Quick note

A returning face to A1E has been rumored to be abusing his power and rubbing some people the wrong way, this is a shocking turn of events cause he's normally known for doing anything to further storylines.

NFW Notes

--Much of the NFW West Locker room was disgusted by the working conditions they faced for the PPV. Most complained about the unsafe nature of the ring and many workers said they had suffered knee or ankle sprains from having no traction on the ring.

--The Randalls/Cameron match was seen as being a giant show stealer, which wasn't a positive thing in the eyes of the locker room, as Randalls is retiring, so he didn't need all the heat. The fact that Randalls' climb up the scaffolding was hyped as being a life threatening risk, and then when he in fact made it on top of the scaffold and landed an elbow that was forgotten about 30 seconds later had one wrestler, who didn't want to be named, call the spot "Fucking ridiculous"

--The orginal finish to the match had been Randalls having a stake driven into his knee by Cameron and then being put in the ambulance. Miles had to talk Randalls out of it in what was a heated discussion between the two.

-- The Payne v NFW storyline is only a storyline, though not everything the 2 sides say about each other is false. NFW officials have been disappointed in Payne for months for what they feel is lackluster performance and attention to detail. They expect more out of someone who's been in NFW as long as Michael Manson.

--Manson, the head booker of the NFW East, was notfied far in advance of the segment they wanted him to do with Joey Melton for the NFW West. While he has no booking power in the west, he did ask for the biting spot at the end. Originally, Melton wanted Manson to set him on fire, but Manson tamed it down since it was only an interview. The fire spot may occur if they have a singles match.

--Manson laid out the entire Interconference Survivor Series match-out, all of his own matches, and the recent Felix red v Doc Silver v Beau Michaels match.

--While Monsieur Fantastic/Doc Silver and Felix Red/Kin Hiroshi, were booked at least a few weeks in advance, it wasn't clear which would be the world title match for week 10 until recently, nor how Hiroshi's title shot would play out. NFW officials have apologized to Fantastic in that he didn't receive a title shot during the regular season and will try to accomodate him postseason somehow.

--NFW would like to book Shane Southern against Felix Red or Yori Yakamo Junior sometime in the future. Right now, management sees those two, along with Fantastic, Hiroshi, and Marx as the future of the company and expects the Ultratitle to be decided by them.

--Doc Silver has lobbied NFW management to be Craig Miles' partner in his match against Eddie Mayfield and Tom Adler. Doc has told management he wants to 'beat the shit out of Adler'. Management has no desire currently to put Doc in the match, given his past history with Adler and the potental for uglyness between the two.

Destroying A1E

You know why I'm in Fantasy Wrestling?

To win

It's all I ever care about, winning, I bury my opponents at every corner. I stack Rp's whenever possible, I spend hours in IM's with the people who run the leagues I'm in, poisoning them against the idea of ever giving my opponent a victory over me, or anyone else.

If somebody pitches the idea of storyline to me, I do everything in my power to suck ever mote of heat out of it for myself, at their expense, and then when they face me in the big blow-off match on PPV, I Rp about 20 times to their 3 times, because I am sick in the head AND fantastically lifeless, so this basically assures I shame the fed-head into putting me over, save rare cases (See: Zane, Ricky)

Here's the number of times I've done a job to forward a storyline


0


Yeah that's right bitches...NEVER...I care only about me...ME! But at least I'm honest.

LVW News and Notes

--Living Dead has been released from LVW. Management wishes him the best in his future endeavors.

--Olvir has had some personal issues but has assured LVW management that he will be working full time for the company. Some thing he's getting treated better then the rest of the locker room.

--Web Browser wanted to work the last card but there was no place to put him after Lerner backed out of the match.

--Donovan felt bad about the squash job that Johnny Doll was made to take, but understood why it happened. Some see him as the locker room 'enforcer'.

Felix Red Shoot Interview

OK so how did you break into the business?

Felix: It was pretty happenstance, actually. I didn't watch any wrestling before I was like, 16 or 17. I basically ended up going to a shitty training seminar 'cuz a bunch of my friends were. That was where I originally met Ted Grossard, who trained me and the other Crack Rock Crowd guys, Toxick and Midiot. I didn't start taking wrestling seriously until I realized I wasn't good enough to be a pro-soccer player, and my grades sucked, so wrestling just sorta happened...

So with no other options looking good, you decided to get into the sport, where did you break in?

