I thought it was Sting but made it Lashley due to not looking at the timeline correctly.
Anyone doing Sting or Vader?
The Faces of Wrestling - A Collaborative Wrestling TL
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Anyone doing Sting or Vader?
SonOfSharknado
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Minor thing, you mention Booker T being the one in the US title scene with Mondo, but in the Angle timeline, I mentioned that Booker had left the company in late 2003.
Oh yeah, I will edit that. I have a wrestler that would be perfect for it.
That's cool, I see you have changed it Lashley. It can be Sting if you want it be as the list of champs isn't set in stone. Sting can easily be inserted in.
I was considering that but I did see Lashley so might as well change it. I don't mind changing it.
@sonofsharknado.I'm sorry I have to say something. I always thought Haku was highly underrated as a wrestler and deserved more than just 1 tag title with Andre. Granted he was not huge but he was quick and powerful and was capable of some titanic battles. This is after all alternate history/parallel universes/multiple possibilities so in one universe its perfectly possible for Haku to be a multiple champion and get standing ovations.
@Dannyboy. In my defence Its my first attempt at a collaborative timeline
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Thats's OK. Just remember to keep other people's posts in mind when writing an entry so that it doesn't clash with what other people have already done.
Bill Goldberg
Former footballer turned wrestler, Bill Goldberg debut in the NWA in 1997. With his monstrous strength, surprising agility and silent charisma, Goldberg enraptured the fans after he quickly and easily started to pin jobbers and lower card talent, crafting an undefeated streak in the process. He won his first belt after destroying United States champ Savio Vega at the start of 1998 and within a few months was launched into the main event of a sold out Georgia Dome show, facing the World Champion Sid Vicious, part of Ted DiBase’s Fortune Inc. In spite of interference from the Steiner Brothers, also part of Fortune, Goldberg defeated Sid to become a duel champion. Soon dropping the US title to DDP in a mutli man match to protect his undefeated streak, Goldberg would face a recently turned heel, white and black face painted Sting at Starrcade 98. Blooding heavily, Goldberg would pass out in Sting’s Scorpion Deathlock. A rematch at the Souled Out 99 ended in DQ after interference from Chris Jericho, leading to a falls count anyway match as SuperBrawl IX which Goldberg would win. Goldberg would be soon be written off TV being attacked backstage by a mysterious mask gang as Goldberg dipped into the world of acting, appearing as an henchman in the James Bond thriller Death Waits For No Man.
Returning later that year, Goldberg would feud with Jericho’s Triad faction before facing Sting again for the NWA World Championship at Fall Brawl 99, this time victorious. He would hold it all the way up Starrcade 99, losing it the debuting ‘Giant’ Paul Wright being pinned cleaned for this first time in his career. However, Goldberg was injured over the course of the match and forced to take several months’ off to heal. The year 2000 would be muddling for Goldberg, although still in the upper card, Goldberg would quit NWA to take a shot at MMA.
Over the course of 2001, Goldberg would take two matches with PRIDE, losing against both Kazuyuki Fujita and a returning Don Frye. A return to NWA in 2002 was postponed due to a freak motorcycle accident, however come 2003 Goldberg returned to the NWA in true fashion, this time as a heel with a legion of monsters behind him, crushing Jericho and his team at WARGAMES and picked up his 3rd title win in the process. Nearly ending Jericho’s career in the rematch at Halloween Havoc, the save by Angle set up feud which ended at Starrcade 2003, which critics called one of Goldberg’s best matches to date as he dropped the title to Angle.
Goldberg would demand a rematch at Uncensored in a Last Standing Match, which nearly saw Goldberg break his own neck trying to copy Kurt’s moonsault in a botched attempt. Plagued by several injuries at this point, Goldberg turned face again by attacking Ric Flair who put a bounty out on Goldberg’s head to end his career. Goldberg would eventually be pinned by Mark Henry, signalling his push into the main event.
Goldberg would stay away from wrestling for nearly a decade before making a surprise return at Starrcade 2015. This would lead to him facing down NWA Word Heavyweight Champ Ted DiBase Jr at SuperBrawl XXVI and bring on former Strikeforce Women’s Champion Gina Carano to counter Dibase’s Dynasty stablemate Charlotte Flair. This would result in Carano becoming the NWA Women’s Champion from Flair and hold the belt for a year before quitting to take part in acting jobs in the Marvel and Star Wars franchises. Goldberg himself would pin DiBase in short order in an upset victory for this 4th NWA World Title. His reign would be short, losing it to Kevin Steen at String Stampede 2016, with Goldberg claiming to retire from wrestling for good.
