Being Savannah - Chapter Six ???

After leaving VWE/HAWx , somehow I found myself going to work with the OEW. It was very short , and all I will say is that it wasn't for me. I'm not bashing the promotion cause they work hard at what they do but for me it wasn't the perfection that I was seeking like Bryce Ketterley!.

After I decided OEW wasn't the type of company I was looking for , I headed over to give DCWF another try. There was some management changes and they were on the acpws system , which was good because this was the system I was trained on. Before returning to DCWF , I learned that Louve recently left VWE and signed on with DCWF. With all the past history between us I approached her and told her that I thought we should put the past in the past and let's have a great run together in DCWF!

To my surprise she agreed and we never spoke about the issue and we became really close. We are still close to this day. We talked about possibly working together in DCWF as a team of some sorts. My first match back was against Scarlette Abeyante. It was a fairly easy match and she got the win over me. She was really easy to work with , the match went smooth and we had no problems from the practice or writing of the card.

Louve and I decided to form a tag team "Vicious Vixens". It was really fun just the only thing that really started to get on my nerves is that they kept constantly booking us against the Style Queens. That became very stale and boring to me. The same match sometimes twice a week. One fun memory was when they finally switched things up and let us have a bikini contest. Louve and I went over them and won via cheers from the fans.

Things as I stated became very stale for me. I think I was just bored with my position inside the company. I wrestled nobody but the Style Queens every single week. Also the fact that DCWF is not very storyline driven , it's more about displaying the wrestling and that's fine cause that obviously works for them. Everybody there was very very very talented in what they do but I am more into story telling and telling a story and VWE was perfect for that. It wasn't about win/loss cause I lost every match in DCWF. It was just the fact that there was no story and the same match week in and week out was just not exciting to me. With losing somebody in my RL due to cancer and I felt the constant baiting by some people on here. I decided to kind of leave SL for a little bit.

I decided to leave SL and DCWF. I even deleted my account totally. I was sick of the abuse by some in the community and my mind wasn't right by losing a loved one to cancer in RL. I wasn't sure if I ever wanted to come back. You can only be slapped in the face so much by people until you slap back or have totally had enough of the bullshit. That's the only downside of this community is that you have to have thick skin and let things roll off your back cause if you don't , you'll always constantly in a battle with someone. I will admit at this time in my SL , these people got the best of me with their taunting and things they would say out of character. It was just best for me to take a break.

On my next chapter , I'll discuss my return to SL and the SL wrestling community. I'd like to also state that this experience is my own of DCWF. It's not to bash the company cause people are very talented there. I just prefer more storyline driven companies. So I wanted to state this before everybody took this blog the wrong way.

- xoxo Sav

Being Savannah - Chapter Five HAWx

I decided to do another chapter just for HAWx because I have so many great memories from my time there. I just wanna start off by saying that if you are a female reading this , and you are interested in joining SL wrestling , HAWx would probably be your best option to start and get involved. There are so many talented performers there in all different levels of experience. You can train and learn from accomplished performers or even learn along side with rookies such as yourself.

I joined HAWx during my 2nd run in VWE because I felt it would help better myself and show people that I do have the tools and experience to be more than just a valet. I would valet the VWE shows on the weekdays then go train and wrestle with HAWx on the weekends and their weekday show. It really did better myself as a in ring performer.

My first storyline in HAWx was working with another brand new performer named Rhonda Silverfall. I really enjoyed this time cause we were both full of so many great ideas and put them to use together in the ring. Our first angle started out fairly normal , it was more of a normal heel/face type fued. I remember her being the First Cupcake Champion which is basically the loser champion in HAWx.

Then down the road we decided to do a match that was really out there and was very "adult" and never seen in SL wrestling before. We decided to put on an Ultimate Humiliation Match at the upcoming FPV. It would be a standard bra and panties match with two special stipulations. The first one being that we will go further than bra and panties and the first girl to lose her bra will be the loser of the match. The second being that the loser of the match must become the personal slave of the winner.

So at the FPV , I came to the ring and suggested to Rhonda that I was so confident that I would win , that we start the match in our bra and panties. She agreed and we both stripped down and into our under garments. We wrestled and fought , the crowd was really into it. I remember the match being a bit hardcore as well. Towards the end of the match , Rhonda ripped my bra off and started celebrating. She thought she won but I had pasties on the ref wouldn't ring the bell because I was not fully topless. I then snuck up from behind on Rhonda and removed her bra , exposing her breasts to the crowd and won the match. The fans were going wild and we were the first match on the card and set the tone for the rest of the FPV event. I put a collar on Rhonda and with a chain dragged my newly won slave backstage.

