A WRESTLING REVOLUTION
After Wrestlemania 25, Shawn Michaels decided to take an extended sabbatical from the wrestling world. As months went by, "The Showstopper" contemplated his future and the legacy he would leave after his retirement. Sitting at his home, Michaels watched the unexpected departures of such WWE talent as Umaga, JBL, Mr. Kennedy and even RAW GM, Vickie Guerrero, these moves upset many wrestlers backstage, especially the treatment Vickie Guerrero endured. Michaels decided he was going to risk it all. He knew that he had nothing else to prove inside the wrestling ring but something had to be done over the mistreatment of pro wrestlers by management.
He soon started making phone calls to WWE talent and found another ally in Adam Copeland (aka Edge). Copeland, who recently blew out his Achilles tendon, found himself in a state many wrestlers had faced throughout history, being injured without company-funded health insurance. When Michaels brought up the issue of forming a "pro wrestling workers union", Copeland climbed aboard and starting calling wrestlers on the WWE roster.
Michaels knew this move was dangerous because if Vince McMahon found out, it would be the end of his career and the careers of whoever decided to go along with him but he also knew he had to get other wrestlers from other promotions aboard to make a true union work. He knew he had to get someone aboard at TNA and that man would be his long-time friend, Kevin Nash.
Nash, at first, thought the idea was insane but quickly changed his mind as he examined his many medical bills from his past and thought of how much money he would have today if he could have had insurance at those times. But Nash was worried that he didn't have enough pull inside the TNA locker room to pull out this type of manuever but that would soon change.
Nash found the superstar ally he needed in Kurt Angle. Angle found himself at odds with minority-owner of TNA and founder, Jeff Jarrett over his realtionship with Angle's ex-wife, Karen Angle. When Nash approached Angle with the idea, Angle loved it as it was not only a great idea for many struggling wrestlers but a token of revenge towards Jarrett himself.
Michaels then called on his former student, Bryan Danielson, to get the wrestlers from Ring of Honor aboard on the cause. After Danielson agreed to the idea also, the five had a secret meeting at Michael's San Antonio home to discuss their big move.
WWE RAW was live from Washington DC, with millions of viewers tuning in to see NBA superstar, Shaquille O'neal, appear as guest celebrity host but they would never guess what they would tune into next. Instead of watching a top-notch wrestling program, they watched the first ever WWE strike as top stars like Chris Jericho, The Big Show and Mark Henry broke kayfabe and instead turned their promos until an attack on Vince McMahon and his treatment of his superstars. Soon Vince appeared in the ring and announced that anybody that didn't perform as expected would be fired from the WWE. Throughout the night, segments were destroyed as wrestlers walked out in the middle of matches and promos as the strike was on.
TNA Impact, WWE Superstars, ECW, ROH and Smackdown broadcasts followed the same steps as talent includingc champions Jeff Hardy and Christian Cage, staged a walk-out and was instantly on-air fired by the promoters. A historic emergency meeting was held as Vince McMahon, Dixie Carter and Cary Silkin all met at WWE headquarters in Samford to plan out a stratgety towards the strike. They decided to suspend indefintely the wrestlers that boycotted their television programs the previous week. The wrestlers will be forced to fufill their time left on their contracts, sitting at home unpaid. They made the announcement to the media through their resepective websites, stating that their promotions will not be dictated by a few disgruntled workers.
This plan was met by much backlash from the media, who took the side of the suspended wrestlers and started printing many of the horror stories of past wrestlers. Michaels and the others had the backing of the people and soon all wrestling television ratings plummeted. Michaels sensing the moment called up former Minnesota Governor and WWE star, Jesse Ventura, too see if he can get involved. Ventura, who tried to do a similar thing in the early 80's, made it his crusade and finally got a case between the two sides in front of an impartial arbirtrator.
After hearing the cases of both sides, Michaels and the others wanting out of their contracts and better working conditions for all wrestlers and McMahon and the other owners wanting them to fufill their contracts and to keep the wrestlers's status the way its always been, the arbirtrator ruled in favor of Michaels and the boycotted wrestlers. They were granted their releases, with the right to bring their creative ideas with them and McMahon and the others were ruled to set up certain benefits for their superstars but they were well below most companies standards. Michaels and the others claimed victory nonetheless but now found themselve with no place to perform as they burned bridges everywhere.