Accolades
NWA United States Championship
NWA World Heavyweight Championship x4
Former footballer turned wrestler, Bill Goldberg debut in the NWA in 1997. With his monstrous strength, surprising agility and silent charisma, Goldberg enraptured the fans after he quickly and easily started to pin jobbers and lower card talent, crafting an undefeated streak in the process. He won his first belt after destroying United States champ Savio Vega at the start of 1998 and within a few months was launched into the main event of a sold out Georgia Dome show, facing the World Champion Sid Vicious, part of Ted DiBase’s Fortune Inc. In spite of interference from the Steiner Brothers, also part of Fortune, Goldberg defeated Sid to become a duel champion. Soon dropping the US title to DDP in a mutli man match to protect his undefeated streak, Goldberg would face a recently turned heel, white and black face painted Sting at Starrcade 98. Blooding heavily, Goldberg would pass out in Sting’s Scorpion Deathlock. A rematch at the Souled Out 99 ended in DQ after interference from Chris Jericho, leading to a falls count anyway match as SuperBrawl IX which Goldberg would win. Goldberg would be soon be written off TV being attacked backstage by a mysterious mask gang as Goldberg dipped into the world of acting, appearing as an henchman in the James Bond thriller Death Waits For No Man.
Returning later that year, Goldberg would feud with Jericho’s Triad faction before facing Sting again for the NWA World Championship at Fall Brawl 99, this time victorious. He would hold it all the way up Starrcade 99, losing it the debuting ‘Giant’ Paul Wright being pinned cleaned for this first time in his career. However, Goldberg was injured over the course of the match and forced to take several months’ off to heal. The year 2000 would be muddling for Goldberg, although still in the upper card, Goldberg would quit NWA to take a shot at MMA.
Over the course of 2001, Goldberg would take two matches with PRIDE, losing against both Kazuyuki Fujita and a returning Don Frye. A return to NWA in 2002 was postponed due to a freak motorcycle accident, however come 2003 Goldberg returned to the NWA in true fashion, this time as a heel with a legion of monsters behind him, crushing Jericho and his team at WARGAMES and picked up his 3rd title win in the process. Nearly ending Jericho’s career in the rematch at Halloween Havoc, the save by Angle set up feud which ended at Starrcade 2003, which critics called one of Goldberg’s best matches to date as he dropped the title to Angle.
Goldberg would demand a rematch at Uncensored in a Last Standing Match, which nearly saw Goldberg break his own neck trying to copy Kurt’s moonsault in a botched attempt. Plagued by several injuries at this point, Goldberg turned face again by attacking Ric Flair who put a bounty out on Goldberg’s head to end his career. Goldberg would eventually be pinned by Mark Henry, signalling his push into the main event.
Goldberg would stay away from wrestling for nearly a decade before making a surprise return at Starrcade 2015. This would lead to him facing down NWA Word Heavyweight Champ Ted DiBase Jr at SuperBrawl XXVI and bring on former Strikeforce Women’s Champion Gina Carano to counter Dibase’s Dynasty stablemate Charlotte Flair. This would result in Carano becoming the NWA Women’s Champion from Flair and hold the belt for a year before quitting to take part in acting jobs in the Marvel and Star Wars franchises. Goldberg himself would pin DiBase in short order in an upset victory for this 4th NWA World Title. His reign would be short, losing it to Kevin Steen at String Stampede 2016, with Goldberg claiming to retire from wrestling for good.
Accolades
NWA United States Championship
NWA World Heavyweight Championship x4
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The Shootfighters
David "Tank" Abbott and Eric "Butterbean" Esch were well known in the sports of boxing and MMA. Esch was known for being one of the toughest men in boxing with a strong win record and Abbott for his career in the early days of UFC (and the early days of MMA in the United States) but often forgotten in that time was their time in the world of professional wrestling. No one would think either man would be a wrestler, had it not been for two men: Promoter Robert D. Zicari and writer Vincent James Russo.
