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Post by T on Sept 1, 2013 16:13:02 GMT -5
Top 10 Pic Fed Wrestlers (June-September 2013) - asparagus4 [/u][/center] 10. (WFW) The Rock The Rock just one the Intercontinental Championship, and is battling with Eric Bischoff, Edge and there friends. 9. (WWEAFS) MankindAfter coming off of winning the WWEAFS Championship Mankind has started a promising feud with the man who he beat for the title, CM Punk & The Undertaker. Only time will tell, of how Mankind will fend off these worthy enemies. 8. (AWC) CM PunkOn the most recent show of AWC, CM Punk took on the AWC World Heavyweight Champion, Christian. Punk defeated Christian and that most likely sets him up to be number 1 Contender. 7. (MWF) Kid KashAt MWF return show "IT'S OVER WHEN I SAY IT'S OVER", Kid Kash took on the agile, crazy Paul London, and the Wild Native American Tatanka. This was a great match, but Kid Kash took the victory by giving Paul London a vicious Dead Level Brainbuster. 6. (OTC) "Dynamite" John O'DeevesOn the debut edition of Off The Chain Wrestling, the champion Colt Jagger was put into a gauntlet over the top rope elimination match for the OTC World Championship. It looked like Colt Jagger was the favourite half way through the match then his arch enemy John O'Deeves entered the matchup 5. (BWR) Tommy DreamerTommy Dreamer is in an intense rivalry with Mr.Williams (The Owner of BWR), and "The Samoan Bulldozer" Umaga. Recently Tommy Dreamer stole the Money that Mr. Williams was going to give to Umaga for taking out Dreamer and winning the British Championship. Dreamer is using the money to try to blackmail and outraged Umaga, and his manager Armando Alejandro Estrada to get a British Championship title match. 4. (T.W.A/ All Star Wrestling) Bruiser Brody & Stan HansenIn the TWA portion of Freedomania it was Bruiser Brody & Stan Hansen against the Road Warriors. In this battle of four giant titans, Bruiser Brody & Stan Hansen got disqualified when Brody hit, and choked Animal with his infamous chain. They followed that abuse up with hitting Animal in the head with a chair. Then, one of the owners of the TWA, Verne Gagne came down to stop this madness. As soon as Verne got into the ring Stan Hansen shot him with his devastating Lariat. The Lariat caused Gagne to be taken out by a stretcher. We still don't know if Hansen did it on purpose or if it was accidental. 3. (WrestleFest) Hulk HoganAt Freedomania the Hulkster took on the TWA World Champion, Harley Race for the TWA World Championship. In this Brutal match it seemed like the Hulkster had to take on two men, Harley Race & his manager Bobby Heenan. With the cards stacked against him Hogan pulled off a big victory by defeating Harley. This made Hogan the Undisputed World Heavyweight Champion. Hogan was both the WWF, & TWA World Heavyweight Champion. 2. (FIW) Samoa JoeAfter winning the Best In the World tournament Samoa Joe got a chance to face the FIW World Champion, the violent Necro Butcher. In this showdown, and clash of two styles Samoa Joe came up on top by beating Necro Butcher and starting the FIW Era of Samoa Joe. 1. (BWR) Wade BarrettWade Barrett is the first and only BWR World Heavyweight Champion. He has defeated the likes of Chris Jericho, Randy Orton, & Edge. He could only beat those men with the help from the owner of BWR, Mr. Williams. The villain of Wade Barrett is Mr. Williams golden boy. Barrett is the face of BWR and was put there by Mr. Williams. I don't think Barrett will ever loose that title. Special Mention by Titch - (GWV) EdgeEdge dramatically turned on his brother Christian on X-Plosion! #3. There is obviously a lot of bad blood between the two, as Edge sacrificed a shot at the World Heavyweight Championship to carry out the attack. One has to wonder what Edge's motives truly are.
