Tom you make a good point and i do believe you are right in that UCW and CWA did have more activity in the month of December previously then this year. I'll admit i am extremely upset that we have 13 matches on the Starrcade card and only a handful of them are even at the moment and even fewer that have gone an extra round. However let's not get ahead of ourselves and say that this is UCW all over again cause its not.
First off, the average age of the trash talker in previous years was about 15-18. Now much of our core trash talkers are the same guys who have been doing for years. I started when i was 20, I'm now 25. Most of the TTer's were younger than that 5 years ago. Chase was like 14, Shane was 15 or 16. Now here we are Chase, College and work. Hoov work, Dres work, father, husband, Cwalker, guy is a machine even when in school and working. The average of most of us now is like 18-21. And unfortunately guys like Ibunka and Schmitdy, and Dexter, there are just not enough new guys coming in and as such the core of the trash talkers are going to be busier and busier especially during final and holiday times. Hell I'm in grad school, I work, and i'm getting married, and i still get a show up on time most weeks. (This week I was really sick hence the lateness). If I can do these guys can. But I'm not going to throw a bitch fit if they don't show for a week or two. We still have the manpower, and i'm not going to let a down month cause an apocalypse of epic proportions. If its after the new year and things are still this bad then we'll start discussing strategy going forward but this is not deemed, OMG gotta get out now! Ship is going down! Hell no! You know as long as i'm around and in charge this bad boy isn't dying.
As for the fall of UCW, it wasn't the Feds fault it died, it was the forums. The Fed is only as active and as popular as the forum its on. Pwmania, ringside whatever, that forum died. So naturally the E-fed did too. Do I believe things could have been done to save it absolutely, but if they had then UWF wouldn't be here right now which is in reality UCW anyway as it was created as UCW died, I mean hell the original UWF Championship WAS the UCW Championship. (Itch booking ftw right? *eye roll) But that aside, as long as I have 12 guys who are going to post and go hard and hell even go 1-1 every week and then go nuts come PPV time I'm keeping the shop open for business. Hell I will go down to one brand before I close down shop because I've put in too much work, Cwalker has put in too much work, Dres has put in too much work, hell we've all put in too much work for this beautiful creation of all of ours to be thrown out with the trash so quickly. Hell I will move everything to a crappy free forum before I give her up, and that's only in the case of the forum going down which I don't see happening.
So no, as long as we have guys who are willing to write and book, and put on shows, which we do! Over a handful! As long as we have at least a dozen active TTer's, Which again we do! This place will not shut down, this place will not end. UWF is bigger than this! So we have squash matches and can't tell good stories for a month, oh well. By summertime we'll probably have 4 brands again! (I kid I promise!) So for all of you haters out there who think we're dying GO to HELL! Over my dead body! Any of you with doubts! Consider them squashed! UWF will not die! UWF will never give up! So long as I am at the helm.
I thank you for your observation Tom, as always it isn't just those who support but also the haters who help make this fed great. For without criticism we can't get better. And that is what I see in 2014 for this Fed, getting better and better. But I'll talk more on that later. The last thing I want to address is those people who will bring down the fed are right now in the staff chat on facebook working on Starrcade and SD every day. They are talking to the trashtalkers, and hell one of them wrote for both shows this week. If anyone has a problem with anyone on Staff its with me and I will rectify that. So to all you UWFers get back here ASAP so we can prove the haters wrong, and show why UWF will be better then ETW, CWA, and UCW combined. Believe that!