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Soto.wmv She’s here, and so is the simp! We’re RTG LIVE FROM BROOKLYN… Teases the later stuff, nice and simple. Although that limo looks like a gas guzzler Karmine What is this the fucking Jake show? Great face promo. Feels like it’s foreshadowing him losing the title. Guess we’ll find out shortly. Good structure, good hype, looks like a memorial video. He’s definitely losing. This version of the song is poo. Karmine vs ??? **** Karmine feels fully fledged. Fully fleshed out. This is how to do an alt properly, take note. And he’s facing… OH NO. TIME IS UP. It’s apt that End Game should show up the night before End Games. The extra S is for Snatch, as in Telos is about to SNATCH that title. I hope anyways, I don’t know. Early slam. Early cover. Wind out of Karmine. Might be in for a rough night. Can he survive this as champion? I really enjoyed the early dynamic of “can he chop the big man down”. I know its something the game gives you for free, but this really worked for the immersion here. Telos wisely breaks the count, knows about champions advantage, its the little things.Karmine showing the heart of a champion but just getting roughed up. I said he might be in for a rough night. Near falls at the end, big moves all over, plenty to enjoy here! Karmine noooo! Got cocky and lost the title. Dummy. Enjoyable title match though GMs I remember being involved in this conversation, so its fun they took it to a promo. Glad Emp has recovered after last weeks attempt on her life. Carrys on the chaos, although feels a bit samey. GIVE US SOMETHING GOOD Sue She’s got two choices for Hifumi. Spoiler alert - both are the same choice. Succinct, and a nice way to do text promos. Heather and the other simp Cody summarising things like a hench Mike Adamle ain’t for me. More of this put everyone else over stuff. Again, not for me. I lost interest so, so quickly here. It’s a long ass promo that regales us with a confused memory of her childhood (which could feasibly be last weeks Riot where Jay threw Emp into the water), everything TOG ate for lunch, Jaysin Sensation’s inside leg measurement. It’s long. It’s boring. It does absolutely nothing for nobody. RP’er of the year my hoop. Mass Effect Juice So I didn’t hate this. I wish it was a little shorter (commercials are like… 30 seconds?). I liked it because it reminded me of Buff Blaster and OG Yoga and they have good memories for me. What’s old is new etc. Well put together. Paul Boulet Old school wrestling promo again. I like it, you like it, the fans like it. Boulet is just good fun to me, speaks like a pompous jerk, and is always talking about whats immediately in front of him - the next match. Gets it. C-Note Quietest gym in the land, but kudos on using “piqued”. A reserved promo given his penchant for gimpery, but it builds some intrigue for next week. Maybe would’ve gone with some music in the background because the clinking and binking made me feel like I was being hypnotised. Sueplex vs Hifumi ***¾ Sue showing up looking all butter wouldn’t melt after her frankly disgusting words earlier. Something is afoot. Hifumi is here too! They both went to the same esports logo store, neat. Pink on Pink. Hate it when that happens, can barely tell who is who. Hifumi starts quick, some nice back-and-forth follows, its nice that everyone is so good at the game at this point. Quick covers, desperate to win. Love that character work from both. The more this match waged on, the more I noticed how big Sue’s head is. Looks like she has to step into her shirt when she gets dressed. As we get later in the match, nobody really seizes the advantage fully. Hifumi is hoarding finishers like nobody’s business… lets see a couple! WE SAW ONE… but no cover and Sue slips away. WE SAW ANOTHER! Fun match. Ohhhh and there’s the foreshadowed turn. Silly Hifumi. Claude Hall Nice to see some written content from this feud(ish). Decent set up, and gives you plenty to imagine. Shocked we didn’t see the heinous messages, but we see enough that Claude is spooked. Keeps things going, hopefully we see more. Blaine Can we just discuss how Zombie is probably the worst rock song in history? Drones on and on and on. We get