The year is 1985…. Vince McMahon’s WWF has become the first national wrestling promotion. Saturday Night’s Main Event on NBC is the night’s highest rated program and Wrestlemania is on the cusp of revolutionizing the pay per view industry. The 80’s wrestling boom is upon us.
As Vince McMahon cherry picks the top talent from regional promotions, the upstart Fox network has decided to jump on the pro-wrestling bandwagon. Led by EVP of Development Brianna Kincaid, Fox has struck a deal with the Florida Wrestling League to re-brand itself and air exclusively on Fox, immediately catapulting them into the national wrestling scene.
Owner and Booker Matthew Martin, having just lost his top talent, including his world champion to a WWF raid, is anxious to share the risk with the new network, but he still believes that a national federation will never last as long as a regional one will. Nonetheless, he is willing to try anything that could keep his promotion from folding.
Brianna Kincaid has stepped in as Creative Director, re-branding the federation as the Future Wrestling League, and she and Mr. Martin are running a new, weekly show, FWL SLAM!, every Saturday night on Fox, to go head to head with whatever the WWF brings on.
Time will tell if the FWL can succeed on the national level, but the future is coming, and Matthew Martin will do almost anything to ensure that the FWL is there to see it.
