Hello
everyone, this is your resident Copycat and Imitation Hero on a very late edition
of Infinity: Immortalis Feedback. Your own King of Character is going to
dissect all the submitted promos and take a look at the week’s standings and
statistics from our very first pay-per-view at Infinity Wrestling, a show me
and Roderick Blackmore (Robbo) are very, very proud of and we thank you all for
participating in. And those who didn’t…or want to at our next Infinity Monday’s
or PPV can do so getting involved with the federation.
TAC: The Apology
Kid
Obviously
there is an apology needed for the near month delay in writing up the feedback
for the pay-per-view. I have spoken to a lot of people already, so this should
just be a rehash of some of the things we’ve already discussed. Moving forward
the feedback will be posted more promptly, as of writing this I can confirm the
Infinity #5 feedback from the latest show will be uploaded in the next ten days
at a maximum so don’t threat.
I
hope you all can understand that in the last month I have been swamped with
real life problems that have impacted upon my commitment to online wrestling…both
me and Robbo have been swamped with erratic shifts at our places of work, and
personal family problems we needed some away to attend. Infinity Feedback is if
not the most time consuming part of running the federation with exception to
the show write ups, and most other federations only do about three lines for
each match which covers everyone’s overall feedback. We like to do things
properly, and we’d rather have an amazing feedback posted than some half-measure
attempt at something that would just outright suck. At a whopping 17,641 words
and measuring at thirty word-pages feedback takes me a lot of time to write up,
even with Robbo’s assistance. I’ve received many messages regarding feedback,
and when it will be up, I have promised it will be up, but late. If I seemed
testy in any of my messages or responses it was because people don’t understand
the effort it takes to produce, re-read promo’s, process on BlogSpot, edit,
proof-read, and post. In response I have produced the greatest feedback so far
in Infinity, something worthy of Immortalis.
Anyway,
enough of that. Let us crack on with the feedback! We can all #CopyThat.
If
you want to re-read the promos from Infinity
#1, Infinity #2, Infinity #3, Infinity #4, and now Immortalis have all been uploaded…here
is the link:
Also
notice the changes to the archives page, where we have separated the Infinity
Monday’s and the PPV archives which are now separate entities altogether. My
apologies for the promo archives have not been uploaded for, some of the weeks,
it is a technical issue me and Robbo are addressing and will have it fixed as
soon as possible.
This
week we had a 76.5% attendance rate; a big 10% reduction rate from Infinity #4.
With six matches and seventeen applicable performers, we have 4 no-shows. Now
onto the bit where we name and shame those who did not complete their duties to
compete: Jason Smith, Blair Holmes, John Charismatic and Blair Holmes. We received
word from everyone involved in not showing up, mostly personal or computer
problems, but I hope they can all understand the frustration of a no-show…especially
in this shows Harmony Championship match…as it frankly wastes the time of
everyone involved.
We
are thankful that we can speak to as many people about this issue and in turn
they come back and compete for the federation as promised. Infinity management
are relaxed and as long as we can do anything to help you get a promo in on
time we are here, so hit us up whenever a problem arises such as internet problems
or hectic lives.
Having
said that many of the roster members have kept their pledge and are unflawed in
their promo score and I thank with all sincerity of my copycat heart. If you
would like to take a look at the current standings of everyone’s cumulative
promo score then head over to the Infinity Developmental page where I keep
track of the rosters progress in their promos. Here is the link:
Management
split the matches for Immortalis down the line, for the pay-per-view there was
six matches, just so you know this is who write whose match this week. But to
make it perfectly clear we read and judge every promo together so that it
removes the possibility of bias. In this show Roderick judged the promos for
the match I was in and took feedback from other people into heavy
consideration, and I judged his match with A.C. Mack under the same pretences, so
thank you to those people who assisted us in making the right call.
Neal
Powers vs. Craig Anderson vs. Matt Rydell - Blackmore
The
Copycat Kid vs. Murray Muir – TCK
Jamo
vs. Michaels vs. Tierney vs. Smith –
Blackmore
Over
Rated vs. Harding & Casanova – TCK
A.C.
Mack vs. Roderick Blackmore – Blackmore
Taylor
Westfall vs. Adrian Flynn – TCK
The
same message applies for Immortalis as it does from Infinity #4.
“This week’s promo length had improvements; however
the main issue is that because people are relying on doing their promos in the
last second they second guess what it takes to actually win a match. Word for
word from last week I will repeat some key themes about promo length, however
some people again fell short because they gambled with a shorter promo, again
another word for word. An A4 page worth of material can only be match winning
material if it truly convinces me why you should win a match, the secret is
that shorter promo’s need to be more relevant and direct to have any chance of
winning.”
Here
at Infinity we are not asking for mammoth 6000+ word promos for every show, we
only want for each promo to hit the nail on the head to do well in your match.
Longer promo’s like Adrian Flynn’s and Murray Muir’s work because of the way
they are written and immerse you, so shorter ones need to pack a punch. Well
done to everyone for Immortalis, another solid week of promo’s which really the
highlight was for me, having everyone involved in the pay-per-view.
This
week the best improvements in terms of balancing length and content came in the
form of Joey Harding and #FuckRydell in the Harmony and Purity matches…two
brilliant promos that deserved all the credit they deserved.
Immortalis
was all round the same in this department because only the tiny mistakes where
the things holding them back, but some people still refuse to caps-lock the I’s
and use commas, but still grammar is all about impressions, and the point of
writing more is to improve it gradually over the time. I’ll repeat again what I
said last week to engrain the point of the importance of grammar into promos: “Promos made me aware about how bad my
grammar was and how it led to me writing novels as I felt confident the skills
I learned in my promos had improved my written English quality which is also
important for real life jobs. I would remind everyone about the greatest thing
ever invented for any writing software: spellcheck.”
As
ever the basis of how Infinity management judge promo scripts is based off a
system, if this is your first week in Infinity then let me into how we do it.
Instead of judging peoples work solely based off of one person’s ‘preferences’
which is an awful way of judging promos because they are unpredictable and
quite frankly idiotic, we have a system in place to make the best
choice. Here is how we judge promos, some factors are more important
than others, i.e. relevance to the match being most important, and fun to read
too.
Good Promos:
·
Grabs
the reader’s attention and imagination
·
Direct,
relevant to the match you are in
·
Written
well, with good grammar and fitting writing style for your character
·
Interesting
to read, original, innovative
·
Adds
a new piece of story that improves Infinity City
·
Shows
your knowledge of the Infinity City, whilst also interlinking with its living
story
·
Complements
your character/gimmick, and puts them over
·
Keeps
to your alignment (Heel/Face/Tweener etc.)
·
Dialogue
used well
·
Balanced
in regards to length of promo
Bad Promos:
·
Copied
or heavily plagiarised (cheaters will face consequences)
·
Indirect,
not relevant to the match you are in
·
Poor
use of grammar and chosen writing style for your character
·
Boring
and unoriginal
·
Adds
little or degrades the story of the Infinity City
·
Shows
poor knowledge of the Infinity City, nor does it link to the living story
·
Contradicts
your character/gimmick, doesn’t put them over
·
Does
not keep to your alignment (Heel/Face/Tweener etc.)
·
Dialogue
badly used, large unbroken chucks of solid text
·
Unbalanced
in regards to the length of the promo
Now,
onto the real business. I will be discussing all five matches that took place at
our first pay-per-view Immortalis with input from the Chairman himself in many
places. I hope you find this feedback useful for making improvements in the
future. Please try to read all the match comments, being the King of Character
I learnt by reading over peoples feedback and haunted my opponents strengths
and weaknesses, maybe you can learn something too by reading everyone else’s
feedback too.
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Match Results
(in order of appearance)
Neal
Powers(c) def. Matt Rydell and Craig Anderson
The
Copycat Kid def. Murray Muir
Chris
Michaels def. Jamo, Joey Tierney, and Jason Smith
Joey
Harding & Jordan Casanova def. John Charismatic & Blair Holmes
A.C.
Mack def. Roderick Blackmore
Adrian
Flynn def. Taylor Westfall
Infinity
Championship standings:-
Neal
Powers retained the Purity Championship
Chris
Michaels became the first Singularis
Champion
Joey
Harding & Jordan Casanova become the first Harmony Champions
Adrian
Flynn become the first Infinity World
Champion
This
week I am joined by Roderick Blackmore, who assisted me in the feedback for
Immortalis, he will give commentary on most of the matches that took place at
the show. This new graphic will indicate when and where he will be making an input into the feedback.
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Adrian
Flynn vs. Taylor Westfall
Infinity
World Championship Match
There
are many world title matches that don’t feel big, but this one did for me. The
return of the 2.0 Initiative to the wrestling world, at their biggest event
ever done…we eclipsed the effort made for Unmistaken IV: One Final Stand, a
sole Robbo endeavour, so having Adrian promo was such a nice thing to have on
the show with Taylor because these are two people who have been there, seen it,
done it.
Here was the route that took these men to where they end up at Immortalis:-
I
personally write this match because I was in charge of the world title feud;
believe it or not, Robbo was only a supporting feature in the development of
the world belt. In terms of continuity I had more experience with the
characters having written all of Adrian’s matches to date, and also having done
his first match in Infinity against Jack Anderson. I also designed the Murray
Muir angle with Robbo’s input. I didn’t want this match to be written long, I
wanted relevant parts that would keep the reader’s attention with many
memorable moments. For me this was the highlight of the show and the bit I
focused on most in terms of write ups. I had no idea who was going to win, I
was routing for Adrian because of how much he wanted it, whereas I also liked
the prospect of an upset from the number one favourite. At the end of the day
this match, Infinity’s finest, will be seen as something of a landmark for all
of online wrestling because for the first time in a long time something had
been done right, and done right very, very well. I didn’t want this to be
anything short of amazing and it delivered nicely into the main event. Adrian
and Taylor have my full respect as competitors in Infinity, and I wouldn’t be
so abject to a rematch at one point because of how much fun I had writing the
match and experimenting with their different styles. This is what I had to say
about both promos. I will first start with Adrian Flynn.
