taylor kicks out of the ensuing pin. He manages to crawl to the ropes as Hawkins and Vessey argue about the brass knuckles. Sammy Bach comes in, and Vessey tags out to the fresher Hawkins. Wolf and Bach go at it with “The Big Dog” getting the better of nearly every exchange. At one point, Hawkins drops Bach with a trip takedown into a German suplex, then goes for the pin. Heather, who apparently made her way around the ring at some point, steps up on the apron and tries to get in Taylor’s way. He pushes by her and breaks up the pin, then suddenly seems to realize what he’s done. He apologizes loudly enough for the cameras to pick up. Bach tags Taylor in the confusion. As Josh comes in, he bends down to pick something up from ringside. He picks Hawkins up and hits a huge left hand! Wolf drops like he's been shot! As Taylor goes for the pin, Heather comes in and kicks him low. Both men roll to the outside, but Taylor somehow has the presence of mind to slap Sammy Bach’s shoulder as he goes. Hawkins doesn’t tag Vessey, who starts demolishing a tired Bach in the ring, not seeming to realize he isn’t the legal man. Unfortunately for Mr. Wrestling, Ray Johnson hits a 10-count before Wolf can get back up.</div></blockquote> <img alt="82.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/6qkb4ijzb/82.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> WINNER: Sammy Bach and Josh Taylor (Count-out; Taylor leads best-of-seven series 2-1) <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Joshua_Taylor.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ll2gzolcn/Joshua_Taylor.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>As Vessey laments his bad luck and Heather tends to a seemingly unconscious Wolf' date=' Taylor looks down at his hand—he’s wearing the brass knuckles Vessey threw away earlier! That's how he dropped Hawkins so easily! Great camera work to zoom in on “The New Tradition’s” left fist there. We cut back to the ring as Taylor stares at his fist at the top of the ramp.[/quote'] <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Leroy_Sayeed.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/rm05wspzb/Leroy_Sayeed.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>A promo video begins. It opens the same way as the one from last week, with “Leroy” sitting on a bench sipping Red Bull. Again, like last week, a group of gangbanger-looking guys come up and demand money from a group of kids, this time four teenage girls sitting around and talking. This time, Leroy doesn’t interfere. As the guys make suggestive comments to a couple of the girls, they flash a knife and take all the girls’ purses. One girl refuses to give her money, and one of the guys slaps her across the face and takes it anyway. Leroy simply watches. With their new payday in hand, they walk over to Leroy’s bench. “Appreciate the payday, homies,” he says. He again holds out his hand. They give him some money. “Double today,” he says. “I’m goin’ out.” They initially seem reluctant to pay him, but he shows a knife in his waistband and cracks his knuckles. They look terrified and couldn’t be faster to fill his hand with $20 bills just like the kids did in the video last week. We fade to black as he counts the money and sips his drink. </div></blockquote> <img alt="53.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/hq0gjf47b/53.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Bryan_Vessey.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/jt9i4nc8n/Bryan_Vessey.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Sammy_Bach_alt6.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/wm2o1yhdz/Sammy_Bach_alt6.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Marat_Khoklov.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/8zw2k10qv/Marat_Khoklov.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Post-match, Vessey is complaining to the referee about the ending of the match. He has a microphone in his hand. Bach is still down in the ring. Suddenly, Marat Khoklov hits the ring! He drops “Mr. Wrestling” with a huge boot, then gorilla-press slams Bach. Khoklov scoops up both men at the same time—DOUBLE POWERBOMB! A sick grin appears on the face of the Russian Nightmare. He gets a chair from ringside, folds it up and lays it in the corner. He does the same thing on the other side of the ring. Khoklov picks up Bach and simply tosses him into the chair in the corner before doing the same thing to Vessey on the opposite side. He gets a running start towards Vessey—body press into the chair! Khoklov scoops Bach up, and hits a Russian Legend Powerbomb against the chair in the corner. For the second week in a row, the show ends with Marat Khoklov standing tall over a pair of broken bodies.</div></blockquote> <img alt="88.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/5biqfu0wn/88.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> SHOW GRADE: <img alt="81.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/l9rg5x5ef/81.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> RESULTS Main Event, Best-of-7 Series Match 3—Joshua Taylor and Sammy Bach vs. Wolf Hawkins and Bryan Vessey Jay Chord vs. Giant Tana Freddy Huggins and The Behemoths vs. Benny Benson and The New Wave International Championship Open Challenge: Marc Speed © w/ Lisa Bowen vs. Ricky DeColt w/ Dharma Gregg Rocky Golden and Mighty Mo vs. Eddie Peak and Troy Tornado [OOC Note: I couldn't photoshop a Nationals logo onto 12 Gauge's cap. I apologize.]</div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div>

batsnumbereleven · March 13, 2018

Did I see a lesser-spotted Eddie Peak masquerading as Freddy Huggins in that six-man? <img alt="

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Temes1066 · March 13, 2018

When you say CWC (Canadian Wrestling Coalition), don't you really mean CGC (Canadian Golden Combat)?

w4lru5 · March 13, 2018

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="batsnumbereleven" data-cite="batsnumbereleven" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Did I see a lesser-spotted Eddie Peak masquerading as Freddy Huggins in that six-man? <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div></blockquote> Thank you. Don’t know how I didn’t see that. I think their pictures are next to each other and all...... sigh. That’ll teach me to post after a long day of trying to make kids understand that “I like singer is—-” is not how English works. <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Temes1066" data-cite="Temes1066" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>When you say CWC (Canadian Wrestling Coalition), don't you really mean CGC (Canadian Golden Combat)?</div></blockquote> I changed the names of a bunch of promotions because they’re unrealistic (especially North and South of the Border). If you look back at the second post, I’ve listed what I changed.

