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-- With just hours to the opening bell of the biggest Pay-Per-View of the year, the feeling amongst industry analysts is that the TWF, in perhaps it's poorest year since 2001, must deliver a blockbuster show to really cement it's status. The TWF has organised what could best be described as a blockbuster card, with obvious draws including the xWa Championship match where Silver where enter as underdog to Ottobomb, NJS & Marz finally finishing the score, and a Fatal Four Way between the four men who have battled for the World Title for the past few months.
-- One criticism of the show's card is that many feel the TWF should have booked Mr. BIG on the card in some capacity. Biggie has confirmed he will not wrestle at Summer Break for the very first time in the event's history, preserving his unbeaten record at the event. There is no word that he will be on screen during the show, as the segment where he is most likely to be on screen, the Hall of Fame announcement, has been advertised as being with Chairman of the TWF, Mr. Edwards instead. Perhaps this is a sign of things to come. The TWF has always made plans around Summer Break from the very beginning of the promotion, and plans for next year's event are already beginning to take shape. Hence, this Summer Break was not shaped by Mr. BIG, hence his objection to involvement, apparently.
-- Speaking of next year's event, already the rumours of the venue of Summer Break 7 [VII] have been floating around. Chicago's Soldier Field is one prospective venue, as is the Tropicana Field in St. Petersberg, Florida, which held the successful US Only PPV Zero Tolerance in 2001. However, Summer Breaks 2000, 2001, 2002 & 2005 have been in the US, leaving the TWF's home country, Wales, in the dark for it's biggest event. Hence, popular opinion, that the TWF has backed up, is that 2006's event will be in Wales. The prospective venues include the Brackla Community Centre, Air Wales Arena (although it would mean giving up it's traditional February slot), the Cardiff International Arena, the Bridgend Dome and the Millennium Stadium. The Millennium Stadium was hotly tipped to host the event this year, but some stumbling blocks were found upon. The biggest hint of all that we have heard is that the Brynteg Arena has announced in a promotional flyer that "something Far Beyond Reason is coming...", leaving many to believe that it will get the event.
-- The TWF is having a race against time to devise the "Hell's Motel" match that will form part of the September PPV this year. The TWF was extremely close to cancelling the whole gimmick and going back to calling the show Eve of Destruction II. But, the TWF is confident a Hell's Motel match will take place. Original ideas involved a hell-in-a-cell being set on fire, but the TWF looked at costs and realised that wasn't going to be possible. It now appears that the TWF will go with a concept of sections of a hell-in-a-cell wrapped in barbed wire, with re-enforced steel surrounding the cage, with the objective steel being that of escape.
-- For all the traditionalists, worried about the usual September PPV past times, there will be a King of the Ring match this year, with the winner gaining a Title Shot at Dangerously Serious against the TWF World Champion, and the King of xTreMe match will return with a new "twist".
-- Some interesting gimmick ideas have been floating around the TWF Creative Team's heads recently, mainly for the new BCW graduates who will debut between now and Christmas. Obviously, the success of Hades, who was one of the creative team's first jobs since being re-structured after SB last year, has spawned on new ideas. The creative teams are happy to C&C mainly the wrestlers ideas themselves and that usually works. Many have said that the more experienced wrestlers such as the XWF contingent are extremely good and help them out an awful lot.
-- NJS's first batch of graduates will debut around the same time as Mr. BIG's. There is a good chance that NJS's graduates will also be in XCW at some point as well, and there is talk that they could form part of a "New Z-Pack" with NJS as leader. The chances of this happening are good, but it is unlikely to carry the Z-Pack name, as one of it's founding fathers, Marz, Mr. BIG or The Shott will not be a part of it.
-- The Rat Pack will not be splitting anytime soon. The members themselves say that are enjoying the angles they are doing at the moment and would feel that they would be ruining their momentum if they were to split. Holly's return at Total Chaos had been planned as well. The TWF felt that taking her off TV would be a good way for the Jocks to improve their mic work and most have agreed that all of the members of the group have improved in some way without her. Expect the skits involving the "Captaincy" of the group to continue, as the wrestlers themselves say they look forward to them and enjoy them a lot.
-- The Protégé continues to be a source of controversy, even as Summer Break will be the last date he works before he leaves to begin his new role as Head of Production of a Drama school in London. Protégé has been seeking confrontations with Jason Davies and Hawke this week over female-related issues, and it's again been the source of plenty of locker room discussion.
-- The Bandit & JT Money have been commented in the Chicago press lately as saying that they are looking to take a few months off after Summer Break to recharge their batteries. The two missed some action last year due to transport & visa issues, but now they have resolved, the two have had a difficult year out of the ring, and they have recently moved in with a few friends to an apartment in Cardiff for their UK-based dates, and an apartment in a Chicago-suburb for most of the year. Mr. BIG has kept in close contact with the two, along with Ottobomb and Dope C, and they may return before the end of the year, it seems.
-- Mr. BIG's personal hatred for PCW is beginning to boil over big time in the RWF, and most of the RWF talent say that Biggie is a ticking bomb, waiting to explode on the PCW invaders. The segment with Sian at Bloodlust was rather personal. Biggie said after the show on the RWF website that Sian had stabbed him through the heart with her actions. Biggie has tried getting a hold of Sian for her side of the story, but she has not answered her calls. To all those wondering, Louise & Sian's comments were shoot, and Biggie's interruption was not planned whatsoever. Rumours about Biggie & Louise came about after Louise was seen consoling and hugging Biggie whilst being out in a Porthcawl park. Biggie has yet to make a move on a female, as his former TWF manager Bekah is seeing someone else. A return to Sian's hands is completely out of the question as well after her actions at a house party, where she was fondled by High Voltage.
-- NJS has again been doing a lot of press interviews recently to publicise the TWF, XCW and some general things. He stated that XCW will be back on a more full schedule at around October, in preparation for their anniversary show, Halloween Chaos, where they will debut HDTV xTreMeVisions. On the TWF, NJS says that he "loves every second" he is in the promotion and doesn't want it to any, saying he has never experienced anything like it. On Louise, he was quoted as saying, "she is my everything". NJS also revealed that when he does eventually retire, he would still like to be involved in the TWF, be it as a trainer, announcer or something along those lines. NJS also revealed that he has heard Mr. BIG's band's new album and he reckons that it will be a huge hit in the metal charts, describing it as "a great mix of thrash & power metal, with some amazing rip-roaring guitar solos that you will love". There is one problem on that front, that NJS was himself quite humorous about..."they lack a vocalist and a drummer, and since I can't do both, they are a little bit screwed there!".
-- The TWF has confirmed that it is in discussions with THQ to produce a second TWF Wrestling Game for all consoles, with this one being entitled "Power And Glory". It is likely to be released in Spring 2006 and will feature improvements to the current game structure, brand new match-types, EVERY member of the TWF roster being included once more, more movesets and graphical improvements as well. Discussions for the soundtrack are also in place and same artists that featured on Summer Break will feature new and old tracks on Power And Glory.
-- Speaking of music, the TWF is putting together "TWF: The Music Volume 4", that could be released around the time of Dangerously Serious, featuring some of the new theme songs that have been used this year. Already confirmed are Mr. BIG's "King Nothing" and RWF themes, NJS's new cut, Z-Pack, The Rat Pack, Frekishi's theme will finally appear and also some old-school wrestler themes. The TWF has also announced that this year it will release PPV Theme Songs onto a CD released over Christmas with an enhanced section to see event highlight videos and the videos for the actual songs.
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