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Every ppv and supercard that mattered...

...except the one where Alex Extreme kicks Vincenzo Sandora off a bridge!

I refuse to let that retarded spammer bump this off the newest reply status.

RCW FOREVER MOTHERF'ERS

We need the original Glory! The most controversial night in RCW history!

http://web.archive.org/web/20020527013736/...loryhourone.txt

http://web.archive.org/web/20020527013736/...loryhourtwo.txt

http://web.archive.org/web/20020527013736/...ryhourthree.txt

Don't read hour three, unless you want to rage all over again!

FUCK YOU SPAMMER! RCW WILL NEVER DIE!!!!

So what's the story on that?

It's the "Dan Kauffman wins the title for no apparent reason" incident. Possibly the most maligned booking decision in RCW history.

It's fair to say the idea behind it did not match the stratting of certain handlers...

Here's the summary from another thread:

And here's Andy's take on it...

Unrelated note: I forgot I was even in RCW, much less jobbing to Langseth on that card. Must have been one of the times where I quit doing anything e-w related while still being on a roster.

Adam Rogers could've stopped Kauffman from killing RCW's momentum if he was only paying attention. I blame YOU, John! YOU!

Sounds good to me.

It'll be duly noted when I write up the history of RCW on the wiki.

What thread are you getting this from? I remember responding to it, I just don't know which one it is!

Booking decisions as a fedhead or something.

The one where John K apologized for the screwy booking of the nUWF in its dying days.

So, I went and reread it.

And hot damn, I raged.

Kauffman's promo to set-up that match effectively buried everyone in the promotion.

Oh god, oh god...this is worse than I remembered...

I dunno man, aside from that minor incident, GLORY is one of the most perfect PPVs ever put out in e-w.

Which is like saying, aside from the gunshot how did you enjoy the play, Mrs. Lincoln, I know.

Dan Kaufman once attended a college party I was at, true story. Thus inhibiting me with a fear of this whole thing crossing over to my real life. So, what I'm saying is.. we can pretty much blame Dan Kaufman for everything. Even outside of the e-world.

True story, btw.

Can somebody explain his spectacular run wherever he was, btw? I never "got it".

Wow... I used "btw" there a lot.

It was about early 2000, when Andy came up with this brilliant scheme to bring Dan Kauffman into RCW, so he started praising and campaigning for him on RSPWF like some crazy mark.

So...Kauffman shows up in RCW. A feud with Luke Kinsey quickly develops. The feud is pretty heated and Kauffman's work is better than it's probably been in years. Really, credit to Dan for being super motivated for that run. Anyhow, RCW was on something of a hot streak as everything in the fed starts coming together. A great top champ in Devon Case, entertaining feuds all around and all that.

Going into "Glory", Kauffman vs Kinsey was the "hot" feud and Extreme vs Case was a title match feud that probably exceeded all expectations. Then the Glory ppv card goes down and everything I described above happens.

Kauffman had an issue with Case? What? Kinsey doesn't matter??? Huh? WAIT...did you just bury the entire fed in that promo!?!?

Whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa??????

Everything that was clicking so well beforehand, suddenly wasn't running so smoothly anymore as what was perceived as an inexplicable Kauffman "Jesus push" jumbled up about 90% of everything else going on at the time. It took a while for the whole fed to right the ship.

I know the idea was to turn the national title into a world title, but the whole execution was botched in such a way that it actually harmed the fed. It was that clunky.

But yes, for a time, Dan Kauffman was a-okay.

Timeline's off.

In early 2000, I was filling out a TNM app for HIWF and putting together a post-prom party. If I recall correctly, Dan came aboard because he and Mike wanted to work together. Devon Case was totally the hot character at the time and was kicking ass in the E and in RCW. They concocted some feud based on Case holding a birthday party for Kauffman's dead wife at her grave, with Case being all psycho heel and revealing that his wife was cheating on him, etc. Why they chose RCW, I don't know, but they did. Remember, Fletch came back online in August of 2001, right before 9/11. I'm guessing Dan and Mike probably came up with the angle in the summer. I got on board in my menial role as VP/match writing guru because RCW was about to explode, and an IIWF "legend" coming to town would be a good thing.

To get Dan ready, he and I feuded and put together a feud that, I think, still holds up. Kauffman's the returning legend who thinks he's above everyone, Kinsey's the up and comer who wants to be the man... it fit. What was meant to be a time wasting feud actually turned out to be as strong as any program RCW had ever seen, and shot up to semi-main. Fletch felt that his two top feuds should be for titles, hence Kauffman's win over Vasquez (sorry dude).