Felix: Originally? My first real gig with TV exposure was FWF. They needed like, 10 or 15 guys to be members of the BYW Brigade, which was this sort of ridiculous angle. Basically we had a lot of shitty looking hardcore matches against Asylum and Maxwell Houz and the like. I got to paint myself silver and dance around though. That was nice.

And that was a take on backyard wrestling? Hitting each other with light bulbs and all that stupidity?

Felix: That was the general idea. I remember, they had this faux hardcore title thing, ripped off from WWF? So the entire BYW Brigade was collectively hardcore champion for like a week. I donno if I've got anything directly against BYW wrestling though. I mean, that's more or less how you start out, in that it's just sort of jumping off couches taken to the next level. Can't say I get behind the more violent bits of it though.

So from there you moved up in the world, where was the next stop?

Felix: That would be IWF, which was a lot of fun and great exposure. That was where we came up with the Crack Rock Crowd, which was me and Midiot and Toxick sort of abbreviating the BYW Brigade angle. This was of course, when I first came up with the idea of doing drugs on camera.

There are people who do find that to be pretty distasteful, given your current status as a main eventer in one of the biggest companies in the sport, do you think it's not that, I dunno 'family friendly' that you're doing drugs on camera?

Felix: Well, I mean, I'm the fucking heel most of the time. It's not like I'm up there as a role model, really. I tend to think most of the people who are really into the Felix character are the sort inclined to try drugs anyway.

Giving them what they want and all that?

Felix: Well, lemme put it this way - I love messing with taboos. That sort of factors into how the character is all into messing with reality, and little overtones of chaos magick rhetoric and the like. So drugs are a big taboo. Like, really, if I did as many drugs as I say I do in character, I wouldn't be able to work the matches I do. I hope people are smart enough to realize that. Like, I don't necessarily want people to get really into heroin 'cuz of me, y'know?

I understand, so why did you leave IWF? They close down or contract issue or whatever?

Felix: They closed down. There was a lot of confusion in a business deal of sorts, where IWF and BAD were going to merge. There was a lot of talk about bringing Doc Silver in to feud with Manson, y'know, again, but then the money just kinda dried up, and then we finally got notice the company was folding.

OK, so where was the next stop?

Felix: Me and Bret...er ah, "Toxick," went to WWL for a while. Which wasn't so hot. This was Andrew Medina WWL, not Joe Keeney WWL, so the good times had already come and gone. I ended up jobbing a bunch of times to this dood who Medina was friends with, but couldn't work at all. They had his badly trained monkey sidekick jump in the ring and supposedly hit me with a crack pipe at one point. It was that bad. His promos were decent, but it's kind of a drag putting someone over, carrying him through all the matches, and then basically getting nothing to show for it afterwards. Toxick did alright though. Him and Osama Bin Chillin, whose real name I forget, ended up being tag champions for a while. After that league closed, Toxick kinda dropped off the face of the planet. I honestly have seen him in maybe a year.

How was the locker room in WWL? Sounds like it could't be a good place.

Felix: Well, a lot of smart, talented people respected Keeney enough so they stayed on after he left, just because it was WWL. That was where I first met Copycat and Maelstrom and a lot of other people I learned a lot from. Manson was there to, I think....Most of my original dealings with him were in IWF though.

So where to after the generally shoddy treatment you got in WWL?

Felix: I was actually kinda done with wrestling, working a few indie shows and thinking about heading back to school, when Manson called me up for a job in WFW.

So you two were friends at this point or he just liked your work?

Felix: We had talked a little, since we had been on so many shows together, but yeah, I think he just liked my work. Which has been great for me. I think that's what a lot of people need, more than anything. Manson's such a legend, management will always listen to him, so by getting Manson behind me I've basically got the big machine behind me. I don't think it's all just hype though. I think a lot of people kind of identify with the Felix character. It's like, I'm not even sure if he's such a bad guy, really. He's just a little misguided, and doesn't have his priorities worked out properly. He wants to be all powerful, but really can't, 'cuz he's, I donno, struggling with his limitations and so forth. Which I why I play him crazier when he wins a lot. Keep in mind, when the character was originally created, he wasn't really supposed to go over a lot.

So what happened in WFW, other then winning more then you expected and thusly having the character be unable to deal with it?

Felix: Ah, that's when they grouped up me and Anarky and Psycho and Jared Wells for the LOVE angle. That was a fucking blast.

Yeah, I heard LOVE was a big deal, how did you guys get along?

