Supercard/PPV Names and how you run your federation(s)

[LAWraith]

I know someone has posted this in the past but i figured I would create an updated topic, as I felt its always a nice resource for myself or other promoters looking for Supercard or Pay-Per-View event names.

My federation I run is the LEGENDS OF AVALON WRESTLING FEDERATION or LAW, it is run in an alternate timeline where certain things happen but others don't (the biggest one is that an English explorer discovers the America's before Columbus and names the continent after the King Arthur legend Avalon). 

I have run three incarnations of my federation
1990-2002: this was my original federation and this timeline kept the original WWF timeline intact and my GWF was the future of that federation.  The first show I ever ran was called Civil War and has become my "Wrestlemania"or "Starrcade" like show.  It also had two weekly house shows Marauder Monday Night and Saturday Night Showdown, and twelve yearly supercards.  My federation kind of died heading into my last year of college.
2004-2009: my second federation saw the debut of the LAW brand and the breaking of a year into ten chapters (each chapter having a theme of sorts with four tv tapings called Saturday Night Showdown and then one supercard).  This federation also saw the debut of the legends timeline where I created a legends fed based off the yearly releases.  The major drawback of this federation was that i split the entire federation into four divisions (Heavyweight, Light Heavyweight, Lightweight and females) and based everything off that so you rarely saw the Enigma vs Chaos type matches.
2019-present: After buying a house, getting married and finding out i have half day fridays I rediscovered by champions stuff in a box and decided to reboot the fed one more time.  This federation is currently broken up into three eras.  LEGENDS ERA for my modern day federation, CHAMPIONS ERA for my champions of the galaxy era fed and then I have a DYSTOPIAN ERA federation that will take place in the distant future with a bunch of guys I didn't have room for in the other two eras.  My federations have always run with a roster of 48 (24 singles competitors, 8 tag teams and 8 females) with eight manager run stables.  So this leaves me with an excess of superstars at certain points in Toms GWF timeline (i plan on setting the "CENTRA' timeline and federation in this era when I get to it but obviously certain people have been set aside for this era.  Lance At-Las for example and possibly someone like deaths head and anarchy).  Another important note is I have also created the 'to be the man, you have to beat the man' rule meaning you have to beat the champ to get a shot rule.

In my federation I have always refered to months more like "chapters" for the year, I only do 50 events a year with wrestlers kind of getting a two week break for christmas and new years.  So some shows line up differently then say a corresponding month in the year.

WEEKLY TELEVISION TAPING EVENTS
SATURDAY NIGHT SHOWDOWN
SUDDEN DEATH SATURDAY NIGHT
- Marauder Monday Night
- Friday Night Fight Night

SUPERCARD NAMES
#01  CHAMPAGNE WISHES AND CHAMPIONSHIP DREAMS

#02  MEGATOURNAMENT, a 32 man single elimination tournament winner gets title shot at CIVIL WAR

#03  CIVIL WAR, the biggest event of the year, usually has the beginning of a lot of feuds for the year since i see who the dice seem to like by this point

#04  THE LUCK OF THE DRAW, all matches are "luck of the draw" specialty match but also includes an 8 women single elimination tournament winner gets title shot at DOWN FOR THE COUNT.  Obviously this chapter of the year has a heavy Vegas or Poker theme to it.  The winner of said tournament is also declared the Queen of Hearts!

#05  DOWN FOR THE COUNT

#06  BRAWL AT THE BEACH, a 20 man over the top battle royal, like WCW Bash at the Beach this has a heavy beach theme.

#07  SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES

#08  CHAMPIONSHIP DEVASTATION, features a 7 team gaunlet match, winner gets a tag title shot at legends of the fall.

