{"id":697,"date":"2018-03-26T22:01:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T22:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.e-warchive.com\/new\/?page_id=697"},"modified":"2020-06-18T20:46:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T20:46:44","slug":"histories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.e-warchive.com\/?page_id=697","title":{"rendered":"Histories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This section of the website is dedicated to John Armstrong and Scott Blair. &nbsp;Many moons ago, when John was looking to open a regional promotion called Mid-South Wrestling, he decided he wanted to a different route than the usual fed where the first show you read was the very first show in the promotion&#8217;s history. &nbsp;He wanted to start a promotion &#8220;in progress&#8221; where there would be a history&#8230; years or decades of history in fact to draw upon as storyline and character depth. &nbsp;So, he and Blackie set about to create a history for MSW&#8230; a rich and vibrant history that was written so well, you often felt like you were there for it and were dying to read more about what had happened.<\/p>\n<p>Upon launching the AWA, I knew that I wanted to create a richer world for us to play in. &nbsp;With so few e-feds in our universe, &nbsp;I wanted to create our own competition&#8230; I wanted to create international partners with their own histories to draw upon for stories&#8230; and most of all, I wanted to develop territories that existed in the AWA&#8217;s world so that we didn&#8217;t need excuses as to where some of these characters were hiding during the &#8220;boom period&#8221; of e-wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>So, in this area of the site, you will find the histories of fictional promotions like the Texas-based Premier Championship Wrestling, the home to the legendary Lynch family&#8230; like Tiger Paw Pro, the #1 promotion in all of Japan and a &#8220;sister promotion&#8221; to the AWA with a rocky relationship history between the two&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This area is also the host to articles spotlighting the histories of individual characters &#8211; telling the story of the careers of men like Todd Michaelson who has existed in our &#8220;real&#8221; universe since the mid-90s and men like &#8220;Big&#8221; Jim Watkins who was created a few years ago but has a rich history to draw from.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-warchive.com\/?page_id=701\">Territories<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-warchive.com\/new\/?page_id=703\">Wrestlers<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This section of the website is dedicated to John Armstrong and Scott Blair. &nbsp;Many moons ago, when John was looking to open a regional promotion called Mid-South Wrestling, he decided he wanted to a different route than the usual fed where the first show you read was the very first show in the promotion&#8217;s history. &nbsp;He wanted to start a promotion &#8220;in progress&#8221; where there would be a history&#8230; years or decades of history in fact to draw upon as storyline and character depth. &nbsp;So, he and Blackie set about to create a history for MSW&#8230; a rich and vibrant\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-697","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":5}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-warchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-warchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-warchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-warchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-warchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-warchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-warchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/697\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-warchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}