Adrian Flynn
To
start with I will say that it was a bit shorter from what I was expecting when
I came to read it, which actually made this a much more competitive environment
because they were shorter than what me and Robbo predicted. I’ll get out of the
way all of the little bits of the promo I had some concerns for, including the
use of ‘22’ and not ‘twenty-two’ which is a bit cleaner. He also spelt
Immortalis wrong, we did talk about this as he thought it meant something else
but we did joke that the ticket that Jaden gave Alexis was going to get her
ejected from the arena. All that aside I am a huge fan of Flynn’s work, and I
knew how much this meant to him going into the match with Taylor. I was
impressed with Adrian’s lines in this, they are sharp and have some great
flavour to them, and one is even in this week’s Quotes of the Week. As ever, I
have said several times that Jaden and Alexis are sometimes the best parts of
Adrian’s promos and this was true again this week. The use of his support
characters is done so well it builds a great story and character universe for
him that enables him to write fantastic promos. Jaden made you see why he is
the hero the City needs, Alexis plays a convincing (and conflicted) bad guy…a
follow up to the promo I had written against him last week, and a great
continuation to her own current story.
The
montage scene had me captivated, and he sold my gimmick to the letter T when I
read it, so he has my thanks in that. The montage was amazing because he wound
up the story into a nice thread of match-to-match analysis of each person’s
perception of him, and Roderick completely agrees with me. In the space of
three paragraphs he ties up his storyline in a captivating way that makes you
go “he’s got this.”
Adrian
accepts his flaws, and his critics, and sometimes the journey of Adrian from
normal guy to the Hero of the City has given me a reading perspective. I have
really struggled reading his promos and making the connection between the word
hero and Adrian Flynn, sometimes I would wonder if it was for namesakes. Having
read this Immortalis winning promo, and the nicely tied up storyline I can see why those two mix,
this was the promo Adrian needed to win the belt because it sold him as the
hero the City needs because he doesn’t care what his people think of him. For
the first time Adrian believes he is the hero, and that his biggest critic
finally sees it, Alexis. He finally has the courage to be that man, with the
support of the family he loves. Adrian becomes whole at the end of that
promo…he has overcome this great adversity and it is time to have his final
battle to the top.
Adrian
wrote the better promo in this instance, and his form had kept true in going
into Immortalis, Robbo and me believe it was actually not up to par as compared
to weeks 1 & 2 but still up there with the best Infinity promo’s. I am now
going to talk about Taylor Westfall, the challenger. I will spend a bit more
time analysing Taylor’s promo for good reason, as I really didn’t need much to
say about Flynn’s, and he knows it too in a crazy sense.
Taylor
went in with the chance to really make an upset here, after all everyone was
expecting one, and being impartial to it all I knew that Adrian was going to
write a really good promo, especially due to Adrian’s decision to write a shorter
one. It was a heavily contested decision, but one that we believe was justified
after reading both of them. We were never disappointed, but rather glad Taylor
was the number one contender, we just wish he made more of a concerted effort
at giving us the upset we kind of wanted, as much as we wanted Adrian to become
the Hero. If anyone could challenge Adrian at this point right now in Infinity
we would be up there with a short list of names. I hope Taylor doesn’t read
this and feels as if he has been cheated out of anything, because it feels like
we are being douchebags pointing out little problems, but enough to accumulate
into a long list. I want to get these out of the way before I get onto why I
actually really liked the promo, and why it was still in contention to win the
belt. Taylor suffered from the same story again, the same reason he has
suffered in feedback…he knows what it is…and that is the attention to details.
He had significantly better grammar in this promo for sure, but there were still
many blatant errors that made it a disjointed read. Robbo re-wrote Taylor’s
promo to use in the show; I recommend he sees how these little changes made it
a much better read.
For example there is a line that looks
like it doesn’t end, “he was probably one
of the fans coming up to me and asking me stories about my previous”, I
wondered how it ended.
This
was one of a many few words he didn’t add, which
made me believe he had little attention as to where he was in the promo, or he
wrote parts in sections but forgot to proofread…which is a small thing to do in
order to bring up a 90% to 100% promo.
In terms of story and writing everything
is done really well, but Taylor’s main area of improvement can lie in the human
conditioning…more detail in the transition scenes, how did Blackmore’s entrance
make him react? How does this world title match make him feel? Why is this
match going to be the revival of Westfall? That is the next step for a writer,
to challenge and answer the tough questions for your character, and that is
something Adrian does really well…after we pushed and shoved him to do it, and
that is key for all characters: knowing when it is the right time to challenge
your characters. My character Isis Derrida’s gimmick is based on this
principal…what can challenge him next, and many characters overlook it as they
are being protective over themselves. Bold characters call themselves how they
need to be seen: good or bad, for better or worse. It is sometimes as simple as
asking why your character wakes up in the morning, why they want to wrestle,
why they don’t like somebody. Taylor’s character is very much about challenging
management, rules, the normal way of things…I wish he had focused on more of
this to really push his promo into overdrive, and he had the perfect
opportunity to do it against a character built from confliction such as Adrian
Flynn.
As I said Robbo fixed it up for a
segment in Infinity, before my match, and you’ll see the apparent fixes
immediately. I am going to recommend Taylor puts his original piece through a
word document spell check and write the promo on Word before posting. We only
say this because he is in a world title match and it looks sloppy, especially
after he said he had assured of fixing it. We only want for him to be the best
he can be, and as a writer, to progress from here with all due respect. It is
something Robbo couldn’t look past, mainly because Taylor lacked most awareness
of key English grammar. Simple things that could have been easily avoided.
Anyway,
I have said enough in regards as to how Taylor can improve, and I do think he
can bounce back from this easily. But what did the Copycat love about his
promo? Well, like Adrian there was an abundance of epic one liners that really
caught my attention, and the best part of his promo was indeed the legacy
aspect of Taylor’s character. His promo is very good at being
retrospect, and sells the point of being a veteran and undermining Adrian’s
importance, I don’t think that is necessarily a wise choice considering he beat
two other top people, but nonetheless is worked because that is Taylor
Westfall’s way of thinking. Taylor should have recognised that in this instance
he was the underdog however, he was not the unknown, but his angle in Infinity
where he attacked TCK and Adrian could have worked in really well and played a
major part of his promo.
His inclusion of Muir was a good thing
to have, but only little note to make for Taylot. We get it, that Muir is the
out-of-character version from Scotland, but the in-character version is from
Canada, the man who supported him at Infinity #4. Just one of those things
people need to get to terms with is the difference between Infinity City canon
and reality. When he is doing the bit of Blackmore entrance, and sometimes a better
writer will state more than just the action at hand…oh ‘they turned’, but
Blackmore being in his promo was a nice touch and part of the ongoing angle.
Even I made a nice little cameo.
What he is saying it really good. His
legacy is really, really good. Taylor did what many people don’t say anymore in
a promo, “I am a better wrestler” and to make it believable in the writing. It
didn’t need to be complicated, which for Taylor works really well because he is
meant to be a blunt character with no regard for what others think of him, or
what he says.
I loved the shoot, I really did, and
that was where the majority of the strength of his promo was evident, I wanted
to read more of it, and it really pushed the quality of the promo up. I will
finish my feedback by making reference to the epic UBW reference about him not
being at the top of the pile, it was just one of the nicer touches that ended a
solid promo.
Westfall and Flynn’s match was such an
entertaining journey for both me and Robbo, and I hope everyone who had paid
attention thought it was quite the feud. In the future, if I was asked if these
two men might face off against each other again for the world title…providing
Adrian still had it…I would answer with only optimism.
Additionally, Robbo has sent me the
update from the show for Taylor’s promo of which looks much crisper than the
original. Hopefully this will give some huge insight into how the smallest and
subtle changes mean the world to the quality of a promo:-
Taylor Westfall
*As the opening contest of Immortalis finished, the
cameras go backstage to the locker room of Taylor Westfall. Westfall is nothing
more than five minutes in the building and is unpacking his bags. In to the
shot however Murray Muir approaches the readying challenger, which causes
Westfall to shoot straight up from his seat, knocking his bag in the process,
and straight into the face of his estranged and controversial ally.*
Taylor
Westfall:... What on
earth are you doing here Murray? You're up next against The Copycat Kid, do you
not have better ways to be spending your time?!
Murray
Muir:... I need
to know where your mind is at Taylor. Last time we were seen here, we were
standing tall over our opposition for tonight, united in a stand against this
conspiracy, but we both know you. A few Mondays past said enough in itself. One
minute you were convinced there was no conspiracy at all, five minutes later
you're taking out one of the figure heads of the company. Where are you
standing Taylor?!
Taylor
Westfall:... Tonight
Murray, you're going to go out there and put a stop to The Copycat Kid. You are
going to finally end his shenanigans once and for all, but that's just the warm
up act. You see, I have a funny feeling that your match isn't the last we're
going to see of him tonight. I firmly believe that tonight Blackmore, Osman,
TCK, whichever higher power it is plotting this conspiracy to have Flynn as the
poster boy, and they’re going to struggle to keep away from my match. I know
deep down, in my heart of hearts that I am a better wrestler than Adrian Flynn.
I know more than anything that in a straight up fight, I will and can beat
Adrian Flynn, but I can't bank on myself with the knowledge that there are
people with superior powers to me in this company that can hold me back and
stop me from winning... What I am getting at, is, have you got my back if
there's any funny business developing?
Roderick
Blackmore:... I have a
feeling that won't be necessary...
*Muir and Westfall both turn to look at the door as
Blackmore walks into the room. Slightly shocked and incensed that the Chairman
potentially overheard Taylor conspiring, Westfall retains his thoughts after
looking straight into Roderick’s baby blue eyes and staring at his long blonde
hair and corporate designer grey suit.*
Roderick Blackmore:... Do you not have a
match to be heading to Murray?
*Murray looks at Westfall who looks back with a
blank expression. Muir proceeds to let out a grunt before storming past
Roderick, who has a mischievous grin on his face.*
Roderick
Blackmore:... Now
Taylor, I'm just stopping by to make sure that you're in the correct mindset
for your championship match tonight. Your actions last Monday were absolutely
incomprehensible, but they will be dealt with at another time. This whole
"conspiracy" business, it's all in your head. Murray Muir isn't
trying to help you Taylor, Murray is trying to get under your skin. How good
does it reflect on Muir, if it's the guy who knocks him out of the tournament
that wins the championship? Taylor, you're going to have the fairest fight of
your life tonight, and if you win, I can promise you'll be in possession of
your championship belt after I’ve squashed AC Mack.