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Post by T on Sept 1, 2013 16:14:02 GMT -5
The Shocking Five! - by RCW5) GWV - Asparagus - X-Division & Intercontinental Championship set to be unified!On GWV X-Plosion Episode 3, it was announced that Evan Bourne's X-Divison title will be unified with Nacho Man, Randy Savage's Intercontinental Championship at GWVs first ever iPPV Battle of Hamilton. Evan Bourne went on to say he was certain he will become GWVs first ever Pure Champion. In the last ever X-Division championship match, Bourne defeated Mistico in a cracking match up between two talented individuals. Savage came out post-match but was taken out by Bourne, setting up for a heated match at GWV Battle of Hamilton. 4) WWEAFS - Takerfan - CM Punk is the new WWE Champion!At WWEAFS' first pay-per-view CM Punk was victorious in an incredible fatal 4 way match involving Edge, Punk, Cena & The Rock. Different men had different spells of dominance during the closely contested match. At the end of the exciting match, Edge delivered a spear to the Rock, before Cena hit the AA on Edge and then CM Punk finished it off with a GTS to Cena, pinning him to be crowned WWE Champion. The night ended with Undertaker eliminating #1 Chris Jericho to win the Royal Rumble. 3) BWR - Titch - Captain Charisma's Legends Challenge stalls!Christian's legend challenge has been a great watch, the creativity behind the way Christian sneaks different wins against the likes of Bret Hart. However, Undertaker wanted to meet him at Infiltration, but Christian high-tailed it from the ring and managed to get away from Taker unscaved. Christian on BWR #5 dismissed Undertaker as a legend, "he's a veteran"! Christian is on the road to proving he is anything but scared by challenging The Undertaker on the 6th edition of BWR. 2) CWF - BigevilJohn - President Ronald Reagan to help out!Firstly, the return of a classic fed from BigEvilJohn is huge, but also after a few financial hiccups president Ronald Reagan declared his love for Classic Wrestling and vowed to help the Classic Wrestling Federation out. CWF are currently in talks with the McMahons and the network are still very skeptical on how the shows may do! 1) BWR - Titch - Edge cheated out of the World Heavyweight Championship!Edge has hit the BWR scene, firstly on BWR Shatter #4 when he speared Jericho and Orton into the guardrail, and then at Infiltration, we saw the Spear, RKO and Jericho's splash from the top rope all come together! He was officially revealed by Mr Williamson on Shatter #5. Where he demanded his title shot. After an intense 1v1 battle with the Englishman, Wade Barrett Edge hit the spear! He was set for the victory before Mr Williams interfered. Saying, Edge could not become BWR Champion and that if the ref even counted to one he would be sacked and blacklisted. What's next to come from BWR and Edge? Match of the Moment! [/u][/center] - asparagus4The Match of the Moment for this issue of the acclaimed Wfigs Pic Fed Board's, "Pic Fed Magazine" was a match that was on the Federation Independent Wrestling March 2013, Episode 18 "Title Picture" show made by the great pic fedder of brm. The spotlighted match is the great match that featured Brain Damage vs. "Sick" Nick Mondo vs. the "FIW Hardcore Champion" Abyss. This three way dance match was in the colossal structure known as the Cage of Death! The Cage of Death is a Cage structure that has one side of the cage off and it also has a top on half of the cage structure. Inside and outside of the ring are weapons of mass destruction. Some of these weapons include barbed wired turnbuckles, panes of glass, turnbuckles with light tubes, chairs, a pallet with barbed wire on it, tables covered in light tubes, a wonderful shopping cart full of light tubes, a barbed wire baseball bat, chairs, the cage itself, testicular fortitude, and a lot of bad intentions. Lets just say this match had many well utilised, and creative weapons, and spots. This match had so many great spots. The special effects/photo editing was very superb. The poses that were done in this match made it look as if it were a real match. They were so good, they were so realistic. Fantastic! I think brm may be the king of poses. He is certainly up there with the best posers. The drama to this match was great as well. I really dig the abusive relationship with Abyss and his hardcore valet Dafney. I really thought how she got involved in the match was great. Also Brain Damage & "Sick" Nick Mondo breaking there pact to never face each other again after