You're a Billionaire! Now start a Wrestling Promotion!

[MopOfVirtue]

Saw this on another forum a while back and I thought it'd be cool. I don't know which section to post it in, so here goes...

 

 

It turns out you had an uncle your father never talked about who was a drunk. He was also an extremely wealthy Silicon Valley CEO.

 

Being a drunk, he’s convinced that he slept with your mother about nine months before you were born and because he never had any kids of his own, he’s convinced you are really his kid. You can decide the validity based on your own drinking habits. He’s left in the will his entire estate but with a condition.

 

“I was at Wrestlemania in Seattle and that piece of crap Vince McMahon didn’t shake my hand. Screw him! You can only have my money if you’re going to put him out of business!â€

 

We’re going to say that his entire estate, including his banked money and stocks are worth approximately $14B.

 

So here you are, $14,000,000,000 richer but you have to spend it on a wrestling promotion that puts Vince McMahon out of business. Or not. Your uncle is dead. But you’re starting today.

 

Let’s get some of the easy details down first:

 

Promotion Name:

Promotion Initals for either chanting or when you go public:

Promotion base:

 

Now that’s out of the way, answer these questions:

 

Which currently un-signed independent talent do you sign for the promotion?

 

Which WWE/TNA/ROH/etc. talents would you try to steal away?

 

Who do you try to bring in to be your administration/staff?

 

Will you try to buy anyone else’s promotions to beef up your talent roster and staff? Who would you keep and who would you drop?

 

How are you going to promote your product? Do you go after the usual television/pay per view deal or something else?

How will you set up your development league?

 

What would be your company’s ideology? Would you run it just to what you like for wrestling to be or specifically run it to try to steal the wrestling market from the WWE?

 

Would your goal be to put Vince out of business (like your drunk uncle asked you to) or would you just try to make them the distant number two?

 

Which competitive tactics would you use to drive fans from the WWE to your promotion? Would you get dirty or try to play a clean fight?

 

Would you try to be socialist in cleaning up the wrestling industry by giving health care and benefits to your workers (which would ensure it difficult for the company to ever turn a profit) or would your goal to be turning a profit every year and being capitalist in your venture?

 

Let’s say it worked and the WWE goes out of business. Do you sign Vince McMahon?

 

Add anything else you feel would suit this

[kreay fufu]

Rather than filling that all out, i'd rather just tell you how i'd use it. I'd use some of the money to buy into CHIKARA, and become a part or full owner (without replacing any of the workers there, I might add). I'd then use the money where it was needed to properly build and improve the infrastructure of the company.

 

I'd go about improving it to the point that there is a highly professional and marketable product, then pitch the promotion to carefully selected networks, who would not try and steal creative control from Quack or any of the other big players.

 

In terms of talent i'd probably look at signing Colt Cabana, CM Punk, The North Star Express and perhaps a few others to add depth to the roster, without losing any of flare that is renowned in CHIKARA. I'd probably consider looking at teams like GenMe or Motor City Machine Guns from TNA too.

 

I wouldn't be bothered with competing with WWE, per se. My primary goal would be to gain a loyal fan base for my company and expand on that. The CHIKARA product is so far removed from the WWE style, that competing isn't really necessary. If WWE fans were to come and watch us over WWE, then it'd be because the CHIKARA product is superior in both writing and performing.

 

With any remaining money, which i'm sure there would be, i'd set up some form of saving account in which the accumulated interest would effectively be used to run the company. for example, $10,000,000,000 at 10% interest would see the business turning over $1,000,000,000 a year purely through interest, easily enough to run and maintain the business and look after the talent.

 

If Vince wanted me to hire him? As that scenario will likely never happen, I can't say with any definitive answer what I'd do. I'd perhaps consider letting him work as a manager for a heel team, but he'd have no power.

[iVivaLaAdam]

Promotion Name: Xtremely Lame Wrestling

Promotion Initals for either chanting or when you go public: XLW

Promotion base: Florida

 

Which currently un-signed independent talent do you sign for the promotion? Anyone wo was in WWE, if thay where there thay surly cant be bad wrestlers

 

 

Which WWE/TNA/ROH/etc. talents would you try to steal away? Mr. Anderson, Sing, Jeff Hard, Matt Hardy

Who do you try to bring in to be your administration/staff? Vince Russo, Hulk Hogan

 

Will you try to buy anyone else’s promotions to beef up your talent roster and staff? Who would you keep and who would you drop? Buy TNA and change everything that made it orriginal

 

How are you going to promote your product? Do you go after the usual television/pay per view deal or something else? Spike TV

 

How will you set up your development league? we wont, We''l just sign former WWE tallent

 

What would be your company’s ideology? Would you run it just to what you like for wrestling to be or specifically run it to try to steal the wrestling market from the WWE? We tell everyone we care about wrestling and then shit on us.