Taylor
Westfall:... Save it
Roderick, I couldn't trust a word you say even if deep down, I believed you, if
I trusted you. It all makes perfect sense, at least now it does. Flynn received
a harder draw than anyone in the opening round of the tournament, whilst my
opponent "no showed". Again, in the second round, Flynn had the
harder opposition whilst my opponent "didn't bring his ‘A’ game."
This is all set up to make Adrian Flynn look like the true superhero. Over
comes every obstacle you've thrown at him whilst I’m the underserving guy who
waltzed his way through. You're fattening him up like the prime turkey come
Christmas, whilst you're pushing me to the side like the turkey whose scraps
you wouldn't even give to the poor. Blackmore, it's as clear as day. I wasn't
the guy anyone wanted to see at the top of UBW, and that’s sticks to this day.
Different company, different name, same shenanigans. It all ends tonight,
whether there is a conspiracy or it's all in my head, I will be IWF Champion by
the end of the night.
Roderick
Blackmore:... I really
wish you could see the bigger picture Taylor. This really doesn't have to be
like this...
Taylor
Westfall:... Like I
said Roderick, save it.
Matt
Rydell vs. Craig Anderson vs. Neal Powers(c)
Purity
Championship Match
I
hate difficult decisions, I really, really do. Typical of the Purity
Championship match to make it ever more difficult for me, this match gave me
quite the headache in picking a winner, just as Mack and Blackmore’s match also
was a stressful judging period. The Purity Championship match saw three promos
make my brain hurt, but in a positive way, of course. Neal Powers retained the
title in a well fought battle; I will begin proceedings by discussing the first
of two opponents, ‘The Exception Craig Anderson.
Craig Anderson
Craig
Anderson will start things off, and I will go on record and say that since he
came back after week one and revising his gimmick was actually a really good
choice for him. His promos have been better and his chances significantly
better. Parts of the promo I loved were when he mentioned the first title win
in the Dub, the UBW Hardcore Championship, was a nice reminder about his
legacy. I also loved that he was one of the only people to play on the angle of
immortality, the theme for Immortalis, so he played it safe but in this respect
rightfully so. Furthermore his story of championships was a personal journey
told in three matches, and wrapped up his history nicely into a tight ball. And
for me there was an amazing bit where his wife Jessica has being impersonated
by me and he didn’t even know until the reveal, telling him the darks secrets
of his past, his hopes, his desires, his weaknesses. I thought it was a funny
part too, which is something I find many promos do not touch base on, mine
included.
There
are some things that need to be addressed with Craig’s writing. On a story
point of view Panik was the focus of the Blood Family, not the Purity Champion
Neal Powers, which was bizarre as I would have thought more emphasis would have
been on the obstacle he was meant to climb, not the thing to the side that
would watch on. Also, me and Robbo believe he speaks very cleanly for his
characters own like, like very basic in terms that vocabulary is sometimes
wasted when it can light up the page, Craig won championships in the past for
being edgy and this promo doesn’t spark as explosively as we’d hoped. As me and
Neal Powers discuss regularly the best part of writing a promo is to have fun
with it and experiment, try not to think about what you are avoiding…but what
you can do when you write, and that applies to everyone. Craig needs to step up
some of his old gears, his improvement has been amazing so far and management
believe this is the next step for him to make him a dangerous opponent. I do
have one personal grope with Craig’s writing. He wrote:-
“The fans got to their feet and
applauded Craig’s achievement.”
This could have been better worded, like
a good pop, but I always advise to stick around from writing crowd reactions
unless they serve a purpose…and if they are cheering for him, why are they
cheering for him? Are there are signs? What type of cheer did he get? Anyone can
write that they get a reaction, but it is why the reaction exists the wrestler
goes over. Furthermore he didn’t mention why he got the title shot in the first
place, and why he is in the match…the thing that made him the Exception this
time round…also he said that he and Rydell are one and the same today but he
didn’t make the comparison as to why they were so that left me scratching my
head. Actually, if I was Craig I would never make the comparison if his gimmick
hinged on being unique, nobody should ever be on the same level as him, so
going forward more ruthless aggression in this train of thought would actually
be a significant improvement from his end. From my perception after reading the
promo I think Craig played it too safe, he did everything we were looking for,
adding all the bits and bobs that we like to see, the problem Craig has is that
there was no punch to the face, no sizzle to the spice. We are not saying it is
a bad promo, he is clearly a great writer and we want him to do the best, we
could fault him for nothing, except the tone of it all which was very much
straight line and predictable in the sense that it was so clean to read. On the
plus side he only had one error…one full stop missing. So kudos Craig, kudos.
There are smaller things that do need touching up on, like when Craig writes
“more hungry” there is actually an descriptive adjective for this: hungrier. We all do it, and I too would
be hypocritical if I said I didn’t do it, but picking up on these little things
helps make everyone a better writer and putting over the story better. Overall
it was interesting, a very good read, and of good taste.
Furthermore,
Robbo has sent something over about the promo Craig Anderson did which should
reinforce some of the points that I had made earlier about his submission for
Immortalis.
Robbo
said that his grammar was used well, and he could actually use worded numbers,
and not symbols, i.e. two thousand and seven, not 2007, in actual sense. The
way to write the number is only in the past tense when it is not in a personal
sense. He also praised his timing, as many people forget Infinity happens once
a fortnight. He loved that I was impersonating Jessica, to which we both found
really funny, but like me his confusion about it was whether or not it was
going somewhere and was going to amount to anything…there was no greater point
to it. Robbo loves talking about the use of specific words and their meanings,
and he thinks that Craig should for each new
promo should think up of some new words to expand his vocabulary which he sees
as very clean, which means he doesn’t speak explosively which a character like
Craig should do. He also stated about the way that Craig starts the individual
sections of his promo.
This is
how Anderson starts each section:
Scene
One:
Scene
Two:
Scene
Three:
“Why not add a date and location, setting the
scene immediately is always nice and gives the reader an immediate sense of
what is going on.” Robbo said.
That is
what Robbo said about Craig’s promo that I either didn’t mention, or things he
thought that were subtle improvements that really do make the world of
difference. Moving on I am now going to discuss the promo of Neal Powers, the
retaining Purity Champion.
Neal Powers
The
reigning Purity Champion went in as the strong favourite, and for a reason, and
he did not disappoint. We’ll say it aloud though first, this wasn’t his
greatest effort, and this is for two reasons. Number one is the comparison of
his competition who had significantly improved, bringing down his chances.
Number two is that his earlier promos had been of higher quality and made it
easy for us to make decisions, but this time Neal had won by small margins.
He’ll be facing me at the next Infinity for his title…and it will determine if
he faces Adrian Flynn at the next pay-per-view. He needs to bring his a-game to
defeat me, and I don’t shy away from saying that as I only want the best from
him and his promo’s.
Let
me talk about his promo for Immortalis now the introduction to Infinity #5 had
been discussed. I’ll start with saying that a big part of his promo was the
commentary teams…Neal has a great sense about their characters and sticks to
their alignments, Gooch is an idiot, Kinghan is a serious play-by-play
commentator whereas his rival at the commentary table ‘Bad Boy’ Brandon Kheller
is a rude, ego-driven, Fair City supporting hell-raiser. Neal is great at
highlighting important part of the show structure as support instruments in his
promos which is why he always has parts or all his promo submitted in the
actual show write up, for example in his Immortalis promo he mentions the Sky
Box and Mr Osman throughout, a good way to incorporate all the Infinity City
creations. Powers played the bad guy, which I think he now knows is the point
of his reign as Purity Champion, as he realised that sometimes breaking bad was
a means to successfully obtaining the Holy Grail that is Purity. He supported
this with a strong showcase of carefully constructed words that that were of
epic proportions and sold his match well with Anderson and Rydell. Also, over
the weeks the angle that Neal Powers was second rate in the eyes of Brandon
Kheller was played on very well and a nice little easter egg for those who pay
attention to the commentators. Gooch also ended the show, and his comedy made
it a much more light hearted end to the type of thing we come to expect with
the Blood Family.
Neal’s
promo was solid, and I hate saying this, but it was a bit weaker than usual,
the second half of his promo was so much better, the first bit took a while to
get into, but it was clear that Neal got a better sense of writing it as he
went a long and he made it better. There isn’t normally anything wrong with his
promos, just the little things, and the addition of another part would see his
promos be a world championship contender effort. Neal’s scope is a lot bigger,
one thing, that makes his promo amped up, is that it is bigger in terms of
‘Infinity and beyond’. Everyone had weak parts to their promos, and if were
looking at strength to strength…the arm wrestling rule, of words of course,
Neal’s words were really good and Rydell
shied out but only just, and then Anderson only slightly behind. Neal gives us
more with each bit of work so it is always interesting to read and we felt
comfortable giving him the big W heading into his important match at Infinity
#5.
#FuckRydell
Everyone
should read Rydell’s promo; it starts so strong, so…so strong. Loved the first
quote in particular. Rydell has substance and spice, and knows how to use it,
which is why he has done so well and won the Purity title in the first week.
This week, he was man of the killer lines, of which his best was in the quotes
of the week below for reference. I also liked that he mentioned he earned the
Purity Championship before; he had a very good ‘return’ vibe about his promo in
respect to the Purity belt. Many champions tend to focus on bigger issues than
the challengers, but challengers who don’t keep focus on the champion can
suffer, and I think #FuckRydell had his weakness in that he shied away from
Neal Powers who was definitely the vocal point of the match, which naturally
should warrant more attention to detail on it.
Matt
Rydell has a very strong shoot against Craig Anderson which was fun to read of
which I have put here for all of you, “He needed to ‘sort himself out’, or ‘find
himself’, or whatever lame cliché he decided to use that day. And now he’s come
back as the new Craig Anderson! Except… I can’t tell the difference? The old
Craig Anderson was lame, boring and couldn’t win matches. But the new one is
lame, boring, can’t win matches, AND has a stupid new nickname? That doesn’t
sound like much of an improvement to me. But hey, what do I know. I’m just the
most popular man in the city.”
This
kind of thing makes #FuckRydell such a good talent to have as he is ballsy
enough to say it how it is, which Robbo will discuss in further length when he
does his bit for Rydell.
