S E P T E M B E R 2 0 2 1 I S S U E N O . 1 2 / R O Y A L T Y E D I T I O N I T A I N ' T E L I T E I F I T ' S N O T . ELITE GEN I T ' S I N I R O N . I T ' S I N G O L D . I T ' S I N B R O N Z E . I T ' S W H E R E Y O U S H O U L D B E . DKW's Sake Bomb DKW's Candy Wallace QQW's Queen Vixen Red 2021 King of The Elite 2021 Queen of The Elite With a victory at QQW Generation Winner Generation Winner Lethal Angel, Queen Vixen Red hits the 1 year mark with the QQW Destiny Crown Championship! T h e K i n g o f R i c h e s h a s f i n a l l y r e a c h e d t h e t o p o f t h e m o u n t a i n . A g r a n d c e r e m o n y a w a i t s h i m a f t e r w i n n i n g t h e E P W P r e s t i g e C h a m p i o n s h i p . W i t h a c h a n c e a t t h e E G W o r l d ( N e x t L e v e l ) C h a m p i o n s h i p t h i s t o u r , c o u l d w e s e e t h e b e g i n n i n g o f a b r a n d n e w e r a ? E P W P R E S T I G E SHOTA TOKIDO After a 4 cycle stint as commissioner of Steel Federation's New Blood League (NBL), I decided to move the entire brand that I had created to the Bronze Federation and create the Elite Prestige League (now known as EPW). At the time, Thursdays were hard for me and Bronze Federation was always my main home. NBL ended up being the beginning to something even larger. It served as the backdrop to the formation of what would later become EPW and EG as whole. The creation of the European based EPL was a first of it's kind. The IWA made a imaginary bulletin zero, so that the previous NBL frontpage was used for EPL cycle 1. No other league started it's 1st cycle or as we like to call it 'tour' with a pre-existing frontpage. This allowed everyone who came to the EPL to challenge for league, no matter the ranking. When the entire brand shifted from NBL to EPL it really shifted. Right off the bat, EPL was a success and made the top 10 leagues for it's first 9 cycles straight out of the gate! A record that I am certain any future rookie league will find hard to beat. The UNL was the first rookie league to make top 10 during it's first go around. Around cycle 11 of EPL, I decided to take over the Generation Next League with Brandon Madden as my co-commissioner. Brandon played the role of Gavin Rothchild, writing up his report and sometimes helped me with booking and some other decisions (the frontpage titles at the time were decided by Brandon and Shawn Mcabee). The Generation Next League was on really hard times when we took it over and being a previous player in it, I saw a unique opportunity ahead. The decision to take over GNL, made us decide to gut EPL down to a 6 limit league (it was 12 previously) causing it to suffer a little at the time. Within 3 cycles, Brandon and I had GNL back in shape. It too, like EPL, would later drop the L to become Generation Next Wrestling. It's purpose was about the future, a NXT to EPW given it's name. I kept the cyber elements from the previous regime in it's theme. Recently Brandon stepped down from GNW to concentrate on Bronze Age elements, so Joseph Cockrell is became my new co-commissioner with GNW being rebranded as a league based in Mexico called Generacion Proximo Lucha Libre (GPLL) which is Generation Next Wrestling in Spanish. The GPLL also features the first BR in IWA history to use pinfall and submission instead of using over the top rope. Something the IWA has worked hard in their system on to create for me. After seeing the success that GPLL had become, my desire to have my own ladies league (as that is my main part of my game) came into play. So, we gutted the entire EPW women's division and shifted it over to create Queen's Quest Wrestling, which at the time, hurt EPW even more. I decided to place it in Gold to give the federation a good women's league and to also give us a league in each Tuesday fed. QQW became a instant success right away, my second made from scratch league to do so. After one year in Gold, QQW moved to Bronze Federation to be opposite of EPW as the premiere women's brand. It was also around this time, that I decided with 3 leagues, it was time to create brand, so I took the words Elite and Generation from EPW and GPLL to create The Elite Generation. As time went by, GPLL and QQW continued to grow and become consistent top 10 leagues together. Meanwhile, EPW was still trying to catch up from blow after blow of being gutted, but it hung on and eventually found it's footing once again and it has made the top 10 leagues with both GPLL and QQW as of late. 3 EG brands in together! EPW in my mind is the premiere EG league that it was always meant to be as it gains more and more depth. Not stopping there, because I love Japan so much (as I follow not just wrestling, but dramas, films, animes, music, visual novels and other things as well), I came up with my third made from scratch league, Sugoi Nippon Akushon Puroresu! which has recently been rebranded as Dragon's Kingdom Wrestling aka DKW. This also gave EG leagues based in UK, Japan, Mexico and America! Recently the legendary Blood Bath League became the 5th Elite Generation league to give us a overall great rotation for our world title! I look forward to working with Rob Lawson to create some great things in the future! I am very happy with the EG brand and what it achieved in 2020. It's come along quickly and the rest of 2021 is going to be even more exciting! So, that is a bit of the backstory. I hope you enjoy your time here, let's have fun together and for the core from the NBL days that have been with me since day one and made the changes needed necessary (and the players who are in more then one EG league), you all rock and this would not be possible without any of you! I always update the EG Facebook quickly with all the latest info and other little goodies to help it's players, so be sure to check it out! P.S. I love my podcast staff!!! EG, EPW, QQW, GPLL & DKW Commissioner: Tommy Christopher [email protected] https://www.facebook.com/groups/iwaelitegeneration Introducing the man behind the desk, the Elite Generation commissioner, Kenji Kenmochi. Kenji is a former lawyer, who usually stays out of the limelight, but the recent behavior from some of the brand commissioners might bring him more into the spotlight soon. He helped fund the creation of EPW, QQW, DKW and the purchase of GNW as the overall idea of the Elite Generation was a vision of his. Of the brand commissioners, Kenji is the closest to Ryder Bourne since EPW started the vision and Ichiban Yagami, a longtime friend who recently took over DKW. Kenji's son is DKW's Kei Kenmochi while his daughters are Rei Kenmochi of the GPLL, DKW Joshi General Manager Midori Kenmochi and Daisy Kenmochi of the DKW, but he plays no favors to any of them. Tough love, they both have earn on their own. Work extra harder even. Kenji signed off on the sale of GPLL and the move to Mexico and the addition of BBL to the fold. All championships creations, PPVs, special events and interfed discussions with other leagues go through him and must get his approval before they are officially signed off on. You never know when the man behind the desk might make a appearance, but you know things are surely serious when does decide to make one! K E N J I K E N M O C H I ELITE GENERATION COMMISSIONER R E N O I S S I I Greetings to all of the fans and readers of Elite Gen Magazine! Another great tour of EG action has finished up H and as we gear up for another one with fresh opportunities for all of our talent, I am excited to see what everyone M C M O will bring to the table! O M C N N E Last tour saw a ton of events taking place as EPW, QQW, GPLL and DKW's pay per views took center stage.