Versus, or OLN in Canada,was a struggling sports network, who was desperately trying to find themselves an indenity in the sea of cable networks, after pitiching the idea to parent company, Comcast, they decided a fresh wrestling promotion could be the solution. They offered a deal to Shawn Michaels to start up his own promotion and to put on a 2 hour weekly television show to air on Wednesday Nights.
Armed with a television deal, Michaels started calling the out of work stars. They jumped at the chance to not only to do what they love in front of million of fans but also to give competition to their respective former promotions. After a creative meeting with the top stars (Jericho, Nash, Mick Foley, Edge, Angle and Michaels) it was decided that they would target a more adult audience, promoting more sexier, controversial and edgier storylines, something the WWE gave up on.. Realizing the advantage this would give them, the Born-Again Christian, Shawn Michaels promised he would do what was possible for his character to get the promotion off and running. The group realizing the sacrifice some wrestlers made fro the cause named Jeff Hardy the World Champion (for giving up his WWE World Title), Hernandez the United States Champion (for giving up his TNA World Title Shot), Austin Aries, the Lightweight Champion (for giving up the ROH World Title) and Chris Jericho and Chrisitan Cage, the World Tag Team Champs (for giving up the WWE Unified Tag Titles and the ECW Title respectively), Coming up with the slogan "Xciting, Xtreme, Xplosive" Triple X Pro Wrestling was born.
January 1st, 2010, at 12:01 a.m. was announced as the time that Triple X Pro Wrestling will be making it's world wide debut, naming their television show "No Fear" after their main corporate sponsor.
Triple X Pro Wrestling
Behind The Scenes
Owner-Shawn Michaels
Creative Team-
Shawn Michaels
Chris Jericho
Edge
Kevin Nash
Kurt Angle
Mick Foley
Backstage Agents
Scott Hall
Lance Storm
Marty Janetty
On-Air Talent
President-John Bradshaw Layfield
Vice President-Vickie Guerrero
Head of Security-The Big Show
Play by Play Commentator-RC Jones
Color Commentator-Kevin Nash
Spanish Announce Team- Carlos Cabrera & Chavo Guerrero Jr
Backstage Interviewers-Torrie Wilson & Stacy Keibler
Talk Show Host-Mick Foley
Ring Announcer-Jeremy Borash
Referees-
Nick Patrick
Rudy Charles
Shane Sewell
Roster
Jeff Hardy (World Champion)
"Hot Stuff" Hernandez (United States Champion)
Austin Aries (Lightweight Champion)
Chris Jericho & Christian Cage (World Tag Team Champions)
"The Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels
Kurt Angle
"The Rated-R-Superstar" Edge (injured)
"Straight-Edge" CM Punk
Rob Van Dam
Samoa Joe
Mark Henry
Santino
"The Miz" Mike Mizanin
Petey Williams
Ron Killings
Ezekiel Jackson
Kennedy
William Regal
"The Tennessee Cowboy" James Storm
Alex Shelley
Evan "Air" Bourne
Tyson Kidd
Jimmy Jacobs
"The American Dragon" Bryan Danielson
Tag Teams
John Morrison & Frank Kazarian-"The Beautiful People"
Zach Ryder & Dolph Ziggler-"The A-List"
Christopher Daniels & Tyler Black-"The Chosen"
Managers
Larry Sweeney & Matt Morgan- (The A-List-The Miz, Austin Aries, Zach Ryder and Dolph Ziggler)
Maryse-(Edge, Christian, and Chris Jericho)
Angelina Love & Velvet Sky (John Morrison and Frank Kazarian)
Melina Perez ("Hot Stuff" Hernandez)
Layla (Mark Henry)
Lacey Von Erich (Alex Shelley)
Natayla (Tyson Kidd)
Raven (Jimmy Jacobs, Christopher Daniels & Tyler Black)
After Wrestlemania 25, Shawn Michaels decided to take an extended sabbatical from the wrestling world. As months went by, "The Showstopper" contemplated his future and the legacy he would leave after his retirement. Sitting at his home, Michaels watched the unexpected departures of such WWE talent as Umaga, JBL, Mr. Kennedy and even RAW GM, Vickie Guerrero, these moves upset many wrestlers backstage, especially the treatment Vickie Guerrero endured. Michaels decided he was going to risk it all. He knew that he had nothing else to prove inside the wrestling ring but something had to be done over the mistreatment of pro wrestlers by management.
