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Post by Mongo the Destroyer on Aug 16, 2018 10:23:57 GMT -5
So I was curious, what was your first fed and how did you get drawn into this drug cult hobby?
My first fed was actually XHF, lol. It was owned by Hanz at the time and it wasn't very good (if I'm honest). Still had the ezboard basic space background that came default with the board and whatnot. But Hanz was a goodish writer (not as good as me since I was clearly beating him in NM Board columns, DUH) and it was enough.
I would have quit after that but Harry had me come to ECF and then there were a few other places I got invited to. Meanwhile I acquired the rights to XHF and the XHF board. That's right folks, the main XHF archive board is actually the original 2001 board.
Anyway, the XHF, Hanz, the BDDWF (which then became my XHF), and most of the old XHFers came from the official WWF No Mercy Message Board. Back when WWF was ok with a board run by teens be their official game message board- haha; oh internet, you were so young.
What about you?
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Post by Mav. on Aug 16, 2018 10:58:23 GMT -5
My first fed was ICW, which I was 16 when I started. My first match actually was with the "legend" Mad Dog Smith (Thanks Mad Dog ) I actually didn't think in just a year, I would get as far as I did. Being admin of AXW, being a champion and everything else.
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Post by Raiden Ishimori on Aug 16, 2018 11:56:49 GMT -5
First fed I joined was the Global Wrestling Alliance and at the time, I think I was only twelve when I joined it and what was different about it was that it used a dice system for "live" results in a chatroom compared to what we normally see today. Wasn't too bad of a start but that place has just become a mess. But if you want to know the first roleplay fed I joined fully, it would have to be the World Wrestling Organization. That I joined sometime in late 2012 and it was there that I really learned to pick up on the whole e-fed thing and the different aspects there were in order to enhance my skills and what. Honestly, if it weren't for my dad showing me the ropes there, my roleplays would probably be absolute crap still
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Post by Kira Izumi on Aug 16, 2018 13:19:42 GMT -5
The first fed i joined was Asylum Wrestling Association. That's where the AWA in Kira's twitter handle comes from, because back when i made it that was the only fed i was in,lol. My first match was against a guy who no showed, so i won. My next match was against someone who was pretty much a legend and HOFer there,lol. I sucked so much ass back than it's not funny. Than an old group of guys who used to go there came in. They reached out to me and helped me improve, giving me tips and actually looking over my rps and stuff before i'd post 'em and things like that.
I got to sorta join their group after a while and i eventually won my first ever title, the AWA United States Championship. I wish the boards for the place were still around, but it's ok i guess,haha. I joined because a friend from MOTM was talking about it and i eventually joined with/because of him. Thanks man... i forgot your name, but you got me on wrestling crack. thanks for that,lol.
After that i joined FIW as well, because AWA was starting to get very close to closing. around may or somewhere around there i think they did close. FIW closed a few months ago as well. Sometime as i was in FIW though i met Kuroi through a one off tournament and he had messaged me about AWF, which i than joined a little bit afterwards and that's the short story of my first fed as well as how i got here,haha.
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Post by Dave D-Flipz on Aug 16, 2018 18:11:51 GMT -5
2002 ... ECF ... fun times yo. I was 14 ... and as my promo archives show ... it took me 3 years to really get my groove as an RPer ... and Kanyon really ...
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Post by vastrix on Aug 16, 2018 22:31:47 GMT -5
My first fed was Computer Wrestling Federation. It was a play by snail mail fed that I joined in 87 from an ad in the PWI magazine. I joined a couple of other snail mail places and one place, AWF morphed into Hardkore World to a play by email fed. It's where we first started roleplaying to get an extra edge toward winning the match. This was somewhere in the early 90s.
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Post by Mongo the Destroyer on Aug 17, 2018 0:06:11 GMT -5
My first fed was Computer Wrestling Federation. It was a play by snail mail fed that I joined in 87 from an ad in the PWI magazine. I joined a couple of other snail mail places and one place, AWF morphed into Hardkore World to a play by email fed. It's where we first started roleplaying to get an extra edge toward winning the match. This was somewhere in the early 90s. How did snail mail feds work without rping? Did you send bribes?
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Post by Dylan on Aug 17, 2018 17:14:07 GMT -5
My first fed was GWA, and I was 16. First RP fed, ICW. I think I was 16, but idfk
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2018 19:50:43 GMT -5
Well, my first efed was a little place called Icon Championship Wrestling (ICW), I was 39 years old had never even heard of efedding but have always loved wrestling. So when this guy named Shawn Rossdale sent me a message on Facebook asking me to join his company I took it. I was actually the first person to apply but due to the system my application didn't get put in till second lol but ever since I have grown to love this crazy world of efedding and the crazy people I have met along the way. I enjoy creating characters even though I haven't been able to use them all yet I have a whole army lol.
