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January 10th, 2018, 2:30 PM
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Creative Wrestling Alliance - The Booking Room
This thread is where we will come together as a team and hash out all of our booking decisions. As Head Authority, I have a handful of ideas that you, as the Creative Team, will be challenged to implement, which are listed below the roster. Outside of those, you can propose whatever ideas you have, and our goal here is to be collaborative, to help refine and improve things, constructive criticism, to try to put our minds together to produce the most compelling stuff we can come up with.
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Creative Wrestling Alliance's Creative Team (Season One):
1. mth - Head Authority
2. kneeneighbor
3. Kdestiny
4. TimeSplitter
5. Jarrod1983
6. Cewsh - Talent Scout
7. virmicious
8. The Law
9. Donald
10. ImperialStingmon
11. Jordo Smeagol
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Reminder: Our show is 12 episodes: 5 standard episodes, a bigger mid-season PPV-type event, 5 standard episodes, and a big season finale PPV-type event. Standard episodes are appx. 90 minutes and PPV-type shows are 3 hours. We'll need names for the PPV-type events, so suggest away.
Ultimately, by the end of this thread, we will need to have everything sorted out so that basic "scripts" can be written up for each of these shows to be presented in the Shows thread that'll be opened later on.
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Our roster is as follows:
Samoa Joe
Braun Strowman
CM Punk
The Miz
AJ Styles
Kazuchika Okada
Shinsuke Nakamura
Cesaro
Kenny Omega
Johnny Gargano
Rusev
Dean Ambrose
Lars Sullivan
Neville
Cody Rhodes
Velveteen Dream
Goldust
Ricochet
Kota Ibushi
Heath Slater
Sage Phillips
Desmond Xavier
Managers:
Hornswoggle (with Strowman, see below)
Brandi Rhodes (with Cody)?
Maryse (with Miz)?
Anyone you're not familiar with, please ask our Talent Scout, Cewsh, and he'll be glad to get you familiar.
Here are the Head Authority's ideas you have to work with:
-Samoa Joe will be our first top Champion. He's going to be sort of a full-time version of Brock Lesnar. He's a badass prize-fighter but only fights on his terms, bit of an arrogant bully, happy to choke out a fool for his own enjoyment but not so quick to jump when it comes to defending his title. AJ Styles and CM Punk will be feuding to see who challenges him. The dynamic for their feud is Punk returns to a hero's welcome, still proclaiming himself Best In The World, while AJ Styles has been busting his ass the whole time Punk was gone, legit proving he is the Best In The World. Personally I see Punk as the heel and AJ as the face, with Punk easily turning on the fans who welcome him back with open arms with a disgusted sneer, blaming them for the physical and mental toll that drove him out, etc., while AJ is the hard working, respectable, crowd pleaser.
-Neville will retain the more vicious, driven demeanor he had as CW Champ but will be a face, with a “size of the fight in the dog” mentality, unafraid to step to any sized challenge. He will feud with Braun Strowman in something similar to the Braun/Zayn feud WWE tried to do but handled better with a better outcome (I see a Red Arrow off the set in a Falls Count Anywhere Match). Hornswoggle will be Braun's manger. He'll rock sunglasses and a suit. “Small stature, big brain, huge bank account”. Sort of a miniture Paul Heyman. It seems like it makes for an interesting dynamic when you've got the big man/small man feud where the big man is managed by a guy smaller than the small man. Might make for some interesting promos.
-"Rainmaker vs. Moneymaker". Miz vs. Okada. Lars Sullivan will be Miz' bodyguard. Maybe Okada recruits Rusev to level the playing field? I could also see Nakamura and Omega getting involved in this for awhile for some reason.
-Dean Ambrose. I have an idea for a gimmick for him, something I thought of awhile back that I thought would make me like him, so I'm going to pull a Vince and put what most would think is a stupid gimmick on a bit of an internet darling. I'm making him 'Officer Moxley', where he takes the "justice" from The Hounds of Justice seriously and becomes a self-christened officer of the law looking to fight the corruption of the business, but in the vein of the loose cannon cop who doesn't play by the rules, he doesn't go by the book but he gets the job done, DAMMIT MOXLEY THE D.A.'S GOT MY NUTS IN A VICE AND I'D STRIP YOU OF YOUR BADGE IF YOU WEREN'T SO DAMN GOOD! All those renegade cop tropes. Think Fandango right now minus the Fashion aspect. It'll be a comedy character but also some of the same shit people like: he'll be reckless and aggressive, unorthodox, stupidly determined, ready to throw himself headlong into danger to accomplish his goals, with a never say die attitude and all that.