#09  LEGENDS OF THE FALL

#10  SUDDEN DEATH: DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR, this chapter of the year has taken a drastic turn of late as I really wanted to build up my end of the year event.  So what I did was tweak the sudden death concept slightly and incorporate SWARM's impossible tournament idea.  So now the yearly rankings become important.  After the last PPV the top four ranked in each title bracket enter an impossible tournament.  The last four Saturdays of the year go from SHOWDOWNS to SUDDEN DEATH SATURDAYS with each show hosting a #1 contenders impossible tournament.  Win the tournament and you advance to the supercard where you fight the champion in a sudden death title match, meaning the champ wins and the match is over BUT if the challenger wins then a second fall will happen where the title is now on the line.  I have found this formula really makes the end of year intense as every match becomes important in determining who's making the 'playoffs' so to speak.

Anyway that is how I am running my fed, a little introduction and the show names I use for my shows.  Hopefully others will post how they do things and there event names so we can have a resource for those looking for supercard or pay per views names!

[mystmotone101]

For my promotion, I do a certain number of cards a year depending on the dates I run them.

On weeks where there isn't a Supercard event, then I run an episode of Galaga. On weeks where there is a supercard event, then I don't run an episode of Galaga. If my math is correct, then I could roll out roughly 50 shows a year. The supercard events depend on the month they are being played on, but for the most part, one thing remains the same.

The end of the year event is always Total Warfare. It has a storied history in my federation as the big daddy of all shows and it wraps up every major storyline going on in the GWF around that time.

[wayne]

I'm very much influenced by WWF programming 88-92 era

In my fed the supercard/PPV names have changed about but there are mainstays. I run 4 cards a month, so a 48 card year. Rosters stay by the book with no bootlegs. I'm only at 2101 though. Belts must be defended once a month so any suspensions can lead to vacancies (tho that hasn't happened much). There is a supercard/big event every other month so that's 6 a year for me. In between these I'll have the weekly shows (name changes about, have called it GWF Heroes and Galactic Grapplers). Then there is the equivalent of the old Saturday Night's Main Event which has been called 'Network Deimos Wrestling', 'Saturn's Main Event' and also 'Saturday Night Starlammers'

Current PPV list:

The Deimos Perennial
Ruck 'n' Wrestle
Galacticon (my wrestlemania, always has a 'Countdown to Galacticon' show directly before
Only The Best (copying Tom)
Fright Night (Halloween, also has a 'Fright Night Fever' show directly before)
Team Supreme (Copying Tom)


Others that I have used/plan to use that I can remember are:

Night of the Living Legends (Kronos)
Cosmic Chaos
Milky Way Madness
Sudden Death Showdown
Solar System Spectacular
Combat in Cygnus
Extreme Elimination Event
Battle Among The Stars
Rigel Royal Rumble
Rampage in Rigel
Violence on Venus
Strive to Survive
Festival of Fire (always on fiery, hot planets) / later renamed Festival of Wrestling as Cordanus didn't like the violent name
CPC Challenge
Galaxy Wars
Countdown to Destruction (copied from Mark Ashby, does he still play/write for the brand?)
The Galactic Games (GWF and CPC holds a tournament as part the games which are very futuristic spin off of the Olympics - this will be a one off)
Champions of the Century (centenary special event)
The Colby Cup
The Mega Show (briefly during Cordanus era become The Takeover Show)
Clash on Centra
Cage Rage
Showcase of the Superstars
Future Shock Fever


I will temporarily change Only The Best to the Badge of Glory during the CPC threat/era as the GWF tries to rebrand some stuff. Trouble is an oversight leads to some laughter as Colby spots the OTB awards have now become the BOG awards.