In the following weeks , I would drag Rhonda to the ring. Make her compete in matches for me. If she would lose , I would beat her after the match in front of the fans. In tag team matches I would usually stand on the apron , playing with my hair or checking my nails then actually getting in there to help her. I would make her do all the work and offer no tags or help. The fans really got behind Rhonda and wanted her to be free, We decided to set up a match for Rhonda's freedom with the Cupcake Championship on the line.

During the match Rhonda won her freedom and I was the new Cupcake Champion. Now I could have took the title like a loser but no , I decided to embrace my newly won championship and put a creative spin on the angle. I decided to have my character "lost her mind". So I'd go to the ring defend my Cupcake title and begin to actually lose matches on purpose by DQ or any way i could. At the end of the matches I would celebrate like I won the world title and have won the match.

Rhonda and I met back up and I challenged her to a Cupcake Title match but this time in a steel cage. Starting our angle basically the opening matches to finally being featured as a main event with our storyline. It made me feel really appreciated cause Rhonda and I put a lot of effort into our storyline and matches. I just remember the cage match being really brutal. At the turning point for the match , I superplexed her off the cage and we both layed flat in the ring. The crowd was hot and a lot of "Holy Shit" chants going through out the HAWx arena. It was a great moment. Then I got to my feet before she did and opened the cage door , I was gonna escape but then I remembered my championship so I picked up Rhonda and tossed her out of the cage forcing her to win! Then I celebrated like a crazy woman again with my title.

I remember after the match a lot of people coming up to us and congratulating us on how great we performed and their favorite spots in the match. It was really rewarding cause it was the first time anybody really told me how much they appreciated my ring work. It was a nice feeling.

The next angle I got involved in was with Maxine Endrizzi , she was dead set on making me lose the cupcake championship just to teach me a lesson. The storyline started off great and we had a lot of great things planned but I exited the company the same time I left VWE before we could have finished it.

I learned a lot creatively and skill wise with HAWx and I think it's a great fed for any female to start and I really enjoyed my time there. I still go there and watch events and it's always a great show.

- xoxo Sav

Being Savannah - Chapter Four Return To VWE

Before I start this chapter , I need to address a few rumors. There was something that happened between another member of this community and myself. I just want to say that this person and I put the past behind us. I will not go ahead and release the details about it , even if I am being open and candid on my blog. We both still stick to our stories about what happened and it's better to agree to disagree then drag this all up again. We fought about it too long and I'll decide to just leave it where it belongs.

As for the rumors , I had some issues and I turned to Seth Cameron to speak to him about it. A lot of people said that I had to "buy" my way back into VWE , or even worse that I even slept to get my way back in the company. I will say right here on my blog for the whole community to read. Seth has always been 100% professional with me and never so much made a pass at me. A lot of people have mixed emotions about him but he has always dealt with me in a professional manner. I won't even go as far to say we were even friends during my 2nd run with VWE , he was like a boss at any job you had in RL. As for people saying I needed to buy my way back into VWE , that was untrue. Seth never had a problem with me and there was no reason why I wasn't welcome to return to the company. My past problems were with Louve/Loody why I left in the first place. That had nothing to do with me being welcome or not.

We decided that I was to return and there was an angle I could fit in return wise. The only people that knew at the time I was returning was Seth & Loody. I wasn't invited to the group and I told nobody what was planned. Behind the scenes , Loody and I talked things out and he was very professional. It wasn't like the type of relationship we had before , he was a staff member to me. Time has passed and whatever was in the past stayed in the past.

On the night of my return I stayed dressed at my place. I wasn't even allowed to arrive at the arena until I was due to walk out. That's how secret we all wanted to keep things. Loody and Seth were working some sort of angle against each other and I remember Seth going to the ring to cut a promo against Loody and before Seth went out he TP'd me backstage to wait. So Seth went out there to cut his promo and then told Loody he was bringing someone back to basically make his life a living hell. He called me out and I was really nervous , even though it's just SL I always get nervous before I perform anywhere. I remember the crowds reaction was shocked because nobody ever expected this. I circled around the ring and did a little dance and then went backstage letting Seth finish his promo.

We all got the reaction we wanted and it was kept under wraps and I think it went over well. After the return there was some talk about placing me with Seth to fued against Loody but that didn't really pan out. It was more Loody's idea but for some reason it didn't work out , am not sure why. We decided the best option was that since it was public and everybody knew about the strange triangle between Louve/Loody/Myself , that it would be best to play off this storyline wise. It wasn't the best idea looking back , there were many wounds that have not fully healed yet between Louve and myself.

