World-Wide Wrestling Alliance (fka 2021 Legends Team Draft!)

[Mike M]

May 1, 2021 0:03:57 GMT -5 @kevinb said:

George removed from roster sir, don't fine me. 😉


Roster spot open and OVW is in negotiations with.... someone. Lol

While KB (and any other Promoters out there) are encouraged to run “shadow territories” based on what the LOW team is booking, I will ask that people keep discussions about their shadow feds in separate threads so we don’t clog up this one.

I actually think it’s a great idea for others to play along, but out of fairness (and my sanity if I am trying to follow multiple Promotions attempting this) I believe that this is the best way to proceed!

[Slammin' Sammy]

This is awesome guys. Can't wait to see some results.

[Cory Olson]

Here is a backstory on our entire alliance! We will start positing backstories for each individual territory and results soon!

Four territories: South Coast Championship Wrestling, Star-Spangled Wrestling, Western States Wrestling, and Great Lakes Championship Wrestling have agreed to form an alliance--the World Wide Wrestling Alliance! Each territory will continue to recognize its own regional champions but will also recognize common World Heavyweight, World Tag Team, and Women's champions! These champions will be able to defend their titles in all four WWWA territories against the top stars of each region. The WWWA territories will share talent and promoters will work together to give their fans the best wrestling action! The four territories will begin promoting under the WWWA banner on May 1, 2021.

The WWWA will crown its first World Heavyweight in a one-night, eight-man elimination tournament on Thursday, May 20 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! Each territory has chosen two wrestlers to represent them. Who will be the top wrestler of this new organization?

[Chad Olson]

Western States Wrestling

Western States Wrestling (WSW) was organized in 2017 when two longtime California promotions merged into one entity. WSW promotes primarily in California, Nevada, and Arizona. Talks are currently in place with promoters in other states in the area regarding potential partnerships. WSW currently recognizes the following titles:

Americas Heavyweight Champion
Americas Tag Team Champions

Here’s the breakdown of some of the competitors in Western States Wrestling…

Fan Favorites
Magnum TA & Barry Windham (America’s Team) - The top two fan favorites in WSW are down a man in their battle with The Legacy after Blackjack Mulligan’s injury back in January 2021. Windham is obviously upset with the injury to his father, but TA is also enraged, as he saw Mulligan as a father figure.
Hacksaw Jim Duggan - The patriotic grappler has been challenging the Russian tandem of Ivan Koloff and Alexis Smirnoff. Much blood has been spilled in these wars.
Sam Houston - The enthusiastic youngster teams with both America’s Team and Duggan in an unofficial capacity. He is willing to battle any and all competitors and is gaining popularity amongst the fan base.
Marty Jannetty & Ric McCord (The Uptown Boys) - The newest tag team in WSW comes from the Central States region, where they were formerly tag team champions. WSW is hoping they can replace the very popular Rock n’ Roll Express. Will fans take them seriously, or see them as imitators?

Rulebreakers
Nick Bockwinkel, Curt Hennig & Eddie Gilbert (The Legacy) - This trio of second generation wrestlers is the top rulebreaker group in WSW. Bockwinkel serves as a mentor/coach to Hennig and Gilbert, who he helped train after their fathers broke them into pro wrestling. He is the current Americas Heavyweight Champion. Hennig and Gilbert have been running mates since their days in the northeast promotion, where they began teaming as young fan favorites. Along the way, their attitudes changed and they became a pair of notorious rulebreakers.
Ivan Koloff & Alexis Smirnoff (The Russian Nightmares) - This despicable duo from Russia takes great delight in harassing America’s heroes like Hacksaw Jim Duggan and Magnum TA. They also have a loose alliance with Nick Bockwinkel, but deep down, they would love to get one of the Americas Championships and take them back to Mother Russia.
Dennis Condrey & Bobby Eaton w/ Jim Cornette & Mr. Hughes (Cornette’s bodyguard) (The Midnight Express) - Jim Cornette’s Midnight Express are the current WSW Americas Tag Team Champions, winning a long and drawn out feud with the Rock n’ Roll Express. Cornette also has his bodyguard, Mr. Hughes, in his corner, to protect him from any overzealous opposition. The fans hate this team and their manager with a passion!
Killer & Psycho (The Texas Hangmen) - The wildmen from Waco, the Texas Hangmen, are a dangerous tag team that have toiled in the midcard of WSW over the past few months. They are trying to move up the contenders’ ladder and earn a shot at the Americas Tag Team Championship.

