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MWA - This Means War! (C-Verse Diary)
New Beginnings
The Garrison Bar, Minneapolis, Minnesota The Mid-West Territory 11:45 PM, December 31st, 2009 “What ya drinkin’, hon?” I glanced up at the waitress. Maybe twenty years ago, she would have been pretty enough to flirt with. But then again, twenty years ago I was only twelve, so I doubt she would have noticed me. “Coke,” I replied. She gave me a startled look. Most everyone else in the Garrison were downing beers like water. A young couple had already ordered champagne, retreating to a darkened corner. I was probably the only one in the bar who wasn’t going to ring in the New Year at least pleasantly buzzed. But two years ago, I had to share a car with Rip Chord as we drove from SWF headquarters to the Theatre of Dreams in the North West territory. He passed the time telling me old war stories. Trust me, close to two days of Rip Chord’s stories of the “good old days” are enough to put anyone permanently on the wagon. As the waitress left me in my booth, I looked around the bar and sighed. How had my life come to this? Nine months ago, I had been the head booker of the Supreme Wrestling Federation. It seemed like a lifetime ago. Yet I could still hear Richard Eisen’s angry words echo in my ears. “You’re fired!” Within a week of my firing, I sold my house on the East Coast and moved back home to Minneapolis. I was able to pay cash for a modest home in Edina, a pretty prosperous suburb. I didn’t get a job; despite his lack of compassion or integrity, Richard Eisen paid me well. So I found myself in the Midwest, surrounded by soccer moms whose kids wore SWF merchandise. That was a little tough. Shortly after I moved out, I overheard two kids discussing how much Joel Kovach hated Archangel and how they believed he was just biding his time to kill him. I tried to explain that Joel and Archangel were really best friends in real life, but they didn’t believe me, and why should they? It’s not like I was on screen ever; as far as they knew, I was just some creepy guy who thought he knew something about wrestling. Eventually the boredom got to me. I considered applying for the head booking position at AAA when it became available in May. Anne Stardust wouldn’t return my calls, though. I assume she’s still sore at me for stealing Wanda Fish and Missy Masterson. I approached USPW as well, but Danny Jillefski didn’t give me the time of day either; apparently Freddie Datsun wasn’t too pleased with my handling of his career and poisoned Jillefski against me. Even after Sam Strong took over as owner, I couldn’t get a straight answer from anyone at USPW. I even briefly considered asking Tommy Cornell for my job back at TCW; it’d be hard to swallow, but becoming a ref again wouldn’t be that bad. I quickly dismissed that idea. After stealing Wolf Hawkins, Liberty, and mocking him with Joey Beauchamp, I figured it wouldn’t work. Every now and then, I was able to see some of the boys when the SWF came back to the Minnesota Colisseum. Archangel and Joel took me out for a few drinks after the show and filled me in on the gossip. My gaze was drawn to the TV. Someone had turned on America-Sports-1 and Pro Wrestling Hits was once again putting on a year end special to dissect everything that had to do with professional wrestling. I was only vaguely interested. I had already heard much of the news.... 
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01-03-2007, 01:58 PM
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I've noticed a clear attempt to take the backstories to the next level in the diary threads... this one is very good... i'll be reading.
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01-03-2007, 02:00 PM
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ALLRIGHT!! Cant wait
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01-03-2007, 02:22 PM
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OH MY GAWD! The king is back! The king is back!
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01-03-2007, 02:58 PM
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For the full backstory to this diary, http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum...hlight=scapino then thats the place to go
 Needless to say Mr Scapino, I'll be checking this out and stealing your show format in future. Derek B
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01-03-2007, 02:59 PM
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 I know I said in my SWF diary that it might be a while. Setting up everything for this one didn't take quite as long as I expected, so I thought I'd just fire it up.
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01-03-2007, 03:08 PM
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Looking forward to this!
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01-03-2007, 04:15 PM
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Now MaxxHexx Edina may be the richest place in MN but there are still modest places in the Suburb of Edina.
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01-03-2007, 11:39 PM
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The Year That Was
The show discussed some of the happenings overseas. They referred to 2009 as the year of the Japanese Invasion, discussing how there had been a big shake-up overseas as the Burning Hammer of the Wrestling Gods fractured and a group split off to form INSPIRE, whatever that was. Truth be told, aside from stealing Yoshimi Mushashibo and bringing him to the SWF, I didn’t follow Japanese wrestling too much. After going through the European, the British, the Mexican, and the Canadian promotions, they turned their attention to the United States Promotions. First they discussed the two new promotions that opened in the U.S. The first was called Babes of Sin City. The hosts derided it as not a real wrestling company, being little more than a strip club. I hadn’t heard that much about it, so it was hard for me to judge. The other promotion was founded by Professor Nero shortly after I was fired. Called Rhode Island Pro Wrestling, it had had an interesting nine month run so far. The commentators weren’t able to get anyone from RIPW to talk to them, so they could only speculate as to why Professor Nero left the SWF and formed his own company. I knew a little more than they did. It turns out that Nero was extremely upset by the way my career at the SWF ended and protested. Richard Eisen fired him on the spot. I didn’t realize I meant that much to the old man; oddly, he didn’t contact me about his new venture. He did snap up Nevada Nuclear and a few off-casts of the defunct MAW promotion though. The talked about AAA and USPW (which recently signed a deal for a TV show after Sam Strong took over the company). TCW had a relatively uneventful year that ended with a bang, namely that Nemesis was retiring from the business. The only other