The scene: UWF President Jack Tunney’s office.

Tunney: “In just a few hours, the Underdog Wrestling Federation, or UWF for short, will present its first show. No one is giving us a chance… we didn’t start signing talent until every other territory locked up several past, present, and future Hall of Famers from all over the world. And that’s alright with us. The UWF is all about action, exciting personalities, and giving each wrestler on our roster the opportunity to rise to the top.”

“Our first show is called Here We Go, and on that night we will crown our World Heavyweight champion, our World Superheavyweight champion, and our World Tag-Team champions. The UWF championship committee had a difficult time narrowing down the contenders, but I personally feel that they made the right choices.”

“In addition to those three championship matches at Here We Go, there will be several other dream matches on the card that will undoubtedly have title ramifications later on this month. But why should I tell you about them when they can do it themselves?”

Fadeout from Tunney’s office, into a series of short Saturday Night’s Main Event-styled promos, starting with…




“You think you’re a loose cannon, Brian Pillman? A rebel? A revolutionary? All I see is a guy that never reached his potential but got paid like he did – right, Mr. WWF Guaranteed Contract? Meanwhile, I put my money where my mouth was and dominated every fed, group, and indy I ever lent my presence to!”




“Are you bragging about being an indy god, Cardona? Who f—king cares? And oh, you’re so brave wrestling in a high school gym for 50 bucks and a hot dog after stealing a paycheck from the WWE all those years. You were a joke then, and you’re a joke now, and when I’m done with you, you’re gonna go running back to the garbage leagues like a f—king f—k!”




“I’m a former World champion, and instead of fighting for the UWF World Superheavyweight title, I’m wasting my time in a match against that stupid Irishman Sheamus! You think you’re so tough, punk? You want a real banger? Well, how about we do this ECW style – in a tables match!”




“I’ll give you all the credit in the world for being a powerful lad, and for a 300-pounder you move like a bloody cruiserweight. But you’ve never faced a fella like me before. You were a big fish in a small pond, Awesome. And me? I’ve been the bar for success for the last 15 years, winning titles every time I set my mind to it. Tables match? You’re on, fella!”




“The only reasons Buddy Rogers and yours truly, Nick Bockwinkel, aren’t competing for the UWF World Tag-Team titles are stupid and nonsensical. Does it truly matter if we haven’t been a team before, when between us, we’ve held the World Heavyweight champion six times, not to mention tag gold several times in our careers? No matter. Proving ourselves against a pair of thugs like the North-South Connection is child’s play.”


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“Bockwinkel, Rogers, you think you’re better than us? Well, in just a few hours you’re gonna find out the difference between two good wrestlers and one great team. Me and Adrian have been beating up pretty boys like you two all our lives, and mark my words, you ain’t got the skills or the guts to beat us. You’re just a speed bump on our way to the UWF World Tag-Team belts!”

I never found the time to to a proper Fed Thread write up, so I'll settle for posting my card & summarize what I had in mind.

Big supershow. There will be a couple of intermissions to pace things out, but picture this as an all-day festival of wrestling.

The Full Card:

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Charge! Wrestling presents

Full Power

Live! from Globe Life Field, Arlington Texas

General Manager Drake Maverick
Senior Official John Cone
Ring Announcer Kayla Braxton
Broadcast Announcers Scott Stanford & Johnathan Coachman
Nickelodeon Special Correspondent: Nicholas Cone


Charge World Championship
Nature Boy Ric Flair ( C ) vs Trick Williams

Charge Tag Team Championships - Best Two out of Three Falls Match
Houston Heat - Booker T & Stevie Ray ( C ) vs Fear The Revival - Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler

Charge Open Championship
The Bastard Pac ( C ) vs. Mustafa Ali

Texas Death Match
Bruiser Brody vs. Invader 1

Magnum TA & The Russian Nightmare Nikita Koloff vs. Scorpio Sky & Apollo Crews (w/ The Russian Bear Ivan Koloff)

Number One Contenders Match
The Ace Hiroshi Tanahashi vs The Scottish Warrior Drew McIntrye

Six-Man War Texas Tornado Match
The Family - Tony D'Angelo, Terrific Terry Taylor & Baron Corbin vs. The Handsome Half-Breed Gino Hernandez, The Spanish God Sammy Guevara & Mil Muerte

Killer Bees - B. Brian Blair & Jumping Jim Brunzell vs The Midnight Express - Loverboy Dennis Condrey & Beautiful Bobby Eaton

Free For All Pre Show

Donovan Dijak (w/ Stacy Keibler) vs Big Bronson Reed

The Chairmen - Shawn Spears & LA Park vs The Kingdom - Matt Taven & Mike Bennett (w/ Maria Kanellis)

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World Title Main Event Flair vs Trick, Classic Heel Nature Boy vs The up and coming babyface. Flair is aligned with FTR and Trick is loosely connected with Booker T & Stevie Ray in the build to this to make it feel bigger and get Williams over even more

Houston Heat vs FTR for the tag titles, ties in to the main event as well, and they trade non title fluke-y wins, so we go 2/3 falls here

Open title Pac vs Ali. They crossed a couple of times in the early days of 205 live, and it weas always good. They steal the show here for the X-Division-esque belt

Bruiser Brody vs Invader 1 in a literal Texas Death Match. They fight until someone dies.

