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Old 06-20-2019, 08:01 AM   #4
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Re: In The Business - A Fire Pro Wrestling World Story

Year 2

Year 2 brought along quite a bit of first. Our first sponsors, our first tv deal, and our first retirement. Our first sponsors weren’t worth much, but it made the aesthetics much nicer with the sponsors on the mat and the ring post. Our first television deal was just a regional deal, but it was a start and added a few extra dollars. Chris Jericho also had his retirement match against Jay White in which he did “the deed” and put him over on his way out. Year 2 also provided the company with one of our hottest storylines and matches, we finally had Okada and Omega face off for the ITB heavyweight Championship.

Omega and Okada were also instrumental in another big name signing, Hiroshi Tanahashi. Once he was signed we already started to plant the seeds for Hiroshi vs Tanahashi which would end up taking place at our end of the year super show WaleMania. We added quite a few more signings this year including WALTER, Andrade “Cien” Almas, Becky Lynch, Sasha Banks, and Sami Zayn just to mention a few. With all the talent on our hands, the creative team of Omega, Okada, and I came up with and started to plan a “brand split” which would take place January of year 3. We decided Omega would be the face of one brand, and Okada the ace of the other. Kota Ibushi would go with Omega and Tanahashi with Okada. Each “brand” would run one show then on the third month there would be a cross brand show, then the cycle would repeat.

Year 2 brought us another first, a cross promotion event with another promotion that we ran with Ring Of Honor. Both promotions put their heavyweight titles on the line. Omega successfully defended ours against Jay Lethal. Okada took their title from Mark Briscoe. We couldn’t have scripted it any better, we now had two heavyweight titles which meant each brand would have their own heavyweight champion. This lead us to lose wrestlers to other promotions in hopes of gaining more belts to split between the brands. Kota Ibushi was instrumental in getting more belts. By the end of the year each brand has a heavyweight, junior heavyweight, and junior heavyweight tag team championship. We still had to find a way to get another heavyweight tag team belt, but for the mean time the tag team title would be on the line every cross brand show to determine which brand would belong to.

We also missed out on two big free agents this year. AJ Styles became a free agent and he ended up signing with New Japan. Naito’s contract at NJPW ran up and he then signed with WWE. I was and still am a little suspicious of this, it seemed more like a bit of a talent exchange to me. We were beyond just making a little noise at this point and WWE and NJPW weren’t exactly thrilled about this and became reluctant to do any type of business with us. They drew the lines in the sand, which meant the unspoken rule of us poaching talent went out of the window and we began tampering to try to steal talent from these companies while they were still under contract. There’s an old saying, by any means necessary which applies. We’d have some of our talent send feelers to wrestlers in those two promotions that we were interested in just to see if maybe they’d come work with us once their contract ran out. Some of them were interested, and others weren’t. We ended up signing Buddy Murphy and Pentagon Jr by doing this. Pentagon who had signed with NJPW and Buddy who was still being wasted on Superstars for WWE. Year 3 was shaping up to be a monumental year for us. We were about to begin a risky brand split which could end up being the smartest or dumbest decision the three of us had made, either way we were sticking with it. We all three believed that every worker deserved a spot on the card, and this would be a way to make sure we could always offer that.
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