NPWA PRESENTS: West Coast Pro Wrestling Tour!

[lankylefty17]

Overview:

In a historic conference held in San Francisco, CA- seven of the top wrestling territories in the United States came together to form the National Pro Wrestling Alliance.  The coalition also signed deals with major organizations in Mexico, Japan, and Canada- forming a world wide governing body to co-promote pro wrestling across the globe.  The agreement: the NPWA would create and govern a World Heavyweight Championship, to be defended around the country as well as all affiliated global promotions.  The agreement would also entail cross promotion, talent sharing (with restrictions), and a select number giant Supercard events per year, with a rotating location.  The governing board would have equal representation from each territory, with a chairman elected on a yearly term.

Structure:
A tournament will determine the initial World Champion.  Once that has been established, the Champion will be assigned a territory where he will be sent to defend on a monthly basis (which territory will be determined based on dice rolls and/or chairman discretion).  The territory hosting the World Champ will be "featured" for the month in this space via weekly house shows leading to the big event card.  The rest of the territory will have short results posted for any weekly shows that are run.

This fed doesnt adhere to any specific time period, and wont track anything by specific years, past present or future.  That said, the general format, roster and style sits in a 70's/80's structure- with liberties taken for personal preference.  Rosters below will evolve over time, with folks floating to other territories when needed in the name of me having fun...

[lankylefty17]

Promotions

Rosters are inspired by the RL territories, with liberties taken to balance out the roster, or for general personal preference.  Just like in real life, there will be movement with people entering/exiting territories as it makes sense for angles or just to shake things up.

Owner: Roy Shire
Region: California, Oregon, Nevada
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA

Owner: Vern Gagne
Region: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri

Headquarters: Minneapolis, MN

Owner: Fritz Von Erich
Region: Texas

Headquarters: Dallas, TX

Owner: Bill Watts
Region: Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi

Headquarters: Tulsa, OK

Owner: Jerry Jarrett
Region: Tennessee, Kentucky

Headquarters: Memphis, TN

Owner: Jim Crockett
Region: Florida, Georgia, Carolinas, Virginia

Headquarters: Charlotte , North Carolina

Owner: Vince McMahon
Region: New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Washington DC

Headquarters: New York, NY

Owner: Stu Hart
Region: Canada, Washington, Montana, Dakotas

Headquarters: Calgary, Alberta

Owner: Rikidozan
Region: Japan

Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan

Owner: Salvador Lutteroth Jr.
Region: Mexico
Headquarters: Mexico City, Mexico

[lankylefty17]

A couple big announcements from the newly formed National Pro Wrestling Alliance:

Roy Shire was voted NPWA commissioner for the coming year. This means the Alliance headquarters will sit in San Francisco, CA.

To crown the first NPWA World Champion, a sixteen man tournament will take place beginning in January of the new year. Each promotion in the alliance has nominated two wrestlers, who will face off at a local house show with the winner earning a place in a one night tournament to be held at The Cow Palace on January 28th. True North Wrestling (Canada) and Japan Wrestling Federation has nominated a single representative who will face off on an upcoming True North house show to determine the final spot.

First Round Participants:

West Coast Pro Wrestling:
Roddy Piper
Ray Stevens

Midwest Wrestling Alliance:
Verne Gagne
Nick Bockwinkle

Texas Outlaw Pro Wrestling:
Kerry Von Erich
Bruiser Brody

Mid South Championship Wrestling:
Junkyard Dog
Ted Dibiase

Atlantic Championship Wrestling:
Ric Flair
Harley Race

Northeast Wrestling Federation:
Hulk Hogan
Bruno Sammartino

Memphis Pro Wrestling:
Jerry Lawler
Tommy Rich


Outside Representation:
Antonio Inoki (Japan)
Brett Hart (Canada)

[hotfuzz1980]

Ambitious undertaking you have here! I’m interested and will be watching! Lots of great feds on this board, but I’m always especially interested in the territory takes on this board and how people go about running them.

[gnw2022]

Interesting concept, should be an exciting story to follow!

[joebreakdown]

This looks like a fab project, with some interesting bootlegs in use. I'm particularly keen to see how Mid South develops, as it includes Terry Taylor, Mr Wrestling II and Butch Reed- three bootleg cards where I commissioned the artwork.

Good luck!

[jobber83]

7 territories, quite an undertaking! Are you planning to roll all matches in each fed or focus on one fed each week and head-cannon the rest?

[lankylefty17]

Dec 30, 2021 6:33:45 GMT -5 joebreakdown said:

This looks like a fab project, with some interesting bootlegs in use. I'm particularly keen to see how Mid South develops, as it includes Terry Taylor, Mr Wrestling II and Butch Reed- three bootleg cards where I commissioned the artwork.

Good luck!

Thanks, and thanks for your part in those boots- those three were some of my favorites of the era.  I'm very interested to see how that territory shakes out as well, the UBU boots really filled some key holes to enable this area to feel fleshed out.

[lankylefty17]

Dec 30, 2021 8:57:37 GMT -5 jobber83 said:

7 territories, quite an undertaking! Are you planning to roll all matches in each fed or focus on one fed each week and head-cannon the rest?

The plan right now is to focus on a single territory each month- run house shows weekly and have a bigger supercard at the end of the month that will also feature a World title match.  The rest of the territories I'll roll 1-2 house shows and just post quick results as more of a newsletter style post.  The idea is the work will be roughly the same but I can use a broader set of cards.  We'll see if it proves out haha.

[lankylefty17]

Road to Gold: A Primer

As previously announced, the first round of the NPWA World Heavyweight Championship tournament will be held in each regional promotion, pitting two of the companies top stars against each other for a spot on the main card for the One Night Tournament at the end of January. Our first stop on the Road to Gold will be San Francisco, California where West Coast Pro Wrestling will be having a New Year’s Eve show live from the Cow Palace.

The card for the even is as follows:

Rocky Johnson & Pat Patterson vs Buddy Rose & Doug Somers
Pepper Gomez vs The Grappler
Bobo Brazil vs The Destroyer
MAIN EVENT Heavyweight Tournament Qualifier: Ray Stevens vs Roddy Piper

Check back tomorrow for the results!