 

Would your goal be to put Vince out of business (like your drunk uncle asked you to) or would you just try to make them the distant number two? We'll compeate with vince then relise we cant so we try to do everything that WCW did.

 

Which competitive tactics would you use to drive fans from the WWE to your promotion? Would you get dirty or try to play a clean fight? Tell anyone we care about them

 

Would you try to be socialist in cleaning up the wrestling industry by giving health care and benefits to your workers (which would ensure it difficult for the company to ever turn a profit) or would your goal to be turning a profit every year and being capitalist in your venture? Turn a profit, *censored* eveone else! Make them wrestle high if i have too

 

Let’s say it worked and the WWE goes out of business. Do you sign Vince McMahon? no

[T-Virus]

Promotion Name: Worlds Greatest Wrestling

Promotion Initals for either chanting or when you go public: WGW

Promotion base: Sacramento, California

 

Which currently un-signed independent talent do you sign for the promotion? N/A

 

Which WWE/TNA/ROH/etc. talents would you try to steal away? Lots but some are

1.RVD

2.Jeff Hardy

3.Mick Foley

4.Randy Orton

5.CM Punk

 

Who do you try to bring in to be your administration/staff?Mainly have it ran by my family

 

Will you try to buy anyone else’s promotions to beef up your talent roster and staff? Who would you keep and who would you drop?I would put TNA out of its misery and take most of the talent. I wouldn't bring in some like Eric Young.

 

How are you going to promote your product? Do you go after the usual television/pay per view deal or something else? Having a show every Wednesday night calles "KAOS" and a monthy PPV for cheaper than WWE.

 

What would be your company’s ideology? Would you run it just to what you like for wrestling to be or specifically run it to try to steal the wrestling market from the WWE? I would have the best of everything, Crewiserweights, mat wrestlers, submissionist, technical, divas, etc.

 

Would your goal be to put Vince out of business (like your drunk uncle asked you to) or would you just try to make them the distant number two? I enjoy competition and putting WWE out would be no fun. I would let them stick around.

 

Which competitive tactics would you use to drive fans from the WWE to your promotion? Would you get dirty or try to play a clean fight? I would have a series of different matches, you wouldn't have to wait for a PPV to see a title change hands or see a bloody match. Matches like TLC would happen more often then WWE does.

 

Would you try to be socialist in cleaning up the wrestling industry by giving health care and benefits to your workers (which would ensure it difficult for the company to ever turn a profit) or would your goal to be turning a profit every year and being capitalist in your venture? Wrestlers know the risks of getting into the business, so they would be responsible for themselves.

 

Let’s say it worked and the WWE goes out of business. Do you sign Vince McMahon?

 

Vince has always been a great on air character. Having him run my show "KAOS" every week would be more than entertaining!

[Tsel]

Promotion Name: Xtremely Lame Wrestling

Promotion Initals for either chanting or when you go public: XLW

Promotion base: Florida

 

Which currently un-signed independent talent do you sign for the promotion? Anyone wo was in WWE, if thay where there thay surly cant be bad wrestlers

 

 

Which WWE/TNA/ROH/etc. talents would you try to steal away? Mr. Anderson, Sing, Jeff Hard, Matt Hardy

Who do you try to bring in to be your administration/staff? Vince Russo, Hulk Hogan

 

Will you try to buy anyone else’s promotions to beef up your talent roster and staff? Who would you keep and who would you drop? Buy TNA and change everything that made it orriginal

 

How are you going to promote your product? Do you go after the usual television/pay per view deal or something else? Spike TV

 

How will you set up your development league? we wont, We''l just sign former WWE tallent

 

What would be your company’s ideology? Would you run it just to what you like for wrestling to be or specifically run it to try to steal the wrestling market from the WWE? We tell everyone we care about wrestling and then shit on us.

 

Would your goal be to put Vince out of business (like your drunk uncle asked you to) or would you just try to make them the distant number two? We'll compeate with vince then relise we cant so we try to do everything that WCW did.

 

Which competitive tactics would you use to drive fans from the WWE to your promotion? Would you get dirty or try to play a clean fight? Tell anyone we care about them

 

Would you try to be socialist in cleaning up the wrestling industry by giving health care and benefits to your workers (which would ensure it difficult for the company to ever turn a profit) or would your goal to be turning a profit every year and being capitalist in your venture? Turn a profit, *censored* eveone else! Make them wrestle high if i have too

 

Let’s say it worked and the WWE goes out of business. Do you sign Vince McMahon? no

Was this a serious attempt at being funny?

[iVivaLaAdam]

wasnt trying to be funny at all, Just thought if it workd for tna.. it could work for me.

[Porkchop]

wasnt trying to be funny at all, Just thought if it workd for tna.. it could work for me.

 

Translation = I was trying to be funny, but failed at it. Now I'm trying to not look stupid by lying about it.

