Post by Meng Lao on Jul 14, 2008 4:44:09 GMT -5
Finally after way to long of an absence the Meng Dynasty is back! !!
So the time has come Rp wrestling is no more. It is indeed a sad day. I hope by revealing what I am about to will inspire someone to open a new fed and use the model that worked so well for so long for Krull Valhalla and myself.
Let’s start at the beginning shall we. When JEWCW was conceived so long ago by Krull Valhalla as an invasion angle in XWA that’s all it was meant to be. But Alexis and Bubba got their undies in a bunch because Krull was actually creating some excellent Rp, as he always did, without their permission. They banned Krull and he fired back by turning JEWCW into an actual Rp fed. When Krull left XWA he didn’t leave alone. Krull took with him 4 Rpers, Reign, Jon Bundy, Mike Hawk(say it fast)and me. I was Rping at that time under the name “Mason the Mutilator”, A Mick Folley Mankind character that used the actual name the WWE originally intended to call the Mankind character. There you have it the original JEWCW five. However, five quickly became two.
First to go was Mike Hawk who just seemed to disappear off the face of the earth. He stopped showing up in the room and could no longer be found online on MSN. Next was Reign who got a new job that all but took away any spare time he had so he had no choice but to call it quits. Then Jon Bundy disappeared. I wasn’t particularly sad to see him go because he never had a clue what he was doing. In fact he damn near killed my 10 man gauntlet match I did to crown the first ever Super Crown Champion. He popped into the room and asked if he could be a part of the match. Normally I would have said yes but since I had already had the match pre scripted and had something specific to accomplish with this match (The debut of Morbid a Chris Kanyon “Mortis” character who had a past with Mason the Mutilator). Jon kept pestering me so I asked him to do some commentary for the match. I meant for him to take over the play-by-play announcer character Jim E. Controversy. Instead he walks down to the ring as his own character and starts doing the worst commentary I’ve seen since XWA’s Patience Devine. I had to delete the bulk of his commentary it was so bad. So, no, I wasn’t sad to see him go. From that point on whether it was JEWCW, XCW or AWX it was all done by 2 people Krull Valhalla and yours truly.
Here is how we were different form the other Rp feds of the day. 1. Instead of using avatars of the current big names in wrestling (The Rock, Stonecold, Triple H, Undertaker, etc.). Instead we used avatars of guys like (Arn Anderson, Mick Foley in any form, Ric Flair, Jake The snake Roberts, Curt Henning, Brian Pillman , Owen Hart, Etc.) basically we used the classics. We tried to make avatars of Ricky Steamboat but we could find any good quality pics except for one of him wearing that stupid dragon suit. We also wanted a Kerry Von Eric avatar but we could find any pics of him that he didn’t look stoned off his ass in. 2. We focused exclusively on wrestling not behind the scenes drama involving mansions or night clubs or relationships or cybersex or…well you get the idea. 3. Avatars in the posted Rp. To this day I don’t know why nobody else did this. Sure it’s a little more work when posting your Rp on the board but it makes things look so much better and so makes the Rp so much easier to follow. 4. Rp style and content. One thing that always pissed me off when trying to read Rp from another fed is the unnecessary crap that gets posted primarily song lyrics. Nothing pisses me off more than having to scroll down through a hundred foot long post (ok maybe that’s exaggerated a little) of the entire song lyrics of someone’s entrance theme. When I read wrestling Rp that what I want to read..wrestling..not song lyrics. If that’s what I wanted I’d be on one of those song lyrics websites not a Rp wrestling board. As for style, I know the traditional Rp style is for one guy to do an offensive post and the other guy comes back with a post selling that offence. That’s all well and good if you got someone who will after taking some punishment will dish some out. Some of the people that I have Rped with couldn’t figure out that they got to do something other than get the crap kicked out of them. Often times I would have to put in some offence in my posts for my opponent. Are style was to string together 2 or 3 moves in a single post including the selling of the moves and finish the post opened ended with a move that could be countered. The other guy would either take the move or counter it with something else and then go from there. Also there is no need to describe the hold or move you are doing that can become very confusing. I remember reading a match one time and one of the Rpers went into a long winded description of some sort of arm hold. By the end of the description I was sure if he was applying an armbar or if he was humping the guys arm. Bottom line a long winded description of a move or hold isn’t necessary. It’s safe to assume that anyone reading wrestling Rp is going is going to have some knowledge of pro wrestling and the wrestling holds and moves. So if you’re putting your opponent in a side head lock just say “grabs your head in a side headlock clamping it on tight and pouring on the pressure”. You don’t need to say “I wrap my left arm around your head, I then grab my left wrist with my right hand and squeezes your skull with all the force I can muster”.
The Biggest thing AWX had going for it was trust. Krull and I continuously pumped out new avatars and we each had a copy of every code for every avatar including our main characters. Yep, on more than one occasion I masqueraded as Krull and he masqueraded as Meng or Bonesaw. Actually one of my most famous moves, the Nut bomb was created by Krull one night when we were doing a match, Jesus Estrada Jr. VS The Mighty Sven. If my memory serves me right I was Sven and Krull was Estrada. Through the match Krull had me sandbag(make him look bad) Estrada and hit him with sloppy moves. Basically if it was a real wrestling match it would have been a sloppy cluster fuck that the fans would be booing the shit out of. Next thing I know Krull say, I got an idea and he switches character to Meng Lao! He comes out to the ring as Meng, kicks the ever loving shit out of Sven and lays him out with a Nut Bomb! At first I thought it was the stupidest thing I had ever hear of but the more I thought about it the more I realized, you know what if someone grabbed and lifted you off the ground by the balls and then threw you to the mat, you ain’t getting up anytime soon! So I continued to use the hold. The bottom line is, we trusted each other with each other’s characters and respected each other’s characters. So when I was masquerading as Krull I didn’t doing anything with the character that the real Krull wouldn’t have done himself and vice versa. The benefit of this of course was, if there was an Rp that was scheduled to be done and one of us wasn’t available to do the Rp, then the other could still do the Rp on schedule because he had the codes for all the characters and could use them as needed. There would be no need to cancel a match because of a no show.
