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<div style="text-align:center;"><p><strong><span style="font-size:14px;">LIONESSES OF WRESTLING IV: LIVE!</span></strong></p></div><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

Saturday, week 4 January 2020</p><p>

Gloucester Street Youth Centre</p><p>

Attendance: 66</p><p>

Not broadcast</p><p>

Commentary: None</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

</p><ul><li>Sakuyama is in the ring with a microphone. As promised, she will put her title on the line tonight, and her opponent will be Rajni Smith. Rajni should know, though, that she will need to bring her absolute best if she wants to win, because Sakuyama is fire forged, and it’ll take more than trash talking to defeat her. - <strong>D-</strong><br /></li></ul><p></p><p> </p><p>

</p><ul><li>Abbi continues to heat up as she faces off with Assassin. Although she takes a fair bit of punishment from the emotionless masked woman’s quick hands and merciless submissions, she’s able to cover up and defend herself, reach the ropes to break holds. As the fans start to get invested, Abbi starts feeling it in turn, and responds by putting forth even more effort. The momentum shifts, and when Assassin goes for a high atomic drop, Abbi grabs her head on the way down and slam dunks the cutter for the win. - <strong>E-</strong><br /></li></ul><p></p><p> </p><p>

</p><ul><li>Aviator Agarwal cheerfully makes her way out to the ring, but she’s halfway there when Shinobi ambushes her from behind! The dastardly ninja lays in a big time beating, and by the time she’s done, Agarwal has to be helped to the back by the ringside crew. Bosun Bakshi emerges shortly thereafter, and struts like a plundering peacock as she is awarded the match by forfeit, sparking wild celebrations with Cap’n Swann. Yes that just happened. - <strong>E+</strong><br /></li></ul><p></p><p> </p><p>

</p><ul><li>Blue Ranger (copyright suit pending) comes out to face Ellen Ward, but hardly makes it out of the starting blocks for most of the match thanks to Ward’s laser focus. She’s clearly furious about losing out on a title opportunity, but keeps her temper under control and just dismantles the poor Ranger, beating her from pillar to post. A brief glimmer as Ranger manages to block a suplex and hit her own, but Ward breaks free from a chinlock, front kicks Ranger on the rise, and then smashes her with a glittering magician knee. - <strong>E-</strong><br /></li></ul><p></p><p> </p><p>

</p><ul><li>Before the main event, Rajni has acquired the microphone and uses the next few minutes to rip into Sakuyama—if that’s even her real name! She questions her training and applies some classic math logic that Ellen beat Sakuyama and Rajni beat Ellen, therefore Rajni is better than Sakuyama (she conveniently ignores her own losses). Anyway, fire doesn’t beat smarts, and Sakuyama isn’t the brightest button in the box. Bring it on. - <strong>D-</strong><br /></li></ul><p></p><p>

</p><ul><li><br /> <br /></li><li>This goes a bit longer than it needed to and continues to expose that Rajni can talk for England but wrestle for Peterborough at best. A few mistakes, Rajni’s utter inability to keep to a script, and just plain inexperience drag the contest down. Nonetheless, the two of them do their best and we get a rudimentary story of the weaselly heel squirming out of the righteous babyface’s clutches, up until she doesn’t. Rajni tries a repeat of her roll up gambit, but Sakuyama kicks out and Rajni panics, promptly catching a well-earned beating that concludes with the Kagawa Driver 20. - <strong>F+</strong><br /></li></ul><p></p><p> </p><p>

SHOW RATING: <strong>E-</strong></p>

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Play some soccer management sims. You'll get the first line in short order. The second one someone else is going to have to help you with.

 

Yeah, I barely got that one myself. Then again, that might be because I stick to Serie A and LaLiga in FM and avoid England like the plague.

 

Oh and White Dolphin, I would imagine money might be an issue as to why they didn't go to WWA. Corporate owned chain of schools is either going to be crap and expensive or really good and super expensive.

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"Rajni can talk for England but wrestle for Peterborough at best."

 

Oof.

