Post by Baker on Mar 16, 2018 16:06:17 GMT
New Generation Wrestling is probably my favorite thing I ever wrote on either PW. Unfortunately I can no longer access it on the old PW and didn't save any of my work aside from some show results scribbled in a notebook. My masterpiece being lost coupled with an inability to get back into fan fic proper means it's not likely I'll ever start writing up full shows again. But I needed some sort of closure. So here is where things were going....
NGW Championship
Was in the midst of being passed around like a hot potato. Yokozuna had just beaten Patriot a few shows after Patriot dethroned Yoko's Foreign Fanatic ally Ludvig Borga. Yoko was going to lose to Tanahashi on the next show with Tanahashi avenging his only loss when Ludvig Borga's interference backfired, leading to a Borga/Yoko feud which ends the Foreign Fanatics once and for all. Prince Nana was going to become Yoko's new manager. Then Larry Zbyszko, who was now a bigger heel than ever after forming a Power Couple with Lana Star after they broke Reggie Bennett's neck in a mixed tag match, was going to avenge HIS earlier defeat by beating Tanahashi for the belt. Zbyszko retains the title through the next chapter of his endless feud with Mr. Wonderful. Yoko eventually wins his heel vs. bigger heel feud with Borga by beating him in a Loser Leaves Town Match. He then renews his feud with The Patriot. Patriot pins Yokozuna after FINALLY becoming the first man to slam him. Our "Royal Rumble"/Road To "Wrestlemania" equivalent sees Zbyszko become the "Champion of Champions" by successfully defending the title in a 6 Pack Challenge involving all current & former NGW Champions- Yoko, Patriot, Wonderful, Tanahashi & Borga. And finally at our One Year Anniversary Show NGW's top babyface The Patriot w/ a returning Reggie Bennett pins Zbyszko to win the belt. Then all hell breaks loose.....
NGW Tag Team Championship
Fire & Ice had recently ended the Quebecers long tag title reign. They go on to defeat Jacques & Pierre in a belts vs. career match, forcing The Quebecers to split up, and putting another nail in the Foreign Fanatics coffin. The Quebecers split is amicable....at first. But each man takes a path that will inevitably lead to conflict with his former partner (I'm not going to give away the details because I simply have to use this idea in a draft or another PW project at some point). Sure enough, the ex-Quebecers soon collide in a long blood feud that culminates at our One Year Anniversary Show with one of them (the heel) being forced to leave town. Meanwhile, Fire & Ice have a long, dominant run setting back the challenges of The T-Birds ("Johnny" Jeter & Dolph "Nicky" Ziggler as 50s Greasers), FBI (Salvatore Sincere & JT Smith), The Bearded Menace (Mike Knox & Hanson), The Texicans (Tex Slazenger & Shanghai Pierce), The Pudding Club (Dean Douglas & Damien Sandow), and finally, at the One Year Anniversary Show, the recently heel turned New Rockers (Marty Jannetty & Leif Cassidy). The belts seem secure. They are not....
NGW Women's Championship
Champion Reggie Bennett misses the occasional show due to her Japanese commitments. While she's off kicking ass in The Land of the Rising Sun Lana Star's newest henchwoman, Judy Martin, quickly makes a name for herself by dominating longtime Lana nemesis, Randi Rah Rah, and Lana's former personal assistant, the now-beloved Patti Pep, running them both out of the territory with her lethal Drip Dry (Powerbomb) finisher, sometimes through a table. But Judy comes up short in her big showdown with Reggie. Lana berates Judy after the match. Martin goes to attack. HUGE pop. But Lana sprays her in the eyes at the very last second with Lanatude (her version of Rick Martel's Arrogance), blinding Martin, and putting her out of action. A mixed tag is then made with Larry Zbyszko & Lana vs. Mr. Wonderful & a returning Reggie. Larry & Lana aren't thrilled about teaming at first since Larry believes a woman's place is barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen while Lana thinks Larry is old and gross. But that all changes when they spike piledrive Reggie Bennett in the most dastardly deed in NGW history. Reggie has a broken neck and is out of action for months. Meanwhile Lana & Larry, united by a mutual love of power, manage to find true love themselves. The dastardly duo rules NGW with an iron fist as its new power couple. Lana claims the Women's Title for herself but doesn't defend it for months, opting instead to aid Zbyszko in his NGW Championship defenses. Reggie FINALLY comes back to beat Lana for the title in a Duggan/Dibiase-style multiple stipulation match at our One Year Anniversary Show which features all the people Lana has ever wronged (Johnnie Stewart, Patti Pep, Randi Rah Rah & Judy Martin) coming back to prevent her from running away or, in the ultimate indignity, cutting her luscious blonde locks in accordance with one of the many pre-match stipulations. It is to be Lana's ultimate comeuppance after her year-long reign of terror. Poor Lana!