As for the Meng Lao character. It’s really quite simple. When Shaman 7 went under and JEWCW was gone, I was pissed. I wasn’t sure I wanted to Rp any more. Krull managed to keep JEWCW alive by doing matches in other feds and I pretty much stopped Rping all together. Then Krull called me up one day and said that he had reached a deal with the owner of an E-Fed to become part owner and that we would have our own show. The fed was terrible. It was called KACW or Kick Ass Championship Wrestling and the name is just the tip of the iceberg. The fed had zero originality. It had 2 shows RAW and Smackdown. The roster was made up of characters like Vince McMahon, Stonecold, John Cena, The Rock, Bret Hart, Stacey Keibler, Lita, etc. I’m not making this shit up. Krull had control of the Smackdown show which he renamed XCW Smackdown (at least it had a little originality). Krull wanted me to come back so I did but I wanted a new character, something fresh and different. I have always been a fan of Meng/Haku, Especially his WCW work. He’s one of the few guys that they actually used right. I am also a fan of Japanese martial arts actor Bolo Yeung (probably best known for his role in the movie “Blood sport” playing the lead villain opposite Jean Claude Van Damm.). Yeung also starred in many straight to video low budget martial arts action flicks, in almost all of them he played a silent monster henchman. He didn’t say much but when it was time to fight he would tear his opponent apart in about 2 seconds.
So I created Meng Lao in the image of Bolo Yeung but with the moves and style of Meng/Haku. I later ran into a problem. XCW Rp was done in a way that we actually created match images to go into the rp. So as you can imagine finding pics of Bolo Yeung in a ring doing wrestling moves was impossible. As a result I changed the character image to Meng/Haku. For those who are curious the first name of the character is self explanatory. The last name comes from the Mortal Kombat character Chung Lao.
Then one day something happened. Krull under the guise of the “War Machine”, gave Stacey Keibler a few pointer on how to improve her Rp. He didn’t say anything bad about her or put her down in anyway. It was simply constructive criticism. Well, Stacey and 2 of her friends John Cena and Lita tore Krull apart on the board and that royally pissed me off. Krull is one of the greatest wrestling minds I’ve ever known Rp wrestling or Rt wrestling. I’ve often wondered what Raw or Smackdown would be like if Krull was running it. I can say this much, they would be far more entertaining shows than they are now. Anyway I completely lost my temper and fired a profanity laced rocket of a post at the trio. Lita and Stacey quit the fed almost immediately. John stayed around a little while longer and tried in vain to trade verbal barbs with me and after getting his ass trampled on more than one occasion he left with his tail tucked between his legs. After my first tirade I realized something, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed letting that side of myself out to play and I enjoyed stirring the pot and getting a rise out of people.
At around the same time Krull gained complete control of KACW and promptly dropped the KACW name and called it XCW. Not too long after Krull found a new Rp home for JEWCW. We decided to merge JEWCW with XCW and call it AWX and the rest as they say is history. During the life of AWX Krull started doing a Pro Wrestling Torch styled dirt sheet called the AWX Flame. I saw it and thought to myself I’d like to do something like that. But instead of a wrestling dirt sheet it would be a no holds barred wrestling gossip column. I would shoot my mouth off about something in the Rp or Rt wrestling world and encourage everyone to voice their 2 cents and thus the Meng Dynasty was born.
That’s about all of AWX’s deep dark secrets…oh wait I forgot one…probably the biggest one of all. Anyone remember a character by the name of Carnage the White Devil? Well Carnage was created by none other than Krull Valhalla himself! Originally there was someone in XWA using a character called Maximum Carnage, named after the marvel comic book villain. For whatever reason the owner of the character stopped using it and Krull took control of it. He dropped “Maximum” from the name and dubbed the character Carnage the White Devil…A substance abusing, womanizing carefree spirit that simply didn’t give a shit anyone or anything including himself. I want to make one thing perfectly clear, Krull did NOT create this character to spy on XWA, far from it. Believe it or not, Krull still gave a damn about XWA even of Alexis and Bubba didn’t. He used the Carnage character to try and keep XWA going and for a while it worked. But then ironically Carnage would get banned from XWA, partly because the character was portrayed as a substance abuser and partly because Krull was carrying out rp storylines and matches without Bubba’s and Alexis’s approval.
No malice was intended with either Krull’s or my duel identities. While we did refer to the characters as being different people, if you happen to have any of our old Rp lying around anywhere you will notice that there is virtually no difference between Meng Rp and Bonesaw Rp nor is there any difference between Krull Rp and Carnage Rp.
Well that’s it! The proverbial cat is out of the bag! I hope someone can put the AWX formula to good use and create a new Fed that will flourish for years to come.
As always feel free to comment on anything you read here.
Meng F’N Lao