 

I love Rajni but she is very not-good.

 

You're really doing Posh dirty in this one

 

:D

 

Posh took me a second as well to be fair, but yeah, tryker tells the gist of it.

 

Thanks for the comments everyone, they're a real motivator and do a lot to encourage my creative engines to keep getting fired up.

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I love Rajni but she is very not-good.

My feelings exactly!

 

I noticed from the first show that her matches got the worst ratings. I'm thinking you gave her the Scatterbrained attribute? I've found that one's a bigger drawback than it sounds like.

 

I'm still getting an Aviator Agarwal t-shirt though. And I'm wearing a cap and goggles to the show.

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Great writing, I´m really enjoying reading this and Abbi is quickly becoming one my favorite fictional character in these boards.

 

Cheers Zergon, I appreciate that.

 

She's a good kid.

 

My feelings exactly!

 

I noticed from the first show that her matches got the worst ratings. I'm thinking you gave her the Scatterbrained attribute? I've found that one's a bigger drawback than it sounds like.

 

I'm still getting an Aviator Agarwal t-shirt though. And I'm wearing a cap and goggles to the show.

 

Yeah she does have scatterbrained, and as we will later see, I myself am apparently the scatterbrained one as I keep forgetting so her matches continue to get bigger penalties.

 

Our resident flygirl appreciates your support.

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I'm planning on releasing the British wrestlers I created for my IndyBooster mod: it's potentially going to be a while before I get to the UK, but when I do, I'm open to including the LoW girls, probably with some adjustments to accommodate for LoW not existing : )
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<p></p><div style="text-align:center;"><img alt="SHkkCoa.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/SHkkCoa.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="TYEqcIO.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/TYEqcIO.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

One whole month of LoW. This was finally starting to feel real. People were still coming back week on week, they were starting to invest, not just into our actual selves but the off the cuff goofy extras that we’d invented to fill out the extra time. Agarwal was getting some reactions, which was I think more surprising to Raj than anyone else. </p><p> </p><p>

Still, a month of wrestling. Wow. More than I’d ever thought that I was going to get back last November, when 21CW turned me down. The money was still kind of a concern; I’d finished the financials on Friday and had to put them down because they were giving me anxiety. I was topping the LoW fund up out of my savings account, and if that was overflowing, I would have bought WWA training instead of chancing my arm on the National School of Wrestling. Hopefully we’d get to a place where the costs were at least matched by the gains. I’d known from the start that this would be the situation I found myself in, but just as the company was feeling real, so were the bills.</p><p> </p><p>

I stood outside the Youth Centre, wrapped up in my hoodie and impatiently stamping my feet to fight off the cold. The others were dragging their heels, as per usual. I was always the first person ready, and tonight I didn’t fancy hanging about: I was sore and needed a shower.</p><p> </p><p>

“Oi.”</p><p> </p><p>

I looked up from my feet and blinked with surprise. An older woman, forties maybe, had rocked up and was giving me a look I could only describe as sizing me up. “Uh, yeah?”</p><p> </p><p>

“Decent show,” she said. “Not bad for rookies.” Her accent was a little Cockney, but had a slight burr to it I couldn’t work out, like she’d spent a long time living away.</p><p> </p><p>

I did my best not to bristle at the backhanded compliment. “Thanks. We’re only going to get better.”</p><p> </p><p>

“Right enough. Not <em>quickly</em>, mind, with just the four of you.”</p><p> </p><p>

“Well, this is what we have,” I replied, a little more defensively than I would have liked. Okay, random woman. Didn’t ask for your criticism, and I was too tired to deal with someone getting all insider on me.</p><p> </p><p>

“You’re the one in charge, yeah?”</p><p> </p><p>

I nodded.</p><p> </p><p>

“Are you putting all these matches together yourself?”</p><p> </p><p>

“Mostly.”</p><p> </p><p>

There was that sizing look again. “It shows.”</p><p> </p><p>

Okay that was enough. “Sorry but who are you?”</p><p> </p><p>

Her eyebrows rose and she chuckled ruefully. “Now there’s a whack to the old pride, not being recognised.”</p><p> </p><p>

