Season 3 of DW's existence won't be remembered with much of anything that happened in the ring. With no PPV event at the end of the season for the first time since the creation of the fed storylines didn't develop too fast and no big matches came. There was one exception - after losing her CW title at the start of the second week of the season the Slayer went on to the following show four days later and with a clear display of dominance proved that she had not so much lost the title as she passed it on to the next in line. After that she began a two season long series on Last Blood matches that became know as the Blood Gauntlet. Each week she would face a heavyweight and defeat them by beating them so badly they would pass out in the ring. The object of that grueling series of matches was for Buffy to prove her worthiness and earn a Heavyweight title shot. She did indeed earn it but the toll of seven consecutive Last Blood battles tuned out to be too high and she fell just short of the mark at the NEW DAWN PPV on May 8th 2010 in front of a sold out 8400 seat Darkness Arena.
The record attendance for Season 3 was 8000 viewers at the closing show of the season. The average attendance through the season was a healthy 5753,6 seats per show over the 5 shows that the fed aired that season - if the three missed shows are take into account the average over 8 shows drops to just under 3600.
The fourth season saw a total 57571 visit the 8 DW events that season resulting in a 7200 average attendance throughout the season. With seven completely sold out shows it was one of the best seasons for the fed in terms ticket sales coming very close to 100% sold out season.
The Season saw the creation of the latest two DW championships and the crowning of their first holders. The Heavyweight Tag Team championship was contested on the first show of the season and won by the team of the first ever HW Champion Altilon who partnered up Vagabond. The titles have been vacant on two occasions - both times after one of the holders left DW and their partner either didn't find or didn't look for a replacement for them. Among the interesting details surrounding the belts are that Blackwing was Altilon's biggest nightmare for a second time taking away the HW Tag gold from him after only a three week run only to vacate the titles a few days later when his partner MaNe did not re-sing with the company. Altilon regained the gold with a new partner the following season becoming the first man to win the belts twice. That feat has since been repeated by every single holder to follow with only two teams winning the title twice in with the same team composition. The most successful competitor in regards to this title is Buffy who managed to win the title four times with three different partners, with 3 title runs right behind her is Carnage but he has left DW and is unknown if he will ever return. The teams of Eric Tank and Kokina and Buffy and Carnage are the only two to win the belts a second time while still in the same team configuration. The belts have been won 10 times in total by a combined 10 different wrestlers. The longest run belongs to the team of Carnage and kAotiker 10.5 weeks from June 9th to August 14th 2010. With 14 weeks Buffy hold the longest combined run the first 7.5 weeks of which were a continuous reign despite her having to change partners during the run. Notably her other two runs were only set apart by a period during which the titles were vacant and not held by another team.
The first Hardcore champion was crowned after a tournament that ended on May 1st and was won by Antonio Inoki. The HC title has been won 5 times, each time by a different wrestler making it only the second belt that has had no repeat winners and on the same ground with the CW title in terms of number of holders. A fact that is truly surprising given that the title's rules allow for the same exact champion to be challenged for the gold twice in the same night and for the title itself to be contested up to three times in the course of a single show. The challenge can also come at any time during a show as long as the champion is not currently competing - if he is he is required to take the challenge between 5 and 10 minutes from finishing his ongoing. match. Those rules have only been made use of once at the Season 6 DOMINION PPV where Mr. "Crowly" Murder challenged Ulysses just a few minutes after he had one the HC title becoming the first and to date only DW wrestler to have hold two championships at the same time. Crowly won the match making Ulysses' two title's run last only about 5 minutes. Crowly holds the record for longest reign with the belt after holding it for three full months from August 14th to November 13th 2010 when he was stripped of the title for conduct unbecoming a champion after repeatedly running away from his matches with greeny paws.
сряда, 23 февруари 2011 г.
The begining.
The first ever DW show aired on November 18th 2009. It was a Skirmish show, back then those were on Wednesdays, and got us just shy of 3000 attendance. It may not sound much but as first shows go this one did pretty well.... well it did the job anyway. I created DW with the idea that it will be a place for players to come and learn RP and develop their wrestlers so at first I wasn't looking to closely to the factors that would make us stand out in a crowd.
Originally we had three singles championships and one tag team championship - the last one was aimed at the midcard. Since I was looking to have a fed that ran most of it's matches unedited and I wanted our first title holders to earn their gold, tournaments were started for each title.
The first tournament to finish and therefore crown a champion was the Lightweight Championship Tournament. The winner - Samael (no longer competing on TWG) - became the first ever DW title holder. His run however didn't last as he lost the title to The Dark Dragon the following week on the same night as the rest of DW's original Champions were crowned. Dragon's runs didn't last long either and that trend not only continued but has become a trademark of the LW title - It has changed hands 13 times, it has been vacated due to the reigning champion leaving the fed 3 times and it has been held by 11 different wrestlers with only The Soldier~ and Dutch Butcher managing to ever reclaim the belt. The longest anyone has held onto the title is a 14 week run by Dutch Butcher from June 5th to September 22nd 2010.