there best of three brutal bouts to battle the undeserving hardcore champion Abyss. This match started very fast with all three men hitting each other with anything that isn't nailed down. They didn't just hit each other with weapons, brm made this match have a great deal of psychology in it. Ever spots/ move/ weapon used meant something. As the men were battling, Abyss was through a table with light tubes on it by Brain Damage. Abyss fell with a great deal of pain but more pain was going to happen to Abyss. When "Sick" Nick hit Brain Damage out of the ring onto Abyss with the shopping cart of light tubes. With Brain Damage, and Abyss on the floor this left Mondo to leave the cage and grab his secret weapon. Seconds after Mondo leaves both the monster & Brain Damage make there way back into the ring. Then Mondo comes out of the entrance way with a double deckered table with light tubes on it. As Mondo was setting up the table the Champion's valet Daphne attacked Mondo with Abyss's chain. She choked the life out of Mondo until Brain Damage kicked the door into Daphne's face, knocking her to the ground and possibly out. Brain Damage then attacked Mondo and Nick then made his way up the cage and Brain Damage put the double light tube table closer to the cage. When Mondo and Brain Damage were climbing up the cage Abyss threw two chairs up to the top of the cage. Abyss then climbed up the cage to join the two men. As Abyss was making his way up the cage "Sick" Nick gave Brain Damage a devastating Assault Driver onto the two chairs. Abyss then battled with Mondo and then in a very climactic moment the Monster of a hardcore champion threw Brain Damage off the top of the structure with a devastating powerbomb. As the crowd, the pic fed viewers, and even the colour commentator Excalibur sit in a state of shock and awe, Nick Mondo makes his move on this monster. Abyss caught Nick in mid air and gave him a black hole slam out of now were that sent both men threw the cage of death onto a bed of light tubes on a pane glass window. If the last moment was a climactic moment then this was as well! Then Abyss covered Mondo to get the 1...2...3.. Daphne climbed into the ring to give Abyss his title. To quote the FIW announcer Excalibur "Abyss proving he is worthy of the title. Man, after that, I don't know what it's going to take to finish off Abyss!". That was just some great Ultraviolet Action. What a great match from a great show. This was an altogether Fantastic match. Great job! Big Up's to brm! If you haven't already seen this classic Cage of Death match watch it here. Link: brm4life.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=fiw&thread=81&page=1 Thanks for reading the Match of the Moment! -asparagus4
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Post by T on Sept 1, 2013 16:14:48 GMT -5
Pic-Fed Flashback: - asparagus4 When speaking of the great pic feds you hear some great names. BUT... In my opinion I think that the pic fed that is truly greatest (NO OFFENCE TO ANYONE!) was made by a scottish guy named Mikey. I will be taking you all back to the longest running pic fed on WFigs forums and the pic fed that has inspired me the most RING OF POISON!. I truly love watching ROP. From the great rivalries like Raven vs. Terry Funk, The Age of the Fall vs. the Chikarmy, Cheech and the Prophecy vs. Cloudy, and arguably the best feud from ROP... CM Punk vs. Raven. The list goes on of the great feuds Mikey has made. ROP has a truly awesome roster including ROP World Champion Samoa Joe, CM Punk, Steven Richards, Raven, Terry Funk, Jigsaw, Steve Corino, Ricochet, Hallowicked, Jimmy Jacobs, Delirious, Zack Ryder, William Regal, Nigel Mcguinness, Eddie Kingston, ROP Intercontinental Champion Claudio Castiglioni, Chris Hero, and many many more great wrestlers. Correct if I am wrong but I think ROP is the first INDY wrestling pic fed. ROP started in 2004 as a pic fed before it was a show on the Fantasy Booking Board. ROP died in the November of 2011 with ROP's last show, Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine. That may have been the last pic fed show from Mickey but he has brought ROP back in the form of writing on the Fantasy Booking Board. Please read the new Fantasy Booking of ROP to help out an old pic fedder. (Here are the links to Mikey's new show please reply to them. forum.wrestlingfigs.com/thread/276842/ring-poison-seventh-anniversary-spectacular and forum.wrestlingfigs.com/thread/283498/ring-poison-ballad-ck-all , I am reading the 7th Anniversary right now but I have been