it, you’re miserable, we all are but we didn’t write songs about it. Maybe we should. Anyway, Blaine. Gender Brutal doesn’t really scan, but Gender Bruetral would’ve been worse, so here we are. Damn, we’re shootin’ at the people who are just happy to be here are we? TENSION in the air as Soto arrives to look at Blaine… oh we’re carrying on. Soto Despite having the same music as a mediocre smartphone, Deborah is a star and I generally enjoy everything she does. Deborah makes light of the scattergun womens division, which i enjoyed because it’s my material too! Here’s Shianne and shes got beef… and then Deborah says hooves which cows have, so Deborah is reading my mind. The fuck is going on. Ms Krabappel stops her hun, and we get a monologue that wouldn’t be out of place in an off broadway production of Bugsy Malone. Generally a good promo, sets up the match, but the jarring nature of 2 voices and a written feels weird to me. I want consistency. Anyways, they all had subtitles so wasn’t too much of an issue. Deborah wins. B17 and family For once I’ll give Spider his props - he invented this daft style of promo where everyone calls someone their father and they start a ragtag band of… fuck knows. Guess this promo continues… Bash and B17’s interactions? Sort of. Bolek is gonna seize DNS anyways. Kameyo vs Ashley **¾ Kameyo ain’t doing too hot in the S-Cup this year so it’s time to pick it up here…. But it is Ashley, and Ashley is mean. Quick covers, selling the importance of the S-Cup points. Ashley gets an early advantage but Kameyo says fuck that and works her way back into it. Ashley just beasts Kameyo after that, and it looks like thats all she wrote but clutch kick out. Ashley is just lighting Kameyo up and there’s no response to it. Another week, another win for Ashley, but another one I just didn’t get into. You’re very conscious you’re watching a video game with this run of S-Cup matches, and it’s not my vibe. MDD Mad Dawg is fighting with himself AND the bottle. Its a solid video, i would’ve liked it a shade shorter, but it was very creative so can’t argue too much. Hopefully we get some sort of intervention soon, because mans been drunk too long. Flojo and Dragana This is a pretty good promo, you can see thought has gone into it. I’m glad we’ve moved away from the 3 line monotony Flojo was carting out a few weeks ago. Using a kid is always a standard for faces and there’s great use of it here. Decent promo. Still not feeling flojo as a contender, but we’re getting closer. Greene vs Anthony ***¼ This might be the first time i’ve paid attention to a Chris Greene match, not because I’m a hater, but because I feel like they’ve been rare recently. And I’m a hater. I think he looks good, nice entrance, timed trons are always fun. A-Mart is here, yay (sarcasm). He still reps the invisible man, that’s nice for him. I hope he gets some sort of breakout soon. Least we know his opponent won’t disconnect this week. Nice start to the match with some quick covers, always welcome in this house. The stunner as an opening gambit is interesting, but we continue. Anthony takes roughly 3 moves and he’s orange, which might be a world record. Greene is giving him a schooling. I really enjoyed A-Mart doing the “i’m smart” taunt after he came off worse in the exchange on the outside. A delightful idiot. This is an absolute demolition, Greene looked great, A-Mart looks like he needs some lessons in PUTTIN YER HANDS UP. BAE Maniacs always go over great in OCW, and this is the biggest one of the lot. Everyone loves delusion and BAE is fully engaged in it here. Chaotic, dumb, he’s looking for a partner. Excellent. Emp Hype. Still killing it, same as last week. Excellent work. Too long. Ashley and Belle Text isn’t on the screen long enough to read, work on that! Callbacks to February 12th 1973 when Bruno slapped Calhoon or whatever, but apart from that, it’s fine. Nothing exciting, nothing offensive. H2O and Wrex Good job setting up the scene, and Wrex is his usual entertaining self. Harvey swings between intimidating and Shakespearean. Gets us moving to the next thing, so fair enough but nothing super exciting. Sometimes you gotta lay some groundwork. ///MORE WILL COME I AM TIRED OF THESE SEGMENTS///

