EPW WOTM and POTM

Here's the first ever Wrestler of the Month and Promo of the Month.

This is for August 2008.

Wrestler of the Month: JA

Let's just say I didn't stay up all night trying to pick this one. JA won the World Heavyweight Title at Aggression 38, beating "Triple X" Sean Stevens in a match that seemed to have everything. He survived a meat-hook stabbing and multiple Fallen interferences to take home gold. On a side note, Tom Holzerman was less than a month from his marriage date, and still managed to pull off wins for JA AND Priest & Eisenkreuz.

Runner-up: Craig Miles

Miles single-handedly defeated one of the best tag teams in EPW, Second Coming, to move his team (with Beast) to the KOTC Finals. He took one hell of a beating and used his in-ring expertise to sneak out a win. It's a testament to the talent of these two wrestlers that despite rarely seeing eye-to-eye, they've been able to dominate the competition on their way to the KOTC Finals. It's especially impressive that Miles' first match in EPW was Round One of the KOTC.

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Promo of the Month: MAIN EVENT: World Heavyweight Title match- Thread #7, JA's third promo.

I felt this was the best promo during the Agression 38 promo period. It was very aggressive and biting. It had just the right amount of sarcasm and there was a lot of KOTC talk, which was appropriate because we're in the midst of it in '08 while the tournament itself has so much history for Stevens, JA and Dis/Troy. The Melton rebuke was strong. Overall, I felt this was the best roleplay of August because it challenged Triple X and was exceptionally tight, leaving no mistakes for Stevens to exploit.

Aggression 38 Review, Fuse's WOTM and RP of the Month

First thing, I talked to Dave about doing a "Wrestler of the Month" and "Promo of the Month". I hope anyone who follows this blog will check again, probably tomorrow, to see my picks. Obviously this is just my own POV. Promos are so subjective, and I'm happy to listen if you want to argue your case for a particular rp. Also, if you think I'm full of sh*t and know nothing about what a good rp reads like, feel free to keep it to yourself.

Just kidding.

Feel free to let me know what's up. I can take it.

Now, on to the review.

After 37, I felt like we didn't have enough segments. After 38, I felt there were way too many. That said, it would've been hard to cut any of them because they were pretty much all good. I really liked the PSA at the beginning and thought it was a nice 'return' segment for Ice Tre. Beast's segments were entertaining, and I especially enjoyed Miles' dialogue spots. The Troy/Miles/Beast banter back and forth was the segment of the night. Miles getting dragged out of Troy's office was my mark moment. I'm most looking forward to Cruise/Hiroshi and what that becomes.

I wrote a segment for the show too that never went up. I blame my idiot co-worker who thought it was a good idea to put Linux and its .odt word processing file system on the community cpu. I worked with Justin (Stalker) on the seg, and he had problems with it too. I'll post it on the OOC forum.

Match-wise, the main event was far and away the best match. Kudos to whoever wrote it (Ryan, I'm looking in your direction). Both Jamar and Tom deserved a win with their showing, and the match was worthy of the rp period. I especially liked Ice Tre dropping from the rafters and fixing Stevens' crown properly on his head before the home run swing.

Justin did a fine job writing my match. Tact/Douglas was a fun read too, and I'm glad Tact won because Adam and Tact's handler really compliment each other well. That PPV match will have a great promo period.

Lindsay's doing a fine job as head honcho. She's really getting involved with the segments, which makes it more fun for her and everyone else too. Please keep it up if you read this Lindz.

Please check back for more; likely tomorrow or in the next couple of days.