Preliminary Wrestlers
Ron Hutchison
The Masked Thunderbolt (Hutchison)
“Wild” Bill White
The Assassin (Mr. X)
Jerry Monti (Mr. X)
Jesse Hernandez (Mr. X)

At this time, WSW is currently negotiating with other top independent and international talents. The roster has been depleted in recent weeks, as the Midnight Express defeated the Rock n Roll Express in a controversial “Loser Leaves Town” Match. Although the referee’s decision was final in that bout, the WSW Board of Directors has been reviewing the video footage to determine if any sanctions against Jim Cornette and/or the Midnight Express are appropriate. Also, Blackjack Mulligan was injured and has left the territory, due to an injury suffered in the annual battle royale. During the bout, his knee was being worked over by Ivan Koloff and Curt Hennig, while Nick Bockwinkel, Alexis Smirnoff, and Eddie Gilbert held the other fan favorites (including Mulligan’s son, Barry Windham) at bay. When Koloff threw him out of the ring, Mulligan landed very awkwardly and had to be stretchered out of the ringside area.

The Western States Wrestling TV show is called “All-Star Wrestling” and is comprised of arena clips from the Los Angeles Olympic Auditorium and studio wrestling, taped on Monday evenings at KTXL TV studios in Sacramento. During the pandemic, WSW continued to tape TV in empty studios.

As WSW returns to live arena action in May 2021, they will begin to finalize their touring schedule. Most of the prior venues on their circuit will be added back to the calendar, with some new stops being added as well. The Olympic Auditorium and the Cow Palace will be visited monthly, with other venues visited on a rotating basis.

[Chad Olson]

Western States Wrestling Show 1 - 5.7.2021 - LA Grand Olympic Auditorium

Marty Jannetty & Ric McCord vs. The Masked Thunderbolt & The Assassin - The newcomers, previously from Central States Wrestling, took on the hapless masked team. Jannetty started off for the Uptown Boys, and blasted the Thunderbolt with a dropkick. He tagged out to McCord, who hit another dropkick, a powerful elbow off of the ropes, and then a FLYING BODY PRESS for the quick victory. An impressive debut for this tag team!

Sam Houston vs. Wild Bill White- The popular Texan was greeted by a great response from the enthusiastic crowd. White attempted a monkey flip, but Houston sidestepped him and grabbed him in a head scissors. After a few minutes of straight wrestling action, White threw Houston into the turnbuckle, but Houston mounted the second rope and came off with a high cross body block for the pin.

Eddie Gilbert (1) vs. Ron Hutchison - The second generation sensation, “Hot Stuff” Eddie Gilbert, took on rising newcomer, Ron Hutchison in our third match up. Hutchison surprised Gilbert early on, dazzling him with arm drags and snap mares. He even rolled Gilbert into a complicated submission move called the SHEDIAC LOBSTER TRAP, but Gilbert managed to grab the ropes. Gilbert rolled out to the floor to grab a breather, and Hutchison, in a rookie mistake, followed him outside. Gilbert blasted Hutchison with a clothesline on the floor, and rammed him into the ringside barrier. Gilbert hit a DDT and then used his HOT SHOT finisher to get the victory.

Barry Windham (5) vs. Ivan Koloff (4) - One of the most popular wrestlers in Western States Wrestling, Barry Windham, took on the despised Russian, Ivan Koloff. Windham came out very aggressive against Koloff, who played a part in injuring Windham’s father, Blackjack Mulligan, leading to his departure from WSW. He blasted Koloff with two flying LARIATS but Koloff miraculously got his foot on the bottom rope! He then took control of the match before the battle spilled out to the floor, where the crafty veteran Koloff used a drop toe hold on the concrete to gain an advantage. Koloff then hit his devastating RUSSIAN SICKLE, but Windham kicked out at 2 ½! From there, the battle raged on, with both men exchanging the advantage. Windham was lacerated from a second RUSSIAN SICKLE, but soon Koloff was busted open after a top rope elbow smash. Windham kept up the assault and hit a third LARIAT to get the pinfall in an outstanding match! ****