To
conclude for myself so I can pass over to Robbo who is going to flesh all off
this out…I would say that #FuckRydell’s latest promo was very interesting, very
well written, not the full package, he could have done a million better things,
he added the scene at the beginning but he didn’t take it anywhere. Told a
story through words. Anderson and Rydell had a similar feel to it and Rydell
had a better punch which dragged the quality in his promo up. He used a lot of
Infinity creations to his advantage well, but it is all to do with the fuel to
the fire…what makes Matt Rydell burn red hot in the night as the most important
man in the City?
Robbo
had his own viewpoint about the next instalment in the #FuckRydell Anthology…albeit
a longer and more comprehensive look than my own.
The
city’s most popular figure city went up against reigning Purity Champion Neal
Powers and the second challenger, Craig Anderson, in a three way contest that
was closer to judge than you may think. On the night at Immortalis Neal Powers
retained the title and provided Matt Rydell with a great platform for story
progression (by vanishing into darkness at the close of the match), leaving
Rydell an inconsistent figure in terms of his win-loss record which currently
stands at two wins and three loses. It seems that Matt suffers from a lack of
consistency and I think I know the answer. Matty has one side of his game
sorted, the shoot promo, but has been lacking in story, meaning that when push
has come to shove on several occasion, he has lost out.
I’ve
spoken to Rydell about this loss and he agrees with me: story can be better
included to enhance his promos. If you’re clueless as to what I mean by story I
mean supporting character, events in the city and an actual storyline that
evolves each week (like Murray’s involvement in the Mob, Adrian Flynn’s marital
issues or Chris Michaels’s injury woes). Matt is a straight talker getting
right down to the point and sparing no expense in his words. He’s a gritty
promo writer and you know that Matt shoots and scores when it comes to
delivering class lines against his opponent.
The
opening and close was impressive, the inclusion of the ICFC relates to why
Matty got the title shot in the first place (due to an Infinity City
innovation).
What is
missing is the fuel on the fire, a supporting cast of characters and events
that make Matt’s point even more empathic. In particular I was impressed by
Rydell’s shoot against Craig Anderson. It was ruthless, and at times slightly
uncomfortable to read Rydell try to tear the Exception apart limb from limb.
Here is the final passage in Rydell’s promo which is a very good example of a
shoot style promo.
***
"And
of course, I can’t forget Craig Anderson. Another man, using a lie to hide his
mediocrity. You see, Craigy had a bad start in Infinity Wrestling. He lost,
things didn’t go his way. So Craigy, had to go on a little vacation. He needed
to ‘sort himself out’, or ‘find himself’, or whatever lame cliché he decided to
use that day. And now he’s come back as the new Craig Anderson! Except… I can’t
tell the difference? The old Craig Anderson was lame, boring and couldn’t win
matches. But the new one is lame, boring, can’t win matches, AND has a stupid
new nickname? That doesn’t sound like much of an improvement to me. But hey,
what do I know. I’m just the most popular man in the city."
"But
old Craig, new Craig, it doesn’t matter. I’ve watched you for years, way back
in the old BWN days. You were always rising, but never made it quite to the
top. You could beat everyone on your day, but when it came to those high
pressure, ‘do or die’ moments, you just couldn’t get it done. You are to
wrestling, what Everton is to the Premier League. You’re the Club Orange to my
Fanta, the Puma to my Nike. You’re good… but you’re not…"
"And
that’s why the anti-hero will leave this wonderful stadium as the Purity
Champion. Monday night, anything but victory is absolute failure. I need to win
on Monday night, I need my title back. The people of this city deserve a better
Champion than you. Sure, I’m a bad man, but the people accept me for who I am,
because there’s no smoke and mirrors. I’m an asshole, a scumbag. An old woman
in Texas once called me a terrorist. But I’m open about it. I’ll warn you I’m
going to kick you in the nuts before I do it. And then I’ll punch you there
too, just for good measure."
"The
time for talk is over boys. All these hidden messages, all the threats, they’re
done. Because all that’s left to do now is fight. Come Monday night, I’ll do
whatever it takes to win back my title. I’ll tear down this stadium; I’ll bring
the city to its knees if I have to. I need that title, and no evolution, or
fake blood and no family will stop me. And at the end of the night boys, you’ll
hear fifty-six thousand people scream at the top of their lungs, while I hoist
the big red shield above my head. And what will they be saying…?"
Rydell
smirks, looking straight down the camera.
"Fuck
Rydell."
***
When I
read this I was asking myself, as I always do, how can I make this better? What can take me to the next level so I can
get over my inconsistent patterns?
For one
Matt uses an easy style of promo with Matt’s body movements and thoughts
highlighted in italics, I think that these can be expanded on.
Rydell
turns around for a second, looking down at the workers.
Rydell
looks around the arena again, chuckling. He focuses his attention back on the
camera, his smile gone.
Rydell
runs his hands over his head, obviously frustrated.
Rydell
lowers his head for a moment, recollecting himself.
Rydell
smirks, looking straight down the camera.
Beside
the introduction, above is all of the description used in Matty’s promo, all
fifty four words. To take this to the next level these descriptive parts need
to be elaborated upon. You have the basis nailed but to take it to the next
level mention eye colour, how another character is making him feel this way.
For example Matt is a popular figure which means he’ll be headhunted by
companies to be the face of their products and the potential cover boy on
posters. Perhaps this makes Matt extremely tired/pressured, especially since he
does double duty in the city: Chairman of ICFC and Infinity Wrestling
superstar.
What if
one of the descriptive lines was something like this:
After another sleepless night, worried about
planning conflicts at ICFC and his upcoming championship match at Immortalis,
Matt stares down at the private contracted workers blinking heavily, trying to
stay awake. Thoughts of his phone constantly ringing throughout the night,
businesses wanting to plaster his face across the city, dominated his bloodshot
green/brown/blue eyes and made it hard to focus on the task at Infinity’s first
pay-per-view.
That one
bit above is longer than all of Matt’s descriptions above and I’m safe in
saying that it sells the angle a lot better than just ‘Rydell turns around for
a second.’ This is what you need to be working on Matt and I know after our
talk you’re buzzing. I told Matt he should consider the following heading into
the future, ideas about his future promos.
-
Prominent businessman in the city
wishing to leach off Matt’s success in Infinity
-
Close employees at either ICFC or
Infinity Wrestling
-
Fan boys and girls who go out of
their way to send him stuff
-
Potential love life (hey, it
works with a lot of others)
-
Other things/people/places that
Matt could travel
His
thoughts on Infinity Wrestling doing what other people want to do with him:
plaster his face across the city in his benefit. After vanishing at Immortalis
Matt has the opportunity to question a lot of things, including the way his
employers treat him, for all we know he is being tortured by the Blood Family
or has been taken hostage by another unknown entity.
But back
to why Matty didn’t prevail with the big red shield. I think that Neal
demonstrated a better overall story that also included a good shoot element, so
on this occasion your biggest let down is what we have been talking above, the
improvements you should and can make. You’re a very talented writer Matt and
hopefully what we talked about on Facebook and what I’m writing here will be a
great benefit to you in the future.
All of
this should make your promos a little bit longer and filled with juiciness that
will lead you onto a more stable road of victories. Here’s hoping.
The
Copycat Kid vs. Damien Muir
Singles Match
Robbo (Roderick Blackmore) here to give my
insights on Immortalis. Between Murray Muir and TCK we have two wrestlers that
previously knew each other’s characters inside out, and still to an extent this
two long-time rivals are familiar with one another. In Infinity Sam has been
able to successfully flesh out a ‘blank canvas’ character, TCK is a wonderful
mix of mimicking with that the character is somewhat darkened and twisted.
Likewise with Murray there has been an evolution from the old Bebo Wrestling
format and Murray is one of our best symbols about somehow who has changed with
the times to create a relevant, complicated character in the midst of a new
city. As much as I thoroughly enjoyed both pieces this slice of history
favoured TCK on this occasion but we’ll start with Murray.
Murray
Muir
When writing Murray’s feedback, the eventual
loser in the match with TCK, I wrote this a few weeks after the Immortalis
event and close to the time of the feedback’s publication. I had to refresh
myself with Murray and it got me thinking right off the bat, I didn’t have to
do that with Sam’s promo. Reading Murray’s promo though again was enlightening
and I enjoyed reading it a second time as much as I did a first. It’s always a
treat reading what Murray’s mob-filled life is up to and juggling the battle
with Infinity’s COO made me incredibly interested to see how he would deal.
Outside of Infinity Sam and Damien had a
long history on the Bebo Wrestling Network under the Aaron Destiny and Damien
Muir characters and I can say that both have matured greatly in their writing
style. I believe Murray has a more fascinating story than Damien and the
Infinity model certainly helps for bold and elaborate wrestlers to really come
to life. Between Sam and Damien, though this is the first encounter between TCK
and Murray Muir, they know each other rather well so going into the match,
especially after promos from both in Infinity prior to Immortalis; many knew
that this was going to be a very close affair. Upon a second read of Murray’s
promo it struck me that this piece was more sentimental and more broody than
previous promos and it captured the mood of the match perfectly.
Murray used confrontation with his uncle,
Damien Muir, to his advantage to deliver a really good shoot, with the shoot
incorporated into a novelised promo. To Murray’s credit Sam said that adopting
Muir’s style was easy and flawless, and sometimes the best way to get a point
across is to make it very easy for the audience to be able to read your work. I
was most pleased with Murray’s writing skills as usual, he uses words that I
look at and go “oh that’s nice, perhaps I can incorporate that somewhere in my
own writing.” Also the benefit of reading Murray’s promo on a word document
means that there are virtually no grammar mistakes and barely any spelling
mistakes, if any. Both men produced flawlessly readable promos and their
efforts have not gone unnoticed.
It’s pretty unanimous amongst people in
Infinity, and the Infinity Polling Police poll: Murray and TCK produced match
of the night.
I think the high quality of the promos was a
factor in this match having a very high opinion across the internet (well the
very, very small corner we operate in) and going into the show this was
definitely one of the matches where people were curious to see who would reign
supreme. In particular with Murray’s promo I really liked the final passage
which I’ll gladly share below.
