If all goes according to plan, MONGOL! will be opening its doors with its first tour in September or October. As it stands now, however, nothing is set in stone. The roster isn't close to full; I don't exactly expect to fill it, but that's beside the point. MONGOL! is still looking for people. That's the point.
MONGOL! is, as the name halfway implies, based in Mongolia. The concept is built around an organization brought to its current state by a wrestler of Mongolian birth who has started a school and promotion in Ulan Bator (the capital of Mongolia). With financial backing from the Russian Kolzak K. Vladiyev, MONGOL! is about to enter a new age, a new expansion as Vladiyev attempts to forge the first viable pan-Asian wrestling promotion. We're not picking up at the beginning, but at a beginning.
MONGOL! is worked. That is to say, wrestling isn't real in MONGOL!. Moves will get botched. People get tired. If you make someone angry, they might shoot on you. A shootfighter doesn't have an advantage over a traditional wrestler because they are both trying to work the match to a hopefully amazing conclusion. They aren't fighting each other.
MONGOL! is puro. There is a push from some within the company (especially Vladiyev) to commercialize the product, but at its core it's a puroresu promotion. The matches themselves have quite a lot of significance and a good wrestler can almost get by solely on being a good wrestler. Contrast this with most Western promotions where you need to have a good gimmick to get ahead. Don't try to sell a green character here unless you expect to spend a year, two years jobbing (and really, who can guarantee being around two years?).
MONGOL! tours. The structure of the fed is based around tours rather than cycles of TV and pay-per-views. A tour consists of 3-5 large shows and 5-10 smaller shows. Writing-wise, the smaller shows might make a page total, two pages at the maximum. There are no guaranteed supercards at the end of a tour; they come and go when they're warranted.
MONGOL! is split into heavyweights and junior heavyweights. This ties into the puro aspect. The Imperial Heavyweight Championship and the Imperial Junior Hvy. Championship are promoted with the same degree of importance. For the most part, juniors don't fight heavyweights. That's just the way it works. They might clash in mixed tag matches or if you have the rare uppity junior, but the weight difference is very important.
So where do you come in? If you've got the inclination to join up with an angle fed, M! is as good as any. There's very little history to deal with, no egos built up yet over past happenings in the fed. The concept is a little challenging if you're used to the usual big-time-American-fed feel. If you're interested in matchwriting, M! promises to be a great place to flex those muscles. If you're learning, all you've got to show is a little bit of promise and we can work on the rest. I have an interest in helping to make a quality product, not just to cobble together some big names that I can show off (though having experienced guys never hurt).
So what can I offer you? Nothing. I'm not going to pretend like there's anything in it for you other than the experience of writing. There are a ton of other places you could go to write, but very few of them (if any) will be like MONGOL!. I don't book a year in advance. I don't book six months in advance. At the very most, I'll look two tours ahead of where we are at the moment. Situations change and I want to change with the situation. I want new ideas to jump out at me, 'cause if they're jumping out at people who are in the fed, imagine what they're gonna do to people outside it? I want the people in the fed to have these ideas.
Right now's your chance to get in on the ground floor of this.
Thanks for whatever time you gave.