Hacksaw Duggan vs. Alexis Smirnoff (2) - The patriotic Hacksaw Duggan battled the other half of the so-called “Russian Nightmares”, Alexis Smirnoff. Duggan dominated most of the match, bouncing Smirnoff from pillar to post, but he could not put the Russian away. The match featured a lot of brawling, both inside and outside the ring. Smirnoff did impress the Olympic Auditorium crowd by getting Duggan up for his delayed pump suplex, where he did some squats while holding Duggan in the air. He wasn’t able to follow up with his HEART PUNCH though. As Duggan turned the match around, a heavily bandaged Ivan Koloff made his way to ringside, causing a distraction. As Duggan argued with Koloff, Smirnoff rolled him up and grabbed a handful of tights for the cheap victory.

Non-Title Match - Nick Bockwinkel (1) vs. Magnum TA - TA dominated from the outset, hitting the BELLY TO BELLY SUPLEX, but the champion got his foot on the rope. Magnum came off the top rope with a great cross body block, and then hit a high back body drop. As Magnum attempted a second back drop, Bockwinkel leap frogged over and crushed TA with a powerful back suplex. Both men staggered to their feet, but Bockwinkel clamped on the BOCKWINKEL SLEEPER. Bockwinkel got TA down to the ground and the referee counted three. TA managed to get his foot on the bottom rope, but Eddie Gilbert, who was in Bockwinkel’s corner, knocked his foot off of the rope before referee Johnny “Red Shoes” Dugan could see it.

[stu]

And so it begins....the story of the WWWA and its member affiliates! And if Johnny "Red Shoes" Dugan is officiating a match, you know its big time! Boo Bockwinkel....boo!!!

[TDalton]

Here's my fed overview. Results will follow in the near future.

Since January 2018, SOUTH COAST CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING (SCCW) has promoted the southern coast of the U.S. by the Gulf of Mexico, from approximately New Orleans, LA on the western border to around Tallahassee, FL on the eastern. The promotion covers portions of four states; southern Alabama, the Florida panhandle, southern Mississippi and the southeast corner of Louisiana.

The promotion has both a singles and tag-team championship and recently announced they will add a “Beat the Champ Title” in July. That title will be similar to the Smoky Mountain Wrestling TV Title.
* I’ve created a fictional four year history to give some backstory for me to build on. Will post that at some point.
* Harley Race and the Valiant Brothers will be the initial champions, as I’m treating this as an ongoing territory, not a startup.
* Will begin the campaign rolling just once for DQ. If I have too many DQs after a couple months, I’ll reevaluate.
* May use the COTG Basilisk chart for Firpo and see how it works out.
* I’m going to use Johnny Mantell as Johnny Dalton to team with Frank Dalton. The Dirty Daltons ride again!

FAN FAVORITES
  Bob & Brad Armstrong – Bob is a cornerstone of the organization, having held the SCCW Championship twice and the tag titles once with his son. Brad has held the tag titles twice (once with Bob, once with Tiger Conway, Jr.) and has been steadily climbing the ranks since his debut. Bob’s youngest son Brian has been training diligently and is preparing to make his debut soon.
  Red Bastien & Billy “Red” Lyons – Red won the inaugural tag title tournament with Tiger Conway, Sr. and later held them with Billy as the Flying Redheads. The Redheads have taken to mentoring the young team of Tom Prichard & D’Lo Brown. Lyons followed the Quebecers to the area and has a strong grudge against the Rougeau family.
  Brian Blair – another former SCCW Champion, albeit briefly, who lost the title to current champ Harley Race. Was also a former tag champ with Bob Roop before their relationship fell apart and turned into a bitter feud in late 2019-early 2020. Has recently been teaming with Scott Casey.
  Jack & Jerry Brisco – Jack & Jerry were with the organization on day one and Jack was the inaugural singles champion. They have returned to the area after a 15 month absence, and have already gotten into it with the Destroyer over whose version of the Figure Four Leglock is better.
  D’Lo Brown & Tom Prichard – this young, exciting tag-team hopes to work their way into title contention but they face a tough early hurdle in the Dirty Daltons.
  “Cowboy” Scott Casey – teams with Brian Blair and is loosely aligned with Ted DiBiase as well.
  Ted DiBiase – along with the Briscos and Bob Armstrong, one of the area’s most popular wrestlers. Has been looking for a title shot at Harley Race, but thus far the match has not been signed. Has been working diligently with the Briscos and Billy “Red” Lyons on learning all the intricacies of the Figure Four Leglock.
  Steve “Doctor Death” Williams – strongest man in the organization, although Larry Hennig is a close second. Has gotten himself tangled up with former Olympian Bob Roop in a battle of amateur greats.