GM LOUD NOISES Lots of loud noises. Like I said, these people are a welcome change of pace on the show but i hate every second of it. I do think Emp has taken the next step though. Lution Main Event when? (lol never) Bingo and Aisu exhibition More than a sniff of Jake Paul and pals about this. B17 THROWING THE CONTEST TO MAKE AISU SEEM LIKE A CONTENDER… Anyways. Didn’t vibe with it, went on too long and doesn’t feel like we’ve got any animosity really. Lets see what comes of it. Paul Harris Promo Alts are hard. I read this in an Owen accent and it was an Owen promo. I feel like Paul Harris is fine but he’s treading ground that a lot of people are currently treading in OCW. Feels like he’s trying to be an old school technical babyface, but speaks a little bit too fancy like for the average American audience which probably makes him borderline heel. IDK. More scattergun vague challenges. Kameyo vs Marisa ***½ Like Kameyo, if she didnt have stupid hair she’d be a star. Marisa is incredibly hateable as a wrestler, much better than when she’s a manager/AA sponsor, which is probably a good thing for this match. Starts off feeling like a fun contest, with subs and pins and whatnot - makes the S Cup feel like sports. Great big moves about midway - Kameyo is gonna take this easily… and then not so much. Marisa piles on the pain and Kameyo ain’t got nothin. Tap out win out of nowhere, which is fine. Could’ve been a banger, but get that S-Cup pointage. Also Mad Dawg needs to settle down, mans out of hand C-Note’s other personality Decent scene setting. This is the best C-Note, not the gimp fancier. Claiming credit for getting Champions into their gold (yes this is out of date and Telos wasn’t yet, sue me) is a fun one. Spends not enough time on Mark Reese for me, but it is what it is. Moves the story, that’s all we can ask for. Burn Book. I can recycle what i’ve already said here. Burying the whole roster is dumb. If you beat them, who’d you beat? If you lose to them, you’re a fool. Quite long and also some of it just isn’t that entertaining… feels like an open mic slot. Anywho Reese Reese talkin’ like this is a great immersion tool, more people should talk like people talk. If you get what I’m saying (talkin’). Good babyface challenge. He even said the name of the show! Exciting times, we roll on. Maxx vs Chance ***¾ Maxx has one of the more complete characters in OCW, and his entrance shows that off pretty well. You know it’s him and you know what he’s all about just from that entrance. V well done. Chance wears a Be Unique shirt but it has a GnG logo on it, so surely that makes him not unique and therefore a hypocrite? Idk. He’s muscly. So is his partner. Anyways I’m getting hung up. Don’t care for his music, wish it was a little more unique. Oh I did it again. Lots of strikes and quick shit to start us off. Both clearly good at the game, maybe have each others number but we’ll see how it shakes out. Chance’s moveset feels off to me, he’s flippy and strong and that always feels weird to me when he’s against someone who looks physically more imposing. Maxx looks like he’s going to take the lead in several points but Chance cuts him off, no real dominance yet. Maxx setting up the 2 flying clotheslines into the kick was nice, but its cut off again! Maxx finally takes control with 1 finisher, kick out… 2 finisher… oh its blocked again, here we go into the end game surely! Chance fires back, trading finishers, exciting end to the match. Can’t help but think we could’ve injected some 2 count near falls here, because I bet those bars were wide but I digress. Maxx goes in - sig, 3 fins. Japanese finish, good ending. Devon If i had a dollar for every time I’d heard the “rules of pimpin’” in OCW I’d be a very rich man. SMASH THE PATRIARCHY! Decent promo, hyping the division, but I hate the word “banger” and think everyone that uses it should be stricken from OCW. Oh shit I just typed it. Am I the hypocrite? Story moves, like I said, it’s messy but they’re working it out. Teaser for Main event Emp is working out of her skin at the moment. Doing work to get everyone else over. Does the best work, easily main event level. Fuck you though. Lobby are Great. Shianne I wish this youngster would stop yelling, Jim Black is a senior citizen, he doesn’t need this level of aggression. One thing to note here - Jim calling Flojo a weasel when Flojo is currently on a face arc feels like it could’ve been avoided - OCW is a team sport, and Jim is a company man. Decent promo though, we’re on a theme of getting things pretty good tonight. Parking Lot Stuff Oh yeah, the