New Midwest - 1-10-2009 (Tag Team Revival)

Yeah, making that took enough out of me. Resizing? I don't need no stinking resizing.

On January 10th, New Midwest Wrestling presents its TAG TEAM REVIVAL INITIATIVE. For years a once great corner of the wrestling business sat on the back burner. We feel that it’s time to breathe new life into tag team wrestling and starting at BROKEN PROMISES 2009, we will bring back the glory to the sport of tag team wrestling. This is a monumental change in New Midwest Wrestling and could be historic. It affects every New Midwest Superstar and contention for each title. Now is an exciting time to be involved in this awesome change!

Effective January 1st, 2009, the entire roster will be split into TWO separate divisions: TAG TEAM REVIVAL and SINGLES GLORY. Each New Midwest Wrestling star MUST declare themselves a tag team wrestler or a singles wrestler, and will be designated into the divisions respectively. Any undeclared will be decided by the New Midwest Wrestling Office. Each singles wrestler will be contracted to the SINGLES GLORY division. Every tag team wrestler will be both contracted to the TAG TEAM REVIVAL division and his declared partner. These contracts will be binding and can only be broken through proper actions, as declared by New Midwest Wrestling.

All Champions (Tag Team, Central Illinois and New Midwest Wrestling Champions) will remain as they are, as of Jan. 1st. These wrestlers are currently under contract to their respective titles and if/when they should no longer hold their title, they will be assigned new contracts for the new roster division. The question has come to light of the status of having two singles titles in one division, and the situation will be addressed in time. But as of now, the titles stand as they are. The New Midwest Wrestling Tag Team Titles represent the TAG TEAM REVIVAL division, and both the Central Illinois Championship and the New Midwest Wrestling Championship both representing the SINGLES GLORY division.



As of this moment, the SINGLES GLORY division stands as follows:

Benz
(New Midwest Wrestling Champion)

CJ Esparza
(Central Illinois Champion)

Michael Shard

Justin MacIntyre

Sage Ramsey



As of this moment, the TAG TEAM REVIVAL division stands as follows:

Blake Steel and Eric Ruffington - Feature Presentation
(New Midwest Wrestling Tag Team Champions)

Donovan Cain and Jason Lyte - The Hybrids

Ryan Phoenix and Axis - Immolare

Nick Brubaker and Brett Gakiya - The Ish


We’ll have more division declarations as they come in. Stay tuned!

The SINGLES GLORY roster is going to be narrowed quite a bit, due to the split. Needless to say, the TITLE:ELIGIBILITY ratio is a little uneven. If there were only one title, it'd give any competitor that much more reason to work harder. As I said, no decision has been made just yet, as both titles have strong histories. It'll be a hard decision to make, should we have to.

Unless I missed something, I don't think J-Mac said anything about secondary tag titles.

Actually the title ratio won't be issue...the tag division out of a thirty man roster is gonna be 6-8 teams...while the singles roster will be 14-18 ... and that's not including any outsiders. So it's gonna be 1 to 7-8 wrestlers/teams per title belt.

I always liked the CI picture better in New Midwest except during Guy Smith's first title reign when the belts were about equal. Here's hoping C.J. becomes THE champion in New Midwest. Nothing against Benz, but I want the CI champ to be the one to unify the titles.