Ivan and Nikita had a falling out, Magnum makes the save, Ivan brings out Crews & Sky as his new charges.

Number one contenders match is just straight up two top names looking for the next title shot.

Six Man War. Gino, Sammy & Tony D worked together for a short time, but Gino got greedy and double crossed him. Each man brought in his friends for a Texas tornado match

Bees vs Midnights, two teams that never touched before.

Dijak vs Reed. Big Men Bumping Meat.

Chairmen vs Kingdom. The chairmen team amused me, and I can see WCW-era LA Park having some comedy interactions with Maria. to get us here.

Great job assembling all these teams SG

Love the whole thing, but a big fan of the SPEED pre-show.

A few Add/Drop notes:

Jey Uso struts into the back of the Barclays Center where he encounters his brother Jimmy Uso waiting with Naomi.

Jey Uso: All right, big bro, how we gonna play this? It's love now, right?

Jimmy Uso: You know it, put it in.

Jey and Jimmy clasp hands and pull in for the hug.



Naomi: Finally. I'm so glad you both could get past this--

Jimmy: So long as you acknowledge me as the Tribal Chief.

Naomi: JONATHAN!

Jimmy: What? He can't even acknowledge me?

Jey: Man, who you the Tribal Chief of? Roman not here. Solo not here. Cousin Tama and cousin Tanga not here. Jacob not here.

Jimmy: Yeah, well, you forgetting someone. See, Roman's got a brother too.

Rosey: Hi guys! It's me, Rosey!



Jey: Okay, wow. I mean, look, Matt, Rosey, it's incredible to see you. It's love, uce, I'm so glad you're here. But you're not a Tribal Chief because you're teaming with Rosey.

Jimmy: See you forgetting, Rosey has a brother.

Jey: Yeah, Roman, and he's not here.

Jimmy: No, his other brother.

Hurricane Helms enters the room.



Helms: I acknowledge you, my Good Citizen Tribal Chief!

Jey: ... Man, that's not his brother!

Jimmy: What you talking about, they look exactly the same!

Jey: They look exactly the same? Their costumes?

Jimmy: Look, it don't even matter, uce. Because I also found some other cousins, that you don't even know about.

Jey: You clowning, uce, I know all our cousins. Who'd you get? LA Smooth? Manu? Zilla?

Jimmy: No little bro, you thinking too small. You thinking on the island. I'm talking extended family. Let me introduce you to big uce and little uce - Keith Uso and Ultimo Uso.

Keith Lee and Ultimo Dragon enter from the Bloodline door.





Jey: ... You're tripping.

Jimmy: No, you're tripping! You don't acknowledge me, I get it, but you won't even acknowledge our cousins?

Jey: THOSE ARE NOT OUR COUSINS! WE ARE NOT RELATED!

Keith: If you would perhaps indulge me for just a moment of time, I have in fact procured a DNA test that is suggestive of a possible overlapping ancestor with one Miss Trinity Fatu--

Jey: Who's that ancestor, Keith? Adam? Eve?

Hurricane: (pointing to Ultimo) I don't know, Citizen Jey, I think this guy looks exactly like me.

Jey: YOU ARE NOT RELATED TO ME!

Hurricane: How can you know, when my identity ... is secret?

Jey: Look, big bro, I am not acknowledging you, and I am not acknowledging your Bloodline. Deuces, uces.

Jey storms off and the camera follows him, when he bumps into ... Kenta Kobashi, flanked by Noriyo Tateno.




Kenta: (speaking Japanese)

Noriyo: He says I have been waiting for you.

Jey: You better not tell me you're my uncle.

Kenta: (speaking Japanese)

Noriyo: He says, he is not. But he is challenging you to a match.

Jey: Man, any time anywhere, you got it. We good?

Kenta: (speaking Japanese)

Noriyo: He says you must know that he has been sent by the Tribal Elders to test you, and that they wish to speak with you--

Jey: Man, there are no tribal elders here! You go tell Taka and Funaki, or whoever your elders are, that I'm good! Is everyone crazy?

Jey storms off. Noriyo and Kenta shrug, and knock on the door behind them. Afa and Sika come out.



Noriyo: He didn't want to talk.

FADE

Oh wow, I didn't see that big picture just noticing your picks as they came up, but this is a lot of fun (and the first I had heard of the Nova/Kazarian tag team). Really great thematic work; I'm all in.

I wish my first pick wasn't shoved up Paul Levesque's keister by order of the Great One, but a small price to pay for these great promos (even if I have some small questions about what happened in that federal trademark suit). Well done to kick off.

Those are some fun deep factions - Tough Enough is a wild group but it makes more sense the longer I look at it. Heart of Darkness could be an incredible serious stable or an incredible comedy stable with different points of emphasis, and I love it.

I like the conceit of this very much! Looking forward to the final first card.