to busy to finish the reply.) If you have never watched any of the great ROP shows, WATCH THEM IMMEDIATELY! If you have witnessed the truly awesome shows from ROP re watch them immediately! Here is the link: ringofpoison.wordpress.com/archive/ Check out Mikey's Website: ringofpoison.wordpress.com/I am going to review one of my favourite ROP shows. This show is ROP is Mikeys 2011 ROP classic "Still Crazy... After All These Years"! Here is the Link (WATCH THIS SHOW!): ropstillcrazy.webs.com/I truly enjoyed watching this pic fed event it was amazing. It features some great matches on this show. This show's announce team is Matt Striker and Mikey himself. -The show starts out with an awesome match between The "ROP World Tag Team Champions" the Prophecy (Cheech & "the Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels) vs. Cloudy & Low-ki. This match had a lot of great spots and poses that you expect ROP to have. I love the angle between of how Cheech turned on his partner and best friend to be a champion with the Fallen Angel and Evan Bourne in the Prophecy. Great feud and great match with a crazy, evil ending. - The next match was a ROP Cruiserweight Championship match between Jigsaw and the "ROP Cruiserweight Champion" Jimmy Jacobs. Jigsaw was accompanied to the ring by Mike Quackenbush and Eddie Kingston. Jacobs had his "Age Of the Fall" in his corner. This feud was another amazing ROP feud. This match was some high paced fun! With some great moves, poses, and brutal spots put together. Great match. The end of the match was amazing when the Unhooded Hallowicked came out and beat up the dastardly Age of the Fall with the Chikarmy and Jacobs challenging the Chikarmy to a 5-on-5 match at the next ROP event. -After the Jacobs vs. Jigsaw match you go to the back to see a funny Zack Ryder, Jonathan Gresham, and William Regal skit. The match after that sketch is a classic between Dragon El Tire & Ultimo Dragon vs. "the Crazy" Brian Kendrick & Paul london. This was a great match featuring some great figure athleticism, poses and a good finish. Then out of no were RVD comes out and is cutting a promo, WHEN Kevin Steen makes his first ROP appearance when he attacks RVD and gives him his treacherous Package Piledriver. Then Steen flips off the fans. FLIP STEEN FLIP! - The next match featured CM Punks Goons/Flock of Cactus Jack, Stevie Richards, Al Snow, & Head against the hardcore team of Terry Funk and Tommy Dreamer and their special/secret partner... The beer drinking Sandman! This was a great Hardcore match. The spots, poses, and special effects made this a great match. It ended with a great barbed wire fire scene with Punk's squad coming out on top. WHAT DOES EVERYBODY WANT!-Next on this card was a match for the ROP Intercontinental Championship title match. This match featured Nigel Mcguinness (Not Desmond Wolfe!) vs. the "ROP Intercontinental Champion" Claudio Castiglioni (Not Antonio Cesaro ). This was such a classic. I can not stress it enough how great this match was. Great Rasslin' Sir. Great match. Great poses, from a great Pic Fed. - The main event was the next match of the show. This match had the EVIL, TREACHEROUS, "ROP World Champion", "The Straight Edge Savior", "The Second City Saint", "Longest Reigning ROP World Champion" CM Punk against the ANGRY, UNSTOPPABLE, "The Samoan Submission Machine" Samoa Joe. Just like the last match I can not stress it enough how great this match was. GREAT MATCH, WITH TREMENDOUS SPOTS, AND GREAT POSES! Samoa Joe ended the reign of CM Punk by giving a muscle buster to the already hurt CM Punk. In the unlikely moment Raven Congratulated the man that defeated Raven's greatest rival, the victorious Samoa Joe. Great show from a Great Pic fedder. -The show end with a distraught, defeated CM Punk with his alliance cutting a great ROP promo. Lets all watch Mikey's new Fantasy Booking shows and thank Mikey for the great fed of RING OF POISON!Mikey has really inspired me with his great fed of ROP and some of the fans in the Global Wrestling Vanguard arena were holding up signs for Mikey and ROP. Here are the ROP fans in the GWV Arena in Toronto. Thanks for you all. -asparagus4
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Post by T on Sept 1, 2013 16:24:25 GMT -5
