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I am totally on board with this thing. Speaking of commentary, I have a hard time watching a match without it. Even commetnary in languages I don't understand help me out. Fan cams and such are difficult for me, they feel incomplete. If a match has a great finish (doesn't have to be a clean pinfall to be great) I will probably like the match, regardless of the rest of it. Often I enjoy discussing wrestling more than watching it. I'm not sure if that last one is a confession. It's hard to imagine being a fan at this level without being able to bounce ideas off others. Sorry, to clarify, enjoy discussing wrestling more than watching wrestling. Maybe that is common?

I am totally on board with this thing. Speaking of commentary, I have a hard time watching a match without it. Even commetnary in languages I don't understand help me out. Fan cams and such are difficult for me, they feel incomplete. If a match has a great finish (doesn't have to be a clean pinfall to be great) I will probably like the match, regardless of the rest of it. Often I enjoy discussing wrestling more than watching it.

One could say that. Maybe if I signed Don Muraco and built around him and pushed Bret Hart to the top I could be more like that Earth-Z WWF?

I knew David Von Erich would be out for a while, but I didn't check into it. 11 more months he will be gone!!! I will be ending the Von Erichs-Freebirds feud at the right time then and we can move on to other items.

Week 4 of March 1983: March was a huge month for the WCCW and it ends really great with the final week. Next month, ppv! Starting this week I changed The Hour show into a 90 minute show and re-titled it "Big Time Wrestling". The Hour title didn't fit anymore and I wanted to use some of the history of the company. Plus it's a cool name. That being said, the 90 minute format lead to a great episode of television. This show accomplished a lot. Martel finished off his feud with The Spoiler (who only has 1 month left and will not be resigned). Freebirds looked great with more Von Erich stuff, killing time until David returns but keeping things hot for the ppv. We also kept the Rock'n'Rolls and Randy Savage feud alive. By the way Cornette is amazing as a colour commentator! Now the big stuff comes with the Tito/Steamboat against Devestation Inc. First they defeated Bundy & Gang in a tag. Bundy ate the fall and was fired after the show. Then we have this epic version of Piper's Pit: With all of this said and done, we have Piper and Zbyszko joining up with Skandor's crew. This means there is now a mega feud with Ricky Steamboat & Tito Santana (with Martel to join soon) against Kamala, Piper, Zybszko and Gang with Skandor Akbar in their corner. A great rating for the kick off angle and I have high hopes for this stuff. Especially the Larry and Roddy team! Coming off this show I was pretty high and then I got this news: Can life this World Class world get any better? Oh HELL YEAH!!!

Week 3 of March 1983! Lots to share here, but let's start with the new guys signed to exclusive written contracts: Rick Martel, David Von Erich, SKandor Akbar, The Great Kabuki, Bret Hart, Ricky Steamboat, Kamala, Tito Santana, Roddy Piper, Blackjack Mulligan, Dutch Mantell and Larry Zbyszko. Some of those I was surprised by, because they had other priorties. It will be nice to have this crew every show, instead of limited dates. Although, there was a drawback to stealing Skandor Akbar away: Yes, signing Skandor to an exclusive contract, meant he left Mid South and Bill Watts did not like that. At this rate I will be out of the NWA very shortly. In news from around the world, AWA has formed a new tag team: How cool is that? Sheik and Jesse as Violent Playboys? Camera man, zoom in!!!!! Before we get to TV, we have had an incident: Buddy is one of the guys who negatively affect the locker room and this was the first time it came out. I gave him a fine and he promised to not let it happen again. If he wasn't apart of the Freebirds he would had been fired. Hopefully Buddy is a man of his word and doesn't cause any more shenigans. That is how this week's TV started out, but how did it end? IT STUNK!! First, I forgot to change the venue and the computer decided I should run in Hamburg, PA? So, the crowd wasn't into this one. However, one positive is that Jm Cornette (since he has a writen contract) has taken over for Gary Hart as the third man in the booth. Mercer, Lawrence and Cornette seem to help the show. I don't want to talk about this show too much, some bad chemistry, bad crowd, bad place to run. Let's move on. Finally for this week we have the Wrestling Star Wars show: Back in Calfironia and we keep getting bigger in the South West! We had another great Wahoo-Valentine match leading to their PPV contest and another hot Freebirds-Von Erichs match. Martel and The Spoiler seem to be losing steam and I am going to have to blow that one off. This was just a run of the mil house show with not much going on. Going into next week I think I am going to officially unify the Texas and American titles into one, instead of having Valentine defend both in each match. Also, Valetnine and Kamala have asked for time off due to being over worked. The other thing to look at is all of the talent that has signed on. They are not special attractions any more, so it's time to work Piper and Zbyszko (especially) into feuds and angles.

I have been wrapping everyone into exclusive written contracts, which you will see on the next weekly update. However, I fear with Valentine. If I try to look him up, will Mid-Atlantic offer him a contract and keep him? I don't want to lose him, he is my top heel.

