A proposal from the PWA efed

[Hollywood]

The PWA, as you may or may not know, is one of our affiliates here in SNW. I spoke with Rob, the main man in charge there, not too long ago and he made a proposal for somewhat of an interpromotional angle, but I want to get all of your feedback first. With his permission, I am going to paste the convo that Rob and I had concerning this idea:

(3:31:35 PM) Reprobate: the champion (frank) chooses to defend the title at one of your shows
(3:31:40 PM) Reprobate: against your best writer/wrestler
(3:31:45 PM) Reprobate: the match goes the time limit, but both agree to go to sudden death five minutes wherein a winner will be chosen by the referee if a pin is not reached
(3:31:49 PM) Reprobate: washington ends up defending by cheating
(3:31:53 PM) Reprobate: this can lead to a little interfed rivalry
(3:31:56 PM) Reprobate: which culminates in a tournament consisting of us vs you matches
(3:32:03 PM) Reprobate: the winner becomes number one contender to the interbrand title
(3:32:09 PM) Reprobate: i see it as win/win, we both get some extra writers and some nice filler in the shows
(3:32:13 PM) Reprobate: matches can alternate from PWA to your fed

I'm going to include a link to the belt description so you have a better idea of what Rob and I were talking over.

premierewrestling.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=pwadiscussion&action=display&thread=507

Leave your thoughts here in this thread.

[tylerstraven]

Were do i sign up lol

[Versus & Tiger]

I'm in, great concept.

[tylerstraven]

yeah i had a look around PWA looks good and the rper's there seem like there pretty dam good would be good for guys like me who dont have any fueds going at the mo

[Bubba JD]

i'll look around the site & see what i think of them, before i commit to an answer.



EDIT: i like what i see. i'll give this a shot.

[tylerstraven]

there 3 of us depending on how many Verses is going to use lol

[sh17]

I'm pretty much against this idea, and the base reason being it serves no real point. What exactly does SNW get except a fifth title when we are struggling to manage four, a bunch of people to worry about booking when we are already putting together big cards with 8 and 9 matches with only two writers, and storylines that we now have to work around people who don't even work for SNW? That's it, we get nothing. We get complications with no real benefit. Plus, we aren't even getting a fair match at this to start? You are expecting one of our superstars to pretty much just concede that "Yeah, we'll lay down for this." Which is the wrong message to be sending. We shouldn't be letting someone else, be they an affiliate or not, to have some other fed come in and dictate terms is rolling over and showing them our belly. We get nothing out of this, plain and simple.

[Hollywood]

I have to back Shaggy up on this. Asking if we can put one of his guys over aside, the logistics of this would turn into a clusterfuck, not to mention the egos that could get involved and possibility of biased judging of RPs. Everyone is still welcome to leave their two cents, but at this time, I'm going to respectfully decline this offer for now.

[sh17]

Think about it like this. When has an interpromotional title ever worked in actual wrestling? Answer, in the big feds it never has.

[Bubba JD]

i'll respect the decision of the bosses on this. i'll admit that it's a bit of a mark out moment for me, when i saw that there could be an interpromotional angle going on. logically speaking, there'd be an insane amount of problems.

plus, as pointed out, Shaggy & Matt are having enough problems trying to book & write shows, as it is. if they did this, there'd be several deserving people getting assed out of the shows because of this. i know i wouldn't like it if i was one of those people getting assed out.

[sh17]

Plus like I said earlier JD, the way I read it was proposed was that one of our guys would have to take a fall regardless. I don't like that, and it sounds pretty chickenshit to do it that way. The logistics just don't seem to work out.

[Bubba JD]

the only way i could justify taking a fall on anything is if it served a bigger purpose. like, i've taken deliberate jobs before, because storylines needed it to happen. i've taken backsteats to people in order to help build them up. for stuff like that, i don't mind taking a fall.

however, i know that it's just my take on things. i know that many people here wouldn't be so willing to sacrifice themselves like that, without getting something in return.

[sh17]

I look at taking falls like that just like you do. To serve some sort of purpose, be it advancing a storyline, giving a guy a rub, or something like that. This would really serve us at SNW, since this isn't our title it's another fed's. We need to worry about SNW, not some other fed.

[SiMox]

A one and off interfed match or event is good. It can maybe raise some awareness for all feds involved and it don't add a lot of stress to the staff of both feds. But this is a horse of another color. This is about an interfed title, which will do nothing but add more pressure to Matt and Shaggy here and possibly people over there on staff as well and cause nothing but problems. Having an interfed title to worry about would mean that the staff has another title to worry about and who to put in contention for it. It also means the staff has to come up with more storylines, angles and potentially feuds. Plus, the way things go here in SNW, not everyone gets booked every week. Having a title like this to worry about and people coming in from PWA for these title matches only would possibly take away other matches between two SNW guys that could further a feud or whatever they may be having.

I have to say no on this, because of the reasons above and plus I've been in interfeds and seen titles like this in the past and they NEVER work and almost ALWAYS seem to cause a serious rift between the staff of all feds involved.