PB

The Background

When President Trump fell out with long time friend and business partner, Vince McMahon, Trump responded by outlawing professional wrestling. With the collapse of the WWE, ROH, Impact Wrestling and all other major American promotions, grappling fans had to go underground. Soon word spread of an unlikely venue for fans of the squared circle - Steve Austin's Broken Skull Ranch. The Texas Rattlesnake spread word that he was prepared to defy the wrestling ban and run underground shows on his ranch in Texas. Legends of the sport, past and present gathered and a new phase of professional wrestling was born. Austin tested the waters by having a 30-man Royal Rumble style event to crown the first ever BSR Champion. Tickets disappeared rapidly on the black market and the stage was set. Austin entered the Rumble himself and won the Championship by eliminating Chris Benoit. Dave Meltzer called it 'the craziest, most unexpectedly fun night I've had at a wrestling event in years.

The Event

Following the success of his first event, Austin hired handed control of the shows over to a team of mystery bookers, rumoured to include Dutch Mantell, Gary Hart and perhaps even Paul Heyman. Soon tickets began to appear on the black market for "Steve Austin's Broken Skull Ranch presents: Defiance".

BSR Championship

Steve Austin vs. Chris Benoit

Following Benoit's shocking return to wrestling (well that's an understatement) in the BSR Royal Rumble it looked like he was on course to go right back to the top of the mountain by becoming the first ever BSR Champion. When the clock counted down and Stone Cold himself marched to the ring, however, the script was set to flip. A storied rivalry was reborn when Austin ruined Benoit's fairytale (eww) return, won the match, claimed the gold and flipped the bird. The Booking Committee (t-shirts available on prowrestlingtees.com) decided that Benoit deserved a shot at the championship and made him the first challenger to the rattlesnake.

Exhibition Match

Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Kenta Kobashi

BSR is all about creating events that cannot be missed. In order to insure that this event was worth breaking the law for, the Booking Committee booked two of the sports greatest ever to dance in the squared circle one last time.

The Broken Skull Challenge

The winner of the Broken Skull Challenge will earn a championship opportunity at the next big event. (If there is one and Trump doesn't shut us down). The Broken Skull Challenge takes 12 elite competitors and whittles them down to one victor, through a series of brutal matches. At Defiance (Night One) there will be six singles matches with no disqualification, no countout and falls counting anywhere on the ranch (it is an underground wrestling show in Texas after all). The six men who survive these matches will face off in two triple threat matches at the next big event (again, if we get that far) under the same rules. The two men who win the triple threats (are you still with us) face off inside a steel cage and the winner can face the champion. The opening round matches are:

Terry Funk vs. Luke Harper

Kevin Owens vs. Sami Zayn

Rick Rude vs. Killian Dain

Bobby Roode vs. James Storm

Bray Wyatt vs. Wade Barrett

Finlay vs. Jack Swagger

Tag Team Match

Jeff Jarrett & The Roadie vs. Elias & The Honky-Tonk Man

To be honest, this match makes us feel like Jerry Lawler or Jerry Jarrett must be on The Booking Committee (patent pending) but that's no bad thing. What would pro wrestling be without some good hearted nonsense. This match will be fought in two stages. First a live concert and then a tag team match. Will the experience that Jarrett and The Roadie have together be enough to defeat the strength and superior musicality of Elias and the Honky-Tonk Man? There's only one way to find out.

The Dazz

Dazzling Wrestling Federation:

*Live from the Staples Center*




Main Event: DWF Championship Match

Kurt Angle vs Shinsuke Nakamura



Match Seven: Hollywood Street Fight

The Rock vs The Miz




Match Six: DWF Women’s Championship Match

Becky Lynch vs Bayley vs Sasha Banks vs Charlotte Flair




Match Five: Battle of High-Flyers

Rey Mysterio vs Neville




Match Four: Fighting Spirit

Asuka vs Io Shirai




Match Three: DWF I.C Championship Match
Austin Aries vs Nigel McGuinness




Match Two: Singles Match

Toni Storm vs Dakota Kai




Match One: DWF Cruiserweight Championship Match

*Ladder Match*

Mustafa Ali vs Buddy Murphy vs Gran Metalik vs Akira Tozawa

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I voted for PB , interesting concept and though I really dislike Benoit - Dazz just happens to have to of my least favorite wrestlers around today in both his main events in Nakamura and Miz. Close otherwise.

I'm honestly a little surprised by how much I like The Dazz's card, and always gotta give kudos to the guys who can pull it out despite missing their first picks.

I'm not sure I'm all that crazy about any of the matches in the BSR Challenge, to be honest. I'm also not sure I'm crazy about drafting Benoit but then undermining the pick with comments like those parenthetical ones; if you're going to go out on a limb to draft Benoit, IMO you go all-in and stand behind him as a pick. Otherwise don't pick him, right?

I think PB could've produced some stellar matches on this card, and yet I'm left feeling a little underwhelmed. For my two cents, nothing would've topped a Broken Skull Ranch vs. Double Cross Ranch main event.

I'm confused by PB's universe. Trump is president, so that suggests 2017 onwards. But Chris Benoit is alive? The parenthetical statements are the source of this confusion. If you pretend like the Benoit incident never happened, fine. But it's a "shocking return"? What does that mean? Benoit murdered his family but...didn't kill himself and returned to wrestling?

In all honestly though, that's a minor semantics point that as a whole (despite the controversial subject matter) doesn't bring down one of the most creative and original concepts I've ever seen in a Fan Fic Draft. Most of the matches are compelling (although personally I am sick of Owens and Zayn being together all the time in every company, even fictional ones). Great work.

If we're going by cards alone I like Dazz's a little more, but the creativity of PB puts him in clear first place overall.

I had to vote for PB because I'm a little more into what he's got going on. I really like the idea of the Broken Skull Challenge.

As I said in another thread I value creativity above all other things in these drafts nowadays. PB has a cool, original concept. So he gets my vote despite a bunch of matches that were done to death irl and a tournament with no matches that wow me. Clear highlight of his show (aside from the overall theme) is the Musical Tag Match. It would have looked right at home in George Plimpton's glorious New Generation Wrestling and that's about the highest compliment you can receive from me.

My favorite match on Dazz's show is Rey/Neville.

My vote goes to The Dazz, I prefer his match ups.

I'll steal The Rock and Kurt Angle.