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Post by Johnny Jett on Oct 26, 2018 21:28:18 GMT
As Power Pro Wrestling hits the midway point of its inaugural season, we present for you a double shot of action! Not at all because I was unable to promote last week's episode, no way, this was entirely intentional! First up, on Episode 8, Team UK ("The Notorious" Donna Reid and Kidd Grime) takes on Team Canada ("The Golden Boy" Holden Troy" and Heather Lexus) in tag team action! Meanwhile, Panzer takes on Karen Rose while Kazuya Kano returns to action following his injury at the hands of Panzer only one week prior! All this and more on an explosive episode of Power Pro Wrestling! Then, on Episode 9, Donna Reid takes on Heather Lexus in singles competition! What led to this stunning main event? You'll have to watch to find out! Plus: Panzer, Jordan King, El Hijo del Fenix, and La Loba Blanca are all in action! Twists, turns, and top rope maneuvers abound as the Quest for the Golden Crown rolls on!
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Post by LankyLefty17 on Apr 26, 2019 19:49:05 GMT
As Power Pro Wrestling hits the midway point of its inaugural season, we present for you a double shot of action! Not at all because I was unable to promote last week's episode, no way, this was entirely intentional! First up, on Episode 8, Team UK ("The Notorious" Donna Reid and Kidd Grime) takes on Team Canada ("The Golden Boy" Holden Troy" and Heather Lexus) in tag team action! Meanwhile, Panzer takes on Karen Rose while Kazuya Kano returns to action following his injury at the hands of Panzer only one week prior! All this and more on an explosive episode of Power Pro Wrestling! Then, on Episode 9, Donna Reid takes on Heather Lexus in singles competition! What led to this stunning main event? You'll have to watch to find out! Plus: Panzer, Jordan King, El Hijo del Fenix, and La Loba Blanca are all in action! Twists, turns, and top rope maneuvers abound as the Quest for the Golden Crown rolls on!
This fed was really cool (and well presented). Not sure if its dead or not, but would be cool to see it come back... |
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Post by Johnny Jett on Apr 28, 2019 15:16:15 GMT
As Power Pro Wrestling hits the midway point of its inaugural season, we present for you a double shot of action! Not at all because I was unable to promote last week's episode, no way, this was entirely intentional! First up, on Episode 8, Team UK ("The Notorious" Donna Reid and Kidd Grime) takes on Team Canada ("The Golden Boy" Holden Troy" and Heather Lexus) in tag team action! Meanwhile, Panzer takes on Karen Rose while Kazuya Kano returns to action following his injury at the hands of Panzer only one week prior! All this and more on an explosive episode of Power Pro Wrestling! Then, on Episode 9, Donna Reid takes on Heather Lexus in singles competition! What led to this stunning main event? You'll have to watch to find out! Plus: Panzer, Jordan King, El Hijo del Fenix, and La Loba Blanca are all in action! Twists, turns, and top rope maneuvers abound as the Quest for the Golden Crown rolls on!