“Should I?” I said, beginning to feel combative.</p><p> </p><p>

She laughed properly then. “Cheeky so-and-so!” She stuck out a hand. “Debra Schwartz.”</p><p> </p><p>

Huh. I actually did recognise that name. I tentatively accepted the handshake. Her grip was clammy, and I quickly extracted my hand. “You worked for UCR, right?” </p><p> </p><p>

“That I did,” she replied. I wasn’t totally certain, but she looked a little impressed. “Did okay for myself.”</p><p> </p><p>

‘Okay’ was almost too generous. Her first run in ‘98, the company had barely had a functional women’s division in the first place, and she certainly wasn’t the centrepiece. The second go round, between 2003 and 2007, she’d been hot enough to be in the title picture exactly once, and if I remembered rightly, had been decisively flattened by Geena Warrior Princess while the company built up a kind of monster versus monster story with her and Alpha Female. Still an order of magnitude beyond anything I’d accomplished and anyone I’d expected to be coming to our shows.</p><p> </p><p>

“I didn’t realise you lived in England now,” I said.</p><p> </p><p>

“Came back home after the wheels fell off. Happily retired.”</p><p> </p><p>

“Right.” We stood there awkwardly for a few seconds. “Um. Thanks for coming.”</p><p> </p><p>

“Of course, does the old heart good to see women’s wrestling. We’ve never had so much as a division in a major company over here.”</p><p> </p><p>

No kidding. There was little wonder no British women’s wrestler had ever made her name without moving abroad. How many people like me were out there who had all the passion in the world but couldn’t travel to chase that dream? I nodded.</p><p> </p><p>

“When I heard about you girls, I had to take a look, and knowing that you don’t have anyone to help with the matches, well…” she smiled. “I’d be interested in signing up. Help show you the ropes, maybe kick this scene’s arse into gear. Having an experienced hand can do wonders.”</p><p> </p><p>

Oh. Um. Wasn’t sure how to answer that. “Yeah?”</p><p> </p><p>

“Yup. Not pulling your leg. Although…” she trailed off, looked me up and down. I was really starting to dislike that particular bit of scrutiny. “Well. If I sign up, maybe you can do me a favour too.”</p><p> </p><p>

“What… kind of favour?”</p><p> </p><p>

“My sprog is a wrestler. There’s sweet fanny adams for places over here for her to get work, and she won’t make a go of it over in Germany. If I help you out, then she’s in, too.”</p><p> </p><p>

“Uh, this is all really nice of you but, well…” I sighed. “I’m skint. Anything we make off tickets is going straight back into renting the building and thank you takeaways for the volunteers.” Admitting that to someone—someone who had actual professional experience in the industry—killed me a little inside. We had to look like peak school children playing at wrestling to her. </p><p> </p><p>

“There’s a point.” Debra stroked her chin. “Right then. I’ll do you one better.” A slight smile tugged at her lips. “Me and the sprog come aboard, then you and me get together to have a gander at some workers. We reach out to a few of ‘em, and I’ll cover their costs for a year.”</p><p> </p><p>

I squinted at her, trying to decide if she was having me on. She couldn’t be offering to do this just out of the goodness of her heart. “What’s the catch?”</p><p> </p><p>

Debra chuckled. “No catch, swear down. You’re onto something here, and I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if I just let the first women’s company over here just pop its clogs. We need something like LoW.”</p><p> </p><p>

“Right.” I paused. “You know I can’t really give you anything for this.”</p><p> </p><p>

She grinned. “Do me that favour, and we’ll call it even.” She produced her hand again. “We have a deal?”</p><p> </p><p>