w4lru5 · March 14, 2018

<div style="text-align:center;"><img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Manuel_Prieto.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/418k5i4nr/Manuel_Prieto.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I like this city overall so far. When I walk to the grocery store near my house each day, I can hear five or six different languages being spoken. There is so much diversity! I am also impressed with the amount of infrastructure. The amount of prosperity in Los Angeles seems immense, but I must say that there are some things I simply do not understand. The number of cars in this city simply cannot compute in my head. I know it’s not true, but looking at the road each morning, it seems like everyone in LA is out driving during the day. At my new favorite haunt, the Central Library, I did some reading on the way that cars have helped shape Los Angeles. According to the historians whose work I read, the car has played a larger role in the history of LA than of maybe any other city in the United States. People from many different parts of the country (and the world) were able to come by land here because land “outside the city” was very cheap but still within easy car access of the city center. I also do not understand the number of people who are on the street homeless. For a city that seems to have so much prosperity, there are a large number of people who do not seem to be partaking in it. That is of course true in Mexico as well, but it seems to me that the difference is much greater because the prosperity here seems greater on average. I asked Brian about it, but he said, “That’s just how it is.”</div></blockquote> <img alt="Jay_Chord_alt.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/yp81cd5on/Jay_Chord_alt.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Marc_Speed.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/qd6cywbhj/Marc_Speed.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>This week' date=' our show did its job—helping to move us towards my long-term plans for Total Championship Wrestling. I think Señor Peak is the perfect example—we are a serious company, but the character work is always extremely important. I have also been extremely impressed with Señor Chord and Señor Speed in that sense. To me, one of the great advantages of Mexican lucha libre is that the focus on characters is so great. Different workers use their different types of work in the ring to tell stories just as much as any interview or brawl outside of the ring, and that is one of the differences I have worked hardest to instill in our wrestlers. [/quote'] <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> Every week, we move closer to the prophecy--embodying Los Angeles in lucha libre. I appreciate you, mi diario. You are always there to listen when I feel the need to talk. <img alt="Total_Wrestling.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/8z18u8pwn/Total_Wrestling.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> Main Event, Best-of-Seven Series Match 4: Wolf Hawkins vs. Joshua Taylor (Taylor leads 2-1) Mighty Mo vs. Eddie Peak TCW World Tag Team Championships: The Behemoths vs. The New Wave vs. Your New Favorite Tag Team International Championship Open Challenge: Marc Speed © w/ Lisa Bowen vs. ??? w/??? Bryan Vessey and Jay Chord vs. Ricky Dale Johnson and Human Arsenal <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> </div></blockquote></div>

batsnumbereleven · March 14, 2018

Main Event, Best-of-Seven Series Match 4: Wolf Hawkins vs. Joshua Taylor (Taylor leads 2-1) Taylor going 3-1 up can lead Hawkins to desperate measures. Mighty Mo vs. Eddie Peak Because it's Eddie Peak, regardless of the fact this might be just further character advancement. I could see this one being another "non-finish" though, since these two seem like they're mini-feuding, at least. TCW World Tag Team Championships: The Behemoths vs. The New Wave vs. Your New Favorite Tag Team Champs to retain, but by pinning New Wave, who have no momentum so far, and setting up YNFTT for a justifiable re-match 2-on-2. International Championship Open Challenge: Marc Speed © w/ Lisa Bowen vs. Ian Herring/Plaguew/Seduction Bryan Vessey and Jay Chord vs. Ricky Dale Johnson and Human Arsenal If Chord is going to get a push then being on the winning side here is helpful. RDJ and Arsenal seem pretty stagnant at this point. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>According to the historians whose work I read, the car has played a larger role in the history of LA than of maybe any other city in the United States.</div></blockquote> Detroit says hello...

Peppermint Rage · March 14, 2018

Main Event, Best-of-Seven Series Match 4: Wolf Hawkins vs. Joshua Taylor (Taylor leads 2-1)

Mighty Mo vs. Eddie Peak

TCW World Tag Team Championships: The Behemoths vs. The New Wave vs. Your New Favorite Tag Team

new wave are great, but nothings happening with them right now and I think YNFTT need the wins

International Championship Open Challenge: Marc Speed © w/ Lisa Bowen vs. ??? w/???

Bryan Vessey and Jay Chord vs. Ricky Dale Johnson and Human Arsenal

Theheel · March 14, 2018

Wolf Hawkins vs. Joshua Taylor (Taylor leads 2-1)

Don't see Wolf going down 3-1

Mighty Mo vs. Eddie Peak

Figure that Peak will continue with his story, maybe another CO or maybe a DQ

TCW World Tag Team Championships: The Behemoths vs. The New Wave vs. Your New Favorite Tag Team

International Championship Open Challenge: Marc Speed © w/ Lisa Bowen vs. ??? w/???

I like what your doing with Speed, Bowen adds a nice touch

Bryan Vessey and Jay Chord vs. Ricky Dale Johnson and Human Arsenal

WilburTrey · March 15, 2018

Main Event, Best-of-Seven Series Match 4: Wolf Hawkins vs. Joshua Taylor (Taylor leads 2-1)

Mighty Mo vs. Eddie Peak

TCW World Tag Team Championships: The Behemoths vs. The New Wave vs. Your New Favorite Tag Team

I could see New Wave pulling off the shock win and the Behemoths and YNFTT continue to fued, thus letting the New Wave start something with another tag team. I mean It's not what's going to happen but I want to be different. <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

International Championship Open Challenge: Marc Speed © w/ Lisa Bowen vs. ??? w/???

Bryan Vessey and Jay Chord vs. Ricky Dale Johnson and Human Arsenal

Mr. Jones · March 15, 2018

Main Event, Best-of-Seven Series Match 4: Wolf Hawkins vs. Joshua Taylor (Taylor leads 2-1)

Mighty Mo vs. Eddie Peak

TCW World Tag Team Championships: The Behemoths vs. The New Wave vs. Your New Favorite Tag Team

International Championship Open Challenge: Marc Speed © w/ Lisa Bowen vs. ??? w/???