Zicari and Russo, known largely in the business as Rob Black and Vic Venom, had come together in mid-1999 to form the West Coast answer to ECW; Xtreme Pro Wrestling. XPW, built on the back of Black's pornography empire (Zicari was the owner of Extreme Associates) and Venom's WWF credentials (Russo wrote for WWF magazine throughout the 90s and claimed a lot of its creative successes were "stolen" from his ideas, though many within the company then and now have stated otherwise) the show was an often crass, poorly-booked imitation of wrestling, but thanks to Black homesteading the California area (which had previously been host to the failed Herb Abrams promotion UWF) and Russo's Crash TV style, they were able to attract a small following, especially thanks to their working partnership with similar hardcore outfits such as the Michigan-based Juggalo Championship Wrestling, Kentucky-based IWA Mid-South and others of their ilk.
However, their next big move was the 2000 signing of the pair. The move was entirely Russo-based and the two would receive minimal training in wrestling before being brought on as the team of The Ultimate Fighters, a name that nearly got XPW sued before being switched out for The Shootfighters. As a team, both men were sloppy, having the advantage of XPW's hardcore style of wrestling to cover up their faults. Being green, both men were notoriously stiff in the ring and even legitimately knocked out Pitbull Gary Wolfe in their title match. The two would thus go on to be XPW Tag Team Champions, holding for the entire year and into 2001. Their run in XPW would end after two defenses t during the cross-promotional XPW-JCW event Gathering of the Juggalos card. On Day 1, Abbott and Esch successfully defended against the Insane Clown Posse for the belts before dropping them on day 2 to the Dark Carnival (Vampiro/Great Muta) before opting to not renew their contracts with XPW.
Neither man looks back fondly on this time, Abbott seeing it as an easy paycheck. Esch did occasionally return to both XPW and JCW, but these were mainly one-offs and never lead to a full return.
Accolades
XPW World Tag Team Champions (1x)
Steve Williams
Working the American territories over the course the 80s, Steve Williams grow to prominence in the NWA where he became a multiple time tag team champion before winning the US Championship from Sting at WrestleWar 90, holding it for most of the year before vacating the belt. He would challenge Stan Hansen for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in a brutal and bloody match that would end in DQ.
After the end of his contract with the NWA, Steve Williams would sign with AJPW where over the course of the 90’s become the top gaijin wrestlers in Japan, wining multiple tag tiles and even becoming a 4-time Triple Crown Champion in the process.
In 1998 he signed with the WWF, winning the 98 edition of the King of the Ring Tournament which launched him into a feud with WWF Champion Jeff Jarret, winning the belt at SummerSlam 99. Him and Jarret would trade it back and forth before Williams lost to Triple H at Unforgiven 99. This would signal the end of Steve Williams main event career, although he did briefly hold the WWF’s Hardcore Belt.
In 2004 he would retire from wrestling after battling throat cancer. He would pass away in 2009.
Accolades
Working the American territories over the course the 80s, Steve Williams grow to prominence in the NWA where he became a multiple time tag team champion before winning the US Championship from Sting at WrestleWar 90, holding it for most of the year before vacating the belt. He would challenge Stan Hansen for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in a brutal and bloody match that would end in DQ.
After the end of his contract with the NWA, Steve Williams would sign with AJPW where over the course of the 90’s become the top gaijin wrestlers in Japan, wining multiple tag tiles and even becoming a 4-time Triple Crown Champion in the process.
In 1998 he signed with the WWF, winning the 98 edition of the King of the Ring Tournament which launched him into a feud with WWF Champion Jeff Jarret, winning the belt at SummerSlam 99. Him and Jarret would trade it back and forth before Williams lost to Triple H at Unforgiven 99. This would signal the end of Steve Williams main event career, although he did briefly hold the WWF’s Hardcore Belt.
In 2004 he would retire from wrestling after battling throat cancer. He would pass away in 2009.
Accolades
NWA Tag Team Championship x3
NWA United States Championship
NWA United States Championship
AJPW Tag Team Championship x5
Triple Crown Champion x4
Champion Carnival 1993
Triple Crown Champion x4
Champion Carnival 1993
King of the Ring 1998
WWF World Heavyweight Championship x2
WWF Hardcore Championship
WWF World Heavyweight Championship x2
WWF Hardcore Championship
Is this timeline dead for now? I actually planned on doing another one soon. Don't know who yet but I was wondering if anyone would like to continue this thread other then me?