Wanted: Jaime B Wilson Specialty Matches/Charts

[Teddybaer68]

dmk

I would love getting them since I am not on the hardcore groupe.

[rpg2]

Jamie was a great guy. I had received some of his stuff with some fun wrestlers and great matches, then one day he just called me out of the blue and we talked for hours about absolutely nothing, but it was cool. He also educated me on the hardcore Japanese stuff he had based a lot of his matches on that I'd never seen. My favorite that he sent me was the Saturn Street Fight, which was brutal and fun. We still miss the Deathmeister.

[wildcat]

Kevin Knipe has immortalized Mr. Wilson in Karzy Kards by doing Jamie's guy SLIM JENKINS. Great tribute and Great character.

www.krazykards.com

[LWPD]

A quick update. Things are moving along very well. Expect to see an announcement next week which should make quite a few people very happy.

[TTX]

Cool. While I didn't always agree with how some of his death matches went (Never should you hit a major shot and be on level 1 offense), but they were a lot of fun

[LWPD]

I'm happy to announce that I have now secured a copy of:

Jamie B. Wilson Presents "The Deathmiester's" Book of Death Matches

This ensures that the next stage of the archiving process can now begin to go forward. The text of the 40 plus matches he created will be archived as open source material.

I want to publicly thank Kevin Wible...without his generosity and proactive effort this next step would not be possible. The CotG Community owes you a debt of gratitude!

[LWPD]

Feb 23, 2008 21:18:05 GMT -5 TTX said:

Cool. While I didn't always agree with how some of his death matches went (Never should you hit a major shot and be on level 1 offense), but they were a lot of fun

What stands out to me the most is Jaime's creativity. I'm going over his material ten to twelve years removed from the time of his authorship...and his roll result write ups are so richly developed and well thought out that they are just as entertaining and effective today as they were when initially written.

Another characteristic I admire is that of specialty match originality. While there are some standards that he did cover (such as a Texas Bull Rope Match) for the most part he focused on aspects of pro wres that CotG had not covered at all during the time frame. Japanese 'garbage wrestling' and the 'Xtreme/Hardcore styles' promoted in US Indys served as his inspiration...and through it he introduced a new flavor that has an enduring niche appeal.

The only thing I would modify for my own use would be to add a higher level of injury consequence during certain chart rolls. His matches tend to be high impact and certain rolls I'd adjust to have a higher 'Add x to PIN rating'. I'm not sure when Tom 'officially' adopted 'Add 1' rules into his card stats...but that may be what caused Jaime back in '96-8 to take what in retrospect seems to be a conservative approach with some of his roll impacts.

[LWPD]

Just to close the circle on this thread...the archiving of Jaime B. Wilson's The Deathmeister's Book of Death Matches is now complete. Just under 50 matches have been added into the archive. The content can be accessed here!

The execution and completion of this project would not have been possible without board member Kevin Wible, who took the time to provide me with a copy of the parent material. Without his assistance the finished product would not exist.

I'd also like to thank board member Thad Killian, who has been kind enough to contribute rare JBW content that would not have otherwise been available to the community at large.

I have decided that the remainder of Page 20 of the CotG Open Source Content Archive will be reserved for any additional JBW material comes to surface down the road.

Enjoy...and RIP Jaime B. Wilson!