Elliot sent me a bunch of topics to discuss for this project and I will be cherry picking some of them from time to time. First up is how important being a company ace is to being the GWE? Do you need to be an ace to be a top guy? Is being an ace just a helper, because it means you are more focused? Also, who is the best company ace? Does that make you automatic number 1 for this project?

Week 2 of March 1983: The ground work for national expansion is being laid with written contracts being handed out all over the place. Moving forward Bronco Lubich, Marc Lowrance, Buddy Roberts, Terry Gordy, Michael Hayes, Ricky Morton, Robert Gibson, Randy Savage, Sunshine, Bobby Eaton, Jim Cornette, Dennis Condrey, Magnum TA, Barry Windham and Kerry & Kevin Von Erich will work for me and nobody else! More to come! Also with their contracts being a monthly fee instead of a per apperance deal, more shows can be run for cheaper! Speaking of shows there was two these week, TV and the Sam Houston Coliseum. First up TV: Back to Will Rogers Coliseum as it is an even week and a very successful show where very region likes us more afterwards. The new format of a Piper's Pit, 2 singles, a tag and a trios payed off on getting a lot of people on TV and having good matches. Rick Martel continues his program with The Spoiler challenging him to a future match and then beating up Rip Rogers to keep him strong. Piper's Pit involved Roddy being awesome and beating up Skip Young in the process. That actually lead to the dark match after the show where Wahoo McDaniel teamed with Young to get revenge against Roddy Piper & Great Kabuki. The trios advanced two stories as the Poffos and Rock'n'Rolls continue on as does the Devestation Inc. and Strike Force angle. Cheap win by Kamala here. We had a video hyping Wahoo & Valentine for the Sam Houston Coliseum and then Valentine beats up Wahoo's friend Magnum TA. The main event sees the return of Bruiser Brody as he teams with Kevin to take out the Freebirds. I am back on good terms with Brody, since I can't get rid of him. I had to pay him a lot of money, but he is happy again. The second show was our big Sam Houston Coliseum show: Another strong show main evented by Valentine defending his two titles and going to a 30 minute draw with Wahoo. The war continues with them. The rest of the show was solid stuff all building towards a future show I will mention in a minute. Lots of title defenses too, which have been missing from recent shows. Speaking of future shows, guess who is on PPV???? When I noticed the WWF and Georgia striking deals with the closed circuit I had to jump on too. I didn't want to fall behind them. Now, the deal is not great. They get 90% of the profits and it is only for 6 months, but it should help us going forward. This always us to run 2 ppvs. One at the end of April entitled "Extreme Measures" where the Von Erichs and Freebirds will finally settle their differences with a tag cage match! I also plan to blow off the Valentine-Wahoo and Rock'n'Rolls-Poffos feuds as well to freshen things up for the second ppv. The second will be the Independence Day Star Wars where we unify the singles titles with Valentine and Kerry to form the Triple Crown! Lots of exciting ahead, although I look at this month to be a transition with all the written/non-written contracts. I want everybody to be written, but some favour other promitions (Valentine, Piper, Larry) which strikes frear with me that they would leave. Big and tough decisions ahead!

Thanks, I will use that advice.

Discuss here.

Before I go over this week's events, I wanted to share the goals that Fritz has laid out for me: The new things here are the sustained push of Kamala and The Great Kabuki. I have to keep these two strong or I am fired. What a weird goal Mr. Von Erich. For TV I have decided upon a formula of 2 singles, 1 tag and 1 trios per show along with an episode of Piper's Pit. Speaking of which, here is this week's TV: The first TV show not held in the Will Rogers arena as he head to the Hara Arena in Ohio! The crowd was fine. Tito and Bundy have good chemistry? That is great signs for the Strike Force-Devestation Inc. feud! The Midnight's debut didn't go so great, but they are here and are a future weapon I will be using. Piper's Pit was solely to continue the Martel-Spoiler story which is going very well. The six man was there and the main event continued the Valentine-Wahoo feud. A successful, but not great show. There will always be a down bit when someone like Flair leaves the show. I signed my two jobbers of Bill Ash and Pez Whatley. They will come in useful for handing out wins. Some of my staff is signed to a written contract, including: David Manning, Bill Mercer, and Dominc DeNucci. The first of many cost saving measures.

Wow people are really harping on the PG point of my post and ignoring the rest. Ignore the PG part it was a small mention of the big picture.

You think a prominent performer retiring is not worth a thread?

What a shame this thread is. She was completely fine and was definitely an upgrade over some of the main diva stars that were before her. This is a girl who's dream was to be a WWE Women's Champion and when she whens the title at the height of her popularity, she is ridiculed for caring too much by the company. They treat her husband like she and he quits, even though he LOVED wrestling too. I'm sure AJ did not have the best working environment after Punk left either. This situation just shows how shitty the WWE really is, sometimes.

