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Post by ICW on Nov 15, 2022 21:29:07 GMT -5
What's up with everyone else? Progress on shows?
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Post by ICW on Nov 9, 2022 0:14:11 GMT -5
Thrilled to say that I have completed 8 of the 11 segments for Nitro
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Post by ICW on Nov 7, 2022 22:10:33 GMT -5
I may be able to hook you up with his complete archive somewhere
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Post by ICW on Oct 31, 2022 21:05:00 GMT -5
Project:Wrestling ep 2 is finally coming along That's great! I am actively working on Nitro right now
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Post by ICW on Oct 31, 2022 21:04:37 GMT -5
Im actually reading through the material you recommended to me. Very good tips possibly in the way of format to be had there. Im considering adopting at least the bracket style format? That's awesome!
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Post by ICW on Oct 29, 2022 11:53:03 GMT -5
How's everyone doing
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Post by ICW on Oct 16, 2022 19:16:08 GMT -5
Big Woman’s angle? Or did you mean women’s? I could easily see you writing for Nancy Benoit. Ha I meant women's angle I'm going to try to keep talent on television in my timeline to as close as they were IRL, meaning Woman probably won't be for long in my fed
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Post by ICW on Oct 10, 2022 18:41:51 GMT -5
I disagree. I thought both of them excelled in both areas. I think the weaknesses for both of them were wasting time on things that could have been spent elsewhere. I don't think either one of them really had a strong women's division in those days and each segment that they spent time on them felt forced. It felt like it was only there out of obligation or because they wanted "sex appeal", that easily hurt the product and carried over to TNA and, when it changed, to WWE. AEW deserves credit because it seems like from the onset they never had this issue. Another thing is when they spent too much time on a story and not enough time in the ring. You see this in the indies, most of their time takes place in the ring, there's hardly any period where you go more than two minutes without a match starting. Anyway, I'm working on my write ups and reading what has been posted. I am very excited about what I have coming up because it's an idea that I started tuning and putting together years ago, so I hope it goes over well. It's probably going to be a year+ before I establish a women's division BUT I have an idea that I'm excited for that involves a big woman's angle
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Post by ICW on Oct 5, 2022 21:31:37 GMT -5
What I loved - MJF vs. Wheeler Yuta ruled. Great match and I missed MJF in the ring. Regal pulling out the brass knocks was great, too. I actually liked MJF being a little conflicted about attacking Yuta because he’s recently praised him a bit.
- Wardlow vs. Brian Cage was a great match. How about that Whisper in the Wind from Wardlow?!? And the return of FTR!!!! Wardlow/Joe/and FTR is some team, eh?
- The Women’s match was great! Willow getting the pin was awesome! I also enjoyed the post-match build involving Saraya
- The Acclaimed segment was fantastic. Grand Slam.
- LMAO at Silver’s PAC imitation
- The sec between Hangman/Mox got me juiced for their eventual match
- Loved the main event match BUT… (see what I didn’t care for)
What I liked
- I thought Darby Allin vs. Jay Lethal was really good, just missed that “oomph” to it
- Dug the set up for Madison Rayne/Skye Blue vs. the JAS girls
- Hangman vs. RUSH was really good but I wish it went longer. Gimme more!
What I didn’t care for
- LOVE Willow but the overacting in her seg w/the Baddies…woof.
- Sammy pinning Garcia even if it was because Jericho cheated TONIGHT OF ALL NIGHTS??!?!
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Post by ICW on Oct 5, 2022 14:50:58 GMT -5
And while I'm here dcw1 here's a review for FIGHT! - Jon Moxley with an expectedly dominant win over Karl Anderson. I’m digging his build-up. - I’m glad to see Willow Nightingale going over in her debut. I’m intrigued with her feuding with Piper Niven… - Loved the sit-down interview with CM Punk. That’s a classic “big match build” on a go-home show. Great stuff and probably the best segment you’ve done tbh. - Tag tourney looks stacked and I’m intrigued by the mystery team. Hmm… - Decent promo from PAC with some ominous words. - Claudio vs. Gargano was very good, though was expecting a bigger angle to close out the show and build to Fall of Man. Overall: a good episode of FIGHT! that should’ve ended with a hot angle to lead into Fall of Man. I am greatly anticipating this show, brother.