This still seemed too good to be true. Funding the workers? Helping with the matches? All of this basically for free, and asking nothing in return except to bring in her daughter. Not even <em>push</em> her daughter, just have her on the roster. She wasn't asking me to sign anything though or give her part of the company or creative control, and she have that experience, far, far more than anyone else I could claim to be in contact with. And... well, if we were to get anywhere, then ultimately, we needed more than just the four of us playing dress-up attempting to copycat matches we'd seen on TV or online. Other wrestlers would do absolute wonders for us, and having someone help with the matches would take a massive load off my shoulders, let me distribute the load more evenly, have the pass fewer responsibilities to the others. I couldn't hope to afford to bring in outside talent on my own budget, but having them, that was what allow us to grow, maybe even establish ourselves as a real company.</p><p> </p><p>

It was the difference between starting the scene <em>now</em> and starting it after two years of struggle, hoping that nothing ever went wrong. What if Rajni or Abbi quit or moved away? What if someone got hurt? What if I lost my job and all the money stopped?</p><p> </p><p>

Slowly, hesitantly, I reached out and took her hand.</p><p> </p><p>

Looking at her smile, I wondered if I wasn’t making a huge mistake.</p><p> </p><p>

NB: I have not added any money to LoW’s coffers here. However, it is part of the IC justification as to why LoW can operate ‘in the red’ when it’s owned and staffed by teenagers. That said, I do feel that the operational costs of Insignificant promotions on this extreme low end are a bit on the high side… but LoW almost doesn’t warrant Insignificant status, it’s essentially backyard. Just some musings.</p>

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Y'know, that's a pretty fair point.

 

I guess Londoners turn up for women's wrestling.

 

You'd have to imagine there were other companies too tiny to be worth dropping into c-verse canon... maybe, but otherwise, it is kind of odd to think that LoW is the first company to majorly promote women in the UK ever in the Cverse. XD

