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League Charter; Background, Match Rules, Fan Culture, Affiliates
Topic Started: Sep 7 2016, 04:14 PM (169 Views)
Ryan
DTW/IJPW Co-Promoter
DEATH TRIP WRESTLING
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ESTABLISHED
August 2016


HEADQUARTERS
Tokyo, Japan


BACKGROUND

Rising Sun Wrestling opened on October 29, 2001. Started as a regional promotion under the umbrella of the Shootclub Wrestling Alliance, RSW fought its way to national status and international infamy – becoming the flagship of the alliance while raising the bar in quality, violence, and pure insanity. RSW folded on September 30, 2008 after years of scrutiny from the alliance. They had the inability to find a promoter who could both live up to their demands and those of the passionately vicious fan base that RSW cultivated.

September 30, 2008 was a crushing day for Goro Yamashi – an eccentric Tokyo tycoon who loved RSW. Infamous for his yacht parties, Yamashi was known to hold screenings of big RSW events during some of these debaucherous evenings. He was often close friends with whoever was the RSW Promoter. Yamashi wanted to takeover RSW that September, but the SWA wanted a new direction that was different from the Ironman Deathmatches, Real Deathmatches, Glass House matches, and general anti-social behavior that became RSW trademarks. They were well aware of Yamashi's background and knew that normal business would resume under his watch. They chose to close what was once the mightiest promotion in its alliance – a two-time Promotion of the Year winner (an award that was only voted on three times, meaning RSW probably would have won more) and multi-time winner of the World Series of Wrestling.

Fast forward to August 2016. Yamashi was coming up on the first year of Iron Japan Pro Wrestling's founding, and had been enjoying success as the IJPW Promoter since the Grand Opening on March 27. He finally realized a dream and became the kingpin of puroresu. Even though IJPW allows weapons to be used in every match, and they had successful shows at Budokan Hall and the Tokyo Dome, something was missing in Yamashi's greater vision for brutality.

Yamashi tuned into a show by a Las Vegas promotion in that month. There were some IJPW names who worked for the promotion at the time. He watched as their ultra-violent vision was ignored by the management and the other wrestlers. Then he became enraged when a segment involving Teiji “The Terror” Shintaro and Psychnuts had been edited. Viewers couldn't watch Teiji assault Wayne Newton at the Golden Nugget and shove dirty underwear in his mouth.

After the show, Teiji was released by that promotion. They cited legal issues, but the real reason was because other wrestlers complained about fighting a murderous anarchist coprophile. Teiji's manager, Eric O'Flaherty, was told that The Tokyo Terror was “on another level” in terms of being hardcore. Instead of valiantly fighting him in the ring to get rid of him like true warriors, the other wrestlers simply got the management to do it for them.

Yamashi looked around at the wrestling world that night. A lot had changed since 2008. Wrestling promotions all over created a scene that he didn't like. It wasn't just about him wanting more violence. He didn't like the way management ran other promotions. He didn't like seeing certain wrestlers become marginalized because they didn't fit the status quo. He didn't like how great wrestlers got overlooked and turned into jobbers because they didn't know the right people. Yamashi didn't like seeing wrestlers get branded as heroic, then be anything but that on social media and behind the scenes, all while the promotions tell fans to cheer. He wanted to create a promotion where there wasn't any shadows. Yamashi already had a promotion in IJPW, but that was its own thing. He wanted to start something more in line with that unapologetic Rising Sun Wrestling spirit and attitude.

Later that month, Yamashi fully put the wheels in motion. Death Trip Wrestling was to be based in Japan, and they would always come back, but he wanted to tour places where no other promotion would dare to go. Yamashi set out to assemble the most violent wrestlers, and some of the sport's biggest stars and outcasts, and send them around the world in a presentation of his wrestling vision.

GENERAL MATCH RULES

1. All matches are falls count anywhere and there will be no disqualifications. Weapons will often be provided in and around the ring, and can be found underneath as well.

2. Time limits are as follows...
Regular matches (singles and tornado rules) and Eternal Warfare Championship: 30 minutes (Sanjuppun)
World and Tornado Rules Championship: 60 minutes (Rokujuppun)
Deathmatch Demolition and Glass House: No time limit (Jikan Museigan)

3. Seconds (managers, valets, accompanying wrestlers) are allowed at ringside. While referees in DTW will never throw out a match due to disqualification, they do have the ability to eject anyone from ringside.

THE FANS OF DTW

As this charter has been written weeks before the first show, this is a mere forecast of what one can expect from the Death Trip Wrestling fans. Many of them are old Rising Sun Wrestling fans who are fond of the insane and sick actions they saw from the old promotion. These fans revel in memories of a full-blown crowd riot where they literally ripped apart a new promoter who threatened to “clean up” the rebellious promotion on behalf of its alliance. The murdered promoter had various limbs turn up on eBay.

These fans retain some traditional traits of Japanese wrestling crowds. They will be polite and silent as they watch a match unfold, but there's a simmering rage underneath. Like RSW fans, DTW fans are expected to go from 0 to 250 MPH in seconds. Many wrestlers in RSW mentioned how those crowds were different from any other, and they could feel a sense of danger and hostility in the air, even when the fans were silent. These are mostly disenfranchised young men who wish to lash out. They will flare up, get out of their seats, and give the wrestlers and referees a piece of their mind.

In a match between competitors who are generally liked, DTW fans in Japan are likely to pull for a native wrestler over a gaijin (foreigner). But that's if they like the wrestlers at all. DTW fans are going to be hard to please. They won't cheer for someone just because they're listed as a face. If that person doesn't exhibit any genuinely affable traits, they're likely to hate them more than any heel. Bitchy primadonnas and passive-aggressive types on Twitter might get cheers in other places, but DTW fans will be on their backs if they try to pass off as a face. DTW fans are more likely to cheer for a heel if that person can give them what they want in the ring... and without insulting them, of course, or else the support is off.

When it comes to DTW fans, it's all about proving yourself.

These are smart wrestling fans, whether it's the main base in Japan or the fans around the world. They can appreciate any style or type of wrestler, even if they're not considered hardcore wrestlers. But those wrestlers have to get it. They're skeptical until they've seen that wrestler take a real beating, face or heel, no matter how big or small. They like tough people who can hang in the most violent matches. It's one thing to dish it out, and DTW fans love those who bring it, but they are especially fond of someone who can go through the meat grinder and still live to fight another day. They can get behind anyone who has what's called “fighting spirit.”

DTW fans are bloodthirsty and hard to please, but they will downright revere the ones who can prove that they have what it takes to hang in the most dangerous promotion on the planet.

AFFILIATES

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