Louve was the GM of Extreme (the sunday) and she booked me against Akasha and requested that I bleed. It was against my character to do blood but I did it anyways and didn't say no or complain. The whole experience working with Akasha was really great. She taught me a lot of tricks I didn't learn before. It was an honor to work with someone with her experience , I consider her a legend in our business. I wasn't a fan of the booking or what was being asked of me but I went out there and did and Akasha made it very comfortable for me.

After the match , I was presented with a storyline for Louve and myself. I didn't agree with many of it. Louve and I currently are close as very but back then things were rocky and I felt the angle was a complete squash. A lot of it didn't sit well with me , it was completely one sided in my eyes. We argued over it and then I asked Seth to cancel the angle because I felt it was unfair. Louve and I had a big blow up because things in the past were not fully healed. We just decided to act like each other didn't exist.

Loody was still trying to figure out something for me to do , the KOTA was about to come up , we kind of came up with the idea of forming the Royal Regime. Loody was to perform a serve at the fpv and help Benja win. So it was suggested that I valet Benja at the event to prepare the set up for our new stable. So I valeted him the whole event , and it was imo one of the best FPV's I have ever seen. From the titles matches , to the tournament matches , every talent on the roster gave 100%. The arena was also packed , I think the sim was full as well.

In the main event when Loody performed the serve , I just remember feeling like the arena was gonna riot. There was so much heat on the 3 of us , it was just crazy. You could just feel it. It was probably one of my most memorable moments. I even remember people making comments saying "I told you should would get him back" , meaning that they thought I came back for Loody. They just played into our hands angle wise and gave us exactly the reaction we wanted. Another plan perfected perfectly angle wise.

I went ahead and fell into the Queen Of The Arena role to fit the whole Royal Regime gimmick. I stayed a valet for Loody and Benja. I also went down to HAWx to further my wrestling and in hopes to mend bridges with girls in VWE that thought I was just useless and only a valet and there for my looks. I will do a seperate chapter on HAWx as I have a lot of great memories to share there.

To make this short and sweet , I stayed as a valet with VWE and the Royal Regime and we were on top in VWE. We did a lot of great and fun exciting angles together. It was probably one of my best times in SL wrestling. My reasons for leaving VWE is not to slate the company cause Seth was very good to me. A lot people misunderstand Seth. I know I will take heat for saying this but he is not a tyrant , do I agree with other things people have said about him? I don't believe everything people say cause people lie about me too. But I can only base my relationship with Seth on how he treated me and it was professional and with respect. I failed him but not entirely for reasons I disclosed. I had some personal issues going on in my real life , I shouldn't have been on SL and I should have dealt with these things.

They took a toll on me and the way I started to think. I decided to request to be released from the company. I am only human and make mistakes. There is also a rumor that went around saying that I left to pursue a career in porn. I will admit I have had offers to do porn but always declined. I would never do porno , people mistake my glamour modeling books as porn but again it's people juding something they have never viewed. I would never do anything explicit such as porn but I don't knock people that do. I have many friends in the porn industry but it's just not my cup of tea , I may give off a lot of sexual energy and have always been over the top character wise in storylines , but I prefer to keep that stuff in the private bedroom. So no I didn't leave VWE to pursue a career in porn. For the people in the community that think that I did , I dare you to post my extensive filmography cause I'm sure you won't find one.

That concludes this long chapter. My next chapter will be about my time spent in HAWx.

- xoxo Sav

Being Savannah - Chapter Three Roleplaying Owner

As we left off , I was given SWF by Koray Melson. The first thing I did with the company was switch everybody over that was staying to a new group. I was being offered free land by a friend that owned a club. I decided to accept the offer and move the fed out of OEA. Sugarcube Woller decided to come in and help with the fed. I valued his advice considering he was within SL wrestling since the birth of it basically. He started building me a staging system for the shows.

I will admit that I had no clue what I was doing. Everything is not really what it seems. Of course from the outside everybody always gives their input how they would do things or how things should be done or what should happen , but actually owning a fed is much different. You can't think about what you should do to please yourself or one member of your roster but you have to choose something that will please the whole fed. That is very difficult to do because pleasing the majority will most likely upset a few people.