backstage chaos Devon mentioned. Took a while but we’re finally here. Chance no-selling his match and he’s ready to go home. Again, probably not something that can be blamed on Chance, but even still. Jarring. I feel like Chance’s monologue was a little wordy - I would’ve liked to see Devon make the save, but he got lost on the way. Don’t look at me, I had nothing to do with this. Deaver/Green So there’s one really solid thing here - it’s an actual conversation with people talking like people would talk. So big plus there. I wish this thing would click into gear soon, but it’s not offensive to me, clearly setting up something else, so we’ll wait and see what comes of it. Greene is doing Versus late 2000s shit and I’m here for it Heather vs Moore *** Glad Heather left that silly simp in his box, attire is nice, entrance is nice. Doc makes stars as long as he doesn’t have to write for them. Ashley has a great look, we all love Ashley. Until we get into the match and she turns into a meanie. Lots of kicks early, felt like there were some frames missing, which was weird, curse you DNS! Jesus wept look at Ashley’s heels, they can’t be regulation. More missing frames, lots of reversals, doesn’t really have a flow to it at all this match. I’m not vibing with it. I want to. I’m just not. Heather’s moveset upsets me. Doc always manages to find the worse, most indy looking moves. Cretin. S-Cup onslaught. Ashley beating the brakes off her, ref should call this now. Missed Mist. Say that 20 times fast. Heather trying to survive, Ashley isn’t interested. Demolition, but a boring one to me 😬. Lost half a star for the handshake. Deborah OCW has an epidemic of simps. Its too much! Deborah is coming to Turmoil! Good scene setting, I like Deborah a lot because Jek knows how to make people feel like a big deal. He doesn’t have that Alt syndrome that I often discuss. Both Deborah and Karmine are pointing me to next week and I’m excited to see what they got. Great stuff. Parca Mopey world champions are not my world champions. Lots of putting his past over. Lots of putting his pals/past opponents over. Nothing that makes me want to see him fight Maxx. I discussed it last time, but the laundry list of things that have happened to you does not build anticipation for a match. You can sprinkle them in here or there, but mentioning folks like KCB doesn’t feel big time for a World Title feud. It’s a World Title feud! Make me care about MAXX. Make me care about the showdown. None of this does. Hopefully the conversation next week does. Maxx/Bishop Good work on setting the scene, good work on talking like people talk. Could’ve done with this not being immediately after Parca (maybe earlier idk) because it was a bit jarring again, but not Maxx’s fault. Little bit of intrigue, little bit of building…something, Riot rumbles on. Perfect Storm Again, but for real this time? I like the promo set up BUT I would like it even more if poses changed when the person speaking changed/or a sentence ended for the same person. That way I don’t feel like I’ve missed something if I glance away, which I always do when H2O is talking. They try to unpick some of the logic holes from the match earlier. Wrex looks like he fucking stinks. Kass arrives and the crowd goes mild… PIPE IN SOME POPS BROTHER. Kass references the past in a passing way. He doesn’t dwell on it, the correct way. Then things got confusing as he was talking to Wrex but facing… idk. Maybe indicate he’s talking to Wrex. Some of these lines are a bit… not English. And a damp squib ending. Shame because I like all 4. EMP vs SUEPLEX ***¾ Sue Plex is one of my favourites in the wimmins division, mostly because she’s easy to get behind. Classic face stuff. Emp stinks but like i’ve said so many times, is a star. Star star star. The best Wimmin in OCW history no doubt. Caution tape was cool. Good back and forth to start this one, Sue doing some POWERFUL shit to keep Emp flat, but Emp soon takes over and Sue forgets to put her fuckin hands up. Goes back to some heavy back and forth and it’s really fun into the end. Ending out of nowhere but I really enjoyed this match. Fuck EMP Dramatic Finale Dug the comic book style of this. Think the Valmont beatdown thing might be played out, but I digress. Is Emp dressed like Aladdin when the Genie makes him a prince? I would’ve loved this to be a voice promo. I can visualise it and hear it in my head. Attempted murder and an iconic shot of JCS carrying that dumb bitch’s carcass. It was pretty fun. Well produced, and dumb as fuck. Well done. me waiting for Devon to show up in the parking lot