RULEBREAKERS
  Frank & Johnny Dalton – the “Dirty Daltons” may not be the most successful tag-team, but have no scruples and will do anything to win. Recently they have locked horns with the young upstart team of Tom Prichard & D’Lo Brown.
  The Destroyer – insists on being introduced as the “Intelligent Sensational” Destroyer. Claims to be the greatest masked wrestler of all-time. His constant references to California and the West Coast being superior to this region has infuriated fans to no end. Has a standing $10,000 challenge to anyone who can break his version of the Figure Four and hasn’t paid a nickel to anyone yet.
  J.J. Dillon – the self-proclaimed “Leader of Men” Dillon has taken on a manager-like role with Harley Race and Larry Hennig. He is usually at ringside for all matches involving Race and Hennig, and will team on occasion with Larry. He is not a fan of Brian Blair, and has begun calling him the fan’s “false idol” in interviews.
  Larry “The Axe” Hennig – a powerhouse who is a perfect complement to Harley Race, and sometimes acts as Harley’s “policeman”. He and J.J. Dillon were a fairly successful tag-team before Race hit the scene.
  “Magnificent” Don Muraco – a truly egomaniacal and obnoxious talent who can back it all up inside the ring. Believes he should be the face of the organization. Along with the Valiant Brothers, is managed by Captain Lou Albano.
  Quebecers, Jacques Rougeau & Pierre Carl Ouellet – overly confident French Canadian duo who raised the ire of fellow Canadian Billy “Red” Lyons with their arrogant comments and attitude. It looks like the Quebecers and Flying Redheads are on a collision course.
  Harley Race – the current SCCW Champion and is aligned with Larry Hennig and J.J. Dillon. He’s a former world title claimant and won the SCCW Title from Brian Blair shortly after his arrival.
  Bob Roop – started out as a big fan favorite with a hugely popular team with Brian Blair that won tag-team gold. After losing the titles, Roop seemingly became more and more paranoid and insecure. He finally snapped and turned against Blair, leading to a huge feud that lasted into 2020. Now Roop finds himself in a potential battle against Steve Williams.
  “Crippler” Ray Stevens – was working in Western States Wrestling when he got a call from the Destroyer to come to South Coast. The two have become a hated duo, proclaiming West Coast superiority.
  “Handsome” Jimmy & “Luscious” Johnny Valiant – Captain Lou and the Valiants too! The Valiants, along with crazed manager Lou Albano, took SCCW by storm as soon as they debuted. Within a month, they had captured the tag-team titles utilizing their devious double-teaming tactics. Always trash talking and incredibly arrogant (they would say confident), the duo from New York City have made themselves the focus of the promotion and are among the most hated wrestlers in SCCW.

IN HIS OWN CATEGORY
  Pampero Firpo – “Kill, murder, destroy!” is the mantra of The Wild Bull of the Pampas. He’s done several strongman feats on TV showing his deceptive strength. Firpo has chosen to randomly target individuals (both fan favorites and rule breakers alike) and unleash his frenzied attack upon them. He’s a complete wild card in the SCCW equation and known for his guttural cry of “Oooohhh Yeeaahhh!” after a victory.

[TTX]

Nice to see this starting up and that Windham/Koloff match looked great.

[walkswithwolf]

Apr 30, 2021 14:25:09 GMT -5 @poisonedshadows said:

Based solely on my personal preferences, I have to vote for Team Cory.

Same here 😊
Cory picked a huge load of my own favourites.
Like that contrast between the ECW Guys and Pioneers like Gama and Gotch

[joebreakdown]

I’m all for Frank and Johnny Dalton!!

Great to read some background info and pulling for Poppa Armstrong, as always!