FLPW Rankings Explained

  Due to Fictional League Pro Wrestling being completely at the mercy of the game's A.I. to make compelling stories, a traditional approach to booking really doesn't work. You can't meticulously control certain events during matches, or even control who wins. Therefore, FLPW uses a rankings system to set up matches and lead into title matches at each of the beginning-of-month specials. I don't believe there's been an article in the past describing how these rankings work in detail, so let's talk about how it works.

  If you don't want to read this article in-depth, the "Too Long / Didn't Read" version is if people keep winning they'll get title shots. There is a little more minutia than that, though.

  Each division has a champion. Outside of that, there are two different titles a wrestler can have slightly below champion: Number 1 Contender, and Top Contender. A Top Contender is exactly what it sounds like; through rankings matches or other events, a top contender is one victory away (usually against another top contender) from a title shot. When they do score the ability to challenge for the title, they become the number one contender. Pretty straight forward.

  There is an additional rank a wrestler can obtain below the top spots, and that's Ranked. Again, it's exactly what it sounds like; it's the first step towards becoming a top contender. When a new month begins, everyone loses their ranks, and previous top contenders simply become ranked. When a match happened between two un-ranked wrestlers, the winner will be promoted to mid rank. A ranked wrestler must defeat another ranked wrestler or a top contender to promote their rank.

  For example, as of September 12th, here are the current ranks of the American division:

Rank	Wrestler
Champion	Marcus Gravy
No1 Contender	Sarah Daystar
Top Contender	Saxxymus
Ranked	Kevin Knight

  Since there has been only one American rankings match, Kevin Knight is the only one ranked after defeating Thomas Warren. As well, since Sarah Daystar defeated Saxxymus last Thursday, she now has Saxxymus' number one contender's spot. As more and more American division matches happen, this list will populate further with more ranked wrestlers and top contenders.

  Hopefully that clear somethings up and will help you understand what's going on as we start off pretty much from scratch at FLPW, as far as the lower roster is concerned. This is why it's a big deal when high rankings matches happen. It's very difficult for an unranked wrestler to make their way up to a title opportunity since it requires consistent wins. That's why stories like Thomas Warren's US title win in 2016 was worthy of being called that year's best match.

Fight Card for September 13th

Singles Title Match
Sarah Daystar VS Marcus Gravy
For the National US Championship of America. Sarah Daystar looks to become the first female US champion!

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Singles Title Match
Johnny Talladega VS Roger Olson
For the International Canadian Championship of the World. Loser gets kicked from the top of the Canadian rankings!

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Singles Match
Tom Mann VS Maximilian Wolf
American division rankings match!

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Doubles Match
The Missouri Boys VS Jordan Wassink & Julie Hopkins
Doubles division rankings match!

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Singles Match
Jacob Drummond VS Micheal Saxton
Worlds division rankings match. Micheal Saxton makes his FLPW debut!

Fight Card for September 11th

Singles Match
Mitchell Cooper VS Joshua Ferguson
Worlds division rankings match!

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Singles Match
Erica Hayman VS Dominic Pelltier
Canadian division rankings match! Dominic's #2 spot is on the line!

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Doubles Match
The Beast Crew VS The Flying Dutchmen
Doubles division rankings match!

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Singles Match
Samuel Zaslanslamar VS Father Briggs
Father Briggs looks to get even against Zaslanslamar from embarrassing him at last Thursday's top-rope elimination match!

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Singles Match
Kevin Knight VS Thomas Warren
American division rankings match!

Fight Card for FLPW's Return on September 6th

      It's almost time! In just a day and a half, Fictional League Pro Wrestling will be returning to Twitch with weekly stream. To celebrate, the first episode back is guaranteed to be a banger. Every title except for the National US Championship of America is on the line, with Saxxymus looking to get even with Sarah Daystar before setting his eyes on his title rematch against Marcus Gravy! Watch live this Thursday at 8:00pm over at twitch.tv/the_tg!

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Singles Title Match
Chris Furious VS Ultrastar Adams
For the World's Bestest Championship of the World championship belt.

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Three-Way Title Match
Roger Olson VS Dominic Pelltier
Johnny Talladega
For the International Canadian Championship of the World!

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Singles No-DQ Match
Saxxymus VS Sarah Daystar
Saxxymus looks to get even against Sarah for costing him the National US Championship of America!

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Six-Way Top-Rope Rumble Match
Adam Roggeveen VS John Polak
Jordan Wassink VS Erica Hayman
Samuel Zaslanslamar VS Father Briggs
The Canadian rankings are being shaken up with battle royal!

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Doubles Title Match
Team True North VS V-Nation
Anthony Brown and T.G. McCullough fight Jake Rapture and El Koogs for the Doubles Division championship title belts!

