The 32nd UFWL Draft Pick: The Ultimate Warrior

The 32nd UFWL Draft pick is none other that the Ultimate Warrior. The UFWL Board of Governors debated this one for a long time, and he may be the only wrestle we draft that is severely lacking in actual wrestling skill. However his character was large enough for us to go ahead and bring him in.

Given the fact that he beat Hulk Hogan at Wrestlemania 6 we feel confident that we can place the Warrior in our main event, World Title division, but we will have to pair him with guys who can get the most out of him.

Thankfully this is fantasy wrestling so we will not have to deal with the personality of the man behind the Warrior. Hulk Hogan told us that he took direction well in their buildup to Six and we are hoping our roster can get teh best out of him in the ring.

Of course this creates a unique challenge for our creative department, as they will have to do a lot of extra stuff with him, as we can not always depend on him to give it to our fans bell to bell. The first idea that we had was to put him into a feud with the Undertaker.

This is a booking designed from a long ago angle in the WWF where 'Taker assaulted Warrior and locked him in a coffin. Warrior never got his revenge on 'Taker and we think that The Undertaker can help guide Warrior through a successful program.

We are not going to lie, this is a huge gamble but we hope there are enough wrestling fans out there that remember the impact Warrior made on his initial WWF debut.

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The 31st UFWL Draft Pick: Madusa

Madusa is almost the perfect UFWL draft pick. She quit the business because the WWE was turning women's wrestling into just bar and panties matches and that is a sentiment we share here at teh UFWL. We wanted a women's division chopped full of women who were not only attractive, but could handle themselves in the ring.

Madusa, or her less famous Alundra Blaze WWF moniker, fits the bill on every level. She is attractive, she can wrestle, and we love her in her monster truck. Madusa is exactly the kind of talent we need to round out our women's division.

It's kind of hard to determine where she might fit, since two major wrestling promotions have failed to adequate story line for her, but we see here as a heel. We see her as an arrogant heel that should do well with our top baby face women.

Of course should she win the UFWL championship we will have her pay a bond to have our belt since we don't want to see anyone throw it in the garbage on national TV.

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The 30th UFWL draft pick: Harlem Heat

The 30th UFWL Draft pick is none other than the tag team of Harlem Heat. Booker T and Stevie Ray who were the ten time WCW tag champions. One of the best tag teams ever, and certainly one of the better tag teams to ever compete in WCW.

Of course Booker would go on to singles success with the WWF/WWE starting as a member of the invading alliance, but Stevie Ray was out of wrestling after losing a retirement match to Scott Steiner in 2000.

Since we drafted a few tag tams that had guys who could also compete in our singles divisions, we really wanted to draft the last team who was more of a cohesive unit. Even though Booker would go on to achieve a lot on his own, Harlem Heat were far better together than they were apart. We look for them to be a force in our tag team division.

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The 29th UFWL Draft Pick: Kurt Angel

No UFWL draft pick was debated more by the Board than the 29th draft pick, one Kurt Angle. Most of our staff were not big fans of Mr. Angle in the WWE, or his current run in TNA. However, our Commish Ted Dibase made a convincing case that Angle would be a perfect UFWL heel, and that he could offer our fans match ups they had yet to see.

The plan right now is to book him into a feud with Bret Hart, as both wrestlers have a similar style and since this promotion will begin life as a Mid West territorial promotion having a strong USA versus Canada feud may be a way to attract a lot of fans.

Of course we might also have him face Edge, and continue a storyline from the WWE with Angel being upset at the You Suck chants that Edge created, and that plagued Angel during his final years with the WWE.

Without a doubt Angles is a very talented wrestler, and a perfect heel. We look for him to bring a little something to our World Title division and feud with our top stars.

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The 28th UFWL Draft Pick: Big Van Vader

Its Vader time in the UFWL, but we hope Leon White leaves that ridiculous Darth Vader like black helmet at home. In fact we had to write that into his contract. No stupid Star Wars inspired helmets. Alas a final homage to teh Shock Master who made the worst wrestling debut ever.

Anyway back to the man they call Vader. Never have we seen a big man be able to pull off the kind of aerial maneuvers hat Vader could. He was a mad man, and we think he will add a certain level of excitement to our Super heavyweight division.

In part we drafted Vader because he is a big man on our roster who can really more and wrestle. We tried to stay away from one dimensional guys because they put on boring matches. We see Vader being able to have a great match with any of the people on our roster.

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The 27th UFWL Draft Pick: Dean Malenko

The 26th UFWL draft pick is the man of a thousand holds, one Dean Malenko. I am not talking about the WWE version of Dean, since that promotion never really figured out how to use him. I am talking about the Dean Malenko from the old WCW, the Ice man, one of the best all time members of the Four Horsemen.

We want Dean to come in and help sell our cruiserweight division. He may have been labeled a mid carder is his real career but we think he can be an effective part of our promotion. The key will be for our creative team to craft storylines for all of our wrestlers. Yes we call them wrestlers because that is what they are going to do wrestle. By wrestling they will entertain, but wrestling is what this promotion is all about.

So we get Dean to compete in our cruiserweight division and we hope we can build a better light heavy weight division that what was featured in the old WCW.

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The 26th UFWL Draft Pick: Natayla Neidhart

Young Natalya Neidhart seems to have it all. She is hot, has a ton of wrestling skill, and of course was trained in the infamous Stu Hart Dungeon. In essence she is the perfect fit for the UFWL Women's division.

Natalya is a third generation grappler, and the daughter of Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, and Grand Daughter of Stu Hart the Canadian Wrestling Legend. She is also Bret Hart’s niece, but that is not why we drafted her.

The UFWL wanted hot women grapplers who could actually wrestle. For us the women on our roster are not window dressing. We have teh UFWL Dolls for that, our lady grapplers will not be forced into ridiculous matches or storylines, and will not have their time wasted being Divas.

No we have a strong roster of women wrestlers and they will get this own storylines, feuds, and best of all real wrestling matches. Now evening gown or panty matches for us. We think Natalya will be a perfect fit with the other women on our roster and we look forward to actually seeing her wrestle.

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