He soon started making phone calls to WWE talent and found another ally in Adam Copeland (aka Edge). Copeland, who recently blew out his Achilles tendon, found himself in a state many wrestlers had faced throughout history, being injured without company-funded health insurance. When Michaels brought up the issue of forming a "pro wrestling workers union", Copeland climbed aboard and starting calling wrestlers on the WWE roster.
Michaels knew this move was dangerous because if Vince McMahon found out, it would be the end of his career and the careers of whoever decided to go along with him but he also knew he had to get other wrestlers from other promotions aboard to make a true union work. He knew he had to get someone aboard at TNA and that man would be his long-time friend, Kevin Nash.
Nash, at first, thought the idea was insane but quickly changed his mind as he examined his many medical bills from his past and thought of how much money he would have today if he could have had insurance at those times. But Nash was worried that he didn't have enough pull inside the TNA locker room to pull out this type of manuever but that would soon change.
Nash found the superstar ally he needed in Kurt Angle. Angle found himself at odds with minority-owner of TNA and founder, Jeff Jarrett over his realtionship with Angle's ex-wife, Karen Angle. When Nash approached Angle with the idea, Angle loved it as it was not only a great idea for many struggling wrestlers but a token of revenge towards Jarrett himself.
Michaels then called on his former student, Bryan Danielson, to get the wrestlers from Ring of Honor aboard on the cause. After Danielson agreed to the idea also, the five had a secret meeting at Michael's San Antonio home to discuss their big move.
WWE RAW was live from Washington DC, with millions of viewers tuning in to see NBA superstar, Shaquille O'neal, appear as guest celebrity host but they would never guess what they would tune into next. Instead of watching a top-notch wrestling program, they watched the first ever WWE strike as top stars like Chris Jericho, The Big Show and Mark Henry broke kayfabe and instead turned their promos until an attack on Vince McMahon and his treatment of his superstars. Soon Vince appeared in the ring and announced that anybody that didn't perform as expected would be fired from the WWE. Throughout the night, segments were destroyed as wrestlers walked out in the middle of matches and promos as the strike was on.
TNA Impact, WWE Superstars, ECW, ROH and Smackdown broadcasts followed the same steps as talent includingc champions Jeff Hardy and Christian Cage, staged a walk-out and was instantly on-air fired by the promoters. A historic emergency meeting was held as Vince McMahon, Dixie Carter and Cary Silkin all met at WWE headquarters in Samford to plan out a stratgety towards the strike. They decided to suspend indefintely the wrestlers that boycotted their television programs the previous week. The wrestlers will be forced to fufill their time left on their contracts, sitting at home unpaid. They made the announcement to the media through their resepective websites, stating that their promotions will not be dictated by a few disgruntled workers.
This plan was met by much backlash from the media, who took the side of the suspended wrestlers and started printing many of the horror stories of past wrestlers. Michaels and the others had the backing of the people and soon all wrestling television ratings plummeted. Michaels sensing the moment called up former Minnesota Governor and WWE star, Jesse Ventura, too see if he can get involved. Ventura, who tried to do a similar thing in the early 80's, made it his crusade and finally got a case between the two sides in front of an impartial arbirtrator.
After hearing the cases of both sides, Michaels and the others wanting out of their contracts and better working conditions for all wrestlers and McMahon and the other owners wanting them to fufill their contracts and to keep the wrestlers's status the way its always been, the arbirtrator ruled in favor of Michaels and the boycotted wrestlers. They were granted their releases, with the right to bring their creative ideas with them and McMahon and the others were ruled to set up certain benefits for their superstars but they were well below most companies standards. Michaels and the others claimed victory nonetheless but now found themselve with no place to perform as they burned bridges everywhere.
