Manager or not?

[pressslam]

I've decided that I will form a faction called the 'Fabulous 4' which will consist of Buddy Rogers, Frank Gotch, Nick Bockwinkel and Ray Stevens.
Should they have Bobby Heenan managing them or should they watch each others back?
Maybe you think Heenan should be involved but only managing the tag team of Stevens and Bockwinkel.

[lwffantrav]

May 17, 2008 12:45:39 GMT -5 pressslam said:

I've decided that I will form a faction called the 'Fabulous 4' which will consist of Buddy Rogers, Frank Gotch, Nick Bockwinkel and Ray Stevens.
Should they have Bobby Heenan managing them or should they watch each others back?
Maybe you think Heenan should be involved but only managing the tag team of Stevens and Bockwinkel.

Bock has to have The Brain! No question

edit: I could see Gotch as the "loner" of the group, only with him for the title picture though. I would like to see Race in place of Gotch

[pressslam]

That's a good point, I don't know if Gotchs' persona could take sitting back and watching Rogers become a dominant Heavyweight Champ, especially since he was my first champ.
The idea was to have Gotch in a high profile fued with Hackenschmidt. Also, Gotch fits the kind of style of wrestler that I wanted for my Fabulous 4, namely a technician but I might have to rethink things. My personal feelings are that I don't want to push him for the LWF title because he lost a lot of heat by losing to some second rate wrestlers when I last played my fed which he never got around to avenge, Rogers on the other hand has been totally consistent and has only lost by pinfall to Bobo Brazil.

[holland227]

I can see this happening. Check it out:
Stevens becomes the Ole Anderson of the group.
Gotch is the Enforcer in the Arn Anderson Role
Buddy Rogers is the Tully of the Group
Nick Bockwinkel is the Flair of the group.

[jasonjaconetti]

I definately like Heenan as the manager of this crew. They really are the elite, so they should have the elite manger with them as well, so it's a good fit. I say go for it.

[jasonjaconetti]

May 17, 2008 22:57:59 GMT -5 holland227 said:

I can see this happening. Check it out:
Stevens becomes the Ole Anderson of the group.
Gotch is the Enforcer in the Arn Anderson Role
Buddy Rogers is the Tully of the Group
Nick Bockwinkel is the Flair of the group.

I can't see Rogers allowing Bock to be the Flair of the group, Whether Rogers like Flair in real life or not, he always wanted to the top dog. Things could get hairy down the line for Bock.....maybe a Henning will have be brought in as the 5th member to take care of Rodgers and his ego trip......

[pressslam]

Thanks for voting guys, it looks like Heenan will manage this super group. Trav has got me thinking about replacing Gotch with Harley Race but I'll make a decision later.
I agree with Rogers being the Flair of the group, don't ask me how he was in real life but that is how I see him here.
I've had some spare time this weekend but still there is no final draft of who will be in what group etc. So it looks like it will have to wait a little longer before my LWF fed starts up.

[billy]

A group like you have is all the top wrestlers, my thought is that if you give them a manager you are taking away from their talent and allowing them to relay on help from heenan.i say no manger

[pressslam]

I don't mind this super group having an advantage, the idea is to have a group who is despised, who are dominant and who have all the other face wrestlers and groups chasing to bring them down.
I'm trying to build the classic good versus evil scenario, but you have to have the bad guys on top to create this struggle in my opinion, I think it's just more fun that way than having the good guys on top and the bad guys looking to take over and looking at the talent the best guys are the bad guys anyway, but there will be plenty of good challenges by the good guy groups.
Who knows what the dice will bring, maybe the egos in the group will make it self destruct.