Pic Fed Spotlight with bigeviljohn and The Warsman - Titch How did you get into Pic Fedding?bigeviljohn - When I first discovered Wfigs in 2002 I just lurked for several years never really joining. Forums and stuff seemed silly as I was a bit older than most people on the site. I first noticed Titan Wrestling All Stars and I believe P.W.F Mr Nrggs fed and was blown away. Then I discovered Warsmans Wrestlefest and that was so fantastic because it was the era of wrestling that I grew up in. Once the T.W.A was initially announced I jumped on the bandwagon and the rest is history. I guess I always had a play/pic fed from about 1985 or so when wrestling figures first debuted. It has always been a passion of mind as I am a HUGE toy collector and love building dioramas and such so pic fedding was a natural progression. The Warsman - To be honest, my initial thoughts on fedding were quite negative. When I first noticed it around 2003-04, most feds looked very poorly put together, and seemed to follow the "Attitude Era" style "crash and burn" booking philosophy. Then one day STOMWJF posted a fun little Royal Rumble match using the new (at the time) Classic Superstars figures, which were from my favorite era, the 80's. It was great! After seeing that, I looked at the Pic Fed board again, and noticed a ton of views for "Mr. Nrrg" and his PWF (I think!). It was awesome! Great look, great stories, accessories, backgrounds, etc. you name it, he had it all...almost. I didn't quite like the mixing of the eras he used, I thought it'd be cooler to just have a "Classic 80's Fed." So I used my backgrounds and Classic Superstars (and customs!) and tried to make my own show centered around the mid-80's WWF. Can you tell us all about your new venture?bigeviljohn - The relaunch of the T.W.A will be a monthly joint show with all members making matches instead of us having our own individual shows. Look for maybe four to five matches per show and we feel that this will add a new level of professionalism to our product with intersecting storylines and such just like it was back then. The Warsman - The TWA was always meant to be a collaborative project with others who enjoyed the territory days. A couple years ago it was a loose collection of fedders who ran their own shows. These days we came up with an idea to post joint shows, with each person contributing 1-3 matches for the card, or rather "Supercard!" As most fedders know, cranking out shows can get tedious at times, so a match or two a month for a joint show is MUCH easier than whole shows. How did you create your awesome arenas?bigeviljohn - I have always been into making dioramas and I had always wanted a arena fro my wrestling feds. I built a half assed one when I bought my first building and I had a two table arena for a wwf attitude fed for my TTL figs. When I bought my new house I used the metal vengeance arena and once the classic superstars came about and I saw Warsmans arena I got some ideas and just ran with it. Worked out well so far but I am always trying new and different things to get it better. The Warsman - I have been a long time "background provider" here on WFigs. Once I knew I wanted to make a show, I created a Madison Square Garden looking background and got it printed out postersize. Then I ordered two more, lol. From there it was easy to use the Jakkks made items to populate my arena. The only pieces I needed to hunt down were the crowd barricades made by Wrestling Super Store, everything else was easy to find, make or purchase locally. My current background is supposed to look like the WrestleMania IV setting of Trump Plaza and Casino. Who is your favourite character from your fed?bigeviljohn - So far I have a few but one of my all time favorites is Nick Bockwinkel. A classy, arrogant heel who always seems to be a champion or in the title hunt. The Warsman - Looking back, I have always enjoyed using the commentators the most. I do feel like my heel commentators (Jesse Ventura and Bobby Heenan) have stayed true to their personalities and provided the comedy we have come to expect from them. So they are my favorites, but wrestlerwise I gotta go with the Hulkster. He's just taylor-made for storylines and angles set in this era. He really could do little wrong. Which modern day wrestler do you wish was around in the 80s, so that he could fit into your fed?bigeviljohn - I'd have to say Kurt Angle. I know he's getting older now but what a great wrestler and athlete. Good as both a heel and a face you can use him in so many different ways. The Warsman - THE ROCK!! Wow, he'd have been another 80's household name and a great foil for Hogan, Savage and Warrior! What's your opinion on the state of pic fedding at the moment?bigeviljohn - I think pic fedding could use a shot in the arm so to speak right now. I wish we had a few more high