The women's title was initially going to be phased out when Bennett moves up to the men's division after finally vanquishing her nemesis. But I recently had an idea to give WWE's Emma a series of Jane Austen tribute gimmicks and this would have been the perfect place to do it. So I'd resurrect the title as a vehicle for Emma. She'd start out doing an Emma Woodhouse gimmick, obviously. Larry Zbyszko & Lana are a perfect Mr. & Mrs. Elton. Patti Pep is the ideal Harriet Smith. Ditto for Milkman as Robert Martin. I could bring Johnnie Stewart & Judy Martin back full time as Frank Churchill & Jane Fairfax. Judy isn't the greatest Jane Fairfax but Stewart is a quality Frank Churchill. Venerable Bede works as Emma's Father. The Patriot would serve as Mr. Knightley while Commissioner George Plimpton fills the role of Mr. Weston. This storyline could serve as an occasional light-hearted change of pace for the main eventers engulfed in The Great War. Our long-winded gasbag of a commentator/booker Claude Baker would serve as a distaff Miss Bates. 10/10 casting right there. It would be gold. Gold, I tell ya! And once that storyline ran its course she'd move on to a new Austen character- Lydia Bennet one season, the flakier Dashwood sister (I forget her name) the next, Catherine Morland after that, then Fanny Price.....I could have kept this going for years.
Other
The Mensa faction of Dean Douglas, Genius & Toru Yano was already in mid-split due to a series of losses. The Dean was about to win a Losers Leave Town Triple Threat and hang around for a little while as a midcarder, sometimes teaming with new ally Damien Sandow. I originally had an idea to have Douglas lead an ECW invasion with the catch being the ECW guys would be in their WWF gimmicks (Aldo Montoya, Johnny Polo, Skip, Rad Radford, etc.). I even dropped a few hints about it here and there. But in the end I opted against it because I had an even bigger and better invasion angle planned out that I had been foreshadowing from the very first show. (I'm telling ya, NGW is the best thing I've ever done on either PW.) Genius eventually comes back to manage a fellow poetry spouting wrestler called the Grecian Urn. I wasn't 100% sure who would play the Urn but I was leaning towards former ROH wrestling school grad/low carder Bobby Dempsey. He'd be an undercarder here as well feuding with the likes of Milkman & The Gambler before settling into his most notable rivalry with the Alaskan Ax (Rick Renslow, probably). All the non-Fire & Ice tag teams were going to be stuck trading wins and losses in a seemingly endless loop of 50/50 booking. Hey, nobody's perfect. Maxx Payne was going to continue feuding with musical-themed wrestlers like Disco Inferno, Honkytonk Man, and Van Hammer in 2-3 match programs. Jeff Jarrett and Mo might have come in at some point to feud with Payne depending on how long I felt like dragging this angle out. (JJ would have been a no-brainer, and likely the guy to end Payne's challenge once and for all if I didn't feel like he was a little too expensive for NGW) The Payne angle was going to end with "Local Hero" Joe Hendry defeating Payne in a Loser Leaves Town encounter. Marty Scurll & "Gentleman" Jack Gallagher were going to feud over the British Commonwealth Junior Heavyweight Championship with their final encounter being an Umbrella On a Pole match at our One Year Anniversary Show. Mr. Wonderful was going to settle into a gatekeeper role and may or may not have turned heel at some point using an "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" logic.