***
“I
may not know much about you, copycat, but I know the kind of man you are.
You’re the kind of person who likes to put someone like Adrian Flynn up on a
pedestal, and likes to keep him there because he is, in your opinion, an ideal
superstar. And you’re a man of ideals, aren’t you? You and Mr. Osman both. No
swearing in Infinity Wrestling… No excessive violence in Infinity Wrestling…
For things like that, Adrian Flynn’s your man, he ticks all the boxes. But me?
I don’t tick any boxes. For a man like you, I’m a nightmare of the worst kind.
But what do you do with me, Mr. COO? If you try to copy me, you’re becoming the
exact thing that your fighting against… you’d be betraying your own precious
ideals. And you won’t do that…”
Murray
turned, and began to walk away from the mirror, and back to the bench.
“But
if you do…” Murray said, “If you try to become Murray Muir, I want you to know
you’re not ready, and that you never will be. This pain, this suffering, this
fury… Andrew… That’s my fuel, that’s the shit that keeps me going. But for you;
a man with morals… a man with a conscience… It’s poison. It’d eat you alive.”
He
picked up his bag, threw the strap over the shoulder.
“Come
Immortalis…” Murray whispered, “Copy me or not, I’ll show you what the fuck it
means to be Murray Muir.”
He
slowly walked to the door, only stopping a few steps away from it to turn back
to the mirror one last time.
“You
know,” Murray said, “I think it might be time to see if this really is the city
of infinite possibilities. I think it might be time to see just how… drastic…
the changes I make can be.”
Murray
smiled.
“Witness.”
***
In less than one page Murray rounds up the
theme of his promo, dots the I’s and crosses the T’s. When looking over the
promo criteria it’s hard to see what boxes Murray doesn’t cross. I’m even going
to go as far as saying that if Murray produced this promo in any title match,
he’d most likely be, most definitely, be champion. But speaking to Murray
before Immortalis, he didn’t want a title match and it led to the match with
TCK, and you could tell the two’s history was a great factor in the promos.
Damien and TCK’s history certainly played a cool part in this promo with Damien
subtly referencing his storied past with TCK:
***
“Shut
up,” Damien interrupted in that same soft voice, never increasing in volume,
“The last few weeks you’ve been going around this city, doing whatever you
wanted. You’ve been running your mouth, using big words and swearing a lot and
thinking that that makes you look smart. That’s fine, whatever. But in a few
days you have to take responsibility for those actions by facing one of the
most dangerous men you’ve ever laid eyes on. This is a man who could be
standing where you are right now and I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference
between you. This is a man who will get inside your head, bringing up
everything and anything that will throw you off balance and cause you to lose
whatever momentum you thought you had. This is a man who will use what happened to your friend against you, and you need to
be ready to deal what that deal with that and move on. The Copycat Kid will
cause you to doubt everything about yourself, if you let him. And you can’t
afford to let him, Murray, you don’t want the mob to see you as… expendable… do
you?”
***
My
harshest evaluation, if I had to make one, was that Murray’s promo was more
about shoot than story. Perhaps Murray could have woven in more story elements,
because the promo does rely on previous events such as the death of his best
friend, Andrew. But this brings me back to my original point: it was a very
sentimental promo and was very personal. I’m very used to having a bit of humor
mixed in with Murray’s promo, and though it didn’t go against him on this
occasion the story with Murray, such as being on the ‘Joan Adams’ show (I think
I spelt that right). Murray’s story more than anything set up for a very good
incorporated shoot, a final pay-off for the pay-per-view but aside from these
little niggles I would say that as far as being well rounded goes, Murray is
nearly there. I would say that like a fine wine, he will only grow better with
age.
Murray’s
promos is directly tied in with the show and is very dynamic in his writing and
with a very good layout, however at Immortalis he went up against a man equally
as good in all departments and lost out on the very small margins.
Ultimately
what was Murray’s downfall, and by that I mean the reason he lost out, wasn’t
any fault of his own it’s just that TCK’s promo provided a little bit more
diversity that I discuss in his feedback, but it was very hard to make the call
because of how very good Murray’s promo is. I’m not going to sit here and say
something I don’t believe in because I’ve been thinking for a while “Murray
lost, surely I’ve got to say something that can help him in the future.” On
this occasion I am genuinely stumped for answers because in truth I think
Murray is doing just fine. Better than fine. He’s an invaluable player in
Infinity Wrestling and we all know it. I do not think that I need to criticize
Murray’s promo, but I’m trying and will mention anything if it ever occurs to
me.
I
think to learn more about his loss, I’m confident that Murray could say it
better than me on this occasion, and it is to my understanding that Murray too
believes that TCK produced a fantastic promo that was worthy of rivalling the
city’s latest mob recruit. Most likely Murray will come out and say ‘nah, my
promo was da gr8ist,” or something in a very heavy Scottish tone that freaks
out kids at Christmas, if that’s the case, which I expect it will be I’ll steal
Chef’s legendary words from South Park: “you can suck on my chocolate salty
balls.”
Murray
has an exceptionally bright future, his story is one that is going to be very
interesting in the time to come, and for me defeat on this occasion will not
hamper his future. With minor adjustments and time, he’ll come back to defeat
TCK in the future (because let’s face it, it’s so much better when Sam loses,
right).
The
Copycat Kid
For anyone who hasn’t read TCK’s promo and
wish to do so, his promo is right here on the Copy Room:
Against Adrian Flynn I thought that there
was something holding TCK back. By that I mean given what TCK had to work with
meant that his promo against Adrian was very ‘serious’ and brooding. It’s a
testament to Sam that he can capture and mood of a promo and translates it into
his own, and the reason he never beat Adrian was because it wasn’t Sam’s best,
but against Murray Muir I believe that The Copycat brought his best. I’m not
saying Adrian isn’t a creative character, we all know that is a lie, but you
can tell just from his promo on this occasion that Sam had a lot of fun writing
a Murray Muir style promo.
He kept saying to me, ‘Murray’s got an
effective yet simple style’, it was something around these lines. When it comes
to the criteria we’re looking for in a promo TCK ticks all the boxes, and as
COO I hope that’s the case for every promo. There was new characters introduced
to the Infinity City, it was relevant and direct, there are twists and turns,
both story and shoot, and the copying of Muir’s format means TCK always
delivers a very personalised form of reading.
Overall I would say what separated Sam’s
promo from Murray’s was the versatility and the strength of depth that the
Copycat integrated into each layer, character, plot twist, everything. Each
scene was uniquely different and constantly fresh to read. The first sequence
featured Damien Muir and TCK, the second featured Mr. Osman and a city
character ‘Oria Valquist’ which tied in Mr. Osman’s storyline involvement
nicely; the third scene featured the ‘Jameson Kid’ which is a brilliant take
and parody of James Jameson, and the fourth and final scene involved Murray
Muir and another city addition, Horatio Williams.
For me, the standout moment in TCK’s promo
was the final sequence which featured Murray and Horatio. I was pleasantly
surprised to see that Sam made Horatio the brother of Infinity backstage
announcer, Logan Williams, but more impressed at how Murray slowly came to
realising that TCK had gone to see Horatio and used up all of his sessions to
learn the secrets Muir was confident that the Copycat could never obtain. Then,
when Damien Muir rushed to the scene to realise that the penny had dropped with
Murray was a great moment because it highlights Murray as a potentially
destructive ‘wildcard’ figure and complements TCK’s nature as a predator of
character. Below is an extract from Sam’s promo that really, really stood out:
***
“If you
have been there before, how on earth do I defeat that manipulative FUCK?!”
Murray bellowed at the top of his lungs.
“I never
said I had beaten him, few have, and those left are nowhere to be seen. Even
Adrian Flynn could not defeat him for Christ sakes. As I said, his story never
changes. TCK is a parasite, he leeches on and becomes you in ways terrifying
and alien to our human condition, and do you want to know the reason why he is
so good at what he does…it is not the reflections he casts, or the mirrors he
sets up to imitate. TCK is a man broken at his core; his success surfaces
because he just doesn’t care…you will never know the reason why he really wants
to fight you. All of it on the face of things is an act to keep you away from
the secret Murray; he would never let you know why he really picked
you out of a roster of wrestlers to fight at Immortalis. That is why Adrian
couldn’t beat him, and that is why you won’t beat him unless you start to think
like the man behind the gimmick. Nobody knows his reason to fight, but he knows
yours, and he will bend and twist that against you…this is the man who nearly
turned a hero into a villain I am talking about, he is warped. Don’t you
fucking tell anyone else what I am about to say…keep this to yourself, and your
revolt. In my eyes the Copycat is a genius, he has turned himself into an
impenetrable fortress nothing can breach. He has weaponised into a man that is
effective against any branch of empathy, the only echo of a long lost man that
once existed in the void that now consumes him. Right now Murray, I look at
what you just did to that innocent man, and I am left to wonder if you are the
impenetrable fortress you need to be that will keep him out of your head.” Damien
said to Murray before he stared down his nephew, disappointed by his actions.
This was all Murray’s doing, his rage, his responsibility.
***
By
having an old rival in Damien speak about TCK’s greatest strengths and his
flaws, Sam is able to get the point of winning across using another character
other than TCK, who doesn’t even need to be there to make his point. The line
about TCK at his core being broken is one of my favourite lines of any promo
thus far.
If there
was one significant difference from TCK’s promo to Murray’s it is that Sam’s
was a lot longer and it could be argued that to be a true Copycat you should
try and duplicate everything, right?
Joey
Tierney vs. Chris Michaels vs. Jamo vs. Jason Smith
Infinity
Singularis Championship Match: Tables, Ladders, and Chairs
This was a highly contested bout of
which Chris Michaels had bested the efforts of Jamo and Joey Tierney. Jamo lost
his losing streak and his bone throne, whereas Joey Tierney lost his contract
with Infinity Wrestling. The Singularis Championship is the new risk and reward
style championship where there are real consequences to losing a match that
exceeds the shame of losing a match. Michaels showed the world that he was
willing to go all-in for the match at Immortalis and proved successful. We had
a no-show from Jason Smith but let’s not forget what a spectacular match this
was. Let’s take a look at the winner’s promo first.
