Q + A with Electric Demon

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Hi.

I've been with 6WF since it's inception - debuting in the first ever Born in Fire main event in 2007. I was a short lived commissioner back in 2008, inventing the Lockdown brand to sit alongside Acer's Shutdown. I was responsible for hand-picking the controversial River Ace as my successor as commissioner. The co-creator of the often equally controversial Trash TV. And created the characters Diablo, Bezerker, Cassius Zhi, as well as adopting Miss Jessica from Hero.

So, has anyone got any questions? Hopefully my memory is good enough to try and answer them.

Demon

yarmouth blade wrote:What would be your top five new comers, when i say new comers i mean the guys that have only been here for a year or under.

I'm going to opt out because everyone has been very good - so don't want to accidentally harm anyone's confidence or feelings.

No worry's bud.

Electric Demon wrote:

yarmouth blade wrote:What would be your top five new comers, when i say new comers i mean the guys that have only been here for a year or under.

I'm going to opt out because everyone has been very good - so don't want to accidentally harm anyone's confidence or feelings.

Feelings? Don't worry about that!!!

And technically i'm excluded as i've 'technically' been here just (literally just) over a year.

Electric Demon wrote:

King Beer wrote:Do you believe that some people become complacent in their 'spots'?

Yes.

Who and why??

Oh a name and shame, I like it.

Yeah come on, Demon. Be more contraversial.

Electric Demon wrote:

King Beer wrote:Do you believe that some people become complacent in their 'spots'?

Yes.

Dicey Reilly wrote:Who

Me

Dicey Reilly wrote:Why??

Because people tell you you're good, so you start believing you're good, and you get given a world title - so you must be good, so you no longer need to challenge yourself, or put in any effort, because you're really good - somewhere along the line losing track of the fact that this is all a fabricated bull5hit world and you're not entitled to anything just because you wrote some good words on a screen last week.

Ouch!!!!!

Who would you say has done that in your time here? Or the biggest disappointment? Aside from Tyson Armstrong.

Did you have any ideas from when you were GM that you never got to implement? Which was the best/

What would be three ways you would go about trying to change 6CWF to try and make it better or to change things up?

King Beer wrote:Who would you say has done that in your time here? Or the biggest disappointment? Aside from Tyson Armstrong.

I think most people who have been at the top, have had a ridiculous little strop at some stage.

Biggest disappointment is River Ace when he came back as part of the legends club last year. He was always one of my favourite characters, and to come back and not really put any effort in at all, and completely waste Mat's time - especially with the first-hand experience he's had as a commissioner, so he knows what a pain time-wasting is - was very disappointing.

Churchill wrote:Did you have any ideas from when you were GM that you never got to implement? Which was the best/

What would be three ways you would go about trying to change 6CWF to try and make it better or to change things up?

No ideas that I can recall. My tenure was very scattergun. I was very much the Vince Russo school of sitting down with a blank page every week and seeing what I could come up with. It was laughable compared to today, with no long term plans whatsoever. The Church of Hero would have formed, dominated, held all the titles and split up in 2 a period of two months

What would I change?

I can't think of anything. I will come back to this one - remind me if I don't.

1 - I'd have a team of writers to take the pressure of Mat and JJ a little. Especially at peak times in their real life. So essentially you'd have a team of 2 people, "managed" by Mat to write 6WF shows. It would probably cause more problems than it would solve though.

2 - I'd ask people who have a character in both feds to consider whether they have time to commit to both, as one fully developed character is worth more than two under-developed ones.

3 - I'd have less tag/multi-man matches. But that would require a complete culture shift because people don't like being left off the card, it's difficult to keep track of who has been left off the card more than others, so the only solution to fit everyone on is to have tag matches. But this is just a personal gripe - I hate tag matches in WWE. I might just be in a minority on that one.

6CWF is pretty near perfect right now though - so these "suggestions" are just so I can answer the question. They are not things I think SHOULD be implemented.

Would you like to bring Cassius to 6CW again (properly this time) and if so who would you like to feud against

If you could choose a character to be in either fed who would it be and why

Is the SP really as gross as we think it is and should only trained professionals do it e.g. only Brigade members

Dicey Reilly wrote:Would you like to bring Cassius to 6CW again (properly this time) and if so who would you like to feud against

I'd love to see Cassius in 6CW resuming his friction with Lex Hart

Dicey Reilly wrote:If you could choose a character to be in either fed who would it be and why

Hmm.... I would have loved to have been Solomon Riddick.

Dicey Reilly wrote:Is the SP really as gross as we think it is and should only trained professionals do it e.g. only Brigade members

Miss Jessica tells me it is indeed gross, but is a good deal maker. It should be the Brigade's secret handshake.

Who have you enjoyed working with the most in your time in the 6WF, as in partnerships/alliances etc.?

Sainty wrote:Who have you enjoyed working with the most in your time in the 6WF, as in partnerships/alliances etc.?

The early days of Trash TV with Hobo and Enforcer were the most fun I've ever had in 6WF. I used to be laughing all day.

Also, what did you make of how I wrote out Diablo all those years ago?!

Is that where the ladder fell on Diablo's neck, and JJ won the Internet Title?

I thought it was brilliant. I still picture it to this day

What did Cassius get up to in the Mental Home

Read letters
Wrote letters
Took pills
Beat people up
Read books
Played billiards
Created a new genre of music fusing reggae, choir song and Angry Birds sound-bites.

Who would you mark out at if they returned?

Would you have changed anything at BiF

What Face would you like to see turn heel and vice versa

either for the sake of the character or the chance to see how that person promos?

Dicey Reilly wrote:Who would you mark out at if they returned?

Most? EZ Money

Dicey Reilly wrote:Would you have changed anything at BiF

Hero leaving, or at least the way he left. I wish he's have decided it much more in advance so it could have been storylined properly. It could have been, and should have been epic.

When are you going to represent the UK in a song for Europe?

Lee wrote:What Face would you like to see turn heel and vice versa

either for the sake of the character or the chance to see how that person promos?

Cassius is a much better heel than a face, but his storyline doesn't suit it at present. I want to return to being a heel eventually.

Heel to Face - I'd like to see Crime Lord. Not because it suits his character, but to see him knocked out of his comfort zone, and to see what he comes up with. Because he is a genius promoer, I'd like to see how he adapts.

But I'd like to see that in a test environment... he should never turn face in reality.

Adam D wrote:When are you going to represent the UK in a song for Europe?

I gave up on that dream.

Would the Dicey character fit in over in 6WF?

Who did you want to be the person that ran over you other than Max Adamson who "did it for the Hobo"

Electric Demon wrote:

Lee wrote:What Face would you like to see turn heel and vice versa

either for the sake of the character or the chance to see how that person promos?

Cassius is a much better heel than a face, but his storyline doesn't suit it at present. I want to return to being a heel eventually.

Heel to Face - I'd like to see Crime Lord. Not because it suits his character, but to see him knocked out of his comfort zone, and to see what he comes up with. Because he is a genius promoer, I'd like to see how he adapts.

But I'd like to see that in a test environment... he should never turn face in reality.

I most post some of my Zach Corchia promos from TWA over one day and you'll see what I am like as face.