On the same night when the LW belt first changed hands the remaining two singles titles and the tag team one were first handed to their respective champions.
The DW Tag Team Championship was won by Muffinman and Drax. Drax went on to become the first wrestler in DW to have held any two belts in the fed when he won the LW title about two months later while Muffinman has cemented his legacy in DW as a tag team wrestler by winning the belts on two more occasions with different partners. In fact while numerous wrestlers have held the DW Tag gold more that once only one team has managed to win the titles twice. The longest title reign with the Tag Team gold was 13 weeks and belongs to that exact team of A.J Styles and Antonio Inoki. They held the belts from November 16th 2010 to January 25th 2011 and are again champions after reclaiming the titles four days later on the 29th.
The Cruiserweight Championship was decided in a match between Buffy and Carnage. Carnage came out on top in a convincing win but it only seemed to motivate his opponent who made a serious comeback the following season and won the title at DW's second PPV event NEW DEPTHS. Since then only three others have held the CW gold in DW and no one has ever won the champioship more than once. The current champion Ulysses hold the record for a DW title run with any title - he won the Cruiserweight title on August 14th 2010 and has been impressive in it's defense in those over 6 months since.
Finally the Big One, the DW Heavyweight Title was contested in the main event of the December 5th 2009 show. In a match that was highly anticipated Altilon crushed Blackwing in a manner not much different that the one in which he dealt with his other opponents in the tournament. The three matches it took Altilon to win the title earned him the nickname "The Monster of Darkness Wrestling" due to the one sided destruction of his opponents. A week later at DW's first ever PPV - PITCH BLACK - Blackwing managed to scratch away a win and the title. The gold would stay outside of it's first holder's reach for a full year before he reclaimed it joining the elite club of two time DW Heavyweight Champions. Ironically Altilon won back the title from the very man that first took it away from him - Blackwing - in a Fatal Four Way Hell In A Cell match where the other contestants were Spike an Bullet-tooth Tony. The DW Heavyweight title has been held by six different wrestlers, three of them boasting two reigns each. It is one of only two championships to have never been vacant(the other being the DW Tag Team titles). The longest run with the title belongs to Blackwing 22 weeks from June 26th to December 4th 2010. Blackwing also holds the record for the longest combined title runs - with his first reign of 13 weeks he gathers up 35 weeks as Heavyweight Champion.
At the start of DW's second season it became apparent that to youngest stars on the roster were not in a position to compete for the LW title. The wrestlers that had their eye on that belt were just too experienced and too strong for them. So in an effort to keep their interest peaked and keep them on the roster a new Championship was created - the DW New Blood Championship. Only available to wrestlers under a certain age and who have been with DW for less than 3 seasons it was the title that was intended to give it's holders that initial boost that would propel them ahead in future seasons. Instead it started to look more and more like a curse to win the NB gold as only three of the 9 holders of the belt made it anywhere after they lost the right to compete for it. That idea was dispelled when the second ever holder A.J Styles after leaving DW went on to create and run a promotion of his own before returning recently and winning the Tag Team titles twice with partner Antonio Inoki. His return coincided with the first time any former NB champion made a successful direct transition up the roster after first ever two time holder Kahlan moved out of the youth division and started the climb that would later allow her two win the LW championship. Two other wrestlers have also held the NB gold twice - Elemental Hero Tempest and Justin "RockStar" Pheonix. Tempest has started his own climb up the ladder while Pheonix is making use of the recent change in the rules regarding the title ( the period in which wrestles can compete for the belt was extended from 3 to 4 seasons after they arrive at DW)
and will be attempting to become the first ever three time winner. Much like the LW title the New Blood belt changes holders often but that is to be expected when you consider the limited time one can challenge for and hold the belt. The belt has been won 12 times four of which after being left vacant for one reason or another. The longest title run belongs to Kahlan - 13 weeks from June 26th to September 22nd 2010. Combined with her second run as champion of 2.5 weeks she sits at 14.5 weeks as NB champion.
During the first two seasons DW struggled to bring in big crowds to it's shows only managing 3631 attendance in it's peak Season 1 event the PITCH BLACK PPV. The first time Darkness Arena was eve filled was at the second PPV and the end of the second season at NEW DEPTHS DW for the first time had to turn fans away from the arena after filling all 6000 seats.
Originally we had three singles championships and one tag team championship - the last one was aimed at the midcard. Since I was looking to have a fed that ran most of it's matches unedited and I wanted our first title holders to earn their gold, tournaments were started for each title.