I will review the show but allow me to gush about my match for a moment. Jimmy was shit at this game earlier in the season, he joined a few DMs and was terrible. He’s quietly learned the game, taken advice and put in the work to improve. We’d been DMing recently and I knew this, so I was excited as fuck for this match. As soon as that match was finished, I DM’d him and told him it was the match of the night. We ended up having mad chemistry and that’s a testament to how well he gets ocw. The post match stuff, he basically did himself. I did a little bit of clean up and some sound design, but it was all Jimmy who got this shit over. We ended up with a segment that reminded me of the shit we used to do in 2013. That’s why you all liked it. It was KISS in the extreme. Simple pro wrestling done right. I’m also able to post this because of Jimmy’s hard work. This is the only time I’ll ever gush about people, but DNS are so fucking easy to work with. They’re old heads at heart, and I’m proud we were able to give them this coming out party. Also fuck DNS, this isn’t over.

Review Time! Sorry its late. No I'm not sorry. Belle chats to Stacy That voice sends shivers down my spine. Well put together, I’m never a fan of pally pally faces but Belle didn’t overdo it with the references to previous matches/other ladies. She also got out of there quick. Stacy doesn’t look like that though. Paging Dr Emp Emp is the natural successor to the Dupree/Spider/Mugen style of nonsense. I hate it, but its a staple in OCW. Not everything is for me. John being a shitty weasel is fine, although EMP is the star of the show here. Get out there and wrestle idiot. Does it’s job, gets us to the match later. Decent. Future Idiotz vs Perfect Storm (N/A rating) John needs a better VO. Jordan needs one. Or neither of them need one. Consistency is what we need. Classic bait and switch but allow me to place my logical hat on. Who rang the bell? Don’t we need both teams in the ring to start the match? This referee is wildin’. I also feel like it went on a little bit too long. If that’s what we’re doing, you can probably cut the middle part out and have the ref go 1…2..3…some more… 8…9…10. Or something IDK, it could’ve strayed into Valmont beatdown territory if it wasn’t careful. I guess you can play it off as Future Idiotz having powerful friends, or being stupid, but there’s no reason Ted should be complicit. Maybe Jordan rings the bell and counts the count? Anyway, keeps the story in motion which is what we like to see. Palkha Aadne From a technical standpoint, I’m always wary about other languages in dialogue. Always breaks my immersion because its not spoken - especially the case when we’re not dealing with familiar characters. Anyways, dunno. Sister in hospital, hopefully, it has a match build at the end of it. Everyone’s dragging their families around, what happened to leaving your family at home when you went on the road. It also smells a bit like a way to introduce another alt. Alts introducing Alts. Alt-ception. Joanna So I’m split on this promo. One hand, it keeps the train rolling which is great, but I got bored in the middle. Allow me to open my third eye. It’s down to movement. If you had a couple camera cuts in here, couple of closeups, pans, zooms, whatever. Maybe cut back and forth to the TV, I’m invested. It’s well put together, so you can tweak it and make it more interesting to watch as a viewer, but for me, the AI voice’s cadence coupled with the handful of full body cuts kinda Meh’d me out. Can’t be too critical though, it’s advancing the story and building a match and that’s exactly what I want from a promo. Perl Great scene setting early on in the promo, kudos for that. Your standard “I’m going to dominate the division” that Flojo has been carting out for 5 years. It’s hard to introduce a character, so it makes sense, but it was a bit samey. All the women in the division spend time yelling about anyone and everyone, it feels like only a few have a proper focus. Also if this is the same Stacy answering the phone it makes OCW look rinky dink. Office above a deli, meetings with JCS stink of ham. IDK. Fuck DNS. Hifumi vs Belle **** Hifumi has great presence, enjoying her the last few weeks I’ve seen her. Belle is the quintessential tanned meat babyface and I’m glad because OCW can often lack them. Great back and forth to start, both have decent movesets and went HAM trying to show them off early. Genuinely thought