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!