In this episode of the TEW 2020 Exploring the CornellVerse series, it’s a look at where things stand with APW, the biggest challenges with keeping top stars on the roster, and much more.
Here are my notes on Australian Pro Wrestling:
TEW 2020 CornellVerse: APW
Overview
- 28th in the world
- $125,000 to work with
- 40 percent momentum (37 percent prestige)
- Small size, long path to Medium
- Can you keep talent from RAW (and challenge them?
Product
- Family Friendly Wrestling
- Sports entertainment style
- Good for potential sponsorship
- Strict face/heel divide
- Scandals aren’t ideal for prestige and morale
- Short angles
TV/Events
- Normal event schedule
- Graphics for each one helps the presentation
- Themed shows
Titles
- Commonwealth is main title
- Strong tag title prestige
Roster
- Goliath Global stable
- Need added heat to some storylines
- Several experienced tag teams
- Hostile relationship with other Australian companies
- Nice group of potential stars
- Can add young talent to roster?
Video
Transcript Preview
Hey everyone, it’s Blake, welcome to episode No. 19 of our Exploring the CVerse series in TEW 2020. We are on to APW: Australian Pro Wrestling.
On the most recent edition, we did RAW, looking at the other top promotion in Australia. Now, we move to APW, and let’s jump right in. Again, if you want to go back and check out all the other videos we’ve done in this series, you can. Lots of other companies explored to this point and many more are still to come here as we go through all the starting companies in the CornellVerse.
APW starts off at 28th in the world, a small company with $125,000 to work with. So, not a terrible number there, as that’s a decent chunk of change. APW has 37 prestige and 40 momentum.
As we said, small is the company size, and we will look at that here. So, to get to Medium, you need to get 59 popularity in South Wales or in New South Wales, then 35 in any of these three here. It’s a little bit of a path to get there and probably won’t necessarily be a quick rise to Medium by any means. You kind of know that you have your work cut out for you from the start, but it’s not so far back that it’s impossible to achieve.
As we’ll look at here in a second, the biggest thing would just be can you keep your top workers to be able to grow to this medium size and can you keep kind of bringing that talent in when you do inevitably lose some workers to perhaps RAW?
So, APW, we look at the background here. It’s the brainchild of James J. McMinister, and it’s basically using the Australian Super League sort of format. Money is not necessarily a problem in buying out the small companies.
But again, RAW is really just putting a wrinkle in things because as we talked about on the previous episode, it’s pretty much a made-for-TV promotion. So it’s having that visibility TV-wise that automatically grows the company pretty quickly.
Meanwhile, with APW, you have no TV show or anything like that, so the visibility is just not there.
I think this is the big point here and as I just sort of alluded to a second ago: talent raids. That will be something I think that’s pretty challenging with APW….
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