Infinity: Immortalis Feedback

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:

http://www.infinitywrestling.net/#!promo-archives/cejt

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:

http://www.infinitywrestling.net/#!infinitydevelopmental/c1a4e

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

You can check out the Infinity Developmental page here where you can learn how to build amazing promos, characters, and more! http://www.infinitywrestling.net/#!infinitydevelopmental/c1a4e

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.

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"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."

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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.

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“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.”

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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:

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“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?”

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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:

http://tckcopyroom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/tck-promo-immortalis-copycat.html

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:

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“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.

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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

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