Bryan Vessey and Jay Chord vs. Ricky Dale Johnson and Human Arsenal

Cro Cop Rules · March 15, 2018

Main Event, Best-of-Seven Series Match 4: Wolf Hawkins vs. Joshua Taylor (Taylor leads 2-1)

Mighty Mo vs. Eddie Peak

TCW World Tag Team Championships: The Behemoths vs. The New Wave vs. Your New Favorite Tag Team

Bryan Vessey and Jay Chord vs. Ricky Dale Johnson and Human Arsenal

Loving this diary so far! The Mr. Lucha excerpts are excellent, and I love that he hasn't changed the promotion overnight. The addition of random valets was an interesting choice too. Did you get a penalty on the first show for not having enough women?

Also, Kirk Jameson and Greg Gauge as white rappers does indeed make them my New Favorite Tag Team <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> Give them the belts!

w4lru5 · March 15, 2018

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Cro Cop Rules" data-cite="Cro Cop Rules" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Loving this diary so far! The Mr. Lucha excerpts are excellent, and I love that he hasn't changed the promotion overnight. The addition of random valets was an interesting choice too. Did you get a penalty on the first show for not having enough women? Also, Kirk Jameson and Greg Gauge as white rappers does indeed make them my New Favorite Tag Team <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> Give them the belts!</div></blockquote> I'm so glad you're enjoying it! I added the valets/managers for a couple reasons. First of all, I think it's an underappreciated part of Mexican/lucha wrestling--it's not uncommon for guys to be accompanied down to the ring by a valet or a stable member/partner, especially in some of the more modern promotions (DTU, Lucha Underground and AAA more than CMLL, but all of them really). Also, with the changes I made to the product, we got dinged on the first show and I kind of went overboard. <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> But I was able to find people like Lisa Bowen and Dharma Gregg who have charisma and sex appeal as well as just sexy valets like Heather and Addie. I was thrilled when [spoiler ALERT] Gauge and Jameson had excellent chemistry as partners. This was not at all the original plan for them (Gauge was supposed to be the one to take the strap from Speed), but they've got their program now and I hope they run with it. I really hope I can keep the quality of the Manuel segments up. They're a lot harder to write than the shows. Fingers crossed. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Theheel" data-cite="Theheel" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div> SNIP International Championship Open Challenge: Marc Speed © w/ Lisa Bowen vs. ??? w/??? I like what your doing with Speed, Bowen adds a nice touch [/b]</div></blockquote> I'm glad you like Marc Speed, because he might be my least favorite wrestler in the entire American C-Verse scene. There's just nothing whatsoever that makes him interesting. Instead of just hating him, I decided to use the fact that I think he's incredibly boring as his character. <img alt="TCW_2.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/TCW_2.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> My mom is flying all the way from LA to Japan to visit me this weekend, so the next show (with updated prediction standings) will be up tomorrow night and then there won't be anything till the end of next week. We're at the go-home show for Honor Eternal, our first PPV of Manuel's reign, and I hope you guys like where things are going.

MisterRomanini · March 15, 2018

Main Event, Best-of-Seven Series Match 4: Wolf Hawkins vs. Joshua Taylor (Taylor leads 2-1)

Mighty Mo vs. Eddie Peak

TCW World Tag Team Championships: The Behemoths vs. The New Wave vs. Your New Favorite Tag Team

International Championship Open Challenge: Marc Speed © w/ Lisa Bowen vs. Greg Black w/Mya Catalan

Bryan Vessey and Jay Chord vs. Ricky Dale Johnson and Human Arsenal

w4lru5 · March 16, 2018

The show is written but not edited. I'll post it in the morning if I've got time, otherwise, it should be up on Wednesday afternoon. Sorry to anyone who wanted to read it tonight!

Jon The GOAT · March 16, 2018

Main Event, Best-of-Seven Series Match 4: Wolf Hawkins vs. Joshua Taylor (Taylor leads 2-1)

Mighty Mo vs. Eddie Peak

TCW World Tag Team Championships: The Behemoths vs. The New Wave vs. Your New Favorite Tag Team