production feds at the moment, but I think we are going in the right direction. Most of the fedders that were active in the mid 2000's grew up and got girlfriends and jobs and such and have lost interest with fedding and that's only natural. I think the true people with passion stay and try to get a fed going but sometimes its hard as life and responsibilities get in the way. I think we need a few more unique feds and get away from some of similar themed feds. I always had a vision of a completely made up fed with all original characters and such set in a alternate timeline to real life wrestling. Far too much work would be involved in making all the characters but maybe someday I will take the time to do it. The Warsman - Since you asked, I think it stinks. The quality and quantity are both at an all time low. Most of the time it just looks and feels like a kid playing with his figures and a camera on the floor of his bedroom closet. Where's the pizazz? Where's the effort? There are a few people who do one thing or another very well, but there are MANY aspects of fedding. Compelling storylines, posing, your arena setup, customs, string-use and EDITING, unique rosters, memorable characters, etc. ALL make a good product. Only one component does not. How long does it take for you to produce a show, taken into account writing, filming and editing?bigeviljohn - Man it sure seems like forever to me. Actual shooting is usually fast paced and fun I came up with a mechanism for holding the figures in the air instead of suspending them with string while in your hand. It makes for a more sturdier pic of high flying moves. The uploading and commentary is tough. I use Freewebs and it takes a long time to load pics sometimes. The Warsman - All told to make a complete show, it would take around 3 weeks. Anything faster is just a killer when you factor in family and work commitments. Which is your favorite wrestling figure ever?bigeviljohn - Tully Blanchard is my favorite fig bar none. The Warsman - The Hasbro Honkytonk Man! Bought one the first time I saw it (big fan back in the day) and it made me collect Hasbros...which led to Jakks collecting...which led to... Anything else you'd like to add?bigeviljohn - I am really excited for our relaunch I hope it will be entertaining and fun to watch. Thank you. The Warsman - I know I sounded harsh answering the "state of fedding" question, but I do think its a hobby that deserves more from the people who claim to love it.
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Post by Wicked on Sept 1, 2013 16:48:27 GMT -5
Great addition everyone. The poster, the interview, and the shocking 5 were great. I really liked the interview. It was very insightful about the TWA. It was great to hear from Warsman, and bigevilJohn. The shocking 5 was very well done. I really liked the poster. I am glad GWV was represented on there.. Great work deskjet, RCW, & Titch. I am just wondering will you add the other parts later? EDIT: I mean why isn't the top 10 , and the match of the moment on here?
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Post by deskjet on Sept 1, 2013 18:11:53 GMT -5
Great work everyone on the contribution to the magazine. It's good to see that alot of people pulled together and did their part.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2013 21:09:16 GMT -5
What a great edition thank you so much for including me and using a pic of my fed on the cover!
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Post by attitudesback on Sept 1, 2013 22:54:27 GMT -5
Great work everyone involved.
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Post by T on Sept 2, 2013 0:13:28 GMT -5
I am just wondering will you add the other parts later? EDIT: I mean why isn't the top 10 , and the match of the moment on here? No one volunteered to do then and in the end I didn't get time to do another feature I'm afraid. Could've done with one or two more helping out. Glad it's getting good feedback and well done to those who contributed.
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Post by Wicked on Sept 2, 2013 0:42:30 GMT -5
I am just wondering will you add the other parts later? EDIT: I mean why isn't the top 10 , and the match of the moment on here? No one volunteered to do then and in the end I didn't get time to do another feature I'm afraid. Could've done with one or two more helping out. Glad it's getting good feedback and well done to those who contributed. You could just include my match of the moment though. I finished that and sent it to you.