Felix: Anarky's another guy who I gotta credit as helping me get over and to the next level and all that. I still think he does better promos than most people. People give him shit for not being the best worker in the world, but it's like...that's his character, y'know? The character wouldn't be doing fucking double arm, triple leg, dick in ear submission holds, so why should he? We got along pretty fucking good. Lotta good times, which was problematic in the sense that everybody was drinking too much and things.

So the out of ring craziness ended up hurting you in the ring?

Felix: This one time? After this house show in Dallas, Wells got so fucked up on the train ride he passed out in a pool of his own urine and vomit right outside a stop 'n shop. We were all outa coke by this point, so we had nothing to wake him up with besides addys and Red Bull, which he took, but it didn't do anything for him except make him tell us about his rotten childhood. But get this, we ran into these hookers, one of whom might’ve been 18, the others probably weren’t, but they actually recognized us. So we got free room and board and so forth. Maybe the lunacy hurt a little. In a few matches, I'd say definitely. One match against Rat Fink pops to mind as something I’m kind of embarrassed by…I had to clean out a little bit before the main event sort of deals. The first big match I had with Manson, I hadn't done any drugs or drank in like, two or three weeks……There are better stories than the one I just told you, but I don't really remember them so hot.

I can understand that totally, was the whole WFW locker room that crazy or was that mostly just a LOVE thing?

Felix: I think people sought to emulate us a little, which undermines the point I made earlier about people not doing drugs because I am...but not that much. I mean, there really is a big drug problem in wrestling. Just look at Eddie Gurearro, Chris Candido, Brian Pillman, the list goes on. In WFW, I remember Iron Lion being on such an absurd amount of 'riods he could barely talk without his neck exploding. Last I heard he was living in the projects doing one armed pushups for spare change…Jonathan Marx was pretty messed up for a while, which he’s already been vocal about, which I respect. It’s good to see he’s sober and such now.

Oh Iron Lion, you were a mess...So what ended up being the reason for your leaving WFW, or are you working two leagues now with NFW and WFW?

Felix: Yeah, I'm still in WFW. Business has slowed down a little, but that's cool. I've got a busy and lucrative schedule with NFW. I feel kinda indebted to Paul Miller and all those guys, just because I realize there's no way I'd be where I am without their backing.

So what brought you into NFW?

Felix: That was a combination of a few different people, actually. Manson, again, was one of them, but pretty much everybody in the organization had me in mind for the east division. Which is cool, 'cuz I actually fucking love Japan. Karaoke bars, right? $5, all you can drink, and you watch your friends get absolutely plastered singing Bon Jovi songs. And, the video games, are of course excellent. I actually am half Japanese as well, although the thing about my mom being dead is a bit of stretch. She actually lives in Fitzberg MA, which is only kinda like being dead.

So did you expect to get to the point where you would be in fact the last man standing in a 10 man match featuring Eli Flair, Troy Windham, Doc Silver, Joey Melton, et all?

Felix: I would've been happy just to make the playoffs, really. Like, I can only be so modest. 'Cuz I know I'm good. I'm really fucking good, and it's good for me and the company that I've been built up so much. But after being a midcarder most of my career, this is all kinda mind-blowing. That's not to say I'm better than other people who are pushed as much or less than I am necessarily, but I think I bring things to the table that others really don't.

So how has NFW treated you to in comparison to other leagues?

Felix: I donno. Maybe it's just Japan, but they really appreciate a solid work ethic as much as the promo shit. Life over there's pretty good. I just wake up, hit the gym for a few hours, medicate for another few, eat, chill for a while, and head out to spend some of the absurd amounts of money I've been making.

How's the locker room treating you, do you feel you are treated differently now that you're a headliner and a potential World Champion or Ultratitle champion instead of just putting folks over.

Felix: as far as the locker room goes, everyone from the east is very cool, very personable, out to have a good time with things. In the West, I think Rook Black is a genius. I really do. I really have to start ripping him off more. I'm gonna steal the psychodrama finisher...that'd be cool. I was kinda surprised to find out what a class act Eli Flair is to. Everyone led me to believe he was a dick, but he wasn't at all. Real professional. And of course, Joey Melton's real laid back. In terms of being treated differently, I've got more people asking me for advice, which is kind of awkward for me, just because I think things that work for me won't necessarily help everybody. Like, if I tell Cameron Cruise he'll get better if he starts staring at the floor for two hours a day, then...well...I end up looking silly, eh?

I hear that...What is your relationship with Ryoko off camera?

