SLCW is 1 year old

It is, it really is! SLCW is celebrating its first birthday!!! Like most things celebrating it's first birthday, it looks nothing like it did when it first popped out of Second Life's Lag-a-verse.

That baby Wrestling Promotion, which performed shows in a small arena next to a museum, is now a rather larger Wrestling Promotion that does its shows in a complex bigger than my ego. The days of shows being cursed by matches between myself and Moppy, and Sidney in general are long gone. Nowadays you can see matches that look like matches should look. It is really rather impressive.

How do I fit in with the modern SLCW? Well, how about a history update (Breaking kayfabe here and a few spoilers). As an earlier post covers, I won the SLCW Women's Championship. The first ever women champion in SLCW. A few weeks later, I was stripped of the title and suspended for 3 months by then SLCW Head Boy, Ivan Halfpint, after no-showing for a Warzone show. In reality I no-showed due to being stranded 60 miles from my house, it was beyond my control. I had a large email argument with Ivan and quit. The 3 month suspension was a storyline put in place to cover me quitting and the title being vacated.

Within 2 weeks i'd made up with Ivan - he's one of the nicest guys in SL - but remained out of SLCW. 6 or so weeks later I asked to return, it was agreed but we played out the 3 month storyline. I made a couple of valet and interference appearances before the suspension was up. Finally, with the 3 months up, I made an in-ring comeback. Working a handful of matches.

My SLCW history has been rather fragmented (understatement of the year). Saturdays were often difficult days for me, but when Warzone moved to Sundays things got better. A small feud with Paula Wilcox boiled for a couple of months. She injured me by delivering 2 horrible pile drivers (I spent about 7 weeks walking around with a neck brace 24/7) we only ever wrestled 1 vs 1 once. The plan was to run with it more but RL issues sidelined me.

Paula would have been my first proper SLCW angle. We'd put quite a bit of thought into it and i'd gone as far as creating a fictional Haircare brand that I had a multi-million linden dollar deal to promote. Why? Well, we were planning a hair vs hair match, and Slampoo (the haircare product) made my hair rather valuable to me! No hair, no millions! It was fun and there was even a store at SLCW arena where you could buy (it was free) Slampoo bottles and t-shirts (IM if you want one). It may have been Wrestlecrap, but it was still an attempt at building a character.

That is where my SLCW career currently lies. 3 months, a break up, redundancy and suicide attempt later I am slowly returning to SL trying to break back into SLCW. Vince Easterwood is one of the finest people you could ever wish to meet in SL. He's helping me remove the ring rust, and in all truth, try and become a decent wrestler as I was never particularly spectacular.

Enough of me. Today is SLCWs day. It's been an amazing year. The creative genius that is Alpin Criss deserves some form of award for what he has built. Eric Stewart - a chap i've not always got on with but always respected - gave SLCW a huge kick up the arse in the design and production stakes.

Misaki Yumako and Katheryn Blackadder are mostly responsible for the amazing Womens division that SLCW current has. Kat won the womens title today at the first anniversary show, which is perfect and I am so happy for her and everything she has done for SLCW - she is so much more than a wrestler. Celtdan has to be the most entertaining wrestler SLCW has. Waroop is at the centre of nearly everything great about SLCW, Ivan Halfpint helped build the rock solid foundations which SLCW sits on today... I could go on and on, so i'll cut it short now, but every wrestler who's ever participated in SLCW are deeply beautiful and should be proud of what the promotion has achieved. No matter if their contribution was deemed positive or negative, they still form part of its History, a history which must surely still be in its infancy.