ARMCHAIR WARFARE: Season 2 - TV WEEK ONE **SCORES POSTED**

[The Show Off]

Bad Ass Wrestling: Week One Review
by The Show Off

• Like immediately letting the audience know what kind of roster you have, makes me want to read further knowing the talent I’m about to see/read.

• Rampage is a good name for a show. Best name for a show yet.

• I like that the company is already established yet the show is a premiere. It allows you to have your cake and eat it too. You get to explain everything like it’s all brand new yet you get to have already running storylines to work off of.

• I appreciate giving the time of the promos.

• The tag match seems like a pretty good main event, winner gets a shot at The Undertaker’s belt, good start.

• Good job in giving Kazarian back the moniker “The Future” though I myself prefer “The Coolest” but at least it makes him less generic to give him a moniker.

• Good intercontinental title match to kick off the in-ring portion of the show, gives the impression that things happen on Rampage.

• Daniels cuts a promo (that doesn’t really sound like a Daniels promo) but we learn that he faced Taker before and he wants another shot. Good job in showing what’s at stake.

• I guess Maryse is doing the same little promos putting over the show as Sunny used to do in ’96? Interesting gimmick to bring back, There doesn’t need to be payoff with this it’s good to see that you really want to flesh out a feel to your show and believe it or not little things like this help.

• The comedic interaction between Slater and Sheffield gives you an immediate feel for them in this promotion, good job.

• Good job of quickly showing that Ink Inc. are the protoges of The Hardys which is a pretty good position for them, and could lead to some interesting things.

• I would have rather played with the gimmick of the Slater/Sheffield tag team a little longer but I’ll see where it goes from here. An electric guitar as a weapon isn’t safe like the fake aucostic ones used by Jarrett but it goes with Slater’s “On Man Rock Band” gimmick so it’s okay.

• Multi-tasking with your promos is good. In one promo we established that RVD can’t trust Raven, Bubba and RVD are friends, and that there is tension between Bubba and Jesse Neal.

• Not a fan of the term “hot-ass” for women’s wrestlers but I guess since the promotion is “Bad-Ass Wrestling” it works in context.

• Desmond Wolfe is certainly a jerk, and Hurricane comes in for the save of the ladies. I would have liked for Hamada and Daffeny to actually try and fight Wolfe (to no avail obviously) since they are two actual wrestlers and not just divas made to wrestle. Them being handled easily takes away their credibility (despite the fact they’re up against a great wrestler in Wolfe).

• Road 2 Ruin is a good PPV name. Road to Ruin would be better. I like that you give it a corporate sponsor makes it feel more realistic.

• Was the main event match “No Disqualification” because their sure was a hell of a lot of chair play in that match. I think you need to state why all those chair shots didn’t lead to a disqualification. Otherwise it’s a good way to get RVD and Raven out of the match while still allowing them to look good.

• Not too keen on the finish of the main event. Drew McIntyre running in does nothing for me and Daniels looks very weak in becoming the number one contender. He taps to Joe then needs Drew’s help to win then gets abducted. Are we really supposed to believe that he can beat The Undertaker?

• I noticed you have a very similar roster to This Is Wrestling (which I booked last season shows 3,4 and PPV) Just an observation…