FACE OF THE NIGHT: Stevens in victory, Westscott in defeat, Fuse in killing Stalker, HOPE forming to fight Anthology… Whole company was facetastic.
HEEL OF THE NIGHT: I’d guess I’d split it between Wells/Tact for weathering the storm and holding the tag belts and Stalker for just being unmitigated scum.
MATCH OF THE NIGHT: Main event
MOMENT OF THE NIGHT: HOPE reveal, I’m bias as hell cause I worked so long with everyone in the group to do this, so it was really big to me. Post match Stevens/Westscott was also deluxe.
LINE OF THE NIGHT: The Stalker/Fuse resolution/Anarky’s HOPE speech.
OVERALL THOUGHTS: I thought the PPV was really huge, and now we’ll see the fallout from everything that happened with HOPE and Anthology and Stevens. It just feels epic, like a big event, and now we’ll see what those events will trigger in the rest of EPW.
What is HOPE? Is that like an angle or something?
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Yeah, I only had to hear about HOPE for the last 5-6 months! Seriously, we've had this planned for almost that long. Sweet, sweet payoff. If you want a laugh, go back and read the First/Winters RP thread from Agg 47, cause we spent the whole time making inside jokes about HOPE. How you people never figured us out is beyond me!
HEEL OF THE NIGHT: Has to be Stalker. I felt like the heels weren't really all that heelish on this card. Winters has gone from a heel to a crusading tweener in a matter of three cards, and Westcott/Stevens shaking hands brought a damn tear to my eye. This night was all about tying up loose ends, except for HOPE which opens a whole new dimension, sorta.
MOMENT OF THE NIGHT: HOPE reveal. Yes, we're self-shilling wh0res, but damn it...we've had this bullet in the chamber for a while now.
LINE OF THE NIGHT: "He's kind of like the other Beast, before he changed his name"-Neely, in reference to Bruce "The Beast" Richards.
MATCH OF THE NIGHT: Gotta be the main event. We don't call it a "Straw-epic" for nothing. Seriously, very few people can write a main event like Strawsma can. As for the TV title match, I LOVED it, probably the best ladder match I've ever read. With that said though Straw, I do have one small bone to pick: Layne Winters would NEVER, EVER turn away from the prize to save Pamela. That's just not in the man's DNA. However, I thought of a neat way to work that into a storyline RP, so I'll cut you some slack.
OVERALL THOUGHTS: Dare I say better than Wrestleverse III? First off, I wanna say that Jamar and Jarrett worked their asses off in the main event thread, and both brought their A Game. They deserved the awesome match that was written for them, and it's an immediate candidate for Match of the Year.
This was such an important card for the league, because it smoothly transitioned the past year of storylines/feuds into the next phase. Now we have new material to get excited about, and HOPE is only gonna be the beginning. Everybody should be looking to take their characters to the next level in terms of development.
Bottom line: I really like the direction this league is headed in right now.