Bryan Vessey and Jay Chord vs. Ricky Dale Johnson and Human Arsenal

I'm really enjoying this <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

w4lru5 · March 17, 2018

<div style="text-align:center;">Total Recap by Mickey Silver, totalextremewrestling.com <img alt="Suit_1.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/6gcsleiaf/Suit_1.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> We’re at the Louisiana Auditorium in Baton Rouge this week for Total Wrestling, live on USA Sports 1. Peter Michaels, Jason Azaria and AK Garcia welcome us to the show and hype the fact that the TCW board have made a triple-threat tag team title match tonight. Then the opening pyro hits and the opening video plays. <img alt="Total_Wrestling.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/8z18u8pwn/Total_Wrestling.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>For the second week in a row' date=' we start the show with Haley Blackwell in the ring with several chairs. I have to say that I certainly don’t mind—she’s attractive and charismatic—though I guess it could get old if we start like this too many times. Last week, Blackwell managed to ask just the right questions in her interview with Wolf Hawkins—she made him look like a superstar, and she wound up looking good as well. Here’s to hoping that whoever she’s interviewing this week manages to start the show off as hot as Hawkins did.[/quote'] <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Rocky_Golden.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ql4z4uzwn/Rocky_Golden.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Addie_Alexander_small.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/cw9efvgjr/Addie_Alexander_small.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Haley_Blackwell_small.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/nvulreu3b/Haley_Blackwell_small.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>“Golden Dreams” hits and Rocky Golden comes down to the ring, a Yankees warm-up jacket on. Addie Alexander next to him seems to have added a second lip piercing in the last week—her punk image doesn’t necessarily gel with Golden’s down-home New York Jewish look, but somehow, it kind of works. The pair make their way to the ring and sit down next to Blackwell, and she hands Golden a microphone. Haley asks him about his thoughts on not being granted his rematch against Andrews at Honor Eternal in his hometown of Brooklyn this Sunday. The crowd start relentlessly booing. Golden just looks around at them for several seconds, and then says he agrees. He says that he’s disappointed in Andrews, but not surprised, then tells the crowd that it doesn’t matter where he gets his shot—everywhere in the Total Universe is home. The crowd, needless to say, pops huge for this. “Look, Haley, let me tell you guys what Triple A said—and it’s meshuggenah. He said I’m not getting a title shot until he’s gone through everybody else in the company. I mean, he said he’d give Addie a title shot before he gave me one. So there’s not a lot I can do but wait. You know what my dad says, though—a liar has to have a good memory, and I’m not convinced that Aaron Andrews really understands what that means. He’s not going to be able to beat everyone. The thing I’ve learned the hard way—there’s always somebody better.” Suddenly, Triple A’s music hits and he makes his way to the ring. He’s got the belt slung haphazardly around his waist and a microphone in his hand. Triple A says that Haley didn’t ask to interview him—the greatest wrestler on the planet—just because she doesn’t like him. Andrews says that he reiterates his declaration of war. Until Golden admits that the fans don’t matter and only the title of being best in the world is what matters, Andrews isn’t going to give him another shot. He knows that Golden will never admit that, so Triple A says he’ll just have to prove it to him. He starts to come to the ring, Rocky waves him on, and Andrews chuckles and walks away. He stops at the top of the ramp. “Rocky, you don’t understand. You never will. All that matters is whether people talk about you. Doesn’t matter if it’s good or if it’s bad—for too long, when people talked about TCW, they talk about Rocky Golden. I’m sick of it. The only reason I want this belt is so they have to talk about me. Otherwise, I’d just give it to you—except that you’d pretend it mattered, and so would these delusional idiots. Oh, and your girl’s piercings are stupid.” He turns and heads backstage as we cut to commercial with Golden looking furious.</div></blockquote> <img alt="83.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/piw683o3b/83.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Bryan_Vessey.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/jt9i4nc8n/Bryan_Vessey.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Jay_Chord.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/845igsnvr/Jay_Chord.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> w/<img alt="Roxxy_Kiss_small.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/t79ic8irr/Roxxy_Kiss_small.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Versus.png" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/bnrg6oiwn/Versus.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Ricky_Dale_Johnson.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/3wfs5a33b/Ricky_Dale_Johnson.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Human_Arsenal.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/71vby8xcn/Human_Arsenal.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Bryan Vessey is out first for the first match of the evening. He walks to the ring as usual for his match with no music and taped fists, but he has some accompaniment. Next to him is an attractive woman in a leather jacket and jean shorts with chains who the TotalTron introduces as Roxy Kiss. Following Vessey is Jay Chord, who wears a suit and button-down. Jasmine Saunders makes the mistake of introducing him as “Jay Chord” this week. He comes to the ring pretty quickly and gets in her face, screaming “Don’t you dare call me Chord!” He insists that she re-introduce him simply as “Jay;” when she hesitates, he actually puts a hand on her shoulder and clearly applies pressure. Even silent badass Vessey looks somewhat concerned. As soon as Saunders raises the microphone to her lips, Jay releases the pressure. The crowd go absolutely nuclear (in the good heel heat way). “Should Have Been a Cowboy” hits, and Ricky Dale Johnson comes out onto the tecnico entrance ramp. With him is John “Human Arsenal” Anderson, who we really haven’t seen much of in TCW in a while. RDJ looks pretty horrified by Jay’s treatment of Saunders, but he’s going to have to deal with it in the ring. Arsenal and RDJ both stop to check on Saunders on their way into the ring, but she tells them she’s fine. Once they get into the ring, this one is…not that close. Chord and Vessey seem to work brilliantly together despite not being a regular tag team, and Vessey is dominating Arsenal for the first five or six minutes. Arsenal never really has a chance to tag out despite getting worked over with MMA-style strikes and a couple of judo throws. At around the 7:30 mark, Vessey takes Arsenal down with an inside trip and goes for an early Vessey Lock. Luckily for the RDJ/Arsenal team, Arsenal manages to get to the ropes and force a break, though Vessey keeps the hold on for a couple of extra seconds. Arsenal manages to land a kick to Vessey’s knee which gives him time to tag out to “The Peacekeeper”, but “Mr. Wrestling” goes to his corner and tags out to Jay (we’re not going to call him “Chord” right now because I don’t want him angry at me). “The Legend Killer” comes in, and he’s just taking it to RDJ. “The Peacekeeper” eventually gets a second wind and lands the running powerslam he calls The Price of Peace for a 2-count, but other than that, it’s all Jay. The former Chord is showing a more diverse offense here—when RDJ goes up top at around the 13-minute mark to try for the Southern Justice off the top, Jay hits him with an awesome-looking enziguiri. He’s got some mean-looking kicks for a guy wrestling in dress pants. RDJ falls, and Jay backs across the ring—he gets a running start and Punts “The Peacekeeper” in the head! The three count is academic. When Saunders announces Jay as the mononym he requested, he gives her a nod and we cut to commercial.