Post by El Shadowo on Mar 24, 2009 11:06:51 GMT -5
So, for better or for worse, I’ve decided to start up my own personal story with regards my efed career. I’m not really sure how successful it will be, given that my story is predominantly in the GWF. What this means is that to the vast majority of people, the names will mean absolutely nothing. For some, you’ll already know my story (Or at least the first chunk of it) from the special “shoot interview” I did in GWF in the build up to Rise and Fall 2. So, I’ll start off by saying I don’t really expect many of you to know the people involved. A lot of the auto-biog topics on here are seemingly designed to name-drop and give insights into big ACW moments, with nostalgia running rampant. This topic though….well, I’m aiming to tell a decent story. Hopefully, many of you will enjoy what I’ve got to say.
So then, here goes….
At time of writing, I’ve been efeding for approximately three years. I joined the GWF in May of 2006. I wasn’t really looking to get into something to the extent I did; it just kind of happened. I was surfing round Gamefaqs one day when I spotted a link to the fed (which was only 3 weeks old) in a guys sig, that guy being HunterHarry. I asked him what exactly an efed was and he told me the best way to find out was to actually check out the site…..well, I say site. The GWF was then running on a secret board in the depths of a long abandoned Atari section of Gamefaqs. I went and found out that the basic jist was that people (for the most part) created wrestlers and wrote up promos. I was intrigued by the concept, and so decided to sign up.
At first my character was rather….bland. Everyone’s was, since for most of us, it was our first efed. To this day, I think that’s what made GWF special for me. I’ve often been criticised as using the excuse of a “fading GWF magic” to cover the fact I wasn’t happy with the GWF near the end, and that the magic never existed. It’s only now, as I write this, that I find myself actually able to really identify what that magic was. It was the fact that the majority of the fed had never done this before, and thus we were all going in to it with a blissful innocence. Our primary aim was not to write the best piece of writing or the most epic story, but to have fun while playing wrestler. It was a new experience for all of us and we all shared in that together.
I’d love to see my first few promos because I know they were dire. If they were longer than ten lines, I’d be amazed. My first one was a generic introduction to the fed. And after I posted it, HunterHarry posted a reply. In this reply, he attacked me and left me unconscious….yeah,as I said, This was before the more serious days where we wanted to protect our characters, and attacks without permission were common. Following Harry’s attack, 5 or 6 other GWFers came out, and one by one they all hit their finishers on me. I was loving every second of it. As weird as it may sound, the attacks made me feel like the rest of the group were welcoming me in.
I should note at this stage that we were all using our Gamefaqs user names as well. So if some of the names look unusual for wrestler names, I’d again like to point out how new we were to all of this.
My first match was a 4 man over the top rope battle royal. I dominated early (for some reason, I was written as a dominating monster…) before being first eliminated. I’d be lying if I didn’t say I wasn’t disappointed; while it was all about fun, I wanted to be winning. My second match on the other hand left me delighted. HunterHarry and me had started a war of words; he brought me in and he attacked me in my first promo. He was the Hardcore champion, and SheltonSplash (then owner of the GWF) booked him in a Hardcore Gauntlet match. After defeating three other guys, Harry was “exhausted”; I waltzed down and pinned him after one move. In my second match, I had won a title belt. I was thrilled. I think I was smiling the entire day. I had not even been told I would be in the match, let alone I would be in contention for the title. Really, the match was designed to take the title of Harry so he’d move on up to the main event scene and win the world title at the next PPV. Hence why, I suppose, he beat three people before he lost to the new guy.
As the Hardcore Champ, I decided I’d actually bring that into my gimmick. I renamed myself “The Hardcore Hero”. Looking back, it was just as generic as when I had no gimmick at all. It wasn’t the least bit original in the larger picture, but it was to me. I carried round a barbed wire wrapped chair (called “Barbie” <_<) and was constantly smiling the cheesiest grin I could.