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Post by T on Sept 2, 2013 0:49:32 GMT -5
I do beg your pardon. Added.
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Post by Wicked on Sept 2, 2013 2:18:53 GMT -5
I do beg your pardon. Added. Thank you so much.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2013 2:48:32 GMT -5
Nice work. It's good to see that this came together and kudos to you Titch for delivering on a lot of things. Major props to everyone who stepped up and handed in their contributions in time as well. Kudos to everyone who worked on this. Titch, you have shown real commitment as a moderator.
Now, please don't take this the wrong way, but I do have a few gripes. I don't know if it's just me or whatever, but I feel like these magazines always seem to be the same thing. No offense to John or Wars, but some member of the TWA has been interviewed in over half of the previous magazines. Warsman has been interviewed before himself. Not that they necessarily have the same thing to say each time (and obviously it's been a while since anyone has been interviewed at all) but it might be nice to see some more variety. They both do great things, but as an example, I've done more shows in the last year and a half than both of them combined. People who contribute to these magazines should look to highlight some other stuff.
FIW has been featured before as has ROP, but yet here they are getting attention yet again. Again, not a slight to those feds in the least, because they're great, but I guess what I'm getting at is I wish these things were a bit more inclusive. While I haven't put up a show for either fed of mine in a while, it'd be nice to see some of my previous work featured in some way or another. (And actually had someone dropped me a PM to ask, I could have given details on my new fed that's completely different than any fed that's been here before.) Or what about Izzy? Or Micro? Part of the reason I think certain people lose interest is that things like this always seem to highlight the same sort of stuff.
I'm sure someone will read this as "what about me?" but it's not necessarily about that. It's just that I feel the board all too often focuses in on a few things and forgets that there are a lot more members here who have and do contribute in one way or another and they are almost never mentioned in any of the "official" stuff. None of my feds are even listed on the active or inactive rosters, despite me posting shows and contributing to PPVs and such in the last year and half.
I like what everyone's doing and this magazine was great, but I guess my critique here is that I hope this continues to get expanded and we highlight things that are more all inclusive of the board as opposed to just a few things. Even if a show was highlighted from someone who only ever posted 1 show, it might just be the sort of thing that gets them excited about pic fedding again.
Anyway, sorry for the rant, it's just an honest critique that I think could help improve the magazine and morale of the forum in general.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2013 7:32:07 GMT -5
Each time an issue comes out someone has a gripe because they weren't included and I understand that. The T.W.A has always been big news on the board bad or good. I think these issues are meant to highlight what is going on currently not a year on the past. Hopefully more issues come out and you will have something going on at the time so the magazine can focus on that. Also you cant blame the writers of the article for focusing on feds that they are fans of or interested in. Hopefully this issue sparks interest in getting people off their buts to put out a show instead of talking about how its too hard to make one.
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Post by T on Sept 2, 2013 11:22:42 GMT -5
FIW has been featured before as has ROP, but yet here they are getting attention yet again. Again, not a slight to those feds in the least, because they're great, but I guess what I'm getting at is I wish these things were a bit more inclusive. While I haven't put up a show for either fed of mine in a while, it'd be nice to see some of my previous work featured in some way or another. (And actually had someone dropped me a PM to ask, I could have given details on my new fed that's completely different than any fed that's been here before.) Or what about Izzy? Or Micro? Part of the reason I think certain people lose interest is that things like this always seem to highlight the same sort of stuff. I like what everyone's doing and this magazine was great, but I guess my critique here is that I hope this continues to get expanded and we highlight things that are more all inclusive of the board as opposed to just a few things. Even if a show was highlighted from someone who only ever posted 1 show, it might just be the sort of thing that gets them excited about pic fedding again. Anyway, sorry for the rant, it's just an honest critique that I think could help improve the magazine and morale of the forum in general. Asparagus4 decided to write the Match of the Moment and Pic Fed Flashback columns and it's entirely up to him who he chose. He obviously can't pick every fed, so unfortunately everyone won't get picked. It's only the first magazine of the year, so feds like yours, Izzy's and many others could be featured in subsequent editions. I did the interview feature with bigeviljohn and The Warsman because they had just announced an exciting venture, and was the most current thing on the board. This isn't a dig, but I haven't heard anything about your original fed (which I now want to find out more about btw ), so it would have been impossible for me to know to message you. RCW and OTC were close to being asked as they're also going through some interesting stages on the Pic Fed Discussion board. I think overall more people need to be pro-active and get involved off their own back rather than laying back and waiting for things to happen. Asparagus4 has possibly been the most regular poster on this board, and he only joined early this year. We had other new feds like AWE, WFW and WWEAFS that have come and now gone on hiatus, and we're not getting much from anyone else. One of the best ways I find to get excited about pic fedding is to view other shows, but after my latest show only got four replies, and a lot of other shows on the board getting less than ten replies, it's hard to get anything going, as people don't want to spend all their hard work creating shows and then get no feedback or anything else back from the board. As I said, don't take this personally, it's more my general consensus on the state of the board.