[iVivaLaAdam]

Why would i need to lie? Im not 5. I have no need to lie to impress people online that I dont know. I filled it in how I wanted. Dont see how that should be an issue.

[.Sy™]

Promotion Name: World Wrestling Showdown

Promotion Initals for either chanting or when you go public: WWS (Initials) / Show-Down! (Chant)

Promotion base: New York, New York

 

Which currently un-signed independent talent do you sign for the promotion? Low-Ki, KENTA

 

Which WWE/TNA/ROH/etc. talents would you try to steal away?

1. CM Punk
2. Bryan Danielson
3. Alberto Del Río
4. The Motor City Machine Guns
5. The Kings of Wrestling
6. John Morrison
7. Evan Bourne

Who do you try to bring in to be your administration/staff?

- Paul Heyman, Jim Cornette

 

Will you try to buy anyone else's promotions to beef up your talent roster and staff? Who would you keep and who would you drop?

- TNA Wrestling. I'd keep Amazing Red, Anderson, AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Kurt Angle and perhaps RVD and drop some backstage people Hogan, Russo and Bischoff, wrestlers would be Jeff Hardy (with his current condition), Crimson, Jesse Neal or Gunner.

 

How are you going to promote your product? Do you go after the usual television/pay per view deal or something else?

- A Weekly every Thuesday or Thursday; if the Roster gets larger two Weeklys on Tuesday and Thursday. A PPV would be held every Sunday (Standard).

 

What would be your company's ideology? Would you run it just to what you like for wrestling to be or specifically run it to try to steal the wrestling market from the WWE?

- A strong Midcard and Tag Team Division, decent Women Division, great Main Event Scene. I'd try to push every Worker and give everyone a prudent Character and Gimmick. Wrestlers who aren't very good on the Mic get a Manager, Talents who aren't very good in the ring but good on the Mic become either on-screen personalities (Manager, GM, etc.) or form a Tag Team with a decent Wrestler.

 

Would your goal be to put Vince out of business (like your drunk uncle asked you to) or would you just try to make them the distant number two?

- Not immediately. I'd wait until my Roster would get almost as big as the WWE's and also until the Ratings are 2.00-3.00. Then I'd first start a "Friday Night War" with SmackDown!, followed by a "Monday Night War".

 

Which competitive tactics would you use to drive fans from the WWE to your promotion? Would you get dirty or try to play a clean fight?

- I'd give real Talent, also smaller guys, the chance to shine in the Main Event and be there for a long time (if the Ratings won't drop much). The company's direction would be a bit edgy, but not too much. Blood would only appear in Hardcore Matches or Street Fights. I'd see what the weaknesses of the WWE are (Divas, Tag Team, etc.) and try to do those parts in my show better. I'd also try to bring a special and different Matchtype on the PPV-card, and maybe think of a possible new one. I wouldn't bash the other companies like TNA does all the time. But perhaps I'd go DX-Style and invade the WWE or something similar.

 

Would you try to be socialist in cleaning up the wrestling industry by giving health care and benefits to your workers (which would ensure it difficult for the company to ever turn a profit) or would your goal to be turning a profit every year and being capitalist in your venture?

- Hard decision. I'd go with option two. The matches on my show shouldn't be too extreme, so more injuries wouldn't happen.

 

Let's say it worked and the WWE goes out of business. Do you sign Vince McMahon?

- Definitely. He'd be an on-Air personality, he could pull off a General Manager.

[Sacrilegium]

I'll have to give it some thought. Honestly I'd rather put the money into an MMA promotion. I can see pro wrestling (in is current form) continuing to slide down in popularity until it's all but gone 50 years from now.

 

What I'd really like to do is find some way to make the matches themselves competitive. Not a full-blown real fight like an MMA match, but...I don't know. Competitive somehow. I haven't figured out how yet.

[The Rekking Crew]

Promotion Name: Xtremely Lame Wrestling

Promotion Initals for either chanting or when you go public: XLW

Promotion base: Florida

 

Which currently un-signed independent talent do you sign for the promotion? Anyone wo was in WWE, if thay where there thay surly cant be bad wrestlers

 

 

Which WWE/TNA/ROH/etc. talents would you try to steal away? Mr. Anderson, Sing, Jeff Hard, Matt Hardy

Who do you try to bring in to be your administration/staff? Vince Russo, Hulk Hogan

 

Will you try to buy anyone else’s promotions to beef up your talent roster and staff? Who would you keep and who would you drop? Buy TNA and change everything that made it orriginal

 

How are you going to promote your product? Do you go after the usual television/pay per view deal or something else? Spike TV

 

How will you set up your development league? we wont, We''l just sign former WWE tallent

 

What would be your company’s ideology? Would you run it just to what you like for wrestling to be or specifically run it to try to steal the wrestling market from the WWE? We tell everyone we care about wrestling and then shit on us.

 

Would your goal be to put Vince out of business (like your drunk uncle asked you to) or would you just try to make them the distant number two? We'll compeate with vince then relise we cant so we try to do everything that WCW did.

