Acouple random rants and thoughts that I'm sure not many, if anyone else.. Will really cover.. Or cover from a view like mine.
Of the many different independent wrestling companies I watch and follow there's Bert Prentice's USA Championship Wrestling in Tennessee. Normally it's one of the ones I really look forward to.. Then the one they posted this past week came on.. (Link is here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MFYbFtoZlo&t=967s ) and it had me scratching my head..
Who the fuck edited this show? because whoever did it did a real shitty job of it.. AND.. Who the hell is booking this because whoever it is doesn't have much of a clue about logic when it comes to a story line there..
Case in point is the story line between Bam Bam Bundy and Kid Wrestling.. This has been an ongoing story for the last couple of weeks and on this past week's show, I guess they decided logic didn't matter anymore. The angle was that Kid Wrestling was 'allegedly' kidnapped by Bam Bam Bundy.. They had Kid Wrestling's 'mother' come out and confront Bundy last week (Yet no cops have come to investigate, not even a mention of that either... HHMMMM), BUT THEN.. THIS WEEK.. Kid Wrestling comes out of nowhere and instead of having Kid Wrestling explain what happened? They have him wrestle a match. And it wasn't even against the guy who allegedly kidnapped him.. Just wrestle a random match with Bundy and others outside the ring..
Who the hell thought that THIS.. Was great logic to a story line? Whoever had that thought needs to go to logic school, or at least.. Go learn what booking 101 really is because was the absolute shits.
Have him come out and NOT EXPLAIN anything? Just go wrestle a random match? How the fuck did that make any sense? PPPSSTT. Guess what, it didn't.. And any fan with an I.Q. higher than a door knob will see that it didn't make any sense whatsoever. Where was Kid Wrestling's mother when Kid Wrestling 'appeared' out of nowhere? Nowhere to be seen and common sense tells you that if you 'escape' from an alleged kidnapping, you don't just simply come back and wrestle a match like nothing ever happened. The way they edited this show together shows that someone needs to go to editing school or.. this company needs to have someone actually SHOW THEM, how to lay out a long story line properly.. Because whoever trained these guys and told them that no logic is the logic (someone there watching WWE booking maybe?) when it comes to a long story line obviously doesn't know what the fuck they're doing.
Obviously story lines like this are too complex and are too much of a challenge for a company like this to do.. Because basic booking 101 is you go from point A, to Point B, To point C, to point D.. Someone in the booking department of Bert's USA Championship Wrestling obviously doesn't have basic booking down pat and should go learn it before he tries it again. Or better yet if they don't want to learn it.. Then stick with simpler story lines that are within your limited capabilities because obviously, whoever booked and/or wrote this story line out, didn't think it thru too well and obviously doesn't have what it takes to do something on this level..
Stick to simple shit because it's pretty obvious that anything else is more challenging than the booker can handle, or isn't smart enough to think it all the way thru to have an ending that represents something believable. This is an example of sloppy booking, and sloppy is probably a compliment for what shit this turned out to be.
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With the David Starr situation of him leaving WXW.. Mostly because WWE forced WXW (And Progress) to get rid of him (though both WXW and progress won't come out and say it, because if they did, they may lose that 'great working agreement' of WWE pulling talent from their shows that they have).. The fact is.. Because WWE have shown and proven that they are, over sensitive bitches.. They actually are missing out on a golden booking opportunity.. Which of course when it comes, to WWE.. They always seem to do that, miss out on golden booking opportunities.
What do I mean by that you want to ask? I'll show you, right now...
There was a big hoopla when Starr took the NXT UK title and stomped on it during a match against Walter.. These two have had a feud that's transcended, how many promotions? Defiant Wrestling, OTT Wrestling , Beyond Wrestling, WXW.. Over twenty times David Starr and Walter have faced each other and Starr stomping on the NXT UK title belt? Just based off the heat of that you had booking gold.. How many different ways you could've expanded on just that incident.. But no.. Instead WWE whined and cried and bitched like little babies because that wasn't part of the WWE's 'micromanaging every little thing' formula..
What they could've done was besides Walter, have other members of the NXT UK roster 'come after' Starr for 'disrespecting their title' or 'their company'.. It's the most OBVIOUS thing booking wise a booker or promoter with any I.Q. could do and should've tried to do.. How hard was it really to follow thru with something like that? From the looks of it.. It was pretty damn hard though it's the simplest thing to further an angle, expand a story line or even create a new story line..
Again.. Basic booking 101.. Something that seems to be really lost as of late..
You could've done it on a Progress show, or even a WXW show.. And for the 'marks' who may come up and say something about WWE pulling their talent from progress and WXW shows at the last minute (Like they always do.. One of those 'great advantages' one has when you have a working 'agreement' with the WWE).. There's always this.. And lord knows how many variations of this have been done thru the years dating back to the eighties in old school territories.. Have someone on say, the WXW roster come out, jump Starr.. and then get on the mic and say "Walter paid me tho jump your ass because stomped on his NXT UK title, you son of a bitch"! Or something close to that.. The variations of doing something that simple, is so obvious that a blind man could see an angle like that brewing.. But.. In another example of how something so easy and simple can be done.. The bookers of WXW or Progress simply missed out on a golden opportunity..
Instead of being negative about it and forcing David Starr to leave, they could've simply turned that so called 'negative' into a positive.. But instead because the owners of progress and WXW are too chicken shit to tell WWE "No, we're gonna continue to book Starr because he puts asses in seats".. They cower like little cowards and be little ducks in the WWE's row like little 'yes men' for the WWE.. Because God forbid they lose that 'great WWE working agreement' they have (rolls eyes).. You don't 'NEED" WWE to make your company successful.. WXW and Progress were successful BEFORE WWE cam waltzing in and pulling advertised talent off their shows.. So really this shows that working with WWE is more of a hindrance than helpful.. Something that's also obvious but yet nobody in them has the balls to say. It to bad someone doesn't, maybe someday.. Someone will..