Aftermath of the 6-Man Tag Match Last Saturday

It would be an understatement to say that Jordan Wassink was pissed off about the result of last Monday's three on three tag team match.

T.G. McCullough, Anthony "Milbro" Brown, and Jordan Wassink lost to the team of Velze Formadill, Adam Roggeveen, and Dominic Pelletier. Wassink wasn't tagged in once during the match, and he fully blames both members of Team True North for him losing precious ladder positions leading up to Return to Form.

The thee on three tag match doubled as both a Doubles division rankings match as well as a Canadian division rankings match, so both Wassink and Milbro lost positions in the rankings to Roggeveen and Pelletier. Jordan, a previous two-time Canadian champion, was gunning to get out of the lower half of the Canadian division. Wassink is planning on taking things into his own hands.

A match has been made for this Friday between Brown and Wassink upon Brown's acceptance of Wassink's challenge. By the sounds of it, it's going to be a bloody match.

Meanwhile, Dominic Pelletier's pin for the win in that match is another talking point on his recent rise to stardom. Widely considered one of the most underrated wrestlers on the roster, Pelletier had a very deep run in last year's 3rd FLPW Single Elimination Tournament, which contained huge upset victories against the likes of favourite Joshua Ferguson and current World's Bestest Champion of the World Adam Pubert. Key match victories since then have propelled him to the top of the Canadian rankings.

Pelletier has been without a title during his tenure in the FLPW, and people are looking forward to Friday 16th's main event where Pelletier takes on Roger Olson for Roger's title rematch contract. Also thanks to Pelletier, The Flying Dutchmen are moving on to fight Bulletproof P.M.C. this Friday for a spot in the Doubles division number one contender's match on the 16th. Will Pelletier defeat previous champion Roger Olson and move on to gain a title match against Talladega at Return to Form?

Fight Card For February 9th, 2018

Fight card for February 9^th 2018

Singles Match
Sgt. Mitchell Cooper VS Eddie Chumbo
Worlds division rankings match!
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4-Man Free-For-All
Maximilian Wolf VS Salty Marcellus
Marcus Gravy VS Tom Mann
Winner will fight in the American division number one contender's match next week!
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Singles Match
Jordan Wassink VS Anthony "Milbro" Brown
Jordan seeks revenge after last week's 3v3 tag-team loss.
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4-Man Free-For-All
Trent McRae VS Thomas Warren
Hunter Hardgold VS Kevin Knight
Winner will fight in the American division number one contender's match next week!
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Tag-Team Match
Bulletproof P.M.C. VS The Flying Dutchmen
Winners fight The Beast Crew in a number one contender's match next week!

February 4th Wrap-Up

The first FLPW stream of 2018 happened last night, and everything felt like the 3rd FLPW Elimination Tournament only just happened a week ago. Time files, huh?

The biggest news of course is Adam Pubert pinning Laine Whitaker for Chris' World title in last night's triple threat main event. A big question going into the rebirth of FLPW in 2018 is if it was going to be dominated once again by Chris Furious.

Chris held on the the World championship all throughout the beginning of FLPW on Twitch in 2016 before losing it in the lead up to that year's WinterWar special. After Chris won the belt back at WinterWar, he's held it undefeated since.

With Adam Pubert set to defend his newly gained World title at Return to Form's main event, it's there we'll finally see if Chris' stranglehold as the company's top guy continues in 2018.

Johnny Talladega came out on top in his match against Roger Olson, beginning his 4th Canadian championship title reign. Everyone could tell that Olson was struggling to keep on top of Talledega, and despite heroic efforts to keep himself in the game, Olson could not get in enough offense to keep Talladega down.

Under normal circumstances, Olson would be going to Return to Form at the end of the month to try and win his title back. However, Dominic Pelletier gained massive momentum in the Canadian division after an excellent showing at the 3rd FLPW Single Elimination Tournament last year, on top of his big win in the 3v3 tag match last night. If it wasn't for the fact that Johnny Talladega eliminated him from the tournament in the semifinals, Pelletier would have just as much a claim a title match as Talladega would've had.

A number one contenders match has been made for the 16th between Pelletier and Olson to see who will go on to fight Talladega at Return to Form on the 24th.

One of the biggest unanswered questions being asked is who will challenge Saxxymus for his American title. Saxxymus has a complete lock down of the US division, not only defending the title numerous times against the likes of Tyler T-Man, Thomas Warren, and T the MC, but Saxxymus also ended up winning the 3rd FLPW Single Elimination Tournament. Thanks to poor performances from the rest of the American division during the tournament, nobody is close to being crowned a number one contender.

In the search for who's going to fight Saxxymus at Return to Form, look forward to next Friday when two different fatal 4-way matches completely shake the American rankings.

Also stay tuned to find out which two tag teams will fight for the Doubles division number one contenders match against The Beast Crew.