Felix: (laughs) oooooh, here we go. Naw, she's a really sweet girl, really kind and warm person, taught me a lot of Japanese. I'd try to throw it in her, but I'm kind of afraid her boyfriend would kick my ass.

(Laughs) And what's the deal with Kooter?

Felix: Beats the fuck out of me. I had the idea originally, to have the fetus child of Beau and Cruise be my lackey, but man, the writers went absolutely to town with it. As far as the wrestler goes, we'll get him in line eventually.

So you basically have some guy in a bunch of purple paint running around beating the shit out of the planet, he sure walked into a good gig

Felix: Kinda, sorta, not really. like, what's he supposed to do when the angle's over? He has to more or less start over and build himself up again from scratch. Look at all the one shot characters I was-Robot, Robot Boy, Mr. Asphyxiation...I don't even remember a lot of them, and honestly it wasn't such a hot idea.

For a guy who’s considered pretty out there, you seem to care about work-rate.

Felix: I didn't always care about working, really. Recently it's like "okay, I'm headlining a big show against one of the biggest names in the business....why don't I NOT suck?"

So you're trying to get a grip on this whole main event thing?

Felix: Like, the audience is *always* gonna pop for crazy hardcore flying spots, but I'd like to feel like I can be a story teller as much as a crash test dummy, and I'm not sure if I'm at that level yet, but I wanna be...which counts for something, I suppose.

You've pretty much had nothing but praise for everyone except Medina, is there anyone else in the wrestling community you don't hold a high opinion of?

Felix: nobody specific, but I really hate the jock/monster mentality. Like people refusing to sell for other people, people being massive crybabies whenever they have to put somebody over, and on and on. It's like....I really don't wanna name names, 'cuz I don't wanna be that guy so much, but everyonce in a while it's like "This asshole does *not* get it...."

Thanks for your time.

Felix: Pleasure to talk to you guys.

NFW News and Notes

NFW News and Notes

--The locker room is said to be thrilled with the Survivor Series match, all invovled feel like they told a great story and that the match should be a match of the year contender.

--Management is on it's last nerve when it comes to Johnathan Marx and Dan Ryan's bitter personal feud, there are rumors that a trade to the West may be worked out in an effort to seperate the two men further.

--Orginally the booking for the Survivor Series was to have Felix Red and Doc Silver survive, but there was concern that having two members of the east survive would be an insult to the West. When it was debated over which of the two was to job, Doc offered to job due to Felix not making the save when Doc was trapped in a submission. Orginally Doc wanted Eli Flair to beat him, since he has owed him a job from over a decade ago, but management killed the idea, since they did not want somebody who was badmouthing the NFW World Title to be allowed to beat the champion by submission, thusly the plan was changed to have Rook Black be the one to score the victory.

--It is currently unknown if Michael Manson will be continuing his gimmick of being 'off the Pez' or not. Manson doesn't think his 'non-pez' gimmick will last much longer and still be over, but he hasn't decided if his 'forced Pez eating' should be the reason for him to go back to his previous self.

Odds and Ends

--Scheduling conflicts with the Dunkin Doughnuts Center in Rhode Island have put the latest UCW show in limbo, it is expected to be re-set for this weekend at some point.

--Michael Manson is considering retirement at the end of the season given he can't do that much more for the promotion as a wrestler. He has grown tired of separating Jonathan Marx and Dan Ryan from fighting backstage, and being a go-between for the locker room and management. Also, he doesn't feel he gets enough credit or acknowledge from the promotion for being their obvious biggest star because he has no links to the CSWA and never entering the inner circle of peers and pundits that make up what he calls 'the ENN awards committee.' He only wants to put over the likes of Felix Red, Maggot, Beau Michaels, and Jonathan Marx before he's done. He has been offered the reins of both NFW and WFW and has not presently decided to run a promotion, though longtime friend Doc Silver has offered to partner with him in either venture. Manson has also recently married his 4th wife in as many years.

--There are conflicting reports coming out of NFW's headquarters about if Troy Windham will attend the Survivor Series match. Troy's retirement may leave the company in the lurch if they can not convince him to show up.

--Rayne (real name Alecia Quinne), age 28, married boyfriend and 80s wrestling legend the Mad Hatter (real name Jason Wyngate), age 46 last month in Tokyo. They have a son together, Matthew, age 3 whom Snow White (real name Jenn Quinne, Rayne's sister) age 25 is godmother to with her husband who isn't in the business

--El Magick-O was upset at not being included in the title match despite being promised he would be, and feels he's is the best worker in the company and that they need me to carry all the other stiffs