Hakushi and several other wrestlers were going to be cycled in and out in midcard roles. Probably not until Year Two though. Mordecai would have been used the second I found a role for him. But like Papa Shango, Taz, and a few others, I find him incredibly hard to book. This promotion really could have used an Undertaker-style monster babyface character for all these freak shows to oppose. Matt Classic was also coming to NGW at some point. Dick Togo & Silver King were coming in either as a tag team or to fill out the Cruiserweight division if I decided to have one. Truth is I hadn't planned too far ahead outside of one big main event angle. Jimmy Rave was going to be Prince Nana's new "Crown Jewel" once Yokozuna inevitably turned on him. In NGW speak, Rave was basically going to the be the Lana Star to Yoko's Reggie Bennett.
Special Guests
Toto was going to be the next music act featured. Johnny Flynn was booked for the show after that. The Yale Whiffenpoofs were going to make an appearance. Alestorm was likely to be the big guest at the One Year Anniversary Show. Unless I already booked Alestorm (and Toto)? I forget. But it's entirely possible. Anyway, I also wanted to bring in Styx because, duh, who wouldn't? But I feel like they might be a little out of our price range. Bad Ronald may have shown up at some point, though I wasn't 100% sure on that one since they don't mesh with the PG stylings of NGW. Then, inspired by Eddie and the Cruisers, who had already appeared, it was likely to be nothing but fictional acts like The Crystal Kiss, Zack Attack, Be Sharps, Crucial Taunt, and whoever else I could come up with. Was hoping for some really obscure deep cut fictional bands a la The Crystal Kiss, and I think I had a list at some point, but I lost it. *sigh* I usually do.
Jon Pertwee and Roger Delgado were going to show up as semi-regulars in the "2nd season" as The Doctor and The Master since time travel & space travel were to feature heavily in NGW: Year Two. They were going to have a "match" of sorts ending when Katy "Jo Grant" Manning interfered on Pertwee's behalf to turn the tide when all seemed lost. Eva Gabor was coming in for a show to give Lana Star a verbal smackdown. George Plimpton was going to continue in his role as babyface commissioner/The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived. I debated turning him heel to manage the Grecian Urn since the whole Urn idea WAS his to begin with in real life but opted instead to bring back The Genius for that role since the NGW audience could never, ever boo the Master of Falconry & Fireworks. The Venerable Bede (whose popularity almost rivaled that of George Plimpton) was going to levitate in from time to time to drop a pithy aphorism relating to the match/angle at hand like "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer" or "The early bird catches the worm." Stuff like that. Bede was going to be huge. HUGE, I tell ya. Throwaway midcard matches were going to be booked just so I could shoehorn Bede onto shows. Like Carlito vs. Dr. Tom Prichard was going to be a random match on some show JUST so I could have Bede float out to say "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" to his typical enormous pop. Followed by Bede immediately floating away. Neither wrestler would ever be seen or heard from again. Other celebrities (or "celebrities" if you prefer) were going to appear here and there from time to time.
The Big Angle
It appears as if good finally triumphed over evil at the One Year Anniversary Show. Patriot defeated Zbyszko in a Mask vs. Title Match to regain the NGW Championship. Fire & Ice swatted down those pesky New Rockers. The bad guy in Jacques vs. Pierre was forced to Leave Town. Lana Star was humiliated by her many, many victims. And then, while all the babyfaces are celebrating Patriot's big main event win, the lights go out....
A "WHOOSHING" noise is heard....
A vaguely familiar spaceship appears....
It beams down....
Teddy Hart & The New Breed! Why we haven't seen them since they fell off a scaffold nearly a year ago! It appears as if they've made up for the simple fact that one doesn't travel around in a spaceship with one's enemies. HUGE pop. The other good guys congenially greet Teddy & The New Breed. The futuristic warriors appear set to shake Patriot's hand when a loud voice emanates from the spaceship shouting....
DELETE! DELETE! DELETE!
