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A New Era
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This is a current-day Be the Booker project, starting in October of 2009. It will be based on results from Extreme Warfare Revenge 4.2 with a game that began in September of 2009. The month of September was played out very similar to reality.
This is my first Be the Booker, but not the first project of this type I have done. I have a Total Extreme Wrestling 2008 based diary on the Grey Dog Software board that has run for the more than a year (game-time and real-time). With this being based on EWR and having a "side story", it will be more like a GDS diary than a full fantasy-booking BTB. But I hope that it should still be fun to read and follow.
The intent with this project is to move both forward and backward. As the name suggests, part of the intent is to move the WWE forward by building up the new generation of stars required by the age of the current core. At the same time, I want to bring back some traditional elements. I do want to maintain some basis in reality, so I will try to limit the amount of roster additions and will try to respect "real" relationships when doing so. Which is not to say there will not be new additions, rather that they will come in gradually and for specific purposes.
I will also mention that this project is going to be posted on at least one other forum.
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Contents
Front Page
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The Mark
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A special thanks to Doctor Doom for the fantastic logo as well as anyone else who has contributed graphics or even ideas.
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Ownership
Promotion: World Wrestling Entertainment Founded: 1952 Owner: Vincent McMahon Jr. Chief Executive Officer: Vincent McMahon Jr. Headquarters: Stamford, Connecticut
Details
Size: Global Public Image: 68% Risk Level: 66% Direct Rivals: None
Game Details
Game Start Date: Diary Start Date: Current Game Date:
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Developmental Territory
Promotion: Florida Championship Wrestling Location: Tampa, Florida Owner: Steve Keirn Booker: Tom Prichard General Manager: Abraham Washignton Announcer: Byron Saxton Color Commentator: Dusty Rhodes
Champions
FCW Florida Heavyweight Championship: Heath Slater FCW Florida Tag Team Championship: Bo & Duke Rotundo Queen of FCW: Serena Mancini
Developmental Workers
Males
Alex Riley
Bo Rotundo
Duke Rotundo
Heath Slater
Justin Angel
Women
Serena Mancini
Training Camp
Camp: Stamford Facility Facilities: Superb Head Trainer: Mikey Monroe
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The Mark
Chapter 1 September 2009
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They say it was epic.
They say it was an all-timer.
Of course, "they" say a lot of things.
It never has been and never likely will be actually confirmed. But there is simply something deliciously fun about the first-family of professional wrestling having an all-out brawl like a pure white trash brood. Of course, the simple fact that it is so amusing makes it unlikely to be true. It is most likely the delirious invention of some keyboard warrior... like myself...
I have been a fan of professional wrestling for more than 30 years now. I have not followed consistently through that entire period, as there have been stretches where I barely followed. And I was honestly little more than an inattentive kid in those early years. Like so many others, I can thank my father for breeding a love of wrestling into me. I can thank him for that, much as I can thank him for my receding hairline.
The one constant through all those years was the WWF/WWE. I have watched plenty of other promotions, but the E was always there as my first choice. As young as I was, I remember when Backlund lost the belt to The Iron Sheik. I was a Hulkamaniac. When I left and came back, it was always coming back to the vision of Vince McMahon. When other promotions, big or small, caught my eye and drew my attention, it was always just a temporary thing.
Through the first half of 2009, I found my attention waning again. The product just appealed to me less and less. The PG era, so maligned by Internet fans, was the cause. It was not the lack of naughty language nor the taming of the Divas. It was the short title reigns, the lack of blood, the simplification. Simply put, the WWE product was no longer aimed at me. They were worried about hooking the 8 year old kid that lives down the block, not me. I put up with it for awhile, but it started to wear on me. I gradually realized I was spending more effort complaining over what I disliked about the product instead of enjoying any of it.
By mid-year, I would have bet that this mark would no longer be watching by the end of 2009. Whether it was another temporary absence or the end of an era in my life, it seemed unavoidable. Then something happened... The heel turn of CM Punk.
The turn itself was the dream of every mark – this Mark included. It was more than Punk turning heel – it was him doing so in a very well-booked turn. Not a Hogan-level epic heel turn, but the kind of good and drawn-out booking that I ceased to expect from the WWE anymore.
That was not the only “good” thing happening in all of the three brands at that point, but it stuck out. There was also the tag team division getting some attention, with Chris Jericho and Big Show as champions. The return of D-X did little for me, but they put on a really good match with Legacy at SummerSlam, with Triple H and Michaels making Rhodes and DiBiase look really good. At Breaking Point, Legacy actually went over the veterans. What was going on?
I liked where things were going again. Not that everything was suddenly perfect – Raw still felt like a mess, with the guest host thing annoying me endlessly. At least I was doing more enjoying and less complaining.
So what does all of this have to do with a likely-fictional argument of the McMahon family?
Well, the rumor about the fight said it was everyone – Shane, Stephanie, Linda, Paul, and even Shane's wife – against Vince. The topic was simple – the degree of control that Vince still maintained over everything. They all wanted him to cede some control. The beneficiaries of that would be Stephanie and Paul – aka Triple H.
That is the worst nightmare of most marks – Triple H with more power.
Did the fight really happen? Is the upturn related to Stephanie and Triple H having more creative power? The rumor popped up at the start of the summer, the timing would actually coincide with things making a turn for the better, too.
Maybe Triple H running World Wrestling Entertainment wouldn't be the worst thing...?
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