Grimmas

Awesome, if everybody else could give a list of their top choice and some others they would be willing to do and we'll figure things out. Order of joining game, so kind of priority, but we'll negotiate. 1. Grimmas (ECW, SHIMMER, CHIKARA, Stampede, Maple Leaf Wrestling, or IWC) 2. @superkix (if still in) 3. @ColdStone (WWE or AEW) 4. @Scarlet-Left (???) 5. @Captain Redneck (NJPW, AJPW, or NOAH)

NXT could be its own promotion... or nobody can take them at all. That's the fun. I think the franchise thing works that almost every former promotion has someone well associated with it. ECW-Heyman WCW-Bischoff/Jarrett/Tony S./Jim Ross... Stampede-Bret Hart SMW-Cornette USWA-Lawler if we did the draft thing, it kind of handicaps promotions that are active, because if you pick a defunct promotion you get a first overall pick from anywhere, while the active promotions first pick is only their promotion. If that makes sense?

I forgot, Stampede or Maple Leaf Wrestling is a possibility

Yeah, owners would be the logical conclusion except dead promotions. You could have WCW owned by Turner, Bischoff, or even The Rhodes Family if done. Same with ECW. If NXT is a thing, then they could be broken off with Trips and Steph or just one and they get a divorce. I think having an authority figure or caps on things is not really needed. You pick enough people in the draft that you need. A promotion like a PWG doesn't need the roster size of a WWE. Same with authority figures, managers, etc.. everybody can have different amounts or none. I think for the draft, round 1 is promotion followed by declaring ownership (if not obvious). The rest of the rounds are free for all, if you want to be like CHIKARA and have the wrestlers do commentary when they aren't wrestling go for it. Referees we can skip, so just make it a free for all? We all bow out of the draft when we feel we have enough. Maybe every couple of months we do some kind of draft with whoever is not picked, because there will be LOTS and some many even emerge over that time. One rule that may make sense, maybe not, is some kind of loyalty pick for each company. Say you are the WWE you can take one person, like a John Cena for free. Someone that would not make sense in another company. If you are a dead company, maybe just someone that was on that roster that would make sense? For example ECW maybe you can save a Tommy Dreamer who is still around or a Don Callis or something? Just spitballing on that one. Maybe we don't even need to draft the promotions, maybe we can just make an agreement for what people want. I have no interest in WWE. Moderate interest in WCW. ECW would be ideal, but I'd be cool with a SHIMMER or a IWC (The company that ran the AAA shows in Los Angeles in the 90s to huge draws), or something else smaller. Maybe CHIKARA or IWA-MS.

I agree with the draft unrealistic can work, but if you are going for a theme maybe stick with it? Like a death match promotion with ZSJ as the main star doing death matches is wrong. Him doing an anti death match tour in a death match promotion could work... I think the thing I want to avoid is 5 even rosters all being a national promotion all doing the same thing. Variety is the key. I will do variety at the very least. As for injuries, I'd be up for whatever. I do think restrictions helps creativity and if I built up a program between Joe and WALTER and Joe got injured a week before the match, it would force me to be more creative. Real life promotions have to do that. Also, Roman Reigns has cancer seems kind of odd to use him as a top star until he's actually back. That would be my argument.

Maple Leaf Gardens is REALLY expensive, so that is probably why. Ted Reeve sucks, I hate that ROH always runs there. It's at a go station and subway stop so that is good, but outside of that it's a sucky arena.

I agree. A wcw now, I wonder what kind of roster... A wcw, wwe, ecw, base with two indies could work. I said ecw first, but I'd be willing to go smaller for sure or take a shimmer, but making it bigger. The only concern, hope, I have is that people try to be semi realistic. Someone say taking a small indie and their top pick is brock Lesnar sounds wrong to me. Unless it's in Minnesota and runs monthly so he hardly has to work?

They have taped a bunch here in Toronto, but I have not been motivated to attend. Sounds like maybe I should?

Something like independentwrestling.tv is good, because you can follow a bunch of different promotions. You get Beyond and Chikara, but a lot of other awesome companies too.

Awesome! So myself @ColdStone @Scarlet-Left@Captain Redneck. @superkix are you still interested? 3 was the minimum, so we have that. Are we cool with a draft? First round we draft promotions, the test talent? With 4 we can have some good variety. I'd say drop the wwe brand split unless two people want to work together?

Way to miss the point @rovert. Nobody is arguing that having more context doesn't help you. However saying you can't comment without that context is ludicrous. We are talking about a potential major new wrestling company, let's discuss that not about how some people have heard of that band before others.

I haven't been on the board much lately, but damn this thread is an embarrassment. I like the idea of another "major" promotion. If they get a good TV deal they should do really well. They have an "it" factor, they have a major backer, they are in great shape. I really like how Khan says he wants to do a Nitro type show, which I hope means a show that will showcase wrestlers from allover. Or should I not have these opinions, since I never watch BTE or All In and I haven't seen a Kenny Omega match since he debuted in NJPW?

I would, if we are drafting off rosters, to do a modern day ECW. A smaller promotion with PPV with current talent would be fun. What's fun about doing current day and we could be booking in real time is that injuries would really play a role and if a new talent comes arrives they get mixed in. I'm glad someone wants to do the WWE, because they would be necessary for something like this. If we do a draft, we could have WWE, ECW, and the third (unless someone else joins) could be a WCW, AEW, Impact, ROH, MLW, whatever.. lots of options. WCW would be pretty good because they would be legit competition.

Nick Gage vs Josh Briggs 1/1/19 BEYOND A brutal brutal brutal garbage match which made Briggs a star in BEYOND. The first match of the year and an excellent match to boot. Not quite the David Starr-Joey Janella one from last year, but pretty excellent and well worth a watch.

There are two ways to go, start with current rosters. One could take NXT, one SD, and one Raw. If another joins they could take 205 and we could do whatever from there. Other option, which I would prefer, is that we draft out promotions and rosters. We would need a WWE, but the other two (or more) promotions could be anything. ROH, WCW, ECW, TNA, PWG, or whatever. What are others thinking?

Nice. That's three so atleast a wcw vs www vs ecw situation. We'll wait a week, see if others can join and if not I'm cool with this. Others coming in later can always be indies.

Awesome! There is just so much talent out there, especially in the WWE. I really like the idea of drafting a promotion too, so that means everybody can do their own niche. You could draft WWE/F and be huge or maybe you want something smaller with less time commitment like a PWG. Maybe you like death matches and want to be, insert your favourite garbage promotion here. Heck I'd even be tempting to pick IWC and run an once a month lucha promotion in LA.

This was discussed in 2018, but never happened. I figure new year, new thread? -SirEdgar -superkix -Grimmas all have shown interest before, but would anybody be on board? We were thinking of using current talent to do booking whether with current promotions or draft out to different promotions. We could do territory days or 90s or a mix where we each draft our promotion and they could be any from whatever time period. Anybody on board?

We could even do old school territories or promotions. Like WWF/WCW/ECW or whatever but with current talent if we wanted.

I'd be in yes, a Canadian or a women's promotion.

or a women's promotion.

Not enough interest? If we think of doing 2019, I'd do a Canadian promotion. SMASH or whatever.

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