Considering how some of the anons act on /vt/ about it, you'd be surprised at how narrowminded they are about it. "WE INVENTED THIS FORMAT"
So it's technically connected. Lore time!
Bazza took the reigns of VGCW in its infancy from an inactive channel and he is often mistakenly accredited as the creator of the format, much like Maffew is with Botchamania. After a few seasons of fun hijinks and constant woes working within the limitations of WWE 2K13 and WWE 2K14, Bazza decided to bow out with grace. He handed the keys over to his entrusted creative team, moderation staff and website admins. In essence, a council to ensure things remained nicely balanced.
It backfired
See, Bazza was the great filter. He wanted to ensure that only the most known video-game adjacent names got presence. However Bazza was very much a boomer and thus it was hard locked to mostly 90's stuff. Without him to assert himself or implement a true hierarchy system, the main-roster would be constantly adjusted to appease those in the council and forum devout users. It basically caused a gaping hole in the roster, with a power-gap between beloved names (Scorpion, Airman) and misc. weeb bullshit and indie flavour games protagonists. So how did they go about amending this problem? Side-shows!
EDBW (Extreme Dude Bro Wrestling) was in essence the NXT (rookie show for non-wrestling fans) format to VGCW. It's roster was borderline /v/ core 101 with the likes of Francis York Morgan, Frank West, Travis Touchdown and Donte quickly asserting themselves into the main show. It also had vastly better production and would overshadow the decaling VGCW format, but that is just personal bias. WVGCW (Women's Video-Game Championship Wrestling) is the only remaining active passion project and lastly BCW (Belmont Championship Wrestling) which was basically the weeb containment after CONSTANT complaints over Persona cast members getting constant roster spots.
So what went wrong Anchor, you autistic wrestling fan? It's failure frankly comes down to the most obvious problem that is plaguing a lot of these niche scenes. Troons and Politics. Well that and the teams refusal to adopt the next-gen games. But I assure you, the fact that so many staff members went trans didn't help matters. And how does this all tie into HoloFightZ again? Well from the ashes of what once was a fun and retarded fighting simulator in VGCW, would later find a mini revival via a /v/ meme. Some of you may have seen webm's in which Chris Redfield fight's for Leon's sperm in a "Money in the Bank" match? Well this alone inspired some anons to do more!
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From here, a continued series of /v/ threads resulted in the birth of what is known as "
The Final Rumble" and they still regularly do shows on Twitch. /vt/ would latter adopt the format for themselves and even include "The Battler" from TFR as one of the roster members.
One of the earliest examples still documented online comes via "NoDQ" from 2007.
Sorry for derailing your thread weebs!