I also imagine the GWF releases regular tapes (like the WWF used to) called 'Stars of the Galaxy volume 1, 2, 3 etc' and these feature matches and segments/skits that wouldn't otherwise be part of a normal show. Later I plan to do similar tapes with name of 'Cosmic Warriors vol 1, 2, 3 etc'

I've also had a couple of end of year charity pay per views named in the same vein as the old MTV/WWF collaborations. So far I've had 'The Brawl To Help Them All' and 'The Fight To Make Things Right'

Finally now and then I post a fed flashback show where I imagine someone like Johnny Rocket is on hosting duty and presenting matches from dark shows from any given year. Means I can bust out old cards to play some matches. I ensure there is no continuity issue by not tying much into the official cards from that year making no mention of belts and having no title match stuff. Hope that made sense. I like to give these shows little tagline names. For example on one, Massif surprsingly beat Chaos so I called the show 'MASSIF SHOCK' and plan to have things like 'RETRO RAMPAGE', 'TALES OF THE UNINFECTED (during Black Death), 'MONSTERS OF THE MAT', 'OLD SCHOOL BRAWL', 'THE WAR AGAINST THE LAW (Galactic Punisher focus)', 'BLAST FROM THE PAST'. I have done loads of this stuff.


In my current CWF I have some crossover of shows but also 'Tussle of the Tribes', 'The Cream of the Crop (instead of OTB)'

[CB Colossus]

Well, the NWA (Nebulon Wrestling Alliance) is something I formed over 30 years ago. But not like the NWA of Glory Years , Originally called UCW Universal Championship Wrestling it was a territory of the GWF. I used the GWF stars along with my own Bootlegs. I formed the NWA in 1991 I been a member since of the COTG since 1989.This NWA is more run like WCW, WWE and TNA Traveling all over the Universe and has the Quality of The old NWA, SMW, UWF (circa 1986), USWA, World Class, and ROH It was set in 2089 now 30years later it is in 2119. I use is mostly Humans, Half Humans and Humanoids. I have all the Current Arenas all over Earth and the rest of GWF Arenas all over the Universe.For the talent I use GWF, GWFZ,ACE,CPC,POW,LOW,LOTF, LOW Bootlegs.I dont use the entire cards because I don't like the Creatures as Wrestlers, except for the Animen and Wolf I do have a Time Machine in which People from the 20th and 21st century will come to the year of 2109 and beyond to compete. For Example :The Von Erichs, David, Fritz, Kerry and Kevin are in the NWA as well as the Fabulous Freebirds, Hayes, Garvin, Gordy and Roberts.

Rules Of The NWA
1-20 count for outside the Ring

2-Automatic DQ if come off the Top Rope with Flying Kneedrop to the Neck, Head or Throat.

3-No Hitting or Shoving The Referee and if a referee is attacked or assaulted the wrestlers will pay a 10,000,00 fine.

4-No Biting, Scratching, Holding Tights, Grabing Hair.

5-No Manager/Valet has The Right to attack their Protege Opponent If so Automatic DQ

6-All The Referees has the right to Re start/Discontinue all Matches.


I have 3 Television shows called

NWA WarMachines which are 6 matches, NWA Epic Explosion which are 8 matches. Both of These Shows usually showcase the athletes of the NWA but on Occasion have main event bouts.

The Last is NWA Action Assault Attack which is shown LIVE having nothing but Main Event bouts 10 matches in all

War Machines and Epic Explosion are shown on Saturdays(Syndication)

Action Assault Attack is shown on Sundays (6-8pm AMC Channel) LIVE

NWA World Wide Championship Wrestling are showcase events that are 12 matches that spanned across the Universe, That feature Up and Coming, Veterans, Feuds and Championship Matches.

I have over 12 sanction championships 6 singles titles 6 tag team titles

NWA World Heavyweight Champion
NWA World Tag Team Champions

Intercosmicsolarnental Heavyweight Champion
Intercosmicsolarnental Tag Team Champions

North Astronautcan Heavyweight Champion
North Astronautcan Tag Team Champions

United Stellar Heavyweight Champion
United Stellar Tag Team Champions

Nebulon Heavyweight Champion
Nebulon Tag Team Champions

Celestian Heavyweight Champion
Celestian Tag Team Champions


I also Have big matches championship titles that are usually win at Supercards extravaganzas/spectaculars. Though they use for supercard purposes only they can be defend at any time against anybody.