Chris Michaels
I
am not going to lie, I had to re-read it after I got the parts mixed up,
skipped the prologue part. This actually made it better to understand his
promo, but also highlighted to me the importance of his prologues for his
promos. Chris plays up on the conclusion of the last four Infinity shows really
well and is a nice wrap up of the entire storyline heading into Immortalis for
this match, and this includes his concussion which is a focal point of the
promo. The fact that Chris explains the real consequences of his purpose to win
the Singularis Championship is great; everything he does is now a sacrifice.
Speaking of sacrifice, the fact that the only thing he can sacrifice is his
family really puts it into focus the kind of man Chris is, he is real and
doesn’t like being taken for anything more than what he is. Throughout he had
some powerful lines, of which included:
“Now,
that’s better” having every media circuit in Infinity and around the world
chuckle, but also fooled as he put on the best disguise to keep everyone from
knowing he’s hurting.”
Powerful
lines really do make a difference, they help you remember what the promo was
all about and can bring back the memory of all the great bits that made it such
an enjoyable read, and on this aspect Chris delivers beautifully, the imagery,
words, meaning, and context of everything he says is used well. Michaels isn’t
afraid to be realistic, sometimes it is a hard thing to pull off and in this
case the real things are what he had to sacrifice…things that matter to him,
not a gimmick, not anything else. This was a nice twist to the concept of being
the Singularity Champion…what would the belt mean to you? Chris Michaels
interpretation of sacrifice really helped him win this match. Other golden
moments that solidified his promo as the winner of the match was the bit where
he told the doctor to shut the fuck up for me was something that sold the promo.
Additionally, the TCK cameo was a nice touch, obviously, and the first time I
play a normal character in the Infinity City in peoples promos I have ready so
far.
Chris
Michaels gave us everything and more, we were really happy with all three
promos as all characters made a significant improvement…Jamo improvement was in
form of layout, Michaels gave us something for the match and his ongoing
storyline, and Tierney gave us more content. Based on the strength of Chris’s
promo it would be an injustice if he didn’t win the Singularis Championship and
become its first holder. There was really nothing wrong with it, and so far was
his strongest promo in Infinity. All I would say is to proof the work a second
time if needs be, Michaels can sometimes make it difficult in action and
description scenes to know who is talking in a block of text. Apart from that I
had no quarrels with the new champion’s promo, a well-deserved win from the
Master of Execution.
Joey
Tierney
No longer a member of the Infinity
roster, Joey lost his contract within the City and is no longer gracing the
ring ropes. Maybe in the future, whenever he decides to return to renegotiate a
new contract with me and Robbo. But his promo at Immortalis was something
special, which is a shame as to why he didn’t become the champion. Like Jamo,
his problem was the sheer ability of Chris Michaels to write the promo of his
Infinity career so far when it matters the most.
From the offset of his promo Joey isn’t
afraid to deal with the issue at hand straight away: sacrifice. Instead of avoided the matter, or secretly coding it,
Joey goes straight in for the kill. He is all in for Immortalis, and that
included his job. His promo after that point we liked, because it had a sense
of danger to it…there was always the thought in the back of my head if whether
or not he would be able to keep up the quality and best Michaels of whom we had
read first. Joey made some great Bebo Wrestling references about all the different
federations that was a nice little trip down memory lane, and the introduction
was the best of the three promos in this match and it engaged me really well
which set up the rest of the promo quite nicely. Joey had radically improved
his work, even down to his killer lines, of which the main one is in my quotes
of the week for this edition of the Copy Room.
The irony is that Joey delivered so much
more than any promo he had submitted as of yet, but I wanted more of it. The
second part was far too short; I loved the premise of the promo and was so
captivated by what he read. He delivered the bacon to my sandwich but no sustenance
that made me feel comfortable giving him the Singularis Championship. Chris had
done everything Joey had done, but having said that Joey does have a way in
this promo of getting to the point quickly and not prolonging the story. As I
said, irony is that if he delivered a longer promo he may well have won. Joey
had the ability to beat anyone on his best day; he just needed more than half
an hour to write a match winning promo. That shouldn’t be taken negatively
either, because we thought it was the best part of judging promos was to see
mine and Robbo’s shocked faces as we thought Joey was going to cause an upset.
For example, a part I really liked was his history through photos, well thought
out and planned…Tierney’s character really got to me in a way it never had done
before, this wasn’t the rock n’ roll kind of guy you normally see…this is the
guy you want to see win, the guy who made the sacrifice.
He
puts up his contract, legitimately, and we knew this as I was the one to talk
to him about it. Nothing was wrong with that promo; it all just was a bit too
short to win. Chris made the effort…and it did him wonders, it begs to differ
if Joey had the same length promo if Chris would still be Singularis Champion
right now. Lastly, grammar was good, used well, effective, writing was
brilliant…only thing about the promo was the reference to Adrian Flynn…the new
world champion. He refers to Adrian in the past sense, the old Flynn character.
We knew the past so it was in all good contexts and made us wonder if Adrian
did genuinely meet Tierney in his new form years ago.
Let’s
hope we see more of Tierney about in the future.
Jamo
Infinity’s
resident Grimm Reaper arrived at Immortalis with a strong winning streak. We
wanted him to surprise us, and as ever we had a great time reading his promo
for Immortalis. The reason why he wasn’t successful was the same as Joey
Tierney’s reasoning. Chris Michaels promo was so much more than anything on the
show, even I would have a tough time beating Michaels on the form he is
currently on in Infinity.
Moving
on, I’ll now discuss Jamo’s promo. He is always great as he is a great promo
writer in the sense he doesn’t take himself too seriously for his character, he
has fun with it, and it lets it translate it into the Grimm Reaper character.
Jamo wants to hurt everyone, and everything, and wants everyone in his path to
pay with the same grisly fate. I always imagine the real Jamo actually sits
down and looks at Infinity and says, ‘it’s
time to bring the pain.’ Jamo never is reminded about matches, he turns up
and promos, and improves each week. Jamo is the greatest member of our roster
as he is no fuss and his promo as I’ve said translates it into a well-balanced
character. Jamo said it how it was as usual, in a quite comical way as well. A
lot of people don’t get Jamo, they underestimate him.
They,
really, really shouldn’t. Jamo has an arsenal of epic quotes, you can find one
below and one on the quotes list later in the feedback.
“I'm
here to give a great fight and win matches so i can win that title above my
head then walk away as a man.”
For
me if Jamo had more content in his promos then he would go leaps and bounds he
hasn’t already, and also just proofreading his work for errors. These small
additions will see show-to-show improvements for the Grimm Reaper and a more
potent contender for any championship. Nether less this promo enforces his
status in IWF as a bit of a bogeyman, he pays attention, we have no idea what
he is up to…the fact he mentions Matt Rydell’s interview is amazing as he is a
ghost to management in the sense that the only contact we have with Jamo is
posting a card, and he promos for it. Jamo’s was great, really great. Just a
shame that Chris’s was everything we were looking for, but maybe next time Jamo
will be the one who knocks.
Roderick
Blackmore vs. A.C. Mack
Under
the Dome Match
When
me and Robbo were first discussing ideas for the Infinity Monday’s brand we
were stoked at the prospect of a Roderick Blackmore and A.C. Mack feud, two
huge personalities in a city of infinite possibilities. A.C. Mack is very much
the special event performer for us, and he had a lot of spotlight on him in
regards to his match with Robbo at Immortalis. This was A.C. Mack’s first match
in Infinity and was also his first for a long since the collapse of the Bebo
Wrestling Network. I think I am right in saying that UBW’s Unmistaken IV: One
Final Stand was A.C. Mack’s last appearance inside a ring, to which until the
establishment of Infinity me and him had in common. This was also Roderick’s
first match in Infinity also, the CEO of Infinity Wrestling and A.C. Mack
battled over the Infinity World Championship…not literally, but because A.C.
Mack had stolen it from management and right out from under Roderick’s nose.
The ‘Macknificent One’ bested my brother in this match, in what was a nightmare
to judge as they both had phenomenal promos. I will start with Roderick
Blackmore’s promo.
Roderick
Blackmore
‘Blackbird’ was the eerie title of my
real life brother’s first attempt at writing the first promo for the Roderick
Blackmore character. This however wasn’t the first new character Robbo had
written for since returning to the online wrestling scene, he is also Valquist
to my Isis Derrida character in the tag team we have outside of Infinity called
Full Measures. What makes my brother
one of the best promo writers of all time is that he can fully envision a new
character and make it come to life, in the past he has had Robert Stevens,
Tyson Hammond, Xodus, and many more. Robbo create a character so unlike the
other characters he writes for, as it was evident with Stevens, Hammond, and
Xodus…and since me and him have written novels and honed the craft of writing
his ability to create and explore a specific character are constantly improving
with each day and only getting better with time. Just so you know the Valquist
character and Roderick Blackmore are so different you would hardly know they
were written by the same person. Robbo struggled in trying to find a style that
suited Roderick Blackmore, me and him developed his backstory (related to my
former gimmick Scott Blackmore) and everything we needed to know about him and
what was to come. I didn’t know where he was going to go with the character, it
was a mystery that I think everyone was intrigued to learn because of the
reputation Robbo had for having larger than life characters. I was heavily
surprised when I read Blackbird, and
I wasn’t surprised, in the past three years whilst we are knee deep in writing
science fiction and fantasy he has been fascinated with writing and contesting
darker and controversial issues. One thing that Robbo excels at is looking between
the morals and consequences of what is right and wrong, and the choices that
people make from them. This was the tone of his promo, A.C. Mack had stolen
something valuable to him…and yet he was the villain and everyone cheered for
Mack.
Roderick’s
dilemma of choice and consequence is great, and the bit of the story I most
liked are the bits of Roderick telling his children the rights and wrongs of
the Blackbird and the meaning of the Magpie, showing the dual complex of his
life. In this sense the Magpie was A.C. Mack…and done in a way where Mack was
never mentioned by name once, it let the reader have the imagination to figure this
little detail out for themselves. Roderick has a very complex, smart writing
style; the message is blurred, and you’re not meant to see the bigger picture
with his character, not yet. Blackmore teases things, he is meant to be like
that, he is meant to be the illusive man of this company and his war against
A.C. Mack is symbolised in the story of the Blackbird Merula, Void, and the
thief, the Magpie. I could understand it better as I was a big reference point
on the purpose of Blackbirds and Magpies, being a bit of a nature buff I told
Robbo what I knew and he loved the idea about Magpies being attracted to shiny
objects. Robbo ran with the idea of a magpie stealing the Blackbirds treasure,
a perfect symbolism for Mack stealing the belt from him. He has written
smartly, and dangerously, and for a new character with little thinking about
the style of his promo it was brilliant and the reason why Robbo is one of the
best promo writers of all time.