</div></blockquote> WINNER: Bryan Vessey and Jay [Chord] <img alt="78.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/611is4okn/78.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Adrian_Garcia.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/5a2d378t3/Adrian_Garcia.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Marc_Speed.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/qd6cywbhj/Marc_Speed.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Lisa_Bowen_small.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/dls6s948n/Lisa_Bowen_small.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Back from commercial and International Champion Marc Speed is standing backstage in the International Champion’s locker room area. This week, Speed wears a leopard-print “INTERESTING” t-shirt with highlighter yellow writing. Oof. Next to him is Lisa Bowen, who is talking to color commentator AK Garcia. He tells her that he’s the new commissioner for the International Title division and that any decisions about the title have to go through him. He says that the open challenge each week is a great idea and decrees that, from now on, the International Champion must compete in some kind of match on every show. He announces an even more interesting stipulation—anyone who successfully defends the belt ten times can choose a match with any stipulation against anyone they want for any title they want. Speed grins and turns to Lisa Bowen. “The Most Compelling Champion in Pro Wrestling and The Most Beautiful Ringside Valet and Advocate could not be happier to bring our brand of interesting to the Total Universe Every. Single. Week.” He thanks Garcia for giving the people what they want to see—more Marc Speed—and then he walks to the ring. Bowen stays behind, talking to Garcia. She’s showing him something written on her clipboard, but we can’t hear what they’re talking about.</div></blockquote> <img alt="55.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/t2d21801j/55.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="TCW_International_alt.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/7wr2bnp2v/TCW_International_alt.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Marc_Speed.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/qd6cywbhj/Marc_Speed.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> w/<img alt="Lisa_Bowen_small.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/dls6s948n/Lisa_Bowen_small.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Versus.png" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/bnrg6oiwn/Versus.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Mr_Lucha_III.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/g33xzo11j/Mr_Lucha_III.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> w/<img alt="Manuel_Prieto.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/418k5i4nr/Manuel_Prieto.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>“Cult of Personality” [OOC: I think this is the perfect theme for “The Most Interesting Man in Wrestling”] hits and Speed makes his way out to the ring. Lisa Bowen follows once he’s about halfway down the ramp. The “Speed is Boring!” and “NO!” chants start almost immediately, but Bowen keeps telling the International Champion to stay focused. At one point, she glares into the crowd with a finger to her lips and points to the word “INTERESTING” on Speed’s t-shirt. Suddenly, the jeers are interrupted when the Mexican national anthem hits. Out onto the tecnico entrance ramp comes a masked luchador in a white mask with black stars. He wears a black, white and gold t-shirt that says “TCW: La Iglesia de Lucha Libre,” which gets a pop (and seeming confusion) from many of the fans in the audience. AK Garcia at the announcer’s desk tells us that he’s Mr. Lucha III, heir to a legendary lucha libre legacy and finally making his debut in TCW. With Mr. Lucha comes a man in a black suit, white shirt and gold tie. Garcia introduces him as another lucha legend, “Masterful” Manuel Prieto—the original Mr. Lucha and uncle of the current man behind the mask. Prieto sits at the announcers’ desk as the bell rings. The match itself is really different than a lot of the standard, fairly realistic TCW match. Mr. Lucha is flashy and hits some insane high-flying moves, including a sensational-looking plancha dive at about the five-minute mark as a stunned-looking Speed tries to regroup on the apron. Through the first seven or eight minutes of the match, the champion actually gets very little offense in. The crowd are clearly loving Mr. Lucha’s aerial ability and the fact that he, unlike Speed, is more interesting than, say, the floor of the arena. Eventually, though, “Wrestling’s Most Compelling Champion” gets ahold of the high-flyer and manages to pin him down with a series of rest holds. None of them actually do that much damage. What does do damage is a low blow from Lisa Bowen as Speed turns to ask Ray Johnson whether or not Speed is the most interesting man he’s ever refereed for. Almost immediately, Speed turns around and locks on Wrestling’s Most Fascinating Submission Maneuver, forcing the luchador to tap out at the twelve-minute mark.</div></blockquote> WINNER: Marc Speed <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Jay_Chord_alt.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/yp81cd5on/Jay_Chord_alt.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Haley_Blackwell_small.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/nvulreu3b/Haley_Blackwell_small.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Backstage, Jay (Chord) is standing with Haley Blackwell. She asks him about his match with RDJ and Arsenal earlier—but she makes the mistake of using the Chord name. He grabs the microphone from her and begins ranting. “Nobody respects the important part of my name—the Jay part. It’s all ‘Chord this, Chord that, Chord some other damn thing.’ I don’t want to have a name made for me. I spent too many years trying to prove myself. When I was in MAW, everyone in the locker room made it clear they thought I was only there so young because of my dad. That’s not true. I was there because I deserved to be there. Not because of who my dad was, but because of who I am. I’ve fought my dad’s legacy my whole life. I don’t need it. I don’t want it. I’m just Jay. And I’m going to make my name by ending every “fan favorite,” every so-called legend, in this company. Then they’ll see me for what I am—Jay, the Legend Killer.” “And Blackwell? Don’t ever use that name again.” He throws the microphone at her and storms off after a shockingly sympathetic promo, and we cut to commercial.</div></blockquote> <img alt="67.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/3wc3ugbmv/67.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="TCW_Tag_Team_alt.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/6hphmxvpj/TCW_Tag_Team_alt.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="12_Gauge.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/91iew8eyf/12_Gauge.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="KJ_Marks.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/xa6gnnrqv/KJ_Marks.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Versus.png" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/bnrg6oiwn/Versus.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Scout.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/61056emqf/Scout.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Guide.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ll2gzmnwn/Guide.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Versus.png" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/bnrg6oiwn/Versus.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Titan.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ogkm3plef/Titan.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Killer_Shark_alt.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/47s6ktxrb/Killer_Shark_alt.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />w/<img alt="Shane_Sneer_small.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/j9yhj5gav/Shane_Sneer_small.