Before the next update, I wanted to update everyone with the currents feuds. Number 1 is the classic Von Erichs and Freebirds. Still strolling along and is super hot with a B- heat. Next up is the awesome Spoiler and Rick Martel feud. They had a random match and their chemistry was amazing. I thought I would keep that coming and it has gone over well. The other two feuds are pretty new. One is The Rock'n'Rolls and The Poffos for that Tag Titles. The other is Tito & Steamboat versus Skandar Akbar's Kamala, Bundy & Gang. Martel will be added to that once The Spoiler feud ends. Last, but not least here is our top matches: There is a four-way tie for number one and they all involve the Von Erichs. 3 of the 4 are title changes too (only Terry-Kerry is not). That seems cool. Looking at this implies I should bring Flair back and I just may, he has helped out big time. The biggest surprise is the Rock'n'Rolls defeating Bill & Scott Irwin on TV. WTF?

I made it to March of 1983 and things are looking good. I am now cult, although I didn't surpass any other companies as multiple are now cult. I have figured out some of my issues with how I ran things and there should be less issues moving forward. First thing I had to do was cut down my roster. It was freaking huge and people were getting pissed they were missing shows! Apparently you can't keep folks on retainer and use them once a month... I am down to a 34 man roster, with maybe a few jobbers added in later. Bruiser Brody? I have jobbed him to Kamala, fired his friends and treated him like crap. He is a locker room cancer and he won't quit and Fritz won't let me fire him. I guess I have to keep using him. He is good trade bait though. Titles are now in check. Greg Valentine has taken the Texas and American Titles. Kerry is the Brass Knuckles champion and I will build to a unification match on Independence Day to form the Triple Crown! The Trios Titles are with the Von Erichs for now, but I finally have a few units going. Von Erichs, Freebirds, Devastation Inc. (Bundy, Kamala and One Man Gang) and Strike Force (Tito, Martel & Ricky Steamboat). The Tag Titles are with the Rock 'n' Rolls with a lot of other teams battling around. Finding good chemistry seems to be key here. They currently are feuding with Randy Savage & Lanny Poffo. Finally Windham is still going strong as the TV Champion. He occasionally teams with his father. For schedule we are sticking with The Hour television show and with a monthly Sam Houston Coliseum and a monthly Wrestling Star Wars shows. The Star Wars has been in the San Jose Civic Auditorium the last two months and that seems to have helped out real well. The Holiday Star Wars shows are all there for later in the year. Let's run down how I am working with others. When I started it was all working or non-aggression pacts. Some things have changed. Working Agreements: All Japan AWA Central States Florida Georgia Mid-Atlantic New Japan Portland WWC WWF Non-Agression: All-Star Wrestling Maple Leaf At War: Southeastern Southwest So, Fritz is all buddy with Canada! Southwest & East is just made about talent stealing or running in their territory. I will crush them though. As I am looking at this, I can now offer written contracts? That should save some money, let's see who I can lock down. Here is a fun update for Kelly: Our new road agent to replace the fired Ken Mantell... yes it's DOMINIC! As for sad news: Hopefully that doesn't last too long. I will go back to weekly updates now on my quest to destroy Parv and take over the wrestling world with my World Class organization.

There was been no updates lately, because I wanted to play ahead to March. I was making a lot of mistakes, due to my unfamiliarity in the game. I wanted to play a bit without reporting anything to figure it out. However, in the meantime, World Class has gained cult status on Friday Week 4 of February 1983!

I think Dylan is saying as an artistic product. Removing blood, being PG, having to have all these returns and swervers, etc.. to meet financial goals and keep everyone happy.

Stacy Kiebler, I assume. I'm moving to Dudleyville!

I'm not saying it's an all-time classic, just that it is a good match. My main point was that selling, psychology, story telling, timing, etc.. have always been what is the most important in wrestling. That has not changed, even if people advocate innovation.

My opinions are not supported by Will and Charles.

A lot of it has to with history of great cards and a lack of bad booking their town.

My absolute favourite the Dudley Boyz, bar none! You could add anyone to that family and it worked. From Dances with Dudley to Big Dick Dudley they all had their charm. I love to picture Dudleyville where the whole town is related in some way or the other. D-Von running the church, Big Dick running the junkyard, etc... The real question is, what does Dudley Girlz look like?

No, people thought the match stunk at the time. That isn't a new notion. If there has been a change is that at least in some circles, there's a greater appreciation for match layout, psychology, selling and storytelling than there used to be, so even matches that lack speed and a diversity of offense get praised for what they do well, which I personally think is a good thing. Maybe some circles at the time thought it stunk, but it wasn't the generally consensus among fans. There isn't a change towards math layout, psychology and selling, those have ALWAYS been what makes a great wrestler. Even if a lot of people are sidetracked from that way of thinking, doesn't make it true.