Post by Dan White on Jun 25, 2009 20:29:08 GMT -5
I wanted to come back to e-fedding, I really did, but I just didn't think I'd have it in me to keep it up like I used to. I'm going to go on what BK London wrote in his autobiography, where he said that for a long time I used to write because I wanted to be successful, rather than writing because I enjoyed writing. I'd like to think that MASAKI helped be realise the latter, but it would still be a long time before I was ready to come back to full time e-fedding.
I tried to return. I was writing some daft segments about somebody returning. They would be segments that were obviously far-fetched and would require a massive budget to pull off. The idea was that I would become a larger-than-life character, like the Y2J face Chris Jericho was, especially when he began in the WWF. I guess I'm easily influenced, as all those ideas stemmed off watching his arrival into WWF. But yes, I wanted to try and have an effect like that, that I was larger than life, and a true superstar in ACW.
I think I came back in early April or something, and interrupted Nick Durden, and had a pretty lavish segment. But I wasn't ready to be back on the roster yet. I bitterly opposed the Booking Committee for a very long time. I thought ACW's older system was fine, and it was a case of “if it ain't broke, don't fix it”. I didn't see the problem with the show request boards being used to book shows. People know who they can face and it's easy like that. Despite getting into the original Booking Committee (where there were about 6 members, which was far, far too many), I didn't agree with its methods, and not for the first time, Rob, Jonny Hughes and I caused an uproar.
I was looking back on topics and I seem to remember Hughes brought up the fact that there was a new clique going on, including Starkweather (who brought up the Booking Committee proposal), Shawn (as ever), Yoko, Wyvern, and maybe one or two others. My memory is fuzzy around this point. But Shawn then brought up the point that the “Dan Clique” was more threatening to ACW than any group that he would ever be in. I had overlooked that point at the time, but looking back I find that pretty hilarious that I would actively have my own clique.
So I left the Booking Committee, but not before giving Hughes and Rob the passwords. I've shared a lot of information between these two, information that I'd never tell anyone else, because we're friends in real life and I don't think ACW should get in the way of not telling those two certain things. Of course, this went tits up because Hughes blagged that I told him the password in the chat, the password was changed, and Latino was a bit cross with me. That was the last time, I believe, I've ever gotten into serious trouble in ACW.
So I'd returned, but not as an active member. I just didn't like the way the fed was changing a lot, and I was being rather stubborn because of this. Instead, I approached the mods about becoming Commissioner, at least on-screen. They gave me the go-ahead, and I did this at Fallen Heroes, becoming the first wrestling commissioner ACW had since RDK back in the GFWCW days. However it was strictly an on-screen role, a role that would only be used on camera. Because of this I wasn't able to properly utilise Dan as an effective Commissioner, but it did the job.
Omega Effect was running up shortly, but I was a bit disappointed with the feud that had led up to the Main Event, which was Wyvern vs. BK London vs. The Senator. I believe that the World Title feud for your main PPV should always be the key focus point of the show, but I felt that the main event was lacking. In fact, I'd go as far as saying the whole PPV lacked somewhat, and it's easily our weakest Omega Effect to date. So I tried to help the three in the main event hype up their feud a bit more, which led to BK London superkicking me in the face. Fair enough. I also managed to become the referee for the Jonny Spade vs. Jake Cheng Light-Heavyweight Title match, in a true Untouchables Reunion match. For a non-competing writer I was pretty busy.
But my highlight, from a writing standpoint, was RDK vs. Thunderkiss. It was a feud that was great to see, as TK had been compared to RDK ever since he came into ACW. It was also great to see RDK writing, albeit it with a steady pace. That a year previously he was slowly on his way it, it was just refreshing to see him wrestling, even if it was just going to be a one-off event. I asked TK if I could write the match, expecting to be told no. Surprisingly, I was told I could write the match, and I took pride in writing it, what I believe to be the best match I've ever written.
Another pretty long chapter here, but that's a nice big 6 months out of the way. The next part of my adventure would lead me into my third stable, a stable that would have an awful lot of controversy surrounding it.
I tried to return. I was writing some daft segments about somebody returning. They would be segments that were obviously far-fetched and would require a massive budget to pull off. The idea was that I would become a larger-than-life character, like the Y2J face Chris Jericho was, especially when he began in the WWF. I guess I'm easily influenced, as all those ideas stemmed off watching his arrival into WWF. But yes, I wanted to try and have an effect like that, that I was larger than life, and a true superstar in ACW.
I think I came back in early April or something, and interrupted Nick Durden, and had a pretty lavish segment. But I wasn't ready to be back on the roster yet. I bitterly opposed the Booking Committee for a very long time. I thought ACW's older system was fine, and it was a case of “if it ain't broke, don't fix it”. I didn't see the problem with the show request boards being used to book shows. People know who they can face and it's easy like that. Despite getting into the original Booking Committee (where there were about 6 members, which was far, far too many), I didn't agree with its methods, and not for the first time, Rob, Jonny Hughes and I caused an uproar.
I was looking back on topics and I seem to remember Hughes brought up the fact that there was a new clique going on, including Starkweather (who brought up the Booking Committee proposal), Shawn (as ever), Yoko, Wyvern, and maybe one or two others. My memory is fuzzy around this point. But Shawn then brought up the point that the “Dan Clique” was more threatening to ACW than any group that he would ever be in. I had overlooked that point at the time, but looking back I find that pretty hilarious that I would actively have my own clique.
So I left the Booking Committee, but not before giving Hughes and Rob the passwords. I've shared a lot of information between these two, information that I'd never tell anyone else, because we're friends in real life and I don't think ACW should get in the way of not telling those two certain things. Of course, this went tits up because Hughes blagged that I told him the password in the chat, the password was changed, and Latino was a bit cross with me. That was the last time, I believe, I've ever gotten into serious trouble in ACW.
So I'd returned, but not as an active member. I just didn't like the way the fed was changing a lot, and I was being rather stubborn because of this. Instead, I approached the mods about becoming Commissioner, at least on-screen. They gave me the go-ahead, and I did this at Fallen Heroes, becoming the first wrestling commissioner ACW had since RDK back in the GFWCW days. However it was strictly an on-screen role, a role that would only be used on camera. Because of this I wasn't able to properly utilise Dan as an effective Commissioner, but it did the job.
Omega Effect was running up shortly, but I was a bit disappointed with the feud that had led up to the Main Event, which was Wyvern vs. BK London vs. The Senator. I believe that the World Title feud for your main PPV should always be the key focus point of the show, but I felt that the main event was lacking. In fact, I'd go as far as saying the whole PPV lacked somewhat, and it's easily our weakest Omega Effect to date. So I tried to help the three in the main event hype up their feud a bit more, which led to BK London superkicking me in the face. Fair enough. I also managed to become the referee for the Jonny Spade vs. Jake Cheng Light-Heavyweight Title match, in a true Untouchables Reunion match. For a non-competing writer I was pretty busy.
But my highlight, from a writing standpoint, was RDK vs. Thunderkiss. It was a feud that was great to see, as TK had been compared to RDK ever since he came into ACW. It was also great to see RDK writing, albeit it with a steady pace. That a year previously he was slowly on his way it, it was just refreshing to see him wrestling, even if it was just going to be a one-off event. I asked TK if I could write the match, expecting to be told no. Surprisingly, I was told I could write the match, and I took pride in writing it, what I believe to be the best match I've ever written.
Another pretty long chapter here, but that's a nice big 6 months out of the way. The next part of my adventure would lead me into my third stable, a stable that would have an awful lot of controversy surrounding it.
