June 18, 201510 yr comment_5678299 Looks like the draft is going to stall out just a bit today as I am leaving the house in 20 minutes and I'm not sure what kind of availability I will have until about 8EST I suspect you could give your pick to JerryvonKramer and be fine. I don't think you guys are looking for the same people. EDIT: Or Boon too. Another guy I doubt is sharing the same list.
June 18, 201510 yr comment_5678301 Looks like the draft is going to stall out just a bit today as I am leaving the house in 20 minutes and I'm not sure what kind of availability I will have until about 8EST Im two after you Dylan if you want to leave your pick with me...
June 18, 201510 yr comment_5678308 I can talk about Mike Jackson now so you may be the new person who shall not be named around here. Oh and just a random thought, sometimes I may offer to send talent to a big show for pretty much nothing in return simply because that was something promoters would do to keep their top stars happy. They could make more money being 3rd or 4th from the top at a Superdome show than they could being in the main event in Waco, TX. If Boon and I ever merge would we be SouthwestEastern Championship Wrestling?
June 18, 201510 yr comment_5678309 I think picked a pretty affordable crew to be honest. Dynamite will be in Japan most of the first half of '84 and clearly he's looking to up his game beyond Calgary. We know Bret, Davey, and Neidhart went on to bigger things as well. Cobra and Gama were world travelers, I suspect I'll lose them to more than a few dates. Blackwell doesn't seem like he'd hang out too long in one spot. Gotta keep the realism up.
June 18, 201510 yr comment_5678311 I can only go so far in a having a realistic Southwest roster that I could have fun with. Other than Bob Sweetan & Tully it was mostly a stay for a little while but not too long territory.
June 18, 201510 yr comment_5678313 I think we can wrap it up quickly. Have everyone send in a list of 20 guys IN ORDER they want to select them and send them to one trusted person, I will volunteer for this and even post the lists after the draft to prove no shenanigans were done. Once I have everyone's list I will compare it to the draft order already established and go down the lists. If the 1st person on your list is already taken by your turn, the next guy on the list goes to you. Same if your 19th person goes then the 20th will become 19th, etc. This should take us to Round 32, but with multiple people have the same people on their list, if it doesn't, I will post and say more names are needed. I have complete access to the site with the exception of a 45 min drive home. If everyone agrees, lets get our lists in and get this knocked out. This way we will have nearly two weeks of pre-booking, booking.
June 18, 201510 yr comment_5678315 I think I've got a pretty good main event/midcard tag division going on in Montreal. I need to fill in blanks for sure, but I have feuds for a while and some good sources of outside talent to keep things fresh. It's just that it took this long to build even the majority of a good tag division and I haven't gotten any jobbers picked as of yet. Trying to go singles may have proven a bit easier in draft #1.
June 18, 201510 yr comment_5678317 I think we can wrap it up quickly. Have everyone send in a list of 20 guys IN ORDER they want to select them and send them to one trusted person, I will volunteer for this and even post the lists after the draft to prove no shenanigans were done. Once I have everyone's list I will compare it to the draft order already established and go down the lists. If the 1st person on your list is already taken by your turn, the next guy on the list goes to you. Same if your 19th person goes then the 20th will become 19th, etc. This should take us to Round 32, but with multiple people have the same people on their list, if it doesn't, I will post and say more names are needed. I have complete access to the site with the exception of a 45 min drive home. If everyone agrees, lets get our lists in and get this knocked out. This way we will have nearly two weeks of pre-booking, booking. The only issue i can see with this is without disreguarding, my drafts keep changing with everyone else's picks, especially when it comes to heel/face alignment. For example i dont want to send a list over and end up with 6 heels and 14 faces, if that makes sense?
June 18, 201510 yr comment_5678320 I think shortening the time limit to 5 hours is the best way to make it work. It's not perfect but no way to push through the rest of the draft is going to be perfect and this is the way to upset the least amount of people. If someone feels burned by missing the time limit and losing a guy they wanted then they are going to be more likely to use someone as a proxy. We are halfway. There aren't enough wrestlers for a round 30.
June 18, 201510 yr comment_5678322 Yeah a full list could lead to me getting only heels and and no faces which would mess everything up. 5 hour limitis starts next round, so later tonight or tomorrow. It would speed things up.
June 18, 201510 yr comment_5678334 As a booker we can choose if a talent is face or a heel. if you feel guys on your list can only do one, you could always select guys who are adaptable. Not trying to sell my idea any more than I did in the first post. Just that I'm bored with the draft already as it is low-level mid card and jobbers from here on out. With that said, I'll be anyone's proxy that is in need of one, especially when the 5 hour hits.
June 18, 201510 yr comment_5678337 I am so glad the AWA ended up with Sheik Adnan. Not sure who else I could have worked a similar deal with. I honestly like my revamped idea of "video Adnan" more than I like having him full time. Joe Blanchard is thrilled with me at the idea of having a manager that he doesn't have to pay.
June 18, 201510 yr comment_5678339 So we have two governing bodies? Wonder how many guys will go with AWA over NWA?
June 18, 201510 yr comment_5678343 Well Flying Brian's ICW and my Southwest were the only "outlaws" that didn't belong to the NWA (besides AWA being it's own thing) The plan was to stay solitary but circumstances dictated change.
June 18, 201510 yr comment_5678360 With Southwest Championship Wrestling recognizing the AWA as it's sanctioning body this also means we release the rights to use Lou Thesz as our commissioner. We will now simply refer to Stanley Blackburn when we need to reference who will or has been called. However, we promise to be progressive and not talk about writing or receiving letters from Stanley Blackburn. He would obviously use a telegram.
June 18, 201510 yr comment_5678390 Somehow Buck Robley was not on my list and I have no idea how that's possible.
June 18, 201510 yr comment_5678393 I am glad that my new close partner the AWA has The Colonel as he is mostly a 2-3 week kind of a guy in my booking plan for him and surely the always reasonable rainmakertv will work something out if I get to a place where I could bring him in.
June 19, 201510 yr comment_5678405 The CHAMPAGNE MAN! Gerry Morrow!! One of the funniest things I've ever seen in wrestling.
June 19, 201510 yr comment_5678418 The WWA selects Jerry ValiantFucking hell, is no one safe? Nope. I thought about taking him last round since I had jimmy
June 19, 201510 yr comment_5678419 There goes another heel JTTS from my list. Where is Doug Somers? I demand to know!
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