I have made pretty good progress since I first started and now I am still just as crazy about it as when I first started. Thanks to the XHF Network and the friends I have met here.
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Post by vastrix on Aug 17, 2018 19:59:33 GMT -5
My first fed was Computer Wrestling Federation. It was a play by snail mail fed that I joined in 87 from an ad in the PWI magazine. I joined a couple of other snail mail places and one place, AWF morphed into Hardkore World to a play by email fed. It's where we first started roleplaying to get an extra edge toward winning the match. This was somewhere in the early 90s. How did snail mail feds work without rping? Did you send bribes? You kind of did. You set up your wrestler(s) and sent in a list of different moves. Each had a different computer value and so the match was decided by these values. You paid for each match. 1 for singles, 2 for tag team, and 3 for Six man tag. I worked a paper route and babysat to get money to get these reports of all the matches that went down. About forty pages of summarized results was average. A good amount of the money went toward postage for these reports I'm sure.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2018 21:12:38 GMT -5
How did snail mail feds work without rping? Did you send bribes? You kind of did. You set up your wrestler(s) and sent in a list of different moves. Each had a different computer value and so the match was decided by these values. You paid for each match. 1 for singles, 2 for tag team, and 3 for Six man tag. I worked a paper route and babysat to get money to get these reports of all the matches that went down. About forty pages of summarized results was average. A good amount of the money went toward postage for these reports I'm sure. hey I use to do that type of stuff IWA Imaginary Wrestling Association you got to pay for your matches and stuff and they would send you a monthly newsletter in the mail and you paid for your matches $1 a match you picked your moves and you could win titles and stuff that was fun back in the day but that wasn't considered efedding was it.
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Post by Mongo the Destroyer on Aug 18, 2018 0:29:25 GMT -5
Hmmmm, fascinating. Let that be a lesson to those of you younger members for what the pre-inernet days were like
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Post by Steele on Aug 18, 2018 14:13:51 GMT -5
My first fed... And more...
Ive mentioned this before, but my first fed was a place called the Immortal Wrestling Guild back in 2004. I was about 17 at the time and heading towards my A-Level exams.
IWG was run by a guy called Ken Justice, and I found him to be very approachable and open, and an all-round nice guy.
My character was called Big Metans and he was basically a Big Show clone, with a Paul Heyman clone as his manager. I was only involved for a few months, but I had a moderately successful time - my first ever order of business in efedding was to follow the teachings of "Efed Noob 101" and immediately call out the Champion for a title match.
Lo and behold - it worked! Kinda. I didn't get my title match but I did beat the champ on my debut. From there, I enjoyed a brief stint as IWG Hardcore champion, my first-ever title, and managed to instigate a multi-tiered Hell In A Cell multiman match which ended up with the World Title on the line - needless to say, the champ retained.
My time in IWG pretty much wrapped up when I reached the final of the Lord Of The Guild tournament, and I remember using my real-life breakup (ok, it was more of a friend zoning/rejection) as inspiration for my RPs. My opponent in the final was Miyoko Kawashima who I understand is still active elsewhere today, or at least was within the last couple of years. I think she is possibly the toughest opponent I ever faced.
When I finished sixth form, my efedding career basically came to an end. It was only something I did at school and so for the next twelve years, I left it all behind.
Then the summer of 2016 rolled around, and I started thinking about starting it up again. I had a quick Google and found a place that was starting up, Title Fight Wrestling. I wanted to join a newish fed to have a chance to start out in "even ground" with the other players, even though I didn't have as much experience I figured that I could at least be an "original" somewhere.
TFW was generally a fun place. The results were bite-sized and concise and I didn't feel like I needed a whole morning to read a show. It was an angle based fed, so something different to what I'd been involved in back in IWG. It was started from the ashes of CCW so there was already a loose "pecking order" established but I quickly found my guy, Steve Death, being considered a "top heel" in the company. That's a direct quote from one of the other users, and it made me feel so damn proud lol.
The only problem with TFW was, it didn't last. It was active for about 3 or 4 months and the weekly shows started being posted late, then one show was about a MONTH late, and then the final show (until they briefly reopened last year) wasn't even completed! It just stopped halfway through the show!
So in September 2016 one of the other guys from the fed asked me to jump over to another place - Excelsior Wrestling Society. EWS was pretty much the same concept as XHF, a collection of smaller feds under one umbrella company. The other guy (BJ Jones) wanted me to bring my character, by now rechristened Steven Wright, over to his company - but he wanted it to be under a mask. The initial plan was to have my masked man be undefeated and win the ELW Traditional Virtues title, before feuding with Mark Redgrave (my main rival from TFW) and dropping the belt to him. I joined up to the EWS board anonymously. This was all gonna be totally kayfabe - the only people who knew were me, BJ and Steve (EWS owner/Shane Wiemers)
And thus, El Hijo Del Muerte was born. I chose the name as a direct reference - Steve Death became "The Son of Death" in (bad) Spanish and entered ELW. Shane Wiemers took the place of Redgrave as Redgrave's handler didn't come with us to EWS.