The championships are

NWA Worldvision(World Television) Heavyweight Champion

NWA Worldvision (World Television) Tag Team Champions

Galaxian Heavyweight Champion

Galaxian Tag Team Champions

Universal Heavyweight Champion

Universal Tag Team Champions

Astronomican Heavyweight Champion

Astronomican Tag Team Champions

The Play By Play/ Color Commentary Team are Gordon Solie Bob Caudle, Jim Ross , Tony Schiavone, Lance Russell, Bill Mercer, Joey Styles, Scott Hudson.

Ring Announcers are Marc Lowerance, Gary Capetta, Howard Finkel, Tom Miller


The Referees are John Finnegan, David Manning, Teddy Long, Nick Hamilton, Earl Hebner, Robert King, Mark Curtis, Tommy Young.

Christopher Boyd/Brian Arnold-Owners
William Corgan-Chief Executive Officer
Sam Munchnick-Chief Operations Officer
Dave Marquez/Dave Lagana-Directors of Marketing and Production
Jim Crockett-Commissioner
Bill Watts-Executive Manager Of Operations
Jim Barnett and George Scott-Matchmakers
Don Owen and Leroy McGuirk-Talent Coordinators
Sandy Scott and Eddie Graham-Event Coordinators
Paul Boesch, Bill Behrens, Frank Tunney, Bob Geigel-Championship Committee
Nick Gulas, Ken Taylor, Mike Porter, John Cazana-Officials
Randy Hales and Reno Riggins-Administrators



The Supercards Spectaculars are shown on Showtime Extreme are

ULTRABLAST, SPACE STAMPEDE, HOSTILE CITY ENCOUNTER, CLIMAX OF THE UNIVERSE


The Supercard Extravaganzas is shown on Pay Per View Television and Internet Pay Per View are

BATTLEFEST GALACTICA (30 Matches in all including a tag team tournament for 100 Million Dollars)

WRESTLECADE (The Greatest Supercard extravaganza of All time)

GREAT ASTROMICAN BASH( A 3 part summer supercard extravaganza plus a world wide tour)

STARRQUEST (The Preeminent Supercard Extravaganza in History)


LIGHTSPAND PROMOTIONS Is The Parent Company of the NWA.
Lightspand Promotions is a Sport and Entertainment Company that Produces Movies, Television, Music and Stage Shows all over The Universe. The Owner is Christopher Boyd

[LAWraith]

I also have JR and Tony as my play by play in my head, I am noticing many run less than 12 supercards or ppvs a year. Love that you have all the names in there.

[CB Colossus]

Thank You

[Drew]

In the past I had 12 supercards, like Kingdom Come, Cosmic Clash, Star Studded, Dreams and Nightmares, Infinity War, Eternal Champions, Survivor along with some set names. Along With 4 shows a month.

Now? I ONLY run 12-15 cards a year, all of them supercards, but I just number them like UFC does. My 1st card of the year is WrestleNation which is basically my Deimos Perennial. Then my year end card is called Legacy where I put together my dream matches I want to see and blow off any feuds I have lingering.

[brucetosis]

When I started in the 80s, I followed the typical TV programming. I had GWF Weekly on Mondays, which was the main show, and non-PPV months had GWF Saturday Night.

When the '90s hit, I adapted to a live Monday show called GWF Chaos (named when Chaos was the owner of the GWF), and GWF Weekly moved to Friday nights.

Currently, I have 2 live shows--GWF Chaos and Fridays became GWF Revolution.

As for PPVs, I started on Thanksgiving Day, and was heavily influenced by Starcade and so my first show was known as the Thanksgiving Spectacular. It still has that name, and is usually the end of the GWF year.

I have 6 PPVs a year, starting in January with Galaxian Invasion, which is a tournament featuring the new sets of wrestlers that enter in Dec/Jan.

March has Wrestlestar, which was the first named PPV I had. Since March is my birthday, and around when Wrestlemania was in the 80s, those things influenced this.

The Rigel Royal Rumble happens in May, with the winner of the Rumble in line for a title shot. This one came about whenever it happened in the game sets.

