The Creation of the UTW

It was clear to me from the start that something I would have to try out was writing my own wrestling matches. From a story line to the match itself, the idea of building something from the ground up excited me. Especially when you start watching wrestling on a daily basis, and seeing some of the garbage stories the writers are coming up with, I thought, "I could do better than that." So I did. Match types as complicated as a Royal Rumble or a Six Pack Challenge are way more fun to write then a one on one so I gravitated more towards them when I started getting better at writing and more comfortable with my writing style.

I began by giving my new company a name, which proved to be way more difficult then I had thought. I picked a very generic name to start, Extreme Wrestling Promotions (EWP), because I always thought ECW wrestlers were more exciting and that brutality level, minus the excessive blood, was always exciting to watch. I decided my promotion would be more wrestling and less entertainment based. So choosing a roster was simple, if you can wrestle well and have decent mic skills you were hired. I acquired around fifty wrestlers, male and female, for my roster but then decided to split them up into two brands, thus the UTW was born.

United Through Wrestling would become the show based more heavily on independent wrestlers while EWP would be almost completely 'former' WWE wrestlers. Neither show would be superior over the other, just two different styles of wrestling. Each brand would eventually get a major title, a mid-card title, and a tag team championship with winners being crowned at the first Pay Per Views for that brand. I also came up with names for PPV's and created a calendar for what a full year of EWP and UTW events would look like. With the rosters set, titles in contention, and PPV's scheduled, it was time to start booking/writing my shows.

One of the first challenges I ran into was finding a way to include as many wrestlers as I could on their respective shows. When there's only 7 to 8 matches on a Pay Per View card, that meant on average only 14 to 20 wrestlers getting a time slot, depending on how many multi-man matches took place. I decided to cut down my rosters once I learned this, limiting each roster to thirty men a piece. Cutting out the 'part time' wrestlers first then having to be very picky when it came to filling my promotion with only the best wrestlers was a tough challenge in itself but then I decided to actually write out those who didn't make the cut, which took a few weeks of booking to get them all out.

Once I had my full rosters it was a cake walk pulling out matches, rivalries, and champions. I got the hang of it where after a while it was getting too easy so I chose to switch things up, again, around a year into writing which, in that universe, was a few years worth of content. I began a total re-branding phase where EWP would merge into UTW and thus putting all sixty wrestlers on the same show. There would still be two shows, one PPV a month, but the major titles and tag team championships would be unified. This huge change would force me out of the comfort zone I had built myself which helped me creatively and mentally, giving me a new challenge and something to keep me occupied for another year.