The first tournament to finish and therefore crown a champion was the Lightweight Championship Tournament. The winner - Samael (no longer competing on TWG) - became the first ever DW title holder. His run however didn't last as he lost the title to The Dark Dragon the following week on the same night as the rest of DW's original Champions were crowned. Dragon's runs didn't last long either and that trend not only continued but has become a trademark of the LW title - It has changed hands 13 times, it has been vacated due to the reigning champion leaving the fed 3 times and it has been held by 11 different wrestlers with only The Soldier~ and Dutch Butcher managing to ever reclaim the belt. The longest anyone has held onto the title is a 14 week run by Dutch Butcher from June 5th to September 22nd 2010.
On the same night when the LW belt first changed hands the remaining two singles titles and the tag team one were first handed to their respective champions.
The DW Tag Team Championship was won by Muffinman and Drax. Drax went on to become the first wrestler in DW to have held any two belts in the fed when he won the LW title about two months later while Muffinman has cemented his legacy in DW as a tag team wrestler by winning the belts on two more occasions with different partners. In fact while numerous wrestlers have held the DW Tag gold more that once only one team has managed to win the titles twice. The longest title reign with the Tag Team gold was 13 weeks and belongs to that exact team of A.J Styles and Antonio Inoki. They held the belts from November 16th 2010 to January 25th 2011 and are again champions after reclaiming the titles four days later on the 29th.
The Cruiserweight Championship was decided in a match between Buffy and Carnage. Carnage came out on top in a convincing win but it only seemed to motivate his opponent who made a serious comeback the following season and won the title at DW's second PPV event NEW DEPTHS. Since then only three others have held the CW gold in DW and no one has ever won the champioship more than once. The current champion Ulysses hold the record for a DW title run with any title - he won the Cruiserweight title on August 14th 2010 and has been impressive in it's defense in those over 6 months since.
Finally the Big One, the DW Heavyweight Title was contested in the main event of the December 5th 2009 show. In a match that was highly anticipated Altilon crushed Blackwing in a manner not much different that the one in which he dealt with his other opponents in the tournament. The three matches it took Altilon to win the title earned him the nickname "The Monster of Darkness Wrestling" due to the one sided destruction of his opponents. A week later at DW's first ever PPV - PITCH BLACK - Blackwing managed to scratch away a win and the title. The gold would stay outside of it's first holder's reach for a full year before he reclaimed it joining the elite club of two time DW Heavyweight Champions. Ironically Altilon won back the title from the very man that first took it away from him - Blackwing - in a Fatal Four Way Hell In A Cell match where the other contestants were Spike an Bullet-tooth Tony. The DW Heavyweight title has been held by six different wrestlers, three of them boasting two reigns each. It is one of only two championships to have never been vacant(the other being the DW Tag Team titles). The longest run with the title belongs to Blackwing 22 weeks from June 26th to December 4th 2010. Blackwing also holds the record for the longest combined title runs - with his first reign of 13 weeks he gathers up 35 weeks as Heavyweight Champion.
At the start of DW's second season it became apparent that to youngest stars on the roster were not in a position to compete for the LW title. The wrestlers that had their eye on that belt were just too experienced and too strong for them. So in an effort to keep their interest peaked and keep them on the roster a new Championship was created - the DW New Blood Championship. Only available to wrestlers under a certain age and who have been with DW for less than 3 seasons it was the title that was intended to give it's holders that initial boost that would propel them ahead in future seasons. Instead it started to look more and more like a curse to win the NB gold as only three of the 9 holders of the belt made it anywhere after they lost the right to compete for it. That idea was dispelled when the second ever holder A.J Styles after leaving DW went on to create and run a promotion of his own before returning recently and winning the Tag Team titles twice with partner Antonio Inoki. His return coincided with the first time any former NB champion made a successful direct transition up the roster after first ever two time holder Kahlan moved out of the youth division and started the climb that would later allow her two win the LW championship. Two other wrestlers have also held the NB gold twice - Elemental Hero Tempest and Justin "RockStar" Pheonix. Tempest has started his own climb up the ladder while Pheonix is making use of the recent change in the rules regarding the title ( the period in which wrestles can compete for the belt was extended from 3 to 4 seasons after they arrive at DW)
and will be attempting to become the first ever three time winner. Much like the LW title the New Blood belt changes holders often but that is to be expected when you consider the limited time one can challenge for and hold the belt. The belt has been won 12 times four of which after being left vacant for one reason or another. The longest title run belongs to Kahlan - 13 weeks from June 26th to September 22nd 2010. Combined with her second run as champion of 2.5 weeks she sits at 14.5 weeks as NB champion.
During the first two seasons DW struggled to bring in big crowds to it's shows only managing 3631 attendance in it's peak Season 1 event the PITCH BLACK PPV. The first time Darkness Arena was eve filled was at the second PPV and the end of the second season at NEW DEPTHS DW for the first time had to turn fans away from the arena after filling all 6000 seats.
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