It was during this time as well that I joined up with WeaponX (Aka Kevin McAuliffe) and formed what was first called the Hardcore Alliance. Our partnership started out in an unusual way. We both interrupted another guys promo and started throwing cakes and pastries at him (for some reason I can’t remember). We had so much fun that I asked him if he wanted to form a team. He was already part of a larger stable (called the Anti-Alliance, a group who had formed to fight The Alliance), so I got invited in to that group as well. It suited; I was still having a war of words with Harry and he was the leader of the Alliance. It all fit together.
The only thing was as much as the Anti-Alliance was ambitious… it was mainly made up of lower card guys trying to take on the Main event group. In other words, this “feud” was entirely one sided. I even think the AA lost clean in a 3-on-1 handicap match that I even interfered in. The 4 of us were being jobbed out to one guy, who actually wasn’t even as high up the card as the Alliance we were trying to fight.
The only thing was that myself and Kevin were actually building up some steam and momentum as a tag team. As a stable, we weren’t going any where but as a duo, we were hot prospects. This led to some fiction between myself and the leader of the AA, SoldierDark. Eventually, me and Kevin broke away from the other two, and renamed our team NeoEvolution. I had proposed NeoEvolution or the Cool World Order to Kevin (Again, new to the game and thus unoriginal <_<), and we went with the former. Even though we broke up, feuded, got back together, broke up and so forth, NeoEvolution was the DX of the GWF; when we wanted to plan an important show, me and Kev would team up once more for one last match.
When the GWF closed, me and Kevin had reunited the group once more, and had expanded it to include Chris Williams as well…yeap, the same Chris Williams who I feuded with when I came into ACW. The story that myself and Chris ran here was more or less actually one I was planning on running in the GWF right before it all went tits up.
Soldier dark continued his campaign of trying to bat above his card level. Later when the GWF was a bit more serious and organised, and I was running the place, he continually kept challanging me to a Hell in a Cell match. No feud or build up or anything. He just wanted the match and revenge against me for breaking up his stable. Even when I was involved in other feuds, he'd keep writing promos saying he wanted the Cell match. You know in Smackdown the way the CAWs keeps saying "And tonight, I want YOU in a CAAAGE match!" That was basically Dark's gimmick for months. We never did fight.
As Hardcore Champion, I defended my title…twice, I think. I retained once and then in my second match, I lost it. I was annoyed since if I remember correctly, Harry popped up near the end of the match and cost me the title by attacking me. He then invited Dunkster, the new champ, to join his Alliance group. I was soo pissed. Remember how happy I was when I won the title? I guess back then it was still quite real to me, and I took losing the title a bit badly. I had hopped I might have even reappeared later in the PPV to cost Harry his shot at the World title, but no. I had been punk’d out. And I took it too personally.
After the PPV, it was announced that there would be a draft…hmm, I’m worried now that I might be getting some stuff mixed up here, order wise. Well, anyway, I was drafted to the Monday Night Show, where I continued my story with Dunkster (which included me getting raped in the middle of a backstage Hardcore match
). The show, and the split, lasted all of 2 weeks. I put the failure of the draft down to the time that was picked to implement it. All of the above had been happening over the summer months, while we now moved into September. The week of the draft coincided with a major drop in activity, due to school starting up. So we had two shows and only three or four guys on each. Furthermore, they moved us to a ProBoard at the same time as the draft. Several people objected to the move, and so never signed up, continuing to post their work on the old board. This further meant the main GWF site had no activity.
The plan was scrapped and the shows were reunited, and the GWF went back to a single show format. A few months after this, I was talking to James Murphy (who has been through the doors of ACW). James had been running the failed Monday show. He told me that the long term plan was to finally give me the go ahead to challenge Harry for the World Title, hence why I lost the Hardcore Title the way I had. When the show died, so too did my main event push. There seemed to be a running joke in the GWF and other feds…whenever I was about to get a main event run, something horrible happened and it never materialised. Not that the powers that be here in ACW shouldn't consider me for a main event push when they want to <_<''
What’s worse, two weeks later, Shelton stepped down as GWF owner, citing too much pressure as he started in college. I think there had been some major fight or something which led to Harry walking out, along with two or three others, followed by Shelton himself. James took over. And then a week or two later, he quit as well. He called an emergency meeting for all GWFers using the chat room on the newly established GWF ProBoard to try and sort something out.