Is it a Cyberman? No! It's far worse! It's BROKEN MATT HARDY! Teddy & The New Breed attack The Patriot while the other good guys are shot with beams of light from the spaceship, rendering them incapable of movement. Even such powerhouses as Reggie Bennett and Fire & Ice have been incapacitated by this strange alien technology. The NGW Universe gets their first look at Broken Matt Hardy when he beams down a short time later. Broken Matt rants and raves in his glorious accent. Then he unmasks the Patriot! GASP! The horror! The humiliation! Patriot hides his face. The invaders are pelted with trash. George Plimpton hops in the ring. And promptly eats a Twist of Fate! The NGW Universe has had enough! A riot breaks out when the fans storm the ring. "HaHaHa I knew you'd come!"- Broken Matt Hardy. Matt and his mates promptly get beamed up and fly away in their spaceship long before the fans can reach them.
It turns out Broken Matt had planned everything from day one. He sent the New Breed back in time to warn NGW of the threat posed by the Foreign Fanatics. Then he brought Teddy & The New Breed back "home" after they delivered the warning. See, they were never intended to defeat the Fanatics. Their mission was simply to rile up the NGW good guys so that THEY could defeat the Fanatics, weakening themselves in the process. The Foreign Fanatics really were a mighty threat. And they needed to be cleared away before Broken Matt could lead his Broken Brigade into battle. Now with the Fanatics gone, and the NGW Heroes weakened by a year of fighting, the path has been cleared for Matt Hardy's Broken Brigade to take over and rule the NGW Universe. The Great War has begun.
I had already started dropping coded hints about The Coming of Broken Matt Hardy. They were seemingly throwaway lines of what looked like jibberish I inserted into the middle of shows. But each line was actually a coded message I could easily have translated into proper English.
Year Two was to feature Matt Hardy's Broken Brigade as an NWO-like invasion faction dominating the promotion and taking on all comers. New Breed were going to quickly win the tag titles from Fire & Ice and hold them practically all year. Broken Matt & Teddy were going to double pin the Patriot and share the NGW Championship, leading to all sorts of odd matches and 'outs' on the rare occasions one of them was pinned or submitted. Teddy eventually would have lost his share of the NGW Championship for good if I decided to go through with a Cruiserweight division, which I was 50/50 on. If so, Teddy would have been the Cruiserweight division ace. The Broken Brigade dominates all the good guys for like six months. We'd get several "___ Deletion" matches at the infamous Hardy Compound. Patriot, Wonderful, Fire & Ice, Reggie Bennett (who has now settled into a Chyna role fighting men), "Local Hero" Joe Hendry, a back-from-Japan Tanahashi, "Gentleman" Jack Gallagher, and whoever else I brought in that may have caught fire....none of them have an answer for the Broken Brigade. A darkness has fallen over The Magical Land of NGW. It gets even darker when Commissioner Plimpton, desperate to save his beloved NGW, and against the wishes of the Venerable Bede, brings back The Wizard. This mysterious dark Wizard who, in another universe served as Kevin Sullivan's Master in the Dungeon of Doom, resurrects early NGW villains, Papa Shango & The Minotaur, to do battle with Matt Hardy's Broken Brigade. Yet they too fail. There are no more musical acts or special guests other than Jon "The Doctor" Pertwee and Roger "The Master" Delgado. Even the Venerable Bede no longer appears to grace the NGW Universe with his words of wisdom. Not after getting in caught mid-levitation with a sick Side Effect courtesy of Broken Matt Hardy. At an all time low, the heroes of NGW are forced to make another deal with the devil by BEGGING the Foreign Fanatics to come back since they're now "the lesser of two evils." Plimpton and company give into all sorts of Unreasonable Demands. And finally Borga agrees to get the band back together. A big War Games is set- Broken Brigade vs. Foreign Fanatics. After all that build everybody thinks the Brigade will FINALLY get their comeuppance here. But it was all a big Red Herring. Matt Hardy's Broken Brigade once again prevails. The Good Guys have failed. The Bad Guys have failed. What next? Why a unification of the Good Guys and Bad Guys, of course! Now we have Yoko & Borga teaming with Patriot & Wonderful. Fire & Ice teaming with The Quebecers. Plus whatever new acts I brought in that caught fire unite to oppose the Brigade. But still the Broken Brigade prevail. NGW has played all their cards.....
Except for one....
For there was one man who wanted nothing to do with the heroes of NGW, the villainous Foreign Fanatics, or "those Spudheads in a spaceship". And that man is....