The
promo I read was crazily layered, even for me, and I am use to reading much
longer pieces from him. He also knew I would read it, and off the bat there are
some Halo 4 references in there for a keen eye to pick up on which he tried to
pander to my interest. Roderick also has some epic killer-lines, let me share
two with you now:-
1. “When I stood in the ring at the
first ever Infinity with the black velvet bag wrapped around my hand the moment
I felt the plush velvet rip away from my grasp, I am reminded of the same pain
of when Scott went missing. Thoughts of the missing championship brings back
memories best left buried, best left forgotten.”
2. “Void ran into oblivion, chasing
down the Magpie, never getting any closer, never getting any further away.
Eventually Void persevered until Merula reappeared, swooping in closer to the
Magpie.”
In essence Void is Roderick Blackmore,
Blackbird is the essence of Blackmore’s motivation, and the Magpie is Mack. It
was like inception in a promo. Other bits I liked were when Roderick’s daughter
Hadley was telling the CEO her favourite wrestlers. Hadley’s favourite
wrestler was #FuckRydell, a nod to Rydell’s popularity in the Infinity City.
Overall,
a fascinating piece, and a promo that had me wanting to murder him. Mack’s
promo was just as good. He wrote the Void bit too well, he wasn’t catering for
his audience as he intended I don’t think, but the message is there. At least
Robbo was brave and wrote something he wanted to, something that interested him…and
for that I cannot fault him on nine pages of epic writing. What was most
startling was that this was Roderick’s debut promo; there are still kinks to
work out, and plenty of issues to address in the next promo he writes. Such as
a clearer indication as to the story, which at points did drift off and have no
conclusion, but when it came down to push and shove it was down to the fact
Roderick missed out on the victory because he didn’t do the one thing that was
so crucial to winning the match: give a reason why he was going to actually
beat A.C. Mack. Then again, that is such a harsh criticism it sounds crude
writing it down. He had every subtle implication, but on this time it was A.C. Mack
who shone in my judgment of who should have won the match. I suggest you all
read why I thought his was good enough to best one of the best in my brother.
A.C. Mack
When
I judged this match, the fact Roderick Blackmore’s promo was written by my
brother didn’t at all factor into this. A.C. Mack had a fair playing field, and
he had had a reputation of being a strong suited player who could write his way
of a maximum security prison. I haven’t read a Mack promo in the last few
years, and whenever I did it was when I was using the Aaron Destiny moniker. A.C.
Mack put me on edge, as I knew he always brought his A-Game to the table which
is a huge mental factor when writing a promo. I knew Robbo knew that Mack was
going to drop a literacy bombshell on his head. And that is what we got; A.C.
Mack is back ladies and gentlemen. Here is what I thought of his promo.
The
boardroom style of writing really suited A.C. Mack; he really got the point of
his character being a larger than life movie star do-it-all. It was very
realistically and grounded, and seeing a frustrated Roderick was great. Mack
even used the characters of the BZN and myself to really play on the angle that
this was a disaster for Infinity Wrestling when Mack stole the belt and no
action so far had been successful to return it home. This was his first entry
into life in Infinity, and it was a nice touch to see him incorporate so many
things into it, in regards to the best first promo…A.C. Mack definitely has it
covered, every box was ticked and I was more satisfied in reading this than I was
Blackmore’s piece. I always say that it is an injustice if I have to regret my
decision, but in this match I would have felt regret either way as it was so
tightly contested. If I allowed Roderick to win the regret would have been that
I let better writing overcome a better promo, of which I admit Roderick was the
better writer, but I was looking at who did the better promo in this instance
as I knew both of them were going to produce great writing.
A.C.
Mack compared himself to a Kanye West type of guy, which was such a great
comparison of a man because it sold his character. I had a great image about the
promo that I didn’t have with Roderick’s, the scenes, sounds, even smells of
everything that was taking place. I preferred the style Mack presented because
it gave authenticity to an issue that had ruffled the entire of Infinity
Wrestling. There was some epic lines spoke by Mack, but the one for me
personally was my cameo in the promo, I didn’t expect me to say my catchphrase,
and it was used very well, you can see it in my quotes of the week. He
references the Infinity Casino, a nod towards Mack doing his homework of which
is good to see in everybody. I liked that he played Roderick’s part very well;
it had a great mega-organisation feel about it. Interesting angle that Roderick
was in on the plan all along, and that this was the covert backstage stuff, and
the world believed that it was a theft…the point he makes is great as it is
very Mack style, that all eyes are on them and they had this story because they
needed to ruffle feathers in Infinity as a secret project, it then restores
balance with Mack legitimately holding the belt on his own accord.
There
wasn’t much I can fault with the promo, but I let my brother help my fill in
these gaps as he wanted to have his say on the match. All I can say myself is
that Mack mentioned that TCK and Roderick were brothers in the Infinity City,
of which we are not; it is just one of the small little things he should have
watched out for but nothing serious. It rounded up perfectly with a well-placed
rhyme at the end was the cherry on the cake. Well done A.C. Mack, I now pass
over to my brother to give his view on your match. #CopyThat
I, Robbo,
will go into some detail about my own promo, Blackbird. Being able to look back on my match with A.C. Mack I’ll
go as far as saying that the match itself was definitely a special attraction
match, and who knows, we may end up facing again very soon or in the future but
as of right now there are no plans in place for either character. Do I believe
that the best decision was made with A.C. Mack winning? Yes. Do I believe that
given another match with Mack that I’ll be able to win? Hell yeah.
The
biggest criticism I have given myself ever since I wrote my first (and
hopefully not last) Blackmore promo is that I am still finding ground with the
character. All of Blackmore and Mack’s segments on Infinity Wrestling, in my
opinion are fine but upon writing my first promo had I known the direction of
Roderick’s character and his symbolism I’d have had him speak, act and do
things a little bit more differently. For instance when he and Mr. Osman speak
at Infinity #3 Roderick’s words aren’t what I would picture them to be now.
Blackmore is a very regal, confused being that despite being at the top of
Infinity, he feels void of his own identity in this infinite world, and that
was the main inspiration for the ‘Void’ part of my promo.
Sam
really likes the segment in my promo with Roderick telling his son, young
Scott, about right and wrong, but I would disagree. My favourite part was the
last paragraph where from a third person narrative it is known that whilst in
the Void, Roderick’s most intimate and secret of thoughts are in fact his own
morality. Where my promo lacked in relevancy, my promo thrived in subtle
themes, such as A.C. Mack throughout being referred to as the Magpie. I really
went into some detail about the theme of birds and did a lot of digging and I
struck the goldmine when I realised that a Magpie is virtually the opposite of
a Blackbird, and that is true when comparing Mack and Blackmore.
The two
follow different lifestyles, one is blonde and pale white whilst the other is
caramel brown and black, Mack has an established character whilst Roderick is
starting out a new, and Mack throughout this story was on the outside looking
in but had something dear to Roderick. All of this was perfect for Mack being
symbolised as a Magpie, a known thief in the animal kingdom, and I believe I
played it clever in the ‘Void’ sequence at the very end where the Blackbird and
Void were advancing on the Magpie because it never reveals the fate of the
Magpie. I wanted to get the message across about winning the match in a
different way, unlike Randy Orton’s promo on RAW which was literally “I’m
better than you.” In my opinion the whole “better than you” topic is crap when
it’s just a straight and simple message; instead people continuously need to
think of new and interesting ways to get the same message across. My message
was that the Magpie will always lose because he’s in a domain that is
unescapable, especially with the touch of Void. Roderick’s intent was shown in
the statement at the end where he says all he touches turns into the Void. It’s
the equivalent of John Cena jobbing out everyone he faces or Randy RKO’ing
everyone or HHH burying everyone. It’s a symbol that Blackmore taints whatever
he touches, and that Mack was tainted from the very beginning the moment he stole
the Infinity World Championship.
Overall
about my promo, I would say that it was different from what everyone was
expecting. I have gone through a career of portraying characters that are very
good at shoot style promos – all with a twist – that on Bebo were very
successful. As Robert Stevens, Xodus, and Tyson Hammond, I established a
ruthless streak when it came to shooting on characters but with Blackmore as my
own writing has evolved, I have tried to evolve my own characters to tell the
story of the match through other means than a shoot. There are still kinks to
my Blackmore promos and ideas still need to be refined and delved into, and yes
if you thought parts of my promo were hard to follow or cryptic, that’s
deliberate. I plan on telling a long-winded story through my promos that will
lead to a massive moment in Infinity Wrestling, so the seeds for an ‘OMG’
moment have already been set in motion.
The
reason A.C. Mack was victorious was because for what he delivered, a very
simple yet dramatic and cool story in a Macktastic fashion, Mack delivered a
crisp promo that didn’t have the same refinement issues as my own. If I am
right in saying three people gave their opinions to TCK about winning the
match, one in my favour, one in Mack’s and one on the fence. TCK felt it an
injustice that either of us lost but the decision fell in my hands and I felt
that whereas my own story and promo was at a very high standard, I possessed a
few niggling problems that Mack didn’t, and quite honestly it was not a hard
decision to say Mack wins, because losing isn’t the end of the world and it
will go a long distance to make Blackmore’s work even better in the future. Now
that I know who Roderick is, and his place in the city, I am in a much better
position in the future than I was before I faced Mack.
Congratulations
are in order for Amen-Ra, and all others at Immortalis who either won or lost.
It was a special event that was well worth the wait, a definite high moment for
me as a federation owner.
Lastly…but
not forgotten…I will discuss Joey Harding’s promo for the Harmony Championship
Match.
Team
Over Rated vs. Joey Harding & Jordan Casanova
Harmony
Championship Match
Tonight
was also the debut of Joey Harding, the alter ego James Jameson. This match,
without disrespect to him, but this match had so much potential that was so
easily wasted. Joey Harding was the only participant to submit a promo and was
thereby awarded the first Harmony Championships with his partner Jordan
Casanova.