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>We’re back from commercial and The New Wave are already in the ring. A new song hits [OOC: John Cena’s “Basic Thuganomics] and the team from last week, 12 Gauge and KJ, make their way onto the tecnico entrance ramp. 12 Gauge, who's in an LSU cap, warmup jacket and football jersey this week, yells to cut the music and holds up a heavily bling-encrusted microphone. “Yo, yo, Baton Rouge! How’s it shaking? When these giants see us, they start quaking. They say that they’re bad, and I know that’s true They’re so awful that they’re worse than stepping in dog poo! Seriously—they can barely talk, And they can’t really wrestle, man, let alone walk. Word life.” He hands the mic to his partner, who's wearing only New Orleans Pelicans basketball shorts and a shell necklace. “Basically, bro, we’re gonna take their titles and then everyone will be way chiller and a lot happier and stuff, man. You dig? Word life and hang loose.” The music starts back up and Your New Favorite Tag Team (and they are mine at the moment) walk to the ring with the crowd going nuts. Seriously—it’s one of the biggest pops of the night so far. Then the lights go green, “Big Show” hits the speakers and The Behemoths come out trailed by Shane Sneer. “The Advocate” has been good for their careers, it looks like—Killer Shark appears to be absolutely stacked with muscle and the unpredictable Titan is practically frothing at the mouth to get in the ring with the rap duo and the military men. The match is intense—a wild, knock-down brawl. It starts with Scout, KJ and Titan in the ring. Scout and KJ go at it for a while, but eventually Titan wants in too. “The Monster Among Men” rips KJ and Scout apart, throws them off the ropes and hits a huge double clothesline that results in a close two on the surfer only a couple minutes in. The trio start exchanging blows again, only this time it’s Scout getting the upper hand on Titan as KJ rolls outside to rest. When he comes back in, the pace starts to pick up. When Titan tries to Chokeslam Scout after a good flurry of offense, KJ manages to tag 12 Gauge, who comes in like a house on fire. The rapper hits a sensational Superkick, causing Titan to drop the former Army soldier, then runs the ropes, up the turnbuckle and plants Titan, who falls, landing on top of Scout. Gauge tries to pull him off, but by the time he does, Ray Johnson has already counted the three and the Behemoths have retained their tag titles in under nine minutes. Nonetheless, it’s Your New Favorite Tag Team who are the only team with both members left standing and Titan is still seemingly out on the canvas as we cut to backstage.</div></blockquote> WINNER: The Behemoths <img alt="69.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/lmdsficd3/69.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Sammy_Bach_alt6.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/wm2o1yhdz/Sammy_Bach_alt6.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Haley_Blackwell_small.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/nvulreu3b/Haley_Blackwell_small.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Sammy Bach is with Haley Blackwell. The lady-loving rock god has an arm around the young interviewer’s shoulders and she’s laughing about something he’s said as the camera cuts to them. She realizes the interview has started and draws away from Bach, looking embarrassed. The rocker grins. Haley asks him about his plans for Honor Eternal and whether he’ll be granting Bryan Vessey his rematch. Bach says that Vessey will have to wait until The Fight in February because Aaron Andrews asked Sammy if he wants a title shot at Honor Eternal! Of course, Sammy said yes. He plans to win the title and, when he does, he’ll defend it against Vessey any time, anywhere. “Look, babe. Aaron Andrews is the champion, and Smooth Sammy Bach ain’t gonna turn town a title shot, you know what I’m saying? But when the most haaaaaaaaard rockin’ [as usual, Bach sings this little bit] man in pro wrestling really comes down to it, he doesn’t hate Triple A. Nah. He loves the world title, and he hates Bryan Vessey. ‘Cause Beaver is used to throwin’ his weight around and all that jazz, even when nobody wants to watch him. I come in and the ladies swoon. The men all want to be me, and every dad in Brooklyn will be locking his daughter in on Sunday night, cause Sammy Bach is comin’ to town, and he’s gonna leave as a champion. And then he’s gonna deal with Bryan Vessey, and there won’t be a dry seat in the house. BOOM, baby.” He suddenly winks at a blushing Haley and kisses her as we cut to commercial.</div></blockquote> <img alt="77.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/rngj95ffb/77.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Mighty_Mo_alt.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/nvulrneqf/Mighty_Mo_alt.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />w/ <img alt="Tabitha_Sanders_small.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/4dzybkkbr/Tabitha_Sanders_small.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Versus.png" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/bnrg6oiwn/Versus.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Eddie_Peak_2.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/71vby6kh3/Eddie_Peak_2.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> w/<img alt="FG_Small.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/vz54ygrkn/FG_Small.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Back from commercial, it’s time for the co-main event! Mighty Mo is out first, his gold cape, mask and gauntlets glittering under the lights. The crowd, especially the kids in attendance, pop big for “The Mightiest Hero.” Trailing him is a very attractive young woman in a mask and a skin-tight blue body suit that doesn’t leave a whole lot to the imagination. She’s introduced as Super Tabitha and is apparently yet another new random valet. And holy moly, does she look good. Next to the ring is Eddie Peak. Shockingly, “The Land Shark” is trailed by a bruised and scared-looking Floyd Goldworthy, who apparently has not abandoned his client after last week. As he walks down the rudo entrance ramp, Peak pulls out a Barbie doll from…somewhere on his person. He offers it to a little girl in a Mighty Mo t-shirt. She smiles and reaches for it, but The Land Shark proves why he’s a pro wrestler and not a schoolteacher. He leans over and rips Barbie’s head off with his teeth, then hands the now-crying little girl the headless doll as he walks down to the ring. The match starts out pretty slow as Peak and Mo clinch up. They trade offense for a while with both men getting some good blows in. It’s at about the five-minute mark that Peak begins to build up a head of steam. He whips Mighty Mo into the turnbuckle, then comes in with a massive flying body press. Mo manages to kick out of the ensuing pinfall attempt, much to the delight of all the kids in the audience. As Peak loses control more and more, the Caped Crusader begins to get back into the match. Eleven minutes in, Peak rolls to the outside. He’s giggling to himself and talking to the Barbie head he’s apparently still carrying. Suddenly, he seems to see Super Tabitha for the first time. “END! IT!” The big man heads towards the scared-looking supergirl, but she doesn’t back down. Luckily for her, we never find out if she could take the Land Shark in a fight. Mighty Mo comes flying over the ropes with a huge suicide dive and takes Peak down. They fight outside the ring for a bit before Mo rolls the big man back in. Before he can go for a pinfall, though, Eddie rolls to the outside. He looks under the ring and gets a steel chair! Ray Johnson tries to warn Peak, but the psychotic “Land Shark” isn’t listening. He slides into the ring with the chair and slams it into Mo’s head with a sickening “CRUNCH.” Ray Johnson waves this one off by DQ and declares Mo the winner. Peak yet again climbs over the ropes, offers the Barbie head to a thrilled-looking little girl in a way-too-big "Eddie Peak: Asylum Shark" t-shirt (seriously, that girl is a total mark for an 8-year-old--those shirts only come in adult sizes) and walks out through the crowd, talking to the steel chair he’s still clutching. A concerned-looking Floyd Goldworthy slides under the ropes and joins Super Tabitha in checking on “The Last Real Hero.”</div></blockquote> WINNER: Mighty Mo <img alt="78.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/611is4okn/78.