Versus, or OLN in Canada,was a struggling sports network, who was desperately trying to find themselves an indenity in the sea of cable networks, after pitiching the idea to parent company, Comcast, they decided a fresh wrestling promotion could be the solution. They offered a deal to Shawn Michaels to start up his own promotion and to put on a 2 hour weekly television show to air on Wednesday Nights.
Armed with a television deal, Michaels started calling the out of work stars. They jumped at the chance to not only to do what they love in front of million of fans but also to give competition to their respective former promotions. After a creative meeting with the top stars (Jericho, Nash, Mick Foley, Edge, Angle and Michaels) it was decided that they would target a more adult audience, promoting more sexier, controversial and edgier storylines, something the WWE gave up on.. Realizing the advantage this would give them, the Born-Again Christian, Shawn Michaels promised he would do what was possible for his character to get the promotion off and running. The group realizing the sacrifice some wrestlers made fro the cause named Jeff Hardy the World Champion (for giving up his WWE World Title), Hernandez the United States Champion (for giving up his TNA World Title Shot), Austin Aries, the Lightweight Champion (for giving up the ROH World Title) and Chris Jericho and Chrisitan Cage, the World Tag Team Champs (for giving up the WWE Unified Tag Titles and the ECW Title respectively), Coming up with the slogan "Xciting, Xtreme, Xplosive" Triple X Pro Wrestling was born.
January 1st, 2010, at 12:01 a.m. was announced as the time that Triple X Pro Wrestling will be making it's world wide debut, naming their television show "No Fear" after their main corporate sponsor.
Triple X Pro Wrestling
Behind The Scenes
Owner-Shawn Michaels
Creative Team-
Shawn Michaels
Chris Jericho
Edge
Kevin Nash
Kurt Angle
Mick Foley
Backstage Agents
Scott Hall
Lance Storm
Marty Janetty
On-Air Talent
President-John Bradshaw Layfield
Vice President-Vickie Guerrero
Head of Security-The Big Show
Play by Play Commentator-RC Jones
Color Commentator-Kevin Nash
Spanish Announce Team- Carlos Cabrera & Chavo Guerrero Jr
Backstage Interviewers-Torrie Wilson & Stacy Keibler
Talk Show Host-Mick Foley
Ring Announcer-Jeremy Borash
Referees-
Nick Patrick
Rudy Charles
Shane Sewell
Roster
Jeff Hardy (World Champion)
"Hot Stuff" Hernandez (United States Champion)
Austin Aries (Lightweight Champion)
Chris Jericho & Christian Cage (World Tag Team Champions)
"The Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels
Kurt Angle
"The Rated-R-Superstar" Edge (injured)
"Straight-Edge" CM Punk
Rob Van Dam
Samoa Joe
Mark Henry
Santino
"The Miz" Mike Mizanin
Petey Williams
Ron Killings
Ezekiel Jackson
Kennedy
William Regal
"The Tennessee Cowboy" James Storm
Alex Shelley
Evan "Air" Bourne
Tyson Kidd
Jimmy Jacobs
"The American Dragon" Bryan Danielson
Tag Teams
John Morrison & Frank Kazarian-"The Beautiful People"
Zach Ryder & Dolph Ziggler-"The A-List"
Christopher Daniels & Tyler Black-"The Chosen"
Managers
Larry Sweeney & Matt Morgan- (The A-List-The Miz, Austin Aries, Zach Ryder and Dolph Ziggler)
Maryse-(Edge, Christian, and Chris Jericho)
Angelina Love & Velvet Sky (John Morrison and Frank Kazarian)
Melina Perez ("Hot Stuff" Hernandez)
Layla (Mark Henry)
Lacey Von Erich (Alex Shelley)
Natayla (Tyson Kidd)
Raven (Jimmy Jacobs, Christopher Daniels & Tyler Black)