Only two people showed up to talk to him; myself and a guy called Reckless (Who, IIRC, was in ACW as well at some stage?). So, by default, the two of us took control of the GWF. I had only been efedding for just over two months and I was now in charge of a site with about 20 people on it.
Sure, I convinced myself, How hard could running an efed really be?
So then, here goes….
In the Beginning….
At time of writing, I’ve been efeding for approximately three years. I joined the GWF in May of 2006. I wasn’t really looking to get into something to the extent I did; it just kind of happened. I was surfing round Gamefaqs one day when I spotted a link to the fed (which was only 3 weeks old) in a guys sig, that guy being HunterHarry. I asked him what exactly an efed was and he told me the best way to find out was to actually check out the site…..well, I say site. The GWF was then running on a secret board in the depths of a long abandoned Atari section of Gamefaqs. I went and found out that the basic jist was that people (for the most part) created wrestlers and wrote up promos. I was intrigued by the concept, and so decided to sign up.
At first my character was rather….bland. Everyone’s was, since for most of us, it was our first efed. To this day, I think that’s what made GWF special for me. I’ve often been criticised as using the excuse of a “fading GWF magic” to cover the fact I wasn’t happy with the GWF near the end, and that the magic never existed. It’s only now, as I write this, that I find myself actually able to really identify what that magic was. It was the fact that the majority of the fed had never done this before, and thus we were all going in to it with a blissful innocence. Our primary aim was not to write the best piece of writing or the most epic story, but to have fun while playing wrestler. It was a new experience for all of us and we all shared in that together.
I’d love to see my first few promos because I know they were dire. If they were longer than ten lines, I’d be amazed. My first one was a generic introduction to the fed. And after I posted it, HunterHarry posted a reply. In this reply, he attacked me and left me unconscious….yeah,as I said, This was before the more serious days where we wanted to protect our characters, and attacks without permission were common. Following Harry’s attack, 5 or 6 other GWFers came out, and one by one they all hit their finishers on me. I was loving every second of it. As weird as it may sound, the attacks made me feel like the rest of the group were welcoming me in.
I should note at this stage that we were all using our Gamefaqs user names as well. So if some of the names look unusual for wrestler names, I’d again like to point out how new we were to all of this.
My first match was a 4 man over the top rope battle royal. I dominated early (for some reason, I was written as a dominating monster…) before being first eliminated. I’d be lying if I didn’t say I wasn’t disappointed; while it was all about fun, I wanted to be winning. My second match on the other hand left me delighted. HunterHarry and me had started a war of words; he brought me in and he attacked me in my first promo. He was the Hardcore champion, and SheltonSplash (then owner of the GWF) booked him in a Hardcore Gauntlet match. After defeating three other guys, Harry was “exhausted”; I waltzed down and pinned him after one move. In my second match, I had won a title belt. I was thrilled. I think I was smiling the entire day. I had not even been told I would be in the match, let alone I would be in contention for the title. Really, the match was designed to take the title of Harry so he’d move on up to the main event scene and win the world title at the next PPV. Hence why, I suppose, he beat three people before he lost to the new guy.
Hardcore Champ and NeoEvolution
As the Hardcore Champ, I decided I’d actually bring that into my gimmick. I renamed myself “The Hardcore Hero”. Looking back, it was just as generic as when I had no gimmick at all. It wasn’t the least bit original in the larger picture, but it was to me. I carried round a barbed wire wrapped chair (called “Barbie” <_<) and was constantly smiling the cheesiest grin I could.
It was during this time as well that I joined up with WeaponX (Aka Kevin McAuliffe) and formed what was first called the Hardcore Alliance. Our partnership started out in an unusual way. We both interrupted another guys promo and started throwing cakes and pastries at him (for some reason I can’t remember). We had so much fun that I asked him if he wanted to form a team. He was already part of a larger stable (called the Anti-Alliance, a group who had formed to fight The Alliance), so I got invited in to that group as well. It suited; I was still having a war of words with Harry and he was the leader of the Alliance. It all fit together.
