BRAND wrestling
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BRAND wrestling is a territorial wrestling promotion which runs out of Waco, Texas, but tours from a big top tent around the South-West part of Texas expecting a capacity crowd of around 500-750 maximum to events. The promotion is headed by owner "Pepper" Pete Peppins.
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Overview
The promotion is fronted by former wrestler known as "Pepper" Pete Peppins who is Waco born-and-bred. Pete has put all his funding into the promotion and it's make or break for him pending on the promotion's success. Aiming to promote young up-and-comers from the region as well as existing names (bearing in mind if they're affordable) Pete is known for a sports entertainment style with a preference to promoting brawlers.
BRAND pays a maximum of $5,000 dollars per appearance for it's superstars and $2,500 per month for staff members. The promotion owns it's own ring and sets up it's tent to perform to the fans.
The immediate aims of the first tour for BRAND is to bring some brand awareness, pardon the pun, and to find it's feet in the South-West of Texas before attempting to concur the state, elevating itself to a stronger sized territory-based organisation through a television contract. Outside of monetary remuneration for the product they offer, they just want it be one Hell of a product.
Current Planned Tour
- Lufkin, TX - Homebrand TV
- Longview, TX - Homebrand TV
- Marshall, TX - Homebrand TV
- Mesquite, TX - Homebrand TV
- Arlington, TX - Homebrand TV
- Fort Worth, TX - Homebrand TV
- Waco, TX (McClennan Community College - Highlands Gym - capacity: 2,600) - Large Event - name to be confirmed
- Temple, TX - Homebrand TV
- Gerogetown, TX - TBC
- Round Rock, TX - TBC
- Austin, TX - TBC
- San Marcos, TX - TBC
- New Braunfels, TX - TBC
- San Antonio, TX - TBC
- Sugar Land, TX - TBC
- Missouri City, TX - TBC
- Houston, TX - TBC
- Pasadena, TX - TBC
- Port Arthur, TX - TBC
- Beaumont, TX - TBC
Events
BRAND wrestling presents a magazine style format program called "Branded Superstars" which features promos, vignettes and interviews with the BRAND superstars. This screens every opposite Sunday to the wrestling program titled "Homebrand TV".
The filming is done by students studying a course in Radio-Television production from Texas A&M University and show highlights on KETV3 as well as tailoring the production for the BRAND wrestling website.
Branded Superstars
This show is yet to debut.
Homebrand TV
This show is yet to debut.
Major Events
Every sixth show BRAND holds a major event, not quite a PPV at the moment given the size of the promotion and it's capacity to financially benefit from a PPV, but a major event held inside a larger arena with the hopes of drawing some big names for a one off show.
Current Roster
Onscreen Staff
the BRAND Name
Currently the championship has not been put on any particular superstar.
OOC Concept
So here's the deal.
Style? Script style. First time the character speaks his name must be written in an extended format. After that it should be shortened to initials. Need an example.
Justin Voss: So I'm talking about a script type style of writing.
(Voss' rubs a finger under his nose as he thinks about what he says next.)
JV: So yeah, the commentators on the show do the describing like...
Harry Balkin: Voss is talking about how to write a show.
Morton Murphy: He has incredible execution of the style, Harry.
HB: The only incredible execution I'd like to see from Voss is a firing squad. Now THAT'S incredible execution!
MM: Good grief, he'll fire you!
HB: Did I mention that I love him?
(Voss shakes his head in disgust.)
JV: Ass-kisser.
There are writing limitations in place on these should you be invited to join me or give enough interest to want to be a part of this: 1 week: promo show
* all promos are capped at 750 words * write an interview, promo or vignette to push your character * limit one promo per show * you need to submit a promo for this to be a part of BRAND
Next week: wrestling show
* all promos are capped at 500 words
* main draws get one combined segment at 1000 words + one segment each otherwise at 500 words (subject to being in a feud)
* matches are covered by myself, unless expressed otherwise in following rules
o matches are 1 page in Word (excluding into)
o main event match is 2 pages in Word (excluding intro)
Once every two months: PPV
* all promos are capped at 750 words
* main draws get one combined segment at 1000 words + one segment each otherwise at 500 words (subject to being in a feud)
* matches are covered by myself, unless expressed otherwise in following rules
o atches are 1.5 pages in Word (excluding intro)
o main event match 3 pages in Word (excluding intro)
That's how it goes. The roster is of course extremely small because I'll be doing this thing mainly on my own to begin with I'm tipping, unless people are really interested in doing this. But there won't be huge shows to read, I'm looking into the realms of reality here as the show will probably go for maybe 1 hour on public access cable once every week. So the shows will be short.
I would add rules for people joining, but I'm not sure if I want to put in rules just want you to plead your case to me. If you happen to be interested shoot a line across to brandwrestling@gmail.com
Why BRAND was created?
This concept has changed over time. I had an original concept which I thought would be cool but it was just that. It was cool. There was no depth for it because I was rushing into this to try and write for other people, it was never about myself. It was quite simply about the shock value of writing something darker.
Since then I have really thought about what it was that I used to enjoy about eWrestling. Why was eWrestling so damn enjoyable back in the day when I met someone call Castillo who reminded me of the good old days, the Play by eMail days of wrestling. Where you emailed your roleplays into a central person and they compiled them together in one big show. And then the next week there was a wrestling show that your character was involved in. And you were encouraged to send in a segment for the show as well, even strategies for the coming week. Man, I miss those days. Waiting to see where your roleplay was placed on the show. Those were great days. Seems in these days there is more importance to what happens to a wrestler outside of the shows but let's be honest, who really gives a shit if Brock Shepherd is having troubles dealing with losing his hand, they wanna see what he can do in the ring, what he does with a microphone. Lord knows Stone Cold Steve Austin's private life nobody gives a shit about, coz that wife bashing sonofagun is still one of the biggest draws that ever lived. People don't care about the outside lives of wrestlers, they wanna see what happens in the ring.
I also loved the booking feds, where you were given a partner for a week, perhaps an arc if you were good enough, and you ran with the ball trying to build heat on the feud. Tried to get people interested in the hate which manifested between two characters, trying to get the best of the other one in their character's head and the person who could do that the best... well, they won. Didn't they.
But then I love angle feds, too. Love how they people would come up with this fantastic story and come together and portray it through their emails and through their segments, even through their matches. It was wonderful. They're so fantastic some of the stories we can come up without the known limitations of realism, and who cares if they extend into the extraordinary. I mean take a look at some of the stuff that's come out over the years, it's phenomenal. Look at the likes of stories written by Joe Campbell for his Kellen Kinkade, or feuds between KroW and LLB during the A!W days. Those were some great stories and I wanna get back to stuff like that.
I remember the first fed I ever created. Each character had their own designated font colour to be able to talk on the shows, just to break them up. It was a cheap trick but it worked. And the images were so pathetic. The site was made with a GeoCities site builder with really badly mapped out spots. But people still joined. People still roleplayed. People still wanted to write. It was awesome.
So I thought to myself, how can we get back to the days of things like that? What if I could lean back, take a hold of all that stuff I loved and threw it at the wall to make it mash into one?