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Post by Tyler Black on Sept 2, 2013 12:44:55 GMT -5
This was great,it was great to see ROP featured possibly the greatest fed this board has seen right up there wit FIW and PWF. I feel like the board has never truly recovered from his retirement. I thought it was great for what's currently active on the board, seeing stuff like this really inspires me to stop putting out random ppv matches and finally crank out that first show
EDIT: While warsmans words were a bit harsh they were also very true. He has a great pic-fedding mind set
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2013 12:50:17 GMT -5
Fandans last show was Micro Luche Libre posted on 5/21/2012. His other fed only got off two shows and the last episode was posted on 3/3/2012. That's a long time ago to get included in a edition of a magazine that's trying to be more current. I really don't understand where something like that comes from when I haven't seen any interest from that particular fedder about getting back into besides a Freedomania match and a few replies very sparingly here and there. I think everyone who is hung up on replies needs to rethink why they want to fed or not. Do it because you enjoy your final product. The only people to get replies are the guys that put up a show and their pals reply to it. Its been that way for years now. Kudos to Titch for first of all being the most active Mod since Warsmans stint and secondly for being a Mod we can all count on. I will continue to fed regardless of how many shows I put up a year or not, T.W.A will be a continuing thing. I think this just comes off really like a bunch of sour grapes. Lets see some activity from all the fedders who pop up here from time to time griping in the form of shows. Less talk more action!!!
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Post by Wicked on Sept 2, 2013 15:15:11 GMT -5
I chose to write about ROP, because it is the pic fed that has truly inspired me, and I really wanted the new generations to check out Mikeys great work. I chose FIW because honestly I think the Cage of Death has been maybe the best match of the current shows that have been produced.
Thanks for the kind words Titch. I try to post on every show that has been produced, or any messages or updates posted. I have been lurking on WFigs since about 2006 btw Titch. I have had a couple of accounts before this one. But because of age requirements I had to wait for this account.
I also agree with what Warsman said. I know everyone is busy but lets try to get more feds on this board, or lets just try to get more activity going on this board. I commend deskjet for making the "What's Up" thread, but more people need to reply to it to get more activity going.
Thats what I think..... -asparagus4
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I think I may write a top 10 list of wrestlers in the pic fed scene today, just like deskjet did a top 5 list in the "TOP 5 PIC FED CHARACTERS-Feb/March" in 2012. I might do it next week. I am almost finished filming GWV episode 4. It will be released sooner than later.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2013 15:52:31 GMT -5
Well we shouldn't have to defend the interviews or articles in the magazine from inactive members who have not had an active fed in over a year. There should be a time limit lets say six months or so for anyone to be included in articles and the like. It should be the most active stuff going on now. Anyways thanks to all the guys that contributed here, lets hope we get some good stuff going this fall!
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Post by T on Sept 2, 2013 16:24:28 GMT -5
Don't be too harsh on fandan, bigeviljohn. Like he said, it wasn't a "why's my fed not included?" Post, more just a comment on the overall content of it.
Instead, lets just hope this encourages some people toget their Feds out their in order to try and break into the next edition of this magazine.
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