Hello! I'm Karl. You may know me as the handler of Karl "The Dragon" Brown in interfeds and EPW, Mr Entertainment in interfeds and New ERA of Wrestling, Blitz in A1E, and Otaku in the (sadly) now defunct jWo. Here, on this blogsite, you'll be find me periodically posting my thoughts on the hobby of efedding, ideas I've had, reviews of shows/feuds, or whatever else efed related I end up posting! But first, a brief summary of my career so people know where I'm coming from.
I started efedding back in October 2003, in Jeff Bolich's MCW. I actually found the link, I think, on lordsofpain.net, and just thought I'd give it a go since I've always enjoyed writing, and at the time had been watching wrestling for 10 years. I had a lot of fun there, working with Jeff and Jeff (Kane), before Jeff B sadly discontinued MCW because of lack of RP activity. I'd just started Blitz back then, to give the tag division some more depth away from being just the Crimson Calling and Monsta Boyz.
As luck would have it I'd also just joined Empire Pro Wrestling, and shortly after took Brown to Andrew Medina's NWL. This was back in '04, and although the NWL didn't last long because of Andrew's real life committments, it was a lot of fun, and I had a lot of success in a fed with a larger pool of talent than MCW had had (I'd placed second in the tournament to crown the MCW champ), losing only two matches (Maelstrom and Dakota Smith) in my time there, with one draw (against Maelstrom), beating some pretty tough opponents (Hacker, Lars Magellan, and The Watcher being three). I'd also had a great match against Christian Sands in EPW and narrowly came up short against Adam Benjamin (again!) for the Intercontinental Championship. Blitz were taking a lot of getting used to, but I was starting to feel more confident about them as time went on. I also managed to place third in a good interfed tournament, the HWF's Natural Selection.
Once NWL closed down, I had a pretty extended down-period for about six or seven months (except the Natural Selection), until January 2005, where I finally beat Adam Benjamin (at the third attempt!), then Eric "The (former) Dragon" Davis. I won the tag team titles with Blitz, and in January created a new character, Mr Entertainment (who took a bit of time getting used to, but I'm just about there I think...). 2005 was probably my strongest year - Blitz were undefeated, Brown won all except two matches (the Natural Selection Summer Solstice tournament final, where I placed fourth, and a draw against Lindsay Troy in December), and Mr Entertainment was going from strength to strength. Brown also won the Intercontinental Championship, although that was because my opponent, Sebastian Dodd, was unable to RP.
In 2006, TEAM finished its first Invitational Tournament, which I managed (somehow!) to win, with Mr Entertainment making the semi-finals to lose to... "The Dragon", in a match that made me feel like I had a split personality! Blitz continued much of the year as tag champs, losing them to the HSPC, before entering the MCW Tag Team tournament and ending up second (to the New and Improved DX). Mr Entertainment captured the TV Title, and helped New ERA win the Dupree Cup in TEAM. Brown continued pretty much where he left off in 2005 with mostly success - he's still the IC champion as of right now.
So far in 2007, it's been a bit of a mixed bag for me. Both Brown and Mr Entertainment were knocked out of the TiT sooner than I'd've liked (although I definitely deserved both losses), Blitz have left EPW for reasons I won't go into here, and my work in general has felt kinda... meh. I've not been happy with much of what I've written since an IC title defence against Steven Shane, where I wrote one of my favourite RPs (though one of mine against Chris Casino in TEAM was also one I was happy with). Because of the general "meh" I've created a new character, an anime fan called Otaku (translates roughly as "geek") to give me something sillier to go with whilst allowing me to keep my other characters in the direction they're going in. I'm thinking of taking him somewhere else since jWo's sadly gone, because I think the character definitely has legs, so we'll see.
But yeah - that's my career in a brief nuthshell. Currently I hold the New ERA TV title, the EPW IC title, and am in second place in my pool in the A1E Tag Team tournament to crown the new #1 contenders. Over the coming... however long I keep this running, I'll be posting thoughts on topics, things that irritate me, show reviews, or whatever else :) I hope you enjoy the journey, and let me know of anything you want me to write on.
Ciao!
-Karl