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Leroy_Sayeed.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/rm05wspzb/Leroy_Sayeed.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>A promo video begins. Leroy, who we’ve seen on video for the past two weeks, is again sitting on a bench sipping Red Bull. This time, though, he talks to the viewers. “I grew up in one of the worst neighborhoods in South Harlem. I’ve been fighting for my life since I was a kid. First thing I learned, no one’s gonna fight for you just because. Everyone here either joins a gang or gets shaken down by one. Not me. See, I got a little sister I take care of, and I needed money real bad. So now the gangs come to me. So do the people they’re robbing. Whose side do I take? Well, who’s paying me more this week? I got needs, man. I got a life. And I got a little sister. I don’t care who you are, or what you want. You need a job done right? You come to me—there’s a reason they call me the Ice Man. It’ll get done, regardless of who I gotta go through to do it. But don’t try to f*** with Leroy Sayeed or you’re gonna have hell to pay.” He turns away and the video fades to black.</div></blockquote> <img alt="60.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/c1u5skpl3/60.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Mighty_Mo_alt.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/nvulrneqf/Mighty_Mo_alt.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Tabitha_Sanders_small.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/4dzybkkbr/Tabitha_Sanders_small.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="FG_Small.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/vz54ygrkn/FG_Small.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Backstage' date=' medics are tending to Mo, who’s insisting that he’s fine and asking to go after “the wicked, wicked villain” who did this to him. “He’s still out there! He’s still got a chair! What if he attacks innocent civilians?” Mo demands that the medics let him up and tries to head out, but Floyd Goldworthy and Super Tabitha run up. They tell him he’s in a six-man match against Eddie Peak, American Buffalo and someone else and that he needs to find partners. Goldworthy says he’ll help, and we cut to commercial.[/quote'] <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Joshua_Taylor.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ll2gzolcn/Joshua_Taylor.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Versus.png" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/bnrg6oiwn/Versus.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Wolf_Hawkins_alt3.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/rm05wtkuf/Wolf_Hawkins_alt3.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> w/<img alt="Heather_B_small.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/yioewwmtz/Heather_B_small.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>It’s time for the main event! After the chaotic ending to the match this week, will we get a more decisive finish this time out? Josh Taylor is out first. He’s still banged up and clearly hurting from last week’s war. Unlike pretty much the rest of TCW, he comes to the ring without a manager. Periodically, Taylor looks down at his left fist—clearly, he still feels bad about using the brass knuckles from last week. As he comes down the tecnico entrance ramp, he stops to high-five some kids, and lingers extra-long at a little boy with a “Josh Taylor: The New Tradition of Excellence” t-shirt. When Wolf and Heather come to the ring, the story is different. This week, Wolf wears a “Big Dog’s Yard—No B****es Allowed” shirt, and Heather wears the barely-there version of the same thing. Hawkins, too, periodically motions to his left fist, but he looks to be mocking Taylor rather than encouraging any kind of remorse. On the down side of this one, it’s the fourth matchup between these guys in the last four weeks. On the bright side, they’re two of the best pure wrestlers on the planet right now and this best-of-seven means we have a built-in great match on every show. There’s a lot of back-and-forth offense in this one—I’d compare this match to a piece of music. It starts slow, with lots of strikes and holds; a couple big dropkicks from Wolf here, a throw from Taylor there. As the minutes go on, it builds to a crescendo culminating in a flurry of offense for Hawkins that leads to “The Big Dog” going up top for a Big Dog Down at around the 13-minute mark. The two is actually a really close two and a half—Taylor just barely manages to get the shoulder up in time. Somehow, a couple minutes later, it’s “The New Tradition” who’s on the front foot. He uses a judo throw to take Hawkins down and goes to work on “The Big Dog’s” left arm. Fortunately for Wolf, he’s got a manager who has a degree of wrestling intelligence to go along with her looks. Heather comes up on the apron and starts berating referee Ray Johnson for some imagined slight, forcing Johnson to turn away and stop checking on what’s going on. Hawkins fights out of the armbar and hits Taylor low while Johnson is distracted, then rolls to the outside to regroup. “The New Tradition” soon follows. They brawl outside the ring for a minute or so but somehow manage to get back in before Johnson hits a ten-count. A huge full nelson slam from Taylor puts Hawkins down, then “The New Tradition” hits a lungblower for a near-fall. He follows up with a Butterfly Lock arm triangle and it looks like Taylor will win this one at the 22-minute mark or so, but Hawkins manages to force a rope break and roll to the outside. Taylor follows. Suddenly, though, Marat Khoklov is hopping the barrier! A huge clothesline puts Taylor down, and then the “Russian Nightmare” hits an enormous gorilla press slam on the downed Hawkins. Needless to say, neither man can beat Ray Johnson’s ten-count, so the match is declared a draw.</div></blockquote> WINNER: Draw (double count-out); Josh Taylor leads 2-1-1. <img alt="80.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/f8tr8ub2f/80.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Marat_Khoklov.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/8zw2k10qv/Marat_Khoklov.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Joshua_Taylor.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ll2gzolcn/Joshua_Taylor.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="Wolf_Hawkins_alt3.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/rm05wtkuf/Wolf_Hawkins_alt3.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Khoklov goes to work on Taylor and Hawkins' date=' but unlike the last two weeks, they manage to fight back. Hawkins momentarily backs off, allowing Taylor to brawl with the Russian giant, but a huge boot puts “The New Tradition” on the floor. Hawkins takes his turn, but again Khoklov gets the advantage. After putting Hawkins down with a massive right hand, Khoklov starts to go after Heather! She turns and runs up the ramp, and Khoklov turns back around—into a left hand with the brass knuckles from Taylor! “The New Tradition” had them on him the whole time! The show closes with Taylor staring at the brass knuckles on his fist over the fallen bodies of Khoklov and Wolf Hawkins.[/quote'] <img alt="85.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/dh0sdyuaf/85.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> SHOW GRADE: <img alt="80.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/f8tr8ub2f/80.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> RESULTS: Main Event, Best-of-Seven Series Match 4: Wolf Hawkins vs. Joshua Taylor (Taylor leads 2-1-1) (Draw) Mighty Mo vs. Eddie Peak (DQ) TCW World Tag Team Championships: The Behemoths © vs. The New Wave vs. Your New Favorite Tag Team International Championship Open Challenge: Marc Speed © w/ Lisa Bowen vs. Mr. Lucha III w/ Manuel Prieto Bryan Vessey and Jay Chord vs. Ricky Dale Johnson and Human Arsenal <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> OOC: Greg Black signed with USPW for more years and less money. Sigh. I really wanted him. (I wasn't going to offer more than three years; they gave him 5) but I won a ruthless bidding war for KJ (Kirk Jameson). Since I'm currently on the train to Kyoto and the internet is bad, prediction standings will be up on Wednesday night Japan time.</div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div>