-Goldust will be more like the Goldust of old, maybe even weirder. He'll be sort of like a washed-up movie director, reclusive and detached, holed up in some bowel of the building he's decked out in all gold, hard to get an interview with, sends out an usher with messages to communicate for the most part, when he is interviewed he'll wax about his golden days, his greatest pictures of yesteryear. I'm thinking he won't wrestle much for awhile, but he's scheming something, pulling strings from afar, mindgames, maybe has some talent secretly in his pocket doing his dirty work, and then eventually a plan will unfold where he gets in the mix when he's ready.
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Reminder: We will still need to nail down our announce team and backstage interviewer.
Our on-air Head Authority will be a fictitious character, still open to suggestions for what we want them to be like, and they are available for use in storylines and can probably take a beating if needed, as well.
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We need a name for our Top Championship and our Mid-Level Championship. I'm just going with our company being called Creative Wrestling Alliance (CWA).
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Alright, I think that's good enough to get us going. Let the fun/madness begin...
Last edited by mth; February 7th, 2018 at 9:39 PM.
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January 10th, 2018, 2:42 PM
#2
For the indy and Japanese guys, here's an easy shorthand:
Kazuchika Okada - Main event cool and cocky heel/babyface. Maybe best wrestler in the world.
Kenny Omega - Theatrical heel with acting chops. Incredible wrestler, can work with anyone
Ricochet - Best high flyer in the world
Kota Ibushi - Other best high flyer in the world, teen idol good looks
Desmond Xavier - Very young high flyer, X-Division type
Sage Phillips - 5'4 underdog with a ton of heart
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January 10th, 2018, 3:27 PM
#3
Okay, I think we've got to start by figuring out faces and heels:
Joe-Heel
Punk-Heel
Styles-Face
Okada-Face since he's feuding with Miz
Nakamura-Face
Strowman-Heel
Cody-Heel
Ibushi-Face
Cesaro-Face
Rusev-Heel
Omega-Heel
Miz-Heel
Riccochet-Face I guess?
Ambrose-Face
Velveteen Dream-Heel
Goldust-Heel
Desmond Xavier-Face? Don't know a lot about him
Sage-Face
Gargano-Face
That gives us a 10-8 edge for faces, I think that's a fine balance since face vs. face feuds and matches are a lot more doable than heel vs. heel.
Also that order is my approximate tiering of where I think these guys fall on the card. Main eventers on top, midcard in the middle, undercard guys on the bottom.
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January 10th, 2018, 3:31 PM
#4
How are we going to get the belt on Joe? When do we want to crown a champion? I think either doing it on the very first show or waiting until the first special makes the most sense.
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January 10th, 2018, 3:32 PM
#5
If we wait until the first show big show to crown Joe, then we should wait until the next night to debut Punk. Otherwise it wont make sense to keep them apart.
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January 10th, 2018, 3:38 PM
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I think this should be built around Punk vs. Joe, but if we're doing Punk as a heel (and Joe as a heel too) that's not really going to work.
I think Punk is a better heel, but in this case the ovation for him as a returning hero would be so massive that he's got to be a face.
We can turn him heel. Probably by having him refuse to wrestle, saying he quit wrestling because he hated the fans and that hasn't changed. But then I don't really see what leads to him finally getting back in the ring. Maybe disgust with the fact that people think AJ is better than he is.
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January 10th, 2018, 3:43 PM
#7
My pitch for a two-season arc for Punk:
-He makes his hugely anticipated return on our first show, gets jumped and choked out by Joe.
-Joe vs. Punk is set to crown the initial champion on our mid-season special. Punk is outclassed by Joe, fights like a warrior, but gets choked out and loses.
-Punk goes on a journey of self-reflection, corrects some kind of character flaw, trains his ass off, says if he can't beat Joe he'll retire. He beats Joe at the first season finale to win the title.
-In the second season he gradually turns heel due to jealousy of AJ. They have a match at the mid-season special where Punk cheats to win and goes full heel. AJ comes back and wins the title from Punk in the second season finale.
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January 10th, 2018, 3:47 PM
#8
50/50 Booker
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