This fed was really cool (and well presented). Not sure if its dead or not, but would be cool to see it come back... What happened with Power Pro was a couple of things. After I had Season 1 ready to go, I started recording the match footage for Season 2, set up the launch of Season 1, and I took a break from actively working on actually piecing together and editing the footage for a bit. And by that point I'd been working on Power Pro for close to half a year (learning video editing and edit making from the ground up in the process). So I kinda wanted to take a little time off from the technical side to really just enjoy the game and work on some other projects. During my break, the New Japan DLC came out and, with it, the visual overhaul. So now it felt like, well, we're gonna look out of date and people are gonna see how old this footage is. I could edit around it, but it was still going to be obvious in places. Which left me with two options, I could either completely reshoot or put out footage that was going to look a bit "off" to people who were now used to the post-New Japan interface. I really liked some of the footage I'd shot for Season 2, though, so I wasn't eager to reshoot entirely. So, at that point, we were going to go ahead and do Season 2 with the existing footage. But it kept being hard to actually schedule commentary recording sessions as Dustin (DK) and I both got increasingly busy with our respective jobs and, moreover, some personal life stuff distracted me. I edited together, I think, three episodes of Season 2 and we did commentary for one, but we didn't get past that point. While production for Season 2 was underway, Season 1 was dropping and I felt pretty good about it for a while. My threshold had always been "well, as long as we're consistently getting 25 views we're doing really good." And for a while that held strong. But between Episodes 1 and 2 we shed something like half our viewers. Then between 4 and 5 we lost half our viewers again. When we hit single digits, it was really disheartening. It was a passion project. I obviously didn't think Power Pro was going to be a work that would make me rich or get millions of views, but I had hoped for more viewer retention. I'm thankful for the ones we did retain, just losing that many views week to week combined with personal life stuff left me really disheartened. I don't think I even uploaded Episode 16. I should do that. A lot of stuff has distracted me or otherwise kept me from working on Season 2. I still want to and, like I said, I have the footage already recorded. But, honestly, at this point I don't know if I'd rather continue on with Season 2 as it was planned to be or if I want to do something incorporating Fire Promoter. I've been idly toying around with some ideas, but I'm not sure what form a prospective Season 2 would take. |
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Post by Johnny Jett on May 25, 2019 6:51:33 GMT
So, ever since I got Fire Pro World and my main man Dusty told me Fire Promoter was gonna be a thing, I have been building up a roster to fill out a wrestling world. A world for me to promote and play in. All original edits built from the ground up by a guy who, until I started working on this project, had no idea how edit making worked at all. I took several months off from making said edits because Fire Promoter kept getting delayed and so on and so forth, but once Fire Promoter dropped and I actually got it, I started up again. With the intention of making an edit for all 703 original heads. The last part has not panned out yet. I'm only up to, like, just over 300 and I'd estimate that only...mm...232 or so of those are actually sim-ready by my personal standards. But still! That's enough to fill out some rosters. And that's been my casual task this year. Just...making costumes, making some movesets, and trying to flesh out this world so I can get deep, deep into Fire Promoter. Which is apparently what I'm doing tonight. Working on Fire Promoter some more. Because sleep? Who sleeps. Why am I posting this here, tonight (this morning?)? Well, it's tangentially Power Pro related and maybe someone will be interested in hearing me ramble about my fantasy wrestling world.
Lv. 5 - AWE (20/16 Wrestlers, America, Strong)
Lv. 4 - WFW (22/14 Wrestlers, America, Showman)
Lv. 3 - Bushido USA (6/11 Wrestlers, America, Freestyle)
Lv. 3 - HWG (19/10 Wrestlers, America, King's Road)
Lv. 3 - SWA (12/11 Wrestlers, America, Stoic)
Lv. 3 - AWE: Shockwave (10/10 Wrestlers, America, Strong)
Lv. 2 - GLIMMER (17/8 Wrestlers, America, King's Road)
Lv. 2 - Go!WC (25/6 Wrestlers, America, Hardcore)
Lv. 2 - TCW (10/6 Wrestlers, America, Showman)
Lv. 2 - FLOW (6/6 Wrestlers, America, Lucha)
Lv. 1 - HYBRID (1/4 Wrestlers, America, Stoic)
Lv. 1 - ALM (6/4 Wrestlers, America, Lucha)
Lv. 1 - ACE (4/4 Wrestlers, America, King's Road)
Lv. 1 - Wrestle Riot (6/4 Wrestlers, America, Hardcore)
Lv. 1 - DAWN (4/4 Wrestlers, America, Strong)
Lv. 1 - Underground (6/4 Wrestlers, America, Hardcore)
G7 Wrestling Conference
- American Lucha Movement (Miami, FL)
- Dynamic Arts Wrestling Network (Chicago, IL)
- HYBRID Wrestling Championship (Atlantic City, NJ)
- Pro Wrestling ACE (Honolulu, HI)
- Wrestle Riot (Atlanta, GA)
- The (Women's) Wrestling Underground (New York City, NY)
- {Power Pro Wrestling}
South West Wrestling Alliance
- GLIMMER Women's Wrestling (Las Vegas, NV)
- Hollywood Wrestling Guild (Los Angeles, CA)
WFW Family (of Wrestling Companies)
- Fabulous Ladies of Wrestling (Philadelphia, PA)
- Twin Cities Wrestling (Greensboro/Winston-Salem, NC)
- World's Finest Wrestling (St. Louis, MO)
Independent
- American Wrestling Empire (Seattle, WA)*
- Bushido USA (Las Vegas, NV)
- Go! Wrestling Carnival (Detroit, MI)
- Supreme Wrestling Association (San Francisco, CA)
*AWE has a roster split along gender lines in the data, making it effectively two companies
About the world of Power Pro Wrestling:
AWE, WFW, and HWG are the last remnants of the wrestling world as it was under the old Pro Wrestling Network which collapsed in the early 1990s amidst scandal and public outrage.
