The X Ttitle situation

[Patty O'Green 0]

As ya'll can read in Parka's post in the HD folder, he's bidding farwell to the OAOAST. What would you like to do about the X Division Belt. Hold a tournament to crown a new champ? Hold a battle royal? Unify it with the 24/7 title or the Heartland title? Forget it exits instead of having four singles titles on the show(five if you count the HI-YAH belt)? What's up, kiddos?

[Zack Malibu 0]

It'd make sense to crown a new champion at Anglemania, but most of the matches are already set in stone. We could make the "Two For The Money" match for both the HI-YAH and the X-Division belts, rather than a World Title shot, unless we make that a bonus for whomever wins the match.

 

Sucks to be losing another writer. I know I've got two new writers coming into things post-AM, but we really need to work on getting some motivated, fresh people (or old ones even) back in the mix.

[Stephen Joseph 0]

Hey Zack, Patty

 

Here's my idea.

 

Let's capitalize with my angle ongoing. SJ's promo hints that he's gonna be at Anglemania. What if SJ captures the X title and drops it to one of the two new writers in a month or so? Give them the rub of beating a title and a world champ. SJ on paper is a former world champ, we can even get it into the Upstarts/Originals storyline. I'm needing someone to work with anyways, and I don't want to hold up PK, Axel or those guys too much now.

 

Hmm?

[Zack Malibu 0]

That could work.

[Tony149 0]

It'll never happen, but I wouldn't mind seeing the X and 24/7 unified. Quite honestly, I don't see a point in either title. While guys have done a admirable job in keeping both belts going, haven't they run its course? Didn't Sandman originally create the X title for hardcore matches? And aren't the 24/7 and HL titles basically the same in that the rules involve...well, no rules?

 

I'd be fine with Popick's idea.

[Patty O'Green 0]

God damn it I had an intelligent response to Tony and lost it. Short and stupid version, the 24/7 belt as it's name implies was supposed to be defended 24/7. That's it gimmick. The champion should be in danger of losing it at any time. Theoritically that should make for some interesting and spontaneous matches the other belts can't offer. However somewhere along the line we got away from the spirit of belt to the point where it's name doesn't even make sense. However I'm sure the wackiness of the title may one day return!

 

Popick, would you just fight Parka at AM for the title?

[Stephen Joseph 0]

I could straight up, but since Parka will come back someday when he's not so busy, why don't we make it a triple threat with two unknown contestants? I could pin an OAOVW guy we want to flesh out, Parka would lose the title and maybe the next HD Axel could fire him for letting SJ win a title.

 

Then if Parka comes back...bam, ready made feud right there. SJ can go on to be the veteran defending the title against the young up and comers (the new SWF guys), defend it successfully at the next ppv following AM, then drop at the next to which SWF guy you all want.

 

Gives me something to do after AM before the UP/ORG finishes, gives a new guy a story and a title or something?

[KingPK 0]

I dunno. I guess we could just go the simple route and say that Parka suffered a serious injury in a house show and is forced to surrender the title (a la Batista). Then we could either A)settle it at AM or B)Keep it vacant and wait until after AM and have one of the SWF guys win it in his debut?

[Zack Malibu 0]

PK makes a valid point. We could do the injury angle (maybe even make the announcement at Anglemania to make it more of a shocker for the night) and then do something post-AM with it. The SWF people I've talked with will be debuting around that time, so planning a post-AM tourney and having one of them strongarm their way into it before an SWF/Popick final is an idea I'd think is plausible. Thoughts?

 

Also, what about Dan Black? We did want him to gun for the World Title, why not have him in the X scene? Maybe have some of that tension in Black T where he tells Tony that he won the World Title without worrying much about the team as a whole, so why can't he do the same with the X belt?

[Tony149 0]

Too bad Parka thought he had an AM feud with Foshi in the bag, because it could have easily been Theodore Moneymaker in that spot. Oh well.

 

The injury angle works. Like Popick said, it would give LPYC a ready made feud with him if he ever returns, especially if SJ trashes Parka for being so weak he couldn't wrestle through his injury or some shit. Dan Black getting involved in the mix is a good one too, if we didn't have plans to push Black T hard up the tag division. No breakup. Yet. Maybe next year. But he could be in a tournament, with the Sooners getting the tag title match at LA or SO if we aren't doing 2 PPVs in April.

[Stephen Joseph 0]

Yeah that works. I could say something about how I fought in a world title match with an injury...Parka just couldnt cut it, and the upstarts bought off his contract or something.