 

Which competitive tactics would you use to drive fans from the WWE to your promotion? Would you get dirty or try to play a clean fight? Tell anyone we care about them

 

Would you try to be socialist in cleaning up the wrestling industry by giving health care and benefits to your workers (which would ensure it difficult for the company to ever turn a profit) or would your goal to be turning a profit every year and being capitalist in your venture? Turn a profit, *censored* eveone else! Make them wrestle high if i have too

 

Let’s say it worked and the WWE goes out of business. Do you sign Vince McMahon? no

Isn't that TNA XD

[Monarch98]

Promotion Name: Xtremely Lame Wrestling

Promotion Initals for either chanting or when you go public: XLW

Promotion base: Florida

 

Which currently un-signed independent talent do you sign for the promotion? Anyone wo was in WWE, if thay where there thay surly cant be bad wrestlers

 

 

Which WWE/TNA/ROH/etc. talents would you try to steal away? Mr. Anderson, Sing, Jeff Hard, Matt Hardy

Who do you try to bring in to be your administration/staff? Vince Russo, Hulk Hogan

 

Will you try to buy anyone else’s promotions to beef up your talent roster and staff? Who would you keep and who would you drop? Buy TNA and change everything that made it orriginal

 

How are you going to promote your product? Do you go after the usual television/pay per view deal or something else? Spike TV

 

How will you set up your development league? we wont, We''l just sign former WWE tallent

 

What would be your company’s ideology? Would you run it just to what you like for wrestling to be or specifically run it to try to steal the wrestling market from the WWE? We tell everyone we care about wrestling and then shit on us.

 

Would your goal be to put Vince out of business (like your drunk uncle asked you to) or would you just try to make them the distant number two? We'll compeate with vince then relise we cant so we try to do everything that WCW did.

 

Which competitive tactics would you use to drive fans from the WWE to your promotion? Would you get dirty or try to play a clean fight? Tell anyone we care about them

 

Would you try to be socialist in cleaning up the wrestling industry by giving health care and benefits to your workers (which would ensure it difficult for the company to ever turn a profit) or would your goal to be turning a profit every year and being capitalist in your venture? Turn a profit, *censored* eveone else! Make them wrestle high if i have too

 

Let’s say it worked and the WWE goes out of business. Do you sign Vince McMahon? no

Isn't that TNA XD

Jeff Hard.

 

Sounds like a porn gimmick.

[choas eagle]

Promotion Name: International Pro Wrestling

Promotion Initals for either chanting or when you go public: IPW

Promotion base: World wide (ok lets go with ontario)

 

Which currently un-signed independent talent do you sign for the promotion?

CM Punk, HBK (do they count ), Lance Storm, Trish Stratus, Sexy Star, Fabi&Mary Apache.

 

Which WWE/TNA/ROH/etc. talents would you try to steal away?

Kurt Angle, Christian, Bryan Danielson, Desmond Wolf/Nigel Mcguinness, MCMG, Winter, Angelina Love, Madison Rayne.

 

Who do you try to bring in to be your administration/staff?

Pat Paterson, Jim Cornette and Paul Heyman

 

Will you try to buy anyone else’s promotions to beef up your talent roster and staff? Who would you keep and who would you drop?

come to a agreement with ROH to merge the company's to make a driving force to take on TNA/WWE

 

How are you going to promote your product? Do you go after the usual television/pay per view deal or something else?

Go down a different route to other wrestling promotion and try get my show on a actual sports channel (preferably ESPN) as this could add more crediblity to

 

How will you set up your development league?

Start up a development center of my own and hire a couple of technical based wrestlers to tutor it.

 

What would be your company’s ideology? Would you run it just to what you like for wrestling to be or specifically run it to try to steal the wrestling market from the WWE?

 

 

Would your goal be to put Vince out of business (like your drunk uncle asked you to) or would you just try to make them the distant number two?

The only way to put somebofy out of business would be to buy them out or make them spend so much money trying to stay in competition tht they go broke so both really?

 

Which competitive tactics would you use to drive fans from the WWE to your promotion? Would you get dirty or try to play a clean fight?

Just Purly outclass them by giving a more edgy show that has alot of wrestling, limited comercials and "to-the-point" shoot promo's, no writers for the wrestlers. Do like the WWE does with TNA and not aanowledge the WWE at all.

 

Would you try to be socialist in cleaning up the wrestling industry by giving health care and benefits to your workers (which would ensure it difficult for the company to ever turn a profit) or would your goal to be turning a profit every year and being capitalist in your venture?

Go for a mix, my ME and guys who work longer matches get health care but the lower card who don't always get a match have none, health care would be somthing you earn.