I've got a whole backstory, like 64 pages and some notes about how this timeline diverges from our own (all the way back in the 1918), but I'll summarize. Basically, the Network was kind of like the NWA. But a kinda more corrupt, seedier NWA. A WWF analogue, World Wide Wrestling, rose up and tried to go national in the '70s-'80s and that emboldened a few of the bigger Network-affiliated companies to do similarly. Big wrestling war happens in the '80s, wrestling boom period ensues. In the end, the Network stands tall and the competition is vanquished. Buuuuut all that attention and all the money flying around draws public scrutiny. Which is not really what you want when you're a super carny business like wrestling.
Think of it like...every shady, dubious thing about the wrestling industry that was going on in the '70s and '80s in our timeline...became public in the '90s. Prostitution, murders, drug trafficking, it all came out at once and...kinda killed wrestling for a while. Instead of one company going national...no one did. And a lot of people went to prison. The public turned on wrestling and people just left. For around twenty years, wrestling was almost dead in America.
Underground companies became the norm, mainstream appeal was almost nonexistent. Which also impacted the rise of MMA stateside, but that's beside the point. The three companies that held out and somehow managed to survive the near-collapse of the industry were, as stated, AWE, WFW, and HWG.
AWE rose up out of the ashes of the Network in the North West (in this timeline, the Pacific North West is historically a hotbed for the sport), carefully shaping its image to appeal to a mainstream audience and, over time, incorporating more Japanese elements to give the appearance of a more legitimate sport...with some American flair. It's got a sporting atmosphere and easily the most prime roster in the country, but there are also a few holdovers from days gone by, veterans who probably should have retired ten years ago and who get by primarily on star power.
WFW is a holdout from the '80s Wrestling Wars, founded by "The Southern Peacock" Buddy Mantell. WFW promotes a showier, more traditionally American wrestling product. For most of the '00s and '10s, they were the torchbearers for American pro wrestling, the only company left from before the collapse of the Network (at least in the public consciousness) that still had stars who could draw money. But, slowly, AWE overtook them with a more hard-hitting, realistic style and younger stars. Today, the WFW roster is still aging, but now they've got young talent waiting in the wings ready to step up and do what the generation before them couldn't accomplish: take this show to a national stage.
HWG, is the direct descendant of a Network-affiliated company, the American Athletic Association, but it's also the one that's trying the hardest to marry the traditional American style with the Japanese influences that have become in vogue. They're not on par with WFW or AWE, but they've got a cult following that's keeping them afloat and talented, charismatic, young roster.
AWE is the biggest company in the world (read: America) with WFW just a little bit behind it. Bushido USA is an MMA company that is, in effect, the third biggest wrestling company in the country. Everyone else falls in behind those three.
