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Date Posted: 21:21:06 12/25/11 Sun
Author: Ace Jordan
Subject: GSM Chapter 3

CHAPTER 3 – Hangman vs. Smudge, Hangman vs. Smudge, oh and Smudge vs. Hangman.

The inaugural VIW show took place in March 2003 It was a private affair with only, Smudge, Hangman and the camera man and commentator Theodore Schlong, who still at high school may off skived off that rare day to make the show as the house would be empty, Hangman’s residence was large with a big front garden, however the back garden was rather small in comparison at the side was a large woodshed next to it and on the right a large tree with the gravel drive way in front of it. It was very private so there was little chance of the paranoid neighbours phoning to complain or people bothering them.
The VIW wrestling ring base was no ring at all 2 old mattresses pilled onto of each other and a little too bouncy, the weather was neither hot nor cold. Hangman had chosen the name “The Juggala” as his wrestling persona this came from a track by his favourite band at the time Insane Clown Posse.
He quickly soured on this (the name, not the band) probably because it sounded like a name that seems to come accompanied with face-paint and a set of balls which Hangman had none (zing!) He came up with “Hangman” by the time of the 2nd show. The first VIW match was The Juggala vs. Smudge for the first VIW champion. Hangman had hand crafted the championship himself originally the idea was to do what many other BYW feds and even professional independent wrestling companies do and that is purchase a replica WWF belt and slightly modify it into your title, but Hangman took the time and with a pair of scissors, a label maker, pens, some tape and an old bathroom carpet and created….a hunk of bathroom carpet with the worlds VIW championship stapled on it that was too small to put round the waist of a 9 year old Ugandan and it smelt faintly of urine and unwashed feet (ok the scent comments ain’t true) so it was quickly replaced by the 5th show with the modified WWF belt idea.

PIC missing.
(Success! the original VIW championship and later IR championship held up
By Dr Frankenstein…I mean the creator Hangman in 2006)

The event wanted to be started quickly before it got dark or more importantly before parents came home and find fault in the activity of Backyard wrestling.
Smudge name he thought up sometime ago but wasn’t sure of it, Smudge is more a name you give to a pet cat than a foul mouthed wrestler who brings staged carnage unless it’s meant to be ironic.
As Hangman/The Juggala and Theodore Schlong, VIW appointed cameraman and today’s commentator and referee as Superhero1471 had failed to appear that day
Went through CDs to select entrance themes, Smudge thought of some other names all lukewarm to his names like “soul reaper” and “cemetery” he thought they sounded cheesy so he just said Smudge and that stuck. Smudge had no real gimmick at first, dressed rather odd with old striped trousers from a Halloween pirate costume and a t-shirt that featured some type of cartoon character like Gromit or Taz (the loony tune not the suplex machine)
After a short time of practicing that involved basically The Juggala throwing Smudge and him selling, the match began.
Although pretty decent at selling the wrestling moves Smudge wrestling was inferior to Hangman’s at this time it mostly involved face-plant like manoeuvres such as the DDT (put opponent in a front headlock and drop down putting their head into the ground), the pedigree (hook both opponents arms and drive him down into the ground) and the running bulldog (charging headlock from behind dropping opponent into the ground) Smudge was only a slim 11 stone and The Juggala was somewhere in the 13-14 stone area and Smudge couldn’t lift him for moves.

For the match some hair brained ideas were thought up others were ok.
They knew it would be mostly a weapons match that they had supplied in abundance to cover up the lack of grappling skills.
Smudge comments. “some ideas we had at the time where Soft looking back one being the “Riddle Box” it was a box with a question mark on it with hardcore stuff in it but we would land on the box not touching the stuff inside then it would be opened up to reveal what was inside…what a dud, luckily we never used it in are matches”

On review the first VIW match was far from good but it was not god awful terrible especially for backyard standards and a backyarder’s first contest.(the 2002 bonfire brawl we will omit as was a comedy encounter and was not done in the same manner of style as a VIW contest)
The kendo sticks and getting the wooden boards smacked over their backs must have hurt like hell. They battled around the back garden Smudge messing up a splash off the top of a ladder kicking it back and he dove head butting himself into the grass it got named the “kamikaze drop” and this blooper would have to be repeated 2 more times within a 2 months span till Smudge learned his lesson and gave up jumping of ladders for life. Interesting was that Smudge was chosen to win the first match and become the first champion Theodore Schlong and all agreed before the match started. But after almost half an hour of getting his ass kicked by the Juggala and the match having no real sign of ever ending Smudge actually stayed down it finally ended with the Juggala performing a Sinton bomb (somersault) of the ladder that mostly missed but Smudge just couldn’t or refused to kick out and the Juggala was crowned champion unplanned. Hangman and Smudge watched the match and were pleased enough with the performance there was a few screw ups and it went on far too long but there was one or two moves performed well and compared to the November 2002 Bonfire it was Wrestlemania, but the most obvious bad part about the match was Theodore’s Commentary.

In April 2003 the 2nd match occurred during what was the schools Easter holidays and was almost a clone copy of the first show it was again one match Hangman and Smudge in a rematch for the carpet/championship with them still the only roster members it was the only choice it descended into another half hour weapons brawl mostly with the same or similar spots just slightly better performed Hangman covered Smudge in wood and fencing and did another Sinton this time it hit full impact and Smudge blacked out for a few seconds. But the big If only real difference in this match was Smudge was victorious and the new VIW champion…out of 2 people it’s best to be number 1. The Juggala now announced as Hangman which he would keep throughout his time performing in VIW acted the sore loser punched Smudge in the nuts and snatched the title this would help lead up to a future ladder match down the road. The biggest mistake again in the matches was probably Theodore Schlong who would call moves wrong slams would be called suplexs, Sinton bombs would be called cartwheels and elbow drops would be called kamala splashes furthermore he kept calling Hangman the previous name of Juggala and the song of “gay bar” by Electric Six suddenly went off on his mobile as his mummy called him in the middle of the match, despite this he did manage to count all the way up to 3 to end the contest.

A month later the third show. More wrestlers were wanted and needed but pickings were slim in Stranraer. Superhero1471 was meant to join and with him he would bring Mad Sid. But on this day he cancelled his girlfriend did not like the idea of VIW, it was childish and we were all to grow up, she was probably right but guys being guys therefore were not going to listen…actually Superhero1471 did cancel. Disappointed Mad Sid and the Superhero would not appear this day and even more unhappily this meant yet again another Smudge vs. Hangman battle. To change things up it took place in a different garden this being Smudge’s residence which would later be named the X-ecution arena. The match was a ladder match over the stolen belt. The belt was not hanging from the ceiling like traditional ladder matches of course as they were outside in a garden and they just were a few penny’s short and could not afford renting that helicopter to hover over the garden with the prestigious carpet belt hanging from a cable so we instead used the rain gutter to hang the belt. In a match slightly worse than their 2nd match but better than the 1st Smudge defeated Hangman. Smudge threw chairs and double stomped on Hangman’s stomach before getting his title down from the roof Hangman complained claiming Smudge had been too rough with the stomping and they wouldn’t face again. This only left two options; 1) Hangman and Smudge tag team together against that diabolical debuting tag team who have the powers of invisibility or (2) wait till others joined….they waited.

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