 

Let’s say it worked and the WWE goes out of business. Do you sign Vince McMahon? Yes, He's the guy who sells the programs

[V to I]

Promotion Name: Wrestle Association Revolution

Promotion Initals for either chanting or when you go public: WAR

Promotion base: The East Coast, most likely

 

Which currently un-signed independent talent do you sign for the promotion?

 

I wanna say Austin Aries but I have a feeling he's gonna end up with TNA, but uh, Jimmy Jacobs, Jimmy Rave, Kid Kash, Kenny Omega, The Olsen Twins, Petey Williams, Paul London and various others.

 

Which WWE/TNA/ROH/etc. talents would you try to steal away?

 

I'd be listing so many if I had my way, but I'll just limit it to the 5 I want from WWE, TNA, and ROH:

WWE TNA ROH

1.) CM Punk, Kurt Angle, & Davey Richards

2.) Christian, Rob Van Dam, & El Generico

3.) Seth Rollins/Tyler Black, The Pope, & Eddie Edwards

4.) Cody Rhodes, Brian Kendrick, & Colt Cabana

5.) Daniel Bryan, Kazarian, & Rhett Titus

 

Who do you try to bring in to be your administration/staff?

 

Jim Cornette ideally, maybe try to steal away guys like Pat Patterson or Ricky Steamboat, guys who have experience on both sides of the curtain.

 

Will you try to buy anyone else’s promotions to beef up your talent roster and staff? Who would you keep and who would you drop?

 

Not really, I'd like to have a working relationship with some promotions if at all possible.

 

How are you going to promote your product? Do you go after the usual television/pay per view deal or something else?

 

Ideally, yes. The traditional format is what I'd want, but if not, iPPVs, newswires and maybe some DVD subscription type deal.

 

How will you set up your development league?

 

Have a traditional academy/dojo/whatever type of training school would be ideal, followed by slowly introducting talent to the crowd through dark matches.

 

What would be your company’s ideology? Would you run it just to what you like for wrestling to be or specifically run it to try to steal the wrestling market from the WWE?

 

I'd run it so every divison would be represented and supported, if there's a cruiserweight or tag divison, I wouldn't neglect or belittle them like WWE do. I'd also like wrestlers to not be restricted to one divison. If I had say, Davey Richards, just because he competes in the Heavyweight division doesn't mean he couldn't slide into a midcard division, it wouldn't be below him.

 

Would your goal be to put Vince out of business (like your drunk uncle asked you to) or would you just try to make them the distant number two?

 

I'd just run it in the hopes of survival. If I ever managed to get into the same league, I wouldn't have a war with them unless I felt I could handle it.

 

Which competitive tactics would you use to drive fans from the WWE to your promotion? Would you get dirty or try to play a clean fight?

 

I'd promote it as a sport, try to win people over with competitive and hard hitting in-ring action and realistic storylines but not to the point where it's not accessable to everyone.

 

Would you try to be socialist in cleaning up the wrestling industry by giving health care and benefits to your workers (which would ensure it difficult for the company to ever turn a profit) or would your goal to be turning a profit every year and being capitalist in your venture?

 

That's hard to say, really. I'd like to be able to provide health care and benefits to the roster but at the same time, turning a profit is essential. I'd lean more towards option one.

 

Let’s say it worked and the WWE goes out of business. Do you sign Vince McMahon?

 

Yes, because while I may not always agree with his decisions, his experience and knowledge is invaluable, he'd be a great consultant and mind to have around.

[CptHowdy87]

I would make it as much an anti-WWE program as possible. That doesn't mean I'd have the wrestlers come out on the mic and bury WWE, nothing like that, what I mean is that I'd run the company the opposite to the way WWE does in almost every aspect.

 

Everyone would have a voice. From the top of the card to the bottom, everyone will be heard and are infact encouraged to voice their opinion. No backstage politics or BS etiquette like in WWE. You're encouraged to be an individual and be yourself, no worrying about having to walk on eggshells. This would be the main thing in making the backstage environment positive and up-beat and no-one would have to feel insecure or inadequate. Once that's established there's a world of possibilties.

 

I also like the philosophy that less is more. Hence there would be a half hour show that goes over matches booked for the night and features pre-taped backstage interviews followed by a 1 hour straight wrestling program. There would only be 4 PPVs a year and that would feature long story-lines and angles that build and build toward the PPVs making the PPVs must-see's that anyone who didn't order them would be missing out big time and they wouldn't get to see any hilights of the PPVs on television and story-lines and angles that happened on PPV wouldn't be given away on TV so that if you missed the PPV then you missed something big and would have to order the PPV on replay if you wanted to find out what happened. Not too much is given away on TV, as in you'll get to see great quality matches but they won't be anywhere near as long as PPV matches and big moves and spots are saved for PPV. Every PPV goes all out and features nothing less than 4 star matches from the top to the bottom of the card.