The only thing was as much as the Anti-Alliance was ambitious… it was mainly made up of lower card guys trying to take on the Main event group. In other words, this “feud” was entirely one sided. I even think the AA lost clean in a 3-on-1 handicap match that I even interfered in. The 4 of us were being jobbed out to one guy, who actually wasn’t even as high up the card as the Alliance we were trying to fight.
The only thing was that myself and Kevin were actually building up some steam and momentum as a tag team. As a stable, we weren’t going any where but as a duo, we were hot prospects. This led to some fiction between myself and the leader of the AA, SoldierDark. Eventually, me and Kevin broke away from the other two, and renamed our team NeoEvolution. I had proposed NeoEvolution or the Cool World Order to Kevin (Again, new to the game and thus unoriginal <_<), and we went with the former. Even though we broke up, feuded, got back together, broke up and so forth, NeoEvolution was the DX of the GWF; when we wanted to plan an important show, me and Kev would team up once more for one last match.
When the GWF closed, me and Kevin had reunited the group once more, and had expanded it to include Chris Williams as well…yeap, the same Chris Williams who I feuded with when I came into ACW. The story that myself and Chris ran here was more or less actually one I was planning on running in the GWF right before it all went tits up.
Soldier dark continued his campaign of trying to bat above his card level. Later when the GWF was a bit more serious and organised, and I was running the place, he continually kept challanging me to a Hell in a Cell match. No feud or build up or anything. He just wanted the match and revenge against me for breaking up his stable. Even when I was involved in other feuds, he'd keep writing promos saying he wanted the Cell match. You know in Smackdown the way the CAWs keeps saying "And tonight, I want YOU in a CAAAGE match!" That was basically Dark's gimmick for months. We never did fight.
The Death of my Efed Wrestling Career….
As Hardcore Champion, I defended my title…twice, I think. I retained once and then in my second match, I lost it. I was annoyed since if I remember correctly, Harry popped up near the end of the match and cost me the title by attacking me. He then invited Dunkster, the new champ, to join his Alliance group. I was soo pissed. Remember how happy I was when I won the title? I guess back then it was still quite real to me, and I took losing the title a bit badly. I had hopped I might have even reappeared later in the PPV to cost Harry his shot at the World title, but no. I had been punk’d out. And I took it too personally.
After the PPV, it was announced that there would be a draft…hmm, I’m worried now that I might be getting some stuff mixed up here, order wise. Well, anyway, I was drafted to the Monday Night Show, where I continued my story with Dunkster (which included me getting raped in the middle of a backstage Hardcore match
). The show, and the split, lasted all of 2 weeks. I put the failure of the draft down to the time that was picked to implement it. All of the above had been happening over the summer months, while we now moved into September. The week of the draft coincided with a major drop in activity, due to school starting up. So we had two shows and only three or four guys on each. Furthermore, they moved us to a ProBoard at the same time as the draft. Several people objected to the move, and so never signed up, continuing to post their work on the old board. This further meant the main GWF site had no activity.The plan was scrapped and the shows were reunited, and the GWF went back to a single show format. A few months after this, I was talking to James Murphy (who has been through the doors of ACW). James had been running the failed Monday show. He told me that the long term plan was to finally give me the go ahead to challenge Harry for the World Title, hence why I lost the Hardcore Title the way I had. When the show died, so too did my main event push. There seemed to be a running joke in the GWF and other feds…whenever I was about to get a main event run, something horrible happened and it never materialised. Not that the powers that be here in ACW shouldn't consider me for a main event push when they want to <_<''
What’s worse, two weeks later, Shelton stepped down as GWF owner, citing too much pressure as he started in college. I think there had been some major fight or something which led to Harry walking out, along with two or three others, followed by Shelton himself. James took over. And then a week or two later, he quit as well. He called an emergency meeting for all GWFers using the chat room on the newly established GWF ProBoard to try and sort something out.
Only two people showed up to talk to him; myself and a guy called Reckless (Who, IIRC, was in ACW as well at some stage?). So, by default, the two of us took control of the GWF. I had only been efedding for just over two months and I was now in charge of a site with about 20 people on it.
Sure, I convinced myself, How hard could running an efed really be?