AWE has no farm territory, instead plundering talent from other territories and promoting a roster split between two shows; one focused on male wrestlers, one focused on female wrestlers. Presumably big annual PPVs are held jointly between the two rosters.
WFW has TCW as a developmental territory and members of the FLOW roster often show up on WFW TV as part of a working agreement. WFW is seen, very clearly, as the dominant member of that whole alliance with TCW wrestlers eventually getting called up to WFW and FLOW wrestlers being featured in exhibition matches, but not usually focused on in storylines.
HWG and GLIMMER have an agreement where they sometimes promote joint events, but are otherwise mostly separate companies that look out for each other.
WFW and HWG are not formally aligned, but have shared some roster members at various points in time. HWG and AWE have a non-aggression pact that keeps the peace and prevents talent sharing.
HWG and SWA are bitter rivals, fighting over California. Similarly, GLIMMER and FLOW are generally in opposition to one another, both seeking to establish themselves as the top women's wrestling company. GLIMMER, similarly, is at odds with AWE because of a soured working agreement and behind-the-scenes shenanigans. Bushido USA and HYBRID are at odds due to HYBRID's ownership luring Bushido star Mongo Shank out of semi-retirement with a big money contract. And, of course, AWE and WFW hate each other because they both want to go National.
The G7 (or Golden Seven) are seven small companies that have banded together similar to the Pro Wrestling Network of old, all working toward the goal of mutually taking over wrestling in the United States from AWE and WFW. Each promotion is relatively regional and autonomous, but they share finances and often cross-promote with one another. The G7 recognizes the Golden Crown first promoted by Power Pro Wrestling as its top, interpromotional championship.
AWE, HWG, SWA, and WFW all promote their own version of a World Heavyweight Championship. AWE, HWG, and WFW are the only ones with legitimate lineage claims to a World Title. SWA just made theirs up.
Companies in a sentence:
AWE - What if WWE was strong style?
WFW - WCW survived and Jerry Lawler bought it.
Bushido USA - UFC, but Floyd Mayweather is its top star.
HWG - CM Punk actually did good at MMA and now owns Ring of Honor.
SWA - Reimagined versions of the game's default roster compete in worked shoot matches because "SWA Rules" should mean something.
GLIMMER - What if TNA's entire budget and programming had been put behind the Knockouts division ten years ago?
Go!WC - What is the Insane Clown Posse owned Chikara?
TCW - Hey, WFW needs a farm, why not this one?
FLOW - What if SHIMMER just had a modern ROH budget...and some vaguely GLOW sensibilities?
HYBRID - Worked shoot matches are cool, let's do more of those.
ALM - You tuned in for Lucha Underground, but you accidentally ended up watching Wrestling Society X.
ACE - You could probably have a pretty fun wrestling company in Hawaii.
Wrestle Riot - I'm really enjoying Major League Wrestling right now.
DAWN - Spot monkeys for days.
Underground - What if CZW was an American joshi company?
Will I ever use any of this for actual video content? Who knows! But it's fun to play around with and think about. |
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Post by Johnny Jett on Jun 26, 2019 18:32:35 GMT
Call it a teaser.
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Post by Johnny Jett on Jun 29, 2019 1:22:43 GMT
Brought to you by ZaKa Media.
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Post by LankyLefty17 on Jul 1, 2019 20:44:38 GMT
Brought to you by ZaKa Media. Yeeeeeeeeeeees its back (finished). Season 2! Season 2! |
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Post by Johnny Jett on Mar 22, 2021 7:56:52 GMT
So. It's probably way too early into production to post this, but. I'm back in the lab.  |
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Post by Johnny Jett on Jan 29, 2023 6:45:54 GMT
Wake up, babe, new Power Pro Universe content dropped.
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Post by Johnny Jett on Feb 6, 2023 1:18:14 GMT
A brand new episode of GLORY: Great American Wrestling is premiering RIGHT NOW!
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