 

I'd hire Jim Cornette as the booker. He knows how to book excellent matches and angles that would be distinctly different in quality to WWE's style. I'd trust him to hire anyone he'd want to have around to assist him as booker and television supervisor. I'd like Heyman's input but he would be impossible to work alongside Jim Cornette because they hate eachother. I would hire him as my own personal consultant to pitch me ideas on what to do with the product that I'd then run by Jim Cornette.

 

I'd hire about 5 or 6 retired wrestlers to work backstage with the talent on how to put together matches, how to present their character etc... guys like Jerry Lynn, Finlay, Dean Malenko etc...

 

Weight classes. I don't know about anyone else but I hate seeing Rey Mysterio and Evan Bourne taking on Big Show, Kane, Khali etc... it's stupid and unconvincing and a sure way to drive fans away that want to see a more realistic wrestling product. First weight class would be 180lbs and under, then 180lbs to 250lbs then 250lbs and over. Lightweight, Heavyweight and Super Heavyweight.

 

I'm not very up to date at all with wrestling today so I don't know alot of the talent getting around these days. I'd hire about 5 or 6 guys each from WWE, TNA, ROH one of the promotions from Japan, one of the promotions from England, one of the promotions from Mexico and one of the promotions here in Australia. They'd each form a faction of sorts, they stick together and back eachother up but still wrestle each other here and there. Most fueds would be rivalries between factions. This helps build strong fan-bases for each faction.

 

That's all I have for now but I'll be back later to go more into detail on other things.

[theaCeofspades]

Promotion Name:Superior Pro Wrestling

Promotion Initials for either chanting or when you go public:WSW

Promotion base:Tulsa, Oklahoma

 

Now that’s out of the way, answer these questions:

 

Which currently un-signed independent talent do you sign for the promotion? I would go with any of the luchadors from WCW back in the day that could still go like they did (in the glory days of three rings in a row and them flipping back and forth between them) Jack Evans, Kid Kash, Low-Ki, pretty much any of the stand out talent from the recent X-Division matches that aren't signed.

 

Which WWE/TNA/ROH/etc. talents would you try to steal away? Hernandez, MVP, The Pope, CM Punk, Amazing Red, Tara, Mickie, Velvet, Kharma, Beth Phoenix, Nattie, Hamada (sp?)

 

Who do you try to bring in to be your administration/staff? Kevin Nash (to train big men), Rey Mysterio (to train high flyers), Punk (to train mic work), Dean Melanko (to train technique), Jim Cornette and Heyman (talent relations and booking) just to name a few.

 

Will you try to buy anyone else’s promotions to beef up your talent roster and staff? Who would you keep and who would you drop? I wouldn't buy out any, I would try to get a deal with ROH or TNA to be their training ground or visa versa (Like Vince should do with ROH and let Punk go there with the WWE title... but that is a different conversation for a different thread.

 

How are you going to promote your product? Do you go after the usual television/pay per view deal or something else? I would do, to start, one weekly show on Saturday Nights (no one is really there any more) and a once every few month PPV to give time for build up of story lines (no monthly PPV crap to just bleed money)

 

How will you set up your development league? See question above.

 

What would be your company’s ideology? Would you run it just to what you like for wrestling to be or specifically run it to try to steal the wrestling market from the WWE? I wouldn't try to steal the wrestling market, because then the fans lose. The worst wrestling I remember was when WCW was bought out and WWE was the only cat in town. You NEED competition.

 

Would your goal be to put Vince out of business (like your drunk uncle asked you to) or would you just try to make them the distant number two? See above question about putting Vince out, but I would try my best to take that #1 spot.

 

Which competitive tactics would you use to drive fans from the WWE to your promotion? Would you get dirty or try to play a clean fight? I would play clean. Just give pure wrestling and entertainment.

 

Would you try to be socialist in cleaning up the wrestling industry by giving health care and benefits to your workers (which would ensure it difficult for the company to ever turn a profit) or would your goal to be turning a profit every year and being capitalist in your venture? I would try to get avenues for starting health care because they need it. I am not sure what other "benefit" they NEED other than that.

 

Let’s say it worked and the WWE goes out of business. Do you sign Vince McMahon? Yes, say what you want... the man is a genius!

[Salty.]

Promotion Name: International Championship Wrestling

Promotion Initals for either chanting or when you go public: ICW

Promotion base: Montreal Canada (I live in England so I don't exactly know many states.)

 

Now that’s out of the way, answer these questions:

 

Which currently un-signed independent talent do you sign for the promotion? -Austin Aries, Low-Ki, Chris Jericho (Technically not signed to anyone)

 

Which WWE/TNA/ROH/etc. talents would you try to steal away? -AJ Styles, Cm Punk, John Cena, Kurt Angle

 

Who do you try to bring in to be your administration/staff? -Raven, Foley, Dreamer

 

Will you try to buy anyone else’s promotions to beef up your talent roster and staff? Who would you keep and who would you drop? -Nah I won't buy anyone elses promotion. Competition is healthy for the wrestling business and I may aswell let them build up talent which I can snatch later on.