July has the Omega Memorial, named so because during my first supercard on July 4th, Omega died from injuries sustained in the ring.

September used to be War Games, but once I realized the outcome of this weakened the Thanksgiving Spectacular card, I stopped making it a yearly event. The name now rotates.

Fun topic!

[The Mysterious Budo]

I just started up a "GWF Originals" fed with the new color cards and some additions from the 2090-93. I decided that Deimos Perennial would be the first pay-per-view, be a 2 night event, and a yearly tournament that the GWF heavyweight champion would enter and defend in every match they're in, ultimately making the winner of the Perennial the champion. What I'm gonna do for the next 11 months remains to be seen. I may go the way of 4 supercards a year, with title matches all year.

[on_the_edge]

I run two feds in the same universe. Godsend Wrestling Federation (GWF) and Colby's Legends Association of Wrestling (CLAW). I avoid using terms like "week" and "month" as those are relative to a planets orbital cycles and would vary throughout the universe. That being said I plan cards based on 4 weeks a month, 12 months a year. GWF has their show at the end of the week, Thursday or Friday, while CLAW has theirs at the first of the week, Monday. PPV's would be on Sunday. Currently GWF run 6 PPV's a year, one every two months. CLAW now has 4 and will eventually add 2 more so they will be running 6 a year. GWF has their PPV's mid month while CLAW has theirs at the beginning of the month. Here is a list of the PPV's. They are listed as they happen from start to end of the year.


GWF


Upheaval - This was the first PPV of the Godsend years. It signified his take over. After the initial one they have had secondary names much like old WWF's In Your Houses did. Sometimes it focuses around a special match on the card. Sometimes it sets up a theme for the year. It is where I have the annual Big Bang Battle Royal which is my Royal Rumble. The difference is the winner gets a title shot at the next PPV and not the biggest PPV of the year.

Cosmic Chaos - Not much special about this PPV other than the Big Bang Battle Royal winner gets their title shot on this PPV.

Battle Among The Stars (BATS) - This is my WM. The PPV of the year. It is the only PPV in GWF to be numbered and is done so with Roman numerals. It is half way thru the year so it seems ends of feuds, new feuds starts and other feuds just heat up. There is no pointing to a BATS sign leading up to the PPV but it is still the one people want to compete on and more so, win on.

Omega Cup - This is my version of King of the Ring. The real one where to win you would compete in three matches in one night. Of course someone could get a bye but it has not happened as of yet. The winner not only gets a commemorative Cup but they get a title shot on a regular card, usually in next few cards and before the next PPV.

Halloween Havoc - Named for the WCW PPV. Often has some brutal, hardcore matches. A great place for feuds to end or take the step to ending at the next PPV.

End Of Days - Not named for the wrestler. This is one I have used in feds for years before he showed up on the scene. It a nice way to end some feuds and story lines. Not all do as I do not see wrestling as a full on TV show with a season. Some can end but some just go on. One new wrinkle I have added is every two years the final of the journey to win the Ultimate Prize is on this PPV. The UP for those that do not know is 6 title contracts that can be used the following year. They must be cashed in at the PPV's and can only be used one per PPV.


CLAW


Clash of the Immortals - This is CLAW's WM or maybe their Starrcade is a better comparison. Either way it is their biggest PPV of the year. It is numbered but with standard numbers.

Solar Flair - A play on words and named for the great Ric Flair. There have been two and both main events were done based on great moments of his career. First one had a round robin tournament and the second one had an iron man title match. I might do some other ones and/or rotate the ones that have been done before.

Faction Wars - It is as the name says. A chance for factions to battle to show who the best is. The inaugural one had four factions with four man teams (one team was a three man team) and the matches are elimination much like the original Survivor Series. The difference is only the survivors in the semi finals can compete in the finals. Thus there is the potential for down the road seeing a final of a four man team facing a one man team.

Conquest - A standard PPV with nothing special at this time.