"The Living Legend" Larry Zbyszko
He may not be the savior NGW wants but, bah gawd, he's the hero they need. The only question is "Is Larry Zbyszko willing to play ball?" What sorts of demands will he have? Can even Larry Legend defeat the Broken Brigade? We may never learn the answers to these questions.....
NGW Championship
Was in the midst of being passed around like a hot potato. Yokozuna had just beaten Patriot a few shows after Patriot dethroned Yoko's Foreign Fanatic ally Ludvig Borga. Yoko was going to lose to Tanahashi on the next show with Tanahashi avenging his only loss when Ludvig Borga's interference backfired, leading to a Borga/Yoko feud which ends the Foreign Fanatics once and for all. Prince Nana was going to become Yoko's new manager. Then Larry Zbyszko, who was now a bigger heel than ever after forming a Power Couple with Lana Star after they broke Reggie Bennett's neck in a mixed tag match, was going to avenge HIS earlier defeat by beating Tanahashi for the belt. Zbyszko retains the title through the next chapter of his endless feud with Mr. Wonderful. Yoko eventually wins his heel vs. bigger heel feud with Borga by beating him in a Loser Leaves Town Match. He then renews his feud with The Patriot. Patriot pins Yokozuna after FINALLY becoming the first man to slam him. Our "Royal Rumble"/Road To "Wrestlemania" equivalent sees Zbyszko become the "Champion of Champions" by successfully defending the title in a 6 Pack Challenge involving all current & former NGW Champions- Yoko, Patriot, Wonderful, Tanahashi & Borga. And finally at our One Year Anniversary Show NGW's top babyface The Patriot w/ a returning Reggie Bennett pins Zbyszko to win the belt. Then all hell breaks loose.....
NGW Tag Team Championship
Fire & Ice had recently ended the Quebecers long tag title reign. They go on to defeat Jacques & Pierre in a belts vs. career match, forcing The Quebecers to split up, and putting another nail in the Foreign Fanatics coffin. The Quebecers split is amicable....at first. But each man takes a path that will inevitably lead to conflict with his former partner (I'm not going to give away the details because I simply have to use this idea in a draft or another PW project at some point). Sure enough, the ex-Quebecers soon collide in a long blood feud that culminates at our One Year Anniversary Show with one of them (the heel) being forced to leave town. Meanwhile, Fire & Ice have a long, dominant run setting back the challenges of The T-Birds ("Johnny" Jeter & Dolph "Nicky" Ziggler as 50s Greasers), FBI (Salvatore Sincere & JT Smith), The Bearded Menace (Mike Knox & Hanson), The Texicans (Tex Slazenger & Shanghai Pierce), The Pudding Club (Dean Douglas & Damien Sandow), and finally, at the One Year Anniversary Show, the recently heel turned New Rockers (Marty Jannetty & Leif Cassidy). The belts seem secure. They are not....
NGW Women's Championship
Champion Reggie Bennett misses the occasional show due to her Japanese commitments. While she's off kicking ass in The Land of the Rising Sun Lana Star's newest henchwoman, Judy Martin, quickly makes a name for herself by dominating longtime Lana nemesis, Randi Rah Rah, and Lana's former personal assistant, the now-beloved Patti Pep, running them both out of the territory with her lethal Drip Dry (Powerbomb) finisher, sometimes through a table. But Judy comes up short in her big showdown with Reggie. Lana berates Judy after the match. Martin goes to attack. HUGE pop. But Lana sprays her in the eyes at the very last second with Lanatude (her version of Rick Martel's Arrogance), blinding Martin, and putting her out of action. A mixed tag is then made with Larry Zbyszko & Lana vs. Mr. Wonderful & a returning Reggie. Larry & Lana aren't thrilled about teaming at first since Larry believes a woman's place is barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen while Lana thinks Larry is old and gross. But that all changes when they spike piledrive Reggie Bennett in the most dastardly deed in NGW history. Reggie has a broken neck and is out of action for months. Meanwhile Lana & Larry, united by a mutual love of power, manage to find true love themselves. The dastardly duo rules NGW with an iron fist as its new power couple. Lana claims the Women's Title for herself but doesn't defend it for months, opting instead to aid Zbyszko in his NGW Championship defenses. Reggie FINALLY comes back to beat Lana for the title in a Duggan/Dibiase-style multiple stipulation match at our One Year Anniversary Show which features all the people Lana has ever wronged (Johnnie Stewart, Patti Pep, Randi Rah Rah & Judy Martin) coming back to prevent her from running away or, in the ultimate indignity, cutting her luscious blonde locks in accordance with one of the many pre-match stipulations. It is to be Lana's ultimate comeuppance after her year-long reign of terror. Poor Lana!