 

Bring in the SWF guys, throw in dan black, we got ourselves a mini tournament.

 

Hey, HEY! IDEA! What if we did a tournament and didn't include the SWF guys, and thats why they strongarm their way in or something. They're new, they're hungry? Its a thought.

 

I'd love for the SJ/X title/New guys to go on for 2 ppv matches (blowoff is the second) so that I've got a storyline for a bit before the final blowoff of the big angle. Is that okay?

 

Also, SJ will be in still tweener face mode. Is that okay?

[Zack Malibu 0]

Well by strongarm I meant that they somehow get their way into the tourney by taking someone out, beating someone, etc. Like how Angle got into the Rumble last year by punking Nunzio and taking his spot.

 

Tony, I didn't mean a Black T breakup, just some tense moments. A tease of a split. But if you've got plans then by all means run with those.

[Tony149 0]

We have plans, but nothing etched in stone for April or May.

[Zack Malibu 0]

Well, if either, or both of you, want to work something with the tourney, then it's fine by me. But like I said if it infringes on any plans don't try to cram too much onto your plate.

 

I suppose I could put the GPX and maybe the secondaries (Blonde, Faqu) in the brackets as well, unless we're more stocked with writers at the time. Maybe something like Popick, O'Hara, whoever from the SWF, one of EWC's guys, Reject, etc. if we need to look at some of the "alternate" roster as well. We've got time.

[King Cucaracha 0]

If you do do anything tournamenty, then I'd like Rodez to be involved.

 

But, personally, I think we could get away with unifying the X-Division Title. We're losing another writer and it's not like Parka was ever over-run with challengers for the belt in the first place. If somebody's going to do with it and definately have challengers then great, but if not we're back at square one.

[King Cucaracha 0]

Also, what about the 6-Man Tag Titles?

[Tony149 0]

Also, what about the 6-Man Tag Titles?

 

Two things we could do with the 6-man belts. One is to put the belts on somebody else ASAP, but who? And two, we could keep them on TTT until we find the right team to put the belts on.

 

Another big angle we could do is put the belts on Drek Stone, Hoff and a third name and have them job them to some Originals (SJ & Black T?) Popick seems to be going somewhere with his Hoff angle and it would put the belts to good use. The heels could win them after AM and drop them a few weeks after or even the weekend show I talked about doing. And I WILL do it at some point. Keep the faith!

[Stephen Joseph 0]

I like the idea tony!

 

I am going to go somewhere with the Hoff angle...but I will not do much until you are done with your angle with him at Anglemania.

[King Cucaracha 0]

Well I'd be happy to take control of TTT if need be. They probably wouldn't see too much TV time, but they're not at the moment either. I was going to suggest putting them on O'Hara and The GPX if we need something done quick.

[Tony149 0]

Have we decided what we're doing with the belts? Popick's idea seems to be a go, but what about the 6-Man? Just so everyone is on the same page.

[KingPK 0]

Do you want me to write a little thing regarding Parka's injury for this week's HD or are we saving it for Sunday?

[King Cucaracha 0]

I can keep the Triple Threat semi-active and we can keep the belts there for now. Once the Upstarts split, if it's okay with Zack I'd like GPX and O'Hara to stay a unit and eventually get the belts.

[Stephen Joseph 0]

Well, I return to the roster at AM, so let me know how I need to proceed.

[Zack Malibu 0]

I can keep the Triple Threat semi-active and we can keep the belts there for now. Once the Upstarts split, if it's okay with Zack I'd like GPX and O'Hara to stay a unit and eventually get the belts.

 

That's perfectly fine. Having them win it post-AM after having killed each other in the Two For The Money match could be their way of bonding as a unit. We can make them into our GenNext.

[Patty O'Green 0]

Do you want me to write a little thing regarding Parka's injury for this week's HD or are we saving it for Sunday?

 

I am a selfish and horrible human being, thus I say put it on HD, because I don't know if there will be enough non wrestling segments and I need some talking to stick between the action. I'm a bad person. Hate me.

[Stephen Joseph 0]

whats the deal with this, somebody help me out!

[KingPK 0]

We'll deal with it this week. I'll say that Parka suffered an injury in a house show before AM but it was originally thought that he would be able to return soon after AM, but further tests showed that he will be out indefinitely, so the X-Title is vacated.

[alfdogg 0]

Since there's been talk of merging titles, I just wanted to let you guys know that I do still have plans for the HL title throughout this year.

[Tony149 0]

I doubt there will be any calls to merge the HL title. I know we don't have a clear #2 title in the fed, but that's the one I see as it.