 

How are you going to promote your product? Do you go after the usual television/pay per view deal or something else? -TV, RADIO, Local Newspaper, internet to Adevertise my product. Propose an Idea to either WWE or TNA to do a 1 night invasion angle where my superstars "invade" there show for the night. I'd go for the usual Television/PPV deal

 

What would be your company’s ideology? Would you run it just to what you like for wrestling to be or specifically run it to try to steal the wrestling market from the WWE? -Wrestling would come first. The WWE formula is starting to become stale so trying to use it would get me no where.

 

Would your goal be to put Vince out of business (like your drunk uncle asked you to) or would you just try to make them the distant number two? -I'd put him out of business. I'd prefer to make him distant number two but double crossing the dead doesn't appeal to me.

 

Would you try to be socialist in cleaning up the wrestling industry by giving health care and benefits to your workers (which would ensure it difficult for the company to ever turn a profit) or would your goal to be turning a profit every year and being capitalist in your venture? -I'd be a socialist. I may not make much of a profit but if my top guy's get injured then I won't make a profit anyway.

 

Let’s say it worked and the WWE goes out of business. Do you sign Vince McMahon? No. The man has lost his spark and has nothing left to contribute to the wrestling business

[Poe Øhlin]

Promotion Name: IWA Mid - West

Promotion Initals for either chanting or when you go public: IWA or MW

Promotion base: Columbus Ohio

 

Which currently un-signed independent talent do you sign for the promotion?

Jack Evans, Nick Gage (whenever he gets out of jail), Jeff Hardy (Does he even count?)

 

Which WWE/TNA/ROH/etc. talents would you try to steal away?

Christopher Daniels, Alex Shelly, Evan Bourne, Gunner, Christian, CM Punk

 

Who do you try to bring in to be your administration/staff?

Scott Levy(Raven), Mick Foley, Paul Heyman

 

Will you try to buy anyone else’s promotions to beef up your talent roster and staff? Who would you keep and who would you drop?

Not really. Let them build a star so I can get him

 

How are you going to promote your product? Do you go after the usual television/pay per view deal or something else?

Have an internet show on Saturday from 9:00 PM to 12:00 am and a small internet show for Tuesdays from 10:00 PM to 12:00 am. Traveling would be a big part so travel Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illionois, Penyslavania, Maryland, and Delaware. I'd try and get a dvd deal as fast as possible to help spread ourselves. I'd do ppvs but only every few months. Just mainly have one for our anniversary of opening, an end of the year one, a halloween one, and that's kinda it.

 

How will you set up your development league?

 

What would be your company’s ideology? Would you run it just to what you like for wrestling to be or specifically run it to try to steal the wrestling market from the WWE?

Wrestling. I'd have no use for storylines unless I wanted to do something big to make people check us out.

 

Would your goal be to put Vince out of business (like your drunk uncle asked you to) or would you just try to make them the distant number two?

Nobody will ever be able to put Vince out of business until he really really *censored*s up. I'd be happy being the third most popular. So as long as I'd past CZW, JCW, and ROH I'd be happy.

 

Which competitive tactics would you use to drive fans from the WWE to your promotion? Would you get dirty or try to play a clean fight?

I'd play clean. No use in having to cheat, Vince does that enough with his talent.

 

Would you try to be socialist in cleaning up the wrestling industry by giving health care and benefits to your workers (which would ensure it difficult for the company to ever turn a profit) or would your goal to be turning a profit every year and being capitalist in your venture?

Well I'm a company that's mainly built on hardcore wrestling so I'd pay for medical bills when a serious injury happened. Other then that I'd rather make a profit. With more money, we could promote ourselves more, and could get more well known talent.

 

Let’s say it worked and the WWE goes out of business. Do you sign Vince McMahon?

Maybe if I needed a bitch but probably not.

[shaggy58]

Promotion Name: NYXTREMWRESTLING

Promotion Initals for either chanting or when you go public: NXW

Promotion base: new york but will travel

 

 

Which currently un-signed independent talent do you sign for the promotion?:dont really know any unsigned people

 

Which WWE/TNA/ROH/etc. talents would you try to steal away? rhino cmpunk colt cabana hardys and few people from czw and raven

 

Who do you try to bring in to be your administration/staff? paul heyman

 

Will you try to buy anyone else’s promotions to beef up your talent roster and staff? Who would you keep and who would you drop?nope

 

How are you going to promote your product? Do you go after the usual television/pay per view deal or something else? tv and ppv deal

 

How will you set up your development league? scout and tryouts at house shows

 

What would be your company’s ideology? Would you run it just to what you like for wrestling to be or specifically run it to try to steal the wrestling market from the WWE? run it my way but have the basic matchs in wrestling

 

Would your goal be to put Vince out of business (like your drunk uncle asked you to) or would you just try to make them the distant number two?