we were in for a short one when Belle took over, but again, wildly back and forth. Dragged a little on the outside towards the end, but that can happen sometimes. Overall really enjoyable match. Nothing but compliments, felt like a wrestling match, didn’t feel like they were battling in the Sahara. Karmine Doing the New York schtick because that’s the easiest way for a babyface to get the fans onside. Great stuff. I really like Karmine despite the fact he looks like Carrot Top’s penis. Some great babyface work, completely different to Jake’s other characters and a great example of how to run an alt in OCW. Leaves you wanting to see the next match, grand! Twisted Greed OK. To what end? I’ve said this a few times, and no doubt i’ll say it more. Why? And I know the answer will be “let it play out” but this feels like a decently put-together video for no real purpose at the moment. And I said that last week. We need substance at some point, otherwise you’re just spinning your wheels and getting nobody hyped. The only note I have on the video really, apart from that - careful with some of the fonts. It’s hard to read script, it's hard to read red on the backgrounds used, it's hard to read generally. If you’ve got a message, give me half a chance of reading it. Heather and Simp Stacy has been a receptionist tonight already, and now she’s an investigative reporter. Cody’s role in this promo is kinda redundant, you could’ve used Stacy to add the colour he does. I hope he gets some interest soon, because him just hanging around ain’t doing it for me brother. I also fucking hate that Heather regaled us with the results of Turmoil 237. This ain’t Cagematch brother, nobody gives a shit what happened in one match years ago. Could’ve stopped at “flaming table”. Oh there’s more “this happened way back when”. STOP NAMEDROPPING PEOPLE WHO AREN’T RELEVANT TO YOUR STORYLINE. IT IS POINTLESS, IT JUST MAKES PROMOS NEEDLESSLY RAMBLING. River Cool segment. Let’s see what she’s got. Bonucci Promo is fine, although it always feels like everyone’s embroiled in their own Like A Dragon storyline. Has some intrigue, as evidenced by the question marks. Watch your tenses - there’s past and present, you’re talking about things that are happening - Camera fades, not faded. I thought B17 was the teacher… Scotty X Scotty X is 90% pyro 10% personality. He’s trying to seem babyface-ish but it’s just not hitting for me. Promo is face by numbers, which isn’t the worst thing in the world, I just want Scotty to be a smarmy little twat. Jynx’s music is fucking horrific as discussed on End Games, I wish it matched his vibe. Technical stuff again - you’ve got a lot of text on the screen and its tough to get through it all before its gone. Very imaginative though. Gets the feud moving again, which is delicious. Flojo AJM OK, lemme start by saying this promo is decent, it’s telling a story and it’s pretty engaging, so props on that. Now let me finish by saying Flojo is basically a 10 year vet at this point and shouldn’t be being caught out by rookies rolling around on the mat. I get the vibe - learning at the Dojo, but it feels like a year 1 storyline, not a “I’m about to be world champion” storyline. Anyway, moves things on, so good work. KCBAE vs DNS *** If they’re a team now, fine, but they’re both incredibly unlikeable. Maybe they’re doing their jobs properly. The other DNS look imposing enough. Chaotic start, couple of nice tags. Samson’s moveset still doesn’t make a lick of sense, but that’s old ground. BAE doing the good job of being a shitheel, I don’t want to root for anyone in this match, they’re all incredibly unlikeable. I wish Omen was more imposing. I don’t know what it is, but something is off about him. Lots of flubs, lots of flips, damp finish. We move. Paul Boulet Boulet shows up to do Boulet things. Injects some goodness into proceedings. IDK if there were legit reasons the match didn’t get done, but Boulet can always be relied on to turn chicken shit into chicken poutine. Bobbi Pasties on Riot. We were so concerned with making it that we never asked ourselves if we should make it. This feels out of sequence because the “tag title match” happened earlier, and now she’s talking about Emp handing them over. That’s clearly not on Ry, thats a scheduling conflict. Guess Bobbi is dead? Getting run over by a freight train will do that to you. Tag title story keeps moving, but doesn’t get any less convoluted! ///more later////