During the time SWF was just rebuilding after Koray's departure , I signed a lot of future SL wrestling stars. Derrick Zane , Nina Prater , Davidhawk Actor. A lot of these new rookies are now currently well known in our industry. No I am not taking credit for their success at all but this little SWF was their first company really. For the first shows booking wise , I was still SWF Women's Champion. I didn't think that would be fair being an owner and being champion so I allowed Sylk Darkwatch to do a squash match against me and become the first champion right away. I thought this was the right thing to do.

During Sylk's title reign she was a dominate amazon so we were training and building Nina Prater up to battle against her angle wise. Nina was coming along great and really loved learning anything she could. I will remember even booking these shows but I do not remember much. I had a lot going on outside of the fed. I was in modeling school with MPI and I was also working on my first photobook and I was also doing some filming for the Soulless productions remake of "Halloween". I probably wasn't the best option to be running a company but I was doing my best.

Davidhawk Actor won the SWF United States Championship and I was pushing Derrick Zane and Alexius Gant against each other to decide the SWF World Champion. I had some great talent and angles going despite being small. No fed is perfect and of course members clash with each other. I was always having to play ref between people fighting over storylines , or who should win. It was very very stressful, everybody had a point and you had to respect what they were trying to say without pissing off another member of the fed. It's so much easier in everybody's eyes to just fire people because they have an issue about something , but if you did that then you would have nobody to book with. Everybody gets into at least in every company you're in or they get unhappy about something. You gotta do your best to please everybody.

I was really really busy outside the fed and I shouldn't have been running it anyways and I openly admit that. I am not perfect and made some choices I probably shouldn't have but I thought that by taking over the fed would make everybody happy that was upset Koray was closing it. After awhile I decided after talking to Sugarcube that it was best to hand the fed over. I was very busy with stuff and all the fighting and drama between wrestlers was a bit too much. I decided to let XP3 Actor take over the company. Was it the best choice? We know now it wasn't but SWF was on it's last leg anyways. A lot of members wanted to form another company and that was fine. Something happened between JWolf and Davidhawk , I think it was a disrespect issue. I was no longer there to deal with the issue , but David and a few other members decided to leave. Looking back I was angry but you know I understand. Sometimes there are some people you just cannot work with , I've been in that position before.

OEW was formed and it was not out of spite over drama in SWF. David and Derrick told me from the start that they really wanted to open their own company down the road so it was really no surprise to me. To be honest if I could go back now and change things , I would have just given SWF to David or Derrick (and some will strangle me for saying this) then handing it over to XP3. I think it would have survived or transitioned into OEW because they had a lot of great ideas.

Looking back at owning SWF , was it a good time for me? No it was very stressful. Was it a learning experience? Yes what I learned was , is that it is a thankless job. Everybody wants the world given to them and treat you like shit. I respect anybody that puts themselfs in this position. To try and create a forum for people to wrestle. It's a hard job and it's something I would never want to do again.

Chapter 4 will tell the story of my return to VWE (formally XWA) and how that went about and my career there.

- xoxo Sav

My Style 2/7/2012

 

Love Technique

Hair By Maitreya "Jordyn" $295 L: Marketplace Link , In World Location 

Lingerie By Black Lace "Immoral Black Lace & Red Bow Shelf Bra Set" $298 L: Marketplace Link , In World Location 

Bracelet by Chop Zuey "Grace Notes Diamond" $399 L: Marketplace Link , In World Location 

Pumps by ::GLAM:: "Diva Pumps ZipUp Leather Red Valentine's Special" $99 L: Marketplace Link 

Being Savannah - Chapter Two DCWF & Indy Days

After leaving XWA (VWE) , things decided to come a bit more clearer in my mind. I found out that HKWF was merging with the XWA and that Louve owned the HKWF. It made sense now why my valet/storyline was cut. I assumed it was because of the rumors and it was easier to make the merger happen if I was no longer valeting Loody (for Louve's sake). While I was with the XWA , I always heard about the DCWF. I think I seen their arena once before but never watched a show , I decided to go there and apply. The first person I met while I was in the lobby was Briana Afterthought , she was kind of surprised to see me and helped find me an application.

I think she watched me perform at XWA before or followed the shows am not sure , was a long time ago. I did get accepted in DCWF , it was still run by Eric Stuart at the time. They had a different hud/system then acpws at the time. I had a difficult time getting the system cause you could only get one from Eric and he was very hard to catch. I never made an official debut in DCWF but remember attending the sunday meetings. A lot of people were there at the time like Wolfy Kessel and Fatal Attraction. I remember trying to form a tag team with Wolfy Kessel and Brenden Eyre and I would be their valet. We worked really hard on what we wanted to do and it was just rejected because "it didn't make sense". A lot of things were constantly rejected in DCWF and it wasn't just from me , I heard stories of other people's ideas and angles being rejected. I know that not everything fits but I didn't think it was a bad thing to try out a team like we were offering and seeing where it goes for a few shows. That's how I think you see what works and what doesn't work and what could be entertaining.