With RCW on pay per view, we wanted to upgrade to a World title while at the same time running the Case-Kauffman feud. So after Case's awesome win over Alex Extreme, the plan was for Kauffman to challenge for an impromptu match that was never official and the match ending in controversial fashion, so that there was no doubt the result had to be thrown out and giving us a window to create the world title.

Dan stratted to win clean with a DDT, in a pinch Fletch went with it and the best laid plans of mice and men, blah blah blah.

Good idea, bad execution. But other than that little blip that would end up being a footnote anyway, Glory is one of the best shows I've ever read. Rembrandt cripples Eddie McIntyre, Chris Courtade retires Ken Curtis, a three way LHW match of the year, the infamous dance off with MJV and Juan Vasquez, the highly underrated Culture Jam regain their tag titles, Kinsey and Kauffman blow off the feud of the year, and Devon Case closes down the show with a classic win over an RCW all-timer.

GET (re-)HYPE!

The timeline's still off.

The Case birthday party thing came AFTER Glory, I'm pretty sure of it.

About time for me to wade in on this I suppose.

My memory's pretty bad, but I do remember two things:

a) Andy was the main driving force behind Kauffman getting uber-pushed.

b) I screwed up the execution of the end of Glory. Either I didn't fully comprehend how it was supposed to go down or I just messed it up during the matchwriting. Either way, it was on me.

So yeah, I guess Andy and I are jointly to blame. And Kauffman if he stratted differently than what we'd agreed to, I suppose.

But hey, if the WWE can edit Chris Benoit out of all of its DVDs, RCW can release a new edition of Glory with the ending missing, right? :)

Who? What? Huh?

...it must not be important.

So, what you should do is edit in Tommy Stephens instead.

This is the third time we've talked about this on JTF, by the way. It deserves it's own FAQ.

I should punch Doran in the nuts for wanting a Dan Kauffman push.

And there was no reason he should've had the River City title. NONE! That feud didn't need it at all!

Then he goes and buries the title at the ppv!

:chairbash: :chairbash: :chairbash:

When that RCW wiki page goes up...this part of history disappears forever!!!!!

That wasn't me!

On a totally different note, I'm re-reading Caged Rage 3, and this little bit at the end of the match has me cracking up. After Magnus Colby offers Marc Gioffre money as he entered the ring to start the match, he loses to MJV. Afterward...

[Colby gets up in the ring, looking extremely groggy as Marc Gioffre helps him back up. He suddenly snaps to attention and drops Gioffre with a vicious headbutt! HEEL POP!]

RP: Holy crap!

LVK: What did he do THAT for!?

[Colby sticks his hand into Gioffre's shirt pocket and pulls out the roll of hundreds
he had placed in Gioffre's pocket at the beginning of the match, before exiting the ring to the jeers of the crowd.]

LVK: What a scumbag!

RP: Yeah, screw you, Gioffre!

LVK: *Sigh*



HAHAHAHA! That's an awesome little moment.

I remember writing that match and really wanting to put Magnus Colby as a top heel for some reason, so I threw in that dickish moment. Maybe some day I'll write another match with the desire to make both guys look good!

NEVER WILL RIP CITY RIPOFF...the FAKE RCW, ever ever ever be on top of the updated pages list!

RIVER CITY FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I prefer to remember it as the River City Juggernaut.

When did we ever call it that? :unsure:

BTW, if anyone out there's got a copy of the original Maximum Risk supercard(feat. Alex Extreme vs Johnny Axis for the national title), it'd be greatly appreciated.

I'd gladly trade you a copy of the ultra rare Law and Order supercard featuring Vlad Stukovski vs. Eric Vanguard~!

Never, I just slipped it into matches and RP packets and stuff to see if it would catch on.

It didn't. :facepalm:

Damn you Doran, you're the worst VP since the time I was VP of GIW.

Yeah, but I rebuilt the tag division and wrote an Unholy War. Therefore, Me VP >>> You VP.

Frankly, the Unholy War might be the gem of that whole card. Forget the 3 all time great matches Fletch wrote... it was the return of TLM that stole the show.

I don't think you understand what the word "worst" means.

And I wrote about 90% of the tag matches in RCW history. I SCOFF at your puny efforts. Try to make Rick Sly and the Monster look good! That takes effort beyond mortal comprehension!

I was just stating my case for not being the worst.

I think it's pretty obvious that I'm the worst. I couldn't even parlay my VPing into Kendrick Lane winning any matches.

I really wish Joe Petrow would stop spamming this section. Spreadsbury is gone. But Fletcha is still here to defer all RCW trivia to me or Andy!