 

Which competitive tactics would you use to drive fans from the WWE to your promotion? Would you get dirty or try to play a clean fight? get dirty and talk shit on my show lol

 

Would you try to be socialist in cleaning up the wrestling industry by giving health care and benefits to your workers (which would ensure it difficult for the company to ever turn a profit) or would your goal to be turning a profit every year and being capitalist in your venture? i would give them benifits but also find ways to make a profit

 

Let’s say it worked and the WWE goes out of business. Do you sign Vince McMahon? yes i would sign vince to shit on him just like he did to paul heyman

[Avatar Mallen]

Promotion Name: Lucha Libre International

Promotion Initals for either chanting or when you go public: LLI

Promotion base: El Paso, Texas

 

 

Which currently un-signed independent talent do you sign for the promotion?

Blue Demon, Silver King

 

Which WWE/TNA/ROH/etc. talents would you try to steal away?

AJ Styles, Evan Bourne, Rey Mysterio, Sin Cara, Alberto Del Rio, CM Punk

 

Who do you try to bring in to be your administration/staff?

Jim Ross, Dave Finlay

 

Will you try to buy anyone else’s promotions to beef up your talent roster and staff? Who would you keep and who would you drop?

No. Good for competition

 

How are you going to promote your product? Do you go after the usual television/pay per view deal or something else?

Similar to the WWE package, one show per week to build-up to the monthly PPVs with a massive anniversary bash like WrestleMania featuring all of the talent over a couple of days

 

How will you set up your development league?

That would be another weekly TV show, like a "fly on the wall" documentary series and testing how new talent would act under pressure with wresting, promos, fan interaction, etc.

 

What would be your company’s ideology? Would you run it just to what you like for wrestling to be or specifically run it to try to steal the wrestling market from the WWE?

A purely wrestling company with decent storylines, good amount of in-ring action each week and lots of buildup

 

Would your goal be to put Vince out of business (like your drunk uncle asked you to) or would you just try to make them the distant number two?

Would just let the product run and go with what the public like.

 

Which competitive tactics would you use to drive fans from the WWE to your promotion? Would you get dirty or try to play a clean fight?

Clean fight. TNA fails with their dirty tactics

 

Would you try to be socialist in cleaning up the wrestling industry by giving health care and benefits to your workers (which would ensure it difficult for the company to ever turn a profit) or would your goal to be turning a profit every year and being capitalist in your venture?

Definitely health benefits for the roster, but would use other markets to help turn a profit like WWE do.

 

Let’s say it worked and the WWE goes out of business. Do you sign Vince McMahon?

No, that would be rubbing his nose in it too hard.

[Simich]

Promotion Name: Championship Wrestling America
Promotion Initals for either chanting or when you go public: CWA
Promotion base: Dallas, Texas

Which currently un-signed independent talent do you sign for the promotion?

 

Christopher Daniels, Kazarian, Davey Richards, Eddie Edwards, Pentagon Jr., Ricochet and Matt Sydal

Which WWE/TNA/ROH/etc. talents would you try to steal away?

 

Samoa Joe, The Undertaker, Cesaro, Balor, Rollins, Owens, Nakamura, Styles and Kalisto from WWE. KUSHIDA, Okada, Tanahashi and Liger from NJPW. Angle from TNA. The Briscoes, Adam Cole and ACH from ROH.

Who do you try to bring in to be your administration/staff?

Jim Ross, Dave Prazak and Mick Foley as announcers and Jim Cornette and Paul Heyman as co-writers

Will you try to buy anyone else’s promotions to beef up your talent roster and staff? Who would you keep and who would you drop?

 

ROH/NJPW/PWG/SHIMMER id probably keep just about everybody

How are you going to promote your product? Do you go after the usual television/pay per view deal or something else?

 

 

How will you set up your development league?

 

A company running local shows and one time a year its a supershow where dev guys and main roster guys vs. eachother and if a dev guy wins they get called up.

What would be your company’s ideology? Would you run it just to what you like for wrestling to be or specifically run it to try to steal the wrestling market from the WWE?

 

I would have it be a Puroresu/Lucha/Entertainment company trying to rival with WWE by bringing a different crowd.

Would your goal be to put Vince out of business (like your drunk uncle asked you to) or would you just try to make them the distant number two?

 

It would.

Which competitive tactics would you use to drive fans from the WWE to your promotion? Would you get dirty or try to play a clean fight?

 

Clean fight no WCW/TNA shit here.

Would you try to be socialist in cleaning up the wrestling industry by giving health care and benefits to your workers (which would ensure it difficult for the company to ever turn a profit) or would your goal to be turning a profit every year and being capitalist in your venture?

 

Socialist.

Lets say it worked and the WWE goes out of business. Do you sign Vince McMahon?

 

If he would like to be signed hed become a co writer (maybe fire Cornette then) and a heel manager.

[LEGION]

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