Post by Dan White on Apr 14, 2009 8:39:26 GMT -5
I guess I should have been happy that I was a main eventer, but I remember being a real arse about the whole situation. I assumed I would move up at Omega Effect, and when that happen I thought “okay, fair enough, TNT deserves it more than me”. The next month though, Rena got moved up instead of me, and I threw a wobbly in the chat about it. It caused Latino to promise me that I would be moved up the month after. At the time I felt it was justified, but looking back I probably wasn't in the main event standard for writing, nor did I approach it the right way. I look back and I sort of feel that I should have stopped writing to try and be the best, and just write for fun. Unfortunately, For the whole of my first stint in ACW, this wasn't the case, and I pretty much did write just to try and be the best.
Anyways, at that time RDK and I had become pretty good mates. We spoke a fair bit, and as he knew as much history into ACW as I did, it was a lot of fun just talking to someone about ACW like that. He then proposed that because Yoko was quitting ACW after Heatwave (where he had a World Title shot), he proposed to me that me and him should face off at Emperor of the Ring for the vacant title. I couldn't say no. I mean even though the odds were heavily stacked against me, I felt like it would have been the feud to really place me as one of the best in the fed. How naïve I was.
Anyways, it was going to be a ladder match for the vacant title. I was playing the dirty heel, and RDK was playing the heroic face, trying to win his first belt since he gave up the title in GFWCW's first ever show. RDK decided to play things up a little bit by suggesting that it should be an Untouchables Lumberjack match as well. I agreed to this also, because for some reason I had the idea that with a match where the odds were so overwhelmingly in my favour on paper, it would somehow add to the calcs. I mean surely RDK wouldn't be able to defeat me, plus four other guys, in a one-sided lumberjack match?
Well the answer is, he did. And fair enough to him, I'm not knocking the result at all, he earned it. But as we got into October, I felt like I was finally getting into my game. I was still very interested in ACW, and had no intentions of letting my foot off the hook any time soon. RDK had planned a title defence that month against Jonny Spade, and I must apologise to Jonny for denying him his first title shot on PPV in a singles match, but I was still in my “I'm a main eventer and therefore I deserve to be arrogant” stage, and told RDK a better feud would be if I was included in the match. I thought the feud was another, very well played feud, which again ended up with RDK winning the match, of which I could have no complaints.
ACW-wise, there wasn't much going on in terms of politics or anything like that. Not that I can recall, anyways. Rose was still pretty exclusive to mod duties, and everything else was slowly puttering along. It was the first “low point” of the fed, if you want to call it that. We had smaller cards (if you consider in them days we regularly had an 8-card show, we were only getting 5-6 matches in during these days) and the roster was a bit thin. People even thought we were going to shut down, but that talk was silly. At least once a year, ACW has a low point, and it normally comes when people start school again.
In regards to my school life though, things were changing a lot. I was in 6th Form, which is the part of education between the ages of 16-18 in the UK. You pick three or four subjects that you want to do and work for what's called an A-Level. Each grade in A-Level gives you a certain amount of points (A = 120 points, B 100 points etc), and you use these points to get into University, with certain courses having different minimum points scores. Anyways, I was doing English Language, History (with Rob/Jefferson), Law (with Jonny Hughes) and Media Studies. I quickly dropped Law though because the work load was a hell of a lot. I just felt having to learn the amount of stuff you had to, as well as stuff for three other subjects was just too much.
And mentioning Rob is actually pretty interesting, as it leads me to my next chapter. I felt like my writing was now strong enough to be able to try and put people over with. So I risked a lot in trying to explain the concept of e-fedding to a friend in real life. I have a lot of friends who are into wrestling, but only a very small amount who I believe would even have an interest in e-fedding, and Rob was one of these people.
Anyways, at that time RDK and I had become pretty good mates. We spoke a fair bit, and as he knew as much history into ACW as I did, it was a lot of fun just talking to someone about ACW like that. He then proposed that because Yoko was quitting ACW after Heatwave (where he had a World Title shot), he proposed to me that me and him should face off at Emperor of the Ring for the vacant title. I couldn't say no. I mean even though the odds were heavily stacked against me, I felt like it would have been the feud to really place me as one of the best in the fed. How naïve I was.
Anyways, it was going to be a ladder match for the vacant title. I was playing the dirty heel, and RDK was playing the heroic face, trying to win his first belt since he gave up the title in GFWCW's first ever show. RDK decided to play things up a little bit by suggesting that it should be an Untouchables Lumberjack match as well. I agreed to this also, because for some reason I had the idea that with a match where the odds were so overwhelmingly in my favour on paper, it would somehow add to the calcs. I mean surely RDK wouldn't be able to defeat me, plus four other guys, in a one-sided lumberjack match?
Well the answer is, he did. And fair enough to him, I'm not knocking the result at all, he earned it. But as we got into October, I felt like I was finally getting into my game. I was still very interested in ACW, and had no intentions of letting my foot off the hook any time soon. RDK had planned a title defence that month against Jonny Spade, and I must apologise to Jonny for denying him his first title shot on PPV in a singles match, but I was still in my “I'm a main eventer and therefore I deserve to be arrogant” stage, and told RDK a better feud would be if I was included in the match. I thought the feud was another, very well played feud, which again ended up with RDK winning the match, of which I could have no complaints.
ACW-wise, there wasn't much going on in terms of politics or anything like that. Not that I can recall, anyways. Rose was still pretty exclusive to mod duties, and everything else was slowly puttering along. It was the first “low point” of the fed, if you want to call it that. We had smaller cards (if you consider in them days we regularly had an 8-card show, we were only getting 5-6 matches in during these days) and the roster was a bit thin. People even thought we were going to shut down, but that talk was silly. At least once a year, ACW has a low point, and it normally comes when people start school again.
In regards to my school life though, things were changing a lot. I was in 6th Form, which is the part of education between the ages of 16-18 in the UK. You pick three or four subjects that you want to do and work for what's called an A-Level. Each grade in A-Level gives you a certain amount of points (A = 120 points, B 100 points etc), and you use these points to get into University, with certain courses having different minimum points scores. Anyways, I was doing English Language, History (with Rob/Jefferson), Law (with Jonny Hughes) and Media Studies. I quickly dropped Law though because the work load was a hell of a lot. I just felt having to learn the amount of stuff you had to, as well as stuff for three other subjects was just too much.
And mentioning Rob is actually pretty interesting, as it leads me to my next chapter. I felt like my writing was now strong enough to be able to try and put people over with. So I risked a lot in trying to explain the concept of e-fedding to a friend in real life. I have a lot of friends who are into wrestling, but only a very small amount who I believe would even have an interest in e-fedding, and Rob was one of these people.
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