The women's title was initially going to be phased out when Bennett moves up to the men's division after finally vanquishing her nemesis. But I recently had an idea to give WWE's Emma a series of Jane Austen tribute gimmicks and this would have been the perfect place to do it. So I'd resurrect the title as a vehicle for Emma. She'd start out doing an Emma Woodhouse gimmick, obviously. Larry Zbyszko & Lana are a perfect Mr. & Mrs. Elton. Patti Pep is the ideal Harriet Smith. Ditto for Milkman as Robert Martin. I could bring Johnnie Stewart & Judy Martin back full time as Frank Churchill & Jane Fairfax. Judy isn't the greatest Jane Fairfax but Stewart is a quality Frank Churchill. Venerable Bede works as Emma's Father. The Patriot would serve as Mr. Knightley while Commissioner George Plimpton fills the role of Mr. Weston. This storyline could serve as an occasional light-hearted change of pace for the main eventers engulfed in The Great War. Our long-winded gasbag of a commentator/booker Claude Baker would serve as a distaff Miss Bates. 10/10 casting right there. It would be gold. Gold, I tell ya! And once that storyline ran its course she'd move on to a new Austen character- Lydia Bennet one season, the flakier Dashwood sister (I forget her name) the next, Catherine Morland after that, then Fanny Price.....I could have kept this going for years.
Other
The Mensa faction of Dean Douglas, Genius & Toru Yano was already in mid-split due to a series of losses. The Dean was about to win a Losers Leave Town Triple Threat and hang around for a little while as a midcarder, sometimes teaming with new ally Damien Sandow. I originally had an idea to have Douglas lead an ECW invasion with the catch being the ECW guys would be in their WWF gimmicks (Aldo Montoya, Johnny Polo, Skip, Rad Radford, etc.). I even dropped a few hints about it here and there. But in the end I opted against it because I had an even bigger and better invasion angle planned out that I had been foreshadowing from the very first show. (I'm telling ya, NGW is the best thing I've ever done on either PW.) Genius eventually comes back to manage a fellow poetry spouting wrestler called the Grecian Urn. I wasn't 100% sure who would play the Urn but I was leaning towards former ROH wrestling school grad/low carder Bobby Dempsey. He'd be an undercarder here as well feuding with the likes of Milkman & The Gambler before settling into his most notable rivalry with the Alaskan Ax (Rick Renslow, probably). All the non-Fire & Ice tag teams were going to be stuck trading wins and losses in a seemingly endless loop of 50/50 booking. Hey, nobody's perfect. Maxx Payne was going to continue feuding with musical-themed wrestlers like Disco Inferno, Honkytonk Man, and Van Hammer in 2-3 match programs. Jeff Jarrett and Mo might have come in at some point to feud with Payne depending on how long I felt like dragging this angle out. (JJ would have been a no-brainer, and likely the guy to end Payne's challenge once and for all if I didn't feel like he was a little too expensive for NGW) The Payne angle was going to end with "Local Hero" Joe Hendry defeating Payne in a Loser Leaves Town encounter. Marty Scurll & "Gentleman" Jack Gallagher were going to feud over the British Commonwealth Junior Heavyweight Championship with their final encounter being an Umbrella On a Pole match at our One Year Anniversary Show. Mr. Wonderful was going to settle into a gatekeeper role and may or may not have turned heel at some point using an "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" logic.
Hakushi and several other wrestlers were going to be cycled in and out in midcard roles. Probably not until Year Two though. Mordecai would have been used the second I found a role for him. But like Papa Shango, Taz, and a few others, I find him incredibly hard to book. This promotion really could have used an Undertaker-style monster babyface character for all these freak shows to oppose. Matt Classic was also coming to NGW at some point. Dick Togo & Silver King were coming in either as a tag team or to fill out the Cruiserweight division if I decided to have one. Truth is I hadn't planned too far ahead outside of one big main event angle. Jimmy Rave was going to be Prince Nana's new "Crown Jewel" once Yokozuna inevitably turned on him. In NGW speak, Rave was basically going to the be the Lana Star to Yoko's Reggie Bennett.
