Question of the Day - 3/15/23

[REQUIEM Puroresu]

When did you discover e-fedding? What drew you to it?

[Deleted]

At the library, I spent, well do spend still when time allows too much time there but one day the guy next to me was in one of those wwe chat rooms if you guys remember hearing about those and such and we started talking and he was like i can show you this and that and well, with a huge break in between, the rest is writing history.

I always liked writing so to be able to take this character out of my head and put them in a general "career" and go from there I have always found to be something that I like. You add in what will eventually be some good people and some great stories along the way and I find the hobby becomes easy to do and can be it's own inspiration even in times when you have to break away from it due to life and such.

[Aria Knight]

Josh and I linked up on MSN Messenger while in high school and he sent me a link to SGW. I didn't know anything about it, but I loved pro wrestling and was down to work with Josh in any capacity being such good friends. I was 14 and wasn't great at grammar ('your welcome' happened a lot) and knew nothing about HTML or coding. I was awful but kept writing and practicing and reading others' stuff to get tips to get better. 

It was appealing because it was a way to be competitive and also write as someone with no restraints that television wrestling would give a wrestler. I also really like to write, so I guess I continue doing it because of that.

I stay in it because of the community that's been built. There's 'online friends' I talk to more often than my IRL friends and considering them writing partners and teaming up to start a fed, do a faction in one, whatever, is really cool.

[Chloe Storm]

I have absolutely ZERO idea how I stumbled across e-feds. I think it was in some wrestling chat room of sorts at some point. However, I ended up finding Josh and ended up in SGW, like some of these other scoundrels. I realized it was a great outlet for me. I was "retired" (never used the word) from 2006 until 2020? SGW has it's way of pulling you back in... and well, here I am.

[Josh]

I was in a WWF.com chatroom in 1999 and saw someone post a link to the Pro Wrestling Alliance tri-fed. I couldn't tell you why I clicked the link, but I did. The PWA was made up of three separate e-feds, PWA-WWF, PWA-WCW, and PWA-ECW. Chris Gambit ran PWA-WWF, Kfir Hezroni ran PWA-WCW, and Joe Green ran PWA-ECW. I joined as Al Snow at first and I was horrendous. I ended up pivoting to the Dudley Boyz and ended up winning tag titles in each of the three brands before WWF and ECW went under. WCW chugged along for another month or so before Kfir closed up shop. Another handler, Ben Moore, invited me to join another fed that was making waves, Solid Gold Wrestling. That's where I met most of everyone I know in fedding today.

As for what drew me in, it was purely my love of wrestling as I hadn't fully grasped that I wanted to write at that point. It wasn't until I was a couple years into fedding that I realized how much I actually enjoyed writing and telling stories beyond the competitive nature of the hobby. So, it was kind of poetic in that it was my love of one thing (wrestling) that guided me directly to my love of something else (writing).

[bonecrusher]

I think I stumbled across efeds in a WWE AIM chatroom or something. People were sharing links to efeds, and I think the ability to portray my favorite wrestler at the time sounded intriguing.

My favorite wrestler at the time, Brock Lesnar. Guy who loves to talk. Made sense.

[littlemissvex]

I believe it was Yahoo Groups, I used to go on wrestling groups a lot which led me to feds. I’d always been a big reader/writer so the idea of combining two things I loved was a no-brainer.