Bigpapa42 · March 18, 2018

I've been reading along for a bit. I'm a sucker for TCW, and I've always enjoyed your TCW posts, w4lru5. But somehow I never paid much attention to the front page. Which I now regret. Jon brought it to my attention....

Honored to be any inspiration to any level, w4lru5. And to be mentioned amongst some of my all-time favorite writers... kudos, good sir. Thank you kindly.

Also, your thesis topic sounds fascinating and I, for one, would not at all mind this project turning into an LA sports history lesson.

w4lru5 · March 21, 2018

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Bigpapa42" data-cite="Bigpapa42" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I've been reading along for a bit. I'm a sucker for TCW, and I've always enjoyed your TCW posts, w4lru5. But somehow I never paid much attention to the front page. Which I now regret. Jon brought it to my attention.... Honored to be any inspiration to any level, w4lru5. And to be mentioned amongst some of my all-time favorite writers... kudos, good sir. Thank you kindly. Also, your thesis topic sounds fascinating and I, for one, would not at all mind this project turning into an LA sports history lesson.</div></blockquote> Thanks so much, Bigpapa. I found "Rebuilding the Empire" somehow way back when and it's what made me aware of TEW--I read every word of it and it was amazing. As for this being a sports history lesson, well, at some point soon, it'll probably become that (the next Manuel entry will be related......). --- The next entry should be up at the end of the day tomorrow. My family just left and I should have some time to write at work tomorrow.

w4lru5 · March 22, 2018

<div style="text-align:center;"><img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <img alt="Manuel_Prieto.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/418k5i4nr/Manuel_Prieto.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I think it is important that every good lucha libre company have a goal, a purpose, an overarching ambition. To simply be presenting Truth is not enough. Just as a luchador needs to be greater than man to have success, so too does a lucha libre company need something more than simply being la iglesia de la lucha. Thanks to my explorations at the library and some reading I have done in the company archives this weekend, I believe that I have found that purpose. Los Angeles is a city, and something more. It is an amalgamation of some of the most diverse peoples and cultures that have existed in the same place at the same time. We must strive to reach a point where we are Los Angeles embodied in a lucha libre company. And, as a man named JK Stallings, Jr. failed to recognize, Los Angeles es mas que Hollywood. To explain what I mean, I must begin with a story. In 1997, a 16-year-old technology billionaire decided to live the dream of many fans and found his own lucha libre company. He looked up to the large characters and powerful men of the world of movies. Thus, when his company was being born, it looked there for inspiration. As any good lucha libre company should, it had many characters who were larger than life. It strove to tell stories that were right out of movies, but it did not create new stars. It simply signed men who had made their names and their fortunes elsewhere. It rinsed and repeated tropes and tales that had been popular in lucha libre for many years. It even had a name that was almost “Hollywood—“ the “Hollyweird Grappling Company.” And, ultimately, it failed. Señor Stallings ran out of money to pour into his pet project that had never found a soul. When he sold it to Tommy Cornell, the money and the spirit switched places. And yet there was still something missing. Where the Supreme Wrestling Federation, United States Pro Wrestling and GLLM have gone wrong is that, while they have a spirit, it is not the right one. Their religion is money. Mine is lucha libre. They want to appeal to everybody in an effort to find as much commercial success as possible. We cannot do that—there is already too much competition for that place. Instead, we will strive to embody the community we are in. We cannot pretend that everything is perfect, for it isn’t. Will that be pushing the envelope, as Brian likes to say, for a lucha libre company? Yes. As I want it to.</div></blockquote> <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> Soon, TCW will be Los Angeles—with its diversity and, importantly, its flaws. <img alt="Honor_Eternal.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/yd2dfn0s7/Honor_Eternal.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> TCW Honor Eternal 2016; Manhattan National Center (announced matches) Main Event, TCW World Heavyweight Championship: Aaron "Ace" Andrews © vs. Sammy Bach TCW World Tag Team Championships: The Behemoths (Titan and Killer Shark) © w/ Shane Sneer vs. Your New Favorite Tag Team (12 Gauge and KJ) Best-of-7 Series Match 5: Joshua Taylor (2-1-1) vs. Wolf Hawkins (1-2-1) "The Legend Killer" Jay vs. Human Arsenal <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45050" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>PLUS: Leroy Sayeed debuts' date=' hometown hero "The Kosher Colossus" Rocky Golden in trios action and much more! Join us live at 7 on America 1 Select and PPV Services this Sunday live from the historic MNC in New York City![/quote'] <img alt="Banner.jpg" data-src="https://s5.postimg.org/ae2tiwtjr/Banner.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> OOC: First of all, I don't want to post the full PPV card--we need some surprises! The next post, which will be the last before the PPV, is going to be a bit of a history lesson. If that doesn't interest you, please check back on Saturday night/Sunday morning Japan time for the PPV. If anyone correctly predicts the participants and outcome of another PPV match that isn't an "announced match," you get 2 bonus points.</div></blockquote></div>

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