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<p>Debra and I spent the next couple of evenings talking wrestlers, and then I spent the next few days making phone calls and sending emails. I didn’t feel great about spending somebody else’s money, but my bargaining position wasn’t amazing and I couldn’t really haggle down people whose asking prices were in the double figures. Low double figures. There <em>were</em> bigger names out there on the scene, for a given value of both name and scene, but I doubted that they’d be interested or affordable: Debra had made it clear she wasn’t going to pick up travel, for one.</p><p> </p><p> What took me off guard was that all three of the women I spoke to had already heard about LoW. One of them even cheerfully remarked that she’d been waiting for my call. Our attendance was slowly creeping up, but I’d had no idea that we were generating anywhere close to enough buzz to actually show up on the wrestling radar. Nuts, totally nuts.</p><p> </p><p> By the Friday after I first met Debra, everything was agreed, and I was sending out confirmations to everyone about the card. The fliers weren’t as good as normal, since we’d had to more just advertise the show was happening rather than any of the matches, but it would do the job for this week at least.</p><p> </p><p> Something like two in the morning, I read over Debra’s email one more time. Her first thoughts on our roster. My roster.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <em>Now we’re done and dusted with the deals, I thought I’d have a gander at everything and let you know what I reckon about what we’ve got. Take it from me, it helps to get a view from the outside now and then, especially when you don’t have much point of comparison. No offence.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <img alt="pWijXOZ.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/pWijXOZ.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> <strong>Abbi Archer</strong></p><p> <em>You don’t need me to tell you that she lacks confidence, and that’s a big knock. She’s got a natural underdog thing going and while I don’t really get the whole transgenderism malarky, the crowds have warmed to her. Call me an old fogey. Look; the fans want to believe in her, but how are they supposed to do that when she doesn’t believe in herself? </em></p><p> (Also plays Masked Damsel and Blue Ranger)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <img alt="FSWEYws.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/FSWEYws.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> <strong>Countess</strong></p><p> <em>Green, but she’s a good promo, cause she’s spent most of her time in the business as a manager. Has actually studied drama if you can believe that; going to uni for acting. Maybe this is how she’ll launch her career on Corrie? Reckon she can do some good business for us if you let her talk and build up her skills at the same time.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <img alt="SHkkCoa.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/SHkkCoa.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> <strong>Ellen Ward</strong></p><p> <em>Not gonna mince words just cause you’re the boss: you’re wet behind the ears and probably a little worse in the ring than you think you are. Keep your feet on the ground and don’t let your eyes get bigger than your stomach, and that goes for both the book and the company, mind. Anyway, you’ve managed to grab some attention for you and LoW, and quickly at that. Good job, but don’t forget how far you have to go.</em></p><p> (Also plays Cap'n Swann and Assassin)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <img alt="d1AJeyq.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/d1AJeyq.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> <strong>Lottie Lace</strong></p><p> <em>You’ve seen Lotso work already because you watch 5-star: sure you don’t need me to point out that that proves she’s got something going for her. Could stand to lose a bit of the tum but she works her socks off and she’s getting better all the time. Best possible pickup for the price, for my money, and it is my money, so you know I’m talking sense.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <img alt="AgRlr4T.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/AgRlr4T.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> <strong>Rajni Smith</strong></p><p> <em>You and I both know that she’s a bit naff in the ring. Not sure if she doesn’t care or doesn’t remember, but it’s not a good look to mess up your spots when the other workers in there really need the script to make things work. I’ll say this much: she’s a natural on the mic. I’ve seen TV promos that are worse at playing off the crowds than she is. You ask me, she’ll get bored of wrestling inside a year, in which case you should try and keep her as a personality at least.</em></p><p> (Also plays Aviator Agarwal and Bosun Bakshi)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <img alt="TsyGKN4.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/TsyGKN4.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> <strong>Sakuyama</strong></p><p> <em>Okay, she likes joshi, I get it. The gear is professional and that’s it: I’ve got no idea how so many of the fans are buying into her. Maybe it’s believable when you’ve not been there for a real joshi match. For her sake she’d better not go over to Japan any time soon and think she’ll get over. Enough ragging though, I reckon she was as good a choice as any for your first champ, but keep an eye on the performances when it comes to deciding if she’s the one to carry the show.</em></p><p> (Also plays Ronin and Shinobi)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <img alt="UTQkpNO.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/UTQkpNO.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> <strong>Samba Barnes</strong></p><p> <em>Samba’s a good egg. Enthusiastic, always willing to listen. Glad we got her. Still a bit raw, though, so she’s not as steady a hand as she will be in a couple of years’ time. Wind her up and watch her go, and she’ll have the crowd in no time.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <img alt="wt4RxCW.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/wt4RxCW.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> <strong>Svenja Schwartz</strong></p><p> <em>She’s got what the rest of you don’t, and that’s seasoning. In my professional (professional, not mum) opinion, if she didn’t spend so much time on her day job and had made a proper go of it, she’d be winning the EWA title round about now. She’s more than halfway decent and has room to improve. Hard to believe she’s six years older than you rookies. They grow up too damn fast.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <strong>Staff</strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <img alt="TYEqcIO.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/TYEqcIO.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> <strong>Debra Schwartz</strong></p><p> <em>Bet you’re glad you’ve got a safe pair of hands to put the matches together now, eh?</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <img alt="RtdfAL0.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/RtdfAL0.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> <strong>Vivienne Ward</strong></p><p> <em>She’s… trying, I’ll give her that. Probably cheaper than a real ref but it shows that she isn’t. Up to you to weigh up how you feel about that.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> I closed the email down and sat back. She definitely said it straight, but she made some good points. Would have to keep an eye on her to make sure she didn’t say anything to Abbi in person like she had just there. Not on, and I’d tell her as much before the show. Abbi had been through too much s**t for me to open her up to insensitive comments.</p><p> </p><p> I looked at the notepad alongside my desk where I’d written out the card. Almost looked like a real show laid out on there.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <strong>Lionesses of Wrestling V: Live!</strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="49019" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Masked Damsel vs. Ellen Ward<p> </p><p> Abbi Archer vs. Countess</p><p> </p><p> Cap'n Swann & Bosun Bakshi vs. Lottie Lace & Samba Barnes</p><p> </p><p> LOW BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIP</p><p> Sakuyama © vs. Svenja Schwartz</p></div></blockquote>
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<p>Masked Damsel vs. <strong>Ellen Ward</strong></p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Abbi Archer</strong> vs. Countess</p><p> </p><p>

Cap'n Swann & Bosun Bakshi vs. <strong>Lottie Lace & Samba Barnes</strong></p><p> </p><p>

LOW BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIP</p><p>

<strong>Sakuyama</strong> © vs. Svenja Schwartz</p>

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Masked Damsel vs. Ellen Ward

Cosplay characters (for lack of better term) seem to have been mostly losing so far unless they face each other´s and I assume that haven´t changed so giving this one to Ellen.

