The Continental Wrestling Federation, the CWF, what is it you ask? It is a vision I have had for a pro wrestling promotion for a few years now. I'm currently 19 and going to be a junior in college. I almost got the promotion of the ground two years ago, the summer of 1999, but a financial backer backed out but it was apparent to me that the guy was pretty much a fraud and didn't have the cash. It may have been a minor setback but that hasn't discouraged me yet. I have gotten a lot of positive feedback from fans and wrestlers alike from my ideas, so I keep the page here to let people know what I want to do. I want to create a promotion with great angles and great wrestling, as it seems these days you can't put both together. The WWF is overbearing with angles, while ECW inevitably failed because it was all substance over style. I can combine the both, because I know wrestling and I like to think I could be a creative booker. Given a chance, I could prove that.
The first objective is to get one, just one, big-name wrestler and build the promotion around him. He doesn't have to be a huge name, just a name recoginizable enough to start putting people in the stands. We get the one main draw to work a few dates with the CWF to get it some recognition. (I listed below five guys who I could build the CWF around at the moment) Then, we get ten to tweleve solid workers to work the mid-card and gradually 'get them over' with the fans. Wrestling fans are fickle, so you have to gradually build up the fan base. It's impossible to start high up on the totem pole, even WCW and the WWF started at nothing a long, long time ago. However, with the loss of WCW and ECW, there are a lot more quality talent out there looking for work. At this point the CWF could conceivable more than just one guy, and thus make the shows a little more profitable in the beginning.
But how to keep the fans coming back? One way, giving them something they hardly see anymore. Fantastic wrestling worked in with fantastic angles. The CWF would combine good angles with long, solid matches that leaves the fan with the feeling that he/she got his or her money worth showing up for a CWF show. The shows will start off cheap as the main objective will be to just break even and expand the fan base. The workers will have to be willing to work their asses off each weekend to make it, as the CWF would probably run a show a week or maybe two in the beginning.
My next big key to making this successfully is LOYALTY. I am a strong believer in loyalty. Loyalty to the CWF as a whole, and loyalty to each other. A wrestling promotion is only as good as its workers, and its workers are only as good as the workers surrounding them. One man can not make a promotion or a match. He has to have the trust of his fellow competitors to go out there and make him look good, and vice versa. My goal for the CWF is to have wrestlers that stay with the promotion for as long as possible, to give the promotion some continuity and tradition. I'd like for some relative big name stars to work a month or two long program with the CWF. Anyway, the wrestlers of the CWF will have their loyalty paid off in money and in the efforts by me to try to get them signed by one of the bigger federations. Of course my goal is to create the biggest wrestling promotion in the world, but hey, in the beginning, I'll be working to get my wrestlers bigger paydays. It is also my goal to mold my wrestlers into superstars, whether they become superstars in my own promotion or a bigger one that can market them better.
Also, as a promoter I will try to stay away from the lying and loud-mouthing done by many of today's independent promoters. They are trying to make a name for their promotion by making an ass out of themselves? In the most successful promotion, the promoter only promotes his own product, not even taking time to put down other. It's bad promoting, plain and simple.
In conclusion, I don't really know what to say. Money will be the big problem. I would probably need like $10,000 to start the promotion to make it the best it can to start off with, and probably more to keep it going and successful. It's a dream of mine, it might happen tommorrow, or two months from now, or two years from now, but it will happen someday. All you need in life is a dream, fate, and the will to do whatever it takes to make that dream possible. If you'd like to talk to me about my dream, and could even help me out, contact me at my e-mail address at college. . I would like to start my promotion in the springtime as that would give us time to get everything in order and a whole summer to build up the promotion. Thank you.
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