I decided to leave DCWF not because I didn't think they were a good fed cause they were very talented but it just wasn't for me. That's how I felt about DCWF , and that's not saying a bad thing because what doesn't work for one person doesn't mean it doesn't for 100 more and many people inside DCWF were happy with the product. Another reason was , I just learned acpws and now I had to learn another system , I felt for myself also that I should try more acpws feds out there and give that a go.

The other acpws feds out there , I will admit were not up to par on the likes of DCWF and XWA at the time. Not to take anything away from them but if I were to compare the other feds out there , I would compare them to a more "independent promotions". This was because they allowed more of an open door policy and were not exclusive like the bigger quality promotions. I remember HAWx was just about to launch at the time and I heard a lot of talk about this while in XWA. I would have loved to join up there but because of how I felt about everything that happened in the XWA , I thought that I would not be really welcome there. I can't remember the name of the fed for my first "independent" appearance but it was a fed run by Yancy Low. I remember they were trying to run head to head against the XWA and I told them that I thought it was a bad idea. The talent and company was not built up to that level but they were all like "WERE GONNA BLOW THEM OUT OF THE WATER!!!!!!"

I did the appearance anyways , but I did not agree with how it was being set up. Trying to go head to head against another promotion , especially the first show is failure. I don't remember much about the show besides it was a hot mess and all my job was , was to go out there and perform a strip tease for the fans. That was my first and last appearance working with this company. I think it folded rather quickly , like within a week from the first show. The next fed I decided to work with , was the SWF. It was a new fed that was starting out , it was hosted at the OEA arena and run by Koray Melson. SWF was a bit of a mess but it was better put together than the last event. There was no female division so I decided to force my friend Marina Watkins to learn the basics of the acpws system just so I'd have someone to work with.

The first match that was booked in the SWF was to decide the SWF Women's Champion in a match between Marina and myself. (Great booking eh?) Well I won that match and became the champion of the "division". Marina really had limited time so the next event we were booked in a bikini contest. I decided to disrobe and show off my bikini and then she decided to not disrobe and beat me down instead. She cut a short promo about how she didn't come out here to prance around and I should shape up because she is coming to win the championship. So things were interesting despite really not having a full division to work with. Marina had a busy real life so she couldn't attend all the shows. I remember being champion for awhile and just being thrown back into the valet gimmick. I can't remember exactly who I would valet for around this time but just remember doing a lot of this. I think Alexius? I am not sure I need my memory refreshed.

Along with SWF , I remember making a few valet appearances with the MWA (now known as the PRWW). These times were memorable because I would be out there working the shows and things would happen that were never scripted. Such as just being randomly attacked or just people doing whatever they wanted. It's like everything was done freestyle and it was difficult to work because it was just a bunch of spamming. People just come up to you and spam a bunch of moves and you have to sit there and think ok.... what now? Then you totally lose focus on the card or what is supposed to be happening.

A few weeks of SWF running Koray just randomly announced that the fed was gonna close , he didn't exactly say why but everybody was kind of pissed off. Despite it not being perfect it was a decent place to learn and wrestle. Some how it all fell in my lap and I decided to just take the reigns of it. It was a bad idea but I was naive then and thought I was doing everybody a favor and helping. I was not ready for it to say the least.

Thanks for reading Chapter 2 , more on myself taking over SWF in Chapter 3!

- Savannah
xoxo

Bonus: I also did some reffing spots at BPW during my indy days!

My Style 2/4/2012

  

About the Look "Bardot" 

I decided to try and put an "updated" look together of Brigitte Bardot in the film "Contempt" (will add pics below). This is what I came up with! I know the Truth Hair "Giada" is a bit old and there are better hairs out there but I thought it fit great with the outfit!

Hair by Truth Hawks "Giada" $250 L: Marketplace Link , In World Location 

Jacket by AMERIE "Short Jacket 01" $200 L: Marketplace Link , In World Location 

Shirt by Emery "Top Serie Striped 01" $175 L: In World Location 

Skirt by Mon Tissu "Gauzy Skirt Black" $270 L: Marketplace Link , In World Location 

Shoes by Mon Tissu "Cottage Flats Black" $270 L: Marketplace Link , In World Location 

Ring By Redgrave "Toadstool Design" $70 L: In World Location