 

Abbi Archer vs. Countess

Could see this one going either way but Abbi is more established at the moment so picking her here.

 

Cap'n Swann & Bosun Bakshi vs. Lottie Lace & Samba Barnes

New girls get a win to start them up strong.

 

LOW BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIP

Sakuyama © vs. Svenja Schwartz

From the roster review, sounds like Svenja might be most ready wrestler out from everyone but I don´t see Sakuyama dropping the belt this quickly.

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Masked Damsel vs. Ellen Ward

 

Abbi Archer vs. Countess

Never gonna vote against my girl

 

Cap'n Swann & Bosun Bakshi vs. Lottie Lace & Samba Barnes

Real people win every time I think

 

LOW BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIP

Sakuyama © vs. Svenja Schwartz

It's the bosses daughter. (If she has the wallet, she's the boss)

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I smelled food as I walked into our inverted commas locker room, and stopped short when I saw that one of the round tables had been snagged to host four large pizzas, one with ‘VEGAN’ messily scrawled on the box. Rajni, Debra and a couple of the newcomers were standing around it, chatting and eating.

 

“Hey boss!” someone chirped from one side.

 

I glanced over and saw the smiling figure of Samba Barnes. She was the first and easiest phone call, the one who’d told me she was wondering when I’d reach out to her. “Hi, Samba.”

 

“Though I’d bring a little housewarming present,” she said, walking over to shake my hand, which I took.

 

I found myself smiling too. “That’s nice of you. Welcome to LoW.”

 

“Happy to be here, boss,” she replied. “Been waiting so long for there to be a company for us. Don’t have the cash to be flying to Europe all the time to maybe get bookings.”

 

“Yeah.” I felt that. It was pretty much the main reason I’d even started this hare-brained promotion up. There was talent here, but it was getting wasted in the UK. There’d be maybe two women’s matches on any given indy show in Britain and that was it if you wanted to see women’s wrestling. Until us.

 

“Noticed there’s no Vokesy or Patterson about,” said Samba. “You using them?”

 

“Ah, uh…” Charlotte Vokes and Viola Patterson were probably the two best British wrestlers out there who weren’t already in EWA. Top 4, easily. Their rivalry was big enough that an indy show could give it third, maybe even second billing and expect it to draw. Unfortunately, Debra’s generosity with funding didn’t quite cover the price tag that either of them commanded: a hundred quid a night was too much for her, not unless we started really racing up the ladder.

 

Samba was looking at me expectantly. I shook my head. “The budget is pretty tight. Maybe later in the year.”

 

“Fair enough.” She looked disappointed, my stomach did a little flipflop. “Good meeting you. Let’s talk about our match in a few, yeah? Going to do the rounds.”

 

“Sure thing.” Samba nodded and walked across the room to introduce herself to Lottie Lace, who seemed to be telling my sister off about something. I listened in for a second; being rude and not saying hello was around the size of it. Well, okay.

 

I felt bad about not being able to bring in the best talent available, but money was too tight for me to splash it around hiring every single woman in Britain. Once we found our feet and start to actually be financially stable, that was when we’d have the kind of roster that let us live up to the billing of the best women’s company in town. Best by default wasn’t good enough, not for me. I wanted quality, I wanted this all to actually mean something, to be more than novelty.

 

My stomach gurgled.

 

Uh… maybe that wasn’t anxiety.

 

I looked to the pizza table. Well, if food was going...

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