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Review will be late but it's coming!

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Hi Kass

Nobody had 8 seconds huh? Main Event was a great match, the coolness of the same finish happening is something to behold - just goes to show the best shit happens when the best people organically dive on something the game gives you - no need for advanced planning. Didn't so much care for seeing Drago carrying other people's feuds, but he's nice, so he'll never say no. Horse is one of my new favourites - something I never thought I'd say way back when.

I miss Super Mario Bash :(

Everything about Boulet/Aisu was great. The match and the stuff around it. Really great stuff. Last page of this show is OCW at its best version of pro wrestling. All voice/AI promos need subtitles because then I can mute them and imagine how they should sound. That was 8 seconds right?

It isn't even funny how good DNS is. We wanted an Ambition 4 in 2013, we didn't really get one. We've potentially got one now

I have never felt as much anger as I did when I was forced to utter the word "Leonheart" on a show about rookies in 2023... Matches solid, template broken, but we move. Bolek, Samsin, Mad Dawg, A-Mart and Jake, thank you for your additional content - could've been a tumbleweed moment with the change to a regular show format again, so glad it wasn't.

Of course, and I’ve reached out for pointers as suggested.

Someone, say Solomon Caine, has clearly never seen a Pugh match. Don’t get any on you, steal someone else’s win. Ezpz

Amongst all of your Elon Musk doom scrolling you come across something novel - OCWFed’s twitter feed posting something useful. You hit full screen and you’re met with a dirty subway station - its New York City, you recognise it from the TV and the Movies - but where? As if by magic, a subway sign comes into shot - 34th-Penn… the Madison Square Garden stop. The camera starts to zoom out to reveal the former four-time OCW World Heavyweight Champion and the recipient of four different Match of the Year awards Paul Pugh. He’s pointing at the sign Pugh: This place. Is a fucking shithole. It’s smelly, dirty, and it’s overrun with rats… oh sorry I’m pointing at the wrong sign. He points the other direction at a hastily printed out OCWFED logo that he’s stuck to the subway wall. Pugh: That’s better isn’t it… See - I’ve not competed on Riot for what? Two… Three years? It feels like an eternity and you know what… maybe I’ve got the itch again. Maybe I want to have a little run-out. An exhibition. An easy wee match. Something to wet the whistle… and you know what? He grins Pugh: I can’t think of an easier opponent than the man that I’m always three steps ahead of… the biggest, smelliest, dirtiest rat of them all - Rust Cohle. He chuckles Pugh: A man who thinks he's something, a man who constantly finds himself on the wrong side of our exchanges… an idiot. A copycat idiot stinker who isn’t worth the adulation you idiots give him. A man who has been stealing my schtick since the moment he arrived here… so tomorrow… He takes a deep breath Pugh: Well tomorrow I’m going to demolish him in the middle of that ring. See - my people have been on to the OCW Brass. We’ve been having some conversations and we’ve done a one-night-only, never to be repeated again deal - tomorrow night, you’re going to see me, Kid Ego, the A1 First Ballot Hall of Fame superstar - the Best ever in action… He grins Pugh: Against Rust Cohle. It’s time for these games to end… See you tomorrow Mon Ami! He does a short pose before the video ends, sending you back to whatever disgusting anime accounts you follow. Your mother would be ashamed… fucking creep.

Weirdly the segment is word for word based on an altercation Pugh had with Zicky Dice about 6 months ago in the Orlando international airport. Arrests were made and subpoenas issued. Now for the French one.

We’ve all had our fun but you should do a slight bit of research. “The owner” makes you sound like you’ve used this promo in 20 proboards efeds. Call him his name. If you stick around, pull back on the I AM THE GREATEST stuff. OCW isn’t about wins/losses (despite what you might hear on the grapevine). When you lose, and you will, you need to be able to steer out the other side and keep going. Leave yourself room to do that, especially in your first week. It’s ok to be cocky, but have a watch of some shows and you’ll see that already exists - try and find a gap that doesn’t exist and make it your own.

“All I’ve done for OCW” is fucking laughable when these people have barely been here for a cup of coffee. Bringing shit into disrepute because they wanna get one over on the meanies on discord. You all should be making grovelling apologies to jay if you were/are involved in this shit, period.

“Let it play out” was literally Chet’s calling card. You boys need to stop sniffing your own farts and start looking at what is right in front of you. This mean girls shit has hit whole new levels from what I can see. The video wasn’t well made. A smarter person could’ve made these points and not spent 5 minutes doing it. It’s the Valmont beat down of shitty text promos. Bottom line is, if you’re starting a feud with someone, they should be aware of it. Since they’re not, that excuse holds no water either. You did something fucking stupid, accept the criticisms, apologise and don’t do it again. Simple.