In
the results, and for the storyline as seen in Infinity #5 it is Jameson who
holds the Harmony Championship as he was the one who actually one won it…otherwise
it is being shared within his Agency that is a banner for the Patron Saints of
Wrestling.
I’ll
now provide feedback for the new Harmony Champion, Joey Harding. Seeing is
believing.
Joey Harding
Now,
the first thing I’d like to mention is that Joey/James is king of adding new
and interesting things to the Infinity City fiction. “…only on the Battle Zone Network” starts his promo, and this is
the birth of the Wesley Hanks show…the new chat show hosted by Wesley Hanks, it
is even accompanied by visual artwork which really sells the angle and is an
immediate catch. I wish more promos started in the way this one did. The promos
primary focus is on Laura, Joey’s personal assistant in YourHero Inc., and the
point that Joey Harding it arriving at Immortalis to make his debut. Laura’s
character is a callous and very selfish individual who seems to care little for
her appearance on the show except to promote Joey Harding, which is fantastic
as it really sells the self-entitlement that people in The Agency have about
Joey Harding and his involvement in the federation being of utmost importance
to everyone…the City, YourHero Inc, everyone.
Joey
Harding’s appearance feels importance, and rightly justified. It had a
completely different vibe as compared to the work of James Jameson which is
very important because an alter ego needs a different identity. Joey provided
that identity. He had a very similar style shoot, which was the best part of
his promo without a shadow of doubt. Here is one part that infused good humour
and a great thinking style.
“If you think
I’m ‘mean’ then you probably think the Jonas Brothers are actually nice young
boys too. Hilarious… So, why does it matter? Because it doesn’t… None of it
does… So if you indulge in anything that people value outside of eating,
drinking, breathing and producing children then I’m improving your life… If not
then it won’t change anything and you’re completely unaware of this message, if
you even exist…”
The
shoot had this raw aggression that helped break up the promo which in parts
could be arguably slow because of the layout of the Wesley Hanks show, all
beautifully done, just slow in its edges at parts, but there is nothing wrong
with that. If there was only one thing I would change with the Wesley character
is that he seems very reactionary, and normally television shows are very
commanding…Laura commanded Wesley, and didn’t give him any breathing room to
challenger her properly. This is a guy should be able to have the bigger voice
on his show than any guest, but all of those little things put to the side I loved
the format of it promo, it was neat and acute, easy to read and was engaging.
Harding ticked all the boxes, and more.
From
what I found there was little room for errors, because there was none. The Meta
Harding doesn’t make mistakes. Spelling, layout, graphics, speech…all perfect,
all pristine, all such a great start to the champion of YourHero Inc. Wait,
thought I had you there…thinking Harding couldn’t make a mistake…well there was
one, in that he referred to Blair Holmes as Blair Mitchell…ring announcer to
his alter ego James Jameson.
In
all honesty, John and Blair would have needed to seriously good pieces of work
to topple it if this match had a hundred percent completion rate for promos,
which is even more the shame neither of Over Rated of Joey’s own partner showed
up. This could have easily been match of the night, but nether less Joey
Harding had one of the best promos of the night and he delivered on the promise
he made to beat Over Rated to overcome the obstacles of the imitative Infinity
COO.
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For
Immortalis everyone will have a featured quote, which will be a staple for PPV
feedback. Enjoy some of the best and worst things said in the promos for our
first spectacular Immortalis!
Adrian Flynn
“You deserve this. This city needs a
hero; these people need the right kind of hero. I know I do. They need a hero
who hurts like them, but loves and succeeds in spite of it. You are that hero.
I love you.”
Taylor Westfall
“If seven years ago you would have told
me I’d be standing anywhere, I would've thought I’d be selling my cheap stories
from the business to social media outlets for a cheap buck.”
Neal Powers
Gooch Henderson: “I think I just made a mess, I'm
going to need something better than a box of tissues…”
Craig Anderson
“None of us are immortal. Sooner or later each and every one of us will be laid to rest. However, some people will never be forgotten.”
Matt Rydell
"You see, for weeks now, I’ve been
putting on a facade. I’ve been walking around Infinity City, high giving people
wearing my shirt. Posing for pictures with ugly women and their babies. And
I’ve been doing it with a smile on my face, pretending that I’m fine. That I’m
happy. That I’m having fun being a part of Infinity Wrestling, and I’m just
glad I’m on the card. But guess what? I’m not happy. Not at all."
Matt Rydell
“An old woman in Texas once called me a
terrorist.”
Murray Muir
“If this is the city of infinite
possibilities, then why the fuck don’t we see any advancement? What you have in
this shithole city is a group of people doing the same things day after day,
but yet still spouting the same shit about ‘opportunities’ and ‘potential’. Is
it all a lie? Is this grand proclamation of ‘infinite possibilities’ just some
bullshit marketing slogan to throw on a billboard? Is it really nothing more
than a bunch of pretty little words, designed to keep the mindless hordes
working on, working towards some fictional glimmer of light at the other end of
the tunnel? Or is it the people in this city that limit themselves? I could
believe that, with idiots like these. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that
they had pigeonholed themselves… locked themselves in place with the shackles
that are their lack of fucking imagination. Either way, something’s got to
give. Someone has to stand up and call bullshit on the whole thing, and then
we’ll see if any cards have to picked up or not.”
The Copycat Kid
Damien Muir: “TCK is a
man broken at his core; his success surfaces because he just doesn’t care…you
will never know the reason why he really wants to fight you.”
Chris Michaels
“You don’t give a shit about me. You
don’t give a shit about these men who sacrifice our bodies for a company that
sends us out there to fight like Gladiators for the enjoyment of these
brainwashed sheep. You’re able to look yourself in the mirror knowing that you,
“Save lives”, but the irony of this is, is you’re “saving lives” only for the
dead presidents that fatten your pockets. Every time I get hit in the head, go
through a table, or Tierney, Smith, or Jamo knocks me off the ladder, because
we will book it that way, you just picture dollar signs in your eyes at my
expense!”
Joey Tierney
“Unfortunately, I lost. Well, that's not
important, oh look, this is from when I became a bitch. I'm not kidding; this
is when I thought managing Craig Adams all the way to the world heavyweight
championship would give me something for not winning it myself. All it got me
was a job carrying his bags and helping him win matches. Yeah, I wasn't kidding
when I said I became a bitch. This little photo is from my last match before I
vanished for a year. See that guy right there? That's Preston Scott, he was
supposed to be the future, and I lost to him that night. I gotta tell you, it's
a shame that none of my photos from my year off are here, because that was one
hell of a year. Booze, easy women, threesomes, drugs, you get the idea.”
Jamo
“I've been on a roll since I arrived in Infinity
when my unbeaten streak begun to show my true dominance and force when I had beaten
four different wrestlers.”
Roderick
Blackmore
“It
wasn’t his Scott. Void needs the Blackbird for meaning and purpose, it was
wrong of the Magpie to take something that belonged to another. Do you
understand, son?”
A.C. Mack
Mr. Osman: “You all
are dismissed. This meeting is adjourned. Lana, I will see you tomorrow
afternoon. You two better not disappoint me. I want Mr. Mackey to realize that
he is no bigger than the rest of your wrestlers.”
The Copycat Kid: “…Copy
that.”
Joey Harding
“First
man to sign up, last man to show up. “
For
Immortalis I am proud to announce the match of the night was…Murray Muir vs.
The Copycat Kid!
This
isn’t me being hot-headed, but because of the Infinity Polling Station.
Following the event my match with Murray got the most votes for being match of
the night, storming it with over half of the votes. Aside from that, I believe
me and Murray had two really strong promos and a killer match that really stood
out from the crowd, and no championship was even involved. Robbo believed that
we deserved match of the night because of how tightly contested it was, with
two complimenting promos with a great story that resulted in a great match.
Coming up in a tight second has to be the Infinity World Championship match
between Taylor Westfall and Adrian Flynn. This world title match had me and
Robbo butting heads, and making every effort to have both people have a reason
to holding claim to the belt. This match was amazing to write, and both promos
were in tight contention with each other, as were all other matches that took
place Immortalis.
The grand daddy of them wouldn't be the same if the world champion, the new, and first world champion of Infinity didn't receive this award. Congratulations to Adrian Flynn on his victory over Taylor Westfall, another well earned award on the Copy Room's feedback.
This is now Adrian's third winning promo in this category, after his submissions for Infinity #1 and Infinity #2. He now pulls ahead of Murray Muir who has two of these awards, and another fact here remains that only the mobster Murray and the City's hero have claimed this prize for promo of the week. Adrian's sequence from start to finish was beautifully crafted, and justified his third promo of the week award. Robbo wanted me and Muir to hold joint honors in this regard as he believed our promo's were the highlight of the show for him, but it was me who stepped in and said that Flynn rightfully had etched his way into my coveted position this week. Other great promos of the night came from Taylor Westfall, Adrian's challenger, and also Chris Michaels...both men yet to make it here, but one day undoubtedly they will.
Last,
but definitely not least is a new feature I am introducing. This will take a
look at the person who had made the greatest stride from the previous show, and
why. I am proud to announce that at Immortalis the most improved star was…Joey
Harding.
The
reason why Joey Harding is the first most improved is simple: in comparison to
his promos as James Jameson this is a renewed character, and one that really
brought forward a solid game. It goes without saying that Harding and Casanova
if they were in a position that everyone would have submitted a promo for the
Harmony Championship match it would almost be a certainty Harding would still
be holding the belt. Harding’s effort has trumped all over promos he has
written as Jameson so far in Infinity…from City inclusions, to character
development, to layout and style, engagement, story, everything. Congratulations
are in order for one half of the first Harmony Champions.
For
the fifth time excuse the awful Ryback pun, but in all seriousness if you wish
to discuss more about your individual promos or anything else related to
anything like your character or promos do not hesitate to contact Infinity
Management. We’ll always respond to emails, or if you have either of the 2.0
Initiative on Facebook send us a private message or post in the Infinity group
and I’m sure a conversation will break out.
TCK’s Email:
infinitycopycat@gmail.com
Infinity Email:
wrestlinginfinity@gmail.com
No
way is better than the imitative way.
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