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Post by ICW on Oct 5, 2022 14:44:22 GMT -5
dcw1 I'm an absolute moron and didn't realize I never posted my review for Warfare. Here ya go: 10/7/21 Warfare - I thought the opening segment involving Joe calling out The Anarchy, only to be jumped by the Bullet Club, was well done. - I wish you had been a bit more descriptive with the moves used throughout the Ricochet/Lio Rush match because, on paper, it would’ve been a banger - Interesting approach by the Bucks to Cole. The Bucks did not sound very convincing or sincere to me, so we’ll see where you take this post-rejection. - I thought the Women’s match and the setup for Athena/Shotzi were nicely done - The segment involving Sammy/Steen that turned into an impromptu match of Riddle/Sammy was very good. I dug the aftermath with Rex Steiner as well. - FIGHT! Is shaping up quite nicely - Dug the Punk/Alam match - Quite the assault on Cole (and Britt). Yeesh. - Fall of Man card is looking STACKED - I dug the main event and really dug the ending. Lot of intrigue with Scherr. Excellent go-home episode of Warfare!
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Post by ICW on Oct 3, 2022 16:18:10 GMT -5
I think one of the more fascinating parts of 1996-1997 WWF/WCW was that the former had strong PPV main events with forgettable undercards while the latter had strong undercards with often disastrous main events, so I'm looking forward to sort of making some dream cards
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Post by ICW on Sept 30, 2022 10:39:03 GMT -5
Right. I should have checked there. I do hope you check to see if reading his stuff has any influence on my writing moving forward. As well as your own of course, since it’s apparent you’ve taken some inspiration from him. I also had an idea for a text based GM mode, since the three of us are the most active fantasy bookers I know, would you guys be interested? I recommend everyone read Tenn's stuff. It's a great time.
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Post by ICW on Sept 27, 2022 21:54:07 GMT -5
Is this fed's stuff available anywhere? I tried looking it up through some of the key words that you used, but came up empty. A good chunk of his stuff can be found here web.archive.org/web/20040518214648/http://book.otherarena.com/ (just select Booking Archive Directory). His WrestleMania is under October 2002.
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Post by ICW on Sept 26, 2022 19:08:42 GMT -5
“WWF will soon die”. Oh my god, you’re really going to go through with it, aren’t you? You rascal One of my inspirations for doing this particular project comes from a late 90s-mid 00s fantasy fed called the CWF and booked by iconic Tenn (short for Tennesse). I consider him the greatest fantasy booker of all time. His fed imagined Mark Cuban purchasing the WWF/WCW/ECW and seeing this incredible roster of talent from that era competing in one fed. He once wrote a 15-match WrestleMania headlined by The Rock (c) vs. Shawn Michaels vs. Sabu for the CWF Heavyweight title. The first fall was inside a steel cage and the second was a last-man standing match. It was truly incredible. I'm inspired to do something similar.
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Post by ICW on Sept 26, 2022 12:45:25 GMT -5
I am back to work for WCW/nWo: Reimagined.
I'm anxious to get going because I'm inching closer to leaning into the fantasy aspect of this series. WWF will soon die and dream matches, feuds, rivalries, and alliances will be formed. It's going to be awesome.
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Post by ICW on Sept 20, 2022 22:01:02 GMT -5
Can’t wait to see what’s next for Ciampa, Flair, and Castagnoli. Same here!
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Post by ICW on Sept 11, 2022 21:28:21 GMT -5
FIGHT! is done, just need to go over a couple of things before posting then it’s on to Fall of Man!…….finally……. Can't wait for Fall of Man!
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Post by ICW on Sept 6, 2022 21:00:17 GMT -5
Hey everyone! I have some time penciled in this week to catch up on writing/reviewing. I'm getting the itch again
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Post by ICW on Aug 29, 2022 13:41:31 GMT -5
It's not going to suck and congrats and finishing this! I'm going to review it soon.
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