It was in EWS that I started doing graphic work. I asked someone to make me a sig for Muerte and then thought "actually, I want a go!" So I downloaded GIMP and discovered that I loved it. So I chanced my arm and gave BJ some new fed logo designs, title belts, etc and he loved them. I started doing signatures for others. Since all the feds were angled, I was doing more graphic work than I did roleplaying.
Actually, I still do that... Lol.
I also had my first taste of match-writing, helping out BJ here and there with the odd match or two for ELW or PWR.
I started churning out characters - Kaminari, Kye Kennedy, Luther Reid, DDT Security, The Rich Kid$, Cal Hollywood... Kaminari was the only one who really went anywhere though, picking up the RSPW Premier Joshi title shortly before I left.
The problem with EWS was that a lot of the feds ended up being very stop-start, for various reasons. Health issues, other commitments, personal problems, etc. I was invested in getting the Muerte storyline played out so I decided that I would start up my OWN fed. With blackjack and hookers!
So there you go... My confession... Empire Wrestling was basically founded to conclude an angle lol. But it ended up being moderately successful. I managed to sign some of the big stars of EWS (Leonard Luv, Tyler Wolfe, Fred Wyndham) as well as get some original signups (Matt Jewels, FM Young, Blake Andes) and managed to put out a weekly show for 17 weeks and I think I was only late once. I'm proud of that record!
EW also had 2 iPPV events, and those nearly killed me. Christmas week of 2016 I think I was writing two episodes of TV and a PPV at the same time. That was a pretty stupid thing to do.
Empire was doing great and was getting good reviews (thought the one angle that I outsourced to somebody else got panned and blemished my record. Grr.) The main criticism levelled at me was the amount of swerves I used. Just call me Vince Russo lol. I guess I just like a good swerve! (Though I gotta admit I had reservations about ending Jackson Vs Wyndham 3 with two double pins and a title vacation... but by then I had already planned to end EW and was looking for a way to facilitate the big finale title match.)
I chose to end Empire because it was eating up a lot of my time (I was writing or planning for a good five hours every day, often into the early hours of the morning) and I had a second kid on the way. Since I haven't actually posted the final episode of EW here yet, I'll leave out the spoilers but let's just say there was actually ANOTHER final episode... Though the intended takeover of EW by another player never went further than that one show.
By the time I ended EW, I was still the only truly active fed on a full-time basis. I wanted activity, so I decided to check out the competition. I hopped on Reddit and saw a post by this jabroni guy called Kuroi, begging asking for people to join his new fed. I forget what it was called. AW... Something.
So I thought "fuck it" and signed up. I didn't want to bring Wright over at the time - maybe I'll set him up somewhere soon - so I created a new character, Jackson Steele. And shit, I thought he was gonna be a midcarder but somehow he took off.
Kuroi soon asked me to admin at AWF (after I used the tactic I used previously and sent him unsolicited new designs for logos and graphics muahaha) and so I worked with AWF until a few months back when, inevitably, it caught up with me again and I had to call it a day.Alongside AWF I briefly dabbled in Full Intensity Wrestling, creating AK Andrews who in his short career managed to somehow win the Cutthroat Tournament to be crowned #1 Contender to the world title, though I dropped that to... Shit I forget who now... When I left. FIW isn't there any more which is a shame because it had a really well presented site, it was well populated, and had cool features like one of the guys would do a YouTube video rundown for each show that outlined all the previous results, feuds, and upcoming matches.
Characters have come and gone for me in XHF - AK Andrews, CiCi Dupree, and Beanz is pretty stagnant right now lol. But Steele and Furanku are going strong and I'm pleased that so many of you have given them both such good feedback. I feel at home in the XHF, and I love how bloody active this place is. And I love you guys.
So... Phew. I know you only asked for the 'first' fed but there you go, some background. a pretty concise history of me up until joining XHF lol.
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Post by Technical Perfection on Aug 24, 2018 8:17:43 GMT -5
My first fed was GFWA under Matt McLean in 98. After a false start with The Mighty Quinns, a quite silly lumberjack gimmick I created the Haka Boyz who has a successful tag run before I retired Va'a and Va'aiga went on to become one of my two mains, a five time world champion across three different federations and... a father.
My second fed was NWWF under Kip Reed in 99. And that's where Chris Card comes from. So when I put "nearly twenty year career", that's a shoot, brother.
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Post by Roy "The Sorrow" Harlowe (NJC) on Aug 28, 2018 18:15:27 GMT -5
NWW, New World Wrestling in like 2003.
I too was in FIW, EWC, and a tirade of others that I cannot name at the moment.
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