Special Guests
Toto was going to be the next music act featured. Johnny Flynn was booked for the show after that. The Yale Whiffenpoofs were going to make an appearance. Alestorm was likely to be the big guest at the One Year Anniversary Show. Unless I already booked Alestorm (and Toto)? I forget. But it's entirely possible. Anyway, I also wanted to bring in Styx because, duh, who wouldn't? But I feel like they might be a little out of our price range. Bad Ronald may have shown up at some point, though I wasn't 100% sure on that one since they don't mesh with the PG stylings of NGW. Then, inspired by Eddie and the Cruisers, who had already appeared, it was likely to be nothing but fictional acts like The Crystal Kiss, Zack Attack, Be Sharps, Crucial Taunt, and whoever else I could come up with. Was hoping for some really obscure deep cut fictional bands a la The Crystal Kiss, and I think I had a list at some point, but I lost it. *sigh* I usually do.
Jon Pertwee and Roger Delgado were going to show up as semi-regulars in the "2nd season" as The Doctor and The Master since time travel & space travel were to feature heavily in NGW: Year Two. They were going to have a "match" of sorts ending when Katy "Jo Grant" Manning interfered on Pertwee's behalf to turn the tide when all seemed lost. Eva Gabor was coming in for a show to give Lana Star a verbal smackdown. George Plimpton was going to continue in his role as babyface commissioner/The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived. I debated turning him heel to manage the Grecian Urn since the whole Urn idea WAS his to begin with in real life but opted instead to bring back The Genius for that role since the NGW audience could never, ever boo the Master of Falconry & Fireworks. The Venerable Bede (whose popularity almost rivaled that of George Plimpton) was going to levitate in from time to time to drop a pithy aphorism relating to the match/angle at hand like "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer" or "The early bird catches the worm." Stuff like that. Bede was going to be huge. HUGE, I tell ya. Throwaway midcard matches were going to be booked just so I could shoehorn Bede onto shows. Like Carlito vs. Dr. Tom Prichard was going to be a random match on some show JUST so I could have Bede float out to say "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" to his typical enormous pop. Followed by Bede immediately floating away. Neither wrestler would ever be seen or heard from again. Other celebrities (or "celebrities" if you prefer) were going to appear here and there from time to time.
The Big Angle
It appears as if good finally triumphed over evil at the One Year Anniversary Show. Patriot defeated Zbyszko in a Mask vs. Title Match to regain the NGW Championship. Fire & Ice swatted down those pesky New Rockers. The bad guy in Jacques vs. Pierre was forced to Leave Town. Lana Star was humiliated by her many, many victims. And then, while all the babyfaces are celebrating Patriot's big main event win, the lights go out....
A "WHOOSHING" noise is heard....
A vaguely familiar spaceship appears....
It beams down....
Teddy Hart & The New Breed! Why we haven't seen them since they fell off a scaffold nearly a year ago! It appears as if they've made up for the simple fact that one doesn't travel around in a spaceship with one's enemies. HUGE pop. The other good guys congenially greet Teddy & The New Breed. The futuristic warriors appear set to shake Patriot's hand when a loud voice emanates from the spaceship shouting....
DELETE! DELETE! DELETE!
Is it a Cyberman? No! It's far worse! It's BROKEN MATT HARDY! Teddy & The New Breed attack The Patriot while the other good guys are shot with beams of light from the spaceship, rendering them incapable of movement. Even such powerhouses as Reggie Bennett and Fire & Ice have been incapacitated by this strange alien technology. The NGW Universe gets their first look at Broken Matt Hardy when he beams down a short time later. Broken Matt rants and raves in his glorious accent. Then he unmasks the Patriot! GASP! The horror! The humiliation! Patriot hides his face. The invaders are pelted with trash. George Plimpton hops in the ring. And promptly eats a Twist of Fate! The NGW Universe has had enough! A riot breaks out when the fans storm the ring. "HaHaHa I knew you'd come!"- Broken Matt Hardy. Matt and his mates promptly get beamed up and fly away in their spaceship long before the fans can reach them.
