|
|||||||
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|||||||
| Known Founders | Mike D (IWCW), Robert D (EWCW), Stan Grubb (IWCW) |
| Booking Style | TNM simmed; various policies for determining push (exceptions: NWW in it's SAFW form) |
| Championships | lots (note: back in 1997, IWCW had a brief cruiserweight tag team title) |
|
|
|
| My title reigns | IWCW US tag team titles (Wilde Tanke and Jeff Duane; Duane and Step Govanna); NAWA US tag team championships (Wilde and Duane); unified NWICW World / NWW World championship (Ace Tanke), NWICW women's championship (Rebecca Tanke); One half of the NAWA US Tag team championships with Ace Tanke (partnered with The Giant) |
| Roleplay Style | IWCW: Email flashes that were sent
independently of the cards by email
NAWA: Originally the same; later used a guestbook NWICW: Originally the same as IWCW: Later on it used a Geocities guestbook. During the James Girard controlled era, it used a messageboard with password protection for roleplaying. EWCW: Roleplay guestbook (most roleplays were done on card) NWW (SAWF): Guestbook. |
| Who I handled | Main characters: Wilde Tanke, Jeff Duane,
Ace Tanke, Shelly Hollins, Rebecca Tanke.
I also handled at one point or another: Maximus_Ordicus*, Alex Wright**, and Step Govanna. |
| Big names there | New World Order, Stan Grubb, Maximus_Ordicus, Menace II Society, Stieners, Steve Sherman, James Girard, Power Express, "Rebel" Mike D, Hellhounds. |
| More Wilde Tanke lists, matches, links, and roleplays from these ewrestling federations here! | |
| notes |
* Owned and usually controlled by Brandon Townsend; I had control of him briefly for part of NWICW's pre James Girard days * Taking advantage of IWCW's allowed use of real wrestlers. I didn't get to really focus on them, however. |
This includes three very related federations, obviously. IWCW was my first experience in ewrestling, starting in late May of 1997. It was a simple TNM simmed and TNM logged federation. (Results were copied from TNM, and sent out through e-mail with limited commentary added between matches.) Stan Grubb was the president at the time. He used a relatively simple strategy for determining push. He told me it was based on win streaks and roleplaying. Mike Desidario and Rob Ellis co ran the federation.
Soonafter, a disappearance by Mike D and some creative problems lead to Stan Grubb taking over the federation; that didn't last long, as a power play by Mike D resulted in the federation splitting up into two different organizations; Mike D's IWCW and Stan Grubb's NAWA. Like most people I stayed in both, but I removed Wilde from IWCW. He had won the US tag team titles with Duane (they were known as Stylin') on the first ever NAWA card, but I got IWCW to agree to recognize the title change, and let me pick a new partner for Duane. I picked a backup character; Step Govanna.
I offered to write out an NAWA card, which ended up being the first time they ever had a card written out, and the first time I ever wrote a match. Or in this case, a card, even though it was short matches. (Didn't seem like it then.) Here's a match with my character, Ace Tanke, in action, against Shawn Michaels! Then there's one that crosses federation borders; a special Wildlive outside of some CWO wrestling arena, with guests MasterIceman and the New World Order! Check out the brawl!
IWCW merged with an older federation that was about to shut down (New Wave Wrestling) to form New Wave International Championship Wrestling, while NAWA stayed on it's own, outliving NWICW and feuding briefly with the AFW, then under my control, or close to it. When the NAWA closed, I made a tough choice and asked Mike D, who was AFW vice president at the time, to bring NWICW back, which he did. It struggled, of course, while AFW was at first on even grounds, before starting to struggle itself. I think it was before AFW started having dark days that James Girard applied to NWICW. Originally, he didn't get a response, so he followed the link to AFW, then located at the ewrestling.com site, and joined CWO. This proved relevant when Mike D contacted him a few weeks later. I talked to Mike D, then him, and eventually came up with an off the wall idea that turned out better than I ever would have dreamed.
Since Mike wasn't having enough time to run NWICW, maybe Girard would help. Well, Girard would only do it if he could run the show, which the three of us quickly found to be the best solution.
I continued running AFW, which had merged with SIW to form SAFW at this point, but when my co fed head vanished, Girard and I came to an interesting and poetically just decision (one somewhat bittersweet for me). Close AFW down, and I'd work as his Vice president. We brought most of the SAFW stars over to NWICW, and it out shined AFW at it's best times, and I'd say, we even outdid what the CWO did in it's first two months of competition.
It only lasted a few months, though. Shortly after AFW's short lived comeback, NWICW went into the hands of Bill Neno and Mike D, where I lost track of it. It was "initiated" into SAFW (by this point a corporation of federations, or it was supposed to be) briefly, although there were later questions who agreed to allow that. SAFW also had an NWW as part of it's member federations.
NWW, ran by Stan Grubb with help from Steve Sherman and me, was in fact, the only SAFW federation to be successful. When Grubb had to go offline for a while, it's death put SAFW out of it's miserable existence, but not before my Wilde could snag an easy NWW cruiserweight title.
There was a lot of history combined between these very intertwined federations, and most likely, a lot of it is lost for good. I'll put what I can here, and index it.
Already in March of 2001, I tried to bring SAFW back as a council,
planning to use three federations. It didn't pan out, but I somehow
suspect there'll be more attempted comebacks in the future. Hopefully,
one will take off and succeed! The closest thing going right now
is New Wave Championship Wrestling, soon
to be a part of a federation merger.