Whoever did the Sanctum promo is a fucking dolt. There is no way to slice it differently. It doesn't just feel weird, I'd rank it as one of the biggest missteps I've ever seen in OCW. From a purely wrestling logic, kayfabe standpoint (as Caine points out above) if this was building a match then maybe it had a minimal amount of merit, but to my understanding that doesn't seem to be the case. But for argument's sake, let's pretend we're building a match. A) If Sanctum are so much better than TWC, what's the point in having the match? You've shown us, with stats, why they're not going to beat Sanctum so why the fuck would we watch the match? We already know the outcome, case closed. No asses in seats. 3 minute squash match. B) If TWC were to win this match, then there's no coming back from that for Sanctum. They've discredited their opponent so spectacularly there that a TWC win basically spells the end of Sanctum's own credibility. C) If we're to consider these two teams the best in the division, and there's such a gulf in ability, then you're exposing a weak division. In your role as champion you're supposed to build up your opponents/division so that its more impressive when you dominate said (seemingly strong) division. But there is no match, right? It's not mentioned elsewhere on shows, so there's no ongoing feud? So that must mean then I'm looking at something different - I'm looking at whoever created this video not having a grasp on what OCW fundamentally is. Now, I'll preface this by saying that I've done petty shit myself in OCW - namely WL8 where me and Parker wrote a promo shooting on people, not based in kayfabe. That was dumb. That was something that I regret to this day. That was something I am sorry to Trance and Aries for. First the context of this video demonstrates something that I keep saying but nobody listens to - thirsting for wins makes you look stupid. Making a 5 minute video where you've had to do fucking RESEARCH for no other reason than to try and highlight that someone hasn't won that many matches is fucking stupid. It's extra, its ridiculous and its one of the silliest things I've ever seen done in OCW. Not to mention it was done without the permission of half of those involved. OCW is not about wins or losses, OCW is about having a compelling character who has interesting feuds. Its about teamwork to create an entertaining wrestling show at all times. This doesn't create an interesting show, this exposes disharmony in a way that makes no logical sense on a wrestling show. If I were an outsider thinking of joining OCW, how do you think I'd react to this? I bet not favourably, it feels (and I hate this dumb word) "toxic". Thank your lucky stars its not 2013 and I'm not GM - I would've closed down the division based on this one promo. What makes this more stupid is that a week ago Jay was asking for everyone to pull together, same direction, and make OCW a happier place to be. Apparently whoever made this video either didn't get the memo or thinks they are bigger than OCW. Sanctum are not bigger than OCW. An outsider looking in's view is that they're champions of a dead division. If you don't like Rust or John or whoever, cool, but a 5 minute hit piece that isn't even trying to build a match is a terrible way to express that. If you want to be considered a main eventer in OCW, this is the kind of bush league shit that will get you further and further away from that goal - and trust me on that, because it happened to me when I was talking shit on shows back in the day. For me, this video was a waste of the effort that was put into it, and disrespectful to the time of the people expected to view it. Both in and out of kayfabe it fundamentally undermines the person who made it, and I hope you fucking apologise to the community for your bone-headedness. I said it last week, I've said it before, and I'll keep saying it. OCW is great if you work together, behaviour like this makes people not want to be here, which in turn will kill OCW. So grow up and show it, and Jay some fucking respect. Or go hang out with Chet in the badlands. Idiots. PS Scotty X looks ridiculous in a good way.

Fuck it, lets watch a match. Parker vs C-Note EP - Music is rubbish, doesn’t fit the vibe of the entrance at all. Bin it, go for something else, 90% of whether people care about you is your music - that’s just science. We’re also missing crowd noise which really doesn’t help me (as new eyes) know who the heel/face is. THe game gives you the reaction for free, use it. C-Note - Same deal. Jarring music change, dunno what I was expecting but this ain’t it. Think it was bad editing but again, no idea what C-Note is because its a hodgepodge of meh. First things first, very similar dudes. Moveset wise, attire wise. I don’t think they’re a tag team (maybe i missed something in the promo at the start of the show) but they certainly are very similar if not. One of the big pieces of advice I can give you is, if someone is in the same lane as you in OCW, switch lanes. The Dark Prophet thing is done to death in OCW, and it’s tough to do it better than everyone has done previously. Match wise - Parker “Parkered” C-Note which made me laugh. Felt like a video game, plenty of action but I had no idea who I’m supposed to be rooting for. Taunt! Pin! Do something to make me know what you want me to do as a viewer. It was a very dry, no personality match for me. Video game action is fine, but make me FEEL. Flat ending, Elliot learn where your finisher pin radius ends up, and don’t hit pin if you’re even remotely near the ropes - we’ve all been there, but when you have to drag your opponent it looks daft and breaks immersion because the game has had them kick out automatically once, so why would they stay down for a second time 5 seconds later. Much better to not chain the pin, then drag them. That’s all I’ve got. Don’t get the promo at the end, guess its a feud so that’s good news. Improve kiddos, because I’ve heard you’re both not terrible.