BRM Books the American Wolves in TNA

[Big Red Machine]

At Genesis, have Bro-Mans do something that manages to really annoy Dixie, so as a result, she tells them that they will be putting their TNA World Tag Team Titles on the line tonight against the two newest members of the TNA roster. When Bro-Mans ask who Dixie is talking about, you can have Dixie tell them that if they were smart, they’d have figured it out from the hint she dropped on her Twitter (because we all know how much they love plugging Dixie’s Twitter).

Bro-Mans come out to the ring and demand to know who their opponents are. When the Wolves come out, have Taz and Tenay mark out like Misawa and Mr. Perfect have both come back to life and decided to team up. Have them just go nuts. Have Taz put over their vicious in-ring attitude and their mastery of submissions, and have Tenay put over their time in Japan (and if you want to, their time wrestling for “a major independent organization”).
Have them just destroy Bro-Mans. Bro-Mans don’t get in any offense. A total squash, with Eddie picking up the win via ref stoppage by way of the Achilles Lock-head stomps combo while Davey has the other guy tapping to the Cross Armbreaker (Kurt is using the ankle lock).

From there, the first team I would have them feud with is EY & Joseph. The Joseph Park thing needs to go in a new direction, so I would have Joseph Abyss out at one point and hurt EY and be afraid of what he has done, so he is now trying to resist becoming Abyss.
At Genesis, I’d have Bad Influence jump EY and Joseph backstage. The week after Genesis, I’d put them in a tag match during which Joseph goes into a Abyss mode, and while in Abyss mode, he takes out Bad Influence, but also Chokeslams his good friend EY through a table. The next week we get a segment with Joseph telling EY that he doesn’t want to be Abyss anymore. EY tells him that he needs to be Abyss to stand up to bullies like Bad Influence. Joseph is still resistant. The third week (should be Feb. 6) I would put them in a tag team match and have them win. Joseph would pick up the pin without the need to become Abyss. After the match, Joseph points this out to EY. The next week they win again, and the week after that, they are put in a tag team gauntlet for a tag title shot in two weeks on Impact
While all of this is happening, some other stuff has been happening in the tag team division. At Genesis, Gunner beats Storm clean to retain the Feast or Fired briefcase. Storm walks off angrily after the match, but the next week he comes out and puts Gunner over for being the better man. He says that he was being childish, and says that Gunner beat him fair and square. He even goes as far as to say that Gunner should be the world champ right now, but Dixie’s thugs stopped him from cashing in on the Jan. 9 Impact. He says that he thinks Gunner could be the first male double champion in TNA in almost seven years (assuming I’m right about this stat). He says that he’d like to continue teaming with Gunner, and that when Gunner does cash in, Storm will be there to watch his back if Dixie’s goons try to interfere. After some hesitation, Gunner accepts his offer.
Now that Chavo has been fired, Hernandez is on the lookout for a new tag team partner. He asks Storm to team with him to form a team of tag team specialists. Storm says he can’t because he is Gunner’s tag partner. Gunner walks in on this and is suspicious. Hernandez eventually chooses Manik to be his new tag partner. Austin Aries starts teaming with Kenny King, and these teams all get wins. Meanwhile, we get some backstage skits with Bad Influence (assisted by Bobby Roode) concocting schemes to get revenge on EY and Joseph. Bro-Mans gets a rematch against the American Wolves, but are once again squashed.
This all leads up to a big gauntlet match on the Feb. 20 Impact for a tag team title shot in two weeks. The match is won by EY and Joseph, but early on there is some sort of kerfuffle where both Gun-Storm and Hernandez & Manik are eliminated at the same time (a double count-out or something similar).
On the 2/27 Impact, EY tries to tell Joseph that the only way to beat the Wolves is to become Abyss, but Joseph doesn’t want to. He says he will just train harder than he ever has before. Also on that show, We get some segment leading to Storm & Gunner and Hernandez & Manik being booked in a #1 contnedership match next week in which the winner will face the winner of the Wolves vs. EY & Joseph at Lockdown.
On Impact, Storm and Gunner win the #1 contendership match, and the Wolves beat EY and Joseph, but only after backstage attack by Bad Influence. The result of this is Wolves vs. Gun-Storm for the tag titles at Lockdown while EY and Joseph face Bad Influence to blow off that feud.

EC III has the tag title FoF briefcase but is scared to face the Wolves, so he spends the entire UK tour calling out Jeff Hardy, hoping the Wolves will lose the belts at some point. This leads to EC III vs. Jeff Hardy at Lockdown, which I guess EC III has to win by some form of cheating. Or maybe Jeff wins to set him as someone who might take down Dixie’s empire. I’m not sure.
Obviously the Wolves retain at Lockdown, making Storm tap, while EY and Joseph beat Bad Influence. The story of that match is that Joseph doesn’t want to become Abyss, but has to in order to save EY, and starts the transformation by raking his own face against the cage.

From here, we have Gunner announce that he is cashing in on the Sacrifice-themed Impact. Dixie’s cronies do interfere, and both Jeff Hardy and James Storm help to fight them off. Unfortunately, though, the finish has Magnus duck a Last Call meant for him, resulting in the kick hitting Gunner instead. Gunner accuses Storm of sabotaging his world title win, just like he “sabotaged” his tag title shot at Lockdown, and they feud heading into Slammiversary. Jeff Hardy will take up the mantle of the anti-Dixie guy and will lose Magnus at Slammiversary.
As for the Wolves… on the Impact after Lockdown, they yell at Bad Influence for sticking their noses where they didn’t belong and say that they didn’t need any help to beat EY and Joseph. This will wind up leading to a tag title match on the Sacrifice-themed Impact during which Bad Influence don’t take the Wolves as seriously as they should and wind up losing. To build to Slammiversary, we see Bad Influence being much more serious, saying they will do anything to win the tag titles. At Slammiversary, they pull out all of the stops, even having Roode interfere for them, but the Wolves win anyway.
During this time I’d have Joseph start being Abyss on purpose more to get himself and EY some wins. Sometimes, though, they don’t win because even if Joseph becomes Abyss, EY will get pinned or tap out. They wind up with a tag title shot on Impact at some point after Slammiversary during which the Wolves make EY tap, and this is the final straw for Joseph, who attacks EY after the match, even though he is no longer in Abyss mode. Those two feud, leading to Joseph putting EY out, and EY returns for a match at BFG which Joseph/Abyss wins.
Throughout the summer the Wolves face a bunch of teams (maybe a feud with King/Aries) and always retain. The announcers start to wonder who could possibly defeat them, leading to Storm and Hernandez finally teaming up to challenge them at BFG. The Wolves win.
After spending their first ten months as tweeners, I would finally start moving them into babyface territory by having it revealed that EC III’s FoF briefcase title shot expires one year after it is won, so he now only has two months left. He is still afraid of the Wolves, though, so he tries to hire other teams to beat them so he won’t have to face them. When this doesn’t work, he announces that he will be getting his title shot at Final Resolution 2014 (with Magnus, who has probably lost the belt at BFG, but it still works even if he hasn’t) as his tag partner and he puts the Wolves through an impossibly tough schedule to lead up to that match. I think I’d have EC III screw the Wolves out of the tag titles and build up to a PPV rematch at Genesis with the Wolves now definitive babyfaces in 2015.

[cero2k]

nice read Red, I would have personally tried to push Wolves vs BI for Destination X, but King/Aries would be a perfect team for that now

[Big Red Machine]

nice read Red, I would have personally tried to push Wolves vs BI for Destination X, but King/Aries would be a perfect team for that now

Wolves vs. BI is money. It needs to be on PPV.