It turns out Broken Matt had planned everything from day one. He sent the New Breed back in time to warn NGW of the threat posed by the Foreign Fanatics. Then he brought Teddy & The New Breed back "home" after they delivered the warning. See, they were never intended to defeat the Fanatics. Their mission was simply to rile up the NGW good guys so that THEY could defeat the Fanatics, weakening themselves in the process. The Foreign Fanatics really were a mighty threat. And they needed to be cleared away before Broken Matt could lead his Broken Brigade into battle. Now with the Fanatics gone, and the NGW Heroes weakened by a year of fighting, the path has been cleared for Matt Hardy's Broken Brigade to take over and rule the NGW Universe. The Great War has begun.
I had already started dropping coded hints about The Coming of Broken Matt Hardy. They were seemingly throwaway lines of what looked like jibberish I inserted into the middle of shows. But each line was actually a coded message I could easily have translated into proper English.
Year Two was to feature Matt Hardy's Broken Brigade as an NWO-like invasion faction dominating the promotion and taking on all comers. New Breed were going to quickly win the tag titles from Fire & Ice and hold them practically all year. Broken Matt & Teddy were going to double pin the Patriot and share the NGW Championship, leading to all sorts of odd matches and 'outs' on the rare occasions one of them was pinned or submitted. Teddy eventually would have lost his share of the NGW Championship for good if I decided to go through with a Cruiserweight division, which I was 50/50 on. If so, Teddy would have been the Cruiserweight division ace. The Broken Brigade dominates all the good guys for like six months. We'd get several "___ Deletion" matches at the infamous Hardy Compound. Patriot, Wonderful, Fire & Ice, Reggie Bennett (who has now settled into a Chyna role fighting men), "Local Hero" Joe Hendry, a back-from-Japan Tanahashi, "Gentleman" Jack Gallagher, and whoever else I brought in that may have caught fire....none of them have an answer for the Broken Brigade. A darkness has fallen over The Magical Land of NGW. It gets even darker when Commissioner Plimpton, desperate to save his beloved NGW, and against the wishes of the Venerable Bede, brings back The Wizard. This mysterious dark Wizard who, in another universe served as Kevin Sullivan's Master in the Dungeon of Doom, resurrects early NGW villains, Papa Shango & The Minotaur, to do battle with Matt Hardy's Broken Brigade. Yet they too fail. There are no more musical acts or special guests other than Jon "The Doctor" Pertwee and Roger "The Master" Delgado. Even the Venerable Bede no longer appears to grace the NGW Universe with his words of wisdom. Not after getting in caught mid-levitation with a sick Side Effect courtesy of Broken Matt Hardy. At an all time low, the heroes of NGW are forced to make another deal with the devil by BEGGING the Foreign Fanatics to come back since they're now "the lesser of two evils." Plimpton and company give into all sorts of Unreasonable Demands. And finally Borga agrees to get the band back together. A big War Games is set- Broken Brigade vs. Foreign Fanatics. After all that build everybody thinks the Brigade will FINALLY get their comeuppance here. But it was all a big Red Herring. Matt Hardy's Broken Brigade once again prevails. The Good Guys have failed. The Bad Guys have failed. What next? Why a unification of the Good Guys and Bad Guys, of course! Now we have Yoko & Borga teaming with Patriot & Wonderful. Fire & Ice teaming with The Quebecers. Plus whatever new acts I brought in that caught fire unite to oppose the Brigade. But still the Broken Brigade prevail. NGW has played all their cards.....
Except for one....
For there was one man who wanted nothing to do with the heroes of NGW, the villainous Foreign Fanatics, or "those Spudheads in a spaceship". And that man is....
"The Living Legend" Larry Zbyszko
He may not be the savior NGW wants but, bah gawd, he's the hero they need. The only question is "Is Larry Zbyszko willing to play ball?" What sorts of demands will he have? Can even Larry Legend defeat the Broken Brigade? We may never learn the answers to these questions.....
