L.A.W. - League of Anime Wrestling

Hello everyone!

As you may know, LAW user @TheWanderer is running a fantasy booking promotion of his own over at Fanfiction.net, United Supreme Pro Wrestling. With approval from mods and other users here, we’ve agreed to make the promotion loosely canon to LAW, and already have featured several LAW wrestlers on USPW shows. Recently, we’ve also collaborated to bring Black Tornado, the USPW Wildcat (Womens’) Champion (and one of my oldest OCs off-site) to LAW. So far, the reception to the partnership and the opportunities it brings for storytelling in both promotions has been a positive one. And we’re pleased to announce that we’ve received the go-ahead to take things a step further.

Wanderer is preparing to book an upcoming Championship Scramble PPV for USPW, which will feature multiple multi-person matches, each for a different championship. In order to determine the participants for those matches, he’ll be holding a number of qualifier matches. Some of these will take place on USPW, and as usual will be decided and written out by Wanderer himself. But we’ve received permission to have a few of these qualifier matches take place on LAW. And that’s where you come in!

As of now, the plan is to have a Scramble match for the USPW Wildcat Championship using participants determined in qualifier matches on LAW. To start out, we’re planning on two qualifier matches on USPW, and two on LAW - but that means that we’ll need at least four people interested in potentially having their characters featured off-site. Once we get enough people, we’ll set those matches up on the board (likely in private threads so that we can post them when it gets closer to Wanderer’s PPV) to be played out by the users like in a typical LAW match. The winners of these two matches will both make an appearance in the Wildcat Championship Scramble, which will be written and booked by Wanderer on USPW.

Please note: Your characters will not be guaranteed a title run in USPW, and (much like the existing USPW matches using LAW wrestlers) the Scramble match will not count toward those characters’ win-loss records in LAW. It’s up to Wanderer to decide how to use the winners of the qualifier matches. But either way, you’ll have a chance to showcase your characters on another site, to a new audience, and to be a part of helping both LAW and USPW expand. Plus, it can always be used to generate material for new storylines going forward!

As of now, we’re just looking to see if people are interested in this idea. The exact details will be worked out later. The minimum number of people we’re looking for would be four users; enough to write two qualifier matches on LAW. However, if more people are interested in the idea, we can always expand it - Winner has given permission for LAW titles to be contested at the Scramble as well, and if we get enough interested users we could enter their characters in other Scramble matches for those titles.

But if this is something you’d be interested in, feel free to let me know, here or in DMs (on the forums or Discord). And don’t be afraid to ask any of us if there are any questions!

So, there's been a change of plans. Due to creative and booking differences (no hard feelings, don't worry), SuckerPunch is no longer going to be a part of the USPW collaboration, so there will not be a Scramble match for the LAW Lightweight Championship. However, the qualifer matches for this match have already started. In order to get around this, we will be altering the stipulation slightly.

USPW will hold a Scramble match for a guaranteed title shot against the USPW Wildcat Champion whenever the winner chooses (think something like WWE's Money in the Bank). The in-universe explanation will be that Rose Gold will be unable to compete in the Scramble match due to the shoulder injury she suffered against Astrid Ostberg. Please note that this eventual title match for the Wildcat Championship can happen in LAW, as Black Tornado has a LAW profile.

The two qualifier matches that were initially planned for the LAW Lightweight Championship Scramble will be edited to be for this position instead. However, we also would like to try something a little different. Although the Scramble match itself will still be done in USPW, we would ideally like all qualifier matches to take place in LAW. And since each Scramble match will have five participants, we now have spots open for three more qualifier matches.

In the name of balance, since two of the spots in the Scramble will be taken by lightweights, we would ideally want these slots to be taken by middleweights and heavyweights. We already have three guaranteed participants and a few backup options available, but ideally, if we could get three more characters to take part in the qualifier matches, that would be best. All other rules will apply as in the first post.

If worst comes to worst, we do have other options to make this work. But if you would like your character to be a part of this opportunity, please let me know!