really notable story was that TCW had their first A-rated show in June. And then the commentators turned their attention to the SWF. They lamented the bizarre booking decisions that dominated the latter three-quarters of the year and they wondered what exactly happened to the SWF. Again, I had some of the inside scoop (not that anyone from PWHM bothered to ask me!). A week after I was fired, Richard brought in some clown named Larry Wood to be the head booker. Larry threw out every storyline I had started and began booking the shows like TCW: lots of short matches, most of which made very little sense. For some odd reason, he stopped booking Joey Beauchamp in title defenses; Joey remained the Warmaster for the rest of the year, never defending the title once. If it wasn’t so weird, it’d be funny, seeing that Joey got the title because Tim Westybrook didn’t defend it. He also seemed to love Flex and Pex, who started going by their real names. Within a month, Mikel Alonso (aka Pex) defeated Tim Westybrook out of nowhere. Later that year, Frederique Antonio Garcia became the North American Champion. I guess it worked for them. The one person who suffered from Larry Wood’s odd booking was Wanda Fish. She was only trotted out to fight Katharina Stevanovic at Pay-Per-Views. She defeated Katharina every time, but then she would disappear from SWF TV and shows until the next Pay-Per-View. It was a waste of her talent. Again, the commentators didn’t understand why someone with Wanda’s talent was being so criminally underused. I knew some of the story. From what Joel Kovach told me, Larry Wood propositioned Wanda shortly after he became head booker. Wanda refused and tried to report him for sexual harassment. Richard took Larry’s side and, when Wanda threatened to quit, he then warned her that if she did, Richard would sue her for breach of contract. Joel said Wanda was pretty miserable backstage. I couldn’t blame her. The SWF had some interesting roster changes as well. Robert Oxford was eventually released when his contract expired. Christian Faith left the SWF as well, heading north to Canada for a while before coming back six months later. Richard also stole Steve Gumble from TCW, but he also brought back some people who left over the years. Runaway Train and Groucho Bling were brought back in. The truly bizarre thing was the fact that the SWF seemed to avoid the United States territories like the plague. They went on extended British and Canadian tours, which proved to be a costly mistake. While the SWF itself was very popular in other countries, the wrestler weren’t. As a result, huge foreign audiences came to sit and watch wrestlers they truly didn’t care about. This led to flat audiences that really dragged the quality of the shows down. Because of this, the SWF lost some of its popularity. The commentators remarked that it wasn’t the seemingly unstoppable juggernaut that it had been the year before. This was borne out in PWHM’s choice for the 2009 awards. The Wrestler of the Year was Tadiyuki Kikkawa from BHOTWG. Marc DuBois was named Young Wrestler of the Year. Haruki Kudo was the Veteran Wrestler of the Year. Thunder Hike was the Female Wrestler of the Year. The Most Improved Promotion was PGHW. The SWF still managed to snag Promotion of the Year, along with Match of the Year (The Bumfholes taking on Archangel and Yoshimi Mushashibo on an episode of Warzone in February). The Card of the Year was an episode of Warzone in January. The list of the Top 100 Wrestlers was pretty interesting as well. The top ten were all Japanese wrestlers, starting with Tadiyuki Kikkawa. The SWF didn’t get a representative until #22, namely Remo. Then they disappeared until Randy Bumfhole popped up at #42! In some ways, all of this made me feel a little smug. I didn’t enjoy the fact that some of my friends were doing so badly. But at the same time, I thought it served Richard Eisen right. I finally tore my gaze from the TV. It was silly to torture myself by watching more. That part of my life was over. 2010 would soon be upon me. By my watch, I had fifteen minutes of time to finish my Coke before the year was over and I could finally move on.
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#14
01-04-2007, 08:54 AM
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The Man In Black
The door to the bar banged open, letting a blast of icy air blast through the room. Paulie, the bartender, shouted for whoever it was to get in or get out. I sipped at my Coke. Ten minutes left of 2009. Couldn’t get over quick enough. Someone slid into the booth across from me. It was a middle-aged gentleman wearing a black wool coat. He shook some of the snow from his wide-brimmed hat and smiled at me. “Are you Scapino?” he asked. I shifted in my seat. It had been a while since someone had called me that. “That depends. Who are you?” “Someone with an offer for you. A rather interesting one.” He glanced around the darkened bar. “I’ve been looking for you all over Minneapolis, but I suppose I should have checked the Garrison first. After all, this place was a hotspot for wrestling back in the 70s and early 80s before the SWF killed off all the smaller territorial promotions. As a matter of fact, I’ve heard rumors that the death blow to the territories happened right here in this booth. Richard Eisen signed Rip Chord at the Garrison after seeing him in a show here.” I rolled my eyes. “Not exactly. This is where the jukebox used to be until six months ago. From what Paulie’s told me, Rip signed the contract at the booth over there.” The man’s smile grew bigger. “So you’ve been talking to Paulie about wrestling? Interesting...” “Hardly. He tells everyone about that booth. He doesn’t even know who I am.” “That may have to change. Tell me, what are your plans for 2010 and beyond? Have you given any thought to what you’re going to do with your life now that you’re free of the SWF?” “No, I really haven’t. Good night.” I rose to leave. He snared me by the arm. “Hold on. I may be able to help you make that decision. “Look, let’s face it. Wrestling is in your blood now. Why else would you come to the Garrison? Why else would you so intently watch Pro Wrestling Hit’s year end review? Why else would you putter around that house of yours and not find a job in another field? You and I both know you’d go back to booking in a heartbeat if you could.” I hesitated. Big mistake. His knowing smile spread even wider. “Who are you?” I asked. “A friend. Or, more accurately, I work for someone who wants to be your friend. Or, to be even more accurate than that, I work for someone who has an offer for you.” The man rose. “Follow me. I have something to show you.” He started for the back room. I watched him and then followed him. What the heck. It might be interesting. Last edited by Scapino1974 : 01-04-2007 at 09:56 AM. Reason: Deathblow to the SWF? Hardly!
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